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Prof Bob Davis @rokewood.bsky.social · 22h

quite splendid BBCFreeThinking BBCRadio4 hour of sparkling philosophical discussion of the universal topic of ‘the good life’. @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social
with Sophie Scott-Brown, @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social, Fergus Butler-Gallie, Sudhir Hazareesingh, Rachael Wiseman
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BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, What is a good life?

Matthew Sweet and guests explore what it means to live a good life.

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Muriel Zagha @murielzagha.bsky.social · 22h

Ha! Chance would be fine thing.

Muriel Zagha @murielzagha.bsky.social · 23h

BREAKING NEWS:
The @garlicandpearls.bsky.social podcast now has a magnificent website of its very own: garlicandpearls.com
✨🇫🇷🇬🇧🧄🫧
Many thanks to our listeners for their continued support and appreciation as @suzanneraine.bsky.social and I ascend the twin peaks of Britishness and Frenchness…

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Muriel Zagha @murielzagha.bsky.social · 2d

George Gist, also known as Sequoyah, was a Cherokee polymath who created a syllabary for the Cherokee language - which allowed the Cherokee to read and write. Did he give his name to the Big Tree? Tune in to @garlicandpearls.bsky.social and find out!

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 2d

2/2 All dressed up to witness a miracle: two fine Florentine dandies in the Brancacci Chapel, Sta. Maria del Carmine, c.1424.

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Muriel Zagha @murielzagha.bsky.social · 2d

I adored Jilly Cooper and her books. I was and remain one of her French fans. Sad news, but what a wonderful joyous legacy!

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Muriel Zagha @murielzagha.bsky.social · 2d

This week on @garlicandpearls.bsky.social my esteem’d co-host @suzanneraine.bsky.social tells me the astonishing story of GIANT REDWOODS IN THE UK. As we revisit the Californian origins of the Big Tree, we remember a pivotal scene from Hitchcock’s Vertigo… Tune in!
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Muriel Zagha @murielzagha.bsky.social · 4d

This week on the Garlic&Pearls podcast, @suzanneraine.bsky.social tells awestruck me about GIANT REDWOODS IN THE UK, whose presence, which will transform the British landscape over millennia, came of a Victorian craze of botanists seeking out the Big Tree!

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Amanda Watson @amndw2.bsky.social · 3d

I couldn't resist. #pleasingterror

A bingo card for the ghost stories of M.R. James. Boxes read:
"Spiders
Terrible hotel stay
Narrator makes fun of golf
Latin passages
Eerie disembodied voices
Confirmed bachelor main character
Vengeful spirit
Evil magician
Working-class character as comic relief
Bleak East Anglian coast
Visit to an archive
Narrator in guidebook mode
FREE SPACE
Unholy doings in a church
Frogs or toads
Queen Anne style house
Cursed artifact
Don't buy that rare book!
Something hairy and horrible
Someone gets too curious
Tentacles
Story told via old manuscript
Research trip gone horribly wrong
Beds are scary
Tactile horror

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 3d

Saint Catherine prays, an angel w a sword appears, the wheel bursts into flames, and landscape is beautiful. Because it was painted in 1515 by Joachim Patinir, master of landscape, who died OTD in 1524.

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Muriel Zagha @murielzagha.bsky.social · 4d

This week on the Garlic&Pearls podcast, @suzanneraine.bsky.social tells awestruck me about GIANT REDWOODS IN THE UK, whose presence, which will transform the British landscape over millennia, came of a Victorian craze of botanists seeking out the Big Tree!

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Muriel Zagha @murielzagha.bsky.social · 5d

Films that shaped my understanding of the medium:
The Red Shoes
Solaris
Nosferatu
The Spanish Prisoner
Tokyo Story
Le mépris
Les nuits de la pleine lune
La belle et la bête
The Seventh Seal
His Girl Friday

Kim McNeill •📚🌿☕️ @joiedevivre9.bsky.social · 5d

Films that shaped my understanding of the medium:

Jeanne Dielman (Akerman)
Late Spring (Ozu)
Persona (Bergman)
In the Mood for Love (Wong)
Koker Trilogy (Kiarostami)
La Pointe Courte (Varda)
Mirror (Tarkovsky)
Beau Travail (Denis)
Bicycle Thieves (De Sica)
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Puiu)

JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 5d

Movies that shaped my understanding of of the medium:

Three Colours Trilogy: Kieslowski
The Cabinet of Dr Cagliari: Wiene
Mulholland Drive: Lynch
Paris, Texas: Wenders
Man with a Movie Camera: Vertov
Rififi: Dassin
Double Indemnity: Wilder
The Cranes are Flying: Kalatozov
Jeanne Dielman: Akerman

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Muriel Zagha @murielzagha.bsky.social · 6d

Snap! And then sometimes, as I tiptoed away, stepping on a piece of Lego.

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Muriel Zagha @murielzagha.bsky.social · 7d

This week, HOW TO EAT EVERYTHING IN PARIS, with our guest Chris Newens: the old slaughterhouses of La Villette, the colossal food markets of Rungis and the hallowed ritual of l’apéritif all feature!
@profilebooks.bsky.social
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Muriel Zagha @murielzagha.bsky.social · 9d

Crikey.

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Matthew Redhead @matthewrr.bsky.social · 10d

An eye opener!

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Muriel Zagha @murielzagha.bsky.social · 10d

Riveting ep of @garlicandpearls.bsky.social this week as @suzanneraine.bsky.social and I welcome expat food writer Chris Newens, author of Moveable Feasts: Paris in Twenty Meals, who reveals surprising findings about Paris food! Tune in!
@profilebooks.bsky.social

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Muriel Zagha @murielzagha.bsky.social · 13d

Would you like to know HOW TO EAT EVERYTHING IN PARIS today? Tune in to our revelatory @garlicandpearls.bsky.social chat with Chris Newens, author of terrific food memoir Moveable Feasts!
Insights galore! A sample…
@profilebooks.bsky.social @robertloyko-greer.bsky.social @suzanneraine.bsky.social

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Muriel Zagha @murielzagha.bsky.social · 13d

A beautiful film, that.

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Muriel Zagha @murielzagha.bsky.social · 14d

This week on @garlicandpearls.bsky.social my irrepressible co-host @suzanneraine.bsky.social (still a schoolgirl at heart) takes us through the history, glories and controversies of British CONKERS. The Peckham conkers championship is drawing near… Suzanne has provided me with the kit. Do I dare?

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Muriel Zagha @murielzagha.bsky.social · 15d

It’s not always about Paris and the Nouvelle Vague, you know. What 5 films best capture the spirit of Mansfield, Notts? A conversation I had with Robert Shore a little while ago…
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Episode 15: A Portrait of Mansfield in Five Films

Podcast Episode · Mansfield Is A Town In North Nottinghamshire · 25/06/2023 · 50m

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Sticky D'Oliveira's art album @stickyoliveira.bsky.social · 16d

Great ep! I used to bring home tubs of huge conkers from family camping hols near Chinon and flog them at school as 'French Superiors'. Might have to check out Peckham next month...

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Muriel Zagha @murielzagha.bsky.social · 15d

‘French Superiors’! Wonderful.

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Muriel Zagha @murielzagha.bsky.social · 16d

Many thanks from the @garlicandpearls.bsky.social team for these kind (and highly perceptive) comments on Reddit!

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Muriel Zagha @murielzagha.bsky.social · 17d

Favourite 10 TV comedies, in no particular order:

The Larry Sanders Show
The Thick of It
Yes Minister
Seinfeld
Toast of London
The In-Betweeners
Brass Eye
Friday Night Dinner
Fawlty Towers
The Windsors

JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 18d

Favourite 10 TV comedies, in no particular order

Rising Damp
Fawlty Towers
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
The Thick of It
I’m Alan Partridge
The Good Life
Dad’s Army
Porridge
Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads
Man About the House

Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 18d

Favourite 10 TV comedies, in no particular order.

Cheers
The Phil Silvers Show
Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads
Porridge
First Ten Years Of The Simpsons
New Girl
30 Rock
Hancock
The Larry Sanders Show
Better Things

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