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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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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
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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
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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.

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July 25, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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This week we address the British fascination with pirates. Any guesses who we're describing here?

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June 22, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Garlic & Pearls take on thorny questions about state power and belonging! @murielzagha.bsky.social @suzanneraine.bsky.social

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May 30, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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Toast, the world's most perfect snack, and one the French in their infinite wisdom don't seem to have discovered @murielzagha.bsky.social and @suzanneraine.bsky.social

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May 10, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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This is the episode which really does explain everything you need to know about why the world is as it is. @murielzagha.bsky.social @suzanneraine.bsky.social

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April 18, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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Hope and death, secrecy and display, coming soon to a secret location near you! @murielzagha.bsky.social @suzanneraine.bsky.social

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April 11, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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Has the world gone mad? @murielzagha.bsky.social introduces crazed surgeons and escaped lunatics and Modern Women... and @suzanneraine.bsky.social shudders

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April 4, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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Long before Bridget Jones, French women navigated by The Map of Love. Beware the swamps and dragons! @murielzagha.bsky.social @suzanneraine.bsky.social

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March 21, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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Sherlock Holmes, Coco Chanel and Vivienne Westwood come with @suzanneraine.bsky.social and @murielzagha.bsky.social as they journey to the Outer Hebrides in search of The Big Cloth.

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March 15, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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Today, @murielzagha.bsky.social introduces @suzanneraine.bsky.social to a dark and vivid French cultural element (as if things aren't dark and vivid enough).

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March 7, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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In which @SuzanneRaine2 slightly controversially suggests that the British invented skiing, or at the very least took a means of getting from A to B and made it fun. @murielzagha learns.

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February 28, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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Happy Friday! Today @murielzagha.bsky.social tempts @suzanneraine.bsky.social with the magical green liquor which was so scandalising that it was banned in France (but not in Britain, obviously).

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February 21, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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Happy Valentine's Day! A story which is quite British but wouldn't be the same without the French. @murielzagha.bsky.social - who thinks every day is Valentine's Day, gets told it isn't by @suzanneraine.bsky.social

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February 14, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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What unholy action could this be? This weeks episode introduces a cast of unlikely characters and the bomb which brought down Palmerston @murielzagha @SuzanneRaine2

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January 31, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Does wearing a black polo neck make you cool even if you aren't? And other important information direct from France via @murielzagha.bsky.social
January 24, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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New episode, on that most French of characters, the Concierge. Guardians and gatekeepers, overlooking and overlooked.
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January 10, 2025 at 10:48 AM