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Garlic & Pearls

Garlic & Pearls

By: 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 Social Sciences
Episodes
  • The Christmas Drink Face-Off: Indulgent Irish Cream or astringent coupe de champagne?

    The Christmas Drink Face-Off: Indulgent Irish Cream or astringent coupe de champagne?
    Dec 24 2025

    Cheers! Santé! Suzanne retraces the history of a 1970s Soho brainwave of deliciousness and Muriel obeys the traditional Pavlovian call of Champenois fizz


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    42 mins
  • The Christmas Telly Face-Off: Reithian British Monument or Gallic social satire?

    The Christmas Telly Face-Off: Reithian British Monument or Gallic social satire?
    Dec 23 2025

    Suzanne brings a whole lotta Christmas to the table and parses the delights of the double issue of the Radio Times; Muriel unpacks a cult French sitcom about two contrasting lifestyles of the bourgeoisie


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    51 mins
  • The Christmas Carol Face-Off: Pre-Raphaelite Poetry or Socialist Manifesto?

    The Christmas Carol Face-Off: Pre-Raphaelite Poetry or Socialist Manifesto?
    Dec 19 2025

    Suzanne makes a compelling case for the evocative beauty of In the Bleak Midwinter and its landscape imagery infused with spirituality; Muriel wonders how Minuit, Chrétiens, a rousing carol authored by a Socialist firebrand and a stage composer, made it into the French Catholic choral canon.


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    28 mins
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