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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%

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/So

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: htt

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 P

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:

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

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 S

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

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

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 Honor (translated from Russian by Dmitri Nabokov in collaboration with Vladimir Nabokov) and The Aurelian (translated from Russian by Peter Pertzov in collaboration with Vladimir Nabokov).   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 discus

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 tak

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 McE

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

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.pageonepo

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/