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The Earful Tower: Paris

The Earful Tower: Paris

By: Oliver Gee
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 The Earful Tower is a weekly podcast all about Paris, hosted by Australian expat Oliver Gee. With a huge variety of guests - from cooks and comedians to TV hosts and tour guides - this show will transport you to the City of Lights and make you feel like you've met the characters that make it shine.The Earful Tower 2024 Art Social Sciences Travel Writing & Commentary
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  • We're making a new children's book: Here's how we do it

    We're making a new children's book: Here's how we do it
    Sep 29 2025
    We're making our fifth children's book, and it's the most Parisian one yet. In fact, there are some major changes to this one, so we decided to open the curtain and show you how we do them. Lina talks about her illustrating process and I talk about how I wrote this one - and why I changed the whole style. You can find our other four children's books in all the Anglophone bookshops of Paris, but also in le Peloton cafe, the Ile Aux Fees boutique, the Bon Marché department store, and Messy Nessy's cabinet of curiosities. Also the Louvre museum and the musée d'Orsay.

    The music in this episode is from Pres Maxson, an original called Walk a Giraffe.

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    26 mins
  • Bistros to boulevards: How Paris was shaped by its World Fairs

    Bistros to boulevards: How Paris was shaped by its World Fairs
    Sep 22 2025

    Meet Charles Pappas - Mr World Fair. Charles likes nothing more in the world than a Universal Exhibition, especially if it's one of the seven that were hosted in Paris. In fact, he's written the book on the topic.

    I met him on a road-side terrace at Harvest cafe in the 11th arrondissement to talk Paris, Haussmann, coffee, and of course, World Fairs.

    His new book is: Nobody Sits Like the French: Exploring Paris Through Its World Expos, a historical guidebook on how these World Expos, held between 1855-1937, transformed the city of Paris forever.

    The music in this episode is from Pres Maxson.

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    The Earful Tower exists thanks to support from its members. From $10 a month you can unlock almost endless extras including bonus podcast episodes, live video replays, special event invites, and our annually updated PDF guide to Paris.

    Membership takes only a minute to set up on Patreon, or Substack. Thank you for keeping this channel independent.

    For more from the Earful Tower, here are some handy links:

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    33 mins
  • My love letter to the Parisian food markets

    My love letter to the Parisian food markets
    Sep 15 2025

    After an eventful visit to the Aligre markets in the 12th arrondissement, I came home to share my love of the French food markets with my wife Lina.

    Here's an energetic, honest, and in-the-moment recount of what happened when I went shopping for dinner ingredients.

    The music in this episode is from Pres Maxson, his take on the classic Sous le ciel de Paris.

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    The Earful Tower exists thanks to support from its members. From $10 a month you can unlock almost endless extras including bonus podcast episodes, live video replays, special event invites, and our annually updated PDF guide to Paris.

    Membership takes only a minute to set up on Patreon, or Substack. Thank you for keeping this channel independent.

    For more from the Earful Tower, here are some handy links:

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    20 mins
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