Hello everyone. You're listening to the Earful Tile podcast. My name is Oliver G. I'm an Australian

in Paris. I've been here for five years and I've been doing this podcast for three years.

If this is your first ever time listening, welcome. You've come at a pretty good point.

You've come at a great point, actually. This is a bonus episode, a rare bonus episode.

But to explain that, I need to just rewind a little second.

So let me tell you, this season of the show, I'm going through all the Arandespons,

the 20 districts of the city of Paris, and one by one, I'm exploring them with someone who

kind of knows best, maybe they live there, maybe they have a shop there, or whatever.

Anyway, I've done the first four. I'm going to do number five on Monday next week.

But today's guest is slipping in between the fourth and the fifth, and there's a very good

reason for it. Today's guest is Elaine Shalino, an American who's written a book called

The Sen, the River that Made Paris.

Now, the Sen River geographically runs right between many districts, but it also runs between

the fourth and the fifth, which was one of the reasons why I chose to do this as a bonus episode

now.

But also, her book about the Sen has been the book club choice for the month.

So for all of January, a lot of people have been reading it, sharing their thoughts about it,

sharing their playlist, sharing their SEND stories, all on Facebook, free to join.

I think there's about 800 members in this book club now.

So if you're not part of it, go and check it out.

Anyway, the idea is that Elaine and I have a

little chat about the Sen, about the book, and about a lot more. You're going to hear I met her

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