Jul 29, 2014
This week’s vintage Page One, which originally went out in October 2012, sees Charles Adrian talking to comedian Tom Webb. There is a curious lack of books in this episode but Tom and host Charles Adrian have fun discussing facebook, Scott Capurro and The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart. Incidentally – in case you are...
Jul 22, 2014
For the 65th Second-Hand Book Factory, Charles Adrian is joined by performance artist, writer and musician Nick Field. It may have been a tactical error to sit outside, at a café not far from Victoria station in London, where the background noise from taxis, buses and other voices threatens to overwhelm the...
Jul 15, 2014
Hosting Charles Adrian for the 64th Second-Hand Book Factory in her Motel de Nowhere in Bethnal Green is artist and performer Susannah Hewlett. They talk about the effect of abuse in different ways and the push to create nicknames. Information about Motel de Nowhere is here. and you can find out more about Chris...
Jul 8, 2014
For the 63rd Second-Hand Book Factory, Charles Adrian is joined by writer and sometime academic Alan Cunningham. They talk about precision in the face of horror, the creation of fear and just plain good storytelling. Oh, and get ready to sit back and chill out at the end of the episode for nearly ten minutes of gentle...
Jul 1, 2014
Shorter than usual, for good reason, this week’s Page One is a skim through the first pages of some short stories. Always remember that the first page of a short story is extremely good value because what you are getting is a greater proportion of the whole.
[Warning: some bad language occurs in the middle of the...