Author Stephen Clarke
The Earful Tower: Paris
Oliver Gee
4.8 • 794 Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2017
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Earful Tower listeners!
In the studio this week is Stephen Clarke, the author behind all those Merde books and the man who is behind a new play hitting Paris this month.
Be sure to check out the video excerpt from our chat on Facebook too!
Here's Stephen Clarke talking about his play, swearing, and how he gets his observational comedy into his books.
As usual, the show ends with a story from Corey Frye, tour guide extraordinaire, and this time you get two stories for the price of one. The first is about the hunchback of Notre Dame (could he have been a real person....?) and the second is about the Eiffel Tower.
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| 0:00.0 | Earful Tower listeners, we have got episode two for you. Thank you. Just like that. And we've got, |
| 0:04.9 | there's Jimmy V, James Vezina on my left. And Olly G to my, I'm not to your left, I'm opposite |
| 0:09.6 | you. Well, if we're going clockwise, you're on my left. Okay, fair enough. I was thinking, |
| 0:14.4 | do we call you my sidekick? We call you, I call you a professional wingman. So James, my professional wingman is here in the studio today, even though he's been on a long holiday and missed out on some of the interviews. |
| 0:28.4 | I haven't missed out on this one. |
| 0:29.3 | You're not going to miss out on this one. |
| 0:30.8 | Stephen Clark, the author. |
| 0:32.0 | He's coming back. |
| 0:32.6 | Can you hear him? |
| 0:33.7 | He should be on the stairs any second now. |
| 0:35.4 | Because for the listeners, we've actually moved place between season episodes, season one and episode two. |
| 0:39.7 | We're now in a new location. |
| 0:40.9 | That's right. |
| 0:41.3 | So people who know Paris, episode one, season one, we were over in, what would you call it, the 19th, Aaron Disp? |
| 0:46.8 | 18th. |
| 0:47.2 | Markadipuessonier we were. |
| 0:48.3 | Oh, I love when you say it. |
| 0:50.0 | Makedrebrosia. We're out there right by the trains that used to come in. Not anymore. Yeah, we used to have the Euro style going by all the time. |
| 0:55.3 | Now we're near... |
| 0:56.0 | Now we've got a church. |
| 0:56.9 | Well, now we're on the other side of Gardenaugh. |
| 0:58.5 | You could probably still hear the trains if you put your head out. |
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