Paris Season
In a specially recorded edition of the programme at the Royal Academyto mark the opening of the exhibition Paris: Capital of the Arts 1900-1968, Richard Coles discusses the ways in which Paris has become a place of self-perpetuating myth and explores aspects of the city that are so often ignored by the romanticised image of the city evident in films, literature and photography. He also asks whether Paris deserves its reputation as capital of the arts right up to 1968.