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Joining Charles Adrian for the 84th Second-Hand Book Factory is actress and writer Nancy Crane. They talk about Raymond Chandler as a poet of loneliness, the brilliance of Charles Dickens and having to be on your own to see.

Incidentally, it turns out that there have been both radio and television adaptations of Martin Chuzzlewit.

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For the 83rd Second-Hand Book Factory, Charles Adrian is joined by professional podcaster and human woman Helen Zaltzman. They marvel at the sincerity of an early-seventies feminist life-swap, share the joy of making stuff and discover Mexican Menonites.

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A quick note about the rating for this episode: I've marked this episode explicit only in case you consider the phrase "getting dicked over" to be rude.

For the 82nd Second-Hand Book Factory, Charles Adrian is joined by lecturer, podcaster and musician Martin Zaltz Austwick. They share their love of eggs, talk about a perceived need to justify a love of fantasy literature and discuss cluster memories. Incidentally, Martin's song choice would have been No Children from the album Tallahasse by John Darnielle's group The Mountain Goats. The podcasts that Martin is involved in making are: Answer Me This, Song By Song, Brain Train and The Global Lab.

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For the 81st Second-Hand Book Factory, Charles Adrian is joined by long-time friend and unofficial agent Vera Chok, who describes herself here as an actress, writer, performance-maker and dork. "I was so happy," she says, "when I finally discovered that I didn't have to dance like a cool kid."

They talk new perspectives on writers of colour, a novel to fill you up and questions of green dye.

Info about The Good Immigrant, edited by Nikesh Shukla, which Vera has contributed to is here.

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The fourth season of Page One will kick off on the 16th of February with the 107th Page One featuring long-time collaborator Vera Chok. For more information about the podcast, please visit pageonepodcast.com.

Episodes from this season will be available via iTunes (look for Page One Podcast) and Soundcloud (look for charldrian).

Content Note: There is some racially offensive language in this episode. There are also lots of thumps and bumps so, if you have sensitive ears or if you listen through headphones, please proceed with caution.

Joining Charles Adrian for the 80th Second-Hand Book Factory is contrarian and alternative poet and performer Neil Spokes. They talk about playing with form, guitar pedals, a book that Charles Adrian doesn't remember very well and a book that Christopher Hitchins may or may not have liked.

The previous episode, which features Neil's wife Tina, is here

Christie Malry's previous appearance on the podcast is here

Joining Charles Adrian for the 79th Second-Hand Book Factory is poet, performer and promoter – or artistic explorer to her friends – Tina Sederholm. With the sound of George sighing in the background, they discuss art outside the box, bad dancing, living in a cold world and goodness as a woman's lot.

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Nessuno video

Drake Hotline video

Page One Murder Mystery episode

Page One episode featuring Larry's Party by Carol Shields

Faeries on Bandcamp

For the 78th Second-Hand Book Factory, Charles Adrian is joined by hobbyist and perfectionist amateur playwright, comedian, pianist, juggler and French speaker Daniel Elliot, who is on the verge of becoming a professional business intelligence research analyst. Daniel also brought the leaves for the fresh mint tea that they drink. They touch on wanting to be a pound coin, the joy of staying at home and the emotions of a bee. Except that, apparently, the last book is about more than just the emotions of a bee.

This is not a Page One but it is a podcast episode. It's a preview of the first episode of a new series of podcasts called Muselings. All the episodes in this first series (at least) are going to be short, true and about podcaster Charles Adrian. This episode is about shyness and knocking on people's doors. More information about the podcast is at muselings.uk.