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Le journal de Radio-Canada Everyday @ 7am
The televised news programme from the Québec desk of Radio-Canada.
Lâcher prise (fiction. season 1) Thursday @ 1pm from 1 to 15 August Disciplined, organised, hyperactive, divorced and a mother to a little boy she adores, Valérie is a successful professional with only one master: her diary. Until one particularly busy morning when she finds... a flea in her son’s hair. A minor detail with unexpected consequences...
Au secours de Béatrice (fiction. season 4) Tuesdays @ 8pm until the 27 August
A fourth season for the successful series that follows the daily life of Béatrice Clément and her team in a hospital emergency department.
Bouffe MTL © Productions GFP
Wednesdays @ 8:30am until 11 September With their motorcycle and side-car, Jean-Michel Péloquin and Yann Vallières take us on a cultural and culinary trip around Montréal. Each episode sees the two partners-in-crime get themselves invited for a meal with a family from a different culture.
T’es où Youssef ? (documentary)
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© Georges Jorisch
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Tuesday 6 August @ 10:30pm
A personal quest in search of a lost friendship in today’s social and geopolitical context. Québec radio presenter and journalist Raed Hammoud tries to understand why his friend Youssef left Canada for Syria to join the ranks of ISIS.
L’héritier (documentary)
Sunday 18 August @ 6:30pm
1938. The Germans annex Austria. Georges Jorisch, a ten-year-old Austrian jew, heads into exile. Sixty years later, he tries to track down two paintings by Gustav Klimt, confiscated by the Nazis and which once belonged to his grandmother. So begins an incredible twelve-year quest.
Les pays d’en haut (fiction. season 1)
Mondays @ 1pm from 22 August to 19 September
A journey to rural Québec in the late 19th century against a backdrop of the challenges posed by the colonisation of this faraway land, collusion between the church and politicians and the difficult living conditions of the day.