Jordanne FM Saint-Flour

Saint-Flour sits high in the Cantal, on a basalt outcrop where the wind is relentless and the radio dial is short. Jordanne FM belongs to that landscape in a way the big national networks don't. Small French stations like this don't run to a tight format. That's the appeal. The schedule bends around the town rather than the other way round: chanson française, the odd accordion, local notices, football results. The Auvergne has its own sound, the cabrette and the bourrée, and a station rooted here has that history on its doorstep. Brassens sounds better in this company than he does on any algor…