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Much of the Western Front fighting in World War I took place in France, yet the cultural legacy of the war in France remains under-explored in the UK. This week, Juliet talks to Eric Robertson (Royal Holloway) and Peter Read (University of Kent) about how the experience of the war affected the Cubist and Surrealist movements and the development of French film, pushing some artists towards traditionalism, and others towards the avant-garde. SELECTED REFERENCES L’Affaire Dreyfus (dir. Georges Méliès, 1899) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_fbOIgvYsY NORMAN ANGELL, The Great Illusion (1909) GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE, Calligrammes (1918) - https://ubutext.memoryoftheworld.org/Apollinaire_Calligrams.pdf GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE, ‘Ocean of Earth’ - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/58343/ocean-of-earth Louis Aragon - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/louis-aragon Jean (Hans) Arp Antonin Artaud - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonin_Artaud Hugo Ball HENRI BARBUSSE, Le Feu (1917) - https://www.t