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For the 47th Second-Hand Book Factory, Charles Adrian is joined by journalist (among other things) Oscar Rickett. After a rocky start, they talk about a particular kind of American comic writing, a melancholy penguin and Fitzgerald's elegant command of emotion. You can listen to Fairewell's music here: https://soundcloud.com/fairewell. [Warning: some swearing]
Battling background noise in the foyer of the Almeida in London's Islington, Charles Adrian takes screenwriter and playwright Erik Patterson through his first ever (broadcast) podcast. They talk about the world as a playground for imperial Brits and the surprisingly immediate appeal of a Russian classic. For anybody who is interested, the Frug is demonstrated here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SsnwALj6G0
[Warning: there is some bad language in this episode.]
After a slightly unfocused start to this 45th Second-Hand Book Factory, Charles Adrian gets down to asking his old schoolfriend Christine Goldsmith (née Morris) about the books and music that she likes. They talk about things that cannot be put right, the correct names for rooms and furniture, and the notion that some books might secretly have better beginnings. [Episode edited for language.] More information at www.pageonepodcast.com.
Natalie 'shouty' Clarke joins Charles Adrian for a fractionally longer-than-normal and marginally explicit 44th Second-Hand Book Factory in the café at the front of the Royal Festival Hall in London. They talk about the potential downsides of time-travel, identification with plotlines and Jesuits in space. Pedants' corner: for "secret society" towards the end of the episode, please substitute "secretive society"; Charles Adrian also realises that the phrase "explicit edit" would be a more colloquial expression to describe the Wretch 32 track than "explicit edition".
For the last Page One of 2013, Charles Adrian serves up a dish of murder. Expect classic writers alongside a couple of relative whippersnappers. Happy holidays!
Allan Taylor, artist, academic and writer joins Charles Adrian for the 43rd Second-Hand Book Factory. Beginning with a modern classic and navigating onward between banks of paradox and proto-trash, the episode finishes with the soundtrack to Allan's own, internal, bad-day-to-good-day montage sequence. Allan's work can be found at allanstanleytaylor.com.
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