Éclectique RadioÉclectique Radio

Laurent Lenvec runs it from the thirteenth arrondissement, with a few volunteer hosts around him, among them Adeline and a DJ who goes by Blind Sound System, and listener donations paying the bills. Listeners can send dedications and talk in the station chat. The pitch is a refusal of format rather than a genre of its own: rock next to variété, house next to classical, electro next to whatever happens to come after it, assembled by people who like music and have decided not to be precious about it.

Evenings and weekends are where the spread gets sorted. Français-clectique gives a night to francophone songs from the fifties onward, Le grand phono spends a morning on retro records, Instant classique brings in the classical, and Blind Sound System's hour wanders wherever he wants. The chanson runs from post-war singer-songwriters to the rock-edged variété of the 2000s.