Guillaume Durand

Biography

Career

Initially professor of history-geography, he initially becomes journalist with Europe 1 in 1978 like deferring then as presenter of flashes of information. Editor association associated in load of the 8 hour old newspaper, then section 7-8.

In 1987, it joined the Five Silvio Berlusconi and of Robert Harrowing to present to it the 20 hour old newspaper until in 1991. He will be then assistant editor of the drafting of the chain of information continues LCI June 1994 with June 1997. In parallel, it animates LMI , the great political appointment of TF1.

After this career of journalist, it becomes stimulating talk show. It presents and produces thus Nowhere elsewhere on Canal+ of September 1997 to June 1999. It will be " renvoyé" by the management of the programs of Canal+ (Alain de Greef and Bernard Zekri, person in charge of the drafting) according to him, in a brutal and intolerable way. This dismissal will lead it to publish a test (" The Bleue" Fear;), in which it will reveal the operations and drifts of this private channel.

With the re-entry 1999, it finds Europe 1 to present a series of interviews of the Monday to Friday between 18:30 and 19:00. In parallel, it joined in September 2001 the chain France 2 to animate a literary magazine Campus, the magazine of the writing , like Trafic.musique as from October 2002.

In September 2004, it leaves Europe 1, to carry out a daily interview on the chain I>Télé, while continuing its two emissions on France 2. With the re-entry 2005, the emission, which follows the Large Edition (a newspaper 30 minutes presented by Harry Roselmack), is renamed the Large Edition, the continuation to be diffused Monday to Thursday of 18:30 to 19:30. Friday, Guillaume Durand presents to 19:20 the Frank Speech , a 40 minutes maintenance with a political personality diffused on line and into simultaneous on I>Télé and France Inter, in partnership with the weekly magazine the Point . He stops presenting the Frank Speech in January 2006, since on this date, its two emissions on France 2 are amalgamated in a new diffused version of Campus every Friday evenings on line with 22:30.

At the end of season 2005/2006, it leaves I>Télé (where it is replaced by Thomas Hugues) because of a clause of exclusiveness with France 2. In September 2006, it created the emission Free spirits on France 2, which replaces Campus . This new cultural appointment directed towards the debate makes it possible to confront informed authors, artists, critics, specialists and televiewers.

From the September 3rd, 2007, it returns Europe 1 to animate the emission of free-antenna To the free air of the Monday to Friday, to replace Pierre-Marie Christin.

Private life

Guillaume Durand is the son of the galerists Lucien and Nicole Durand who were initiators of the avant-garde in France, which explains its passion for the contemporary art.

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