Author John Baxter
The Earful Tower: Paris
Oliver Gee
4.8 • 794 Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2017
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
This time, you're gonna hear how an American fan of our show suggested a guest and an episode topic for us - and the next thing he knew, he was in the studio, co-hosting a show and meeting his favourite Paris author. Yes, we had Colby Fox (whose pictures we just published) in the studio meeting Aussie writer John Baxter.
The moral of this story? Send us fan mail and we will have you on the show.
But seriously, here comes what I found to be a fascinating chat with Mr Baxter, an author who's been based in Paris since 1989. He's written a list of books as long as your arm (here's his Amazon page) and his newest ones are Eating Eternity and Montmartre: Paris's Village of Art and Sin.
And lastly, as usual, we're joined by tour guide Corey Frye at the end of the episode with a chilling tale from yesteryear in Paris, about how flaneurs in Paris were murdered in a grisly fashion indeed.
And the address he mentions, in case you want to visit, is 2 rue Courtalon in the 1st arrondissement. I went there this week... video coming soon.
Want way more cool episodes from us? Stay tuned, they're on the way.
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| 0:00.0 | Earful Tower listeners, episode three already. |
| 0:03.0 | Did you stumble? |
| 0:04.0 | Yeah, I forgot what episode number were up to. |
| 0:06.0 | It's going so fast. |
| 0:07.0 | So this is, we've got a bit of a different episode this time, and I'm going to start it with some fan mail that we got. |
| 0:12.0 | Oh, remember we used to get fat... |
| 0:13.0 | We did. |
| 0:14.0 | We did. |
| 0:15.0 | Do you remember that section? |
| 0:16.0 | Fan mail, you got mail? |
| 0:17.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:18.0 | Yeah, what happens? We only had one fan mail, so the section... I was given the chance to come to Paris later this month. I really enjoyed listening to all your episodes. |
| 0:38.8 | I feel like it's being made just for me. |
| 0:41.2 | Your podcast has given me many interesting insights |
| 0:43.4 | and about how I can make my most of my time in Paris. |
| 0:47.1 | That's good. You're useful. |
| 0:48.2 | Yeah, we're useful. |
| 0:49.1 | And I thought, well, this guy, he says it feels... |
| 0:51.8 | Do you think there are any other people |
| 0:52.7 | who are going to try and go around on a scooter trying to visit the whole of Paris? |
| 0:55.0 | Well, it's funny that you say that actually, because that's about to come up again too. |
| 0:58.0 | Oh. |
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