Conversations with, between and about feminism(s).

Feminism

Conversations with my partner Jen: http://www.jadamthwaite.co.uk

The Jen Episodes

The Open Episodes

The collected episodes from the 2014 Personal Season.

The Personal Season 2014

Conversations that touch on and often focus on mental health issues.

Mental Health Issues

In GBA 119 we get even better acquainted with my Mum as she returns for her 3rd full episode.  We talk about the tensions and similarities between us, nature verses nurture, rage, depression and mother issues! It was a hard but revelatory conversation to have. And in some ways is as personally revealing as last weeks episode with my dad. Another one I'm nervous to share. 

We talked about my mothers relationship with my gran too and how that relationship has shaped and influenced her. So I have also included a short story I wrote about my grandparents in the middle of the conversation. That story was written in part as a reaction and extension of this conversation. It was performed in front of a live audience at Stand Up Tragedy.

The conversation was a big one for me. You hear me having unexpected feelings live on mic. And it's actually a very unconfrontational conversation. It was the third one in a row that I'd recorded with her.

https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/the-mum-episodes-1

These conversations were part of a very intensive life changing visit to Bristol and on Friday I'm releasing a GBA special called The Truth of Today which documents and deals with the experiences that I had that weekend.

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GBA 119 Mum #3

In this special GBA Live recorded at the Banshee Labyrinth as part of the PBH Free Fringe at the Edinburgh Festival. I get better acquainted with Bec Hill and Brydie Lee-Kennedy from the Gods of Comedy podcast.

We talk comedy, religion, belief and more.


We plug:

Gods of Comedy: http://godsofcomedypodcast.com/

Sugar & Vice: All the Men We've Never Slept With
Venue: Gilded Balloon Teviot ​ 
Date:13-26 August
Time: 21:00

https://www.edfringe.com/whats-on/cabaret/sugar-vice-all-the-men-we-ve-never-slept-with

Bec Hill: Bec by Popular Demand 
Venue: Gilded Balloon Teviot ​ 
Date: 13-25 August
Time: 16:00

https://www.edfringe.com/whats-on/comedy/bec-hill-bec-by-popular-demand

Pun Run
Venue: The Canons' Gait ​ 
Date: 14 August
Time: 18:05

https://www.edfringe.com/whats-on/comedy/pun-run

Stand Up Tragedy (Fiddler's Elbow Downstairs, Venue 71) 3rd - 14th August at 6.30pm: http://www.facebook.com/events/597921693564454/?fref=ts

And my next live GBA shows

13th August w/ Peter Buckley Hill: 1.40pm Banshee Labyrinth Banquetting Hall: http://www.facebook.com/events/197046307128430/?fref=ts

And we all plug:

A Maze of Breaths - pbhfreefringespokenword.bandcamp.com/album/…fringe

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In GBA 125 we get better acquainted with my Aunty Margaret. We learn a lot about each other that we didn't know in a conversation that covers singing in choirs, suicide attempts, God, the WI, depression, medication, boarding school, yoga and more.

It's a really special moment captured on microphone where two people who know each other and share many things but have never really sat down and talked person to person do so.

Margaret doesn't plug anything.

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GBA 125 Aunty Margaret

In GBA 132 we get better acquainted with Nina. She talks bullying, complicated childhoods, feminism(s), mental health, France, twitter and more. 

The first GBA conversation with someone who had made a spider diagram of their life for me to follow during the conversation. And the first time Nina and I had met in person. Until then our friendship had been via email and twitter. Nina first reached out to me as a listener to the show. Some of our initial correspondence was featured in the 100th episode.

https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/gba100-1

Nina plugs:

North East Feminist Gathering: http://www.nefeministgathering.com/

Blog and writing:  
http://fifty2stories.tumblr.com/

http://www.quailpipe.co.uk/

Twitter handle:

https://twitter.com/gourenina

Her podcast: https://soundcloud.com/nina-gray-1

Her radio play:
https://soundcloud.com/epilepsyaction/play-diagnose-it-yourself-nina-gray-ilkley-players

Epilepsy Action: https://www.epilepsy.org.uk/

We mention:

Martin's episode: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-67-martin-the-sound-man

Ally Fogg:

https://twitter.com/AllyFogg

http://freethoughtblogs.com/hetpat

The Push: https://twitter.com/search?q=%23ThePush&src=hash

Artwiculate: https://twitter.com/search?q=%23artwiculate&src=hash

1 Million and Rising: http://www.onebillionrising.org/

Ira Glass - taste / ability: http://greyscalegorilla.com/blog/2010/09/how-beginners-get-better-ira-glass-explains/

Spark London: http://www.sparklondon.com/

Audre Lourde: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audre_Lorde

Laurie Penny: 

https://twitter.com/PennyRed

http://www.newstatesman.com/laurie-penny




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GBA 132 Nina

In GBA 154 we get even better acquainted with my Dad. We talk about his experiences of non-monogamy, try and get into an untold war time love story and explore general issues around sex and sexuality. 

WARNING: If you are related to us you may not want to listen to this episode.

This is the first episode of a 3 week "Personal Season". On Friday (4th) they'll be another conversation with my dad, this time about parenting and mortality. Then next week they'll be another conversation with my partner Jen that will be broken into 2 parts and come out on Wednesday (9th) and Friday (11), and then the week after that (16th) they'll be an episode that collects together true stories and personal songs that I've told and recorded over the last 2 years.

Dad plugs Al Jazeera: http://www.aljazeera.com/

I plug chocolate covered Hob Nobs.

We mention:

Dad's previous episodes: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/the-dad-episodes

War Episode: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-3-dad-1

Francis Cammaerts: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Cammaerts

Harry Rée http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_R%C3%A9e

SOE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_Executive

Émile Cammaerts: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89mile_Cammaerts

Paul Rotha: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Rotha

Dan Savage: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Savage

Sheila: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-117-sheila

Kink: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kink_(sexual)

BDSM: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BDSM

Sex Positive: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex-positive_movement

The Coventry Years: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-77-the-coventry-years

Fetish: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetish

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GBA 154 Dad #4

In GBA 155 we get even better acquainted with my Dad. We talk about being a new father in different decades, mortality, how we are all time travelers through history, my childhood and if he has any regrets.

This is the second episode of a 3 week "Personal Season". 

The first episode of the season came out last Wednesday: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-154-dad-4

Next week they'll be another conversation with my partner Jen that will be broken into 2 parts and come out on Wednesday (9th) and Friday (11), and then the week after that (16th) they'll be an episode that collects together true stories and personal songs that I've told and recorded over the last 2 years.

Dad plugs Al Jazeera again: www.aljazeera.com/

We mention:

Dad's previous episodes: http://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/the-dad-episodes

Tony Blair:

The episode that cover's my Mum's time working on theAdventure Playground: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-24-mum-1

The Partition: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-extra-the-partition

The Coventry Years: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-77-the-coventry-years

Slaughter House 5: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slaughterhouse-Five

Carpal Tunnel: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpal_tunnel

Arthritis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthritis

Getting On: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_On

Joss Whedon commencement speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn866ryQ5RY

To the Heart of It: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-53-to-the-heart-of-it

Liz Episode: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-4-liz

Buffy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer

Citizen Kane: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen_Kane

Jack and George's conversation: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-106-jack-and-george|

Copenhagen: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen_(play)

Niels Bohr: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niels_Bohr

Niels Bohr quote: “There are trivial truths and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.” 

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GBA 155 Dad #5

In GBA 156 pt 1 we get even better acquainted with my partner, Jen. We talk about how she feels  being presented and represented on the podcast, introverts, ambiverts and extroverts, the way her memory works, the different distinctive smells of books, refining the mind and body, how we interact and intersect with each other as a couple and  whether consciousness is an evolutionary disadvantage.

Also I propose to her live on mic. 

This is the third episode of a 3 week "Personal Season".

The second (and arguably even more personal) half of this conversation will come out on  Friday (11), and on next wednesday (16th) the season will be rounded up with an episode  collecting together true stories and personal songs that I've told and recorded over the last 2 years.

Jen Plugs:

Nothing in this half of the conversation, her plug will come at the end of Friday's episode.

We mention:

Our past GBA conversations: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/the-jen-episodes

MJ Hibbett Episode: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-12-mj-hibbett

Susan Cain  - Quiet: http://www.thepowerofintroverts.com/

Susan Cain - Ted Talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/susan_cain_the_power_of_introverts

Susan Cain test: http://www.thepowerofintroverts.com/quiet-quiz-are-you-an-introvert/

Audry Lorde: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audre_Lorde

“It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.”

Meg and Mog Books: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meg_and_Mog

Four Wise Monkeys: http://www.jadamthwaite.co.uk/four-wise-monkeys

Jen's Website: http://www.jadamthwaite.co.uk

Bright Eyes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bright_Eyes_(band)

"And we'll keep working on the problem we know we'll never solve 
Of Love's uneven remainders, our lives are fractions of a whole."


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GBA 156 Jen #2 Pt 1

In GBA 156 pt 2 we get even better acquainted with my partner, Jen. We talk about how our 13 year relationship works, exploring the domestic compromises and tensions, arguments and conflicts, friendship and love, that come from living with someone and sharing a life together. We also cover the experience of living with (and living with someone who lives with) mental health issues. We push at the boundaries of openness and honesty in a conversation that is full of quiet revelations. Whether you know us well or know nothing about us, by the end of this conversation you will be intimately acquainted with who we are and how we fit together. 

This conversation picks up where Part 1 left off and I recommend listening to that episode first: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-156-jen-2-pt-1

This is the forth episode of a 3 week "Personal Season".

On next wednesday (16th) the season will be rounded up with an episode collecting together true stories and personal songs that I've told and recorded over the last 2 years.

Jen Plugs:

Openness and honesty.

We mention:

Crying For No Reason - Katy B: http://open.spotify.com/track/3DDxYAT7Nuj0tfkHICWYi3

Dan Savage: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Savage

Savage Love: http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/SavageLove?oid=19234246

Sex at Dawn: http://www.sexatdawn.com/

Smugsexual - on twitter

http://stavvers.wordpress.com/2013/12/08/smugsexual-and-the-closet-two-faces-of-feminist-biphobia/

http://sometimesitsjustacigar.wordpress.com/2013/12/08/thoughts-on-being-a-smugsexual/

Radcliffe Episodes: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/the-radcliffe-episodes/

Niels Bohr: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niels_Bohr

Niels Bohr quote: “There are trivial truths and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.”

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GBA 156 Jen #2 Pt 2

In GBA 157 we get better acquainted with... me. The Personal Season ends with The Personal Episode: True stories told by me live on stage at Spark London over the last few years, broken up with tracks from The Open EP that I released for free download earlier this year. 

It starts with a vasectomy and ends in vomit! In between there's bullying, smashing through windows, an unusual stag night, crime and punishment and more. 

It's another episode I feel uncomfortable about putting out. Which has been a feature of this 3 week season.

For more about Spark London go here: http://www.sparklondon.com/

This is the final episode of the 3 week "Personal Season".

I plug getting better acquainted!


Related episodes:

https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/the-open-episodes

https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-31-ged

https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-106-jack-and-george

https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-77-the-coventry-years

https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-80-alex

https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-81-dave-guest-hosted-by

https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-17-cardiff

https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-67-martin-the-sound-man

The Open EP: https://soundcloud.com/the-dave/sets/the-open-ep

Hero: https://soundcloud.com/the-dave/hero

Producers:

Stephen Harvey - https://twitter.com/SteveHSoundtech  tech[at]standuptragedy.co.uk

Martin Austwick: https://twitter.com/martinaustwick
http://www.thesoundoftheladies.com/

Shameem: https://soundcloud.com/muzikal-azylum


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GBA 157 The Personal Episode

A live recording of a GBA recorded at #edfringe 2014 at the Royal Oak as part of the PBH Free Fringe.

CONTENT NOTE: The conversations touches on child abuse, drug use, violence and bullying. 

This recording is unedited and posted in a no frills way due to the intensive workload of the festival, and for that reason these shows will also not have shownotes attached to them.

21st August: Tamer Kattan: http://www.tamerkattan.com/

Tamer Kattan was born an outsider and that's where he stayed. This Egyptian-born American was born into a family of Muslims, Christians and Jews leaving him incredibly comfortable in the uncomfortable. From school yard bullies to an abusive father, comedy quickly became a weapon of this underdog. This award winning international comedian with TV and commercial credits in the United States. A regular at the Comedy store, Improv and Laugh Factory in Los Angeles, he now resides in the UK where you can find him at Comedy Cafe, Top Secret and The Comedy store in London. 




GBA Live 13 - Tamer Kattan

In GBA 187 we get better acquainted with Hannah. She talks about connecting with people, about the crack in everything that lets the light get in, about rootlessness, relationships, family, love, death and pain. It's a conversation that threads itself around how facebook can connect and dissect people, making your life into fiction and finding out what how people relate and connect to each other.

Content Note: The conversation is warm but it covers dark and difficult subjects including suicide, bereavement and experiences of mental health issues and traumas.

Hanna plugs:

Boyhood: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyhood_%28film%29

We mention:

Spark London: sparklondon.com/

"There is a crack, a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in" 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ma5tF6TJpA

Watching the English - Kate Fox: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Watching-English-Hidden-Rules-Behaviour/dp/0340818867

https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-131-carl

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GBA 187 Hannah

In GBA 36 we get better acquainted with Christmas. It's the 2011 Christmas Special:  A festive curiosity full of intimacy, doubt, shared history, music & cheer.

I talk to my partner Jen, about the spirit of Christmas, why she loves the season despite or maybe even because she doesn't believe in god, we compare our different childhood Christmases, and tell our shared Christmas stories featuring panic attacks in midnight mass, the smells of Christmas, and lots more.

We hear my Dad extracts from a story recorded on cassette in the mid 80's. It's a Christmas recording given to the family children. It;s a window into the past.

I talk to Natti, about her Rastafarian experience and attitude towards Xmas.

And I play the Christmas song I wrote a last year. The recording of the song is from New Year 2011 and took place in a room full of friends.

Basically this episode tells the story of how I learned to love (albeit a highly neurotic and ambiguous love) the season despite its past crimes against my childhood.

Also it CONTAINS SPOILERS so please don't play it on speakers around little children. Unless you are actively choosing this way to break the news to them.


Happy Christmas and a Merry New Year!


Ghosts of... http://youtu.be/XqCKfOwA9vE

Time to be Nice 2011: http://youtu.be/UiPXNO7WJAQ

One of the reasons I have trouble loving Christmas: http://www.mixcloud.com/sparklondon/two-cathedrals-david-pickering/


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GBA 36 Getting Better Acquainted with Christmas!

In GBA 59 we get better acquainted with Sanne. Amongst other things she talks about studying and making theatre, dance and movement, acting, making art and the roles we play within our genders.

We sit in a park in the docklands area of London and compare notes, share stories and idea and get interrupted by passing families. 

Devised theatre, making the stone more stony, art as a lie, depictions of Ariel, boys wearing dresses, sex and sexuality, this conversation goes to lots of interesting places.

Sanne is my first Swedish guest (but she won't be the last!)

Sanne Plugs:

The Fish and the Denim River at Accidental Festival 2012: http://accidentalfestival.co.uk/index.php/programme/saturday-2nd-june/120-the-fish-and-the-denim-river

Here's the facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/243532722403101/

And this is the rest of the Accidental Festival: http://accidentalfestival.co.uk/

She talks a lot about her course and whilst she doesn't plug it specifically here it is if you're interested: http://www.east15.ac.uk/


I talk about how I'm going to see DV8's Can We Talk About This? at the National Theatre: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/?lid=68379

Here is the 3 part review I wrote of it:

http://goosefat101twitterspills.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/dv8-review-1-cost-of-theatre.html

http://goosefat101twitterspills.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/dv8-2-personal-is-political.html

http://goosefat101twitterspills.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/dv8-3-promising.html



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GBA 59 Sanne

In GBA 61 we get better acquainted with my partner/girlfriend Jen. We talk about writing, atheism and not having children. It's sort of a window into our 11 year relationship: what we're like when we're alone. At the same time it's one of the most microphone aware conversations I've had on the show.



Jen Plugs:

Her website: http://www.jadamthwaite.co.uk/ where you can find her writing, her blogs and more information about her and her work.

Her twitter account: http://twitter.com/jadamthwaite

Her blog: http://www.jadamthwaite.co.uk/from-the-living-room

Four Wise Monkeys: http://www.jadamthwaite.co.uk/four-wise-monkeys

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GBA 61 Jen

In GBA 78 we get better acquainted with Louise. A different Louise this time! She talks mostly about dance! 

But that doesn't mean the conversation is limited. We cover the experience of dancing, following and leading, the politics of dancing, a potted history of blues music, the relationship between types of dance, the connection between social struggle and dance, the etiquette of dance, the social value and demographics of dance, and even the science of dance!


Louise plugs:

Dancing!

Social Dancing in general.

If you want to dance there are dance nights every night of the week.

Easy Dance to start: guaranteed to be dancing in 6 weeks: http://jivenation.co.uk/
If you want to learn swing dancing from the best people in the country: http://www.swingpatrol.co.uk/
Blues dancing: Google: Blues in my shoes, blues baby blues, sin city blues or check out: http://bluesrevolution.co.uk/




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GBA 78 Louise

In GBA 84 we get better acquainted with my writing group. It's a 7 way conversation focused on our shared interest of writing. Half the group are making their second appearance. For the other half this is a teaser for upcoming episodes focuses on them. 

We sit down for tea and cake in the dining room of a Camber Sands holiday house during our first trip away together. We tell the story of how the group formed, discuss the way the group works, consider writing as a craft, a passion and a form of work, tackle writing "block", the future of the novel, whether writing can be taught and other aspects of this thing we do.


The group are:

Jen:

http://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-61

http://www.jadamthwaite.co.uk/  

http://twitter.com/jadamthwaite

Nathalie:

http://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-20-nathalie

http://twitter.com/NathalieLeonora

http://countingzeros.wordpress.com/what-is-counting-zeros/

Joss:

http://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-27-joss

http://www.stormboy.net/

http://soundcloud.com/jossarmitage

Angela:

http://twitter.com/angelashoosmith

Sofia:

http://twitter.com/jslundberg

Emily:

http://emilycleaver.net/

http://twitter.com/EmilyCleaver

Me:

http://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/the-dave-episodes/

http://goosefat101.blogspot.co.uk/


Blogs about that Writing Retreat:

http://nathaliehourihan.wordpress.com/2011/10/29/i-love-my-friends-but-1/

http://nathaliehourihan.wordpress.com/2011/10/29/i-love-my-friends-but-2/

http://www.jadamthwaite.co.uk/from-the-living-room/2011/10/22/seven-writers-and-a-cottage.html

http://www.jadamthwaite.co.uk/from-the-living-room/2011/10/30/seven-writers-writing.html


And blogs on our 2nd Writing Retreat:

http://www.jadamthwaite.co.uk/from-the-living-room/2012/8/19/headspace.html

http://www.jadamthwaite.co.uk/from-the-living-room/2012/8/26/the-retreat-and-beyond.html



Nathalie's blog about our first "intervention" session:

http://nathaliehourihan.wordpress.com/2011/06/02/help-for-blocked-writers/



Instead of asking for plugs I asked for people to recommend books on writing:

Joss:

Teach Us How To Sit Still by Tim Parks: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Teach-Us-Sit-Still-Sceptics/dp/0099548887

Angela:

That Crafty Feeling by Zadie Smith: http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/?p=73547

How I Write in Time Out: eg http://www.timeout.com/london/books/features/2100/Neil_Gaiman-how_I_write.html

Jen:

This Year You Write Your Novel by Walter Mosley: http://www.amazon.co.uk/This-Year-Write-Your-Novel/dp/0316065412

Dave:

Steering the Craft by Ursula Le Guin: http://www.amazon.com/Steering-Craft-Exercises-Discussions-Navigator/dp/0933377460

How to Write a Damn Good Novel II by James N. Frey: http://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Write-Damn-Good-Novel/dp/0312104782

The Carrier Bag Theory Of Fiction by Ursula Le Guin: http://www.trabal.org/texts/pdf/LeGuin.pdf

Understanding Comics and Reinventing Comics by Scott McCloud

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Understanding-Comics-Invisible-Scott-McCloud/dp/006097625X

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Reinventing-Comics-Scott-McCloud/dp/0060953500

Emily:

On Writing by Stephen King: http://www.amazon.co.uk/On-Writing-A-Memoir-Craft/dp/1444723251

Rhyme's Reason by John Hollander: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rhymes-Reason-Guide-English-Verse/dp/0300088329

Sofia:

On Writing by Stephen King

Story by Robert McKee: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Story-Substance-Structure-Principles-Screenwriting/dp/0060856181

The Writer's Journey by Christopher Vogler: http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Writers-Journey-Christopher-Vogler/dp/0330375911


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GBA 84 Writing Group

In this spur of the moment GBA Extra we get even better acquainted Jen. 

This summer after dinner Jen was talking about some research she was doing about sleep paralysis which sparked a childhood memory in me. We decided to turn the mic on and share the conversation with the show. We talk about strange sleep states, dreams, memories and writing. We have a false ending and then we come back with some readings and analysis of Jens sleep diary. 

And the episode is capped with a short story which Jen wrote about "locked in syndrome" which was performed by previous GBA guest Louise at Stand Up Tragedy earlier this year. This story isn't about dreams but it does contain many of the themes of both this episode and of Jen's writing in general.

GBA's of the people who are featured or get mentioned:

Jen: http://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-61-jen

Louise: http://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/the-louise-episodes-1/

Owain: http://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-16-owain

Vaughan: http://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/vman-1/

Chris Goode: http://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-83-chris-goode


Also mentioned:

The Podcast with the crazy dream / sleepwalking story is in this episode of the brilliant Risk Podcast: http://risk-show.com/podcast/state-of-emergency/

It's the one called Nude Descending a Staircase by Morgan Bartlett


Stand Up Tragedy: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk/



We plugs:

JEN!

http://www.jadamthwaite.co.uk

http://twitter.com/jadamthwaite




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GBA Extra - After Dinner Dreams

In GBA 89 we get better acquainted with Laraby. She talks about how storytelling and class have shaped her life, of her journey from poverty in the Lower East Side of New York to relative comfort in South London. 

This journey has taken her from an unstable home in the ghetto, Children’s Homes, running away at 14 to find a new life, the music industry, an Ivy League University, writing, immigration, working with young offenders, completing the citizenship test and so much more! 



Laraby Plugs:

Penny Arcade: BITCH! DYKE! FAGHAG! WHORE! at The Albany 15-23rd December 2012: http://www.thealbany.org.uk/event_detail/893/Theatre/Penny-Arcade-B!D!F!W!


Laraby's Spark Story (told on the night we met): http://www.mixcloud.com/sparklondon/tit-trauma-laraby/



Mentioned:

Spark London: http://www.sparklondon.com/

The Moth: http://themoth.org/




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GBA 89 Laraby

A weekly podcast: Join Dave Pickering on his journey to get better acquainted with the people he knows. Part interview show, part oral history project and part autobiography through conversation.

British Podcast Award 2017 winner (bronze in Best Interview category)

GBA was nominated for a 2012 Radio Production Award, aired for 3 seasons on Resonance 104.4 FM and was featured on BBC Radio 4's In Pod We Trust, BBC Radio 5 Live’s Helen and Olly's Required Listening and has been recommended by The Guardian, Time Out and the Financial Times