''Le téléphone sonne'' (''The phone's ringing'') is a
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programme produced by the French
generalist public radio network
France Inter and broadcast between 7:20pm and 8.00pm on Monday to Friday evenings.
First aired in 1978, the programme consists of a live studio debate between specialist guests on a selected item in the news, to which listeners are invited to contribute by
phoning in their questions and opinions – hence the programme's title. The journalist
Alain Bédouet was the main presenter of ''Le téléphone sonne'' from 1984 to 2012.
External links
The programme's home page
French public radio programs
Radio France
1978 radio programme debuts
French talk radio programs
Radio phone-in programs
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