RECORDED: Monday 16 April 2007
DURATION: 44:39 SIZE: 40.9MB STEREO

SYNOPSIS: Join me on my way to work as I bring you up to date with news since our trip to Marrakesh, hear about the new project I am working on in Rennes, Brittany (west of France, two hours from Paris by TGV) and my weekend at a rather odd and homophobic family wedding. Listen hard, can you hear the guy whistling the French national anthem, la marseillaise?

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MUSIC AND LINKS:
Rennes, Brittany
Ralph Buckley, Song for Marcy :: Podsafe Music Network

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 Wedding homophobia [44:39m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (11655)

RECORDED: Tuesday 27 March 2007
DURATION: 45:33 SIZE: 31.4MB STEREO
GUEST: Bruno

SYNOPSIS: Making the most of a last minute bargain, Bruno and I escape to sunnier climes for a week in Marrakesh, Morocco. Join us for a mint tea in the shady garden of the Musée de Marrakech and then on a stroll through the Medina and souks listening to the sounds of this fascinating city. We finish on the famous Place Jemaa El Fna, with it’s street sellers, story tellers and snake charmers.

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MUSIC AND LINKS:
Marrakesh, Morocco on Wikitravel
View photos from our trip
Musée de Marrakech
Jalal El Hamdaoui, Khatar Khatar

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 Sounds of Marrakesh [45:33m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (2990)

RECORDED: Thursday 1 March 2007
DURATION: 57:47 SIZE: 39.8MB STEREO
GUESTS: Yes

SYNOPSIS: One year podcast anniversary and 50th podcast, join me and my surprise guests on a soundscape tour of a surprise Paris location. Enjoy! Voice messages from Lee, Archerr, DaveinVA, Chef Mark and Turtle. Thank you everyone for your support this year, it has been fun!

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LINKS:
Eiffel Tower on Wikipedia
Official website
Photos of the Eiffel Tower

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 Number fifty - surprise [57:47m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (2896)

RECORDED: Wednesday 27 December 2006
DURATION: 29:32 SIZE: 20.4MB STEREO

Princes Street, Edinburgh

SYNOPSIS: A soundscape tour in Edinburgh, Scotland as I walk from my parents’ flat to the city centre to go shopping in the sales. I talk about my Christmas and new information about my family history.

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Best wishes for a happy new year to all my listeners and visitors!

MUSIC AND LINKS:
Lovely bagpipe music from a cheap touristy CD.

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 Edinburgh Soundscape [29:32m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (3285)

RECORDED: Monday 18 December 2006
DURATION: 35:42 SIZE: 24.6MB STEREO

SYNOPSIS: Join me on my walk to work, but this time with a difference! I take the brand new Paris tram (T3). Opened on Saturday 16 December, it runs across the three southerly arrondissements in Paris (XIII, XIV and XV) from Porte d’Ivry (in the East) to Pont du Garigliano (West). I can now take it 3 stops to get to work.

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MUSIC AND LINKS:
Official RATP website (in French) (in English)
More photos of the Paris T3 tram
Paris T3 tram on Wikipedia
Article on BBC (news clip in English)
Journal télévisé 12-13, France 3 (news clip in French)
46bliss, In a long time, Podsafe Music Network

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 Tram, ring my bell [35:43m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (3575)

RECORDED: Monday 9 October and Tuesday 10 October 2006
DURATION: 31:31 SIZE: 21.7MB

SYNOPSIS: Join me on my walk to work as I talk about the George Michael, 25 Live, concert the night before at Bercy, Palais Ominsport! Oh, and when I was talking about “national museum”… I meant the “national library”… Bibliothèque nationale de France. Duh! I get kind of distracted walking, talking and breathing at the same time, all that multi-tasking ;-).

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MUSIC AND LINKS:
George Michael, Faith, Careless whisper, Jesus to a child
Photos of concert :: Pink Dream’s photos
Bercy, Palais Omnisport
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Passarelle Simone-de-Beauvoir
Voicemail from Turtle of the Turtlecast

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 NiPP#39 A night with George [31:32m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (4064)

RECORDED: Wednesday 4 October
DURATION: 30:31 SIZE: 21MB

SYNOPSIS: Join me on my way to work as I talk about “podblock” and how harnessing my inspiration to podcast can be a tricky process. In the background you will hear an assortment of sounds from Paris in the morning.

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A view from my morning walk to work

MUSIC AND LINKS:
Voice messages from: Adam from This Boy Elroy :: Mark from Remarkably Mark :: Tom from Ramble Redhead
Brad Sucks, Fixing My Brain from Magnatune
Binaurals kindly recommended by John Ong

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 NiPP#38 Still finding my voice [30:31m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (4634)

RECORDED: Wednesday 12 July 2006
DURATION: 52:40 SIZE: 48.6MB

SYNOPSIS: A stirring episode about revolutions, the French national day, la fête de la Bastille, and our plans to visit Honfleur in Normandy this weekend. I also talk about why I have slowed the pace of podcasts down a bit lately and some geeky website stuff. Dinner with James, Bruno and some friends in Paris last night. Listener feedback and comments.

Picture: taking of the Bastille in 1789

Extract in English from La Marseillaise, the French national anthem

[...] This horde of slaves, traitors, plotting kings,
What do they want?
For whom these vile shackles,
These long-prepared irons? (repeat)
Frenchmen, for us, oh! what an insult!
What emotions that must excite!
It is us that they dare to consider
Returning to ancient slavery! [...]

MUSIC AND LINKS:
Bastille day on About.com :: Wikipedia
Mireille Mathieu, La Marseillaise, courtesy of marseillaise.org

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 NiPP#31 Horde of slaves, traitors [...] [52:40m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (5890)