18 episodes

(Start with Season One, Episode One) Lots of authors talk to their characters. Usually, their characters don't talk back...

“Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?”
― Cornelia Funke

When The Page Talks Back Connaixo Productions

    • Fiction
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(Start with Season One, Episode One) Lots of authors talk to their characters. Usually, their characters don't talk back...

“Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?”
― Cornelia Funke

    Not Going Mad

    Not Going Mad

    Alana's a sci-fi writer living in New York with a knitted Loch Ness Monster. She talks to her characters sometimes, like a lot of authors do. But unlike most authors, her characters talk back...
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    • 19 min
    Looking Back

    Looking Back

    In which Alana meets Robbie, an Earth-born soil biologist. It turns out that some things - mostly bureaucracy - are the same no matter which planet you're on.
    This episode features Berimbass, by Renaud Garcia-Fons.
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    • 19 min
    Same Coin, Two Sides

    Same Coin, Two Sides

    With a personal issue to deal with, Alana turns to Sam and Robbie for advice. But the evening's conversation quickly spirals out of control, and that's before Rasmus turns up...
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    • 16 min
    Life From Mars: Retrospective

    Life From Mars: Retrospective

    Join Charlie Mulholland, host of radio show Life From Mars, as he reflects on his journey from his home on Earth to Nuovo Andalusia. One martian year ago, he arrived at his new home planet, and so this episode looks back at some of the experiences he had on the journey - with interviews, musings on his social life, and some never-before-heard footage of the trip from Martian orbit to the surface!
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    • 16 min
    Selling Out

    Selling Out

    When Rasmus visits Alana, he learns some secrets and reveals some of his own. A distracted Sam ponders her future and commiserates with Alana over bad bosses, and Alana faces some hard truths.
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    • 17 min
    Striking A Balance

    Striking A Balance

    Robbie and Alana bond over lasagna and the challenges of getting fresh herbs on Mars. Robbie manages to see off an invading if flustered Rasmus, and she and Alana discuss the politics of Martian separatism.
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    • 13 min

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