{"podcast":{"title":"France Made Simple","slug":"france-made-simple-6755861","podcast_index_feed_id":6755861,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/76d82c48/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://www.survivefrance.com/","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/19838786/19838786-1727860969992-e9c5bb826b00e.jpg","author":"Catharine Sceats","episode_count":133,"summary":"France Made Simple explains everything you need to know to create a new life there for you and your family. Host Catharine Higginson draws on her personal experience gained from over 20 years of living and working in France and shares insight from specialist guests tackling subjects such as inheritance planning, property purchase and renovation, visas and insurance. And if you appreciated what we do, please feel free to head over to my Buy Me A Coffee page - buymeacoffee.com/francemadesimple - lots of free resources there too!","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/france-made-simple-6755861"},"episode":{"title":"5 Reasons To Come To France","slug":"5-reasons-to-come-to-france","published_at":"2026-03-16T11:32:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/france-made-simple-6755861/5-reasons-to-come-to-france","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/france-made-simple-6755861","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/francemadesimple/episodes/5-Reasons-To-Come-To-France-e3g5h9m","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/76d82c48/podcast/play/116622070/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-2-9%2F419604586-44100-2-8be13a1d922e4.mp3","summary":"Having spent the last week posting on social media about all the things that wind me up on France (believe it or not there are a few…), I thought I’d better counterbalance that with a bit of positivity. Plus, the sun is shining, I have planted my raspberry and gooseberry bushes and the bulbs are popping up. So all is good with the world here in deepest darkest La Manche. I hope you enjoy this and I’d love you to comment with your five top reasons to come on holiday here. Or even move here permanently. That way you too can experience the exhilaration of trying to get to Lidl before the cut-price raspberry bushes are sold out… Enjoy! Cat x","meta_description":"Having spent the last week posting on social media about all the things that wind me up on France (believe it or not there are a few…), I thought I’d bett…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1080,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/france-made-simple-6755861/episodes/5-reasons-to-come-to-france/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/france-made-simple-6755861/5-reasons-to-come-to-france.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}