Nations Pod Guide: Paris
Rugby Union Weekly
BBC
4.6 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
It’s the final instalment of our guide series, and this week Chris, Tom and GRO are transporting you to Paris. They discuss their favourite memories of watching rugby in the French capital. Tom recalls Brian O’Driscoll’s hat-trick at the Stade de France and why it’s memorable for all the wrong reasons. GRO tells us about Sir Gareth Edwards’ favourite spot in the city and how he spent an evening with the legendary scrum-half and Jean-Claude Skrela. Where does the atmosphere at the Stade de France rank amongst the other Six Nations venues? And what’s the one you thing you shouldn’t do in Paris according to GRO?
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| 0:40.8 | Right, Robb Union Weekly, Thursday morning, final week of the Men's Six Nations, final |
| 0:45.1 | episode of our guide series. |
| 0:47.6 | We've done London slash Twicken, we've done Cardiff, we've done Edinburgh, we've done Dublin, |
| 0:50.8 | last week was Rome. |
| 0:52.4 | And now, growing, Tom, it Tom it's Paris yes a bit of culture |
| 0:57.3 | now boys a bit of art I presume we've lined up some poetry given it's Paris and you know I know |
| 1:03.7 | I know we've had a poem that has come in and I can't find it which is really frustrating but maybe by |
| 1:08.7 | the end of this episode one of us will have to come up with a poem about Paris or about our nation's guide series. I can come up with a limerick, but I'm not sure it's cut. I'm not sure if it's cutting it from Paris. We'll take a limerick. So the purpose of the guy, if you don't know about our guide series, we've been looking at every Six Nations city because it is such a special tournament for the travelling fans and these wonderful, unique, |
| 1:28.9 | culturally significant cities where rugby takes place on these weekends. |
| 1:33.3 | We've done the other five. |
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