Cleopatra, racism, deforestation, Autissier… Weekend podcasts

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This weekend, we invite you to get passionate about history and ecology with six podcasts that will discuss oceans, forests, racism, famous women and the noises that surround us, not to mention a small detour in the field of cyber threats.

The thousand and one lives of Isabelle Autissier

How good to hear it. To hear his freedom. And first of all his freedom of tone. Because Isabelle Autissier is not the type to let herself be stepped on and has enough loose ends in her sailing bag not to let herself be locked in a box. Moreover, during this episode of “Into The Wind, the podcast of sailors who make sentences”, it is both the woman and the sailor, the author and the activist who is interviewed here ( and heard!) by Pierre-Yves Lautrou.

It will first be – and while Isabelle Autissier has just published a novel (The Shipwreck of Venice, Stock, 266 p., 20.50 euros) – question of literature and writing. For a long time, a bit too much no doubt, she was “the girl who did the Vendée Globe and who writes”. Until this day in 2015 when Suddenly alone finds himself on the first list of the Goncourt prize. For a long time too, undoubtedly, she will have been the first woman to circumnavigate the world alone. When reminded, she likes to say: “At home, I was never told: because you are a girl. » Thank you mom, thank you dad – thanks to which she begins to navigate. Work for. Learn. It is this, this curiosity, which made him take steps, made him want to go ahead and simply go there.

It is also because, faced with the environmental emergency, determined not to sit idly by, she became – in 2009 – president of WWF. This is also the subject of this long-term interview, and it is very salutary.

The episode of “Into The Wind” (2 hours) is to be found on SpotifyDeezer, etc.

Cleopatra, outstanding navigator

First laugh, let’s face it, because who other than Philippe Collin would dare to start like this and claim that the story of Cleopatra begins in the XX^e century ?

And immediately tell yourself that not only is he right, but that, decidedly, and without ever sacrificing the rigor or the precision of the subject, he deploys unparalleled talents as a storyteller, knowing, through a discovery of writing, a relaunch, an archive, maintain the suspense. That it happens, and this on sometimes difficult historical subjects, to make us want to “binger” as if it were the last season of a particularly successful series. But, as this trained historian would no doubt say: let’s start again.

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