Bright Lights, Brilliant Minds: A Tale of Three Cities.
Paris 1928 – Episode 2/3
First broadcast: Aug 2014.
Dr James Fox tells the story of Paris in 1928. It was a city that attracted people dreaming of a better world after World War I. This was the year when the surrealists Magritte, Dali and Bunuel brought their bizarre new vision to the people, and when emigre writers and musicians such as Ernest Hemingway and George Gershwin came looking for inspiration.
Paris in 1928 was where black musicians and dancers like Josephine Baker found adulation, where Cole Porter took time off from partying to write Let’s Do It, and where radical architect Le Corbusier planned a modernist utopia that involved pulling down much of Paris itself.
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this show is incredible
The basic problem with Mondrian's philosophy is that nature doesn't have any long perfectly straight lines.
about Piet mondrean and Le Corbusier
Wonderful series. Thank you for sharing.
Such a pity they didn't allow Le Corbusier to go through with his plans, nostalgia is killing us by the day.
Thank you for listing the music.
THANK YOU for posting these! I had been watching them on Netflix, but they were recently removed, and I missed them. Also, this is the BBC version, and I noticed the Josephine Baker section was completely cut out of the version we had here in the USA (as I'd never seen that part before). When you watch that section, you can see why it was cut for USA audiences…
Thank you for such amusing and interesting program
hey thanks for posting. perfectly pitched for a wide audience. nice one
Brilliant- also enjoyed this part the most.
Great! Thanks for posting.
I cannot thank you ENOUGH for uploading this! Hopefully you will upload the next episode of New York too?
I am enjoying many of the uploads on your site. Thank you very much.
Up until this episode I was enjoying it—- the shyte happened !!!! 🙁
Horrible don't waste your time
Thanks dear Josh ..such a great documentary …I enjoyed every minute ..also Dr James Fox is a great story teller ..
Hope you will post his next which is about N.Y city ..
warm wishes dear friend!
thanks a lot =)
Thank you for the upload, much enjoyed.