Claude Villers, great voice of France Inter, died at the age of 79

The journalist and radio man Claude Villers died on Sunday December 17 at the age of 79, France Inter learned from those around him. After beginnings in the written press in 1961, notably in Paris-DayClaude Villers joined the ORTF in 1964 where he participated in the creation of the Pop Club by José Artur. He is also a correspondent in New York and covers the Woodstock festival.

On France Inter, he produces Walk or dream in 1976, where its reporters took listeners on walks in the open air, in every corner of France. He will become the producer and presenter of one of the station’s flagship shows in the early 1980s, The Court of flagrante delictos, broadcast from September 1980 to May 1981 and from September 1982 to June 1983. He was then accompanied by Luis Rego and Pierre Desproges. The concept will be taken up again in 1988 with Welcome to Paradise.

Until 2004, Claude Villers successively produced The True-False Journal from France Inter, Story merchants, The roads of dreams or I am writing to you from the most distant of my dreams. Claude Villers also had a career in cinema, notably with Bertrand Tavernier in The watchmaker of Saint-Paul in 1974, The balanceby Bob Swaim in 1982 or Love on the sly by Edouard Molinaro in 1984.