The program "La nuit du Ramadan" celebrates its 30th anniversary Wednesday evening at 11:55 pm, on France 2. The same day, Philippe Vandel received his presenter, Myriam Seurat on Europe 1.
The journalist tells what is planned for this special edition, shot despite the difficulties involved in the health crisis.
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It is around May 13 that the feast of Eid al-Fitr will end the month of Ramadan in the Muslim lunar calendar.
But France 2 is celebrating the 30th anniversary of its program
La nuit du Ramadan on
Wednesday evening
, with an edition broadcast from 11:55 pm.
Its presenter Myriam Seurat presents this program on Europe 1 in
Culture Médias
.
The show, filmed under the constraint of health restrictions, will combine the best of the past three decades and new sequences.
"We will see on the air established artists, music. Finally! It was so long," rejoices the journalist.
"I had the privilege of having musicians in front of me."
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Rachid Taha, Georges Moustaki and Zaho
Myriam Seurat then specifies part of the list of many guests of this anniversary program.
"We will also have guests like Farida Khelfa, muse of Jean-Paul Gautier, or Kader Belarbi, great dancer and choreographer, we also have a little moment with the two producers of the show, those who invented
La nuit du Ramadan
, Tewfik Farès and Djelloul Beghoura ", lists the journalist.
"We will also have the opportunity to see lots of archive images: we actually open the pages of memories of this show which is celebrating its 30 years."
Among its "souvenir pages", a lot of music, with artists such as Carte de séjour (Rachid Tahar's group), Cheb Khaled, Warda al-Jazairia, Georges Moustaki, Sapho, Jean-Louis Aubert, Thomas Dutronc, Maxime Le Forestier, Bénabar, Zaho, the Ensemble trio and Cheb Hamidou.
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Myriam Seurat describes herself as an atheist woman, married to a Jewish man, whose mother was born in Morocco to Moroccan parents and the father is Franco-Polish.
The journalist explains that she grew up in "an open family" which "never imposed anything on her".
A personal identity that is not incompatible with his presentation of
La nuit du Ramadan
. "It is not contradictory to have for this program a presenter who is not at all Muslim, since it is a program which actually advocates tolerance and open-mindedness," she recalls. "So, it's all right." The 30th anniversary program of
La nuit du Ramadan
is broadcast on France 2 during the night from Wednesday to Thursday, from 11:55 pm.