Fifteen well-known actors – think of Sophie Cadieux, Marie-Thérèse Fortin, Dany Boudreault and Sylvie Drapeau – have joined forces for a new fictional podcast presented on Radio-Canada’s OHdio platform. His title : Extraordinary loves.
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This podcast will be unveiled on Thursday as part of the 6and Digital radio festival, produced by Transistor Media. Throughout the five twenty-minute episodes, listeners will be able to meet Florence (Sophie Cadieux), an actress from the Outaouais, who returns to her hometown to create a play.
There, she will reconnect with her childhood friend Nora (Florence Blain Mbaye) and join a social circle where extraordinary emotional and romantic relationships, including non-monogamy, are celebrated.
“When I was offered this idea for a fictional podcast around polyamory, I was immediately thrilled,” says Sophie Cadieux.
This is a subject that we hear more and more about. There is in this project a desire to undo the classic image of the couple and interpersonal relationships. It is a series of choral fiction, but which is based on ten anonymous testimonies. The information is passed on in an uninhibited and pleasant way.
Sophie Cadieux
Ariane Moffatt was in charge of the musical conception of this work of fiction (a first experience of the genre for the singer-songwriter). The texts are by Karina Pawlikowski and the script-editing was provided by Mani Soleymanlou.
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Julien Morissette, co-founder and artistic director of the Digital Radio Festival
Julien Morissette, co-founder and artistic director of the Digital Radio Festival, who also signs the production of Extraordinary loves, explains: “It’s an audio fiction like there are few in Quebec, with a hyper-realistic proposition. It’s an ambitious project that we’ve been working on for a year and a half or two years. From a financial and logistical point of view, it would have been easier to record the episodes in Montreal, but everything was done in the Outaouais. One of the objectives at Transistor Media is to support production in the regions… We want to ensure that there is creation in the Outaouais. We really have a Gaulish spirit! »
“I really like this desire to decentralize creation,” adds Sophie Cadieux. It was very exciting to find actors from Quebec, Montreal and the Outaouais there. Interestingly, there were scenes that were played on location – in a bed, outside around a fire – to capture the texture of the sounds that exist around the characters. »
Celebrating digital radio
The launch of Extraordinary loves is part of the 6and Digital Radio Festival. After two years of virtual programming, the festival will reconnect with a live audience. In total, about twenty face-to-face activities are planned in the Vieux-Aylmer district (Gatineau), from April 28 to 30. “We particularly emphasized humor and ‘true crime’, subjects that are very unifying for podcasts in Quebec,” explains Julien Morissette.
Round table, live recording, musical performances: the festival promises to be busy this year. Note the podcast recording It’s not just Celine, which will cover the album The tremors come to a standstill de Karkwa (Louis-Jean Cormier and François Lafontaine will also be there), a new episode of Everyone hates each other (which won the Olivier 2022 for best unscripted comedy podcast), a recording of two episodes of the podcast you are fooling me of Illegal Sex…
As for our colleague Dominic Tardif, he will receive Xavier Caféïne for an episode of his podcast Are you becoming what you wanted?
To those who will not be able to travel to the Outaouais for the occasion, Julien Morissette reminds that many recordings will be offered on the festival site in the days following their presentation. Some productions will also be broadcast on Qub Radio, on the La Fabrique culturelle de Télé-Québec website or on the OHdio platform.
“The festival acts as a curator to introduce the public to what is good in podcasting in Quebec. There is more and more French-language content and people get a bit lost in that. There is still no real review of the genre, no gala to reward the best podcasts, as in France or the United States. The festival is a good independent point of reference to celebrate local podcasts! »