Garlic & Pearls

著者： 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
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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
社会科学
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  • Jigsaw Puzzles: The amazing British invention that went from geographical 'dissection' to universally popular form of meditation

    Jigsaw Puzzles: The amazing British invention that went from geographical 'dissection' to universally popular form of meditation
    2025/04/25
    Suzanne tells Muriel the riveting story of an invention devised in London by one inspired man, in an 18th-century world of map-making, mezzotints and early industrial machinery, and explores what jigsaw puzzles do for us, what they mean, and why they are more popular than ever.

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    55 分
  • The Metric System: Born of a perfect storm of Enlightenment and Revolution

    The Metric System: Born of a perfect storm of Enlightenment and Revolution
    2025/04/18
    Muriel tells Suzanne how the French dream of the metric system became realised when the Enlightenment scientists' desire for reliable measurements met the French Revolutionaries' decision to remodel the nation according to Reason.

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    53 分
  • Bluebells: Why does this enchanting native blue flower make the British giddy?

    Bluebells: Why does this enchanting native blue flower make the British giddy?
    2025/04/11
    Suzanne explores the complex botanical, mythical and poetic aspects of the British bluebell cult. Hope and death, secrecy and display and even asparagus all come into it, and Tilda Swinton, Diana, Princess of Wales and Margaret Thatcher all guest star.

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    51 分

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