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Joining Charles Adrian in Brighton for the 102nd Second-Hand Book Factory is Mathilda Gregory and her staffie Agatha. Mathilda co-produced the first Brighton Smut Slam and is a writer and performer. They talk about a less common perspective on break-ups, fantasy as allegory and how gender can mess with our self-categorisation of our sexuality.

*Apologies for the electro buzz interference, which happens between 9:06 and 9:10*

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

Episode image is a detail from the cover of The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson, published by Graywolf Press in 2015; Cover Design by Jeenee Lee Design.

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Joining Charles Adrian for the first episode of the fifth season (!), aka the 101st Second-Hand Book Factory, is writer, actor and performance maker Vera Chok. They talk food and carcinogens, unapologetic feminism, the sexy lamp theory and a young sexual awakening.

Episode is marked as explicit on iTunes because of light sexual content.

Episode image is a detail from the cover of Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang by Chelsea Handler, published in 2010 by Grand Central Publishing; cover design by Anne Twomey; cover photograph of author © Jack Guy/ Corbis Outline.

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For the 74th Second-Hand Book Factory, Charles Adrian spoke to playwright, performer and accidental sex-positivity educator, advocate and activist Cameryn Moore. They talk about sex, magic, mystery and food.

Cameryn's Smut Slams kick off in Bristol, London, Brighton and Manchester this month! This is a night of true life storytelling around sex. More information at http://www.camerynmoore.com/smut-slam/

Cameryn's website: http://www.camerynmoore.com/

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For the 100th Second-Hand Book Factory, Charles Adrian is joined by award-winning Librarian, Spoken Word Artist and trainee Agony Aunt Ms Samantha Mann. They talk provincial ladies, French poets and Scottish fiddlers.

If you have a dilemma that you would like Samantha to address, in her role as resident Agony Aunt at TRC3, you can find her on Twitter (https://twitter.com/MsSamanthaMann), on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/mssamanthamann/) or you can can get in touch through her own website (http://www.mssamanthamann.com/contact/).

Ms Samantha Mann forgot to mention that she is now on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtrvvtvm5Xzh_12Zme2m5pg

TRC3, the radio station that Samantha and Charles Adrian both work at, can be found at http://theradiocollective.com/three.html. You can hear Samantha answering past dilemmas here: https://soundcloud.com/mssamanthamann/sets/sammannsays

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Next week's episode will be rather special for a couple of reasons. Charles Adrian explains...

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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.

(Marked as explicit on iTunes because of rude language.)

For the 96th Second-Hand Book Factory, Charles Adrian is joined by writer, theatre maker and maybe musician Chris Goode. They talk about a book that killed novels, conversations between artists and one of the women airbrushed from the history of the Beats.

Chris's podcast, Thompson's Live, can be found here http://www.chrisgoodeandcompany.co.uk/podcast/

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Joining Charles Adrian for the 95th Second-Hand Book Factory is designer and artist Bettina John. With scales being sung in the background and both host and guest suffering the comet tail of departed illness, they discuss books as physical objects with interesting histories, art that incorporates different realities in the same frame and stories that are just complex.

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