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This week’s vintage Page One, which originally went out in October 2012, sees Charles Adrian talking to comedian Tom Webb. There is a curious lack of books in this episode but Tom and host Charles Adrian have fun discussing facebook, Scott Capurro and The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart. Incidentally – in case you are looking for connections – the last track is from the album The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars and spiders build webs. It’s embarrassing, but there it is. You can follow Charles Adrian on twitter @charldrian.
Tom and Charles Adrian both have shows to plug at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August 2014. Information about Tom and his shows is here. Information about Charles Adrian and his show is here.
For the 65th Second-Hand Book Factory, Charles Adrian is joined by performance artist, writer and musician Nick Field. It may have been a tactical error to sit outside, at a café not far from Victoria station in London, where the background noise from taxis, buses and other voices threatens to overwhelm the conversation at times. Oh, and you will hear the microphone summersault off its improvised mic stand at one point. It is nearly the summer holidays for Page One; everythings is falling apart. But the episode is still worth listening to. Promise.
Nick’s music, incidentally, can be found online here.
Hosting Charles Adrian for the 64th Second-Hand Book Factory in her Motel de Nowhere in Bethnal Green is artist and performer Susannah Hewlett. They talk about the effect of abuse in different ways and the push to create nicknames. Information about Motel de Nowhere is here. and you can find out more about Chris Titmas here.
For the 63rd Second-Hand Book Factory, Charles Adrian is joined by writer and sometime academic Alan Cunningham. They talk about precision in the face of horror, the creation of fear and just plain good storytelling. Oh, and get ready to sit back and chill out at the end of the episode for nearly ten minutes of gentle bliss. You can listen to Alan talking to Charles Adrian about his own book, Count From Zero To One Hundred, here.
Shorter than usual, for good reason, this week’s Page One is a skim through the first pages of some short stories. Always remember that the first page of a short story is extremely good value because what you are getting is a greater proportion of the whole.
[Warning: some bad language occurs in the middle of the podcast]
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