France Culture

France Culture is a French cultural channel, which belongs to Radio France and sends word programs on cultural, scientific and socially relevant issues. The form of presentation invites reflection and thus differs pleasantly from the liveliness of other French radio station.

Often themes are adapted to broadly drawn themed evenings or nights, where people work for several hours from very different angles and using different techniques ( radio feature, reportage, literary reading, radio play, radio essay, documentation, interview). Here, the index for the German listeners often mix in an unusual way.

Even in the night program detailed and sophisticated cultural word posts are sent (Les nuits de France Culture ). Several times a day (each at 7.00, 8.00, 12.30 18:00, and on weekdays at 22.00 clock ) there are detailed newscasts, edited by France Culture, in contrast to the other channels to emphasize the enigmatic, the particular in extended discussions in the second half of the journal is worked out.

France Culture was founded in 1946 under the name Chaîne Nationale, 1958 renamed France III and received its present name in 1963. A well-known broadcast by France Culture was the " Atelier de Création Radiophonique ". Since 2008, France Culture is headed by Bruno Patino, who took over the succession to the office since 2005 David Kessler. This program is distributed in France mainly via VHF terrestrial, but also via the Internet and digital unencrypted via satellite ( DVB -S) to receive.