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For the 73rd Second-Hand Book Factory, Charles Adrian talks to comedian, writer, promoter and human organism Barry Ferns about the effect of parental care on infants, how to get more time at home and an intense but life-affirming account of some difficult experiences. Find out more about Barry at barryferns.com.
For the 72nd Second-Hand Book Factory, Charles Adrian is joined in Zürich by Englishman Will Ellis (and, almost inaudibly, by his wife Agnes) to talk about a couple of confident explorers and whether or not Will speaks Spanish.
Another of the vintage episodes from Page One’s London Fields Radio days, this is the very first outside recording done for Page One and, while the sound quality is poor - it’s what might be called an atmospheric recording, if you were being very generous – the books and conversation make up for any aural discomfort. Hopefully. Charles Adrian’s guest here is singer and self-confessed Gilligan avatar Ted Schmitz, who, like Charles Adrian, is a member of the Berlin-based theatre ensemble Nico And The Navigators.
For the 71st Second-Hand Book Factory, Charles Adrian is joined by anthropologist and human Karin Eli for talk about the fight to gain one’s place in the world, a little bit of undemanding murder and some of the challenges of translation.
Charles Adrian is joined for the 70th Second-Hand Book Factory by failed mathematician and failed actuary Colin Bartlett. They talk about semi-autobiography, Duke Ellington, clouds and one of the best books of the 20th century.
[The Vera mentioned is, of course, Vera Chok, whose latest Page One is here.]
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