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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)

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