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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
Another three Muselings are on their way to your feed, going out over the next three Tuesdays. Today, it is Friday the 6th of December, 2019, here in London, UK, so the episodes will appear on the 10th, 17th and 24th of December respectively. None of them is Christmas-themed. More information about the podcast, including transcripts to all episodes, is at muselings.uk.
The fourth series of Muselings is now out in the world! In this, the first episode, Charles Adrian talks a little bit about writing. You can find all the other episodes from this series right now wherever you found this one, which might include at muselings.uk, where you can also find links to episode transcripts. This episode is marked as explicit on iTunes not so much because of bad language as because of straightforward, honest-to-goodness vulgarity. Links: The Forest And The Field by Chris Goode is published by Oberon Books. You can get hold of a copy through their website: https://www.oberonbooks.com/forest-and-the-field.html Charles Adrian’s Wordpress site (where you can find all of the short writing included in the next four episodes of the podcast, as well as transcripts of all of the Muselings): https://charldrian.wordpress.com/ Podcast homepage: http://muselings.uk
This is the fifth episode of the fourth series of Muselings. Charles Adrian talks about profit and product and reads the Dream Dates, which made up the third season of the podcast. (Incidentally, Charles Adrian doesn’t say so here but there are 14 Dream Dates.) You can find all the other episodes from this series right now wherever you found this one, which might include at muselings.uk, where you can also find links to episode transcripts. Marked as explicit on iTunes because of swearing. Links: The Dream Dates on Charles Adrian’s Wordpress site: https://charldrian.wordpress.com/muselings/series-3/ Podcast homepage: http://muselings.uk
This is the fourth episode of the fourth series of Muselings. Charles Adrian talks about confession and reads a collection of writing put together towards the end of his thirties. You can find all the other episodes from this series right now wherever you found this one, which might include at muselings.uk, where you can also find links to episode transcripts. Marked as explicit on iTunes because of swearing. Links: Elements of Co-Dependency on Charles Adrian’s Wordpress site: https://charldrian.wordpress.com/elements-of-co-dependency/ Podcast homepage: http://muselings.uk
This is the third episode of the fourth series of Muselings. Charles Adrian talks about romantic expectations and reads a collection of writing put together in the first third of his thirties. You can find all the other episodes from this series right now wherever you found this one, which might include at muselings.uk, where you can also find links to episode transcripts. Marked as explicit on iTunes because of swearing. Links: why you should not like me on Charles Adrian’s Wordpress site: https://charldrian.wordpress.com/why-you-should-not-like-me/ Podcast homepage: http://muselings.uk
This is the second episode of the fourth series of Muselings. Charles Adrian talks about turning 30 and reads something that he wrote around that time. You can find all the other episodes from this series right now wherever you found this one, which might include at muselings.uk, where you can also find links to episode transcripts. Marked as explicit on iTunes because of swearing. Links: You have gone on Charles Adrian’s Wordpress site: https://charldrian.wordpress.com/you-have-gone/ Podcast homepage: http://muselings.uk
This is not a Museling but an introduction to the next 14 Muselings, which will make up the third series of the podcast. These are the Dream Dates. The Dream Dates are short pieces of audio about encounters or non-encounters that, while still solipsistic, are less rigorously autobiographical than previous Muselings. Please feel free to mess with these episodes – remix them, rerecord them, provide background music or a soundscape, etc – and repost them with a link to the website http://muselings.uk/ and maybe a tweet to Charles Adrian (@charldrian) to let him know. Fan art would also be most gratefully received.
A year to the day after it should have gone out, here is the last episode of this second series of Muselings. It features the sound of footsteps in the snow, distant traffic, aeroplanes, trains, birds and a dog. CN: There is some discussion of poor mental health in this episode. Marked as explicit on iTunes because of swearing. The Gunnersbury Triangle: http://www.wildlondon.org.uk/reserves/gunnersbury-triangle Muselings website: http://muselings.uk/
In part two of this short series of Muselings, Charles Adrian brings you sound from the small island of Hydra and talks about the kind of nakedness he experiences in a relationship. Muselings website: http://muselings.uk/
Charles Adrian's journey towards nakedness begins on Lesvos, in Greece. Hear the sound of the wind in the olive trees, the cicadas, the goat bells, the sea. And hear Charles Adrian talk about what it means to him to be naked in front of an audience. Ensemble Duende: http://duende-ensemble.com/ Muselings website: http://muselings.uk/
The new series of Page One is still in production but Charles Adrian's other podcast Muselings returns this February with four episodes on the subject of art and life and nakedness! Here is the first of the episodes, which will give you bookish types a more direct look at the inside of Charles Adrian's head. You can find more information about Muselings, in case you want to listen to the rest of the series, at http://muselings.uk/ Marked as explicit on iTunes because of swearing. The first voice you hear in this episode belongs to Anna Beecher. You can read about how the interview with Anna came about here: http://showmethemon3y.tumblr.com/post/151681003638/artist-window-studio-day-2-charles-adrian and listen to how it came about here: https://soundcloud.com/charldrian/artist-window-studio-day-2 Some notes on one iteration of Ponyboy Curtis: http://statesofdeliquescence.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/the-first-coming-of-ponyboy-curtis.html Duende's website: http://duende-ensemble.com/ Anna Beecher: http://www.annabeecher.com/ Paula Varjack: http://paulavarjack.com/ Camden People's Theatre: https://www.cptheatre.co.uk/ Muselings website: http://muselings.uk/
Muselings returns this February with four episodes on the subject of nakedness, in art and life. As ever, we are listening to the inside of Charles Adrian's head but, with any luck, some of this will find some resonance inside other people's heads too. Marked as explicit on iTunes because of swearing The first voice you hear in this episode belongs to Anna Beecher. You can read about how the interview with Anna came about here: http://showmethemon3y.tumblr.com/post/151681003638/artist-window-studio-day-2-charles-adrian (and listen to how it came about here: https://soundcloud.com/charldrian/artist-window-studio-day-2). Some notes on one iteration of Ponyboy Curtis: http://statesofdeliquescence.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/the-first-coming-of-ponyboy-curtis.html Duende's website: http://duende-ensemble.com/ Anna Beecher: http://www.annabeecher.com/ Paula Varjack: http://paulavarjack.com/ Camden People's Theatre: https://www.cptheatre.co.uk/ Muselings website: http://muselings.uk/
In GBA 241 we get better acquainted with Vera Chok. We struggle through a little bit of social awkwardness to get into a great conversation about acting, writing, performance, identity, race and sex. The conversation grapples with perception, the self, image, shame and the body which makes it sound a bit worthy and pretentious which it very much is not! Vera plugs: The Good Immigrant: https://unbound.co.uk/books/the-good-immigrant Short Story coming up (in the future) on The Toast: http://the-toast.net/ Charles Adrian Gillot: http://charlesadrian.typepad.com/ Page One: http://www.pageonepodcast.com/ Muselings: http://muselings.uk/ I plug: What About the Men? Mansplaining Masculinity: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-presents-what-about-the-men-mansplaining-maculinity http://mansplainingmasculinity.co.uk We mention: PBH Spoken Word Album: https://pbhfreefringespokenword.bandcamp.com/album/a-maze-of-breaths-spoken-word-at-pbhs-free-fringe Stand Up Tragedy: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk/ Free Fringe: http://freefringe.org.uk/ Peter Buckley Hill's GBA: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-live-8-peter-buckley-hill LAMDA: https://www.lamda.org.uk/ Enid Blyton: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enid_Blyton Samantha Mann: http://mssamanthamann.com/ Arts Admin: http://www.artsadmin.co.uk/ People Show Studios: http://www.run-riot.com/venue/people-show-studios Adrian's GBA: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-162-adrian Stacey Makishi: http://www.stacymakishi.com/ Bryony Kimmings: http://www.bryonykimmings.com/ Greg Woehead: https://gregwohead.com/ The New Year Episode: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-extra-new-focus Peter Morris: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Morris_(playwright) Wikipedia entry on Vera: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Chok Wallace Shawn's The Fever: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_Shawn Krystian Godlewski: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm5395388/ Cameryn Moore's GBA: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-215-cameryn-moore Brautigan Bookclub: https://thebrautiganbookclub.wordpress.com/ Richard Brautigan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Brautigan Chimerica: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimerica_(play) Diverse December: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jan/07/diverse-december-creators-expand-social-media-campaign-readdiverse2016 Kin Podcast: https://soundcloud.com/kin-podcast Vera and Anna on Kin: https://soundcloud.com/kin-podcast/kin-3-oh-shit-im-not-white Nikesh Shukla: http://www.nikesh-shukla.com/ Sense 8: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense8 Samantha's GBA: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-live-16-ms-samantha-mann I Love Being Asked About My Sexual Desires — But I Just Can’t Answer: http://www.theestablishment.co/2015/12/30/why-cant-i-ask-for-what-i-want-in-bed/ Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review? Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word!
The penultimate episode of this series of Muselings is an essay on privilege given from a position of privilege. I make much mention of a show by Jamal Harewood that I have mistakenly called Privilege throughout; it is actually called The Privileged. [Edit: Having re-listened to this episode, I notice that I have misgendered Hari Ziyad, whose pronouns are they/them.] Some links: Jamal Harewood website: http://harewooo.com/ Information about The Privileged (which I have misnamed throughout this episode): http://harewooo.com/the-privileged/ A critical view of the impact of Live Aid, from 2005: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/jun/24/g8.debtrelief Why Empathy Won't Save Us In The Fight Against Oppression by Hari Ziyad: http://www.blackgirldangerous.org/2015/08/empathy-wont-save-us-in-the-fight-against-oppression-heres-why/
The second of Charles Adrian's solipsistic new podcast series Muselings, this is story of a first crush.
This is not a Page One but it is a podcast episode. It's a preview of the first episode of a new series of podcasts called Muselings. All the episodes in this first series (at least) are going to be short, true and about podcaster Charles Adrian. This episode is about shyness and knocking on people's doors. More information about the podcast is at muselings.uk.
This is the first episode of a solipsistic new podcast series centering on podcaster Charles Adrian. This week, he talks about shyness and knocking on people's doors. You can find out more about the podcast at muselings.uk.
This is the very tip of the first, green shoot to grow out of the freshly turned soil that is Muselings. It's just a test. You can find out more about the podcast at muselings.uk.