The French Way DVD

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Strange landscape-and farmers turning into revolutionaries to defend their homes First time ever released on DVD by the BBC Narrated by Eric Thompson (Magic Roundabout narrator father of actress Emma Thompson) Digitally Remastered Originally broadcast on BBC 1 this is the first of the hugely popular travel series that was followed by The Italian Way The Yugoslavian Way & The Irish Way In 1972 rural France was an unknown land to most Britons Michael Croucher then head of the famed BBC Bristol documentary unit journeyed through the region filming the everyday ways of the countryside & village life The result is this enchanting series which visits seven places-each revealing different aspects of a strange beautiful terrain & its people As a vivid record of France in a time past a rural idyll that has all but disappeared it is unsurpassed Episodes are GOOSEY GOOSEY GANDER Memories of the 1970s in the south of France It s called the land where the stomach is king a place where ambition is aimed at the table Perigord the home of truffles walnuts geese
- & men who are equal to them FRENCHMAN S HOLIDAY A lighthearted journey from the mountains to the plain-down the Dordogne NEW WINES & HARD TIMES On the edge of the Aubrac mountains in Central France as winter approaches the grapes are being picked & the cattle are making their long slow sad way from summer pastures down to the valleys THE BLACKSMITH THE BAKER THE BLOOD PUDDING MAKER & also an English castle on a French hill surrounded by the little town of Najac THEN TURN NOT PALE BELOVED SNAIL A market town a wedding & the last of the copper beaters all in Villefranche de Rouergue DESASTRE CATASTROPHE CATACLYSME APOCALYPSE A very English occasion-the days it rained on the Fete at Carennac ADD PENICILLINSTIR WELL Sheep & high plains-cheese & tanks a remote strange landscape-and farmers turning into revolutionaries to defend their homes

Includes:: English Subtitles for the Deaf & Hard of Hearing