Hello everyone. You're listening to the Earful Tau. My name's Oliver G. This is a podcast about Paris. And if this is

your first episode, you have come at a very special time. This is the season finale. Before I tell you about that,

let me just say this show is brought to you by French Today. Audiobooks for Learning French. If you go to

French Today.com slash Earful 10, you get a further 10% discount off their books but you're here for a season

finale and what i typically like to do is make a season finale a bit of a special episode and today

is no exception so this is the end of season six which is pretty baffling to me but it's a

it's a pretty exciting sign too that this season finale is such a

big deal. What you're about to hear is the audio from the first ever talk show that I've ever held in

my life that I happen to do at the Australian Embassy in Paris. So just to give you a little bit of

an explanation, you're about to hear the audio from it.

I put a microphone right up by the speaker in the room. And when I say room, I'm talking about the living room of the Australian Ambassador to France, His Excellency Brendan Byrne. In that room

were 100 people. Many of them, Patreon supporters. If that's you and I'm talking to you right now,

thank you for coming. Thank you for your support.

Also, past guests from the show were there, some friends and family were there.

That's what you're going to hear from now.

The topic of the day was the Australians making a mark in France.

So the guests in order is Brendan Byrne, the ambassador, followed by Ruby Bukabu, an author and a writer and a tap dancer in Paris.

Then we had author John Baxter, a friend of the show.

He's been on the show lots of times you've surely heard his voice before.

And then it was Amanda Chapman, the lead dancer from the Moulin Rouge.

All four of them are Australian.

All four of them are doing cool things in France.

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