Tom Crowley
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390 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2020
last heard Dec 2020
Tom Crowley’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I hate it.
If you like Paris, that's fine.
It just means that you're wrong and I'm right.
And we're both going to have to learn to live with that.
What's so bad about Paris, you ask?
Oh, not much.
As long as you don't mind the weather, the noise, the way les Parisiennes drive, the crowds, the fact that it's impossible to figure out what roux goes where, how ridiculously expensive everything is, and the way everyone insists on being so bloody French.
Then again, it might be I'm not being fair.
See, eight months earlier, when your dear friend Robin Fendt, that's yours truly, made his triumphant arrival to La Cité, things were different.
I had a song in my heart, a lovely tailored suit on my back, and a big suitcase full of ill-gotten gains that needed to depart from my care.
The night-time establishments of Paris are very kind to a fey man in those particular circumstances.
I was rather inclined to, as they say, let the good times roll.
There were drinks, music, card games, a friendly wager or two.
Some good decisions, some decisions that the judgemental might call bad ones.
A bit where things get quite foggy.
And then, one day, the bill arrived.
Turned out that somewhere in the rolling of the good times, I'd wound up owing quite a large sum of money to a group of gentlemen you wouldn't want to owe half a franc to.
From there, my time in Paris took a turn towards the unpleasant.
Threatening messages, phone calls in the middle of the night, knives held up to the throat, gravelly voices saying, we mean it, fam, if you don't give us our money by Friday, we'll cut off this or that delicate bit, yaddy, yaddy, yaddy, now it goes.
So that's about the gist of it.
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