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Page One

Page One is a book podcast. It's for people who like books and for people who like people.

Feel free to curl up and eavesdrop on Charles Adrian chatting books with his guests.

More information about the podcast is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/

Dec 27, 2017

For the 122nd Second-Hand Book Factory, Charles Adrian is joined by podcaster and general audio-person Arlie Adlington. They talk mix-tapes and assumptions, and bring the current series of Page One to an end.

The episode of Arlie’s podcast The Boy Who Hasn’t Lived that features Charles Adrian can be found here:


Dec 12, 2017

CN: discussion of sex

Joining Charles Adrian for the 121st Second-Hand Book Factory is artist and performer Gareth Cutter. They talk the strange, the sexy, and the ironic.

Some information about The Perfumed Garden is to be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Perfumed_Garden

When we spoke, Gareth was preparing...


Nov 28, 2017

Joining Charles Adrian for the 120th Second-Hand Book Factory writer, theatre-maker, freelance producer and perpetual interloper Jules Orcullo. They talk impressions of India’s sacred city, a snapshot of America and a retelling of Penelope’s story.

Episode image is a detail from the cover of The Penelopiad by...


Oct 31, 2017

Joining Charles Adrian for the 118th Second-Hand Book Factory is writer, director and composer (also statistician) George Lewkowicz. They talk patriotic cosmology, code-breaking and a brand-new podcasted tale of some awkward twins.

George's podcasted novel is called The White Beyond The Wall and is available on itunes...


Oct 17, 2017

Joining Charles Adrian in Amersham for the 117th Second-Hand Book Factory is his mother Rae Bentley Jones (aka Rae Gillott). They talk a basketmaker’s life, detective fiction and some world history.

Episode image is a detail from the cover of Indemnity Only by Sara Paretsky, published in 1987 by Penguin Books; cover...