“I have always felt a little apart”

Discreet since his departure in February from RT France, a channel financed by Moscow now banned in France, Frédéric Taddéi resumes what he loves above all in his profession: maintenance. But on a brand new medium for him, the podcast. He now runs an audio content production agency called Lymédias. Several programs are already available on all listening platforms, but also on social networks because they are filmed.

“Since we started on April 8, we’ve already reached 36 million views. That’s considerable!”

Frederic Taddei

on franceinfo

“The podcast is the most interesting medium today because it removes the intermediary which is the TV channel or the radio station. You don’t have anyone to tell you what time you’ll be on the air or that We’ll have to do better tomorrow. It changes everything. And it gives different interviews. I’m discovering but I’m starting to change the way I interview. I no longer say ‘hello’, for example. On franceinfo, it’s terrible, you say all the time ‘hello'” laughs Frédéric Taddéi. The journalist is at the head of the program Why ? in which he questions personalities about why they do what they do, they think what they think. He will soon be joined by other well-known interviewers, such as Thierry Ardisson or Nelson Monfort.

In 2018, Frédéric Taddéi joined the RT France channel to host a debate program Forbidden to forbid . A few days before the invasion of Ukraine, he preferred to leave, “out of loyalty to France, he said, I do not regret my choice since the war broke out. It would have been different if everyone had reconciled… But it was not a decision against RT where I was always very free.”

Today, the host is still on Europe 1 but no longer does TV. And he doesn’t miss it: “It’s not an obsession for me. I started watching TV as a tourist, I was there to watch. After a while, I realized that it was a bit home but never totally either… I’ve always felt a bit apart”, concludes Frédéric Taddéi.