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Philippe Collin | |
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| Born | 6 April 1975 Brest |
| Occupation(s) | radio producer, author |
Philippe Collin (born in Brest on 6 April 1975) is a radio producer, author, comic book writer and journalist. [1]
Philippe Collin is the son of a submariner father who later became a non-commissioned officer with Gaullist leanings, and a mother who worked as an auxiliary nursery nurse.
He studied history at the University of Western Brittany in Brest, where he obtained a master's degree in contemporary history focusing on the purging of collaborators during the Liberation in 1997.
Initially a columnist on Gérard Lefort's show À toute allure from 1999 to 2001 on France Inter, he then joined the weekly cultural program Charivari (hosted by Frédéric Bonnaud) on the same station from 2004 to 2006. He hosted the show Comme un ouragan during the summer of 2005 and from September 2005 to June 2010, he was the host of Panique au Mangin Palace.
When Charivari ended in September 2006, Frédéric Bonnaud launched a new program, La bande à Bonnaud, for which Philippe Collin regularly wrote columns until the show was canceled at the end of June 2007.
From September 2008 to June 2010, he also hosted Panique au Ministère Psychique and La cellule de dégrisement, both featuring a quirky, irreverent style akin to Mangin Palace.
In 2010, he hosted Les Persifleurs du mal in July and then 5/7 Boulevard — referencing Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles — from September, airing between 5 PM and 7 PM. By 2011, this show was renamed Downtown (6 PM - 7 PM) with Xavier Mauduit.
For television, he collaborated as a journalist with Michel Denisot on Le Grand Journal (French TV program)} on Canal+ from September 2004 to June 2005.
From 8 January 2012 to 6 July 2018 he co-authored the cultural and offbeat show Personne ne bouge! on Arte alongside Frédéric Bonnaud and Xavier Mauduit.
Between September 2013 and June 2015, he produced and hosted Si l'Amérique m'était contée on France Inter. Joy Raffin provided the narrative voice for this magazine, where many American personalities shared their views on the United States, including Leonardo DiCaprio, John Travolta, Meryl Streep, and more.
Starting 28 June 2014 he co-hosted a daily show dedicated to the FIFA World Cup: Si tu ne vas pas à Rio....
From August 2015 to June 2021, he hosted a weekly show titled L'Œil du tigre on France Inter, focusing on the culture and history of sports, with Xavier Mauduit contributing a sports history segment and Joy Raffin wrapping up with a pop culture sports journal called Give me five.
On 5 June 2016 French President François Hollande appeared live on the show to discuss his sports passions.
In 2016, he co-wrote and co-directed a virtual reality film for the Cinémathèque française titled Kinoscope, which explores the history of cinema and received support from Google Lab. The international version features a narration by Dean Tavoularis, the art director for Francis Ford Coppola's films.
In 2018, Philippe Collin co-authored the comic book Le Voyage de Marcel Grob with Sébastien Goethals. The story follows Marcel Grob, a young Alsatian conscripted into the Waffen-SS during World War II, inspired by the true story of Collin's great-uncle. The comic won the Historia prize for historical comics in 2019 and the lycée prize at the Angoulême Festival in 2020. [2] [3]
In 2022, he published Le fantôme de Philippe Pétain and produced a podcast of the same name with historians Bénédicte Vergez-Chaignon and Éric Alary. The ten episodes aired in July on France Inter, accompanied by four other historical documentary series over the summer. In December 2022, a nine-episode series on Léon Blum, une vie héroïque [4] aired, followed by a seven-episode series on Jean-Marie Le Pen [5] , l'obsession nationale in February 2023, which sparked controversy regarding torture practices during the Algerian War. [6] [7] [8]
In March 2024, he produced a ten-episode series on Louis-Ferdinand Céline, le voyage sans retour [9] [10] , and in June 2024, an eight-episode series on General Leclerc. [11]
He published his first novel in April 2024, Le Barman du Ritz, narrating the history of the Hôtel Ritz Paris in occupied Paris, focusing on Frank Meier, an Austrian-born veteran and world-renowned bartender who navigated the complex social landscape of the time. [12]
Since 2019, he has been in a relationship with journalist Sonia Devillers. [13]
Kinoscope (director, script, and narration), with Clément Léotard, MK2 films and VR, 2016
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