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Joining Charles Adrian for the 112th Second-Hand Book Factory is writer and teaching assistant Jenny Adamthwaite. They talk about the possibilities afforded by magical realism, the joy and pain of nostalgia and the creeping horror of forced inactivity.

The Family Tree, which is mentioned a few times during the episode, is a podcast written and produced by Jenny and her partner Dave Pickering in which Charles Adrian plays the Reverend Philip Beech. More information about it can be found here: http://thefamilytreepodcast.co.uk/

Episode image is a detail from the cover of The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, printed in Breinigsville, PA, on the 10th March, 2016 (tracking label: BVOW06s1428100316).

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Joining Charles Adrian for the 111th Second-Hand Book Factory is actor, performer, comedian and dogsbody Jonathan Richardson. They talk about a dirty Aesop's Fable, the Scottish origins of Freemasonry and some of the mix that makes up London.

Episode image is a detail from the cover of Rivers Of London by Ben Aaronovitch, published by Gollancz in 2011; cover illustration © Stephen Walter; image courtesy of the Artist/TAG Fine Arts; image taken from The Island – London Series, published by TAG Fine Arts; design © www.patrickknowlesdesign.com

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Joining Charles Adrian for the 110th Second-Hand Book Factory is Christopher Forbes, who is a person at crossroads. They tackle the mythologisation of history, a traveller's view of Europe and opposing ideas of illness and identity.

The TED talk by Andrew Solomon that Christopher mentions can be watched here (Love No Matter What): https://www.ted.com/talks/andrew_solomon_love_no_matter_what

Episode image is a detail from the cover of Far From The Tree (Parents, Children and the Search for Identity) by Andrew Solomon, published in 2013 by Chatto & Windus; cover photograph © Adam Fuss.

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Joining Charles Adrian for the 109th Second-Hand Book Factory is unruffled writer, storyteller, poet and theatre-maker Anna Beecher. They talk about a deeply compassionate classic, the rebelliousness of fairy tales and the value of learning how to get lost.

Episode image is a detail of the cover of A Field Guide To Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit, published in 2006 by Canongate Books; cover image: plainpicture / Rachel Rebibo; design: Peter Adlington / Canongate.

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Joining Charles Adrian up in the Frobisher Boardroom at London's Barbican Centre for the 108th Second-Hand Book Factory is poet, spoken word performer, producer, writer and educator Dan Simpson. They discuss a world in which the word cyber still evoked a streetwise tomorrow, an experience that might arguably be described as the worst date ever and a poetic response to the onset of austerity.

Episode image is a detail from the cover of 81 Austerities by Sam Riviere, published in 2012 by Faber and Faber; series design by Pentagram.

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Joining Charles Adrian near West Kensington tube station in London for the 107th Second-Hand Book Factory is hungry actor, producer and writer Kevin Shen. They talk about empathy with uncomfortable protagonists, good deaths of bad guys and the relatable life of an everyday Egyptian family.

Episode image is a detail from the cover of Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz, published by Black Swan in 2004; cover illustration by Murray Zanoni.

Vera Chok, mentioned by Kevin in this episode, is the most-interviewed guest on Page One. Two of her most recent episodes can be found here and here.

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Joining Charles Adrian in the shadow of the Royal Free Hospital in London for the 106th Second-Hand Book Factory is writer, poet and storyteller Clair Whitefield. They talk about longing and love and connection.

Episode image is a detail from the cover of The Elegance Of The Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery, published in 2008 by Gallic Books

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For the 105th Second-Hand Book Factory, Charles Adrian is joined in Peckham Rye by consultant and project manager James Bottomley. They talk about some classic, visceral, virtuosic poetry, some classic British comic writing and some terrifyingly topical American counterfactual writing.

James is Vera Chok's flatmate. Vera has been interviewed repeatedly on the podcast.

Episode image is a detail from the cover of The Plot Against America by Philip Roth, published by Vintage in 2005; book design by Robert Oberholzer.

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Joining Charles Adrian for the 104th Second-Hand Book Factory is Nottingham-born writer and comedian, also translator, editor and interpreter-in-ovo, James Harris. They discuss comedians on comedy, the naming of people and the now-discredited Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.

Episode image is a detail from the cover of Through The Language Glass by Guy Deutscher, published by Arrow Books in 2011; cover design by Kelly Too; mirror illustration derived from textiles sourced from istockphoto.com.

An account of some of the reasons for the Print Room protest, together with links to related articles, can be found here: http://madammiaow.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/scenes-from-yellowface-execution-daniel-york-barker.html

Photographs of the protest can be seen here: http://www.sukimok.com/?p=473

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For the 103rd Second-Hand Book Factory, Charles Adrian is joined by writer, podcaster and joiner David Turner. They discuss telling the truth about intimacy, a distance travelled that is not only physical and the fear that comes with aspiration.

Marked as explicit on iTunes because of sexual language and imagery.

Episode image is a detail from the cover of A Death In The Family by Karl Ove Knausgaard, published by Vintage Books in 2013; photograph © Nina Mangalanayagam / Millennium Images.

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