Nostalgie Big Ben

The Nostalgie name has meant French nostalgia radio for decades. Big Ben tips the formula across the Channel: chanson and variété from the sixties through the eighties, with British invasion records slipped in beside them. Jacques Brel, then The Kinks. Dalida, then Small Faces. Accordion on the French side, tambourines on the English one. It shouldn't work. It does. The playlist leans soft: France Gall, Michel Polnareff, and choruses your parents knew by heart. Dig deeper and you won't find much obscurity. This isn't a crate-digger's station. It's kitchen radio, and it knows exactly what that…