How a bestselling author gets through a Paris lockdown

The Earful Tower: Paris

Oliver Gee

Arts, Paris, Society & Culture, Travel, Places & Travel, France

4.8 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

This week I'm joined, by author, Stephen Clarke. We discussed being a writer in Lockdown, WWII in Paris, and British spies. As well as his brand new book The Spy Who Inspired Me.

This interview was held via Zoom to an audience of Patreon members, you can watch the replay on the link below if you're a member.

https://www.patreon.com/theearfultower

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello there, everybody. You are listening to the Yearful Tower podcast. My name is Oliver G
0:05.6	an Australian in Paris who every single Monday, I do believe every single Monday for the past three
0:12.6	years, I release an episode about Paris with an interesting guest, someone doing something cool.
0:19.0	And this week is exactly that.
0:21.0	You've got Stephen Clark, the award-winning acclaimed author of 15 books,
0:26.3	his latest of which is called The Spy Who Inspired Me.
0:30.1	And you might well know him from the Year in the Mouth book,
0:34.0	his first one, which was a huge success.
0:37.0	In fact, he told me all about that success
0:38.8	about three years ago on this podcast. And it was time to have him back on the show. So we talk
0:44.1	a little bit about World War II, a lockdown in Paris, how a writer gets through a lockdown.
0:50.2	And his new book, A Spy Who Inspired Me. Now, I want to just add that this episode was recorded
0:57.6	in front of a live audience. I said live audience. It was on Zoom. So does that count as live? I guess so.
1:04.1	It was me and Stephen talking with 80 people watching. It was kind of cool, actually. I mean,
1:09.9	everyone was muted, so you won't hear them
1:11.5	laughing, but they were there, I can promise you. In fact, the proof is in the replay, which
1:16.3	you can find at the very top of the Patreon page, patreon.com slash the Earful Tower. It's the
1:21.2	Patreon members who were invited to watch this very show, and it's them who will be invited
1:27.2	to watch more.
1:28.0	So I'll give you more information about that at the end of the episode.
1:30.9	But first, Stephen Clark, talking about Paris, talking about his new book.
1:35.3	Let's get into it.
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