The Good Life France's podcast

Everything you want to know about France and more… in a free podcast. Janine Marsh, Editor of The Good Life France, award-winning travel writer and author of best-selling memoirs about life in France with her unruly chickens, dogs, cats, ducks and geese, quirky neighbours and the joys of renovation, and Olivier Jauffrit, the vintage French music expert at Radio Paris Chanson – have teamed up to make a podcast!

Co-host

Olivier Jauffrit

Hello! I'm Oli. I'm French, though I'm pretty sure you wouldn't guess because my English accent is flawless, of course.

I've been following Janine's adventures in France for a while now, first from the UK where I lived for 20 years, and now from Lyon, in the south of France.

I'm originally from Vendée, in western France, and I was born in a small town by the Atlantic Ocean called Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie. It's what we call a 'station balnéaire,' which means its 6,000 residents enjoy a peaceful winter, only to be joined by about 50,000 tourists in the summer.

"See" you in France!