Page One

Joining Charles Adrian for the 94th Second-Hand Book Factory is bath-taker and cat-poker (also English poet and performer) A. F. Harrold. They talk about an iconic first page, some of the sadness of growing up and a couple of dubious creation stories.

Incidentally, my first visit to Tilehurst was to interview Iszi Lawrence; you can hear our conversation here: http://www.pageonepodcast.com/home/#/page-one-112-iszi-lawrence/.

A. F. Harrold is author of The Imaginary and the Fizzelbert Stump series.

Website: http://www.pageonepodcast.com/

For the 93rd Second-Hand Book Factory, Charles Adrian is joined by inveterate dabbler, also photographer and writer, Katherine Leedale. They discuss books that keep you reading into the night, a failed Peeping Tom and an unhelpful feeling that certain things are not for us.

Photos of Ms Samantha Mann by Katherine are here: http://www.mssamanthamann.com/photos/

Website: http://www.pageonepodcast.com

For the 92nd Second-Hand Book Factory, Charles Adrian is joined by passionate, itinerant generalist and creative (on the interior) Isbel James. They talk about skewed perspectives on familiar places, fiction that feels like memoir (and vice versa) and the descriptive power of Robert Louis Stevenson's writing.

The photograph that is discussed is, in fact, Tove Jannson's niece Sophia sitting with her (Sophia's) grandmother, who was Tove Jannson's mother.

Website: http://www.pageonepodcast.com

Marked as explicit because of some gentle swearing.

For the 91st Second-Hand Book Factory, Charles Adrian is joined in London's Russell Square by writer, actor, nerd and (whisper it) ex-gymnast Iskandar Sharazuddin. They talk about the swashbuckling founder of an independent dynastic monarchy, the shifting sands of identity and the creation of a ferocious emotional truth.

It is interesting to note, perhaps, how relentlessly noisy central London is.

Website: http://www.pageonepodcast.com/

A note about the rating: This episode is marked as explicit because there is a brief and passing reference to sexual assault.

Joining Charles Adrian for the 90th Second-Hand Book Factory is creative layabout, also actor, writer and blagger, Joseph Paterson. They talk about seeing the world through someone else's eyes, the crossroads of people's lives, and the pleasure that comes with being read to.

As you will hear, Joseph would like it to be known that the phrase he was looking for to describe himself is WINGING IT.

Website: http://www.pageonepodcast.com

Joining Charles Adrian for the 89th Second-Hand Book Factory is poet, writer, performer, facilitator and musician, otherwise artist Antosh Wojcik. They talk about feeling naked on the train, a decent workaday detective and a good idiosyncratic voice.

Incidentally, I love the way Antosh refers to his neighbour as 'Next Door'.

Website: pageonepodcast.com

Joining Charles Adrian for the 88th Second-Hand Book Factory is artist, designer, musician and all-round creative Satoshi Dāté. They talk about a kind of self-help literature, a very particular strain of Englishness and a lot of origami cranes. Satoshi reads in Japanese so there is ear porn on offer for language addicts.

Website: pageonepodcast.com

Content note: mention of suicide

Joining Charles Adrian downriver of the Thames Barrier for the 87th Second-Hand Book Factory is writer and illustrator Donna Butlin. They reminisce about Donna's project Storytape, dark comedy done really well, the familiarity of fables and how talking about death can make you think about life.

Website: pageonepodcast.com

This episode is marked as explicit because there is some discussion of sex with trees (dendrophilia) and of sex in general.

Recorded in Tilehurst (near Reading) on Pancake Day, Charles Adrian is joined for the 86th Second-Hand Book Factory by comedian, podcaster, graphic designer and voice-over artist Iszi Lawrence. They talk dendrophilia, a woman who sits at one of the crossroads of European history and the danger of hope.

Website: pageonepodcast.com

A quick note about the rating of this episode: I've marked this episode as explicit because there are some sexual references. Nothing that's going to make you choke on your cornflakes but you might want to be careful around children and anybody who doesn't know about sex.

Joining Charles Adrian for the 85th Second-Hand Book Factory is actor, performer, theatre-maker, writer, and space and science geek Griffyn Gilligan. They talk about why the measure of love is loss, how we deal with the passing of time and dreaming either of his long neck in our teeth or his long teeth in our necks. Griffyn, incidentally, played Jaq in the recent production of Teddy Ferrara at the Donmar Warehouse in London.

Website: pageonepodcast.com