France on a Plate

[Clair]

BBC Four

29 Nov 2008          21:05

30 Nov 2008          00:55

30 Nov 2008          03:25

30 Nov 2008          22:40

01 Dec 2008         19:30

02 Dec 2008         02:10

"Cultural historian Andrew Hussey takes us on a gastronomic tour through French history..."

[mint]

Looks good, Clair, and I particularly want to hear from Bocuse because I have heard conflicting reports.

[Suze01]

I've bookmarked the first one.  They're very odd timings - are they repeats do you know?

[mint]

Could it just be the one programme, do you think?  I shall be out for the first one this evening.  On the other hand, they can't possibly do the subject justice on only the one programme?

[Clair]

My understanding is that this is a one-hour program, repeated several times.

[mint]

Ah............not much to this French cooking lark then?[;-)]

[Mme poivre]

Hi all

Just put the programme on to record on the sky box, just incase, and it wont let me series link it so I think it must be a one off.

Judith

[Bluecat]

I agree as I had no option to set up a season pass on my recorder either.  Looks interesting though.

[AnOther]

It's repeated in the small hours tomorrow

France on a Plate

BBC 4 (116)    

Sunday 30th November 2008 (starting in 1 hour and 58 minutes)

Time: 00:55 to 01:55 (1 hour long)

[AnOther]

EDIT:

Realised my list had some duplicates and Clair's is spot on [kiss]

[Théière]

Its repeated in the small hours tomorrow.

Yep my cooking does that to Ern, try some gaviscon [:D]

[AnOther]

[quote user="teapot"]Yep my cooking does that to Ern.....[/quote]Do I know you teapot ?

[Théière]

EDIT:

Yep my cooking does that to, Ern.

Now we see how by the addition of a simple comma, the whole context of the sentance has changed.

Now Teapot who does not cook for Ern has explained that his cooking repeats on teapot and other victims. [:$][:$][:)]

[AnOther]

Twas not the comma which caused the problem teapot but the misspelling of 'too'

[quote user="teapot"]Yep my cooking does that to Ern, try some gaviscon [/quote]then becomes 'Yep my cooking does that too Ern, try some gaviscon' which is now perfectly clear and unambiguous [;-)]

But I'm being a pedant [:D]

[Théière]

Oh futtocks.

one, two, three,       one, to, three,     one, too, three.

I dance in the face of adversity [:D]

[NormanH]

Was very disappointed by a vapid programme ill-presented by an inarticulate lout.

[krusty]

What a boring program ........the opening was enough to put people off French food for life.

The birds were traditionally taken alive, force-fed and then drowned in armagnac before being roasted and eaten, bones and all, with a napkin over one’s head.

[Théière]

[quote user="krusty"]

The birds were traditionally taken alive, force-fed and then drowned in armagnac before being roasted and eaten, bones and all, with a napkin over one’s head.

[/quote]

I think that's the way I would want to go.[:D]

[Dick Smith]

[quote user="NormanH"]Was very disappointed by a vapid programme ill-presented by an inarticulate lout.

[/quote]

He speaks well of you, too. I assume you are simply reacting to his accent - he is a PhD and a professor.

I thought it had some interesting cultural insights.

[Hoddy]

I missed the beginning of this, caught the interview with Paul Bocuse and went on to watch the Maigret film. I can't call it a triumph of the film maker's art, but at least he spoke slowly enough for me to understand.

Hoddy

[Bluecat]

Didn't think I'd like this programme especially after the opening sequence but found it to be an interesting concept, marrying the history of France through it's culinaria (excuse the Italian).  I think Hussey's voice is absolutely right for this and I've enjoyed the fact that it's his spoken French rather than a translated dialogue we hear. 

[babcock]

I thought it should have been renamed Paris on a plate because except for a brief outing to Lyon it was essentially about Paris. Also in his statement that couscous is the favorite foreign dish he had evidently overlooked the pizza which is far more popular.

[NormanH]

[quote user="Dick Smith"][quote user="NormanH"]Was very disappointed by a vapid programme ill-presented by an inarticulate lout.

[/quote]

He speaks well of you, too. I assume you are simply reacting to his accent - he is a PhD and a professor.

I thought it had some interesting cultural insights.

[/quote]

Well there you show your subjectivity!

'interesting' for you therefore proven. Of course you could do the hard bit and try to explain your bald statement.

' a PhD and a professor' so automatically worthy of respect? Again this as  is subjective as your assumption that my reaction was any thing to do with his accent.

My (subjective)  reaction was partly to do with the clumsy expression with an inadequate vocabulary, as well as the 'Willy Russell'  academic image.

I believe I detected the same thing in French, with quite a few grammatical errors surprising in a 'Professor of French' but there I will of course bow to our French posters.

[Dick Smith]

[quote user="NormanH"][quote user="Dick Smith"][quote user="NormanH"]Was very disappointed by a vapid programme ill-presented by an inarticulate lout.

[/quote]

He speaks well of you, too. I assume you are simply reacting to his accent - he is a PhD and a professor.

I thought it had some interesting cultural insights.

[/quote]

Well there you show your subjectivity!

'interesting' for you therefore proven. Of course you could do the hard bit and try to explain your bald statement.

' a PhD and a professor' so automatically worthy of respect? Again this as  is subjective as your assumption that my reaction was any thing to do with his accent.

My (subjective)  reaction was partly to do with the clumsy expression with an inadequate vocabulary, as well as the 'Willy Russell'  academic image.

I believe I detected the same thing in French, with quite a few grammatical errors surprising in a 'Professor of French' but there I will of course bow to our French posters.

[/quote]

Well, if he made grammatical errors he just can't be right, can he? Must be a lout.

Why, out of interest, is it ok for you to be 'subjective' but not anyone else? Perhaps you could try 'the hard bit' and explain why the programme was 'vapid' and how it was 'ill presented' and in what ways the presenter was 'inarticulate' and how his behaviour was loutish?

Or, you could just vent spleen and bluster, I suppose.

[NormanH]

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