The Earful Tower is an award-winning channel about Paris and France, created by Oliver Gee. It is best known as an audio podcast, often featuring special guests who make the City of Light shine. However The Earful Tower has come to include videos, books, walking tours, and this newsletter.
This Substack page is where we share our newsletters, usually every Monday and Friday. The Monday one usually shares the newest podcast episode, the Friday
The New York Times said “it’s not hard to imagine being transported to Paris while listening” when it ranked The Earful Tower among the world’s “most transportive” podcasts. National Geographic called it an “elucidating romp through the city”.
The podcast has been around since 2016, there are 450+ episodes, which have been downloaded over 4 million times.
Who is Oliver Gee?
Oliver moved to Paris as a full-time journalist in 2015, but switched to podcasting in December 2016. He told his full Paris story in 2020 in his first book, Paris On Air, a self-published memoir that went wild on Kickstarter and had top reviews from readers all over the world.
Who is Lina Nordin Gee?
Lina is a fashion designer and illustrator from Sweden, who’s also known online as Parisian Postcards. She has been married to Oliver since 2018, and together they co-own the Earful Tower and occasionally co-host the podcast episodes.
The duo has made four children’s books, Kylie the Crocodile, Roger the Liger, Grace the Giraffe, and The Animal Games in Paris, all of which you can find in The Earful Tower’s online shop here. The books are also available in all the English bookshops in Paris… even the Louvre Museum’s gift shop.
What is The Earful Tower podcast?
It’s a free weekly audio show, typically with a special guest who shares their story over half an hour. These guests include authors, tour guides, TV presenters, cooks and comedians, mayors and ambassadors… There are actors, YouTubers, supermodels… you name it. Sometimes there are full seasons on certain topics, such as the Countdown season where Oliver and Lina spent 24 hours in each of the 20 Paris arrondissements.
How to follow this channel?
You can follow the Facebook and Instagram and TikTok pages, and subscribe to the YouTube page too. This newsletter goes out on Substack to over 10,000 people.
All in all, there are around 200,000 people following The Earful Tower across these channels to go with the 100,000 podcast listeners.
Hang on, what’s a podcast?
It’s like a radio show that you can play whenever you want. If you like the sound of all this, then I recommend you subscribe to the show, meaning you get each new episode straight on your phone as soon as it’s published. Here’s a full guide to how to do it (and it’s even on Spotify).
How to become a member?
Earful Tower members sign up via the Patreon page or here on Substack where a small monthly or annual fee unlocks a whole new world of extras, including a detailed PDF guide to Paris, regular videos, and an active online community.
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