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 Sp

192 - Year End 2020

Dec 22nd, 2020 36m 43s

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 muc

191 - POIR 33

Dec 15th, 2020 22m 16s

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. M

190 - POIR 32

Dec 8th, 2020 29m 51s

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 informa

189 - POIR 31

Dec 1st, 2020 34m 36s

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 i

188 - POIR 30

Nov 24th, 2020 29m 23s

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.

187 - POIR 29

Nov 17th, 2020 29m 13s

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 tran

Bonus

186 extra - Swimmer

Nov 10th, 2020 6m 32s

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 r

186 - Swimmer

Nov 10th, 2020 20m 9s

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 Switchboar

185 - POIR 28

Nov 3rd, 2020 35m

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 t

184 - POIR 27

Oct 27th, 2020 29m 4s

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 t

183 - POIR 26

Oct 20th, 2020 28m 53s

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

182 - POIR 25

Oct 13th, 2020 34m 56s

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

181 - Small Gods

Oct 6th, 2020 16m 31s

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 w

180 - POIR 24

Sep 29th, 2020 27m 29s

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 interes

179 - POIR 23

Sep 22nd, 2020 25m 59s

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 s

178 - POIR 22

Sep 15th, 2020 28m 35s

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

177 - POIR 21

Sep 8th, 2020 26m 23s

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 h

176 - POIR 20

Sep 1st, 2020 33m 31s

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 f

175 - POIR 19

Aug 25th, 2020 26m 43s

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

174 - POIR 18

Aug 18th, 2020 25m 57s

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. B

173 - POIR 17

Aug 11th, 2020 28m 34s

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 bo

172 - POIR 16

Aug 4th, 2020 26m 51s

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 t

171 - POIR 15

Jul 28th, 2020 29m 58s

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

170 - POIR 14

Jul 21st, 2020 24m 5s

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