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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/).

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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%27s_Canal

You can read about New Haven, Connecticut on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Haven,_Connecticut

Books discussed in this episode were previously discussed in Page One 66 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-2#/66-erik-patterson/), Page One 67 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-2#/67-oscar-rickett/) and Page One 69 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-2#/69-jaya-hartlein/).

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Episode recorded: 10th July, 2020

Book listing:

Crime And Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (trans. Jessie Coulson) (Page One 66)

Josephine: A Woman With A Past from The Lost Decade And Other Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Page One 67)

The Troublesome Offspring Of Cardinal Guzman by Louis de Bernières (Page One 69)

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/Society_of_Jesus#Expansion

The books discussed in this episode were previously discussed in Page One 62 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-2#/62-allan-taylor/), Page One 64 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-2#/64-natalie-clarke/) and Page One 65 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-2#/65-christine-goldsmith/).

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Episode recorded: 29th June, 2020

More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/

Book listing:

Once Is Not Enough by Jacqueline Susann (Page One 62)

The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell (Page One 64)

When God Was A Rabbit by Sarah Winman (Page One 65)

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: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/may/30/chris-kraus-i-love-dick-was-written-in-a-delirium, you can read Emily Gould talking about I Love Dick in 2015 in The Guardian here: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/nov/02/i-love-dick-sex-chris-kraus-men-women-book and you can read a 2015 profile of Chris Kraus by Leslie Jamison in the New Yorker here: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/this-female-consciousness-on-chris-kraus

You can read a 2017 profile of Colin Kaepernick in the New York Times here: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/07/sports/colin-kaepernick-nfl-protests.html and a short history of taking the knee by Maham Abedi in Global News here: https://globalnews.ca/news/3769534/martin-luther-king-jr-take-a-knee-history/

You can read about Armistead Maupin's Tales Of The City on page and screen in Vulture here: https://www.vulture.com/2019/06/armistead-maupins-tales-of-the-city-1993-miniseries-watch.html

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Episode recorded: 20th June, 2020

More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/

Book listing:

I Like Dick by Chris Kraus (Page One 58)

The City And The City by China Miéville (Page One 60)

Tales Of The City by Armistead Maupin (Page One 61)

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 PoliticsJOE about Black Lives Matter and British history, including some reflection on the theatrical boarding-up of the Churchill statue in Westminster, on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXY5BfpcAlQ&feature=youtu.be.

Between recording and releasing this episode, the statue of Edward Colston in Bristol was briefly replaced by a statue of Jen Reid by Marc Quinn. You can read about it in the Guardian here: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/15/the-day-bristol-woke-up-to-a-new-statue and you can read thoughts on it by Thomas J. Price in The Art Newspaper here: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/comment/a-votive-statue-to-appropriation-the-problem-with-marc-quinn-s-black-lives-matter-sculpture

You can read more about the Rhodes Must Fall movement, meanwhile, in The New Statesman here: https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2020/06/rhodes-must-fall-oxford-slavery-statue-oxford-university-oriel-black-lives-matter

For some reflection on racism and anti-racism in Europe and the UK, you can read Musa Okwonga in Byline Times here: https://bylinetimes.com/2020/06/05/white-complicity-matters-the-nazis-by-the-lake/ and Gary Younge in The New York Review Of Books here: https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2020/06/06/what-black-america-means-to-europe/

You can read June Tuesday writing about J.K. Rowling and the so-called reasonable concerns in Medium here: https://medium.com/@june.tuesday/jk-rowling-and-the-reasonable-bigotry-43bc2c6d3c2b, you can read Evan Urquhart on J.K. Rowling and her obsession with trans men in Slate here: https://slate.com/human-interest/2020/06/jk-rowling-trans-men-terf.html and you can read an open letter from the charity Mermaids to J.K. Rowling here: https://mermaidsuk.org.uk/news/dear-jk-rowling/

And, in case you are worried about how the kids are doing, you can read Katelyn Burns' profile of New York's Gender And Family Project in The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/jun/15/trans-transgender-children-gender-family-project

The Page One podcast began as a project recorded at the Wilton Way Cafe for London Fields Radio, which is now called Fields Radio (https://fields.radio/). From the second season onwards, however, the podcast was produced independently by Charles Adrian.

Correction: The film adaptation of The Talented Mr Ripley Charles Adrian talks about seeing came out in 1999.

You can read about the theatre adaptation of The Master And Margarita made by Théâtre de Complicité here: http://www.complicite.org/productions/TheMasterandMargarita

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Episode recorded 13th June, 2020

More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/

Book listing:

Shopgirl by Steve Martin (Page One 52)

The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith (Page One 53)

The Master And Margarita by Mikail Bulgakov (trans. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky) (Page One 54)

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: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-274-guilaine-kinouani and find her on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/KGuilaine

You can read Alicia Liu writing about the limitations of empathy here: https://medium.com/counter-intuition/empathy-is-mostly-useless-998e94f69463

You can read about the 1944 film Gaslight on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslight_(1944_film)

You can watch Claudia Rankine talking about and reading from her book Citizen on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cnq71TlUvo

You can read discussion of police abolition in the US and the UK as part of a review by Peter Stäuber of Alex S. Vitale's book The End Of Policing in Counterfire here: https://www.counterfire.org/articles/book-reviews/20167-the-end-of-policing-book-review and read an interview with Alex S. Vitale in The Nation here: https://www.thenation.com/article/society/alex-vitale-defund-police-interview/ More information about police abolition in the US can be found by following links curated by The Marshall Project here: https://www.themarshallproject.org/records/3382-police-abolition

You can read about the prison abolition movement in the US in Teen Vogue here: https://www.teenvogue.com/story/what-is-prison-abolition-movement and about the prison abolition movement in the UK in the Independent here: https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/big-idea-prison-abolition-social-problems-domestic-violence-a8275636.html

You can watch a very interesting discussion on prison abolition and its relationship to policing and the criminalisation of vulnerable communities between Reina Gossett and Dean Spade in four parts on YouTube starting here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDQlW1uJ8uQ

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Episode recorded: 2nd June, 2020

More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/

Book listing:

The Making Of Americans by Gertrude Stein (Page One 50)

Signifying Nothing from Brief Interviews With Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace (Page One 51)

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/Sonja_Sekula and about Robert Guston here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Guston

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Episode recorded: 1st June, 2020.

More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/

Book listing:

The Biography Of A Locomotive Engine by Henry Frith (Page One 46)

By Night In Chile by Roberto Bolaño (trans. Chris Andrews) (Page One 47)

Give My Regards To Eighth Street by Morton Feldman (ed. B. H. Friedman) (Page One 48)

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 Solonelle which you can watch a trailer for here: http://navigators.de/index.php?id=239&L=2.%27%22

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Episode recorded: 14th May, 2020.

More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/

Book listing:

Sea Of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh (Page One 41)

Das Spiel Ihres Lebens by anon. (Page One 44)

Not After Midnight from Don't Look Now by Daphne Du Maurier (Page One 45)

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 40 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-1#/40-gabriele-wappel/).

Christy Malry's Own Double Entry by B. S. Johnson is also discussed in Page One 106 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-3#/106-neil-spokes/).

According to the Merriam Webster online dictionary, 'sphacelate' means 'to become gangrenous'. https://www.merriam-webster.com/medical/sphacelate

OutThere Magazine: The Style Issue, the magazine both edited by and given to Charles Adrian by Uwern Jong, is discussed in Page One 29 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-1#/29-uwern-jong/) and Page One 163 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-6#/163-poir-7/).

You can read about the James Frey memoir controversy, which dates back to 2006, on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Frey#Controversy

You can find out more about Count From Zero To One Hundred by Alan Cunningham at the Penned In The Margins website here: http://www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk/index.php/2012/10/count-from-zero-to-one-hundred-2/

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Episode recorded: 11th May, 2020.

More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/

Book listing:

Christie Malry's Own Double Entry by B. S. Johnson (Page One 38)

Count From Zero To One Hundred by Alan Cunningam (Page One 39)

Fragenbogen by Max Frisch (Page One 40)

Brunelleschi's Dome by Ross King (Page One 40)

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

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Episode recorded: 28th April, 2020.

More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/

Book listing:

Sum by David Eagleman (Page One 34)

Mr Pye by Mervyn Peake (Page One 34)

Ghost Stories Of An Antiquary by M. R. James (Page One 36)