how to follow the re-opening of Notre-Dame?

The burned cathedral will reopen its doors on December 8 after five years of reconstruction work. An event which shakes up the schedules of television channels, but which also shakes up streaming platforms as well as listening platforms. Thus, numerous podcasts and documentaries can be discovered before the reopening of Notre-Dame.

On December 8, the Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral, victim of a fire that shook the world in 2019, will finally reopen its doors to the public after more than five years of work. The event will be broadcast on television, notably on France Télévision, but will also be featured on the radio and on streaming platforms. Thus, several special broadcasts are scheduled, starting with the broadcast on Arte on Saturday November 30 of the documentary Investigation into the buried treasures of Notre-Dameproduced by Florence Tran, who reviews the discoveries made by the archaeological excavations of the building's restoration project.

Still on television, France 2 will offer an evening dedicated to Notre-Dame on December 3 with the broadcast of the film Our Lady Resurrectionretracing the five years that the restoration work took. Documentaries The breath of Notre-Dame et Notre-Dame, the test of the centuries will follow on the France Télévisions channel, before the ceremonies of December 7 and 8 are broadcast, as is the first mass celebrated in the cathedral on Sunday morning. Special programming is also announced on TF1, with the broadcast of Notre-Dame, the construction site of their livesbut also Public Senate, with Save Notre Dame by Quentin Domart, Charlène Gravel and Michèle Hollander. On the side of streaming platforms, animated films The Hunchback of Notre Dame et The Hunchback of Notre Dame 2: The Secret of Quasimodo are now available on Disney+, as is the National Geographic documentary Notre-Dame: Trial by Fire.

These podcasts to follow the reconstruction of Notre-Dame

Beyond the images, certain directors turned to the sounds of Notre-Dame de Paris, offering franceinfo listeners the series of podcasts They saved Notre-Dame. In six episodes, freely available on Radio France since November 25, the curious will be able to relive the night of the fire but also the different stages of the building's restoration. Note that the podcast focuses on the different trades mobilized to resurrect the legendary cathedral.