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The Earful Tower: Paris

The Earful Tower: Figuring out France with guests who know best. 

Jun 16, 2025

Meet Corinne Menegaux, the managing director of the Paris tourism board (Paris je t’aime).

We discuss Paris, the legacy of the Olympic Games, and what's coming next. We also talk about her Paris, her job, and how she'd spend her last day in this city. 

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Jun 2, 2025

This week it's Caroline de Maigret, supermodel and author of How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are.

Her appearance on this podcast in April 2019 changed the direction and dynamic of the show. While we're between seasons, I take a look back at this episode and explain why it made a difference to The Earful Tower.

In the...


May 19, 2025

Author Cara Black is back on the podcast!

She is a friend of the show, and has been appearing on it since 2019! 

We chat about writing mysteries set in Paris (she has penned over 20 of them), we talk about her upcoming book (which you can pre-order below), and we talk about Paris, of course. 

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May 12, 2025

This week on the podcast, it's The Earful's two new interns Thomas Farnham and Genevieve Victoria Gorain. They share their bucket lists for Paris for their two-month stay in Paris. 

I found it quite interesting to hear the perspectives of American university students on the City of Light, not least because my typical...


May 5, 2025

This week on the podcast, I invite my three-year-old son Otis to talk about language. He has been doing a stellar job learning English, French, and Swedish at the same time, and I was curious to pick his brain about it.

You'll hear him tell me how I'm no good at rolling my Rs in French, why he speaks Swedish with his...