Podcasts for your next evening.
These French-language documentary series connect personal experiences with wider questions about gender and relationships.
11 works from our cultural catalogue, introduced in English. Follow each profile for context and its official source.
Podcasts
Un podcast à soi
Charlotte Bienaimé · ARTE Radio
A French-language documentary series about gender, feminism and equality. Personal accounts and analysis bring intimate experiences into conversation with wider social questions.
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Le Cœur sur la table
Created by Victoire Tuaillon · Binge Audio
A French-language documentary series about romantic, friendly and family ties. It looks at how relationships are made and how they might change.
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Les Couilles sur la table
Created by Victoire Tuaillon
A French-language podcast about masculinities and how they are socially constructed. Its conversations examine masculine ideals and their place in gender relations.
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Émotions
Louie Media
A French-language podcast that brings together personal accounts and specialists to explore emotions. Its subjects include love, desire and self-esteem.
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Vivons heureux avant la fin du monde
Delphine Saltel
Delphine Saltel combines personal experiences, reporting and interviews to examine everyday choices in a society in crisis. Subjects range from relationships to ways of living.
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Quouïr
Rozenn Le Carboulec
Rozenn Le Carboulec’s French-language series gives LGBTQI+ people space to tell their stories. Seasons address subjects including coming out, same-sex parenting and the effects of family rejection.
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Intime et Politique
Nouvelles Écoutes
Documentary series from Nouvelles Écoutes connect personal experiences with discrimination. Across different seasons, subjects include sexual violence, sex work, racism and gender stereotypes.
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Camille
Camille Regache
Camille Regache starts with concrete questions, from gender on identity documents to insults and queer parenting, to examine norms of gender and sexuality. Interviews give guests time to develop their answers.
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Fracas
Created by Charlotte Pudlowski
Created by Charlotte Pudlowski, Fracas explores what speaking up changes in a life. Its French-language archives combine interviews and documentary series, including Les petites phrases, about words people have never forgotten.
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La Poudre
Lauren Bastide
Lauren Bastide interviews writers, artists, researchers and activists. Beginning with an individual life, the French-language conversations move towards feminist and anti-racist struggles.
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HOMOMICRO
Brahim Naït-Balk
HOMOMICRO is a French-language LGBTQI+ news and culture programme presented by Brahim Naït-Balk and contributors, associated with Fréquence Paris Plurielle and distributed through podcast platforms.
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