Radio: Stéphane Bern leaves Europe 1 for ICI and the public service

Stéphane Bern is leaving Europe 1 to join ICI, the network of local stations of the public group Radio France, at the start of the school year, ICI announced in a press release on Monday. His daily column, "Voyage dans le temps," will be broadcast Monday to Friday at 7:55 a.m. on the 44 radio stations of the ICI network (formerly called France Bleu).

"Each episode will tell a true story, often little-known, narrated with humor and wit" and punctuated "by sound illustrations," according to the press release. This "joyfully erudite daily chronicle, halfway between a history lesson and an audio comic strip" will offer "astonishing anecdotes, extravagant characters and real facts that are as delicious as they are improbable."

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Having already been there in the 1990s, Stéphane Bern has been on Europe 1 since 2020, first for the show "Historiquement vôtre" , then for "Au coeur de l'histoire" in the afternoon. "I loved it but writing 40 minutes of show per day took up a lot of my time. I was exhausting myself. As my television projects multiplied, I understood that I was at the end of this great adventure" , declared the presenter to the newspaper Le Parisien . According to him, he decided to join ICI after not having been formally renewed in April by Europe 1, a radio station owned by conservative billionaire Vincent Bolloré.

"We're leaving on very good terms with Europe 1. They were disappointed that I was leaving. Even Vincent Bolloré called me. He understood my choice," said Stéphane Bern, who has also been a radio host on France Inter and RTL in the past. On television, he presents special programs on the public group France Télévisions, such as "Le village favoris des Français" (The French Favorite Village) , and plays the title role in the police series "Bellefond" on France 3.