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  • The Black Polo Neck: French national dress, political uniform, or philosophical flag?

    The Black Polo Neck: French national dress, political uniform, or philosophical flag?
    2025/01/24
    In which Muriel unpacks for Suzanne the various hidden meanings taken on in France by the black polo neck. From Hollywood to the Left Bank, the humble polo neck acts as rallying sign for the counterculture as well as the Establishment, and no Existentialist would be seen without it!

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    58 分
  • Wheelie Bins

    Wheelie Bins
    2025/01/17
    Alegedly invented by accident in Slough, the army of wheelie bins now lining our streets is the latest iteration of British society’s attempts to manage waste. Suzanne ploughs heroically through centuries of ashpits, dustbins and cesspools, recounting many convulsions of public-spiritedness as she tries to get Muriel to think pragmatically about rubbish.

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    55 分
  • The Concierge

    The Concierge
    2025/01/10
    In which Muriel tells Suzanne the story of French concierges – the guardians of French buildings – involving systematic and distinctive urban planning begun in the 1830s, the proliferation of concierge imagery and mythology throughout literature, satirical cartons and vaudeville, and the real-life hardships faced by concierges in the past and in contemporary France.

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    1 時間 6 分
  • Marmalade

    Marmalade
    2025/01/03
    James Bond spread it on his breakfast toast; Paddington and Queen Elizabeth II kept marmalade sandwiches ‘for emergencies’; Scott of the Antarctic took some to the South Pole. Suzanne peels away layers of the history of marmalade as it evolved from dark quince paste to translucent bitter orange jelly and grew into a ubiquitous British export throughout the world, with Dundee as its capital city. And Muriel reveals her own surprising marmalade journey of enlightenment.

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    1 時間 3 分
  • Galette Des Rois

    Galette Des Rois
    2024/12/27
    Where does the almond-filled ‘galette des rois’ come from? And why have the French clung so tenaciously to it through the centuries? Muriel unveils a seasonal French cake with ancient roots reaching back to Antiquity and many connections to royalty and power. And – not a moment too soon – Suzanne becomes Queen.

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    1 時間 4 分
  • The Christmas Pudding Sandwich

    The Christmas Pudding Sandwich
    2024/12/26
    Suzanne dives into a 1920s compendium of sandwiches by Mary Woodman, retraces sandwich history and ponders the art of Successful Sandwich Making.

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    13 分
  • Flaming Boar’s Head Feast

    Flaming Boar’s Head Feast
    2024/12/25
    Suzanne digs up an almost entirely forgotten British Christmas medieval tradition full of pomp and circumstance, including a special carol!

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    13 分
  • The Discreet Charm of Presents on Christmas Eve

    The Discreet Charm of Presents on Christmas Eve
    2024/12/24

    Muriel tells Suzanne about France’s uncanny parallel universe, where Christmas happens the day before Christmas. But are the French missing out on the art of waiting?



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    14 分