A three-part series looks at the paradoxes and peculiarities of France: a nation redefining itself. 2: L'Etat C'Est Qui? For decades, ministers, MPs and company bosses have moved freely between the worlds of business and politics, acting with impunity. Now they are being held to account by a new generation of judges and journalists. British academic Anand Menon focuses on challenges to France's ruling elite. Plus a look at attempts to change the ethnic and social make-up of the elite through affirmative action at exclusive universities and through a controversial scheme which puts low-income families into up-market parts of Paris and Lyon. Producer Lucy Ash Repeated Sunday 5pm