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For the 99th Second Hand Book Factory, Charles Adrian goes to meet theatrical educationalist and daydreamer Natalie Flynn at the Liverpool Empire Theatre. They talk about childhood, friendship, stories, the wisdom of Pooh, the importance of acceptance and the pain of becoming real.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s TED Talk The Danger Of The Single Story can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9Ihs241zeg

Warning: There is a certain amount of background noise sidling in through the open window of the room this episode was recorded in.

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(Episode image is a detail from the cover of The Original Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams, published by Egmont Press 2004; original art by William Nicholson.)

For the 98th Second-Hand Book Factory, Charles Adrian is joined on the South Bank by professional book expert and compulsive creative Polis Loizou. They talk about the effect of grief on faith and credulity, eye acting, the social commentary to be found in horror fiction and a modern nod to a classic.

Polis’s company Off-Off-Off-Broadway can be found here: http://www.offoffoffbroadway.co.uk/

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For the 97th Second-Hand Book Factory, Charles Adrian is joined, in a bedroom upstairs at the Battersea Arts Centre in London, by performer and reader Miriam Gould. They discuss books as empathy technology, dead people who never stop talking and moral pornography.

Miriam's website: https://miriamgould.com/

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Episode image is a detail from the cover of The Sadeian Women by Angela Carter, published by Virago Ltd in 1979; the cover painting is itself a detail from Voyeuse by Clovis Trouille © the artist’s estate.