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Garlic & Pearls — 120 episodes
Summer Postcards: Ginger Beer
Summer Postcards: Bonjour Tristesse
Summer Postcards: Summer Pudding
Summer Postcards: Melons
Summer Postcards: Ice Cream Vans
Summer Postcards: Topless Sunbathing
Summer Postcards: Scampi Fries
Summer Postcards: Pastis
Stripy Tops: From Devil's Cloth to Top French Icon
Pub Quizzes: The Nation's Favourite 'Brit of Fun'!
The Institut Français du Royaume-Uni: Britain's Official Portal into French Culture!
The Letter J: The Mind-Blowing Creation Story of a British Sound
The Great Paris Flood of 1910: The City of Light vs Nature!
Bell Ringing: Unique Performing Art and England's 'Loud Noise to the Glory of God'!
Debora Robertson: What We Get Wrong About France
Zebra Crossings: Freedom, Safety and British Science in Black and White!
The 100th Episode: Our Peak-Britain and Peak-France Chart-Toppers!
May 68: How and Why France Dreamed Up Another Revolution
The Blue Willow Pattern: A Tale of Romance, Bone and Clay
The Laughing Cow: The Quintessential French Cheese
The Monarch of the Glen: The Surprisingly Passionate Tale of Landseer's Emblematic Masterpiece
The French Garden: Making Nature Artificial, Mathematical and Political!
Labrador Retrievers: Did the British Invent the Perfect Dog?
The Flâneur: Why The French Walk More Slowly Than The British
Daffodils: The Poetic Icon that Means Booming Business for Britain
The Café Waiter: Working-class hero? Towering Figure of Haughty Frenchness?
Cagoules: The Great British Cover Up
French Baddies in Film: Bad Eggs and Dark Horses
Ken Loach's Kes: Urchin Rebel Bonds With Wild Kestre in Quintessential British Film
A Very French Scandal: Naked Woman at Picnic! Manet’s revolutionary Déjeuner sur l'herbe
The Guinness Book of Records: Superlative feats! Nature's wonders! Fun for dictators!
Brittany: The French Wild West - Celtic Identity, Pancakes, Memories of Dukes and Power!
Football: Britain's Gift to the World!
French Brothels of the Golden Age: Sex, theatricality, escapism!
A Study in Silver: The cryptic British world of precious metals, their hallmarks, assays, and guilds
La dictée: How did a school spelling test become a French obsession and symbol of Frenchness?
The Christmas Tale Face-Off: A Christmas Carol or Les Misérables?
The Christmas Drink Face-Off: Indulgent Irish Cream or astringent coupe de champagne?
The Christmas Telly Face-Off: Reithian British Monument or Gallic social satire?
The Christmas Carol Face-Off: Pre-Raphaelite Poetry or Socialist Manifesto?
The Christmas Treat Face-Off: Quality Street or marrons glacés?
The Christmas Chart-Topper Face-Off: Beguiling Pop or Kitsch Cosiness?
Metal Detectors: What goes 'beep beep' all over the land and is typically British? The gentle army of treasure seekers hoping to find an Anglo-Saxon hoard!
French Politicians and Clairvoyants: The French worship Reason and critical thinking, don't they? So why do Presidents (and mayors), who serve the French Republic, love the occult so much?
The British Tax Year: The French tax year is aligned on the calendar year, but not the British. Why not? Popes, Catholicism, the Reformation!
Greatest Play Ever! Britain vs France, part 2. The Bald Prima Donna - Zany Avant-Garde on the Paris Left Bank
Greatest Play Ever! Britain vs France, part 1. The Mousetrap - Agatha Christie's Not So Cosy West End Whodunnit
The Paris Catacombs: palace of death, gigantic memento mori and a way of solving the problem of excess bones
Graham Robb: The Real Making of Britain and France: A myth-busting, panoramic trip through time and space
Rhyming Slang: A distinctly British and creative code that's definitely not 'brown bread'
Brigitte Bardot: Top French Icon and The Face of France
Giant Redwoods in the UK: A story of intrepid botanists and explorers, and a Victorian British craze
Chris Newens: How to Eat Everything in Paris
Conkers: from Victorian pastime to urban Battle Royale
An Evening with Garlic & Pearls: where Muriel and Suzanne make their first live appearance!
French Roundabouts: are they about safety, strategy or symbolism?
Shinty: 'Quite a violent version of hockey'
Summer Shorts: The 'Sorry' and 'Pardon' face off
Summer Shorts: The béret and bobble hat face off
Summer Shorts: The high vis jacket and gilet jaune face off
Club Med: From campsites in Spanish pine groves to Tahitian 'villages' in Morocco, how the French brought their edenic dream holiday to life
British Camping: How Britain devised a distinctively gruelling kind of holiday which is part dream and part nightmare.
The Revolutionary Calendar: How French utopians tried to recalibrate time and reshape Republican humanity
1217: The French Invasion You Never Knew About (Part 2)
1217: The French Invasion You Never Knew About (Part 1)
Orangina: How a home-grown Algerian drink became a French icon
Pirates: Why the British treasure the Robin Hoods of the seas
French Theme Parks: Running the Gamut From Fun to Propaganda
Pimms: The journey, joys and jeopardy of the quintessential British summer drink
Identity Cards: A French story of the struggle between liberté and securité
Bungalows: The perfect British design for living?
Surrealism: How and why Paris became a vortex for artists unleashing the subconscious
Toast: An ode to distinctly British crisp buttered deliciousness – with some true crime thrown in
Into the Deep: What draws the French so powerfully to the briny depths?
Jigsaw Puzzles: The amazing British invention that went from geographical 'dissection' to universally popular form of meditation
The Metric System: Born of a perfect storm of Enlightenment and Revolution
Bluebells: Why does this enchanting native blue flower make the British giddy?
Glamour: What – and who – do the French find so bewitching about Britain?
Panache: How a French king's white feather came to define a Gallic core value
Eccentrics: Why do they grow in Britain and not in France?
Insouciance: What is it and can the British ever achieve it?
The Theatre of Horrors: How the visceral Grand-Guignol thrilled Paris to the core
Trailer: Garlic & Pearls Cordiale Corkers
Rescue Puppies: The whys and wherefores of Britain’s unparalleled devotion to animals
The Map of Love: How a modern Frenchwoman from the 17th-century imagined courtship as a hike through an imaginary landscape
Harris Tweed: How sturdy wool woven in the outer Hebrides became the very fabric of Britishness
The Misfortunes of Sophie: A darkly vivid 1850s classic that still shapes and fascinates French children today
Ski Sunday: How the British fell in love with skiing and made it fun
Absinthe: Was the iconic drink of the Belle Epoque enchanting or poisonous?
Valentine’s Day: How French amour courtois turned into Victorian enterprise
Johnny Hallyday: The French Elvis?
The Orsini Bomb: Made in Britain and designed to kill the French Emperor!
The Black Polo Neck: French national dress, political uniform, or philosophical flag?
Wheelie Bins: Blessing or curse?
The Concierge: The pantomime villain that the French love to hate?
Marmalade: Who invented it and how did it become a shortcut for Britishness?
Galette Des Rois: Let them eat cake - for the Epiphany!
The Christmas Pudding Sandwich: Perfect for Boxing Day!
Flaming Boar’s Head Feast: All hail ‘the rarest dish in all the land’!
The Discreet Charm of Presents on Christmas Eve: Scrap the suspense! Presents now!
Crackers: Bang bang! It’s Christmas!
Oysters: It’s Christmas –: bring on the piles of ice-cold raw shellfish!
France’s Ultimate Christmas Film: Father Christmas is a Git!
Panto!: Oh no it isn’t! Oh yes it is!
Trailer - Garlic & Pearls Christmas Corkers
The Cockerel’s Cologne: Did the French invent perfume or did perfume invent the French?
Bleakness: A dark poetic paradise in the heartland of the Industrial Revolution
Le Comic Strip: Girl fights pterodactyl in Belle Epoque Paris!
My Favourite A Road: Driving by numbers
Marseille Soap: France’s cleanest national treasure
Hassocks: English folk art and cultural identity in stitches
Donkey Skin: Catherine Deneuve in the weirdest fairy tale you’ve never heard of
Halloween: Turnips and chisels at the ready – we’re carving a path to the celebration's spooky roots!
Playing Cards: The French never miss a trick!
Hedgerows: A tale of British countryside, folklore and riots!
La Cantine: How does the French Republic create petits gastronomes?
Sir Nigel Gresley: All aboard! Full steam ahead with a very British passion!
The Four-Colour Bic Pen: What goes “click” and is mightier than the sword?
Pickled Onions: Crossing a culinary chasm
Garlic & Pearls: What makes the British so British and the French so French?