LPLG Listening Club
For Istorias Media
Hold an LPLG Listening Club in your city
Each Listening Club gathers around a single episode. We watch and listen together, then sit down for a guided conversation about what it stirred up — identity, representation, mental health, and the particular business of living between cultures. A Listening Club is a couple of hours with your phone in your pocket. You'll meet neighbours you'd never otherwise cross paths with, hear takes that aren't your own, and probably say a few things out loud you didn't know you'd been thinking. Whether you come with a friend or turn up on your own, you'll leave with new faces, new perspectives, and the quiet satisfaction of having actually talked to people, properly, about something that matters.
if you'd like to host your own, you can download our guide to building a Listening Club in your own city here (in French).
Laissons Parler Les Gens is funded by the European Union. The views expressed across our episodes belong entirely to the creators and guests, and do not necessarily reflect the official position of the EU.
Inside the LPLG Listening Clubs
Most of us listen to podcasts completely alone. Earphones in, the rest of the world tuned out. Laissons Parler Les Gens ("Let people speak") was never really built for that kind of solitude.
That's why we started the LPLG Listening Clubs.
The idea isn't ours, and we're glad to say so. We borrowed it, with a great deal of admiration, from Radio Ambulante — the Spanish-language narrative podcast distributed across the United States by NPR since 2016. In 2019 they launched their Clubes de Escucha, where fans gather in person to listen to an episode together and then talk about it.
Their reasoning stuck with us. A podcast is usually an intimate thing — a voice in your ear, almost a friend you meet each week — but something shifts when you listen in the same room as other people. Radio Ambulante's team go as far as to say the clubs help build more democratic societies, simply by putting us across the table from someone whose experiences aren't our own.
We wanted that for LPLG.
Laissons Parler Les Gens began as a podcast reaching millions across Côte d'Ivoire and its diaspora, using humour to crack open difficult subjects — hate speech, cyberbullying, mental health online. The Listening Clubs simply take that spirit off the screen and into the room, where an audience becomes a community.
Laissons Parler Les Gens is funded by the European Union. The views expressed across our episodes belong entirely to the creators and guests, and do not necessarily reflect the official position of the EU.
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