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.
Heavyweight
After eight seasons, the future of Heavyweight is in danger. In December, Spotify announced that the series led by Jonathan Goldstein was being cut from its stable. In the meantime, we enjoy these stories where the host returns to the trail of a pivotal or mysterious event in a person’s life. Understanding the departure of your favorite babysitter, discovering why a friend never called us back or tracing the real recipient of a box of family photos sent to the wrong address: Heavyweight will have magnified the small events that weave what we are.
Valerie Duhaime
The mysterious wonders
Pioneer of
podcast, show The mysterious wonders will blow out 18 candles in January. Pleasantly led by host Benoît Mercier, this weekly meeting allows a group of friendly friends – including the illustrator Jeik Dion, the bookseller Laurent Boutin, the archivist Simon Chénier and the publisher Gauthier Langevin – to discuss the news related to all popular culture. In a tone that is both relaxed and warm, we approach comics, TV series and video games, sometimes including theater and cinema. No need to know anything, they
will guide you!
Marilyse Hamelin
Someone knows something
First there was the excellent Mississippi Cold Case (2007), Canadian director David Ridgen’s award-winning documentary about the unpunished murder
in 1964 of two young Afro-
19-year-old Americans murdered by the Ku Klux Klan. Always driven by the desire to settle – if not to move forward – closed cases, the undisputed master of true crime had the good idea of making a podcast for Someone knows something, its own investigative series on CBC. The other good idea is Radio-
Canada who got it while doing it
translate last year. Eight thrilling and revolting episodes with a finale that restores faith in humanity.
Lisa-Marie Gervais
Let the accused enter
The broadcast of
cult television in France now exists in podcast format. In his gripping narration, host Dominique Rizet retraces the biggest criminal legal cases in France – from the moment of the facts to the course of the trial. Among these stories, there is that of Jean-Baptiste Rambla, a child witness to the kidnapping of his sister Marie-Dolorès, found dead in 1974. His life will forever be marked by the murder of his sister and by the fate of the culprit designated: Christian Ranucci (photo on the left), whose responsibility, when doubted, will relaunch the debate on capital punishment. Marking.
Clemence Pavic
Return to Normétal
Documentary filmmaker Nicolas Lachapelle delves into the traumas and happy memories of his family in this unique sound work, whose aesthetic is reminiscent of direct cinema and which is distinguished by its universal scope. We follow the return to the sources of his loved ones, the time of a journey of
fishing in the region of Normétal, village boom town that they knew full of promise, and that they had to leave when it became a shadow of itself after the closure of its mine. This intimate story, at times very moving, makes you want
to explore our own stories
of families marked by the industrial and social history of here.
Amélie Gaudreau