Louis Garel

On the streets of Lagos, it is not the police who wield power but gangs of fight-hardened young men known as Area Boys. Louis spends time with several outfits, joining them as they patrol their turf, clash with local rivals and keep the peace in a brutal and haphazard fashion. The main income for the Area Boys is an arbitrary and unofficial form of taxation, extracted from local businesses and commercial drivers. Louis gets to know the rich and glamorous Area Boy leader MC, a former street youth himself, who has now become a friend of the most powerful men in the city.

Dans ce nouveau numéro inédit de Secrets d'Histoire, Stéphane Bern nous fait découvrir le destin tragique du roi Louis II de Bavière, un souverain aux allures de prince de conte de fée et pourtant…

Louis meets Dominic Harrison, aka singer and musician Yungblud, often regarded as one of the UK music scenes brightest stars. Louis joins Yungblud in the USA, on the last two nights of a whirlwind tour. Along the way, Louis meets fans who follow their hero with almost religious intensity, attracted to his brand of emotionally charged music. In a Paris hotel during the European leg of his tour, Louis and Yungblud sit down to discuss a range of topics including his mental health, his sexuality and his response to outspoken critics. Louis also travels to Doncaster to spend time with Yungblud and his family, where they discuss his turbulent upbringing.

Faced with the challenging behaviour of their kids, more and more parents in America are turning to psychoactive medication to help them cope, even though the drugs, and sometimes the diagnoses, remain controversial. Louis travels to one of America's leading children's psychiatric treatment centres, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to get to know the diagnosed children and hoping to understand what drives parents to put their kids on drugs.

Upon returning from a hunting expedition, King Louis XIV feels a sharp pain in his leg. He begins to die, surrounded by loyal followers in the royal chambers.

Pour célébrer le 800e anniversaire de la naissance de Louis IX, plus connu sous le nom de Saint Louis, Stéphane Bern revient sur le parcours du plus illustre des souverains capétiens et le seul roi de France canonisé. L'animateur dévoile lors d'une visite l'abbaye de Royaumont dans l'Oise, que le jeune Louis IX a fait bâtir au XIIIe siècle en n'hésitant pas à porter les pierres lui-même. Porté par une foi inébranlable, ce dernier a participé à deux croisades et a fondé la ville d'Aigues-Mortes pour embarquer son armée. Louis IX a également modernisé les institutions judiciaires de son royaume et posé les bases fondatrices de la nation française. Le mythe du saint roi fascine à toutes les époques.

Louis stays with the residents of a soon to open brothel in Nevada for a few weeks.

Louis Theroux travels to San Francisco where a group of pioneering medical professionals help children who say they were born in the wrong body transition from boy to girl or girl to boy at ever younger ages. At the Child and Adolescent Gender Center at UCSF Hospital Louis meets children who have been diagnosed with gender dysphoria. Louis is told that children as young as three can show signs of rejecting the gender they were assigned at birth, leaving parents with a difficult dilemma - do they start transitioning a child who is still developing their own identity or do they wait and risk making the change once their body has gone through the transformations of puberty?

Central Valley, California, is home to some of the most impoverished rural towns in America, where crystal meth addiction is prolific. In Fresno, Louis finds a community ravaged by this cheap and highly addictive drug. As he infiltrates the town, he experiences the reality of meth abuse, as addicts who are high (or 'tweaking', as it is known) invite him into their homes to see them take hit after hit of their favourite drug. Louis becomes surrounded by the madness of daily addiction and the meth-addled confusion which is breaking this community apart. He sees its impact through the eyes of the local police, and meets Diane and Karl, a couple who have sustained their marriage despite a 25-year meth addiction and losing custody of their five children. He witnesses arrests of sons doing meth with their mothers, and family after family broken apart from generations of meth abuse.