It's a Charlie Thing

By Charles Heathcote

Charlie and Charlie unite to bring you their unique take on life, books and perhaps carrots.

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It's a Charlie Thing episodes:

June 22, 2026 Romantic Fiction Ruined my Relationship
We react to more AITA posts.
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26min
June 15, 2026 Reading the Most Hyped Book of the Year
In which one Charlie is frazzled after a weekend away, and the other has been reading recent popular books and sharing his unpopular opinions.

Books Mentioned:

The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout
The Rainshadow Orphans by Naomi Ishiguro
Maurice by EM Forster
Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke
An Unlikely Visitor by Joanna Cannon
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53min
June 08, 2026 Getting off on the Wrong Foot
In which the Charlies look back on their first book haul.

Books Mentioned:

An Elderly Lady is Up To No Good by Helene Tursten
An Elderly Lady Must Not be Crossed by Helen Tursten
The Cat Prince and Other Poems by Michael Pedersen
The Angel of Redemption by Nikita Gill
Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology Volume 17
The Other Valley by Scott Alexander Howard
The Children Who Lived in a Barn by Eleanor Graham
We Were the Universe by Kimberly King Parsons
To Hear the Trees Speak by Olivia Sprinkel
Cursed Daughters by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Everything is Energy by Emma Talbot
Translating Feminisms by Intan Paramaditha
The Wood in Midwinter by Susanna Clarke
A Glass of Blessings by Barbara Pym
The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark
Camp! by Paul Baker
Barrowbeck by Andrew Michael Hurley
The Ladie Upstairs by Jessie Elland
Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodessen-Akner
Secrets in the Snow & Other Christmas Crime Stories, ed. Matthew Booth
Touch Not the Cat by Mary Stewart
Lublin by Manya Wilkinson
Jesus Christ Kinski by Benjamin Myers
Fruit Fly by Josh Silver
Leonard and Hungry Paul by Rónán Hession
11.22.63 by Stephen King
The House on the Strand by Daphne Du Maurier
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59min
June 01, 2026 Hot and Heavy
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43min
May 25, 2026 Charlie Chat with Joanna Cannon
In which we have a very welcome visitor.

Pre-order An Unlikely Visitor by Joanna Cannon here:
Out 4th June:
https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/An-Unlikely-Visitor-by-Joanna-Cannon/9780008255077

Charlie’s video on Joanna’s books:

https://youtu.be/W7_Fa-R-qEU?si=dj7EYjbKRgybs-8N

https://youtu.be/reEpKBSXyYY?si=yAh9NY-XYOYQLLFB

https://youtu.be/OM4_o4WKsoM?si=DOimmJC3rU0Lj8ob

https://youtu.be/iwi5hHddqmg?si=hr56Y0p6W8wk6v7v
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43min
May 18, 2026 Will Send Noods for Books
Today we're seeing if our favourite books from 2018 - the year we first discovered one another's existence - are still favourites today.

Books Mentioned:

Fool's Fate by Robin Hobb
The Hoarder by Jess Kidd
The Management Style of the Supreme Beings by Tom Holt
Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
And After Many Days by Jowhor Ile
Driven by Dane Cobain
The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce
Don't Call Us Dead by Danez Smith
Dying in Other Words by Maggie Gee
The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
Emma by Jane Austen
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Love Simon by Becky Albertalli
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Annie Barrows and Mary Ann Shaffer
The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
The Terrible by Yrsa Daley Ward
The Island at the End of Everything by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Call Me By Your Name by Andre Aciman
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Wild Embers by Nikita Gill
The Seven Deaths Of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Flames by Robbie Arnott
Potato by Rebecca Earle
All the Names Given by Raymond Antrobus
Signs, Music by Raymond Antrobus
Cursed Daughter by Oyinkan Braithwaite
The Mercy Step by Marcia Hutchinson
The Book of Birds by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris
The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King by JRR Tolkien
Kingfisher by Rozie Kelly
The Lamplighters by Emma Stonex
Thunder on the Right by Mary Stewart
Fruit Fly by Josh Silver
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54min
May 11, 2026 Super Massive Ultra Book Haul Storytime Extravaganza
Charlie and Charlie catch up with each other and chat about the books they've hauled. Hear about all the celebrations for Mrs Heathcote's birthday, and how Charlie B saved a bird at a car boot sale.

Books Mentioned:

Like a Cat Loves a Bird by James Bailey
The Gabriel Hounds by Mary Stewart
The Echoing Grove by Rosamund Lehmann
Graveyard Shift by M.L. Rio
No Future by Paul Cornell
The English Way of Death by Gareth Roberts
I'll Never be Young Again by Daphne du Maurier
Mary-Anne by Daphne du Maurier
Fruit Fly by Josh Silver
My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein by Deborah Levy
Glyph by Ali Smith
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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53min
May 04, 2026 We React to AITA Posts
The Charlies react to AITA posts all about books.
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42min
April 27, 2026 Can You Read With All The Colours of a Charlie?
This week, the Charlies tested themselves to see what colour readers they are. However, they might not have agreed with the findings.

Books Mentioned:

My Father's House by Joseph O'Connor
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner
Long Island by Colm Toibin
The Whisperwicks: The Vanished Key by Jordan Lees
To Be Young, Gifted and Black by Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason
The Two Towers by JRR Tolkien
The Guardian and the Thief by Megha Majumdar
Kingfisher by Rozie Kelly
Green Dot by Madeleine Gray
Chosen Family by Madeleine Gray
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49min
April 20, 2026 Charlie Fiddles with Technology
In which we talk about expectations in books, and how blurbs can be deceptive.

Books Mentioned:

The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson
The Little Friend by Donna Tartt
Blaming by Elizabeth Taylor
We Pretty Pieces of Flesh by Colwill Brown
A Stroke of the Pen by Terry Pratchett
Someday, Maybe by Onyi Nwabineli
Limberlost by Robbie Arnott
The Mercy Step by Marcia Hutchinson
The Whisperwicks: The Vanished Key by Jordan Lees
Lublin by Manya Wilkinson
The House on the Strand by Daphne DuMaurier
A Patchwork Planet by Anne Tyler
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
This House of Burning Bones by Stuart MacBride

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46min

FAQs about It's a Charlie Thing:

How many episodes does It's a Charlie Thing have?

The podcast currently has 35 episodes available.