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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
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  • Bungalows: The perfect British design for living?

    Bungalows: The perfect British design for living?
    May 23 2025
    Britain has a lot of bungalows, but why and how did this begin? Suzanne goes enthusiastically utilitarian and modular and introduces Muriel to the history, charm and meaning of this revolutionary one-storey design, associated with the seaside and hygienic living, with pioneering architects and refinements of snobbery, with the temporary and permanent, and with the topical question of how best to house the nation.

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    59 mins
  • Surrealism: How and why Paris became a vortex for artists unleashing the subconscious

    Surrealism: How and why Paris became a vortex for artists unleashing the subconscious
    May 16 2025

    Muriel surprises Suzanne with an enigmatic tea cup covered in fur – the Surrealist object par excellence. Who was Meret Oppenheim, the woman who made it, and what inspired her? This opens up a story of Parisian Surrealism, when a group of artists explored liminal dream-like inspiration in visual arts, writing and film. Why did this happen in Paris specifically? And why did Surrealism never really take root in Britain?


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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • Toast: An ode to distinctly British crisp buttered deliciousness – with some true crime thrown in

    Toast: An ode to distinctly British crisp buttered deliciousness – with some true crime thrown in
    May 9 2025
    We all dream of the perfect piece of hot toast dripping with butter, but is it ever to be had in this world? Suzanne gives Muriel 9-step instructions on how to make it and, by way of Shakespeare and The Wind in the Willows, tells the history of the British quest for perfect toast and the development of toasting forks, toast racks and the toaster. A Frenchman, the chef and inventor Alexis Soyer, is the surprising star of this British story, and 18th-century burglarious felony and a delirious Wikipedia hoax also feature.

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    1 hr and 4 mins

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