Apostrophes (talk show)
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| Genre | Talk show |
| Created by | Bernard Pivot |
| Presented by | Bernard Pivot |
| Theme music composer | Sergei Rachmaninoff |
| Opening theme | Piano Concerto No. 1 |
| Country of origin | France |
| Original language(s) | French |
| No. of episodes | 724 |
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| Camera setup | Multiple |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
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| Original network | France 2 |
| Original release | January 10, 1975 – June 22, 1990 |
Apostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and hosted by Bernard Pivot. It ran for fifteen years (724 episodes) from January 10, 1975 to June 22, 1990, and was one of the most watched shows on French television (around 6 million regular viewers). It was broadcast on Friday nights on the channel France 2 (which was called "Antenne 2" from 1975–1992).
The hourlong show was devoted to books, authors and literature. The format varied between one-on-one interviews with a single author and open discussions between four or five authors. Notable authors who appeared on the show included: Vladimir Nabokov, Norman Mailer, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Marguerite Yourcenar, Susan Sontag, Neil Sheehan, Milan Kundera, Georges Simenon, William Styron,John Le Carré, Tom Wolfe,Umberto Eco, Marguerite Duras. Charles Bukowski's appearance on the show (22 September 1978) is famous for his being visibly drunk, insulting the host and walking off in the midst of the broadcast. The show also invited political figures (Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, the Dalai Lama, Robert Badinter, François Mitterrand), intellectuals, historians, sociologists (Pierre Bourdieu, Claude Lévi-Strauss), actors and directors (Marcello Mastroianni, Roman Polanski, François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard) to discuss their books and literature.
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