Podcasts | What are we listening to?

Looking for the best podcasts to accompany you on your walks? Twice a month, The Press fuels your smart phone with fun, rewarding and amazing suggestions. They are offered on the main digital audio broadcasting platforms.

Luc Boulanger
The Press

In hot water

This podcast about the worst evenings in the history of restaurants in Quebec is produced by the Théâtre Parabole, in collaboration with CKRL 89.1 and Premier Acte in Quebec. In its second season, online recently, In hot water looks back at the worst moments in the history of restaurants in Quebec. Through memorable memories of renowned provincial chefs, such as the “culinary anarchist” Bob le Chef, Antonin Mousseau-Rivard (Le Mousso), Jean Soulard (who officiated for 20 years at the Château Frontenac), Marysol Foucault (l ‘Edgar, in Gatineau) and also the food critic and passionate about gastronomy Lesley Chesterman (The GazetteHERE First).

Bookmakers

In this podcast on literary creation produced by Arte Radio, journalist Richard Gaitet talks with novelists about “their writing secrets”. His interviews are both rich and intimate (Gaitet meets most of his guests at their homes). After two years of broadcasting, Bookmakers decided to take an interest in other forms of writing, such as cinematographic writing, the screenplay. Two recent episodes are devoted to veteran filmmaker Bertrand Blier (Evening dress, too beautiful for you). The latter describes himself as a film writer: “When you write, you are an unpunished gangster, never caught, he confides in an interview. At the writing stage, I give birth to appalling things, impossible to film as they are, but extremely pleasurable in themselves. Then, you have to erase, refine, balance. Then invent the right images. »

Feet on the ground

This France Culture documentary podcast, designed by Sonia Kronlund, combines oral history, investigation and reportage. Every day of the week, half an hour of reporting “without commentary”, where speakers drawn from all over France testify to their reality. The subjects are, shall we say, very eclectic. The episode Size Matters focuses on the “dictatorship of centimeters” and men’s obsession with the size (or smallness) of their sex. With testimonials from guys who wanted to “change scale or reduce their caliber”. But we also interview women who have left their religious community and the convent. Or even people who came close to death in The day I almost died… In short, subjects of human interest told to the “I”.

My version of the facts

Radio-Canada forensic journalist Isabelle Richer needs no introduction. In this podcast, she looks back on the trials that have marked her and that have marked Quebec for a quarter of a century, from the mega-trial of the Hells Angels to that of RCMP officer and sniper Jocelyn Hotte. With her very human approach, the one that has crisscrossed the halls and corridors of courthouses throughout the province makes us hear the worst of humanity: crimes and murders. But it also lifts the veil on the complex functioning of the judicial system, this great theater of the excesses of human nature. The podcast is produced by his Canadian radio colleague Dmitri Katadotis.

The Village – Murders, fights, pride

This Radio-Canada OHdio podcast, hosted by Marie-Ève ​​Tremblay (who has just made the jump to 98.5 FM), allows us to follow the journey of pioneers of homosexual activism who fought to assert their rights. And also bring their community closer to police forces, long removed from LGBTQ+ realities. The podcast returns to a forgotten incident. “At the turn of the 1990s, 17 gay men were murdered in Montreal. Activists are urging city police to solve these heinous crimes, but investigations are stalling. Tense relations with the police are getting worse. These tragic disappearances trigger a fight for liberation,” the statement summarizes. Note that the podcast production teams of Radio-Canada OHdio and CBC Podcasts have joined forces to tell the same story in French and English. Directed by: Philippe Marois.

Radio-Canada OHdio, starting June 7