Manual Ronan

Manual Ronan , French journalist, Breton member Reporter has animated for several years of the cultural emissions on the waves of France Blue Armorique and currently daily afternoon, another Sunday Bleu mongrel downloadable (podcast) and devoted to the musics of the world, " these musics which resound of the popular traditions, that they are Zulu or Mongolian, which they are primitive or sometimes playing with the electro one, a beautiful universe of meetings and discoveries (...) " as well as artistic appointments Western and cultural Studio air of the country.

Its love of the words makes oscillate its feather between the writing of Conte S and the drafting as a chief of the free cultural magazine " Arthur". Its standpoint is often ambiguous there. He denounces on the one hand what he calls the Breton Nationalisme but does not hesitate to write in connection with Günter Grass for its membership of the apparatuses Nazis: " Yes, it was in the Waffen-SS. Yes, it has shame. Simply, it was a gamin".

Impassioned history and in a ethnomusicologic step, as at ease with a microphone as with a camera, it conceives and Co-carries out the documentary ones on the popular traditions: Bagad! A Breton legend reports the history of the bagadou and As long as the wind will blow recalls the origin of the tradition of the songs of sailors in France (DVD Solidor/video Pathé).

He is regional delegate of the trade union CFTC of the Audiovisuel.

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