When The Page Talks Back

(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

12 - Bad Days 02/22/2019

12 - Bad Days As 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. /episode/index/show/whenthepagetalksback/id/8760203

11 - Good Days 02/08/2019

11 - Good Days With 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. /episode/index/show/whenthepagetalksback/id/8564561

10 - Life from Mars: Soilent Green 01/25/2019

10 - Life from Mars: Soilent Green Charlie interviews Robbie, gets a tour of the vineyard, and has a close call with a fuzzy plant in this episode of Life From Mars. /episode/index/show/whenthepagetalksback/id/8386736

Mini Episode: Meddling 01/18/2019

Mini Episode: Meddling Jerry does his very, very best to ask Robbie out. /episode/index/show/whenthepagetalksback/id/8297891

09 - Climbing Higher 01/04/2019

09 - Climbing Higher Awoken at two in the morning by an excited Sam, Alana struggles through a conversation about promotions, relationships, and the future of Bubbles. /episode/index/show/whenthepagetalksback/id/8194427

08 - Merry Christmars 12/21/2018

08 - Merry Christmars After 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. /episode/index/show/whenthepagetalksback/id/8193494

Mini Episode: A Life In Letters, Part Two 12/14/2018

Mini Episode: A Life In Letters, Part Two Robbie continues to tackle paperwork, family, and the politics of coffee, this time with an unexpected ally... /episode/index/show/whenthepagetalksback/id/7217909

07 - Turning Tables 12/03/2018

07 - Turning Tables When Sam is unsympathetic to Alana's struggles with writer's block, Alana finds the tables turned, and Robbie steps in... but on whose side? /episode/index/show/whenthepagetalksback/id/7784198

Mini Episode: Hex Life Chose Them 11/16/2018

Mini Episode: Hex Life Chose Them Charlie interviews Sam and meets her team. /episode/index/show/whenthepagetalksback/id/7591064

06 - Striking A Balance 11/16/2018

06 - 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. /episode/index/show/whenthepagetalksback/id/7519520

Mini Episode: Shots And A Feather Boa 11/09/2018

Mini Episode: Shots And A Feather Boa Charlie experiences a Spacey's Day Parade, a new hat, and a severe shortage of breakfast burritos. /episode/index/show/whenthepagetalksback/id/7324958

05 - Selling Out 10/26/2018

05 - Selling Out When Rasmus visits Alana, he learns some secrets and reveals some of his own. A distracted Sam ponders her future, and Alana has to face some hard truths. /episode/index/show/whenthepagetalksback/id/7324514

04 - Life From Mars: Retrospective 10/16/2018

04 - 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! /episode/index/show/whenthepagetalksback/id/7202876

Mini Episode: A Life In Letters, Part One 10/05/2018

Mini Episode: A Life In Letters, Part One Robbie tackles paperwork, family, and most dauntingly, the office coffee pot. /episode/index/show/whenthepagetalksback/id/7130613

03 - Same Coin, Two Sides 09/21/2018

03 - Same Coin, Two Sides With a personal problem 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... /episode/index/show/whenthepagetalksback/id/7073370

02 - Looking Back 09/21/2018

02 - 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. /episode/index/show/whenthepagetalksback/id/7073230

01 - Not Going Mad 09/21/2018

01 - 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... /episode/index/show/whenthepagetalksback/id/7073292

Teaser 06/25/2018

Teaser Lots of authors talk to their characters. Usually, their characters don't talk back... /episode/index/show/whenthepagetalksback/id/6743870

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