France

Last Edited: 02-Jun-2019
A Global British Comedy Collaborative document. Edited by John Lucas
Broadcast source is BBC Radio Four unless indicated. Recordings are good unless otherwise indicated.
Date
Title
Cast
Parameters
BBC R4
31-Aug-2004
07-Sep-2004
Chirac's New Backyard
  1. Algeria
  2. Syria
Allan Little
Producer Sue Davies
37:18, 34985, S
37:33, 35205, S
27-Apr-2005
In Living MemoryLe Mans, 11 June 1995
Liz Carney
Produced by John Byrne
27:51, 26124, S
09-Jun-2005
Crossing Continents, Crossing Europe –
France’s No Vote

Paul Henley
Produced by John Murphy
27:55, 26177, S
15-Aug-2005 to
19-Aug-2005
The Drovers Return
Summer in the Cevennes Shepherding
Richard Collins
13:48, 12946, S
13:45, 12904, S
13:33, 12707, S
13:51, 13001, S
13:58, 13101, S
15-Jan-2007
Document An Unlikely Marriage
A Marriage cordiale?
Mike Thomson
Produced by James Cooke
27:47, 26049, S
29-Mar-2007
Crossing ContinentsFrance’s Lost Generation
Presenter: Lucy Ash
Producer: John Murphy
Editor: Sue Ellis
27:53, 26152, S
29-Mar-2007
Analysis Le Malade Imaginaire?
Presenter: Quentin Peel
Producer: Simon Coates
Editor: Nicola Meyrick
28:11, 26348, S
13-Mar-2008
Crossing ContinentsFrench Housing
Reporter: Jonny Dymond
Producer: Arlene Gregorius
27:42, 25974. S
13-Mar-2008
Monsieur le Maire
Susan Marling
Produced by Penny Vine
27:48, 26069, S
23-Oct-2008
30-Oct-2008
07-Nov-2008
Misfits in France
  1. Wilde about Dieppe
  2. Broken in Berneval, Soaked in the Sea
  3. Impressions of Honfleur, Reunions in Rouen

Julian Barnes, Hermione Lee
Produced by Robin Reid
27:53, 26156, S
28:15, 26488, S
27:36, 25887, S
17-Feb-2009
Vive La France
Joe Queenan
Produced by Miles Ward
27:56, 26194, S
08-Apr-2009
The Unknown Face - the Inconnue de la Seine,
a plaster death mask
Louise Welch
produced by Jeremy Grange
28:09, 26401, S
04-May-2009
France's Forgotten Concentration Camps
Philip Sweeney
produced by Sarah Parker
28:16, 26515, S
19-Nov-2009
Oulipo, the French experimental literary group
Ben Schott
produced by Bob Dickinson
27:40, 25948, S
22-Jun-2010
The Paris Bouquinistes
Kirsty Lang
produced by Geoff Bird
27:59, 26247, S
06-Oct-2010
Le News, C'est Moi
Emma Jane Kirby
Producer: Adele Armstrong
13:39, 12801, S
04-Jan-2011
11-Jan-2011
Music in the Dark Years --
Paris during Nazi Occupation
Stephen Johnson
produced by Steve Rodjam
27:44, 26002, S
28:08, 26381, S
03-Mar-2011
Liberty, Fraternity, Anarchy - Le Punk Francais
Andrew Hussey
27:52, 26132, S
Radio Four Extra
09-May-2011
Playing a Dangerous Game - Django Reinhardt's guitar
playing in occupied Paris
Miles Kington
produced by Neil George
27:40, 25944, S
16-Oct-2011 to
06-Nov-2011
The Underwater Gendarme
Horatio Clare
produced by Jeremy Grange
13:28, 12610, S
13:34, 12705, S
13:27, 12591, S
13:26, 12585, S
23-Dec-2011 Inside the Academie Francaise
Agnes Poirier
Producer: Leala Padmanabhan
27:52, 26086, S
30-Dec-2012 The Secret Catacombs of Paris
Jonathan Glancey
produced by James Hale
27:58, 26172, S
02-Apr-2012
09-Apr-2012
La France Maintenant
Andrew Hussey
produced by Geoff Bird
27:49, 26035, S
27:51, 26062, S
10-Apr-2012 France and Race: A Question of Identite
Julian Jackson
Producer: Simon Elmes
36:45, 34395, S
19-Nov-2012 to
23-Nov-2012
On the French Fringe
  1. That Film Festival Fixation
  2. Cartoon Crazy
  3. Street Theatre and a Giant Elephant
  4. False Beards and Feminists
  5. Underground Art - Literally
Kirsty Lang and Lucy Ash
13:42, 12830, S
13:48, 12927, S
13:43, 12850, S
13:47, 12907, S
13:36, 12734, S
29-Nov-2012 The Beat Hotel --the Beat Generation in Paris
Andrew Hussey
produced by Geoff Bird
27:47, 25999, S
21-Feb-2013 Marseille 2013 Philip Sweeney
Producer: Sara Davies
27:40, 25898, S
11-Nov-2013 to
15-Nov-2013
London v Paris
  1. Capitals of Power
  2. Capitals of Pleasure
  3. Capitals of Sport
  4. Capitals of Art
  5. Capitals of Fashion
Robert and Isabelle Tombs
produced by Lisa Grieg, Mark Rikards
13:36, 12741, S
13:37, 12746, S
13:41, 12819, S
13:17, 12443, S
13:22, 12521, S
02-Nov-2015
09-Nov-2015
16-Nov-2015
The Invention of... France
  1. Joan of Arc
  2. Maximilien Robespierre
  3. Le Petit Napoleon and the Franco-Prussian War
Misha Glenny
produced by Miles Warde
27:50, 39148, S
27:52, 26067, S
27:46, 25984, S