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En Voyage: Le sergent de ville

on BBC Home Service Basic

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A programme for those interested in brushing up their French
Script by Emile Harven and M. J. MacDonald

Peter Lamb and Helen Lamb have arrived in Aix-en-Provence. The town is full of visitors and they find difficulty in parking their car. They go off to buy some things to eat, and when they return they find policeman waiting by their car. He accuses them of breaking three regulations.

La charcuterie, pork-butcher's; le pate de veau, pate de volaille, pate de foie truffe, pate de porc, pate de campagne; un kilo (just over two pounds); un hecto (just under pound); la gourmandise, greediness; une rue a sens unique, a one-way street; desole. navre, extremely sorry; la portecochere, main entrance to house; parking alternatif, jour pair-impair, parking on alternate days; celibataire, unmarried; conduire, to drive (a car); une voiture immatriculee a Marseille, a car registered at Marseilles; un ange, an angel; strictement interdit! strictly forbidden!; enfreindre la loi, to break the law.

Contributors

Script:
Emile Harven
Script:
M. J. MacDonald
Helen Lamb:
Dorothy Smith
Peter Lamb:
Richard Hurndall
Hermes:
Peter Carr-Forster
Shopkeeper:
Sonia Windsor
Policeman:
Jacques Brunius

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