2023-07-10 10:25:00
New contributors, new chronicles, extended schedule… The morning show of France Culture is expanding for the next school year.
By JW with AFP The new director of France Culture, Emelie De Jong, in June 2023. © JOEL SAGET / AFP Published on 07/10/2023 at 12:25 p.m.
For the start of the 2023 school year, the morning of France Culture is enriched. An expanded schedule and new voices, including those of Nobel Prize-winning economist Esther Duflo and writer Bernard Werber, await the station’s listeners. Changes detailed by Agence France-Presse this Monday, July 10, according to the announcements of the director of France Culture, Emelie De Jong.
But the morning will not lose its identity for as much. It will remain led by Guillaume Erner, at the helm of the Mornings of France Culture since 2015. On the model already tested by France Inter, it will start on the other hand at 6:30 a.m., and will welcome “five great personalities on a rotating and weekly basis”, explained Emelie De Jong.
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Speakers, columns and newspapers
Thus, Esther Duflo will address a topical issue every Monday. She will give way on Tuesday to the numerical scientist Aurélie Jean, on Wednesday to the author of the Ants Bernard Werber, on Thursdays to the glaciologist Heïdi Sevestre, and on Fridays to the neurologist Lionel Naccache.
New chronicles will also feed the Mornings of France Culturelistened to by nearly 700,000 listeners, such as “The challenges of the planet”, “The economics journal”, “Connected planet”, on digital issues, and “Planet culture”.
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This reinforcement goes hand in hand with the abolition of the 10 p.m. newspaper, decided by the management of Radio France and denounced by its unions during two days of strike which also affected France Musique. The latter will keep its morning news papers, initially threatened, in a shortened format, according to information from the Monde confirmed to AFP by Radio France.
Departures following “repeated tensions”
Another change for France Culture, the departures of Tewfik Hakem and Olivia Gesbert. Midday presenter for seven years, the latter will be replaced by Géraldine Mosna-Savoye and Nicolas Herbeaux, whose show The Book Club will be extended and presented from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. by Marie Richeux.
According to Telerama, these departures are part of “repeated tensions”, which Emelie De Jong does not wish to comment on, having only taken office in mid-June. Her predecessor, Sandrine Treiner, resigned in January following being accused of brutal management.
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A revised management
More generally, the France Culture teams “have gone through some difficult times, we must above all move forward”, believes Emelie De Jong, while management training will be imposed on program producers.
Among the other novelties: the arrival of Astrid de Villaines, head of the political department of HuffPost, at the helm of the weekly show political sensethe return on Friday followingnoon from The Scientific Conversation by Étienne Klein, stopped at the start of the 2022 school year, or even a collection of podcasts entrusted to the mathematician Cédric Villani, expected in October.
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