The popular science program E = M6 is celebrating its 30th anniversary on the M6 ​​channel.

For the occasion, the teams and the program's presenter, Mac Lesggy, looked at the evolutions of office life, food and television, from 1991 to today.

Thirty years already!

E = M6 is celebrating its thirtieth year on the M6 ​​channel this weekend.

The popular science program, broadcast for the first time on M6 on February 10, 1991, is one of the oldest French television programs still on the air.

"1,030 program, 3,900 reports, a dozen pairs of glasses, a few hundred ties", lists Mac Lesggy, emblematic presenter of this weekly program, which still totals an average of 2.8 million spectators every Sunday.

On Europe 1, he looks back on the special anniversary program. 

>>

Find Philippe Vandel and Culture-Médias every day from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. on Europe 1 as well as in replay and podcast here

Office life, between cigarettes and telex

To celebrate this thirtieth anniversary, E = M6 proposes to go back by questioning the changes made in certain sectors of society since the first broadcast.

Three major themes will be addressed.

The first: office life.

"Everyone has forgotten it, but once in an office, there were ashtrays full of cigarettes, phone books, a Minitel, a huge computer with 16 colors when you were rich, with black and green when you were on it. was not, "Mac Lesggy jokes.

"And a fantastic object: the telex."

In particular, the teams investigated this object, which had disappeared at the Cité des Télécoms, in Pleumeur-Bodou in Brittany. 

>> READ ALSO -

 Five things you didn't know about E = M6 and its presenter, Mac Lesggy

A flagship development of the last thirty years: television.

Television sets weighing around 50 kilograms have given way to 5-centimeter screens, with five times better picture quality.

A technological and technical advance deciphered by the scientific popularization program. 

The ("disembodied") diet of the 90s

Finally, the last theme addressed: food, from the 1990s to the present day, with a particular focus on two star products of the time: Tang, an orange flavored drink and Bolino, dehydrated ready meals.

"We thought that in 2021 we would all eat like cosmonauts and that we would love powdered products," recalls Mac Lesggy, an agricultural engineer by training. 

Tang, presented as a drink similar to squeezed orange, was consumed at the time in powder form, inside an aluminum sachet.

Content that the E = M6 teams decided to analyze with the help of a chemist to discover its secrets.

The results are no surprises: sugar, sweeteners, acidity, and an acidity corrector.

The only trace of orange?

It is present via the coloring and a slight aroma.

“At the time, it was okay for people to have an orange-flavored drink without an orange in it,” Mac Lesggy emphasizes.

"This shows the evolution of minds, today we want naturalness, we pay attention to the quality of products. In the 1990s, we thought that the future of food would be something more and more disembodied. We went back. "