Patrick Cohen returns to the LCP on the “Wanted notice” dedicated to Patrick Bruel in 1989

The program “Rembob’INA”, now broadcast on Thursdays on the parliamentary channel, deciphers an era through an old TV program. This time, it takes us back to February 24, 1989, the date on which Patrick Bruel saw his career change.

Patrick Cohen is known for being a radio man, having worked at Franceinfo, France Inter, France Culture and Europe 1. For 13 years, the journalist has also sat down every evening around the show’s table. from France 5 “C to you”. At the same time, since 2018, on the parliamentary channel (LCP), he has hosted the weekly show “Rembob’INA” which returns to an old TV program, a significant sequence or a social theme to decipher an era with archives from the National Audiovisual Institute (INA).

After having mentioned this season, among others, “The hour of truth” by Abbé Pierre, a series of adventures with Coluche, the first society magazine on young people, “Rembob’INA”, begins Thursday 11 April at 8:30 p.m. on an issue of the show “Avis de recherche” presented by Patrick Sabatier on TF1 during which a celebrity reunited with former classmates. It was a very specific number that was chosen, that of February 24, 1989.”It could have been called: Birth of a Star“, explains Patrick Cohen, who says that it all started from a discussion with Patrick Bruel for whom “Wanted Notice” has a very particular flavor, as he admitted to him. “That’s where everything changed. That’s where it started“, says Patrick Cohen.

“He established himself by bringing together his friends and creating Place des Grands hommes”

At the time, Patrick Bruel was known as an actor and a little less as a singer. “There has not yet been Break your voice which will come a few months later in the album So look, with a series of hits that really established him. But then, all of a sudden, he imposes himself by gathering his friends and creating Place des Grands hommes”, underlines Patrick Cohen. 16 million viewers will witness this birth. “Jhe didn’t know that Place of great men had been created on television and for this particular show”, admits Patrick Cohen. But he recognizes that “itIt’s a wonderful story. It’s a song that remains in Patrick Bruel’s repertoire. This is one of the highlights of his concerts“.

After six years of this program, Patrick Cohen has no fatigue. He explains that in “Rembob’INA” everything can be tackled, that nothing is forbidden, subjects around variety, politics, or even the international. Large social shows only find their limits, perhaps, in their formats, which are not always usable and coherent for the concept of the show. “This is not an academic show, this is not a show for historians“, he specifies. Two new shows will be broadcast during the Cannes Film Festival in May, Patrick Cohen specifies that it is about “two broadcasts on a legendary magazine from Antenne 2 which seemed impossible to us to do : Cinema, Cinemas”. To the wise.