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Gloriously named actress, performance artist and poet warrior Isabelle Schoelcher joins Charles Adrian for the 51st Second-Hand Book Factory. They talk about the yellow sun gang, about sex and about the sea. They get off topic for a while in order to talk about the kittens but, knowing Isabelle, this seems appropriate. [Warning: French speakers may spot some objectionable language] Here is a youtube clip of Jacques Brel performing Vesoul

Poet, performer and former child Francesca Beard joins Charles Adrian for the 50th Second-Hand Book Factory. They talk about two books that transcend their subject matter and one book that is a call to consciousness. Links to Francesca's work mentioned here include: this, this and this.

Get ready for the beautiful sound of some German language: an unwell Julian Meding starts this 49th Second-Hand Book Factory by introducing Charles Adrian to the science of strolling (Spaziergangswissenschaft). They also talk about the politics of threesomes and Julian brings both great music and deathless critical thinking. Apologies for the electronic intrusions - Julian wasn't asked to turn off his phone, which is Charles Adrian's fault. [Warning: some swearing]

For the 48th Second-Hand Book Factory, Charles Adrian talks to category-hopper Jaya Hartlein about life being not like it is in the movies, questions of scale and suitable topics for Applied Theatre. Jaya, as is somehow not mentioned, has just finished a Masters in Applied Theatre. Incidentally, if anybody else is unaware of the Pina Colada song, it turns out to be very easy to find on youtube. Of course.

For this week's Page One, Charles Adrian looks into the future and the past and alternative reality and other planets. It's a whistle stop tour of science fiction and should satisfy the soul of anybody who has ever wondered what things might be like if they were different. Incidentally, Charles Adrian writes: "I can only apologise for the offensively bad Scottish accent used at around the 13-minute mark." [Warning: some explicit sexual content.] Promised links: more info about Friends Of Friends can be found at https://soundcloud.com/foftheband and more info about the Anti-Valentine Festival can be found at http://beautifulbitchmonsteridiot.com/2014/01/09/anti-valentine-big-on-love/

Repackaged for iTunes, here, from January 2013, is the 10th Second-Hand Book Factory. Charles Adrian is joined by Gloria Sanders, who describes herself as an actress and an explorer and whose beautiful poetry can be found at http://poetryzoo.com/author/glorsanders. Incidentally: the word 'Over-Soul', later much misused by Charles Adrian, makes its first appearance on the podcast during this recording. As explained, this episode has been shortened; the original, full length interview can still be found in the archives at pageonepodcast.com.

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".