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#79 Listener Q&A Special
Ep. 79
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For the first time ever, all four of us get together to record an episode! This is a special Q&A episode, where we answer questions sent in by the listeners over social media from the past few weeks. We really liked doing this episode, so if you would like us to make it a regular thing, please let us know!
The questions we answered are listed below, as well as any people or podcasts we mentioned in our answers.
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Questions and stuff mentioned
- Chris' Youtube channel [Chris Bookish Cauldron]
- Serial podcast
- Books & Blankets podcast
- Kieran Evans [@KDBooks on Youtube]
- What book or series do you wish there was more of?
- If you could have dinner with anyone dead or alive, who would it be?
> Miriam Margolyes talking about meeting Laurence Olivier - Are your bookshelves full of books yet to be read, or all your kept faves?
- Favourite childhood book?
> Literary Disco episode on Sweet Valley High [#3 Sweet Valley High & Klassics Korner] - Why does Sarah always threaten me with a good time?
- Would you rather fight 100 duck-sized horses or one horse-sized duck?
- Would like to learn about the publishing industry. Do you have any plans on doing such an episode?
> Episode with Abigail Mann [#71 Breaking Romantic Tropes]
> What Page Are You On podcast
> Book Riot podcast - Apart from yourself, which author would you pick to write your life story?
- Favourite time of day to read? Favourite place to read?
- Which fictional character would your teenage and present day selves most relate to?
HBO show Looking - Is there a character that you wish you could be for a day? Or a world you wished you lived in?
- Favourite Welsh book reviewer?
- How do you get over a reading slump and episode production freeze?
> SemiScribbled podcast - Favourite and least favourite thing about doi
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