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Radio Neptune started in Brest in 1982, one of the stations that came out of the French radios libres movement, and spent its first decade as a general-interest local broadcaster — jazz concerts relayed live from the cabaret Vauban, festival coverage, election nights, the arrival of sailors into port. In 1989 it recorded the highest audience any community radio in France had managed up to then. The format it settled on in 1995 is the one it keeps: classical through the day, jazz through the night.

Jean Le Corvoisier set that line and presented it until his death in 2019; his son Jean-Louis took over the presidency and the live shifts. Around thirty volunteers run the rest, from medieval and baroque repertoire through romantic to chamber recitals, then swing and everything jazz has done since the 1930s, with maritime and local-history magazines between.