Radio Live

The starting point was Aurélie Charon and Caroline Gillet’s radio series about young people around the world. They teamed up with Amélie Bonnin to produce a different stage version each time. They wanted to invite these young activists whom they had met, to come together on stage, in the same place, at the same time. We talk about commitment, identity, minority rights, freedom, new modes of action. We encourage each other. We give each other ideas. It’s a show that uses the codes of a radio programme, in three dimensions. Aurélie Charon and Caroline Gillet at the microphone, Amélie Bonnin with the live images, 3 or 4 young people on stage at each performance, from all over the world. There are words, live drawings and live music. They come from Gaza, Dakar, Sarajevo, New Delhi, Marseille, etc. and they have things to say to each other and to us. This is a generation that has had enough of being spoken for.

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Listen to radio series

Alger nouvelle génération

I like Europe

Welcome Nouveau Monde

Underground Democracy

Une série française

Jeunesse 2016

Foule Continentale

The designers

Amélie Bonnin

Amélie Bonnin’s work straddles the border between different disciplines. After studying graphic design in Paris and then Montreal, she trained in screenwriting at the Fémis. Depending on the project, she uses writing, video and drawing to shape stories.

She has directed two documentaries, La mélodie du boucher (Arte) and La bande des Français (France 3, co-directed with Aurélie Charon).

In 2021 she wrote and directed Partir un jour, her first fictional short film, a musical comedy starring Bastien Bouillon and Juliette Armanet, which won numerous festival awards (Audience Award and Best Music Award at the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival; Critics’ Award, Audience Award and Best Actor Award at the Trouville Off-courts Festival; Opening Film at the Festival International du Film Francophone de Namur (…)).

Partir un jour

Alongside her projects as writer-director, she continues to work as Artistic Director, designing the layout for the magazine La Déferlante.

Aurélie Charon

A producer at France Culture, she hosts Tous en scène, le magazine du spectacle vivant (Saturday 8pm) and coordinates the radio creation space L’Expérience (Sunday 10pm and as an original podcast).

A graduate of Sciences Po Paris, Paris III and New York University, she has been producing documentary series on committed young people for Radio France since 2011, including Underground Democracy in Gaza, Tehran, Algiers and Moscow. She has undertaken a long-term project on French youth with Une série française (2015 France Inter), Jeunesse 2016 (France Culture) and the film La Bande des Français made with Amélie Bonnin for France 3 (2017). She recounts her travels in the book C’était pas mieux avant, ce sera mieux après, published by Éditions L’Iconoclaste.

France Culture

With Caroline Gillet and Amélie Bonnin, she created the ‘Radio live, une nouvelle génération sur scène’ project, to bring her documentaries to the stage. With Mathilde Gamon, she set up Radio live production.