Paris Metro
The Earful Tower: Paris
Oliver Gee
4.8 • 794 Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2017
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Forget the studio this week, we're heading into the Metro system.
Yes, I'm joined by podcaster Luke Thompson from Luke's English Podcast to take Line 2 around town while recording an episode about the subway system itself.
And did we time it right so Corey Frye gets on the train as Luke gets off? Listen in to find out.
To answer some of the unanswered questions from the episode:
1. Colonel Fabien is named after Pierre Georges, one of the two members of the French Communist Party who perpetrated the first assassinations of German personnel during the Occupation of France during the Second World War.
2. The fire at the Couronnes station was in 1903, and killed 84 people.
3. The link to our previous story on the Metro - 30 things about the Paris Metro that even Parisians don't know.
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| 0:00.0 | Airtle Tower listeners, if this doesn't sound like a studio quality voice you're hearing, |
| 0:04.1 | that's because I'm out on the road and I'm heading towards the metro station, Barbese Rochechre. |
| 0:09.5 | And we're going to do a whole episode on the metro today about the metro on the metro. |
| 0:13.4 | And I'm going to do it with Luke Thompson, a podcaster in Paris who runs Luke's English podcast. |
| 0:18.4 | And he has a few things to say about the Metro. |
| 0:25.9 | So the plan is, and forgive me in advance if it all falls through, |
| 0:31.3 | we're going to go about four or five stations on the blue line, turn around, head homewards for Luke, |
| 0:38.3 | where he gets off the station. Hopefully, Corey Frye the Tour Guide will be waiting at the same station, Barbez-Rosh-z Rochechua to jump on and tell one of his Corey stories. |
| 0:41.3 | Now, if he doesn't make it, if he's late, if we're early, I'm going to have to do the |
| 0:45.3 | Corey story, maybe Luke will do the Corey story, we'll see how it goes. |
| 0:49.3 | And just before we get into it, I'm approaching the station now. |
| 0:52.3 | Remember, live event, season finale, December 13th, all the details on the site. |
| 0:57.0 | I hope to see you there. |
| 0:59.0 | Let's do it. |
| 1:00.0 | Piffour Tower with Oliver G. |
| 1:06.0 | Luke Thompson. |
| 1:07.0 | Olly G. Hi. Fine, thanks. |
| 1:09.0 | This is a bit odd of what we're doing, isn't it? Well, I don't know. I think it's probably a really good way of bringing the episode to life because people will be able to hear the very noisy sounds of a busy metro station all around us. |
| 1:23.1 | That's noisy. So as we're speaking, there's a train going over our head. We're at Barbess Rochechua. |
| 1:28.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:29.3 | Named by many as the best named Metro. |
| 1:31.3 | The most difficult metro to pronounce. |
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