"Through the trains, we will seek the soul of a country"

Attention to the start! The channel advances tonight on its summer dock a new season of its documentary series Trains like no other . With Philippe Gougler still at the presentation.

When we attack his eighth season at the head of a show like Trains like no other has the same pleasure to compost his ticket?
You know that there are not many places in the world where you put your ticket. It's a pretty French practice! [Rires.] The train remains for me one of the most beautiful ways to approach the world. It is a powerful machine, but remains human, located on the floor of cows. You keep an almost tactile touch with the land and the landscapes you cross.

How do you choose the destinations?
It is a precision watchmaking. We have a team of journalists who do thorough investigations all year round. The more we explore the planet, the more we venture into countries where there are very few trains. For example, in the program on Colombia that you will discover next week, when we told Colombians that we were coming to film the trains, they were laughing: "But there are no trains here!" takes you to a remote area that only trains served. When they stopped their service, the inhabitants had to be clever and made a system, the "moto mesa", with a motorcycle, a board and small wheels. They fix it on the rails and it rolls!

How to make it not too slow or boring as can it be certain journeys by train?
One has never had this fear because our job is to make alive. Through the trains, we will search for the soul of a country, let ourselves be randomly brought to meetings, have amazing sequences or unusual. There is a lot of improvisation in the show. This is not because some trains are slow that the film is.

We also find you at the start of the year at the controls of Do not dream on France 3 …
Yes , alternating with Carolina de Salvo because the filming of Trains like no other already take me a lot of time. The trip must remain a pleasure. One prepares you in particular a very beautiful Must not dream which will happen in the Alps. These are two ways to cover the planet that I adore.

Direction Namibia

Before spinning in Colombia, Canada, Ireland or Taiwan, Philippe Gougler tonight takes the surprising "train of the desert" in Namibia. "This is one of the most beautiful destinations in this collection, with deserts and dunes as far as the eye can see. And this sand that accumulates on the rails and that men have to clear in the open air in an overwhelming heat … "