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Garlic & Pearls

Garlic & Pearls

Di: Muriel Zagha and Suzanne Raine
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 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 Scienze sociali
Episodi
  • The Laughing Cow: The Quintessential French Cheese

    The Laughing Cow: The Quintessential French Cheese
    Apr 24 2026
    In France, a country with a multiplicity of cheeses, only one achieves national unity: the humble Vache qui rit – or Laughing Cow. But what are the origins of this product? Invented in the wake of the Great War as a trailblazing 'fromage moderne', it shares a terroir with the more prestigious Comté, which is also one of its ingredients. Paradoxically, Muriel suggests, this processed melted cheese – part Proustian madeleine and part gateway to gastronomy – is an expression of the French passion for le fromage. And Suzanne also receives something she didn't know she needed: a moo box!

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    1 ora e 2 min
  • The Monarch of the Glen: The Surprisingly Passionate Tale of Landseer's Emblematic Masterpiece

    The Monarch of the Glen: The Surprisingly Passionate Tale of Landseer's Emblematic Masterpiece
    Apr 17 2026
    An imposing stag stands in a dramatic landscape, in a famous painting hanging in pride of place in the National Scottish Gallery. But what are we really looking at, asks Suzanne. An accomplished oil painting by a Victorian master? A great icon for Scotland? Is is the painting a case of cultural appropriation and the encapsulation of 'Balmorality'? Does it matter if Landseer lost his head to the romance of Scotland? And who was he, and why did he paint the famous stag? It's a rollicking tale of tormented artistic temperament and the peregrinations of a painting, featuring the early days of marketing and mass reproduction, a very French case of cherchez la femme, a delicious recipe for potatoes and the foreshadowing of action painting – with tea.

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    45 min
  • The French Garden: Making Nature Artificial, Mathematical and Political!

    The French Garden: Making Nature Artificial, Mathematical and Political!
    Apr 10 2026
    What makes a garden distinctly French? A geometrical layout, straight lines of regular topiary and not a hair out of place! How, Muriel asks, did the jardin à la française develop as an expression of French thought and sensibility? Together, one man, royal gardener André Le Nôtre, and his king, Louis XIV the monarch absolute, turbo-charged an ornamental tradition imported from Italy to create Versailles, with its heliocentric design and extraordinary display of mastery of man over nature. Wonderful artistry or neurotic obsession with power? Certainly, French gardens speak intensely of political ideas as well as aesthetics. Suzanne wonders where all Gallic insouciance has gone. Jean-Jacques Rousseau guest-stars.

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