On May 11, author, host and anthropologist Serge Bouchard died a year ago. To pay tribute to him, Radio-Canada is launching three audio versions of his books and will re-air the show on Friday night. HERE Serge Bouchard at the HERE Premiere.
The Radio-Canada OHdio platform offers three new audio books, including Diesel in the veins. Co-written by Mark Fortier, this book is based on Serge Bouchard’s immersion in the road environment of northwestern Quebec in the 1970s as he was doing his doctoral thesis on people driving trucks.
Radio host Jean-Philippe Pleau, friend and accomplice of Serge Bouchard on the show Nakakabaliw…also actor Pierre Lebeau provides their voices in this audio book, which includes the original song Tire le coyote.
Great success in the bookstore, Coffee with Marie, published by Serge Bouchard before he died as a tribute to his deceased wife, is also available in an audio book narrated by actress Pascale Montpetit. It brings together 70 texts written by the late author for C‘baliw …
Other audiobooks posted on OHdio: The laughing ones. It follows Serge Bouchard on his stay in the 1970s at the Innu reserve of Mingan, on the North Shore, for his work as an anthropologist. It is the voice of Soleil Launière, a multidisciplinary artist from the Pekuakamiulnuatsh nation, who brings this story accompanied by the original song by Innu artist Kanen.
In the 2000s, Serge Bouchard presented the show on the radio Significantly forgotten, where he drew attention to the forgotten people in French -speaking American history. Episodes of this show can now be listened to on OHdio. The complete collection will be available in a few weeks.
Friday night, at exactly 9 pm, ICI Premiere listeners will be able to listen to the re-broadcast ofHERE Serge Bouchard, a tribute show to the latter hosted by Jean-Philippe Pleau and filmed at the Théâtre de Quat’Sous, in Montreal, last year. Joséphine Bacon, Émile Bilodeau, Pascale Montpetit or Mark Fortier would read texts by Serge Bouchard or texts they wrote in his memory.
Source: Radio-Canada