Literary television program in France

It is with the emission Lectures for all , diffused March 27th 1953 until in May 1968, and presented by Pierre Desgraupes and Pierre Dumayet, that the first television program entirely dedicated to the literature is born in France.

In the Years 1970, literary criticism appears on the small screen mainly in the person of Bernard Pivot. Bernard Pivot, then criticizes with the literary Figaro, will represent and incarnate in France the literary critic of television during several decades. It animates, as from the years 1970, and without interruption until the end of its career in 2005, various literary emissions: Open the quotation marks as from April 1973 and Apostrophes starting from 1975, on Antenne 2. In the Years 1990, it creates the emission Culture medium , which it animates until June 2001.

In parallel, several other literary emissions are born in France. The journalists Patrick Poivre d' Arvor and Guillaume Durand can both be considered as literary chroniclers of television, and have both animated their own emissions of this kind. Patrick Poivre d' Arvor obtains TF1 in 1988 her own emission literary, Ex-libris , diffused at the beginning of night, which will become then Night flight . It animates also another literary emission, Place with the book , on the chain of information LCI.

Guillaume Durand, for its part, animates a magazine which succeeded Culture medium of Bernard Pivot, the emission Campus . Purely literary emission at its beginnings, it will change format to become general practitioner in 2006, and to treat various forms of cultures.

Literary emissions of less importance were and are always diffused in France. Thus, and lists it is not exhaustive, one can quote: the emission Texto , presented by Philippe Bertrand, on France 3; Field in your room , presented by Michel Field, on the Parisian chain Paris Première; the Boat Delivers , in the past Royalty , created in February 1996 and presented by Frederic Ferney, on France 5; Books of the 8 , literary emission of the chain Direct 8, suggested and presented by François Busnel, director of the magazine To read; Library Médicis , presented by Jean-Pierre Elkabbach on the chain Public Senate.

Chronology of the French literary television programs

Random links:Jacques Gaillot | Osmund Saddler | Trichomonas vaginalis | Gerard Sharp | Seinäjoen TEAM Hockey | Symptomatique