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(This episode is marked as explicit because of strong language, including racist language.)
Episode image is a detail from the cover of Royal Flash by George MacDonald Fraser, published in 1999 by Harper Collins Publishers.
Content Note: There is some racist language in this episode.
Noise warning: There are lots of thumps and bumps throughout this recording so, if you have sensitive ears or if you listen through headphones, please proceed with caution.
Joining Charles Adrian for the 80th Second Hand Book Factory is contrarian and alternative poet and performer Neil Spokes. They talk about playing with form, guitar pedals, a book that Charles Adrian doesn’t remember very well and a book that Christopher Hitchins may or may not have liked.
The episode before this one, Page One 105, which was recorded on the same day, features Neil’s wife Tina Sederholm.
Christy Malry’s Own Double Entry by B. S. Johnson is also discussed in Page One 38 and Page One 166.
Royal Flash by George MacDonald Fraser is also discussed in Page One 184.
You can watch the video to James’s Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) on YouTube here.
This episode has been edited to remove music that is no longer covered by licence for this podcast.
This episode features a jingle written for the podcast by the band Friends Of Friends.
Episode released: 10th November, 2015.
Book listing:
Christie Malry’s Own Double Entry by B. S. Johnson
Kowloon Tong by Paul Theroux
Royal Flash by George MacDonald Fraser
Links:
Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) on YouTube