While Page One continues its ever-extending mid-season break, Charles Adrian has popped back onto the mic to let listeners know about a podcast he is making with Lisa Findley called The Rom Com Rewrite. Rom com fans everywhere can find it on Spotify ( https://open.spotify.com/show/4D3CW2TnT1tIRorlbqp2kF ) and Apple Podcasts ( https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-rom-com-rewrite/id1551541870 ). Incidentally, you can find a description of the seven major beats of rom com writing here: https:/...
Mar 12, 2021•5 min
Taking another break from revisiting the books that he has been given by guests on the podcast, Charles Adrian revisits instead what he said in the previous episode about Scottish Country Dancing and talks about three books that he has very much enjoyed. More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/ Correction 1: This episode was recorded on the 15th December, 2020, and not the 14th December as Charles Adrian says. Correction 2: Charles Adrian mistakenly ...
Dec 22, 2020•37 min•Season 7Ep. 36
Marked as explicit because of strong language. Speaking minutes after he had finished recording the previous episode of the podcast, Charles Adrian revisits the last books that were given to him by guests on the 4th season of the podcast. More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/ . You can find information about London’s National Theatre here: https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/ and about Liverpool’s Empire Theatre here: https://www.liverpooltheatres....
Dec 15, 2020•22 min•Season 7Ep. 35
Marked as explicit because of derogatory language. Fleeing from hammering and drilling sounds coming through the wall, Charles Adrian talks about books that were given to him towards the end of the fourth season of his podcast. More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/ . You can find a handy primer on the limitations of a first-past-the-post voting system, along with links to information about alternative systems, on the Electoral Reform Society’s web...
Dec 08, 2020•30 min•Season 7Ep. 34
Taking the time to indulge in some discussion of both the Gunpowder Plot and the differences between climbing and bouldering, Charles Adrian starts off the UK’s second national lockdown with three more books from guests on the podcast. More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/ . A description of the Gunpowder Plot and its aftermath can be found on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunpowder_Plot and a round-up of the differences between cl...
Dec 01, 2020•35 min•Season 7Ep. 33
Marked as explicit because of strong language. Still living in a Tier 2 city, Charles Adrian talks about three slim books, all of which feature characters who are children. More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/ . You can read about The Good Immigrant on Nikesh Shukla’s website here: http://www.nikesh-shukla.com/the-good-immigrant . You can read Darren Chetty on the prevalence of white protagonists in Media Diversified here: https://mediadiversifie...
Nov 24, 2020•29 min•Season 7Ep. 32
Talking about two books he remembers very little about and the only book he was given twice, Charles Adrian continues his journey through the books from Season 4 of his podcast and reminisces about a trip to Japan. More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/ . Correction: Tier 3 of the new restrictions that came into force in the UK on the 14th of October, 2020, is the highest tier, described as “very high risk. Tier 2 is described as “high risk” with t...
Nov 17, 2020•29 min•Season 7Ep. 31
Continuing to feed his own preoccupation with the poem Swimmer by Dennis Cooper, which he has already talked about in both Page One 185 and Page One 186 , Charles Adrian hones in on the lines: “Monday Dave calls me/ at a party” and attempts to reconstruct their historical context. More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/ . The Dream Police by Dennis Cooper was previously discussed in Page One 111 ( http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season4#/111-griffyn-g...
Nov 10, 2020•7 min
Marked as explicit because of extensive discussion of death and suicide. Content note: there is a lot of talk of death and suicide in this episode. If you are in the UK and would like to talk to someone in confidence, you can reach Switchboard LGBT at https://switchboard.lgbt/ or by phone on 0300 330 0630, and you can reach the Samaritans at https://www.samaritans.org/ or by phone on 116 123. Taking a very personal look at a poem that has been stuck in his head since the previous episode of this...
Nov 10, 2020•20 min•Season 7Ep. 30
Marked as explicit because of sexual imagery. Beginning with a brief cloudburst and a coda to the previous episode designed to calm Charles Adrian’s esprit d’escalier , the 28th Page One In Review goes on to look at the first five books from the fourth season of the podcast. More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/ . The Bees by Laline Paull, Royal Flash by George MacDonald Fraser and Unless by Carol Shields were all discussed at more length in Page ...
Nov 03, 2020•35 min•Season 7Ep. 29
Talking bee-realism, female friendship and the intoxication of undeserved power and position, Charles Adrian revisits the three books he was given by guests at the end of the third season of the podcast. More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/ . Correction: Contrary to what Charles Adrian says in this episode, The Bees by Laline Paull is not really a Sparticus story. Flora 717 is, in effect, an enslaved bee but she does not exactly gather an army to...
Oct 27, 2020•29 min•Season 7Ep. 28
Not, as promised, a short episode that would have allowed listeners to head out into the apple orchards early, Charles Adrian talks this week about three books that he does not remember so very well. More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/ . You can read about a day Jean Hannah Edelstein spent in Kreuzberg, Berlin, only two years before Charles Adrian’s conversation with SooJin Anjou in the Guardian here: https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2013/nov/...
Oct 20, 2020•29 min•Season 7Ep. 27
Content note: There is some suicidal ideation described at around the 20 minute mark. This episode is marked as explicit on Apple Podcasts because of some derogatory language. Returning to normal service after last week’s break from Page One In Review, Charles Adrian takes his time to talk through three of the biggest books he has been given by guests on the podcast. More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/ . Amos Oz died on the 28th of December, 201...
Oct 13, 2020•35 min•Season 7Ep. 26
Taking a few minutes away from recording Page One In Review episodes, Charles Adrian talks about a particular kind of convalescent literature. More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/ . “Unlike wizards, who like nothing better than a complicated hierarchy, witches don’t go in much for the structured approach to career progression. It’s up to each individual witch to take on a girl to hand the area over to when she dies. Witches are not by nature greg...
Oct 06, 2020•17 min•Season 7Ep. 25
Getting his mind focused and in the right place, Charles Adrian talks about another ghost book and two books based on real life. More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/ . In case you are interested, Charles Adrian talked about the hot weather in Page One 178 and about getting up early in the morning in Page One 172 ( http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-6#/172-poir-16/ ). You can read about The Ridgeway here: https://www.nationaltrail.co.uk/en_GB/tr...
Sep 29, 2020•27 min•Season 7Ep. 24
Marked as explicit because of strong language and discussion of sex Having taken a short change is as good as a holiday, Charles Adrian returns to his wooden IKEA steps to talk about the first three books given to him by guests on the third season of the podcast. More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/ . Correction: The word Charles Adrian was looking for in relation to the cover of The Clown by Heinrich Böll is ‘monochrome’. Also, it is, of course,...
Sep 22, 2020•26 min•Season 7Ep. 23
During a very hot spell in West London, with a glass of water at his side and a towel draped over his shoulder, Charles Adrian revisits the last three books given to him by guests during the second season of the podcast. More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/ . Books discussed here were previously discussed in Page One 87 ( http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-2#/87-alan-cunningham/ ), Page One 88 ( http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-2#/88-susann...
Sep 15, 2020•29 min•Season 7Ep. 22
On a lovely sunny day in West London, Charles Adrian talks about two ghost books, a book that never was and two other books, one of which he does not want to read from and one of which he does. Keep listening to the very end of the episode to hear the sound that is keeping Charles Adrian awake. More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/ . You can find Miranda July and Harrell Fletcher’s crowdsourced art project Learning To Love You More online here: ht...
Sep 08, 2020•26 min•Season 7Ep. 21
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-...
Sep 01, 2020•34 min•Season 7Ep. 20
Marked as explicit because of strong language His hair longer, perhaps, than it has ever been in his life, Charles Adrian talks art, bad people and bookshops. More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/ . Correction: during this episode Charles Adrian calls the Bill Drummond book For Sale $20,000 because that is what is written on the cover but its title is in fact $20,000 . You can read more about Bill Drummond on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.o...
Aug 25, 2020•27 min•Season 7Ep. 19
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.pageonepod...
Aug 18, 2020•26 min•Season 7Ep. 18
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.n...
Aug 11, 2020•29 min•Season 7Ep. 17
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; yo...
Aug 04, 2020•27 min•Season 7Ep. 16
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/ ), Pag...
Jul 28, 2020•30 min•Season 7Ep. 15
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: Edwar...
Jul 21, 2020•24 min•Season 7Ep. 14
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/)....
Jul 14, 2020•27 min•Season 7Ep. 13
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://...
Jul 07, 2020•27 min•Season 7Ep. 12
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 Wiki...
Jun 30, 2020•29 min•Season 7Ep. 11
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 talki...
Jun 23, 2020•32 min•Season 7Ep. 10
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.pageonepodc...
Jun 16, 2020•26 min•Season 7Ep. 9
