2023-07-17 13:36:05
Nicolas Mathieu, at the Paris Book Festival at the ephemeral Grand Palais, April 22, 2022. MAGALI COHEN / HANS LUCAS VIA AFP
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The radio, he tells us, “It was of crucial importance”. And to quote the programs: “Bad genres”; “In a naked voice”; “A life, a work” (now “A whole life”) or “The Scientific Method”. And then, also, again and again on France Culture, “Les Pieds sur terre”. “I kind of feel like we’re doing the same job: bringing people’s lives to the surface. And this show is proof that everyone has something to say if they pay attention and take the time to listen. »
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Also, when Sonia Kronlund, the producer, offered him this carte blanche, Nicolas Mathieu shared his pride and joy on Instagram. “I said yes right away, tells us the author of Their children after them (Actes Sud, Goncourt Prize 2018). It’s a program that is a way of accessing lives other than our own, and there are very few programs that do that as well. »
For the occasion, he wrote a short text, of which here is an extract: “We are at home, on the street, on an elliptical trainer or in traffic jams. For once, we listen, we won’t say anything. And this obviousness each time which becomes so sensitive. Everywhere lives exist (…). The proof, 28 minutes of deep human voice, at least one novel per episode and this feeling each time of being part of it, of belonging to this same world, this single community. Lead like all of them, like each of them, this terrible adventure of existing. »
summer gift
Then we had to choose. Choose from twenty-one years of programming, ten shows: five broadcast on the air, from July 17 to 21 at 1:30 p.m., and available as a podcast like five others, as a bonus – a real summer gift. Nicolas Mathieu decided to “to mix and match: I chose things that touched me and others that resemble my universe”. After Roubaix, office of current affairsby Alain Lewkowicz (Monday July 17), will be rebroadcast Vichy roadside restaurant (on the 18th) then You wanted to see Vesoul (19), the report by Elise Andrieu in the city sung by Brel. Impossible then not to think of his last novel (ConnemaraActes Sud, 2022).
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But it is perhaps Morgane du Liège’s report that most immediately refers to certain pages by Nicolas Mathieu. In Being 16 in the 21st century: life on two wheels, rebroadcast on the 20th, Marie and Mathilde, 16, do not have much to do in Ozoir-la-Ferrière (Seine-et-Marne). So, to beat the boredom and live a little stronger, they straddle their backfiring machines: “It’s so good! We feel the air… It relaxes. » Then come back to memory, like a madeleine that would have the taste of gasoline and the scent of exhaust fumes, the sublime pages where Anthony and his motorcycle, in Their children after themwill look elsewhere if the world is sweeter.
After this shoot of freedom in its purest form, will be rebroadcast on Friday, July 21, When #metoo hits the couple. In the first part, Jennifer tells: the marriage, the child, the postpartum depression. In the second, it is her husband, Florent, who remembers: “We had the house, the financial health, our wonderful son, our group of friends, so I was unable to understand why Jennifer could have moments of sadness. » Among the bonuses, you will have to listen again Toppet, a sort of modern-day Robin Hood. Or when reality goes beyond fiction.
Carte blanche to Nicolas Mathieufrom July 17 to 21, as part of the program “Feet on the ground” (Fr., 2023, 10 x 28 min). Available on France Culture and on all the usual listening platforms.
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