VSHe had been on France Inter’s morning show for 14 years. The journalist Thomas Legrand will stop the political editorial and will present next season a program every Saturday. “Fourteen years is enough! I had wanted to quit for two or three years already. Two years ago, the management asked me to stay one more season, and last year, I was asked to continue until the presidential election,” explained to Telerama this figure of the first morning of France.
“I want to stop exercising because I feel like I’m starting to go around in circles, almost having obsessions, being predictable,” he continues. And to add: “In addition, with social networks and all-info, political commentary has become an invasive warm water tap”. Instead, Thomas Legrand will present every Saturday at the end of the day a one-hour program devoted not to commentary, but to political ideas. It will be called In search of politics. In a “more gassy” period, where people “are much less affiliated than before with this or that current”, it is necessary “to bring a little clarity by re-examining the political ideas which feed the current debates”, explains Thomas Great.
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With the arrival at its head of Adèle Van Reeth at the start of the school year, replacing Laurence Bloch, France Inter will introduce changes in its morning. In addition to the departure of Thomas Legrand, Charline Vanhoenacker’s emblematic political humor post, scheduled every day at 7:57 a.m., will become weekly. “It was the management of France Inter who notified me of the end of my morning column, which started 8 years ago (…). I did not object to it, so I take part in it, ”reacted the Belgian comedian on June 10 on Twitter, after the cessation of his daily column was revealed by Le Figaro.