The third Dream Date is mostly on ice.

The Dream Dates are short, solipsistic, not-necessarily-autobiographical pieces of audio that listeners are welcome to download and mess with themselves.

More information about the podcast is at http://muselings.uk/

The second Dream Date is an exchange of text messages.

The Dream Dates are short, solipsistic, not-necessarily-autobiographical pieces of audio that listeners are welcome to download and mess with themselves.

More information about the podcast is at http://muselings.uk/

The first of 14 Dream Dates, this one takes place on a train.

The Dream Dates are short, solipsistic, not-necessarily-autobiographical pieces of audio that listeners are welcome to download and mess with themselves.

More information about the podcast is at 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.

This is the last episode of this series of episodes and, in it, I offer some philosophy. In that sense, it is the most didactic episode so far.

Oh, and after doing a recount in my head, I am pretty sure there are 18 or 19 traffic lights between the top of Holland Park Avenue and my house. You might say "Why don't you go out and check?", in which case I would reply that Holland Park Avenue is a nasty hill to cycle just for the sake of counting traffic lights and that every time I've been out that way for some better reason in the last few weeks I've got distracted by other things on my way home and forgotten to do it. Listen: I'm as frustrated as you are about this.

As mentioned, some of my short writing is online here.

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/

CONTENT NOTE: I talk about suicide and depression in this episode. Please don’t listen to this if you think it might be at all triggering. Also, I should stress that this is a very personal account. You may find my ambivalence troubling and unhelpful.

Links:

The Samaritans online

Émile Durkheim's Suicide on Wikipedia (last accessed on 18th October, 2015)

A Ted Talk on Depression by Andrew Solomon (October 2013)

Another excellent resource for anybody trying to understand or articulate the experience of depression is one of the posts Hyperbole And A Half creator Ali Brosh wrote and drew about it: Hyperbole And A Half, depression Part 2

Excellent article on the experience of black women accessing mental health services in the UK: The Language Of Distress

This episode is about sex, sex work, intimacy and honesty and is the most confessional Museling so far. Some of you might want to skip this one.

Some links:

Open letter to Amnesty in support of their policy change

Effect of Whorephobia (Guardian article)

Difference between decriminalisation and legalisation explained (New Statesman)

Spark London: Sex Worker Stories Part I

Spark London: Sex Worker Stories Part II

Criminalising clients does not help sex workers stay safe

The fourth episode of Charles Adrian's solipsistic new podcast series is about control and self-control and responsibility. It is a little more confessional than previous episodes.

Here is a video about the Good Chance Theatre, which is a beautiful project happening in The Jungle. You can find them on Twitter as @GoodChanceCal.

Here are some ways you can help refugees from your front room (article from September 2015 – some of it is now out of date).

The third of Charles Adrian's solipsistic new podcast series, this episode is about wasps and (obliquely) heartbreak. It might be the silliest episode.