Hostages and radio: a story of sound

Audio 25:07

Former French hostage Sophie Pétronin and RFI correspondent in Mali Serge Daniel, Thursday, October 8, 2020 in the evening, at Bamako airport.

© RFI / Serge Daniel

By: Steven Jambot Follow |

Simon Decreuze Follow

27 mins

With the sound archives of RFI and Radio France,

L'Atelier des Médias

shows the vital role that radio has played for certain hostages and their families.

Publicity

Jean-Paul Kauffmann

in Lebanon,

Ingrid Betancourt

in Colombia,

Olivier Denis

and

Olivier Frappé

in Sudan,

Hervé Ghesquière

and

Stéphane Taponier

in Afghanistan,

Sophie Pétronin

in Mali: all of them have in common having been hostages but they also have in common to have been able to listen to the radio during their captivity.

This program was produced with every moment in

mind Olivier Dubois

, a French journalist kidnapped on April 8, 2021 in Gao, Mali.

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In

Mondoblog audio

, Senegalese blogger Mamadou Magarem Fall explains what RFI represents for him who lives in the Sahel.

This

Media Workshop

 was broadcast as part of the

Radio Festival

, an event which celebrates the centenary of the first broadcast of a radio program in France from the Eiffel Tower.

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