The Earful Tower: Paris

Release Date

All Episodes

Cheese Crime in Paris: The Viral Dinner Party Photo That Shocked Us All

Updated Re-Release: This episode originally aired a few years ago and has since become one of The Earful Tower's most beloved classics. We're bringing it back today because some things are simply too good - and too instructive - to stay buried in the archives. It started with a p ... Show more

. 28min 53sec

The day I had Paris's best museum to myself (and risked missing my son's birth)

C is for Carnavalet. Or should that be Kernevenoy?? In this episode, we dive into one of Paris's most overlooked treasures - the Carnavalet Museum, the only museum in the world dedicated entirely to the history of Paris. I share, for the first time, the story of visiting the newl ... Show more

. 24min 29sec

Montmartre: The old village of a thousand facelifts

New episode: Let's take a deeper dive into the 18th arrondissement of Paris. You've hopefully already heard the previous episode, where Sutanya Dacres shared her thoughts on the 18th Kingdom. In this brand new episode, I re-visited the 18th and did some exploring with my wife, an ... Show more

. 14min 38sec

The 18th arrondissement of Paris (with a local)

Welcome back to "The 20 Kingdoms", a new season of The Earful Tower podcast. As you probably know, there are 20 districts in Paris, known as arrondissements. They may as well be kingdoms, at least for this podcast season, where I'll visit each kingdom and introduce you to someone ... Show more

. 27min 50sec

The Lost River of Paris: Searching for the Bièvre

This podcast episode features host Oliver Gee and his co-host Lina exploring the history and physical traces of the Bièvre, a lost river in Paris. Once a vital waterway that flowed into the Seine, the river was entirely buried and built over by 1912 due to industrial pollution. I ... Show more

. 34min 4sec