150 - Azariah France-Williams

Joining Charles Adrian for the 124th Second-Hand Book Factory is Windrush scion, Black British Christian, storyteller and fellow Family Tree performer Azariah France-Williams. They talk a compassionate engagement with the world and a quest for silence.

Azariah France-Williams and Charles Adrian are both featured on the magical realist podcast The Family Tree in which Azariah plays himself and Charles Adrian plays the Revd Philip Beech: http://thefamilytreepodcast.co.uk/

You can learn more about the phrase “Water your herbs even if they are going to die tomorrow” and what it means to Charles Adrian by listening to the 8th episode of his Muselings podcast: http://muselings.uk/

Episode image is a detail from the cover of A Book of Silence by Sara Maitland, published by Granta Books in 2008; cover design by Dan Mogford.

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

Book listing:

Nonviolence: The History Of A Dangerous Idea by Mark Kurlansky

The Master by Colm Toibín

A Book of Silence by Sara Maitland