Garlic & Pearls

By Muriel Zagha and Suzanne Raine

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 ... more

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December 17, 2024 Trailer - Garlic & Pearls Christmas Corkers
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2min
December 13, 2024 The Cockerel’s Cologne: Did the French invent perfume or did perfume invent the French?
Taking as a starting point a highly symbolic empty bottle of Eau de Cologne discovered by Suzanne in Denmark, Muriel explores the ways in which the French took possession of perfume – climate, savoir-faire, aristocratic patronage and the culture of display and seductiveness that developed in the 19th century.
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1h 7min
December 06, 2024 Bleakness: A dark poetic paradise in the heartland of the Industrial Revolution
By way of Ted Hughes’s Remains of Elmet, Suzanne explores a scarred ancient landscape and brings back to life the ghosts of warring kings, Tudor wool weavers, brigands and Victorian dam builders.
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56min
November 29, 2024 Le Comic Strip: Girl fights pterodactyl in Belle Epoque Paris!
The French adore comic book series – or bandes dessinées – featuring Asterix and Tintin. But Muriel tells Suzanne about another famous French character, a plucky heroine called Adèle Blanc-Sec, whose surreal fantastical adventures unfurl in 1900 Paris and involve encounters with pre-historic creatures, Babylonian demons and Egyptian mummies.
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50min
November 22, 2024 My Favourite A Road: Driving by numbers
In which Suzanne explains another British obsession: the decision tree of how to get from A to B by way of A roads. A kinetic tale of Romans, speed, resourcefulness and British modernism.
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1h 5min
November 15, 2024 Marseille Soap: France’s cleanest national treasure
Muriel examines every facet of Marseille soap from the practical to the mythological, and takes Suzanne on a journey from the boiling vats of the soap factories to the havens of French pharmacies and the heady hinterland of Provence.
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56min
November 08, 2024 Hassocks: English folk art and cultural identity in stitches
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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1h
November 01, 2024 Donkey Skin: Catherine Deneuve in the weirdest fairy tale you’ve never heard of
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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57min
October 25, 2024 Halloween: Turnips and chisels at the ready – we’re carving a path to the celebration's spooky roots!
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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1h 2min
October 18, 2024 Playing Cards: The French never miss a trick!
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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57min

FAQs about Garlic & Pearls:

How many episodes does Garlic & Pearls have?

The podcast currently has 66 episodes available.