Episode list

Saint-Germain-des-Prés, paradise lost: Renowned as a focus for cultural and intellectual life in post-war Paris, Saint-Germain-des-Prés became the centre of the literary world thanks to Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Juliette Gréco and Boris Vian. A district that's also home to jazz clubs and literary cafés. But what is life like there today?

He is one of the giants of the New Wave, the emblematic movement that revolutionized French cinema in the 1960s. We look back at the inestimable heritage left by François Truffaut, who died in 1984. With personal accounts by Brigitte Fossey, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Macha Méril, Nicolas Bedos.

There exist idyllic places where art and nature become one. Each a paradise lost that inspired the imagination of an artist who found refuge there. From the tropical forest of Brazil to the islands of Greece or the Chihuahuan Desert in Texas, so many artistic Edens to discover.