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Garlic & Pearls

Garlic & Pearls

Auteur(s): 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 Sciences sociales
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  • 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!
    Jan 23 2026
    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 min
  • The Golden Age of French Brothels: From the Belle Epoque to the Jazz Age, France combined its love of sex, theatricality and escapism and its passion for policing and regulation into the system of the maisons closes.

    The Golden Age of French Brothels: From the Belle Epoque to the Jazz Age, France combined its love of sex, theatricality and escapism and its passion for policing and regulation into the system of the maisons closes.
    Jan 16 2026

    Famous French brothels such as Le Chabanais, the One Two Two or the Sphynx were at their most sumptuous from 1870 to the Second World War. 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 h et 5 min
  • A Study in Silver: The cryptic British world of precious metals, their hallmarks, assays, and guilds

    A Study in Silver: The cryptic British world of precious metals, their hallmarks, assays, and guilds
    Jan 9 2026
    Suzanne illuminates the origins and meaning of hallmarking, which began in the 13th century under Edward I – aka Edward Longshanks – as part of his wider effort to stabilise the kingdom by means of statutes. Though the French king Louis IX appears as a guest star, this is a case of Britain being far more systematic and precise than France while, in typical British fashion, devising a resilient system capable of evolving through the centuries. Where were the native silver and gold mines of Britain? And did you know that you could have your own hallmark made?

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    47 min
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