When the song is played on public service radio

While a major project to overhaul public broadcasting is put on track by the government, let’s return to the way in which the Radio France antennas are mentioned in popular music.

La Grande Sophie talks to us about the radio – her own radio, the radio which easily takes up space in a life – and not necessarily in an existence which would otherwise be empty, since Sophie is an artist and a citizen on the move.

And, while you know that a project to overhaul the public audiovisual service is causing some commotion, radio is back in the news. And we take pleasure in finding our broadcasts and our antennas, in the works of the singers.

For example, Claude Nougaro tells us about a legendary broadcast from our colleagues at France Inter during insomnia in 1978, and Eric Toulis tells us about the benefits of the magnificent programming from our friends at Fip, in 2005.

In the first episode of These songs that make the news this weekend you hear excerpts from:

The Great Sophie, My radio, 2012

Claude Nougaro, Insomnia, 1978

Eric Toulis, The Morning Song, 2005

Jean Michel Jarre, Hexagon 06, 2016

Renaud, Bobos, 2006

Red October, 5 minutes of stress, 2004

Doremus, Two in my ego trip, 2007

Brigitte Fontaine, Like on the radio, 1970

The Great Sophie, My radio, 2012

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And you can also find the podcast on this link Behind our voices, with the writing and composition secrets of eight major artists of the French scene, Laurent Voulzy, Julien Clerc, Bénabar, Dominique A, Carla Bruni, Emily Loizeau, Juliette and Gaëtan Roussel.