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. Please note that unless otherwise noted, all of these productions are available on major digital audio platforms.
The great works top chrono
The idea is very simple: to tell in five minutes the underlying facts of significant works of Western, American or Quebec history, all disciplines combined, in a light and comic tone which invites the discovery of these sometimes dusty “cultural monuments” . This podcast now has around a hundred micro-episodes hosted by a group of industry professionals. timingcomic (including Philippe-Audrey Larrue-St-Jacques, Maude Landry, Fabiola Nyrva Aladin and soon Bruno Blanchet) who make the educational exercise, from which we always emerge a little less uneducated, particularly entertaining. On Ohdio.
Amélie Gaudreau
Writing grounds
Charlotte Biron is interested in documentary practices in literature. She is conducting a series of interviews with local writers on their research methods, their territories, and their desire to work from living material, lived experiences, and data collected in situ. By encroaching on the field of practice of ethnographers, journalists and geographers, do they not contribute to blurring the boundaries between disciplines and literary genres; to the emergence of a corpus of non-fiction in literature; to the transformation of the novel, the essay and poetry?
Marilyse Hamelin
Storm in the head
Not all children grow up with the same level of innocence. Andrée Giraldeau draws on a tumultuous period in the life of one of her children to enter the world of mental health in children. Anxiety, attention deficit disorder, mood disorders, autism: whatever name a possible diagnosis might take, the journey to obtaining it, as well as the appropriate services, is one of struggle. A journey that informs and upsets. On Ohdio.
Valerie Duhaime
I’m Not a Monster
In 2015, three British teenage girls disappeared from east London and sneaked to Syria, in the “caliphate” of the Islamic State armed group. In the second season of I’m Not a Monster, journalist Joshua Baker dissects the story of the most publicized of these young women, Shamima Begum, stripped of her British nationality in 2019. The reporter retraces the controversial path of the teenager – a Canadian intelligence agent is said to have brought her in in Syria. Baker thereby offers a great lesson in investigative journalism: meticulous, never partisan and above all, disconcerting.
Marie-Michèle Sioui
Eighth island
How many islands are off the coast of Sept-Îles? Seven, would you say? Not so fast… The podcast Eighth island navigates between fiction and reality, normal and paranormal, to help us discover the hidden side of the North Shore. Through an improbable story, but rich in characters and authentic stories, director Éloïse Demers Pinard guides us along the path of local mysteries. Let yourself be disoriented through this lie filled with truths. No need to know the region to appreciate this five-episode “documenter” available on all platforms.
Jean-Louis Bordeleau