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Le Tour de France: 4-26th July
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Terror! Robespierre and the French Revolution
Sat 11th July at 20:00. Drama-documentary telling the story of the Terror and looking at Robespierre's revolutionary idealism
The Supersizers Eat... The French Revolution
Sat 11th July at 22:30. The food culture of Revolutionary France in the 1780s
Film: Vatel
Sat 11th July at 23:30. Roland Joffe film about Louis XIV's chef. Starring Gérard Depardieu
Film: The Lady and the Duke
Sun 12th July at 02:00. Period drama set during the French Revolution
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Nadia Sawalha is thrown into a Michelin-starred restaurant in the historic French town of Nimes. Watch it on the iPlayer
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