Fri, Dec 3, 1965
-Release date: December 4, 1965. In this report, James Bamber meets seniors from different social classes in Montreal, Canada. Among other things, he asked them if they would be willing to stay in a reception centre. Some of the women interviewed refuse to live in a home for the elderly. Others, if they are not welcomed by relatives, must resign themselves to living there. Despite precarious living conditions, a very touching old woman told the journalist that she wanted to live to 100 years, as long as she was not a burden to anyone.
Mon, Dec 20, 1965
-Release date: December 21, 1965. Beyond the little story of a minister and a German woman, the Munsinger scandal has repercussions on political life in the federal government. At the end of 1966, Fernand Seguin, in his program "Le Sel de la semaine", reviewed what he ironically called "La Celle de la semaine". With the help of actor and host Guy Mauffette, he asked the basic questions. To two young politicians at the beginning of their careers, Gérard Pelletier and Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Seguin asked the real importance of the Munsinger affair. Are we not witnessing the autopsy of the decay of the parliamentary apparatus, the journalist wondered. The Canadian Parliament is caught between two generations, says Pelletier. Trudeau, for his part, is struck by the fact that Parliament has lived these few days in a kind of anarchy.
Sun, Nov 12, 1967
-Release date: November 13, 1967. In the fall of 1967, after a summer marked by General de Gaulle's historic visit to Montreal and the holding of Expo 67, Jean Drapeau triumphantly presided over the closing ceremonies of the Universal Exhibition on the Place des Nations. In a few months, the city of Montreal, "his city", the one to which he would devote his entire life, was propelled on the international scene. Interviewed by Fernand Seguin, the Mayor of Montréal (Canada) recounts his version of the facts surrounding General de Gaulle's famous speech. Jean Drapeau's response reflects his political talent to avoid compromising questions and get out of any situation.
Sun, Apr 14, 1968
-Release date: 15 April 1968. After teaching literature in Algeria, Mexico City and Florence, Jean-François Revel began a journalistic and literary career in Paris in 1957. Born in 1924 in Marseille (France), this intellectual is best known for his polemical books such as 'Pourquoi des philosophes?' (1957) and 'La Cabale des dévots' (1962). In 1968, Jean-François Revel gave Fernand Seguin an overview of his ideas on the French intellectual world. During the interview, he talks about the notion of pamphlet, French politics and mass culture.
Sun, Sep 15, 1968
-The sociologist Edgar Morin, born in 1921, tells Fernand Seguin about his life and the political commitments of his youth, particularly with the French Communist Party. His abandonment of this ideology for post-Marxism. Morin discusses his many fields of interest: the role of mass communications in the development of society; the definition of mass culture, its diffusion, what it reflects, its contradictions, the conclusions of his research on the concrete utopia of mass culture; the analysis of the youth protest movement and the relationship between these young people and their parents; solutions to the malaise of civilization; the role of the sociologist in the modern world.
Sun, Nov 10, 1968
-Release date: November 11, 1968. In the 1960s, the writer Han Suyin became famous for her fictional and autobiographical stories, most of which took place in China. At a time when the Cultural Revolution was in full swing, Fernand Seguin received her on the show. During the interview, Han Suyin tells the story of China as she knew it in her youth. She notes the enormous evolution through which her native country has gone since the end of European colonialism and the establishment of communism. The author speaks with admiration of Mao Tse-Tung and notes the progress of women's rights in China. Presenting herself as a Catholic bourgeois woman, she gives her point of view on the cultural and political conflicts between the West and the East.
Sun, Jun 15, 1969
-Interview in 1969 with comic book writer René Goscinny, the father (with cartoonist Albert Uderzo) of the famous Asterix and Obelix. René Goscinny answers a short questionnaire about Asterix. He talks about his childhood and his need to make people laugh. His studies and his military service. The various jobs he did. His collaboration with Uderzo. The circumstances of the birth and success of Asterix. His job as a comic book author, his opinion on American comics, French and Anglo-Saxon humor.
Wed, Oct 8, 1969
-Release date: October 9, 1969. Considered one of the most important scientists of the 20th century, Jean Piaget revolutionized conceptions of children's thinking. Both a psychologist and a biologist, he specialized in epistemology, a science that focuses on the construction of knowledge. Thérèse Gouin-Décarie spoke for nearly an hour with Jean Piaget. After talking about his early work, the epistemologist explains how his theories and experiences have led him to a better understanding of the stages of intelligence development.