Muriel Zagha
@murielzagha.bsky.social
Writer & broadcaster; film specialist – BBC, TLS, ENGELSBERG IDEAS, APOLLO, SPECTATOR and others; Critics’ Circle; French Londoner
Garlic&Pearls podcast
https://garlicandpearls.com/
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Garlic&Pearls podcast
https://garlicandpearls.com/
Instagram @murielzaghawriter
http://muckrack.com/muriel-zagha-3
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2/2 A fine, if catless, Annunciation from 1518. Don't be fooled by the frame, it's just Bernard van Orley painting the doorway to another world.
January 6, 2026 at 2:39 PM
2/2 A fine, if catless, Annunciation from 1518. Don't be fooled by the frame, it's just Bernard van Orley painting the doorway to another world.
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Annunciation in a beautiful renaissance church (plus, spot the cat!) by Bernard van Orley of Brussels. Today is his day.
January 6, 2026 at 2:02 PM
Annunciation in a beautiful renaissance church (plus, spot the cat!) by Bernard van Orley of Brussels. Today is his day.
Happy New Year! 🇬🇧 Bonne année! 🇫🇷 The Garlic&Pearls podcast is back, starting 2026 as we mean to go on, with Gallic rectitude, and with me telling @suzanneraine.bsky.social about LA DICTÉE - how dictation, a school spelling test, became a FRENCH OBSESSION and SYMBOL OF FRENCHNESS! Tune in!
January 2, 2026 at 6:29 AM
Happy New Year! 🇬🇧 Bonne année! 🇫🇷 The Garlic&Pearls podcast is back, starting 2026 as we mean to go on, with Gallic rectitude, and with me telling @suzanneraine.bsky.social about LA DICTÉE - how dictation, a school spelling test, became a FRENCH OBSESSION and SYMBOL OF FRENCHNESS! Tune in!
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2/2 Adoration of the shepherds, with the arc of admirers perfectly done and their object of awe just a few lines. Unfinished engraving, 1615, by Hendrick Goltzius, whose day is today.
January 1, 2026 at 8:18 PM
2/2 Adoration of the shepherds, with the arc of admirers perfectly done and their object of awe just a few lines. Unfinished engraving, 1615, by Hendrick Goltzius, whose day is today.
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Tourist attractions of the renaissance: beached whale near Berkhey, 1598. By Hendrik Goltzius, who died OTD in 1617.
January 1, 2026 at 9:08 PM
Tourist attractions of the renaissance: beached whale near Berkhey, 1598. By Hendrik Goltzius, who died OTD in 1617.
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And here we are.
Thursday.
Thursday.
January 1, 2026 at 10:36 AM
And here we are.
Thursday.
Thursday.
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Died (alas!) on this day in 1617, in Haarlem, the wonderful & prolific draftsman, printmaker, and painter Hendrick Goltzius. Here by himself in 1594.
January 1, 2026 at 12:44 PM
Died (alas!) on this day in 1617, in Haarlem, the wonderful & prolific draftsman, printmaker, and painter Hendrick Goltzius. Here by himself in 1594.
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Lovely to be on Front Row last night with @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social to discuss the films of Brigitte Bardot - focusing on Et Dieu créa la femme (the launchpad), Vie privée (the presque biopic) and Le Mépris, where Bardot becomes full strength cinematic myth.
December 31, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Link to listen: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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Bread, butter, & cheese. Cherries. And a split artichoke. All from Clara Peeters, whose day is today.
December 31, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Bread, butter, & cheese. Cherries. And a split artichoke. All from Clara Peeters, whose day is today.
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The death of 12-year-old Dennis O’Neill in 1945 shocked Britain and led Agatha Christie to write her famous play The Mousetrap | Jonathan Calder
The forgotten Shropshire tragedy that inspired The Mousetrap
The death of 12-year-old Dennis O’Neill in 1945 shocked Britain and led Agatha Christie to write her famous play The Mousetrap
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October 25, 2025 at 4:38 PM
The death of 12-year-old Dennis O’Neill in 1945 shocked Britain and led Agatha Christie to write her famous play The Mousetrap | Jonathan Calder
Lovely to be on Front Row last night with @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social to discuss the films of Brigitte Bardot - focusing on Et Dieu créa la femme (the launchpad), Vie privée (the presque biopic) and Le Mépris, where Bardot becomes full strength cinematic myth.
December 31, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Lovely to be on Front Row last night with @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social to discuss the films of Brigitte Bardot - focusing on Et Dieu créa la femme (the launchpad), Vie privée (the presque biopic) and Le Mépris, where Bardot becomes full strength cinematic myth.
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Back with a live BBC Front Row tonight. Featuring John Lloyd on the 42nd anniversary reissue of The Meaning of Liff, @murielzagha.bsky.social on Brigitte Bardot: a life in 3 films, Joachim Trier on Sentimental Values & discussion about pianist Alfred Brendel 715 R4 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
December 30, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Back with a live BBC Front Row tonight. Featuring John Lloyd on the 42nd anniversary reissue of The Meaning of Liff, @murielzagha.bsky.social on Brigitte Bardot: a life in 3 films, Joachim Trier on Sentimental Values & discussion about pianist Alfred Brendel 715 R4 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Tune in!
Back with a live BBC Front Row tonight. Featuring John Lloyd on the 42nd anniversary reissue of The Meaning of Liff, @murielzagha.bsky.social on Brigitte Bardot: a life in 3 films, Joachim Trier on Sentimental Values & discussion about pianist Alfred Brendel 715 R4 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
December 30, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Tune in!
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Particularly lively feast of the gods w/ A+ floating, balloon-like putto, by Jan van Bijlert. It’s his day today.
December 29, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Particularly lively feast of the gods w/ A+ floating, balloon-like putto, by Jan van Bijlert. It’s his day today.
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I visited Romsey Abbey and it was so good I worried I was hallucinating and having some sort of episode where I’d finally lost it, but it does seem to be real
December 29, 2025 at 6:00 PM
I visited Romsey Abbey and it was so good I worried I was hallucinating and having some sort of episode where I’d finally lost it, but it does seem to be real
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I loved BB’s self-deprecating description of her distinctive topknot as ‘choucroute’ / Sauerkraut - a wonderful article bringing back many happy boyhood screen daydreams ⚜️🇫🇷
I loved BB’s self-deprecating description of her distinctive topknot as ‘choucroute’ / Sauerkraut - a wonderful article bringing back many happy boyhood screen daydreams ⚜️🇫🇷
For the admirable @engelsbergideas.bsky.social I wrote about Brigitte Bardot, the French myth 🇫🇷
@suzanneraine.bsky.social
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Brigitte Bardot was the face of France
She was a cultural icon who channelled the electric power of French femininity and, by extension, Frenchness itself.
engelsbergideas.com
December 29, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Read this!
I loved BB’s self-deprecating description of her distinctive topknot as ‘choucroute’ / Sauerkraut - a wonderful article bringing back many happy boyhood screen daydreams ⚜️🇫🇷
I loved BB’s self-deprecating description of her distinctive topknot as ‘choucroute’ / Sauerkraut - a wonderful article bringing back many happy boyhood screen daydreams ⚜️🇫🇷
For the admirable @engelsbergideas.bsky.social I wrote about Brigitte Bardot, the French myth 🇫🇷
@suzanneraine.bsky.social
@garlicandpearls.bsky.social
@bennrobin.bsky.social
@drmatthewsweet.bsky.social
@rwilliamsparis.bsky.social
engelsbergideas.com/notebook/bri...
@suzanneraine.bsky.social
@garlicandpearls.bsky.social
@bennrobin.bsky.social
@drmatthewsweet.bsky.social
@rwilliamsparis.bsky.social
engelsbergideas.com/notebook/bri...
Brigitte Bardot was the face of France
She was a cultural icon who channelled the electric power of French femininity and, by extension, Frenchness itself.
engelsbergideas.com
December 29, 2025 at 3:36 PM
For the admirable @engelsbergideas.bsky.social I wrote about Brigitte Bardot, the French myth 🇫🇷
@suzanneraine.bsky.social
@garlicandpearls.bsky.social
@bennrobin.bsky.social
@drmatthewsweet.bsky.social
@rwilliamsparis.bsky.social
engelsbergideas.com/notebook/bri...
@suzanneraine.bsky.social
@garlicandpearls.bsky.social
@bennrobin.bsky.social
@drmatthewsweet.bsky.social
@rwilliamsparis.bsky.social
engelsbergideas.com/notebook/bri...
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Brigitte Bardot was the face of France | @murielzagha.bsky.social
engelsbergideas.com/notebook/bri...
engelsbergideas.com/notebook/bri...
Brigitte Bardot was the face of France
She was a cultural icon who channelled the electric power of French femininity and, by extension, Frenchness itself.
engelsbergideas.com
December 29, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Brigitte Bardot was the face of France | @murielzagha.bsky.social
engelsbergideas.com/notebook/bri...
engelsbergideas.com/notebook/bri...
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Love vs Chastity: a brutal combat! As painted in 1505 by Pietro Perugino, whose day is today.
December 28, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Love vs Chastity: a brutal combat! As painted in 1505 by Pietro Perugino, whose day is today.
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2/2 Portrait of Francesco delle Opere in 1494, looking slightly more benign than his painter Perugino, whose day is today.
December 28, 2025 at 1:45 PM
2/2 Portrait of Francesco delle Opere in 1494, looking slightly more benign than his painter Perugino, whose day is today.
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Today's artist without a (known) birthday: Pietro Perugino. Here by himself in 1496, looking rather grumpy.
December 28, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Today's artist without a (known) birthday: Pietro Perugino. Here by himself in 1496, looking rather grumpy.