You're listening to The Earful Tower, a show where I usually interview a guest about their life in Paris.

But not this week. The guest isn't a person. It's a wall. Yep. I'm going to take you on a journey

around my newest obsession, my newest fascination in Paris, the Philippe August wall. Now before you start

thinking, oh my God, I didn't come here to listen to a wall talking. Don't worry. I'm not interviewing the wall. I'm going to be doing a little bit of a

storytelling session with you guys. And this is a wall that circled Paris around 800 years ago

and was gradually torn down, built over and swallowed up by Paris as the city expanded upwards and

outwards, with the wall never to be seen again.

Or was it? Unbelievable, some relics and vestiges of this ancient wall have remained intact,

and many of them have been hidden for centuries, and were only revealed in fairly recent renovations.

And you can still find traces of this wall in the most unlikely places in the city.

But the best bit of it all?

One historian told me when I was researching for this episode

that there are still likely to be remnants of this 800-year-old wall

that haven't been found yet.

So with this in mind, I followed the entire trace of the wall

to see what I could uncover, and I met all kinds of interesting people along the way. So over the

next half an hour, you're going to hear my Da Vinci Code-like journey on a much smaller budget,

with a few interesting guests and a remarkable part of Paris history that's right in front

of everyone's noses,

but which no one seems to notice. Here's my story of the Philip August Wall.

One man, one country, one red scooter. Here's the Earful Tower with Oliver G.

Okay, so sit back, relax. Imagine you're in Paris in 1190, the year 1190, so 800 years ago.

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