Paris (AFP)
France Culture has launched a radio to support patients with Covid-19 and hospitalized, announced Radio France Wednesday.
Called "Culture and Company", the radio offers "sick people a precious accompaniment in this ordeal, with a variety of soothing and entertaining content, chosen with the AP-HP teams and composed of readings, discovery programs or even relaxation and meditation programs, "Radio France said in a press release.
A "continuum of voices, sources of calm, comfort, inspiration and imagination", which offers a selection of around thirty hours of programs, renewed each week.
We listen to the historian Michel Pastoureau speaking about the figure of the rooster, the psychiatrist Christophe André of nostalgia, or a documentary on Coluche, which incites to "laugh at everything".
"Culture et compagnie" is available to hospital services on the France Culture website. It is also accessible to the public, in particular to the sick and not hospitalized.
Franceinfo, for its part, has partnered with the AP-HP (Public Assistance-Hospitals of Paris) for a special day behind the scenes of a hospital, "to honor the caregivers of the hospitals of the AP- HP ". Then, every day at 8 p.m., the radio will broadcast testimonies from caregivers, taken up in podcasts.
France Inter will also be offering a charity edition of "Jeu des 1000 euros" on Sunday, April 12, with duets made up of listeners, former winners and voices from the antenna. All the profits will be donated to the "All united against the virus" alliance, with the Fondation de France, the AP-HP and the Pasteur Institute.
France Musique has concocted a "relaxing playlist", ranging from "the fantasy of Erik Satie to the delicacy of Domenico Scarlatti".
The NRJ group also announced on Wednesday the creation of a digital radio station, "Heroes", to "support and facilitate the daily life of nursing staff". Animated by the voices of the NRJ group, the radio relays solidarity initiatives in France and Belgium.
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