07 February    ... and a very different type of film indeed. Here's Madonna in A la dérive

09 February    A nice programme here on the French dream of motoring .. Conduire un rêve.

11 February    Liven up your Sunday dinner with some rutabaga .. or perhaps some pâtisson. Here's a man who grows them in Légumes d'Antan

13 February    From traditional vegetables to gritty British police drama.  Here is an episode of the French version of DCI Banks, called Beau Monstre.

15 February    I need to inject a little culture here, so here is an extract from a little series on Arte Télévision called Grand Art.

17 February    Toute l'histoire gave us a nice programme on Espions, du mythe à la réalité.

19 February    French isn't just Victor Hugo and Molière.  It is also ... Jean-Marie Bigard.

21 February    And by dint of sheer persistence, it seems our friends are developing a nice line in off-beat humour.  Have a look at Fais pas ci, fais pas ça

23 February    Here is a very great French actor indeed : Jean-Louis Barrault.

                         An 'extra' of the sort that makes anglosaxons giggle unsympathetically. No-one in France was laughing, though.  The celebrated letter of Morry Taylor

25 February    A very welcome present in the mailbag this week was a clip from Le meilleur de Florence Foresti, a real nostalgia trip for me, because originally transmitted in 2005, when I had just started to try to understand spoken French.  Incidentally, if you have a French video clip from TV or Internet, and you would like me to subtitle it... don't hesitate to send it along.

25 February    And a classic film from 1954. Le crime presque parfait is the uninspired French title for Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder

01 March        We dive into March with a classic bit of French comedy.  Louis de Funès in Le Tatoué

03 March        My favourite of all great French comics is Pierre Desproges.  Another five minutes from his stage show

05 March        Here's your chance to learn all about what actually goes into a beef lasagne.  Viande de cheval !

07 March        Two excellent young stand-up comics here, from Le meilleur des Stars du Rire

08 March        A  clip from a super film - Shutter Island.

Because of events in my personal life I won't have time to make daily posts in the immediate future.  However, the two sites offer between them 60Gbytes of audio and video - you should find plenty to amuse and instruct.

Bon courage les amis !

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