PRIX NUMIX: 5 podcasts to (re)discover!

As we prepare to unveil the finalists for the NUMIX AWARDS on April 18, we’d like to take a look back at five podcasts from all genres, finalists or winners in recent awards. Enjoy your listening!

A lively and funny work of fiction, Pour réussir un poulet is a reinvention of the eponymous play by Transistor Media in collaboration with Théâtre de la Manufacture, for broadcaster La fabrique culturelle. Like the play itself, this four-episode podcast follows the sad but hilarious adventures of a duo who, through no fault of their own, find themselves caught up in a spiral of increasingly shady adventures.

Dans l’eau chaude is a fiction/documentary production written by author Blanche Gionet-Lavigne and produced by Parabole, Théâtre Premier acte and Studio CKRL 89. In five episodes, we take a behind-the-scenes look at the restaurant business through a series of nightmarish services actually experienced by Quebec chefs. Reinterpreted by actors, their terrible stories, sometimes funny, sometimes very hard, offer us a fresh look at the often thankless realities of the kitchen and service professions.

Produced by Babel Films and broadcast by Télé-Québec, the podcast Devenir Margot is an intimate and touching incursion into the reality of dementia and how it can affect those around them. In a documentary form favoring testimonials and refictionalized passages for a better understanding of the narrative thread, Devenir Margot follows screenwriter Marika Lhoumeau, whose dementia-stricken father starts calling her Margot one day, for no specific reason. Over the course of the podcast’s six episodes, we learn about the challenges of caregiving through her journey.

Le village – Meurtres, combats et fiertés plunges us into a dramatic episode in the history of Montreal’s gay village: the murders of 17 gay men in the 90s. While the police were slow to act, this wave of murders was to be one of the triggers for a fight for the liberation of the LGTBQ+ communities. Produced by Radio-Canada, this seven-episode documentary, hosted by Marie-Ève Tremblay, combines narration, archival footage and testimonials to explore both the story of the murders and, more broadly, the context of police violence, homophobia and the rise of AIDS undermining LGBTQ+ communities. A sensitive and important podcast.

Resistance invites us, through the exploration of the heroic journey of Shadrach Minkins, born enslaved in Virginia and arriving in Montreal in 1851 after a long road to freedom, to better understand the history of slavery in the United States. Throughout the podcast’s ten episodes, historian and rapper Webster and his father, Cheikh Ndiaye, retrace the steps of Schadrach Minkins’ journey and meet with specialists and historians to offer us a powerful and rich insight into our contemporary history.