Nostalgie Bordeaux

Nostalgie Bordeaux is where the car radio lands when you're driving past the Médoc vineyards and don't want anything recorded after 1989. That's the appeal, and it's a strong one. It's Sunday lunch music, the drive back from Lacanau, the long quiet bit of an afternoon. The playlist is French variety and classic pop: Michel Sardou, France Gall, Téléphone, Johnny Hallyday, plus ABBA and Dire Straits. Nostalgie Bordeaux live adds what the national feed skips: traffic on the rocade and weather for the Gironde. Honest, unfussy presentation, ads and all. Some of the segues are lazy (Sardou into Gain…