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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.org/wiki/Bill_Drummond and you can read about Duncan McLaren's book Personal Delivery on his website here: http://www.duncanmclaren.co.uk/pages/david/index-david.html.

 

You can read all about the National Poetry Library – which is, in fact, on level 5 of the Royal Festival Hall in London's Southbank Centre – on their home page here: https://www.nationalpoetrylibrary.org.uk/

 

Another book by Patricia Highsmith, The Talented Mr Ripley, is discussed in Page One 53.

 

You can hear Helen Fielding, the author of Bridget Jones's Diary, among other things, on BBC radio 4's Desert Island Discs here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000kmr7

 

Ben Walters was also a guest on Bernadette Russell's podcast How To Be Hopeful, which you can listen to here: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/how-to-be-hopeful-episode-12-home-made-mutant-hope-machines/id543504687?i=1000480104936

 

Books discussed here were previously discussed in Page One 74 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-2#/74-katrina-crear/), Page One 76 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-2#/76-ben-walters/) and Page One 77 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-2#/77-bernadette-russell/).

 

Episode image is a detail of a photo by Charles Adrian

 

Episode recorded: 21st July, 2020

 

 

Book listing:

 

$20,000 by Bill Drummond (Page One 74)

Ripley's Game by Patricia Highsmith (Page One 76)

Three Things You Need To Know About Rockets by Jessica A. Fox (Page One 77)