3: Language Wars. In the final part of the series looking at the paradoxes and peculiarities of modern France, British academic Anand Menon explores issues of culture and national identity. He finds out how the French language is evolving and learns to speak Verlan: the new lingua franca of France's grim tower-block suburbs. He also discovers a new regional assertiveness in Brittany through the once banned Breton language. And he looks at the cultural organisation La Francophonie and asks if it is really an attempt to give France more clout on the world stage.
Producer Lucy Ash Repeated Sunday 5pm