162 - POIR 6

Wearing a stylish pair of dungaree shorts on a sunny Spring-like Saturday afternoon, Charles Adrian reflects, digressively and at length, on some of his reasons for starting the podcast in the first place and indulges in some Vladimir Nabokov. NB: The two stories discussed from Vladimir Nabokov's Collected Stories are An Affair Of Honor (translated from Russian by Dmitri Nabokov in collaboration with Vladimir Nabokov) and The Aurelian (translated from Russian by Peter Pertzov in collaboration with Vladimir Nabokov). Pedants corner: Oxford, being in possession of a cathedral, is, of course, a city rather than a town. You can read more about the city of Oxford on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford Correction: Much of what Charles Adrian says about Vladimir Nabokov and his family in this episode is not quite right. You can read more (and more accurately, one assumes) about Vladimir Nabokov's life and ancestry on Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Nabokov Books discussed here are featured in Page One 23 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-1#/23-jessie-greengrass/), Page One 25 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-1#/25-michael-caines/), Page One 26 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-1#/26-gary-merry/) and Page One 43 (http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-1#/43-war/). Other books by Vladimir Nabokov discussed on the podcast are Lolita (discussed in Page One 71 http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season-2#/71-francesca-beard/) and Pale Fire (discussed in Page One 119 http://www.pageonepodcast.com/season4#/119-katherine-leedale/ and in Page One 151 http://www.pageonepodcast.com/#/151-tim-spooner/ – and particularly in the unedited version of the latter episode). Episode image is a detail of a photograph taken by Charles Adrian. Episode recorded: 4th April, 2020. More information and a transcript of this episode is at http://www.pageonepodcast.com/ Book listing: Books As History by David Pearson (Page One 25) Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers (Page One 23) Collected Stories by Vladimir Nabokov (Page One 25) Cosmos by Carl Sagan (Page One 26 and Page One 43)