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  • Hassocks

    Hassocks
    2024/11/08
    In which Suzanne unfurls a panoramic history of Anglican church kneelers, showing the little embroidered cushions to be an extraordinarily expressive artistic flourishing of the Second Elizabethan Era.

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    59 分
  • Donkey Skin

    Donkey Skin
    2024/11/01
    In which Muriel tells Suzanne about a favourite children’s film involving dead donkeys, incest and psychedelia, and Suzanne wonders a little at the wisdom of French parents.

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    56 分
  • Halloween

    Halloween
    2024/10/25
    As we transition from harvest to winter, Suzanne leads Muriel back into the mists of time and elicits the origins of Halloween: the mumming and guising of Celtic Samhain, a host of Catholic saints, queens and kings, and, of course, witches and witchfinders...

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    1 時間 2 分
  • Playing Cards

    Playing Cards
    2024/10/18
    In which Suzanne gives Muriel carte blanche to reveal the French origins of the ‘jeu de cartes’, and Muriel lays all her cards on the table and wonders: were playing cards devised by a French knight as a tribute to his lady? How best to cheat at piquet? Why is it impossible for the ace of spades to look chic?

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    57 分
  • Hedgerows

    Hedgerows
    2024/10/11
    Why does Britain have such a staggering amount of hedgerows? Suzanne leads Muriel through a hedge backwards and finds a dazzle of biodiversity and a tormented cast of barons, peasants, Diggers and sheep! Hedgerows: are they a Good Thing or a Bad Thing?

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    55 分
  • La Cantine

    La Cantine
    2024/10/04
    Time for lunch! Muriel takes Suzanne through the workings of French school canteens. What’s on the menu? How does the French Republic make petits gastronomes? And, most importantly, how old does your tumbler say you are?

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    50 分
  • Sir Nigel Gresley

    Sir Nigel Gresley
    2024/09/27

    What drives the British obsession with trains great and small? Suzanne takes Muriel on an epic journey, following the tracks of Sir Nigel Gresley, visionary engineer and duck breeder extraordinaire.



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    1 時間 5 分
  • The Four-Colour Bic Pen

    The Four-Colour Bic Pen
    2024/09/20
    The four-colour Bic pen was a revolutionary invention. It’s also an emblem of optimistic Frenchness. Find out why as Muriel unpacks the pen’s origin story and takes Suzanne back to school.

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    48 分