Improbable Walks

By Lisa Pasold

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Welcome to Improbable Walks, the travel podcast that brings you to the streets of Paris, wherever you are. Every episode, we discover a new street in the City of Light, strolling into the hidden history and stories of Paris, block by block. Your host is Canadian writer and long-time parisienne, Lisa Pasold. To support this  monthly podcast, please subscribe for free, so you're notified when the next podcast is available. Merci!


Episode Date
Rue du Paradis
Sep 30, 2025
René Lalique: refreshing glass
Jul 28, 2025
The Paris Hours of the Duc de Berry
Jun 30, 2025
Writers & War Heroes: rue Victor Schoelcher
May 22, 2025
Alexandre Dumas hosts a party
Mar 30, 2025
Charles Baudelaire & the Club des Hashischins
Mar 01, 2025
In the Shadow of Notre Dame
Jan 31, 2025
Sublime & Seedy: Delacroix on rue Visconti
Nov 30, 2024
Surrealism, Lee Miller, & Blue
Oct 29, 2024
Anais Nin, Henry Miller, & the Villa Seurat
Jul 24, 2024
Pop songs & cigarettes - Serge Gainsbourg on rue de Verneuil
Jul 01, 2024
Theatre & Decadence in La Nouvelle Athènes
May 31, 2024
The Passage des Panoramas
Mar 28, 2024
Back to the Grands Boulevards
Feb 28, 2024
Belle Epoque Spectacle: Grands Blvds (part 1)
Dec 20, 2023
Mme de Pompadour, the French President, and me
Nov 29, 2023
Rue Bonaparte, a Left Bank classic
Sep 29, 2023
Zola's complicated life on rue de Bruxelles
Aug 18, 2023
The Library on the Left Bank
Jun 30, 2023
The University of La Nouvelle Vague
May 22, 2023
Medicine, Monks, and Revolutionaries
Mar 22, 2023
Art Nouveau into Nouveau Paris
Feb 27, 2023
The Insomniac on rue de la Bûcherie
Jan 29, 2023
The Defender of Time
Dec 31, 2022
The Queen's Flower Market
Oct 30, 2022
The Roman Arena Hiding in Plain Sight
Sep 18, 2022
Reading the stars on rue Sauval
Jul 29, 2022
The Most Famous Avenue in the World
Jun 29, 2022
Impressionists in Clichy
May 31, 2022
Coffee and Revolution in the Cour du Commerce-de-Saint-André
Apr 30, 2022
Picasso on the rue des Grands Augustins
Feb 24, 2022
Architects of the Modern
Jan 05, 2022
Bertie's Belle Epoque (King Edward VII in Paris)
Nov 29, 2021
Village Suisse & the Fields of Mars
Nov 01, 2021
Volatile rue Vivienne
Sep 18, 2021
Dance, scandal & spectacle (Ave Montaigne & Pont de l'Alma)
Jun 29, 2021
Books & Ice Cream, rue SAINT-BENOIT
May 06, 2021
Street art & Dalida on the rue d'Orchampt
Mar 18, 2021
Tiny theatrical rue MOLIERE
Jan 15, 2021
Shopping on rue Mouffetard
Dec 22, 2020
Rue de l'ODEON
Nov 16, 2020
Marie Curie on Ile Saint-Louis
Oct 29, 2020
Balzac and the Village of Passy
Oct 24, 2020
Saint-George in the Palais Royal
Jun 21, 2020
Walking with Dante in the RUE DE BIEVRE
Jun 16, 2020