He presents "Hondelatte tells" every day on Europe 1, a program in which he returns to a news item or an extraordinary personality who fascinated the French.
This Monday morning in the Summer Club, journalist Christophe Hondelatte looked back on his career as a radio journalist and on the new format of his show at the start of the school year.
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In the Summer Club this Monday morning on Europe 1, the journalist Christophe Hondelatte returned to his career in the various radios in which he worked.
And he assured him, Europe 1 will be the last.
"Patrice Bertin made me want to do this job"
"This is my last radio station, I'm sure about it. If I have to continue doing something one day, it will be podcast. But as far as the radios are concerned, I would not have done them all", assured the journalist who notably went through Franceinfo and France inter after seeing his debut in local. "My parents listened to France-Inter. At the time, there were no other radios in the Basque Country. We vaguely received RMC on the long waves, but it was the only radio station. Patrice Bertin then presented the program. evening, which I listened to when I got home from the conservatory, and it was he who made me want to do this job. And something very funny happened, it is that I took over from him. when he quit Inter evening, "the presenter recalled.
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Christophe Hondelatte also explained that he first had the idea of preparing for the competitive examination for the judiciary.
A vocation for justice that he finally found in his chronicles.
"I probably would not have remained a magistrate, I would certainly have become a lawyer. But I had that in my blood, it was a job that interested me," he admitted.
"There will be what I am" in the new show
The presenter then returned to his program
Hondelatte tells us,
which will be extended to the re-entry on the antenna of Europe 1. “It will not be at all the same thing between 3 pm and 4 pm and between 2 and 15. Because I know people love it, but that would be superhuman, it's already a lot of work. So the second hour will be a bit like what Héléna Noguerra did this summer. We are going to tell a year with little stories and small episodes. Next week will be 1974, "he continued.
"There will be dialogues, there will be accents, there will be what I am", also assured Christophe Hondelatte, specialist in voice changes in
Hondelatte tells
. "I hesitated a lot about accents because it's not my job. I'm not an imitator. There are some that I know how to do and others not. I'm pretty bad on northern accents and I'm not very sure about 18th century accents for example, "he finally had fun.