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Back to SearchThe ten best untranslatable French words
Season 8 Episode 29
Throughout my time in Paris I've come across many an untranslatable word in the French language. I've talked about these before, even discussed them …
5 years, 9 months ago
Are you a Paris dreamer?
Season 8 Episode 28
Meet Katrina Lawrence a beauty journalist and certified Francophile. She first fell in love with Paris at the age of five, and since then her roads h…
5 years, 9 months ago
The Notre Dame: Past, present, and future
Season 8 Episode 27
The Notre Dame Cathedral caught fire on April 15 2019.
So - where are we now?
Well, French author Agnes Poirier has just written a book on the top…
5 years, 9 months ago
Life in a 72-room French chateau
Season 8 Episode 26
Meet Jane Webster, an Australian woman who has just spent lockdown in a 72-room chateau in Normandy.
She is the woman behind Chateau de Bosguet, whi…
5 years, 10 months ago
Visiting Versailles during the pandemic
Season 8 Episode 25
I visited the Palace of Versailles to see what it looked like during the pandemic.
Hoping for empty rooms, I must admit I was a little disappointed …
5 years, 10 months ago
Daily life in Paris without the tourists
Season 8 Episode 24
With many countries still on the "don't visit list" for France, the city of Paris is strangely empty.
Sure, there are a lot of French people about...…
5 years, 10 months ago
How to make a memoir
Season 8 Episode 23
Janet Hulstrand is back on the show! Janet is the editor of my book, Paris On Air, and we discuss what it takes to make a memoir.
If you need a book…
5 years, 10 months ago
How leading a rugby team helped to run a Paris restaurant
Season 8 Episode 22
Meet Casey Laulala, a Samoan rugby player turned Paris restauranteur. He talks about how his life in the sports world taught him how to run a Paris r…
5 years, 11 months ago
An introduction to jazz in Paris
Season 8 Episode 21
"Jazz is a compressed history of the modern world."
So says Alex Freiman, a jazz musician from Paris who also works as a bookseller at Shakespeare an…
5 years, 11 months ago
Paris fans making a difference
Season 8 Episode 20
I'm gobsmacked at how impressively this community has flexed its collective muscle.
At the time of recording we have raised over $9,000 for an impor…
5 years, 11 months ago