When The Page Talks Back
18 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 5 years ago - ★★★★★ - 4 ratings(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
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Episodes
12 - Bad Days
February 22, 2019 12:00 - 19 minutes - 33.6 MBAs the fate of the Bubble grows ever more serious, Alana is faced with a personal choice. Sam and her team are pursued by Rasmus while Robbie is stranded in her greenhouse. Find the script here.
11 - Good Days
February 08, 2019 12:00 - 17 minutes - 30.4 MBWith Rasmus growing increasingly angry and the novel reaching a critical point, Alana has to cope with the added stresses of Sam looking for a new team member. Find the script here.
10 - Life from Mars: Soilent Green
January 25, 2019 12:00 - 14 minutes - 25.9 MBCharlie interviews Robbie, gets a tour of the vineyard, and has a close call with a fuzzy plant in this episode of Life From Mars. Find the script here.
Mini Episode: Meddling
January 18, 2019 12:00 - 4 minutes - 7.99 MBJerry does his very, very best to ask Robbie out. Find the script here.
09 - Climbing Higher
January 04, 2019 12:00 - 12 minutes - 20.5 MBAwoken at two in the morning by an excited Sam, Alana struggles through a conversation about promotions, relationships, and the future of Bubbles. Find the script here.
08 - Merry Christmars
December 21, 2018 12:00 - 14 minutes - 26.5 MBAfter a contentious film night - during which Sam and Robbie only eventually agree to a truce on the matter of mixing sweet and salted popcorn - Alana flies home to Scotland for Christmas. This episode features 'Hark The Herald Angels' as performed by the choir and congregation of the Waverley Singers Carol Service, 17th of December 2000. Find the script here.
Mini Episode: A Life In Letters, Part Two
December 14, 2018 12:00 - 6 minutes - 12.9 MBRobbie continues to tackle paperwork, family, and the politics of coffee, this time with an unexpected ally... Find the script here.
07 - Turning Tables
December 03, 2018 18:50 - 18 minutes - 34.5 MBWhen Sam is unsympathetic to Alana's struggles with writer's block, Alana finds the tables turned, and Robbie steps in... but on whose side? Find the script below.
Mini Episode: Hex Life Chose Them
November 16, 2018 21:21 - 8 minutes - 15.2 MBCharlie interviews Sam and meets her team. In this episode, Charlie was played by Stefan Robertson, Sam was played by Kathleen Anderson, Valery was played by Struan Duncan-Wilson, Angelique was played by Amrita Narayanan, and Jane was played by Leora Wadler. Find the script here.
06 - Striking A Balance
November 16, 2018 12:00 - 13 minutes - 24.9 MBRobbie 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. Find the script here.
Mini Episode: Shots And A Feather Boa
November 09, 2018 12:00 - 5 minutes - 9.19 MBCharlie experiences a Spacey's Day Parade, a new hat, and a severe shortage of breakfast burritos. Find the script here.
05 - Selling Out
October 26, 2018 11:00 - 17 minutes - 29.8 MBWhen 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. Find the script here.
04 - Life From Mars: Retrospective
October 16, 2018 13:04 - 16 minutes - 27.5 MBJoin 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! Find the script here.
Mini Episode: A Life In Letters, Part One
October 05, 2018 11:00 - 6 minutes - 13 MBRobbie tackles paperwork, family, and most dauntingly, the office coffee pot. Find the script here.
03 - Same Coin, Two Sides
September 21, 2018 12:00 - 16 minutes - 28.1 MBWith 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... Find the script here.
02 - Looking Back
September 21, 2018 11:30 - 19 minutes - 33.9 MBIn 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. Find the script here.
01 - Not Going Mad
September 21, 2018 11:00 - 19 minutes - 33.4 MBAlana'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... Find the script here.
Teaser
June 25, 2018 22:54 - 54 seconds - 1.03 MBLots of authors talk to their characters. Usually, their characters don't talk back... When The Page Talks Back, Episode One: Not Going Mad will be released soon. Subscribe now to be notified when it's available!