Radio Courtoisie - Supporting Cast

Supporting Cast

• Radio Courtoisie benefits or has benefited from the more or less frequent collaboration of various doyens of the intellectual world such as Jean Tulard and Gabriel de Broglie of the Institut de France, Christian Cabrol of the faculty of medicine, Chantal Delsol, Aymeric Chauprade and Jacques Heers of the Sorbonne, Bertrand Lemennicier of Pantheon-Assas University, Yves Roucaute of Paris X Nanterre, Maurice Druon and Jacqueline de Romilly of the Académie française, as well as other academics and university staff.

• Other personalities participate in programmes such as General Pierre-Marie Gallois, the Figaro columnist Ivan Rioufol, Alain Peyrefitte (an adviser to de Gaulle), and the President of the France-Israel Friendship Association Gilles-William Goldnadel.

• Some ministers of the Fillon government have recently been guests on Radio Courtoisie: Xavier Darcos, education minister, guest of Catherine Rouvier; and Valérie Pécresse, minister of higher education and research, guest of Yannick Urrien.

• More controversial and unexpected personalities have also been guests, generally on a one-off basis: Brigitte Bardot, Thierry Ardisson, Jacques Vergès, Alain Soral, Dieudonné M'bala M'bala, the ufologists Jean-Pierre Petit and Joël Mesnard, and the historical negationist Pierre Guillaume (not to be confused with the soldier of the same name, who hosted a programme for many years until his death in 2002).