The holiday season is a time of year conducive to long car trips, with family or alone, to intensive cooking or relaxing sessions: perfect conditions for discovering audiovisual productions from all horizons. Note that unless otherwise noted, all of these productions are offered on major digital audio platforms.
Open your game
Open your game does not claim to reinvent the podcast, but Marie-Claude Barrette can boast of succeeding every week in extracting exclusive confidences from guests whom we have heard dozens, even hundreds, of times. This requires rare talent. This series of interviews establishes the host as one of the best interviewers in Quebec. TVA will end up biting its fingers for getting rid of its former headliner.
Étienne Paré
Poly-technical project. To face
Where does the hatred towards women come from which is the basis of the anti-feminist attack which left 14 victims on December 6, 1989 at Polytechnique Montréal? In the podcast released on November 25, 2022, actors Jean-Marc Dalphond and Marie-Joanne Boucher sought to find out by meeting a specialist in online misogyny as well as an admirer of the killer. Impactful and necessary, the six episodes, followed by an epilogue, are part of a documentary theater project, including the play Polytechnic Project was recently presented at TNM and will be on tour at
Quebec this winter. On OhDio.
Florence Morin-Martel
The Girlfriends
When Bob, a Jewish plastic surgeon who speaks five languages and
pilot, arrives in Las Vegas in 1995, all the women in the community are fighting for him. But slowly, doubts arise. By pooling their experiences, a group of women will gather clues to bust Bob, whose wife, Gail, disappeared a few years earlier. The Girlfriends, it is the story of a murder, but above all that of a sorority between these women determined to break the cycle of violence. This real-life event, magnificently narrated by Carole Fisher, makes us understand that the justice system is capable of evolving.
Magadaline Boutros
El Kapoutchi
The fabulous El Kapoutchi, “king of bad guys” imagined by Alexandre Courteau and Pascale Richard, has been “rife” for seven years now in fantastic and very comical stories where he tries by all possible means to annoy children and many others important characters for little ones, like Santa Claus… And yet, we never tire of discovering and revisiting these musical tales as a family thanks, among other things, to the narration inspired by Courteau, set with jokes that make young and old smile for different reasons. Enough to make long journeys during the holidays more tolerable… On OhDio.
Amélie Gaudreau
Your attention please !
The production very well carried out by the colleagues of the Duty (that’s a step up) dissects in four tight episodes questions related to attention in our hyperconnected and overstimulated society. The story begins with the words and confidences of a courageous, very friendly student, who explains how he had the courage to throw away his supposedly smart phone in favor of reading and human, very human encounters. The rest addresses the economy attention, treatment of ADHD and also jobs requiring a lot of concentration.
Stéphane Baillargeon