184 - POIR 27
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.
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More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/.
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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 revolt against her hive and nor is she defeated ultimately. You can read about what is known of Sparticus in Live Science here: https://www.livescience.com/39730-spartacus.html and about Cape honey bees (who, while more likely to be parasites than slaves, display traits similar to Flora 717) on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_honey_bee. It is also possible that there is no type of bee that is, in fact, known to enslave other types of bee in the way that ants do. You can read about enslaved ants and cuckoo bees on the OUP blog here: https://blog.oup.com/2016/02/enslaved-ants-and-cuckoo-bees/
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Clarification: While Charles Adrian mentions radio waves as an example of damaging human intervention in the natural world, he is not a 5G truther; he is taking an example from the book (The Bees by Laline Paull) which may be based on contemporary research. You can read about a study into the effect of cell phone radiation on bee behaviour in the PMC here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3052591/ and about 5G truthers in The Atlantic here: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/05/great-5g-conspiracy/611317/
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You can read about the waggle dance that foraging bees perform for other members of their colony on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waggle_dance
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You can read about The Hero\u2019s Journey on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero%27s_journey
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Also mentioned in this episode are Tom Brown\u2019s Schooldays by Thomas Hughes, The Prisoner Of Zenda by Anthony Hope and Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov; Pale Fire is discussed in Page One 119 and Page One 151.
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You can read about the Schleswig-Holstein question on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schleswig-Holstein_Question and in the Encyclopaedia Britannica here: https://www.britannica.com/event/Schleswig-Holstein-question
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Books discussed here were previously discussed in Page One 104 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-3#/104-daniel-elliot/), Page One 105 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-3#/105-tina-sederholm/) and Page One 106 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-3#/106-neil-spokes/).
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Episode image is a detail of a photo by Charles Adrian.
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Episode recorded: 1st October, 2020.
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Book listing:
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The Bees by Laline Paull (Page One 104)
Unless by Carol Shields (Page One 105)
Royal Flash by George Macdonald Fraser (Page One 106)