192 - Year End 2020

Published: Dec. 22, 2020, noon

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.

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

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Correction 1: This episode was recorded on the 15th December, 2020, and not the 14th December as Charles Adrian says.

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Correction 2: Charles Adrian mistakenly pronounces Ivanhoe as Ivinghoe. The first is a novel by Sir Walter Scott; the second is a village in Buckinghamshire.

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Correction 3: The novelist Charles Adrian refers to as JY Yang in this episode has been called Neon Yang since September 2020. You can read the announcement on their Twitter here: https://twitter.com/itsneonyang/status/1300790160301461507

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The podcast will also be taking a break over festive season and will return with new episodes at some point in the new year.

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Also mentioned in this episode are Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott, which is discussed in Page One 49 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-1#/49-page-one-49/), Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson, which is discussed in Page One 16 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-1#/16-cat-james/) and Page One 159 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-6#/159-poir-3/), and Scottish Fiddlers And Their Music by Mary Anne Alburger, which is discussed in Page One 126 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season4#/126-ms-samantha-mann/) and Page One 191 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-6#/191-poir-33/).

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Cameryn Moore, who is mentioned here, is featured in Page One 98 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-3#/98-cameryn-moore/).

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You can find some information on the Prison Industrial Complex and prison abolition in the UK from the Empty Cages Collective here: http://www.prisonabolition.org/what-is-the-prison-industrial-complex/

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Diane di Prima, also mentioned here, is discussed in more depth in Page One 122 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season4#/122-chris-goode/) and Page One 190 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-6#/190-poir-32/).

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The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk is a standalone novel but The Black Tides Of Heaven by Neon Yang is at the beginning of the Tensorate series and A Hero Born by Jin Yong is the first part of The Condor Trilogy. You can read more about\xa0The Condor Trilogy on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condor_Trilogy.

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Episode image is a detail from the cover of The Black Tides Of Heaven by Neon Yang, published by tor.com in 2017; cover art by Yuko Shimizu; cover design by Christine Foltzer.

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Episode recorded: 15th December, 2020.

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Book listing:

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The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk

The Black Tides Of Heaven by Neon Yang

A Hero Born by Jin Yong