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  • Flaming Boar’s Head Feast

    Flaming Boar’s Head Feast
    2024/12/25
    Suzanne digs up an almost entirely forgotten British Christmas medieval tradition full of pomp and circumstance, including a special carol!

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    13 分
  • The Discreet Charm of Presents on Christmas Eve

    The Discreet Charm of Presents on Christmas Eve
    2024/12/24

    Muriel tells Suzanne about France’s uncanny parallel universe, where Christmas happens the day before Christmas. But are the French missing out on the art of waiting?



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    14 分
  • Crackers

    Crackers
    2024/12/23
    Suzanne dissects the gloriously noisy tradition of the British Christmas cracker. There is a Victorian inventor, also some French bonbons, a diamond ring and plenty of explosions.

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    12 分
  • Oysters

    Oysters
    2024/12/22
    How did oysters (les huîtres) become enshrined in France as a traditional Christmas food? Muriel investigates.

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    13 分
  • France’s Ultimate Christmas Film

    France’s Ultimate Christmas Film
    2024/12/21
    Muriel explains the appeal of the ferocious, dark and crude madcap comedy that encapsulates Christmas for the French.

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    13 分
  • Panto!

    Panto!
    2024/12/20
    Where Suzanne opens Muriel’s Continental mind to the summit of British stagecraft – the rich and frivolous tradition of Christmas panto, an exhilarating hodgepodge of mumming, commedia dell’arte, post-Restoration theatre and up-to-the-minute satire.

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    57 分
  • Trailer - Garlic & Pearls Christmas Corkers

    Trailer - Garlic & Pearls Christmas Corkers
    2024/12/17

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    1 分
  • The Cockerel’s Cologne

    The Cockerel’s Cologne
    2024/12/13
    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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    1 時間 6 分