Radio La Belle Aventure: live radio from Rennes

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Radio La Belle Aventure

A friend's station, continued.

Breton webradio that refuses to raise its voice.

It grew out of another station. La Radio Sympa ran for seven years and stopped when Mathieu, who made it, died; the people around it took a cutting and planted this one in 2024, scattered across Brittany. It marked its second birthday at a guinguette on the banks of the Rance in June 2026, launched a summer festival there under the old station's name that August, and carries no advertising at all, which the team puts down to being paid for entirely by the people who listen to it.

Programming follows the hour rather than a genre, and the promise is simply that it will not assault your ears. A handful of curators each build their own morning, afternoon, evening and night selections, so chanson, Ethiopian soul, Colombian marimba and trip-hop can share an afternoon without any of it being announced, and hip-hop and rock get blocks of their own.

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Radio La Belle Aventure

A friend's station, continued.

Breton webradio that refuses to raise its voice.

It grew out of another station. La Radio Sympa ran for seven years and stopped when Mathieu, who made it, died; the people around it took a cutting and planted this one in 2024, scattered across Brittany. It marked its second birthday at a guinguette on the banks of the Rance in June 2026, launched a summer festival there under the old station's name that August, and carries no advertising at all, which the team puts down to being paid for entirely by the people who listen to it.

Programming follows the hour rather than a genre, and the promise is simply that it will not assault your ears. A handful of curators each build their own morning, afternoon, evening and night selections, so chanson, Ethiopian soul, Colombian marimba and trip-hop can share an afternoon without any of it being announced, and hip-hop and rock get blocks of their own.