Garlic & Pearls

By: Muriel Zagha and Suzanne Raine
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  • Summary

  • Suzanne and Muriel examine a series of very different things – from a film to a kitchen utensil, a model train to a bar of soap – that define British or French attitudes, each explaining her cultural background to the other and trying to get to the essence of what makes the British British and the French French.

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    Muriel Zagha and Suzanne Raine
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Social Sciences
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Episodes
  • Le Comic Strip

    Le Comic Strip
    Nov 29 2024
    The French adore comic book series ­– or bandes dessinées – featuring Asterix and Tintin. But Muriel tells Suzanne about another famous French character, a plucky heroine called Adèle Blanc-Sec, whose surreal fantastical adventures unfurl in 1900 Paris and involve encounters with pre-historic creatures, Babylonian demons and Egyptian mummies. 

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    49 mins
  • My Favourite A Road

    My Favourite A Road
    Nov 22 2024
    In which Suzanne explains another British obsession: the decision tree of how to get from A to B by way of A roads. A kinetic tale of Romans, speed, resourcefulness and British modernism.

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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • Marseille Soap

    Marseille Soap
    Nov 15 2024
    Muriel examines every facet of Marseille soap from the practical to the mythological, and takes Suzanne on a journey from the boiling vats of the soap factories to the havens of French pharmacies and the heady hinterland of Provence.

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    55 mins

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