With Thierry Dancourt to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the birth of radio

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Writer Thierry Dancourt in studio at RFI (May 2021).

© Catherine Fruchon-Toussaint / RFI

By: Catherine Fruchon-Toussaint

31 min

Thierry Dancourt lives and works in Paris.

He notably published in 2008 at La Table Ronde “Hôtel de Lausanne”, crowned with the Premier Novel prize and the Bertrand de Jouvenel prize from the Académie française.

On the occasion of the radio festival and its new novel which takes place behind the scenes of a Swiss radio station, the show invites you to enter its literary universe through the sounds and atmospheres that run through "Silence Radio ".

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Silence Radio © La Table Ronde

"1960. Cécile lives in Paris, but her lover lives in Switzerland. It is there that she met him, when they both worked for Radio Lausanne, and there that she continues to find him. hotel rooms in provincial stations, she smokes her Du Maurier, swallows Alka-Seltzer like water while listening to the silences of Franck, who closes like an oyster as soon as one evokes the past. stay in a disused spa with Richard, an old friend, is no exception to the rule: after a few days, Franck leaves, leaving a vague note. Richard does not know any more than Cécile when he will return, nor why he left. In spite of everything, he believes he can enlighten Cécile on Franck's story. We have to go back to the time of the war, cross the border again,towards occupied Paris. In the deserted station, guided by Richard's voice, Cécile sets out on this journey backwards, from the snow-covered silence of the Swiss mountains to that, more worrying, of a radio that no longer transmits "

  (Presentation of the

editions of La Table Ronde

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