Garlic & Pearls
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What makes the French so French and the British so British? Suzanne Raine and Muriel Zagha venture into the deep cultural divide, one object at a time. Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3MHXLiL. Apple: https://apple.co/47ps72O
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Many thanks, Jonathan, for flagging up @garlicandpearls.bsky.social and the work of myself and my indefatigable co-host @suzanneraine.bsky.social
It's thoroughly researched and emphasises how far from cosy Christie's works can be. The Mousetrap is set in a dislocated postwar world in which the class structure has been shaken and there is an air of paranoid watchfulness.
Not so cosy: A podcast on Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap
I came across a new podcast today – Garlic & Pearls – via a really good episode on Agatha Christie's play The Mousetrap . It's thoroughly r...
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November 8, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Many thanks, Jonathan, for flagging up @garlicandpearls.bsky.social and the work of myself and my indefatigable co-host @suzanneraine.bsky.social
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This week on the @garlicandpearls.bsky.social podcast @suzanneraine.bsky.social and I go to the theatre, in the first part of a diptych about the longest-running plays in Britain and in France. First - yes, it’s THE MOUSETRAP!
#themousetrap✨
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#themousetrap✨
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November 7, 2025 at 10:30 AM
This week on the @garlicandpearls.bsky.social podcast @suzanneraine.bsky.social and I go to the theatre, in the first part of a diptych about the longest-running plays in Britain and in France. First - yes, it’s THE MOUSETRAP!
#themousetrap✨
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/gar…
#themousetrap✨
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/gar…
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This week on @garlicandpearls.bsky.social it’s Halloween. The French don’t do Halloween (‘Allo Ouine? Qu’est-ce que c’est?’) - so instead @suzanneraine.bsky.social and I contemplate the wondrous Paris Catacombs. Bones! Skulls!A neo-classical theatrical display! Tune in - remember you must die…
October 31, 2025 at 10:36 AM
This week on @garlicandpearls.bsky.social it’s Halloween. The French don’t do Halloween (‘Allo Ouine? Qu’est-ce que c’est?’) - so instead @suzanneraine.bsky.social and I contemplate the wondrous Paris Catacombs. Bones! Skulls!A neo-classical theatrical display! Tune in - remember you must die…
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It’s that time of year again, so here’s a reminder that before podcasting on @garlicandpearls.bsky.social about Frenchness and Britishness @suzanneraine.bsky.social and I were once vampire slayers.
Which provides another kind of hinterland for the garlic in our name.
Happy Halloween!
Which provides another kind of hinterland for the garlic in our name.
Happy Halloween!
November 1, 2025 at 5:50 PM
It’s that time of year again, so here’s a reminder that before podcasting on @garlicandpearls.bsky.social about Frenchness and Britishness @suzanneraine.bsky.social and I were once vampire slayers.
Which provides another kind of hinterland for the garlic in our name.
Happy Halloween!
Which provides another kind of hinterland for the garlic in our name.
Happy Halloween!
Be very afraid: @murielzagha.bsky.social takes us on a trip to the real heart of Paris... @suzanneraine.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Be very afraid: @murielzagha.bsky.social takes us on a trip to the real heart of Paris... @suzanneraine.bsky.social
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Inspired to this indirectly by listening to half of a very delicious @garlicandpearls.bsky.social episode about Toast to complete my grey homeward commute. If I can't have a pile of perfect toast dripping with butter (and due to multiple factors, I cannot), delicious chorizo and eggs it is.
October 21, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Inspired to this indirectly by listening to half of a very delicious @garlicandpearls.bsky.social episode about Toast to complete my grey homeward commute. If I can't have a pile of perfect toast dripping with butter (and due to multiple factors, I cannot), delicious chorizo and eggs it is.
Our special guest this week navigates Britain and France with an eccentric, sometimes contrary approach, proving that sometimes thing going wrong are more interesting than things going right @murielzagha.bsky.social @suzanneraine.bsky.social @picadorbooks.bsky.social :
October 25, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Our special guest this week navigates Britain and France with an eccentric, sometimes contrary approach, proving that sometimes thing going wrong are more interesting than things going right @murielzagha.bsky.social @suzanneraine.bsky.social @picadorbooks.bsky.social :
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This week on @garlicandpearls.bsky.social I am (only figuratively) at the wheel, and I lead my copilot @suzanneraine.bsky.social on a dizzying tour of French roundabouts, which are more eccentric than one might think! Tune in!
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September 7, 2025 at 12:20 PM
This week on @garlicandpearls.bsky.social I am (only figuratively) at the wheel, and I lead my copilot @suzanneraine.bsky.social on a dizzying tour of French roundabouts, which are more eccentric than one might think! Tune in!
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Another Summer Short this week on @garlicandpearls.bsky.social in which I and @suzanneraine.bsky.social ponder the histories and meanings of our respective emblematic headgear. Yes - it’s the béret and bobble hat face-off.
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August 15, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Another Summer Short this week on @garlicandpearls.bsky.social in which I and @suzanneraine.bsky.social ponder the histories and meanings of our respective emblematic headgear. Yes - it’s the béret and bobble hat face-off.
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Who wears it best? @murielzagha.bsky.social
This week on the nonpareil 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 podcast @garlicandpearls.bsky.social @suzanneraine.bsky.social and I probe the many meanings of the high vis/gilet jaune, including as a fashion statement. Tune in!
August 9, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Who wears it best? @murielzagha.bsky.social
The shorts have arrived!
Tune in tomorrow for the first of a short (naturally) series of zappy summery @garlicandpearls.bsky.social podcasts in which @suzanneraine.bsky.social and I compare and contrast similar things that our two nations do very differently…
August 8, 2025 at 8:22 AM
The shorts have arrived!
Don't go camping in Britain! Try this instead!
This week on @garlicandpearls.bsky.social another French myth - Club Med. Was/is it really, as its founder hoped, ‘the antidote to civilisation’? Is it possible to return to the state of nature… at an all-inclusive resort? I investigate with fellow holidaymaker @suzanneraine.bsky.social
Tune in!
Tune in!
August 4, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Don't go camping in Britain! Try this instead!
Storm Floris is arriving this weekend so for those of you now regretting a decision to have a British camping holiday, @murielzagha.bsky.social outlines the benefits of the obviously preferable Club Med option:
August 1, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Storm Floris is arriving this weekend so for those of you now regretting a decision to have a British camping holiday, @murielzagha.bsky.social outlines the benefits of the obviously preferable Club Med option:
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I have been on ONE camping holiday in Britain in all my life. 🤔 Can @suzanneraine.bsky.social entice me back? Tune in and find out.
It's holiday time! And nothing better than a spot of camping, which, as @suzanneraine.bsky.social explains to @murielzagha.bsky.social, was of course invented here.
Apple: bit.ly/4f7omTL
Spotify: bit.ly/3J3Udsg
Apple: bit.ly/4f7omTL
Spotify: bit.ly/3J3Udsg
July 25, 2025 at 8:01 AM
I have been on ONE camping holiday in Britain in all my life. 🤔 Can @suzanneraine.bsky.social entice me back? Tune in and find out.
It's holiday time! And nothing better than a spot of camping, which, as @suzanneraine.bsky.social explains to @murielzagha.bsky.social, was of course invented here.
Apple: bit.ly/4f7omTL
Spotify: bit.ly/3J3Udsg
Apple: bit.ly/4f7omTL
Spotify: bit.ly/3J3Udsg
July 25, 2025 at 6:59 AM
It's holiday time! And nothing better than a spot of camping, which, as @suzanneraine.bsky.social explains to @murielzagha.bsky.social, was of course invented here.
Apple: bit.ly/4f7omTL
Spotify: bit.ly/3J3Udsg
Apple: bit.ly/4f7omTL
Spotify: bit.ly/3J3Udsg
Our intrepid reporter, emboldened by her new Garlic & Pearls knowledge, travelled to the other side of the world to find a people even more intent on pickling things than we are.
While in Japan, emboldened by my ‘memorable’ British pickled onion initiation at the hands of @suzanneraine.bsky.social in an early ep of our podcast, I felt it my duty to our @garlicandpearls.bsky.social listeners to try umeboshi - salted ‘pickled (brined) plums’, though ume is closer to apricots.
July 24, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Our intrepid reporter, emboldened by her new Garlic & Pearls knowledge, travelled to the other side of the world to find a people even more intent on pickling things than we are.
If it feels like what we all really need is radical change, here's one which was tried earlier but may just work a second time:
This week on @garlicandpearls.bsky.social I don my red Phrygian hat and recount the story of the French Revolutionaries’ attempt to recalibrate time itself for a new regime and a regenerated humanity. @suzanneraine.bsky.social deploys some healthy British scepticism.
July 21, 2025 at 4:18 PM
If it feels like what we all really need is radical change, here's one which was tried earlier but may just work a second time:
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This week on @garlicandpearls.bsky.social the concluding part of the 1217 Battle of Lincoln, complete with Louis of France’s last-ditch return with fleet, a retinue of knights and the flamboyant ‘magician pirate’ Eustace the Monk! St Bartholomew appears too! @suzanneraine.bsky.social
July 15, 2025 at 9:15 AM
This week on @garlicandpearls.bsky.social the concluding part of the 1217 Battle of Lincoln, complete with Louis of France’s last-ditch return with fleet, a retinue of knights and the flamboyant ‘magician pirate’ Eustace the Monk! St Bartholomew appears too! @suzanneraine.bsky.social
Next week President Macron will make a state visit to the U.K. In honour of the occasion, Garlic & Pearls offer a two parter on the real turning point in the relationship between these islands and France @murielzagha.bsky.social
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Spotify: bit.ly/44hfpmY
Apple: bit.ly/45UHP7x
Spotify: bit.ly/44hfpmY
The Battle of Lincoln, part 1: Will Prince Louis of France secure the crown of England?
Podcast Episode · Garlic & Pearls · 04/07/2025 · 1h
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July 4, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Next week President Macron will make a state visit to the U.K. In honour of the occasion, Garlic & Pearls offer a two parter on the real turning point in the relationship between these islands and France @murielzagha.bsky.social
Apple: bit.ly/45UHP7x
Spotify: bit.ly/44hfpmY
Apple: bit.ly/45UHP7x
Spotify: bit.ly/44hfpmY
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The perfect companion for the heatwave is our illuminating podcast @garlicandpearls.bsky.social where I tell
@suzanneraine.bsky.social the pulpy story of ORANGINA: ‘Secouez-moi, secouez-moi!’
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@suzanneraine.bsky.social the pulpy story of ORANGINA: ‘Secouez-moi, secouez-moi!’
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June 29, 2025 at 9:10 AM
The perfect companion for the heatwave is our illuminating podcast @garlicandpearls.bsky.social where I tell
@suzanneraine.bsky.social the pulpy story of ORANGINA: ‘Secouez-moi, secouez-moi!’
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/o...
@suzanneraine.bsky.social the pulpy story of ORANGINA: ‘Secouez-moi, secouez-moi!’
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A very nice thing. We at @garlicandpearls.bsky.social are honoured and delighted!
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June 29, 2025 at 9:22 PM
A very nice thing. We at @garlicandpearls.bsky.social are honoured and delighted!
@suzanneraine.bsky.social
@suzanneraine.bsky.social
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A drink as iconic as Orangina is more than a drink, I tell @suzanneraine.bsky.social in this week’s ep of @garlicandpearls.bsky.social - it’s a carrier of 🇫🇷 identity. Listen to the story of ORANGINA!
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June 27, 2025 at 6:30 AM
A drink as iconic as Orangina is more than a drink, I tell @suzanneraine.bsky.social in this week’s ep of @garlicandpearls.bsky.social - it’s a carrier of 🇫🇷 identity. Listen to the story of ORANGINA!
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This week, @garlicandpearls.bsky.social is, thrillingly, all about PIRATES (and also maritime insurance)!
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June 24, 2025 at 9:13 PM
This week, @garlicandpearls.bsky.social is, thrillingly, all about PIRATES (and also maritime insurance)!
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This week we address the British fascination with pirates. Any guesses who we're describing here?
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Apple: bit.ly/4lomW9r
Spotify: bit.ly/3Gf8Wj4
June 22, 2025 at 1:09 PM
This week we address the British fascination with pirates. Any guesses who we're describing here?
Apple: bit.ly/4lomW9r
Spotify: bit.ly/3Gf8Wj4
Apple: bit.ly/4lomW9r
Spotify: bit.ly/3Gf8Wj4
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This week on
@garlicandpearls.bsky.social @suzanneraine.bsky.social takes to the high seas with tales of PIRATES and the British obsession with the marine Robin Hoods. Pictured: Blackbeard, John Morgan, Anne Bonny and Mary Read. 🏴☠️ podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...
@garlicandpearls.bsky.social @suzanneraine.bsky.social takes to the high seas with tales of PIRATES and the British obsession with the marine Robin Hoods. Pictured: Blackbeard, John Morgan, Anne Bonny and Mary Read. 🏴☠️ podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...
June 21, 2025 at 7:14 PM
This week on
@garlicandpearls.bsky.social @suzanneraine.bsky.social takes to the high seas with tales of PIRATES and the British obsession with the marine Robin Hoods. Pictured: Blackbeard, John Morgan, Anne Bonny and Mary Read. 🏴☠️ podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...
@garlicandpearls.bsky.social @suzanneraine.bsky.social takes to the high seas with tales of PIRATES and the British obsession with the marine Robin Hoods. Pictured: Blackbeard, John Morgan, Anne Bonny and Mary Read. 🏴☠️ podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...