Things can only get better, right? This 28th edition of Page One is, loosely, about the difficulty of making that happen. Drifting East from Thomas More’s New World Utopia, we visit Germany, Russia and China to catch a glimpse of some of the 20th century’s great social experiments. In the middle of this edition, Charles Adrian relates a brief but affecting anecdote of a journey on the Chinatown bus from New York to Boston back in the early days of the ipod.
Books included in this show are:
'Utopia' by Thomas More
'The Lousier War' by W. A. Tucker
'The Spy Who Came In From The Cold' by John Le Carré
'One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich' by Sozhenitsyn
'Grass Soup' by Zhang Xianliang
