He regularly socialised with his colleagues in the local press from the Freedom of Seine-et-Marne and Country Briard newspapers whom he met at "The Modern" Inn in Saint-Cyr-sur-Morin.

Encouraged to move to radio by Roland Dhordain, founder of France Inter, Roger Gicquel joined the station and created a press review that he presented from 1968 to 1973.

Inspired by the TV journalist Walter Cronkite, the news presenter at the American channel CBS News, He claimed his independence from political influence and his freedom of speech:[10] "I maintained that the audience should be able to watch the journal and hear of a tidal wave in the Ganges delta even without images rather than see the birth of a calf in an aquatic zoo in Tokyo".

[11] This underlined the emotion caused by the kidnapping and death of a small boy Philippe Bertrand at Troyes by Patrick Henry.

[4] He returned to TF1 at the beginning of 1983, for the presentation and production of the show Vagabondages in which he mainly hosted notable people from the cultural world.

In 1994, he made his return to television at the request of Jean-Pol Guguen, director of the regional station France 3 Ouest,[4] where he hosted and produced every Saturday Strolling.

[7] In total, 182 issues were made of this program, with the participation of 1,200 witnesses were broadcast so that people could discover not only splendours and curiosities, but also the ugliness (pollution, urbanism) of places often ignored in the west of France, at Vendée.

Returning to Brittany after his career as a journalist, producer and presenter, he wrote books in which his passion for this region shone through.