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  • Cagoules: The Great British Cover Up

    Cagoules: The Great British Cover Up
    2026/03/06
    How to solve a problem like the British weather? It's easy if you invent the right British garment with a French name, whose origins and evolution Suzanne unveils: it's a story of ancient hooded spirits, anoraks, Royal Marines, the great outdoors, textile manufacturing, fashion and practicality, and – in a surprising twist – anti-Republican conspiracies in 1930s France.

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    52 分
  • Bad Eggs and Dark Horses: French Baddies in Film!

    Bad Eggs and Dark Horses: French Baddies in Film!
    2026/02/27
    Muriel unravels the reasons why so many film villains happen to be French. From dissolute sophisticates to duplicitous manipulators and downright sadistic megalomaniacs, what do these colourful imaginary French figures tell us about Frenchness?

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    54 分
  • Urchin Rebel Bonds With Wild Kestrel: Ken Loach's Kes – Quintessential British Film

    Urchin Rebel Bonds With Wild Kestrel: Ken Loach's Kes – Quintessential British Film
    2026/02/20
    Suzanne explores a masterpiece which is 'like being knocked out' – a cri de coeur about downtrodden youth, devastating tragedy and the tyranny of class. But Ken Loach's Kes is also a dream of escape, wondrous lyrical beauty and the call of the wild. And what of A Kestrel for a Knave, the film's source novel, and its revered author Barry Hines? What do they tell us about how a story rooted in South Yorkshire working-class experience, once told in print and film, gave a whole community their voice and also reached universal resonance?

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    51 分
  • A Very French Scandal: Naked Woman at Picnic! Manet’s revolutionary Déjeuner sur l'herbe

    A Very French Scandal: Naked Woman at Picnic! Manet’s revolutionary Déjeuner sur l'herbe
    2026/02/13
    Muriel examines a madly famous succès de scandale. What’s going on in Edouard Manet’s 1863 painting of an outdoors scene featuring four people, one of whom is stark naked? Is it a riddle? A transgressive prank? Napoleon III guest stars as the originator of the offbeat Salon des Refusés, and an enigmatic life model breaks the fourth wall.

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    58 分
  • The Guinness Book of Records: Superlative feats! Nature's wonders! Fun for dictators!

    The Guinness Book of Records: Superlative feats! Nature's wonders! Fun for dictators!
    2026/02/06
    Suzanne tells Muriel a very British story of surprise global success, which began at a shooting party in 1951 with a dispute over the speed of a golden plover. A dramatic cast of fact finders and record breakers includes Guinness Brewery managing director Sir Hugh Beaver, identical twins of exceptional retentive memory Norris and Ross McWhirter, and Presidents of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow and his son Sherdar. What made the Book such a success? What challenges did it face? And where in the world has the highest concentration of white marble buildings?

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    59 分
  • The French Wild West: Brittany! Celtic identity, pancakes, memories of Dukes and power!

    The French Wild West: Brittany! Celtic identity, pancakes, memories of Dukes and power!
    2026/01/30
    Why does 'Brittany' (in local dialects Breizh and Bertègn) sound so much like 'Britain'? Because this Western region of France, once known as Armorique, was profoundly shaped by an influx of 5th-century Celt migration from the British Isles. One of the six Celtic nations, it represents an enmeshing of our two cultures and isn't quite part of mainstream France. Muriel narrates the region's turbulent history of annexation by the Kingdom of France through a series of strategic marriages – almost all of them to the same Breton Duchess. Plus mythical tales of drowned cities, a controversial Breton comic-strip heroine, home-grown Breton Cola, and your reminder to eat pancakes for Candlemas, like the French!

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    53 分
  • Back of the Net! It's leather, it's round, it's Britain's gift to the world!

    Back of the Net! It's leather, it's round, it's Britain's gift to the world!
    2026/01/23
    Suzanne moves the goalposts and gives football the Garlic & Pearls treatment: it's a story where passions run high, from obsessive devotion to dogged attempts to ban the sport, whether because of its riotous violence of because it's deemed unsuitable for ladies. A cast of colourful characters keep the ball moving: Henry VIII, Mary Queen of Scots, the five-foot-tall Lady Florence Dixie and her husband Lord ABCD, Nettie Honeyball and legendary scorer Lily Parr ... But how did quicksilver come into it? And where was the world's oldest extant football discovered, hinting at protection from witchcraft?

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    52 分
  • French Brothels of the Golden Age: Sex, theatricality, escapism!

    French Brothels of the Golden Age: Sex, theatricality, escapism!
    2026/01/16

    Oh là là! From the Belle Epoque to the Jazz Age rose famous French brothels such as Le Chabanais, the One Two Two or the Sphynx. This vanished world, its outlandish themed rooms and enigmatic army of female denizens, live on in the iconography that they inspired and that remains forever wedded to French identity. The future Edward VII guest stars as a designer of unusual furniture.


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    1 時間 5 分