France Bleu Picardie

France Bleu stations exist to serve specific regions, and Picardie's edition does that with the kind of institutional competence the French do best. You'll find a mix of French pop, international hits, news relevant to the region, and local stories that would never make national broadcasting. The programming assumes listeners have roots in Picardie - they know the cities, they care about local politics, they speak the regional accent. Not regional in an aggressively marketed way. Just regionally aware. Music rotates between commercial hits and deeper French artists, people like Françoise Hardy…