C'est La Vie (radio)
Encyclopedia
C'est la vie is a Canadian
English language
radio program about Francophone Canadian
life, language and culture. First aired in 1998, the program is currently heard on CBC Radio One
at 7:30 on Sunday evening and repeated at 11:30 Tuesday morning.
A regular feature of the show is "The Word of The Week," where a key French language
word used in the main story of the episode is put into focus with recordings of ordinary people illustrating how the word is used in conversation. Afterward, the word is discussed by the host and the series' resident language expert, Johanne Blais, "The Word Lady."
The program's host is Bernard St-Laurent
.
A similar television
program, Au Courant, also airs on CBC Newsworld
.
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
English language
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
radio program about Francophone Canadian
French Canadian
French Canadian or Francophone Canadian, , generally refers to the descendents of French colonists who arrived in New France in the 17th and 18th centuries...
life, language and culture. First aired in 1998, the program is currently heard on CBC Radio One
CBC Radio One
CBC Radio One is the English language news and information radio network of the publicly-owned Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. It is commercial free and offers both local and national programming...
at 7:30 on Sunday evening and repeated at 11:30 Tuesday morning.
A regular feature of the show is "The Word of The Week," where a key French language
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
word used in the main story of the episode is put into focus with recordings of ordinary people illustrating how the word is used in conversation. Afterward, the word is discussed by the host and the series' resident language expert, Johanne Blais, "The Word Lady."
The program's host is Bernard St-Laurent
Bernard St-Laurent (broadcaster)
Bernard St-Laurent is a Canadian radio personality, currently heard on CBC Radio One in Montreal.He hosts the regional Quebec noon hour call-in show Radio Noon and the national weekly program C'est la Vie....
.
A similar television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
program, Au Courant, also airs on CBC Newsworld
CBC Newsworld
CBC News Network is a Canadian English language Category C specialty news channel owned and operated by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation . It broadcasts into over 10 million homes in Canada. It is the world's third-oldest television service of this nature, after CNN in the United States and...
.