Notre Dame Fire
The Earful Tower: Paris
Oliver Gee
4.8 • 749 Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2019
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
The Notre Dame Cathedral caught fire on Monday and one week on continues to make international headlines.
So what now?
Today's guest Philippe Hertzberg runs a tour company called Secret Journeys that does very close work with the cathedral. In fact, he was at the cathedral when it caught fire.
Philippe talks about the fire, the history of the cathedral, and its future - explaining how renovation, restoration, and rebirth have long been themes of this iconic Parisian landmark.
Find out more about Secret Journeys here (they do tours of a lot more than just Notre Dame, of course, including Versailles very soon).
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone, you're listening to the Earful Tower podcast with Oliver G. That's me and this show |
| 0:04.5 | is brought to you by French Today, audiobooks, teaching you how to speak French like a French |
| 0:09.6 | person. More of them at the end of the episode, but guys, this is a different episode for a large |
| 0:14.3 | number of reasons and I'm going to whip through a few of them first. Well, first, you might have |
| 0:19.8 | already heard it. I've got not much of a voice. |
| 0:22.3 | I've been sick all week and I'm recording this on Easter Monday. The episode you're about to hear, |
| 0:28.4 | I recorded just five minutes ago. So apologies for my voice in advance. Number two, |
| 0:35.4 | it's a weird story. I recorded this very similar episode to this with the guest |
| 0:42.3 | today philippe herzberg um so last monday we were in the studio recording about his |
| 0:48.5 | tour company secret journeys and we were talking about the notre dame at great length |
| 0:53.5 | and that was the same day |
| 0:56.1 | that, well, later that night that it burned down. So we agreed that we wouldn't use the interview |
| 1:02.2 | that we did and he came into the studio today and we re-recorded it based on what happened |
| 1:07.9 | and what's going to happen from his perspective. I figured rather than do a half-hour episode on it, I figured we'd just let the conversation go. |
| 1:15.6 | We ended up talking for closer to an hour. |
| 1:18.0 | I think it's really interesting. |
| 1:19.4 | I think you guys will find things in there you didn't know. |
| 1:22.9 | You'll certainly learn things and give you a bit of perspective from a man like Philip, |
| 1:27.3 | who's half French, half American and spends a bit of perspective from a man like Philip who's half |
| 1:27.9 | French, half American and spends a lot of his time in the Notre Dame Cathedral. |
| 1:31.9 | Indeed, he was out of front of it when it started burning down. |
| 1:34.4 | So yeah, there are a few reasons why it's a bit of a different episode. |
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