TV Series
“Paris” BBC Series, 3 x 60min
Taking viewers through several centuries of Paris’ cultural history, Sandrine celebrates the art, literature, music, films and design that have combined to create the spectacular ‘City of Lights’.
This is the tale of the lavish court of the Sun King, Louis XIV, and the sexual decadence of the revolutionary Paris; the crazy years of the early 1900s, played out in the Moulin Rouge and the Lapin Agile; the jazz explosion of the Thirties; and the Sixties heyday of hedonism, expressed through ‘nouvelle vague’, music and literature. Sandrine also discovers the cast of extraordinary characters who were inspired by the city, including the Marquise de Sévigné, the Marquis de Sade, Denis Diderot, Honoré Daumier, Auguste Rodin, Pablo Picasso, Josephine Baker, Christian Lacroix and Jane Birkin.
Guest Appearances
The Supersizers Eat the French Revolution, BBC2, 60min
Restaurant critic Giles Coren and writer and comedian Sue Perkins experience the food culture of years gone by. They go for a journey back to Revolutionary France in the 1780s. Donning wigs and corsets, they find out what King Louis XVI ate, why Marie Antoinette was so hated, and how the Revolution was instrumental in creating the first restaurant and first restaurant critic. Sandrine was invited to talk about customs at the time.
Monumental Challenge – Eiffel Tower, 60min
Blink Films, History Channel
Monumental : A 6 part series for the History channel. This programme looks at the restoration works on 6 of the greatest world monuments including the Taj Mahal, Big Ben and the Eiffel tower, now part of UNESCO world heritage . The episode on the Eiffel tower covers painting campaigns and works on the lift on the western pillar to ensure the Tower can endure the 21st century. Sandrine gives an interview on the Tower’s History.
Pricing the Priceless – Eiffel Tower, 60min
Bullseye Productions, US National Geographic TV channel
Restaurant critic Giles Coren and writer and comedian Sue Perkins experience the food culture of years gone by. They go for a journey back to Revolutionary France in the 1780s. Donning wigs and corsets, they find out what King Louis XVI ate, why Marie Antoinette was so hated, and how the Revolution was instrumental in creating the first restaurant and first restaurant critic. Sandrine was invited to talk about customs at the time.
Edward Burra
Presented by art critic Andrew Graham-Dixon
A programme about the life and work of British painter Edward Burra ( 1905 – 1976), often associated to Surrealism. Burra travelled to Paris during the Twenties. Sandrine talks about the “Tumulte Noir”, Joséphine Baker, dance and jazz in Paris in 1925.