“Most of them had never been abroad before, and the only French they knew were a few words they had picked up themselves.”
Programme for schools and colleges.
As Britain prepares to enter the EEC, a group of teenagers from Somerset go on a ten-day trip to Houlgate in northwestern France, to find out about the French way of life. They are joined on their trip by two French teenagers.
They attend a motoball match, visit a local farm, experience the market in Dives-sur-Mer, and have a meal at the home of a French family.
Clip taken from Scene: The French Scene, originally broadcast on BBC One, 15 February, 1973.
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