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Fantasy Book Swap

Fantasy Book Swap

Ali Baker and a guest discuss children's fantasy fiction. The guest chooses a favourite for Ali, and Ali chooses a complementing contemporary book. Jokes and the occasional swear word may ensue. Please contact [email protected], @fantasyswap on Twitter or https://www.facebook.com/Fantasybookswap. Ask questions, make comments and join in the discussion!

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61 episodes

  1. Ep. 59 A Boss Battle on Alderley Edge with Sarah Pickett 56:29
  2. Ep 58: A Real Boy with Gary Couzens 1:03:42
  3. Ep 57 Lost boys and celebrity rivers with Tajinder Hayer 1:53:14
  4. Ep 56: Weird Science with Dr Annie Czajkowski 1:21:18
  5. Episode 55: Time slips and haunting with Elen Caldecott 1:11:32
  6. Ep 54 Minisode British Fantasy Society Award shortlist 2:47
  7. Ep 53: Lord of the Rings, but with mice with C. L. McCartney 1:21:54
  8. Ep 52: Team Binabik with Stewart Hotston 1:11:07
  9. Ep 51: A snake out of water with Emily Tesh 1:01:51
  10. Ep 50: Demon horses and ghost dogs with Anna Smith Spark 1:18:04
  11. Ep. 49: When magic isn't a metaphor with Robert Berg 1:03:54
  12. The anti-authoritarian politics of naughtiness with Sandra Bond 1:05:16
  13. Ep 47: Worldbuilding Britain in historical fiction 1:45:04
  14. In Space, nobody provides childcare 1:15:46
  15. Episode 45: Rainy season at the Hotel Romero 47:57
  16. Ep 44: Horses and curses and home, but not at home 1:32:00
  17. Ep 43: Uncontextual pineapple with Catriona Silvey 59:54
  18. Ep 42: Pirates and Mermaids and Witches with Ida Keogh 47:22
  19. Ep 41: Narnia Business with Katie Bruce 59:21
  20. Ep 40 Mansfield Park in Space with Una McCormack 1:03:34
  21. Ep 39: Writeopolis v Fantasy Book Swap- not a dance off 2:04:00
  22. Ep 38: Is that Conan in space? With Tade Thompson 45:47
  23. Ep 37: Totally Elemental with Esther MacCallum-Stewart, Chair of Glasgow 2024 WorldCon 1:06:17
  24. Ep 36: Ghosts, machines and aliens with Kit Power 1:29:59
  25. Ep 35: A Confusion of Susans with Juliet Kemp 1:01:45
  26. 34: Dragons and radical empathy with Trip Galey 1:03:31
  27. Ep 33: A refreshing lack of Wizard Dads with SJ Groenewegen 57:02
  28. Ep 32 Imaginary horse husbands with Kari Sperring 57:02
  29. Ep 31 Getting rid of parents and grumpy magical helpers with Kate Towner 1:04:38
  30. Ep 30: Hot Gladiators and Plague Gods 1:22:57
  31. Moomintroll and a china rabbit with Laura Mauro at FantasyCon 2022 45:20
  32. Ep 28: Two horse girls’ training montages with Caroline Mersey 1:02:10
  33. Ep 27: The Anti-Reepicheep League with Ang Rosin 1:08:57
  34. Ep 26: Fairies and witches and toads, oh my! 1:01:14
  35. Ep 25: Timeslips and dreams with Tony Keen 57:12
  36. Ep 24: Look into my eyes with Russell Smith 1:03:32
  37. Sweet Polly Oliver goes Over The Hills: Sharpe and Monstrous Regiment 11:30
  38. Ep 22: I’m just a teenage necromancer, baby 1:09:29
  39. Episode 21: Fantasy Book Swap Live!!! at Reclamation 2022, with Tasha Suri 1:00:10
  40. Deploy Emergency Podcast 8:54
  41. Ep 19: Fairytale retellings and socialist fantasy with Ali Williams 1:16:18
  42. Ep 18: Going Underground Joan Aiken’s Is and Frances Hardinge’s A Face Like Glass 1:05:26
  43. Of Wolves and Birds with Damien Hine 50:15
  44. Spooky Old Houses and Ghostly Mouses 47:52
  45. Episode 15: Crushing on Chrestomanci 47:39
  46. Episode 14- Series 1 finale. Of spooks, skeksis and Sherlock 10:20
  47. Wolves are not the most dangerous creatures in this forest: Stephanie Shields, The Dark is Rising and Breadcrumbs 1:02:24
  48. Ep 12: Anne is not the Sansa Stark of the Famous Five- Fiona Moore on Edward Eager‘s Knight‘s Castle and Stephanie Burgis‘s The Dragon with 55:36
  49. Winter special trailer 0:43
  50. Ep 11: Farah Mendlesohn, Fattypuffs and Thinifers and Lightfall 1:02:55