Radio Occitania

As a local radio, created in 1981 in Toulouse, our main caracteristic, as our name indicates so, is to promote the Occitan language and culture.

We produce and broadcast since then, over 16 hours of programmes a day.

These programmes are, of course, all or at least partly, in Occitan, and touch on themes of all kind: Economics, Politics, Sport, Literature, Cinema, Culture, History, News, Science... thus bringing an Occitan light on the world of today.

In the Midi-Pyrénées region, in South-Western France, several radios are broadcasting Occitan-speaking programmes in the Ariege, the Tarn, the Tarn-et-Garonne, the Lot and the Aveyron. Only two local radios broadcast up to 60% of Occitan programmes in their schedule: Radio Pais in the West, between the Atlantic Ocean and the river Garonne, and Radio Occitania in Toulouse and its surroundings, the Comminges and the Lauragais.

Radio Occitania's broadcasts in Occitan and Catalan languages, that are sister languages, almost alike, are produced with the cultural aim to set off the European regions heritage, up to 10 to 15 hours a day.

We broadcast initiation and proficiency Occitan courses, as well as everyday, 12 Occitan-speaking regional, national and international news bulletins (of which 2 bilingual French-Occitan 30-minutes bulletins), thus showing the living and actual nature of the language of the Troubadours.

In the surroundings of Toulouse, the Occitan is spoken by 14% of the people and understood by 41%, when in the rural environment, it is spoken by 28% of the people and understood by 48%. Among the respondents, 75% consider that the Occitan language is part of the culture of the Midi-Pyrénées region, 80% are favourable to an Occitan education, and 77% wish that the French government pass a law recognizing and protecting the regional languages.