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While Page One continues its ever-extending mid-season break, Charles Adrian has popped back onto the mic to let listeners know about a podcast he is making with Lisa Findley called The Rom Com Rewrite. Rom com fans everywhere can find it on Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/4D3CW2TnT1tIRorlbqp2kF) and Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-rom-com-rewrite/id1551541870).   Incidentally, you can find a description of the seven major beats of rom com writing here: https://www.well-storied.com/blog/anatomy-of-a-romantic-comedy-seven-essential-story-beats   Also, while he’s here, Charles Adrian would like to recommend the beautiful, 4-part podcast The Fateful Tale Of Chesapeake Bay, which you can find on Apple Podcasts here: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-fateful-tale-of-chesapeake-bay/id1541527814 (and a quick google will take you to all the other places that you can find it). Also: Miriam Gould, who is one of the co-hosts, was previously a guest on Page One and you can find that episode here: http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season4#/123-miriam-gould/   More information about Page One is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/

Taking another break from revisiting the books that he has been given by guests on the podcast, Charles Adrian revisits instead what he said in the previous episode about Scottish Country Dancing and talks about three books that he has very much enjoyed.   More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/   Correction 1: This episode was recorded on the 15th December, 2020, and not the 14th December as Charles Adrian says.   Correction 2: Charles Adrian mistakenly pronounces Ivanhoe as Ivinghoe. The first is a novel by Sir Walter Scott; the second is a village in Buckinghamshire.   Correction 3: The novelist Charles Adrian refers to as JY Yang in this episode has been called Neon Yang since September 2020. You can read the announcement on their Twitter here: https://twitter.com/itsneonyang/status/1300790160301461507   The podcast will also be taking a break over festive season and will return with new episodes at some point in the new year.   Also mentioned in this episode are Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott, which is discussed in Page One 49 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-1#/49-page-one-49/), Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson, which is discussed in Page One 16 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-1#/16-cat-james/) and Page One 159 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-6#/159-poir-3/), and Scottish Fiddlers And Their Music by Mary Anne Alburger, which is discussed in Page One 126 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season4#/126-ms-samantha-mann/) and Page One 191 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-6#/191-poir-33/).   Cameryn Moore, who is mentioned here, is featured in Page One 98 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-3#/98-cameryn-moore/).   You can find some information on the Prison Industrial Complex and prison abolition in the UK from the Empty Cages Collective here: http://www.prisonabolition.org/what-is-the-prison-industrial-complex/   Diane di Prima, also mentioned here, is discussed in more depth in Page One 122 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season4#/122-chris-goode/) and Page One 190 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-6#/190-poir-32/).   The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk is a standalone novel but The Black Tides Of Heaven by Neon Yang is at the beginning of the Tensorate series and A Hero Born by Jin Yong is the first part of The Condor Trilogy. You can read more about The Condor Trilogy on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condor_Trilogy.   Episode image is a detail from the cover of The Black Tides Of Heaven by Neon Yang, published by tor.com in 2017; cover art by Yuko Shimizu; cover design by Christine Foltzer.   Episode recorded: 15th December, 2020.     Book listing:   The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk The Black Tides Of Heaven by Neon Yang A Hero Born by Jin Yong

Marked as explicit because of strong language.   Speaking minutes after he had finished recording the previous episode of the podcast, Charles Adrian revisits the last books that were given to him by guests on the 4th season of the podcast.   More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/.   You can find information about London’s National Theatre here: https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/ and about Liverpool’s Empire Theatre here: https://www.liverpooltheatres.com/venue/liverpool-empire-theatre_liverpool   Also mentioned in this episode is Dracula by Bram Stoker   You can find Phoebe Judge’s podcast Phoebe Reads A Mystery, series 6 of which is a reading of Dracula by Bram Stoker, here: https://thisiscriminal.com/mystery   You can find out more about Charles Adrian’s alter-ego Ms Samantha Mann here: http://www.mssamanthamann.com/ and you can find her advice videos, which were filmed and edited by Polis Loizou, on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/mssamanthamann   You can watch a video trailer for the show Angels’ Share by Nico And The Navigators here: http://navigators.de/index.php?id=338&L=324. It was made in collaboration with a group calling themselves Urban Strings.   You can find out more about Scottish Country Dancing on the RSCDS website here: https://www.rscds.org/   Books discussed in this episode were previously discussed in Page One 124 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season4#/124-polis-loizou/), Page One 125 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season4#/125-natalie-flynn/) and Page One 126 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season4#/126-ms-samantha-mann/).   Episode image is a detail from a photo by Charles Adrian.   Episode recorded: 17th November, 2020.     Book listing:   The Keep by Jennifer Egan (Page One 124) The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams (Page One 125) Scottish Fiddlers And Their Music by Mary Anne Alburger (Page One 126)

Marked as explicit because of derogatory language.   Fleeing from hammering and drilling sounds coming through the wall, Charles Adrian talks about books that were given to him towards the end of the fourth season of his podcast.   More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/.   You can find a handy primer on the limitations of a first-past-the-post voting system, along with links to information about alternative systems, on the Electoral Reform Society’s website here: https://www.electoral-reform.org.uk/voting-systems/types-of-voting-system/first-past-the-post/   You can read about Caroline Lucas, who at time of recording this episode was the UK’s first and only Green Party MP, on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_Lucas   Revolutionary Letters by Diane di Prima is also discussed in Page One 185.   Rebecca Solnit, mentioned briefly here, is discussed more fully in Page One 135.   The episode of the podcast Reply All that Charles Adrian mentions about the activist barricaded inside his apartment while the police massed outside is here: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/wbhgk9. The episode is from the podcast Resistance, which you can find here: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/resistance   The Sadean Women by Angela Carter is discussed more fully in Page One 123. Other books by Angela Carter discussed on the podcast are Wise Children (Page One 54), The Passion Of New Eve (Page One 76) and The Bloody Chamber (Page One 86, Page One 135 and Page One 141).   The homepage of the Battersea Arts Centre is here: https://bac.org.uk/   Books discussed in this episode were previously discussed in Page One 121 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season4#/121-bettina-john/) and Page One 122 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season4#/122-chris-goode/).   Episode image is a detail from a photo by Charles Adrian.   Episode recorded: 17th November, 2020.       Book listing:   The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing (Page One 121) Revolutionary Letters by Diane Di Prima (Page One 122) The Sadean Women by Angela Carter (Page One 123)

Taking the time to indulge in some discussion of both the Gunpowder Plot and the differences between climbing and bouldering, Charles Adrian starts off the UK’s second national lockdown with three more books from guests on the podcast.   More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/.   A description of the Gunpowder Plot and its aftermath can be found on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunpowder_Plot and a round-up of the differences between climbing and bouldering can be found on the Guardian here: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2008/jul/19/healthandwellbeing. Arlie Adlington is featured in Page One 148, which you can listen to here: http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season5#/148-arlie-adlington/   Another book by Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped, is discussed in Page One 16, which features Isbel’s sister Cat James, and in Page One 159, which doesn’t.   A Time Of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Furmor is discussed in Page One 32 and Page One 164.   Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov is also discussed in Page One 151 (and particularly in the unedited version of that episode). Other books by Vladimir Nabokov discussed on the podcast are Lolita (Page One 71) and Collected Stories (Page One 162).   Another book by W. Somerset Maugham, The Narrow Corner, is discussed in Page One 66.   The Selected Short Stories Of “Saki” by “Saki” is discussed in Page One 12 and Page One 158.   You can read about the trials of Oscar Wilde for gross indecency on Famous Trials here: https://famous-trials.com/wilde/327-home   Books discussed in this episode were previously discussed in Page One 118 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season4#/118-isbel-james/), Page One 119 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season4#/119-katherine-leedale/) and Page One 120 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season4#/120-a-f-harrold/).   Episode image is a detail from a photo by Charles Adrian.   Episode recorded: 5th November, 2020.     Book listing:   Travels With A Donkey In The Cévennes and The Amateur Emigrant by Robert Louis Stevenson (Page One 118) Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov (Page One 119 and Page One 151) The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham (Page One 120)

Marked as explicit because of strong language.   Still living in a Tier 2 city, Charles Adrian talks about three slim books, all of which feature characters who are children.   More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/.   You can read about The Good Immigrant on Nikesh Shukla’s website here: http://www.nikesh-shukla.com/the-good-immigrant. You can read Darren Chetty on the prevalence of white protagonists in Media Diversified here: https://mediadiversified.org/2013/12/07/you-cant-do-that-stories-have-to-be-about-white-people/ and you can download Beyond The Secret Garden by Darren Chetty and Karen Sands-O’Connor here: https://www.academia.edu/37977267/Beyond_the_Secret_Garden_Black_Asian_and_Minority_Ethnic_Representations_in_Childrens_Literature   If you, like Charles Adrian, are confused about comic book terminology, there is an article about Trade paperbacks on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_paperback_(comics) If you are near Angoulême in France, meanwhile, and interested in comics and graphic novels, the Cité Internationale de la Bande Dessinée et de l’Image is well worth a visit: http://www.citebd.org/   Books discussed in this episode were previously discussed in Page One 115 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season4#/115-antosh-wojcik/), Page One 116 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season4#/116-joseph-paterson/) and Page One 117 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season4#/117-iskandar-sharazuddin/).   Episode image is a detail from a photo by Charles Adrian.   Episode recorded: 29th October, 2020.     Book listing:   Beside The Sea by Véronique Olmi (trans. Adriana Hunter) (Page One 115) Cloud Busting by Malorie Blackman (Page One 116) Saga (Volume One) by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples (Page One 117)

Talking about two books he remembers very little about and the only book he was given twice, Charles Adrian continues his journey through the books from Season 4 of his podcast and reminisces about a trip to Japan.   More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/.   Correction: Tier 3 of the new restrictions that came into force in the UK on the 14th of October, 2020, is the highest tier, described as “very high risk. Tier 2 is described as “high risk” with tier 1 being “medium risk”. You can find an explanation of the three-tier system on the BBC here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-54533924   You can find some information about the setting-up of the Podcasters’ Support Group in London on Helen Zaltzman’s website here: https://helenzaltzman.wordpress.com/podcasters-support-group/   You can read about the spread of Anti-Vaxxer misinformation on social media during the 2020 pandemic in the Lancet here: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/landig/article/PIIS2589-7500(20)30227-2/fulltext, you can read about six common misconceptions about immunisation on the WHO website here: https://www.who.int/vaccine_safety/initiative/detection/immunization_misconceptions/en/ and you can read about possible strategies to counteract a reluctance to receive a possible COVID-19 vaccine in the Atlantic here: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/10/how-change-mind-anti-vaxxer/616722/     Margaret Thatcher was Prime Minister of the UK from 4th May, 1979, until the 28th November, 1990. She was succeeded in office by John Major, who was Prime Minister from 28th November, 1990, until the 2nd May, 1997.   Sum by David Eagleman was also discussed in Page One 34 and Page One 165.   Also mentioned in this episode are Hell, Purgatory and Paradise by Dante Alighieri.   Books discussed in this episode were previously discussed in Page One 112 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season4#/112-iszi-lawrence/), Page One 113 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season4#/113-donna-butlin/) and Page One 114 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season4#/114-satoshi-date/).   Episode image is a detail from a photo by Charles Adrian.   Episode recorded: 16th October, 2020.     Book listing:   How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered The World by Francis Wheen (Page One 112) Sum by David Eagleman (Page One 113, Page One 34 and Page One 165) Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata (trans. Edward G. Seidensticker) (Page One 114)

Continuing to feed his own preoccupation with the poem Swimmer by Dennis Cooper, which he has already talked about in both Page One 185 and Page One 186, Charles Adrian hones in on the lines: “Monday Dave calls me/ at a party” and attempts to reconstruct their historical context.   More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/.   The Dream Police by Dennis Cooper was previously discussed in Page One 111 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season4#/111-griffyn-gilligan/) and Page One 185 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-6#/185-poir-28/)   Episode image is a detail from the cover of The Dream Police by Dennis Cooper, published by Grove Press in 1995; cover design by John Gall, cover art by Nayland Blake.   Extra recorded: 16th October, 2020.   Book listing: Swimmer from The Dream Police by Dennis Cooper

Marked as explicit because of extensive discussion of death and suicide.   Content note: there is a lot of talk of death and suicide in this episode. If you are in the UK and would like to talk to someone in confidence, you can reach Switchboard LGBT at https://switchboard.lgbt/ or by phone on 0300 330 0630, and you can reach the Samaritans at https://www.samaritans.org/ or by phone on 116 123.   Taking a very personal look at a poem that has been stuck in his head since the previous episode of this podcast, Charles Adrian talks about the poem Swimmer by Dennis Cooper and some of the things that it brings up for him.   Clarification: In the coda to this episode, Charles Adrian talks about queer sexualities having been criminalised only a generation or two ago. He is talking, of course, very parochially, about the situation in the UK, where he lives. In many parts of the world, queer expression in all its forms remains criminalised. You can find a map of countries that criminalise LGBT people here: https://www.humandignitytrust.org/lgbt-the-law/map-of-criminalisation/ although this does not include countries in which attacks against LGBT people are either tolerated or actively encouraged by the state. You can read about the situation in Chechnya, for example, in the Guardian here: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/jun/23/welcome-to-chechnya-harrowing-film-regimes-gay-purge-david-france-lgbt .   More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/.   You can find Dennis Cooper’s potentially NSFW blog here: https://denniscooperblog.com/   You can find Charles Adrian’s conversation with Uwern Jong here: http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-1#/29-uwern-jong/ and you can follow Griffyn Gilligan on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/gillidactyl   The Dream Police by Dennis Cooper was previously discussed in Page One 111 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season4#/111-griffyn-gilligan/) and Page One 185 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-6#/185-poir-28/).   Episode image is a detail from the cover of The Dream Police by Dennis Cooper, published by Grove Press in 1995; cover design by John Gall, cover art by Nayland Blake.   Episode recorded: 13th and 14th October, 2020.     Book listing:   Swimmer from The Dream Police by Dennis Cooper

Marked as explicit because of sexual imagery.   Beginning with a brief cloudburst and a coda to the previous episode designed to calm Charles Adrian’s esprit d’escalier, the 28th Page One In Review goes on to look at the first five books from the fourth season of the podcast.   More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/.   The Bees by Laline Paull, Royal Flash by George MacDonald Fraser and Unless by Carol Shields were all discussed at more length in Page One 184. Revolutionary Letters by Diane Di Prima was previously discussed in Page One 122.   You can read an outline of the life of Mary Stewart, a.k.a. Mary Queen of Scots, on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary,_Queen_of_Scots   You can read about Dungeons & Dragons on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons   You can read about Petrópolis, the Brazilian Imperial City, on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petr%C3%B3polis   Another book by Dennis Cooper, Guide, is discussed in Page One 72 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-2#/72-isabelle-schoelcher/).   The books discussed in the main part of this episode were previously discussed in Page One 107 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season4#/107-vera-chok/), Page One 108 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season4#/108-martin-zaltz-austwick/), Page One 109 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season4#/109-helen-zaltzman/), Page One 110 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season4#/110-nancy-crane/) and Page One 111 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season4#/111-griffyn-gilligan/).   Episode image is a detail from a photo by Charles Adrian.   Episode recorded: 6th October, 2020.     Book listing:   A Traveller In Time by Alison Uttley (Page One 107) Wolf In White Van by John Darnielle (Page One 108) Irma Voth by Miriam Toews (Page One 109) Insomnia and Song For The Rainy Season from Collected Poems by Elizabeth Bishop (Page One 110) First Sex (excerpt) and Swimmer from The Dream Police by Dennis Cooper (Page One 111)

Talking bee-realism, female friendship and the intoxication of undeserved power and position, Charles Adrian revisits the three books he was given by guests at the end of the third season of the podcast.   More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/.   Correction: Contrary to what Charles Adrian says in this episode, The Bees by Laline Paull is not really a Sparticus story. Flora 717 is, in effect, an enslaved bee but she does not exactly gather an army to revolt against her hive and nor is she defeated ultimately. You can read about what is known of Sparticus in Live Science here: https://www.livescience.com/39730-spartacus.html and about Cape honey bees (who, while more likely to be parasites than slaves, display traits similar to Flora 717) on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_honey_bee. It is also possible that there is no type of bee that is, in fact, known to enslave other types of bee in the way that ants do. You can read about enslaved ants and cuckoo bees on the OUP blog here: https://blog.oup.com/2016/02/enslaved-ants-and-cuckoo-bees/   Clarification: While Charles Adrian mentions radio waves as an example of damaging human intervention in the natural world, he is not a 5G truther; he is taking an example from the book (The Bees by Laline Paull) which may be based on contemporary research. You can read about a study into the effect of cell phone radiation on bee behaviour in the PMC here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3052591/ and about 5G truthers in The Atlantic here: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/05/great-5g-conspiracy/611317/   You can read about the waggle dance that foraging bees perform for other members of their colony on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waggle_dance   You can read about The Hero’s Journey on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero%27s_journey   Also mentioned in this episode are Tom Brown’s Schooldays by Thomas Hughes, The Prisoner Of Zenda by Anthony Hope and Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov; Pale Fire is discussed in Page One 119 and Page One 151.   You can read about the Schleswig-Holstein question on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schleswig-Holstein_Question and in the Encyclopaedia Britannica here: https://www.britannica.com/event/Schleswig-Holstein-question   Books discussed here were previously discussed in Page One 104 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-3#/104-daniel-elliot/), Page One 105 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-3#/105-tina-sederholm/) and Page One 106 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-3#/106-neil-spokes/).   Episode image is a detail of a photo by Charles Adrian.   Episode recorded: 1st October, 2020.     Book listing:   The Bees by Laline Paull (Page One 104) Unless by Carol Shields (Page One 105) Royal Flash by George Macdonald Fraser (Page One 106)

Not, as promised, a short episode that would have allowed listeners to head out into the apple orchards early, Charles Adrian talks this week about three books that he does not remember so very well.   More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/.   You can read about a day Jean Hannah Edelstein spent in Kreuzberg, Berlin, only two years before Charles Adrian’s conversation with SooJin Anjou in the Guardian here: https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2013/nov/29/a-day-in-kreuzberg-berlin   Correction 1: Groucho Marx died in 1977, not 1972 as Charles Adrian says in this episode.   You can read about the life and work of Groucho Marx on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groucho_Marx   Correction 2: Natalia Ginzburg’s father, Giuseppe Levi, was an anatomist and histologist.   You can read the abstract on an article on Giuseppe Levi and his influence in the National Library of Medicine here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16997763/   You can read about London’s Crossrail project on their website here: https://www.crossrail.co.uk/   Books discussed in this episode were previously discussed in Page One 99 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-3#/99-soojin-anjou/), Page One 102 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-3#/102-viviana-rossicaffell/) and Page One 103 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-3#/103-rebecca-yeo/).   Episode image is a detail from a photo by Charles Adrian   Episode recorded: 21st September, 2020.     Book listing:   The Groucho Letters by Groucho Marx et al (Page One 99) Lessico Famigliare by Natalia Ginzburg (Page One 102) The Uninvited by Geling Yan (Page One 103)

Content note: There is some suicidal ideation described at around the 20 minute mark. This episode is marked as explicit on Apple Podcasts because of some derogatory language.   Returning to normal service after last week’s break from Page One In Review, Charles Adrian takes his time to talk through three of the biggest books he has been given by guests on the podcast.   More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/.   Amos Oz died on the 28th of December, 2018. You can find an article about him and his life-long entanglement with the developing Israeli state by Bernard Avishai in The New Yorker here: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/postscript/what-israel-meant-to-amos-oz   You can find out more about Jackson’s Lane Theatre and what they are currently programming on their website here: https://www.jacksonslane.org.uk/whats-on   Correction: During the reading of Amos Oz’s A Tale Of Love And Darkness, Charles Adrian missed out the work ‘kind’ in the first description of the brown man, his rescuer. The sentence in question should begin: “A brown man with big bags under his kind eyes…”   You can find out more about Vipassana meditation on their English language website here: https://www.dhamma.org/en-US/index   You can find out more about Jack Munroe, aka The Bootstrap Cook, on their website here: https://cookingonabootstrap.com/   Anna Sulan Masing was featured in Page One 27: http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-1#/27-anna-sulan-masing/   You can read about Voices At The Table on their website here: https://atthetable.co.uk/series/voices-at-the-table and read a review of M. F. K. Fisher’s The Gastronomical Me by At The Table co-founder Rebecca May Johnson in the Times Literary Supplement here: https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/crunching-delicately-mfk-fisher-patience-gray/   Books discussed in this episode were previously discussed in Page One 95 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-3#/95-karin-eli/), Page One 97 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-3#/97-barry-ferns/) and Page One 98 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-3#/98-cameryn-moore/).   Episode image is a detail from a photo by Charles Adrian.   Episode recorded: 10th September, 2020.     Book listing:   A Tale Of Love And Darkness by Amos Oz (trans. Nicholas de Lange) (Page One 95) Grace And Grit by Ken Wilber (Page One 97) Borderland from The Art Of Eating by M. F. K. Fisher (Page One 98)

Taking a few minutes away from recording Page One In Review episodes, Charles Adrian talks about a particular kind of convalescent literature.   More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/.   “Unlike wizards, who like nothing better than a complicated hierarchy, witches don’t go in much for the structured approach to career progression. It’s up to each individual witch to take on a girl to hand the area over to when she dies. Witches are not by nature gregarious, at least with other witches, and they certainly don’t have leaders./Granny Weatherwax was the most highly-regarded of the leaders they didn’t have.” from Weird Sisters by Terry Pratchett.   You can read about Terry Pratchett’s Discworld Series on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discworld   The first Page One In Review episode, which is Page One 157, was recorded on the 18th of March, 2020.   Ripley’s Game by Patricia Highsmith is discussed in Page One 76 and Page One 175, Germany by Neil MacGregor is discussed in Page One 177, The Cloudspotter’s Guide by Gavin Pretor-Pinney is discussed in Page One 27 and Page One 163, and Ghost Stories Of An Antiquary by M. R. James is discussed in Page One 36 and Page One 165.   Also mentioned in this episode is London: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd. Another book by Peter Ackroyd, Hawksmoor, is discussed in Page One 121.   And there are mentions of books by Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers and P. D. James, The Culture Series by Iain M. Banks and the Xenogenesis trilogy by Octavia E. Butler (of which Imago is the third book).   Other books by Terry Pratchett mentioned in this episode are The Colour Of Magic, Equal Rites, Mort, Reaper Man and Weird Sisters.   Episode image is a detail from the cover of Small Gods by Terry Pratchett, published in 1993 by Corgi Books; cover illustration by Josh Kirby.   Episode recorded: 9th September, 2020.     Book listing:   Small Gods by Terry Pratchett

Getting his mind focused and in the right place, Charles Adrian talks about another ghost book and two books based on real life.   More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/.   In case you are interested, Charles Adrian talked about the hot weather in Page One 178 and about getting up early in the morning in Page One 172 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-6#/172-poir-16/).   You can read about The Ridgeway here: https://www.nationaltrail.co.uk/en_GB/trails/the-ridgeway/ and about the reintroduction of Red Kites into the Chilterns here: https://www.chilternsaonb.org/about-chilterns/red-kites.html   Books discussed in this episode were previously discussed in Page One 93 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-3#/93-tom-bowtell/) and Page One 94 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-3#/94-colin-bartlett/).   Episode image is a detail from an image by Charles Adrian.   Episode recorded: 1st September, 2020.     Book listing:   How To Be A Bad Birdwatcher by Simon Barnes Yoruba Girl Dancing by Simi Bedford The Ivankiad by Vladimir Voinovich (trans. David Lapeza)

Marked as explicit because of strong language and discussion of sex   Having taken a short change is as good as a holiday, Charles Adrian returns to his wooden IKEA steps to talk about the first three books given to him by guests on the third season of the podcast.   More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/.   Correction: The word Charles Adrian was looking for in relation to the cover of The Clown by Heinrich Böll is ‘monochrome’. Also, it is, of course, Heinrich Böll who won the Nobel Prize in 1972 not this particular novel.   You can find out more about The Radio Collective here: http://theradiocollective.com/?LMCL=gdVMwA   You can find Phoebe Reads A Mystery here: https://thisiscriminal.com/mystery/   Here is Varna in case you would like to explore the area yourself: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Varna,+Bulgaria/@43.2049449,27.872869,12z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x40a4538baaf3d7a1:0x5727941c71a58b7c!8m2!3d43.2140504!4d27.9147333?hl=en Galatz, which is the other place mentioned in Bram Stoker’s Dracula, is now called Galați and is here: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Gala%C8%9Bi,+Romania/@45.4377134,28.0124756,13z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x40b6dee589f2c4b5:0x53d7342f252d702b!8m2!3d45.4353208!4d28.0079945?hl=en     Correction: In 1993, when Nicholson’s London Mini Atlas was published, the East London line ran to Shoreditch at “Peak hours and Sunday mornings”. Also, Charles Adrian should have pointed out that Aldwych station, now disused, was still possible to reach on the Piccadilly line from Holborn at “Peak hours only”. You can find out more about Aldwych station on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldwych_tube_station   Books discussed in this episode were previously discussed in Page One 90 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-3#/90-vera-chok/), Page One 91 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-3#/91-richard-purnell/) and Page One 92 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-3#/92-lolie-ware/).   Episode image is a detail from an image by Charles Adrian.   Episode recorded: 27th August, 2020.     Book listing:   Cunt-Ups by Dodie Bellamy (Page One 90) The Clown by Heinrich Böll (trans. Leila Vennewitz) (Page One 91) London Mini Atlas published by Nicholson (Page One 92)

During a very hot spell in West London, with a glass of water at his side and a towel draped over his shoulder, Charles Adrian revisits the last three books given to him by guests during the second season of the podcast.   More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/.   Books discussed here were previously discussed in Page One 87 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-2#/87-alan-cunningham/), Page One 88 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-2#/88-susannah-hewlett/) and Page One 89 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-2#/89-nick-field/).   The Cloudspotter’s Guide by Gavin Pretor-Pinney, mentioned briefly here, is discussed more fully in Page One 27 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-1#/27-anna-sulan-masing/) and Page One 163 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-6#/163-poir-7/).   Also mentioned in this episode is Les Caves Du Vatican by André Gide.   The Guardian has a nicely out-dated article from 2014 about subtweeting and vaguebooking that entirely backs up Charles Adrian’s understanding of those terms: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2014/jul/23/subtweeting-what-is-it-and-how-to-do-it-well   Episode image is a detail from a photo by Charles Adrian.   Episode recorded: 11th August, 2020.     Book listing:   Journals 1889-1949 – André Gide (trans. Justin O’Brien) (Page One 87) Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk (Page One 88) The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters (Page One 89)

On a lovely sunny day in West London, Charles Adrian talks about two ghost books, a book that never was and two other books, one of which he does not want to read from and one of which he does. Keep listening to the very end of the episode to hear the sound that is keeping Charles Adrian awake.   More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/.   You can find Miranda July and Harrell Fletcher’s crowdsourced art project Learning To Love You More online here: http://www.learningtoloveyoumore.com/index.php; Assignment #58 is this one: http://www.learningtoloveyoumore.com/reports/58/58.php. You can find the web page for the reading of The Swim Team from No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July on Radio 4 Extra here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b069r3rg (at time of publishing, this programme is still not available to listen to)   You can, however, listen to The Iron Curtain, which is an episode from the Snap Judgement podcast about a woman called Ulrike Poppe who accessed her Stasi files after the reunification of Germany, here: https://snapjudgment.org/episode/the-iron-curtain-snap-classic/   Books discussed in this episode were previously discussed in Page One 82 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-2#/82-dave-pickering/), Page One 83 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-2#/83-liz-chan/) and Page One 85 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-2#/85-gary-powell/).   The Red Tree by Shaun Tan, mentioned briefly here, was previously discussed in Page One 84.   Episode image is a detail of a photo by Charles Adrian   Episode recorded: 5th August, 2020     Book listing:   No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July (Page One 82) The Quest For Christa T by Christa Wolf (trans. Christopher Middleton) (Page One 83) Germany, Memories Of A Nation by Neil MacGregor Little Miss Hug by Roger Harvreaves (Page One 85) The Art Of Fielding by Chad Harbach (Page One 85)

At what might be the half-way point and more opinionated than usual, Charles Adrian talks about three books he was given by friends in Athens.   More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/.   You can find out more about the Jacques Lecoq school in Paris on their homepage here: http://www.ecole-jacqueslecoq.com/en   There is a nice introduction to Our Country’s Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker on the British Library website here: https://www.bl.uk/20th-century-literature/articles/an-introduction-to-our-countrys-good   Correction: the last quadrant of Charles Adrian’s summary of Pascal’s Wager (at 18:22) should read: “If I don’t believe in God and God doesn’t exist…”   The discussion of Pascal’s Wager in this episode is, in any case, a little superficial. You can find a better summary on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_wager and a more extended analysis in the Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy here: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pascal-wager/   Lawrence Durrell’s Alexandria Quartet is discussed in Page One 55.   Books discussed in this episode were previously discussed in Page One 79 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-2#/79-alison-windsor/), Page One 80 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-2#/80-erifili-stefanidou/) and Page One 81 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-2#/81-vicky-sachpazi/).   Episode image is a detail of a photo by Charles Adrian.   Episode recorded: 27th July, 2020     Book listing:   The Playmaker by Thomas Keneally (Page One 79) Oscar Et La Dame Rose by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt (Page One 80) Selected Poems by C. P. Cavafy (trans. David Connolly) (Page One 81)

Marked as explicit because of strong language   His hair longer, perhaps, than it has ever been in his life, Charles Adrian talks art, bad people and bookshops.   More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/.   Correction: during this episode Charles Adrian calls the Bill Drummond book For Sale $20,000 because that is what is written on the cover but its title is in fact $20,000. You can read more about Bill Drummond on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Drummond and you can read about Duncan McLaren’s book Personal Delivery on his website here: http://www.duncanmclaren.co.uk/pages/david/index-david.html.   You can read all about the National Poetry Library – which is, in fact, on level 5 of the Royal Festival Hall in London’s Southbank Centre – on their home page here: https://www.nationalpoetrylibrary.org.uk/   Another book by Patricia Highsmith, The Talented Mr Ripley, is discussed in Page One 53.   You can hear Helen Fielding, the author of Bridget Jones’s Diary, among other things, on BBC radio 4’s Desert Island Discs here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000kmr7   Ben Walters was also a guest on Bernadette Russell’s podcast How To Be Hopeful, which you can listen to here: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/how-to-be-hopeful-episode-12-home-made-mutant-hope-machines/id543504687?i=1000480104936   Books discussed here were previously discussed in Page One 74 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-2#/74-katrina-crear/), Page One 76 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-2#/76-ben-walters/) and Page One 77 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-2#/77-bernadette-russell/).   Episode image is a detail of a photo by Charles Adrian   Episode recorded: 21st July, 2020     Book listing:   $20,000 by Bill Drummond (Page One 74) Ripley’s Game by Patricia Highsmith (Page One 76) Three Things You Need To Know About Rockets by Jessica A. Fox (Page One 77)

Charles Adrian talks art, artists and oranges as he reads from two more of the books given to him by guests on the podcast.   More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/.   You can read about Iain M. Banks’ Culture Series on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_series   Books discussed in this episode were previously discussed in Page One 70 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-2#/70-julian-meding/) and Page One 72 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-2#/72-isabelle-schoelcher/).   Also mentioned but not really discussed is Perfumes: The A-Z Guide by Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez, which was previously discussed in Page One 71 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-2#/71-francesca-beard/).   Episode image is a detail of a photo by Charles Adrian   Episode recorded: 13th July, 2020     Book listing:   Against Interpretation And Other Essays by Susan Sontag (Page One 70) The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch (Page One 72)

Recording this episode several days after he saw a very early morning full moon like a pale, translucent sticker on the lightening sky, Charles Adrian does not, as he promised he would, get as far as the first book on the second shelf of his bookcase.   More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/.   The full moon Charles Adrian saw the tail end of turns out to have been the Buck Moon, which you can read about on the NASA website here: https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/1328/july-2020-the-next-full-moon-is-the-buck-moon/   You can find out more about the Almeida Theatre on their website here: https://almeida.co.uk/   You can read about Blackwell’s Bookshop, which was founded in Oxford in 1879 by Benjamin Henry Blackwell, on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackwell%27s   You can read about the canal that Charles Adrian might have cycled along on his way to record his conversation with Oscar Rickett on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regent%27s_Canal   You can read about New Haven, Connecticut on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Haven,_Connecticut   Books discussed in this episode were previously discussed in Page One 66 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-2#/66-erik-patterson/), Page One 67 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-2#/67-oscar-rickett/) and Page One 69 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-2#/69-jaya-hartlein/).   Episode image is a detail of a photo by Charles Adrian   Episode recorded: 10th July, 2020     Book listing:   Crime And Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (trans. Jessie Coulson) (Page One 66) Josephine: A Woman With A Past from The Lost Decade And Other Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Page One 67) The Troublesome Offspring Of Cardinal Guzman by Louis de Bernières (Page One 69)

Marked as explicit on iTunes because of strong language.   Still recovering from an unusually early morning, Charles Adrian talks about the three last books he was given by guests on his podcast in 2013.   More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/.   Jackie Collins, by the way, is the author of 32 novels; you can read about her on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Collins. Jackie O is the nickname given to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis; you can read about her on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacqueline_Kennedy_Onassis. You can read about Jacqueline Susann, meanwhile, on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacqueline_Susann   You can read a pamphlet on gay oppression published in 1970 by The Red Butterfly in New York here: https://libcom.org/library/gay-oppression-radical-analysis-red-butterfly   You can read about Jesuit conversion activity in different parts of the world on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_Jesus#Expansion   The books discussed in this episode were previously discussed in Page One 62 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-2#/62-allan-taylor/), Page One 64 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-2#/64-natalie-clarke/) and Page One 65 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-2#/65-christine-goldsmith/).   Episode image is a detail of a photo by Charles Adrian   Episode recorded: 29th June, 2020   More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/     Book listing:   Once Is Not Enough by Jacqueline Susann (Page One 62) The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell (Page One 64) When God Was A Rabbit by Sarah Winman (Page One 65)

Marked as explicit on iTunes because of strong language and sexual content   In an episode that takes full advantage of the northern hemisphere’s 2020 summer solstice, Charles Adrian talks erotic intent and how seeing and unseeing form part of political white supremacy.   More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/.   Books discussed in this episode were previously discussed in Page One 58 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-2#/58-martin-bengtsson/), Page One 60 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-2#/60-george-lewkowicz/) and Page One 61 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-2#/61-chella-quint/).   You can read more about the summer solstice on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_solstice   You can see a trailer for Céline Sciamma’s Portrait Of A Lady On Fire here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-fQPTwma9o   You can read an interview with Chris Kraus, talking about I Love Dick twenty years after its first publication, in The Guardian here: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/may/30/chris-kraus-i-love-dick-was-written-in-a-delirium, you can read Emily Gould talking about I Love Dick in 2015 in The Guardian here: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/nov/02/i-love-dick-sex-chris-kraus-men-women-book and you can read a 2015 profile of Chris Kraus by Leslie Jamison in the New Yorker here: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/this-female-consciousness-on-chris-kraus   You can read a 2017 profile of Colin Kaepernick in the New York Times here: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/07/sports/colin-kaepernick-nfl-protests.html and a short history of taking the knee by Maham Abedi in Global News here: https://globalnews.ca/news/3769534/martin-luther-king-jr-take-a-knee-history/   You can read about Armistead Maupin’s Tales Of The City on page and screen in Vulture here: https://www.vulture.com/2019/06/armistead-maupins-tales-of-the-city-1993-miniseries-watch.html   Episode image is a detail of a photo by Charles Adrian   Episode recorded: 20th June, 2020   More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/     Book listing:   I Like Dick by Chris Kraus (Page One 58) The City And The City by China Miéville (Page One 60) Tales Of The City by Armistead Maupin (Page One 61)

Reflecting on the toppling of some statues and the protecting of others, Charles Adrian shares what he remembers of three books given to him at the beginning of the second season of the podcast.   Books discussed in this episode were previously discussed in Page One 52 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-2#/52-vera-chok/), Page One 53 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-2#/53-paula-varjack/) and Page One 54 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-2#/54-catherine-payton/).   Correction: Edward Colston’s Royal African Company was active in the 17th century and not the 18th. You can read Gurminder K Bhambra on Edward Colston and the glorification of the British Empire in the New York Times here: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/opinion/edward-colston-statue-racism.html?smid=tw-share and Priyamvada Gopal on the relationship between statues and our idea of history in The Huffinton Post here: https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/statues_uk_5ee33c50c5b609f241c952b7?sl9. You can watch Afua Hirsch talking to PoliticsJOE about Black Lives Matter and British history, including some reflection on the theatrical boarding-up of the Churchill statue in Westminster, on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXY5BfpcAlQ&feature=youtu.be.   Between recording and releasing this episode, the statue of Edward Colston in Bristol was briefly replaced by a statue of Jen Reid by Marc Quinn. You can read about it in the Guardian here: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/15/the-day-bristol-woke-up-to-a-new-statue and you can read thoughts on it by Thomas J. Price in The Art Newspaper here: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/comment/a-votive-statue-to-appropriation-the-problem-with-marc-quinn-s-black-lives-matter-sculpture   You can read more about the Rhodes Must Fall movement, meanwhile, in The New Statesman here: https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2020/06/rhodes-must-fall-oxford-slavery-statue-oxford-university-oriel-black-lives-matter   For some reflection on racism and anti-racism in Europe and the UK, you can read Musa Okwonga in Byline Times here: https://bylinetimes.com/2020/06/05/white-complicity-matters-the-nazis-by-the-lake/ and Gary Younge in The New York Review Of Books here: https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2020/06/06/what-black-america-means-to-europe/   You can read June Tuesday writing about J.K. Rowling and the so-called reasonable concerns in Medium here: https://medium.com/@june.tuesday/jk-rowling-and-the-reasonable-bigotry-43bc2c6d3c2b, you can read Evan Urquhart on J.K. Rowling and her obsession with trans men in Slate here: https://slate.com/human-interest/2020/06/jk-rowling-trans-men-terf.html and you can read an open letter from the charity Mermaids to J.K. Rowling here: https://mermaidsuk.org.uk/news/dear-jk-rowling/   And, in case you are worried about how the kids are doing, you can read Katelyn Burns’ profile of New York’s Gender And Family Project in The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/jun/15/trans-transgender-children-gender-family-project   The Page One podcast began as a project recorded at the Wilton Way Cafe for London Fields Radio, which is now called Fields Radio (https://fields.radio/). From the second season onwards, however, the podcast was produced independently by Charles Adrian.   Correction: The film adaptation of The Talented Mr Ripley Charles Adrian talks about seeing came out in 1999.   You can read about the theatre adaptation of The Master And Margarita made by Théâtre de Complicité here: http://www.complicite.org/productions/TheMasterandMargarita   Episode image is a detail of a photo by Charles Adrian   Episode recorded 13th June, 2020   More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/     Book listing:   Shopgirl by Steve Martin (Page One 52) The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith (Page One 53) The Master And Margarita by Mikail Bulgakov (trans. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky) (Page One 54)

Episode marked as explicit on iTunes because of strong language.   Content note: racism, gaslighting   Recorded a little over a week after George Floyd’s death at the hands of the police in Minneapolis, MN (US), this episode touches inexpertly on some of the components of white supremacy.   Books discussed in this episode were previously discussed in Page One 50 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-1#/50-marcel-schwald/) and Page One 51 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-1#/51-filippo-andreatta/).   You can read Priyamvada Gopal’s Huffington Post article on Black deaths in police custody in the UK here: https://bit.ly/3cIhFpv and find her on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/PriyamvadaGopal.   You can read Roxane Gay’s New York Times article on racism in the US here: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/30/opinion/sunday/trump-george-floyd-coronavirus.html?smid=tw-share and find her on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/rgay.   You can listen to Guilaine Kinouani on the podcast Getting Better Acquainted here: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-274-guilaine-kinouani and find her on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/KGuilaine   You can read Alicia Liu writing about the limitations of empathy here: https://medium.com/counter-intuition/empathy-is-mostly-useless-998e94f69463   You can read about the 1944 film Gaslight on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslight_(1944_film)   You can watch Claudia Rankine talking about and reading from her book Citizen on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cnq71TlUvo   You can read discussion of police abolition in the US and the UK as part of a review by Peter Stäuber of Alex S. Vitale’s book The End Of Policing in Counterfire here: https://www.counterfire.org/articles/book-reviews/20167-the-end-of-policing-book-review and read an interview with Alex S. Vitale in The Nation here: https://www.thenation.com/article/society/alex-vitale-defund-police-interview/ More information about police abolition in the US can be found by following links curated by The Marshall Project here: https://www.themarshallproject.org/records/3382-police-abolition   You can read about the prison abolition movement in the US in Teen Vogue here: https://www.teenvogue.com/story/what-is-prison-abolition-movement and about the prison abolition movement in the UK in the Independent here: https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/big-idea-prison-abolition-social-problems-domestic-violence-a8275636.html   You can watch a very interesting discussion on prison abolition and its relationship to policing and the criminalisation of vulnerable communities between Reina Gossett and Dean Spade in four parts on YouTube starting here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDQlW1uJ8uQ   Episode image is a detail of a photo by Charles Adrian   Episode recorded: 2nd June, 2020   More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/   Book listing:   The Making Of Americans by Gertrude Stein (Page One 50) Signifying Nothing from Brief Interviews With Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace (Page One 51)

Marked as explicit on iTunes because of strong language.   A week after Dominic Cummings gave an unprecedented press conference in the Rose Garden at Downing Street, Charles Adrian talks about three more of the books that he has been given by guests on the podcast.   Books discussed in this episode were previously discussed in Page One 46 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-1#/46-roland-gillott/), Page One 47 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-1#/47-kiran-chauhan/) and Page One 48 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-1#/48-hannah-rickards/).   You can find out more about the Kennet & Avon Canal on the Canal River Trust website here: https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/enjoy-the-waterways/canal-and-river-network/kennet-and-avon-canal   You can find out more about the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre at Quainton here: https://www.bucksrailcentre.org/   You can read more about Morton Feldman on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morton_Feldman about Sonia Sekula here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonja_Sekula and about Robert Guston here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Guston   Episode image is a detail of a photo by Charles Adrian   Episode recorded: 1st June, 2020.   More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/     Book listing:   The Biography Of A Locomotive Engine by Henry Frith (Page One 46) By Night In Chile by Roberto Bolaño (trans. Chris Andrews) (Page One 47) Give My Regards To Eighth Street by Morton Feldman (ed. B. H. Friedman) (Page One 48)

Getting pretty much straight on with it, Charles Adrian goes back over three books that he was given by guests on his podcast.   Books discussed in this episode were previously discussed in Page One 41 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-1#/41-lissa-gillott/), Page One 44 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-1#/44-patric-schott/) and Page One 45 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-1#/45-henry-blackshaw/).   For a better synopsis of Amitav Ghosh’s Ibis Trilogy, you can follow links on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibis_trilogy. The plot summary of River Of Smoke that Charles Adrian reads when he should be talking about Sea Of Poppies can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_of_Smoke#Plot_introduction. You can read more about Zamindars and the zamindari system on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zamindar   The Rossini piece that Charles Adrian mentions in relation to the Grand Théâtre in Luxembourg is Nico and the Navigators’ production of Rossini’s Petite Messe Solonelle which you can watch a trailer for here: http://navigators.de/index.php?id=239&L=2.%27%22   Episode image is a detail of a photo by Charles Adrian   Episode recorded: 14th May, 2020.   More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/   Book listing: Sea Of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh (Page One 41) Das Spiel Ihres Lebens by anon. (Page One 44) Not After Midnight from Don’t Look Now by Daphne Du Maurier (Page One 45)

Still struggling to understand the new lockdown arrangements for England announced on the evening of Sunday the 9th of May, 2020, Charles Adrian reintroduces his listeners to four books given to him by guests on the podcast.   Towards the end of this rather long episode, you might hear some banging in the background, which was coming through the wall from one of Charles Adrian’s neighbours. Apologies for this.   Correction: When Charles Adrian talks about spondees in this episode, he should be talking about trochees. You can read about trochees on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trochee and about spondees here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spondee. Also, the book by James Frey that Charles Adrian calls A Thousand Tiny Little Pieces is in fact called A Million Little Pieces.   Books discussed in this episode were previously discussed in Page One 38 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-1#/38-james-ross/), Page One 39 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-1#/39-alan-cunningham-live/) and Page One 40 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-1#/40-gabriele-wappel/).   Christy Malry’s Own Double Entry by B. S. Johnson is also discussed in Page One 106 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-3#/106-neil-spokes/).   According to the Merriam Webster online dictionary, ‘sphacelate’ means ‘to become gangrenous’. https://www.merriam-webster.com/medical/sphacelate   OutThere Magazine: The Style Issue, the magazine both edited by and given to Charles Adrian by Uwern Jong, is discussed in Page One 29 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-1#/29-uwern-jong/) and Page One 163 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-6#/163-poir-7/).   You can read about the James Frey memoir controversy, which dates back to 2006, on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Frey#Controversy   You can find out more about Count From Zero To One Hundred by Alan Cunningham at the Penned In The Margins website here: http://www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk/index.php/2012/10/count-from-zero-to-one-hundred-2/   Episode image is a detail of a photo by Charles Adrian   Episode recorded: 11th May, 2020.   More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/     Book listing: Christie Malry’s Own Double Entry by B. S. Johnson (Page One 38) Count From Zero To One Hundred by Alan Cunningam (Page One 39) Fragenbogen by Max Frisch (Page One 40) Brunelleschi’s Dome by Ross King (Page One 40)

Standing at his bookshelf beneath a large, grey, spreading Nimbostratus cloud, Charles Adrian talks about two books from one guest on the podcast and one from another.   The Cloudspotter’s Guide by Gavin Pretor-Pinney is discussed in Page One 27 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-1#/27-anna-sulan-masing/) and Page One 163.   Books discussed in this episode were previous discussed in Page One 34 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-1#/34-sarah-le-fevre/) and Page One 36 http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-1#/36-tim-wells/.   Sum by David Eagleman is also discussed in Page One 113 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season4#/113-donna-butlin/).   Charles Adrian forgot to mention that his conversation with Sarah Le Fevre (the one that survives, at least) was recorded at the British Museum in London.   You can buy the Apollo typeface at fontshop.com here: https://www.fontshop.com/families/monotype-apollo   You can read about the island of Sark on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sark   Episode image is a detail of a photo by Charles Adrian   Episode recorded: 28th April, 2020.   More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/   Book listing: Sum by David Eagleman (Page One 34) Mr Pye by Mervyn Peake (Page One 34) Ghost Stories Of An Antiquary by M. R. James (Page One 36)

Talking about two ghost books and artefacts from Page One’s first two outside recordings, Charles Adrian continues his trip down memory (lapse) lane.   Books discussed in this episode are featured in Page One 30 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-1#/30-ted-schmitz/), Page One 31 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-1#/31-carly-mclaughlin/) and Page One 32 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-1#/32-miriam-ross/).   Another book by Aminatta Forna, Ancestor Stones, is discussed in Page One 138 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season5#/138-jenny-adamthwaite/).   Episode image is a detail of a photograph taken by Charles Adrian.   Episode recorded: 22nd April, 2020.   More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/   Book listing: Memoir From Antproof Case by Mark Helprin (Page One 30) Solar Storms by Linda Hogan (Page One 31) A Time Of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Furmor (Page One 32) The Memory Of Love by Aminatta Forna (Page One 32)

Talking of pink blossom, black shorts with turn-up and things that aren’t exactly books, Charles Adrian revisits the Nutcracker, the Altocumulus lenticularis and the oldest living woman in the universe.   Books (etc) discussed in this episode are featured in Page One 27 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-1#/27-anna-sulan-masing/) and Page One 29 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-1#/29-uwern-jong/).   Gavin Pretor-Pinney also founded the Cloud Appreciation Society, which you can find out about here: https://cloudappreciationsociety.org/   Episode image is a detail of a photograph taken by Charles Adrian.   Episode recorded: 11th April, 2020.   More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/   Book listing: The Nutcracker and The Strange Child by E. T. A. Hoffmann (trans. Anthea Bell) (Page One 27) The Cloudspotter’s Guide by Gavin Pretor-Pinney (Page One 27) OutThere Magazine: The Style Issue ed. Martin Perry and Uwern Jong (Page One 29)

Wearing a stylish pair of dungaree shorts on a sunny Spring-like Saturday afternoon, Charles Adrian reflects, digressively and at length, on some of his reasons for starting the podcast in the first place and indulges in some Vladimir Nabokov.   NB: The two stories discussed from Vladimir Nabokov’s Collected Stories are An Affair Of Honour (translated from Russian by Vladimir Nabokov) and The Aurelian (translated from Russian by Vladimir Nabokov and Peter Pertzov).   Pedants corner: Oxford, being in possession of a cathedral, is, of course, a city rather than a town. You can read more about the city of Oxford on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford   Correction: Much of what Charles Adrian says about Vladimir Nabokov and his family in this episode is not quite right. You can read more (and more accurately, one assumes) about Vladimir Nabokov’s life and ancestry on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Nabokov   Books discussed here are featured in Page One 23 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-1#/23-jessie-greengrass/), Page One 25 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-1#/25-michael-caines/), Page One 26 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-1#/26-gary-merry/) and Page One 43 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-1#/43-war/).   Other books by Vladimir Nabokov discussed on the podcast are Lolita (discussed in Page One 71 http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-2#/71-francesca-beard/) and Pale Fire (discussed in Page One 119 http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season4#/119-katherine-leedale/ and in Page One 151 http://www.pageonepodcast.com/#/151-tim-spooner/ – and particularly in the unedited version of the latter episode).   Episode image is a detail of a photograph taken by Charles Adrian.   Episode recorded: 4th April, 2020.   More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/   Book listing: Books As History by David Pearson (Page One 25) Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers (Page One 23) Collected Stories by Vladimir Nabokov (Page One 25) Cosmos by Carl Sagan (Page One 26 and Page One 43)

This episode is marked as explicit on iTunes because of strong language and sexual content.   Recorded on April Fools Day, Charles Adrian reflects on life a week and a bit into the UK’s official lockdown.   If you would like to do Yoga With Adriene’s 30-Day yoga series along with Charles Adrian, you can find them on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLui6Eyny-UzzFFfpiil94CUrWKVMaqmkm   You can listen to Charles Adrian’s now-married older sister Shanta on Page One 152 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-6#/152-shanta-gillott/) and you can listen to Charles Adrian talk about John Wyndham’s The Crysalids on Page One 68 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-2#/68-scifi/)   Books discussed in this episode were featured in Page One 21 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-1#/21-steve-wasserman/), Page One 22 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-1#/22-will-mackenzie/) and Page One 23 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-1#/23-jessie-greengrass/).   Episode image is a detail of a photograph taken by Charles Adrian.   Episode recorded: 1st April, 2020.   More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/   Book listing: Seven Sweet Things by Shaun Levin (Page One 21) Trouble With Lichen by John Wyndham (Page One 22) Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban (Page One 23)

With the world outside bathed in bright sunshine, Charles Adrian talks about two biographies and a story for young teenagers.   You can read some thoughts on Keith Haring’s Radiant Baby here: http://keith-haring-100a.blogspot.com/2009/11/keith-haring-radiant-baby.html   Books discussed in this episode were featured in Page One 18 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-1#/18-john-walter/) and Page One 19 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-1#/19-christina-scheutz/)   Episode image is a detail of a photograph taken by Charles Adrian.   Episode recorded: 23rd March, 2020.   More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/   Book listing: Keith Haring, The Authorized Biography by John Gruen (Page One 18) Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself, A Road Trip With David Foster Wallace by David Lipsky (Page One 19) Krabat by Otfried Preußler (Page One 19)

Musing on quarantines and a lack of editorial rigour, Charles Adrian talks about books that he was given by David Duchin, Cat James and Gloria Sanders during the 15th, 16th and 17th Page Ones.   Correction: When Charles Adrian talks about “the 49 Steps”, he is, of course, referring to John Buchan’s novel The 39 Steps.   Books discussed here are featured in Page One 15 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-1#/15-david-duchin/), Page One 16 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-1#/16-cat-james/) and Page One 17 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-1#/17-gloria-sanders/)   Episode image is a detail of a photograph taken by Charles Adrian.   Episode recorded: 20th March, 2020.   More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/   Book listing: Byzantium Endures by Michael Moorcock Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson The Essays of Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reflecting on the situation in London, Athens and Stockholm 24 hours after recording the first of these Page One In Review episodes, Charles Adrian talks about books that he was given in Page Ones 11, 12 and 14.   Life Through The Eyes Of A Dog, sung by Fogo Islander Aiden Foley and recorded by Lucy Pawlak, can be heard as part of Page One 35 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-1#/35-lucy-pawlak/).   Books discussed here were previously discussed in Page One 11 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-1#/11-greg-wohead/), Page One 12 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-1#/12-fuchsia-voremburg/) and Page One 14 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-1#/14-giorgis-hadzilacos/).   Episode image is a detail of a photograph taken by Charles Adrian.   Episode recorded: 19th March, 2020.   More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/   Book listing: The Shipping News by Annie Proulx Selected Short Stories Of ‘Saki’ by Saki Ocean Sea by Alessandro Baricco (trans. Alastair McEwen)

With an almost constant background thrum of pages being flicked through and fingered, Charles Adrian begins Page One In Review by talking about the first three books he received from guests on the podcast.   When Charles Adrian talks about a golden condor, he is thinking of the 80’s cartoon Mysterious Cities of Gold, which you can watch the titles to on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ki99YBVKyw.   Correction: When Charles Adrian talks about Page One 101, he is in fact thinking about Page One 100, which you can listen to here: http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-3#/100-stats/.   Books discussed here were previous discussed in Page One 6 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-1#/6-vera-chok/), Page One 7 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-1#/7-caroline-kilpatrick/) and Page One 10 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-1#/10-nathan-penlington/).   Episode image is a detail of a photograph taken by Charles Adrian.   Episode recorded: 18th March, 2020.   More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/   Book listing: The Human Comedy by William Saroyan (Page One 6) Larry’s Party by Carol Shields (Page One 7) Underground Kingdom by Edward Packard (Page One 10)

Joining Charles Adrian for the 130th Second-Hand Book Factory is a slightly coldy Moses Woldetsadik. They talk passionate love, consensual sex and thoughtful kingship. You can find a song by Teddy Afro based on Moses’ first book on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFzHpK7ibfo You can watch a video about Meg-John and Justin’s three handshake model of consent here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awrp7EJGqyc and read more about it here: https://bishtraining.com/three-handshakes-an-activity-for-learning-how-consent-feels/ You can read about King Tewodros II on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tewodros_II Marked as explicit on iTunes because of discussion of sex. Episode image is a detail from the cover of Enjoy Sex (How, when and IF you want to) A Practical And Inclusive Guide by Meg-John Barker and Justin Hancock, published in 2017 by Icon Books Ltd; cover design by Mecob; Image © Shutterstock.com/MariyaF. More info and a link to a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/   Book listing: Fikir Eske Mekabir (Love Unto Crypt) by Hadis Alemayehu (trans. Sisay Ayenew) Enjoy Sex (How, when and IF you want to) A Practical And Inclusive Guide by Meg-John Barker and Justin Hancock Stories of King Tewodros told by Moses’ mother

Some bonus material to accompany Page One 155. Tasha Diamant talks to Charles Adrian about art and validation. Episode image is a detail from the cover of The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin , published in 1988 by Penguin Books; cover design by Melissa Jacoby; cover engraving by William Blake after a drawing by Philip Gidley King, third governor of New South Wales. Marked as explicit on iTunes because of strong language. More info and a link to a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/

Taking some time out from performing at the Victoria Fringe Festival in British Columbia, Western Canada, Charles Adrian is joined for the 129th Second-Hand Book Factory by mother, artist, performance artist, independent thinker, recovering academic, dog mother, cat mother, teacher and (in some ways) activist Tasha Diamant. They talk women living in brutal circumstances, what makes an artist an artist and Aboriginal Australians. You may notice some slightly strange background noise in this episode. I mean, quite apart from jingle jangling, mewing and sighing of cats and dogs. The strangeness is because of the way my noise-removal software interacts with the sound of cars going by outside the window. More information about Tasha is at http://www.humanbodyproject.org/. Episode image is a detail from the cover of The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin, published in 1988 by Penguin Books; cover design by Melissa Jacoby; cover engraving by William Blake after a drawing by Philip Gidley King, third governor of New South Wales. Marked as explicit on iTunes because of strong language. More info and a link to a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/   Book listing: My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante (trans. Ann Goldstein) The Woman Upstairs by Claire Masud The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin

Joining Charles Adrian for the 128th Second-Hand Book Factory is Lithuanian performer, teacher and, recently, yoga practitioner Judita Vivas. They talk trees, language and identity, and a desire for non-Anglo writing. Adventures In Black And White is a performance created by Judita Vivas and Miriam Gould on the subject of displacement and its aftermath: https://doubletroubletheatre.wordpress.com/adventures-in-black-and-white/. You can watch the video trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2nyXDn-gHc. Episode image is a detail from the cover of Flights by Olga Tokarczuk, published in 2019 by Fitzcarraldo Editions; design by Ray O’Meara. More info and a link to a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/   Book listing: The Overstory by Richard Powers In Other Words (In Altre Parole) by Jhumpa Lahiri (trans. Ann Goldstein) Flights by Olga Tokarczuk (trans. Jennifer Croft)

CN: poor health (coughing) - NB this episode was recorded on the 24th May, 2019, before Coronavirus began to spread. Joining a slightly poorly Charles Adrian in Acton for the 127th Second-Hand Book Factory is Mum and facilitator of creative practice Stephanie Arsoska. They talk about creativity as an act of devotion, something nasty in the woodshed and the first poet of love. Correction: Charles Adrian misses out the all-important word “nasty” in the Stella Gibbons quotation “Something nasty in the woodshed”. If you are interested in Anne Carson’s translations of Sappho, you can also find some of these on Twitter, tweeted out by @sapphobot (https://twitter.com/sapphobot?lang=en). Sappho Bot posts every 2 hours and uses translations that include liftings from Anne Carson’s If Not, Winter. The residency on Lesvos where Charles Adrian and Stephanie spent some time in the summer of 2016 was run by Duende, whose artistic director is John Britton. You can find out more about their work here (http://www.duende-ensemble.com/). Recorded on the 24th May, 2019. Episode image is a detail from the cover of If Not, Winter by Anne Carson, published in 2003 by Virago Press; book design by Carole Devine Carson and Gabriele Wilson. More info and a link to a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/   Book listing: New And Selected Poems by Mary Oliver Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons If Not, Winter by Anne Carson

Joining Charles Adrian in Old Amersham for the 126th Second Hand Book Factory is happy and enthusiastic Nursery Nurse, Forest School leader, Brown Owl, not to mention Charles Adrian’s older sister, Shanta Gillott. They talk about long-term singleness, really well-made rom coms and love languages. This episode was recorded in April 2019 in Old Amersham. In 2018, Old Amersham was a gold winner in the Britain In Bloom competition (https://www.amershamsociety.org/amersham-in-bloom-on-bbc-two/). You can find out more about Charles Adrian’s alter-ego Ms Samantha Mann, who is not based on Shanta, here (http://www.mssamanthamann.com/). You can also listen to Ms Samantha being interviewed for the podcast here (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season4#/126-ms-samantha-mann/). This episode is marked as explicit on iTunes because of strong language. Episode image is a detail from the cover of The 5 Love Languages: The Secret To Love That Lasts by Gary Chapman, published in 2010 by Northfield Publishing; cover design : Smartt Guys design; Cover photo composite: Michael Powers/Photolibrary (beach), Eric Horan/Photolibrary (couple). More info and a link to a transcript of the episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/   Book listing: The Ladybird Book Of Dating by Jason Hazeley and Joel Morris Remember Me by Sophie Kinsella The 5 Love Languages: The Secret To Love That Lasts by Gary Chapman

In honour of Krista Tippett, whose podcast On Being both Tim and Charles Adrian listen to and enjoy, this is an unedited recording of their conversation released in parallel with the edited version that appears in your feeds. Recorded on the 5th October, 2018. Speaking to Charles Adrian for a particularly dreamy 125th Second-Hand Book Factory in his own studio in Mile End is artist Tim Spooner. They talk some difficult poetry, the Berlin Wall and rule-bound beauty. Episode image is a detail from the cover of The Complete Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino, published by Penguin Modern Classics in 2010; cover image is a detail from The Last Judgement: The Stars Fall And Everything Is Turned Upside Down, Italian School, 15th century/Fol 149va Biblioteca Reale, Turin, Italy (Alinari/The Bridgeman Art Library). Correction: Charles Adrian talks about the 29th anniversary of the falling of the Berlin Wall, which he says happened on a Wednesday. In fact, he is thinking of the Tag der Deutschen Einheit, celebrated on the 3rd of October, which was a Wednesday in 2018. The 29th anniversary of the falling of the Wall was the 9th of November 2018, which was a Friday. In any case, what is true is that, at the time of recording this episode, about 29 years had passed since the fall of the Berlin Wall. If On A Winter’s Night A Traveller is also a book by Italo Calvino, translated into English by William Weaver. The story from The Cosmicomics that Charles Adrian tries to remember is called The Form Of Space, which is included in this Penguin Classics collection of The Complete Cosmicomics in a translation by William Weaver; the story that Tim talks about, translated by Martin McLaughlin in this collection, is called Shells And Time. The unedited version of this recording includes a long digression on Mile End Green and environs and a longer discussion of Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov than is kept in the edited version. There is also mention of a show Charles Adrian had recently in Berlin; this was Die Zukunft Von Gestern by Nico And The Navigators. More information (in German) about that show here: http://navigators.de/index.php?id=602&L=54#c2119 More info and a link to a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/ Book Listing: New Impressions Of Africa by Raymond Roussel (trans. Ian Monk) Funeral In Berlin by Len Deighton Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov If On A Winter’s Night A Traveller by Italo Calvino (trans. William Weaver) The Complete Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino (trans. William Weaver, Tim Parks and Martin McLaughlin)

Recorded on the 5th October, 2018. Speaking to Charles Adrian for a particularly dreamy 125th Second-Hand Book Factory in his own studio in Mile End is artist Tim Spooner. They talk some difficult poetry, the Berlin Wall and rule-bound beauty. Episode image is a detail from the cover of The Complete Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino, published by Penguin Modern Classics in 2010; cover image is a detail from The Last Judgement: The Stars Fall And Everything Is Turned Upside Down, Italian School, 15th century/Fol 149va Biblioteca Reale, Turin, Italy (Alinari/The Bridgeman Art Library). (Correction: Charles Adrian talks about the 29th anniversary of the falling of the Berlin Wall, which he says happened on a Wednesday. In fact, he is thinking of the Tag der Deutschen Einheit, celebrated on the 3rd of October, which was a Wednesday in 2018. The 29th anniversary of the falling of the Wall was the 9th of November 2018, which was a Friday. In any case, what is true is that, at the time of recording this episode, about 29 years had passed since the fall of the Berlin Wall.) (If On A Winter’s Night A Traveller is also a book by Italo Calvino, translated into English by William Weaver.) (The story from The Cosmicomics that Charles Adrian tries to remember is called The Form Of Space, which is included in this Penguin Classics collection of The Complete Cosmicomics in a translation by William Weaver; the story that Tim talks about, translated by Martin McLaughlin in this collection, is called Shells And Time.) More info and a link to a transcript of the episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/   Book Listing: New Impressions Of Africa by Raymond Roussel (trans. Ian Monk) Funeral In Berlin by Len Deighton Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov If On A Winter’s Night A Traveller by Italo Calvino (trans. William Weaver) The Complete Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino (trans. William Weaver, Tim Parks and Martin McLaughlin)

Joining Charles Adrian for the 124th Second-Hand Book Factory is Windrush scion, Black British Christian, storyteller and fellow Family Tree performer Azariah France-Williams. They talk a compassionate engagement with the world and a quest for silence. Azariah France-Williams and Charles Adrian are both featured on the magical realist podcast The Family Tree in which Azariah plays himself and Charles Adrian plays the Revd Philip Beech: http://thefamilytreepodcast.co.uk/ You can learn more about the phrase “Water your herbs even if they are going to die tomorrow” and what it means to Charles Adrian by listening to the 8th episode of his Muselings podcast: http://muselings.uk/ Episode image is a detail from the cover of A Book of Silence by Sara Maitland, published by Granta Books in 2008; cover design by Dan Mogford.   More info and a link to a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/   Book listing: Nonviolence: The History Of A Dangerous Idea by Mark Kurlansky The Master by Colm Toibín A Book of Silence by Sara Maitland

As is, by now, firmly traditional, the first episode of the new season of the podcast finds Charles Adrian chatting to Vera Chok, who is neither fancy nor a storyteller. They talk relatable self-help, a book to make you cry and an early Renaissance guide to health. Clarification 1: The audio version of Brené Brown’s Rising Strong that Vera mentions having listened to is, in fact, a recording of a talk given by Brené Brown called Rising Strong As A Spiritual Practice. There is also an audio version of the book, Rising Strong, read by Brené Brown. Clarification 2: “The Tacuinum Sanitatis is a richly illustrated guide to health. Made in Padua in the 1450s, it contains 130 miniatures illustrating substances and activities conducive to health and happiness, ranging from food and drink to singing, sleep and sex. Its scribe and artists enjoyed the patronage of a circle of humanists who flourished in the Veneto in the 1450s and 1460s, including the Venetian governer of Padua, Jacopo Antionio Marcello, and his great friend King René of Anjou. A window into the everyday lives of affluent Italians in the fifteenth century, the Tacuinum Sanitatis brings to life the fascinating domestic arena of the early Renaissance.” (From the back cover of Tacuinum Sanitatis: An Early Renaissance Guide to Health by Alixe Bovey.) Episode image is a detail from the cover of Tacuinum Sanitatis: An Early Renaissance Guide To Health by Alixe Bovey, published to accompany an exhibition of miniatures from the Liechtenstein Tacuinum Sanitatis at Sam Fogg, 15d Clifford Street, London, 1-29th July, 2005. podcast homepage: http://www.pageonepodcast.com/   Book list: Rising Strong by Brené Brown A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara Tacuinum Sanitatis: An Early Renaissance Guide to Health by Alixe Bovey

Season 6 of Page One is on its way. In fact, the first episode - Page One 149 featuring Vera Chok - will already be in your podcast feed by the time you finish listening to this. More information about the podcast and links to transcripts of all the season 6 episodes is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/.

This is a re-release of a conversation from May 2014 with Dave Pickering as a way of plugging his book, Mansplaining Masculinity, which is being crowd-funded through Unbound. Please check it out and consider supporting the project.   Mansplaining Masculinity: https://unbound.com/books/mansplaining-masculinity/   Dave’s Comment Is Free article: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/01/tough-choice-cut-job-enfield-children-centres-austerity   Dave’s website: http://dave-pickering.squarespace.com/   Podcast website (for book listings and more info): http://www.pageonepodcast.com/     Episode image is a detail from the cover of No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July, published by Scribner in July 2008.

For the 122nd Second-Hand Book Factory, Charles Adrian is joined by podcaster and general audio-person Arlie Adlington. They talk mix-tapes and assumptions, and bring the current series of Page One to an end. The episode of Arlie’s podcast The Boy Who Hasn’t Lived that features Charles Adrian can be found here: http://www.theboywhohasntlived.com/episodes/2017/10/30/12-a-constant-stream-of-spiders-2nd-movie) Episode image is a detail from the cover of Pomosexuals, Challenging Assumptions About Gender And Sexuality edited by Carol Queen and Lawrence Shimel, published in 1997 by Cleis Press Inc; cover photo by Phyllis Christopher; cover design by Scott Idleman/Blink. Marked as explicit on iTunes because there are words used towards the end of the episode that, although largely reclaimed by the LGBTQIA community, are also still in use as slurs.   More information about the podcast is at http://pageonepodcast.com/