Originally put together for #NationalPoetryDay2015

Poets and Poetry

Episodes about travelling the world or with significant parts devoted to travelling tales.

Travelling

Politics

Spoken Word Performers

Conversations that feature or focus on discussions of LDBTQIA issues and rights.

LGBTQIA Issues and Rights

In GBA 123 we get better acquainted with Daniel Simpson. He talks about his experience trying to bring Ibiza to the Balkans in a story that involves being a journalist for the New York Times, drug smuggling, the Serbian mafia, Sonic Youth, and the conflict between idealism and egotism. 

We also get into both the wider politics that frame this story (the media, the Balkans, The War on Terror, The War on Drugs, Western Foreign Policy) and what he learnt personally about himself from his terrible experiences.

At PBH's Free Fringe (part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival):

Getting Better Acquainted

- 1.40pm, 12th August, Banshee Labyrinth w/ Gods of Comedy: http://www.facebook.com/events/489862131092073/

- 1.40pm, 13th August, Banshee Labyrinth w/ Peter Buckley Hill: http://www.facebook.com/events/197046307128430/

Stand Up Tragedy: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk/

6.30pm, 3rd - 14th August, Fiddler's Elbow (downstairs): http://www.facebook.com/events/597921693564454/

Spark London: http://www.sparklondon.com/

12.15pm, 8th August, Fiddler's Elbow (Downstairs): http://www.facebook.com/events/120455901458002

Daniel Plugs:

Rough Guide to the Darkside: http://www.roughguidedarkside.com/

Spark London in August:

12th August @ Hackney Attic:  https://www.facebook.com/events/431964896916829/

19th August Upstairs @ The Ritzy: 
https://www.facebook.com/events/153907941477134/

We mention:

George Orwell: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Orwell
Echo: http://www.echofestival.com/croatia/
Sonic Youth: http://www.sonicyouth.com/
Hunter S Thompson: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_S._Thompson
Glenn Greenwald: http://www.theguardian.com/profile/glenn-greenwald
Derrick May: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derrick_May_(musician)
Ram Dass: http://www.ramdass.org/
Gary Web - dark alliance - consortium news: http://consortiumnews.com/2011/12/09/the-warning-in-gary-webbs-death/
The Truth is Out There: http://www.truth-is-out-there.com/
Chillpack Hollywood Hour: http://www.chillpakhollywood.com/
Phil Leirness: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-60-phil-leirness/
Chris Roberts: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-41-chris

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GBA 123 Daniel Simpson

In this special GBA Live recorded in the Soundcloud space on the royal mile we get even better acquainted with BBC Radio 4's Richard Tyrone Jones who was on the show a few years ago: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-13-richard-tyrone-jones

We talk Edinburgh, spoken word, heart conditions and challenging performance art, plus Dan Simpson drops by to join us and talk pac man, poems and chiptunes.

Richard Tyrone Jones plugs his Cananda tour.

You can find him here:

http://www.richardtyronejones.com/

http://twitter.com/RTJpoet


Dan Simpson plugs his show We Are All Orange Ghosts (Fiddler's Elbow Downstairs, Venue 71)3rd - 18th August at 2.45pm

You can find him here: 

http://dansimpsonpoet.wordpress.com/

http://twitter.com/dansimpsonpoet


I plug:

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

And my live GBA shows:

12th August w/ Gods of Comedy: 1.40pm Banshee Labyrinth Banquetting Hall: https://www.facebook.com/events/489862131092073/?fref=ts

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


And we all plug: 

A Maze of Breaths - http://pbhfreefringespokenword.bandcamp.com/album/a-maze-of-breaths-spoken-word-at-pbhs-free-fringe

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GBA Live 6:  Richard Tyrone Jones (and Dan Simpson)

In GBA 131 we get better acquainted with Carl. He stops off in the middle of travelling around the world to talk neuroscience, culture, the merely real and share some stories of his travels.

Carl plugs:

"Have joy if you can in the merely real."

"Do stuff while you can because there's a fine line between can and can't and you don't want to discover it on the wrong day."

His Blog: http://themerelyreal.blogspot.com/

We mention:

BBCQT Watch-a-long:  https://www.facebook.com/events/361392280657539/
https://twitter.com/BBCQTWatchalong

Unfortunatalie: https://twitter.com/unfortunatalie

couchsurfing.org: https://www.couchsurfing.org/

Watching the English  -  Kate Fox: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Watching-English-Hidden-Rules-Behaviour/dp/0340818867

The Two Cultures - CP Snow: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Two_Cultures
 
Program or be Programmed - Douglas Rushcoff: http://www.amazon.com/Program-Be-Programmed-Commands-Digital/dp/159376426X

Centre for Applied Rationality: http://rationality.org/

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GBA 131 Carl

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 147 we get better acquainted with Lisa. She talks about travelling round the world; including the experience of being hit by a car in Vietnam, the commercialization of atrocities, the practicalities and politics of travel and so much more.

Lisa plugs:

Her blog: http://lisafindley.com/

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Stowaway/152841568136841

I plug:

Tragic Love: 13th February @ the Dogstar, Brixton: https://www.facebook.com/events/679186822103633/

We mention:

Liz Episode: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-4-liz
The Killing Fields: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_Fields
Uluru: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uluru
Carl Episode: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-131-carl

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GBA 147 Lisa Findley

In GBA 169 we get better acquainted with James McKay. He talks us through Victorian poetry recitals, classical literature and history, plundering and re-contextualising the canon, the relationship between the Moomins and Zen thinking, putting on gigs in your front room and being an "Arts Thatcherite". If all of that sounds dry and worthy and highbrow then think again as this conversation is very much the opposite of that.

James plugs:

His Website: http://www.mckaypoetry.com/

Utter: Space: https://www.facebook.com/events/1403219706606930/

I plug: The Stand Up Tragedy IndieGoGo Campaign: http://bit.ly/TragicFringe

Tragic Misadventures: Wednesday 9th July at the Black Heart: http://www.facebook.com/events/601978073250123/

We mention:

The book of Job: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Job

Stand Up Tragedy: http://standuptragedy.co.uk

Stand Up Tragedy performances by James:
https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-james-mckay-ep-2
https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/stand-up-tragedy-16
https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-daily-ep-14-fay-roberts

City of Dreadful Night: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Dreadful_Night

Tragic Christmas: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sets/tragic-christmas

The New Mother: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Mother

How Horatius Held the Bridge: http://www.englishverse.com/poems/horatius

Rochester: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wilmot,_2nd_Earl_of_Rochester

https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-extra-imperfect-enjoyment-by-rochester

Whitman: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Whitman

James on soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/mckay_poetry

The Libertine: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Libertine_(2004_film)

King James Bible: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_James_Version

Sermon on the Mount: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sermon_on_the_Mount

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

Book of Revelation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Revelation

Song of Solomon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song_of_Songs

Leviticus: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Leviticus

The Byrds - Turn! Turn! Turn! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4ga_M5Zdn4

Boney M - The Rivers of Babylon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm1g8FFRArc&feature=kp

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

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

Norse Myths: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norse_mythology

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

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

Inky Fingers: http://inkyfingers.org.uk/

Christopher Smart - Jubilate Agno http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jubilate_Agno

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

Coventry Cathedral:  http://www.coventrycathedral.org.uk/

Beat Poetry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_Generation

E M Forster: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._M._Forster

Kipling: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudyard_Kipling

Coleridge: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Taylor_Coleridge

Wordsworth: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wordsworth

Swinburne: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algernon_Charles_Swinburne

Tennyson: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred,_Lord_Tennyson

Browning: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Browning

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

Moomins: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moomin

Comet in Moominland: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_in_Moominland

Little My: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_My

Snorkmaiden: http://moomin.wikia.com/wiki/The_Snork_Maiden

Moomin Valley in November: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moominvalley_in_November

Moominland Midwinter: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moominland_Midwinter

Finn Family Moomintroll: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finn_Family_Moomintroll

Moomin Pappa at Sea: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moominpappa_at_Sea

The Way of Zen - Alan Watts: http://www.amazon.com/The-Way-Zen-Alan-Watts/dp/0375705104

Japanese cartoons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnOj1EyMLgg&feature=kp

Polish Cartoon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utXbpKrWRBs

Dubbed Version:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiZ0eBFTH6k

Comics: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moomin_comic_strips

Tove's Hobbit: http://www.forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2013/illustration-tove-janssons-hobbit/

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

The Lord of the Rings: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings

The Decline of the West: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Decline_of_the_West

Exploits of Moomin Pappa: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Exploits_of_Moominpappa

Peter Jackson: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Jackson

Tolkien: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._R._R._Tolkien

Tolkien's letter's to Hitler: http://io9.com/5892697/whats-classier-than-jrr-tolkien-telling-off-nazis-absolutely-nothing

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

Septimius Severus: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septimius_Severus

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

I was mixing up this scene: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xnedde_snails-and-oysters-from-spartacus-1960_shortfilms with this scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNzFLwsFiOM

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

Kipling: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudyard_Kipling

Female of the Species: http://www.potw.org/archive/potw96.html

Space song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-wIvsZBFhQ&feature=kp

Shakespeare: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare

Sunday Assembly: http://sundayassembly.com/

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GBA 169 James McKay

In GBA 172  we get better acquainted with Sophia Walker. She talks about going round the world in 8 mistakes, drawing on her experiences of working in the care industry to create a new piece of spoken word theatre, experiencing 9/11 through the wider social context of her international school classmates, filming documentaries in warzones, the etymology of the words and so much more.

Sophia plugs:

Can't Care, Won't Care 2-24th August 1.40pm at the Banshee Labyrinth: http://edinburghfestival.list.co.uk/event/420338-cant-care-wont-care/

Around the World in Eight Mistakes 9-24th August at the Pilgrim 5.30pm:
http://edinburghfestival.list.co.uk/event/420579-around-the-world-in-eight-mistakes/

Both shows are part of The Free Fringe.

Her first book Opposite the Tour Bus coming out this year from Burning Eye Press 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SophiaWalker

Twitter: https://twitter.com/poetwalker

I plug:

Stand Up Tragedy at the Free Fringe - 7.30pm every day from 2nd-22nd August at the Banshee Labyrinth: www.facebook.com/events/316554115169995/

Sophia Walker will be performing with Stand Up Tragedy on 6th and 23rd.

Getting Better Acquainted Live at the Free Fringe 3.15pm every day from 18th-22th August at the Royal Oak: www.facebook.com/events/773670469351784/

We mention:

Free Fringe spoken word album: http://pbhfreefringespokenword.bandcamp.com/album/a-maze-of-breaths-spoken-word-at-pbhs-free-fringe
Lucy Ayrton: http://www.lucyayrton.co.uk/
Dogstar: http://dogstarbrixton.com/
Stand Up Tragedy: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk/
Andrea Gibson: http://www.andreagibson.org/
Arts Council: http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/
Kevin Cadwallender: http://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poetry/poets/kevin-cadwallender
Ted Talks: http://www.ted.com/
BBCQT Watchalong: https://twitter.com/BBCQTWatchalong
Moscow: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow
Washington: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_D.C.
Soviet Union: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union
UPI: http://www.upi.com/
National Geographic: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/
The Mountain People: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mountain-People-Colin-M-Turnbull/dp/0671640984
David Pluth - Green Peace: http://www.ugpulse.com/heritage/1-on-1-with-national-geographic-photographer-david-pluth/530/ug.aspx
IkLand: the worst people in the world http://iklandmovie.com/index.php  
Boston International Film Festival: http://www.bifilmfestival.com/biffhome.html
Hanoi: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanoi
George Bush: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush
Haringey: http://www.haringey.gov.uk/
Baby P: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Baby_P
Spark London: http://www.sparklondon.com/
Ross Sutherland: http://www.rosssutherland.co.uk/
Jordan - spoken word: http://www.thedailybeast.com/witw/articles/2013/11/16/jordan-s-female-slam-poetry-scene.html
Upworthy: http://www.upworthy.com/
Shane Koyczan -  To This Day  : http://www.tothisdayproject.com/the_poem.html
Talha Ahsan: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syed_Talha_Ahsan 
Stonewall: http://www.stonewall.org.uk/
Keith Jarrett  - Gay Poem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g81EKU1lXbw
Sophia Walker - Faggots: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8muDiSOjOQY
Chumbawamba - Revolution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbXvfVlXt4s
300 to 1: https://www.facebook.com/events/607036452716549/
Monkey Poet: http://www.monkeypoet.co.uk/

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GBA 172 Sophia Walker

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

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.

20th August: 20th August: Fay Roberts: http://www.fayroberts.co.uk/

Fay Roberts is a performance poet and peripatetic percussionist. By day she pokes projects and by night she projects across a microphone. She runs the Cambridge chapter of Hammer & Tongue, along with her own arts label/ brand/ movement/ “nebulous poetry concept” Allographic Press. And she is the director of Spoken Word at PBH's Free Fringe and runs Other Voices Caberet.

GBA Live 12 - Fay Roberts

In GBA 185 we get better acquainted with Mike Jackson. I met Mike at theFocus E15 Mothers Occupation earlier this year and he is one of the real people who are fictionalised in the film Pride. We talk about the personal and the political, going through class experience and class struggle, LGBT rights, solidarity between differently oppressed groups, consciousness raising, activist and trade union history and so much more.

Mike plugs: 

The reformed LGSM who can be found here: http://www.twitter.com/LGSMpride

And in the future they'll be on facebook too here: LGSM 2014 

We mention:

GBA 179 Focus E15 Mothers (feat Mike Jackson): https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-179-focus-e15-mothers

Focus e15 Mothers:

https://twitter.com/FocusE15

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Focus-E15-Mothers/602860129757343

http://focuse15.org/

Spark London: http://sparklondon.com/

Pride: http://www.pridemovie.co.uk/

Billy Elliot: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Elliot
Brassed Off: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brassed_Off
The Full Monty: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Full_Monty
Stephen Beresford: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Beresford
Marc Ashton: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Ashton
Joe Gilgun: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Gilgun
This Is England: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Is_England
The Miner's Strike: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_miners%27_strike_(1984%E2%80%9385)
Margaret Thatcher: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher
Pricewaterhouse Coopers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PricewaterhouseCoopers
Neoliberal: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism
Neoconservative: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism
Von Hayek:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Hayek
Milton Friedman: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Friedman
Tony Benn: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Benn
Naomi Klein: This Changes Everything: http://www.amazon.co.uk/This-Changes-Everything-Capitalism-Climate/dp/1451697384
Freddie Fox: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Fox_(actor)
Pink Triangle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_triangle
Print Workers Strike: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wapping_dispute
Still the Enemy Within: http://the-enemy-within.org.uk/
Women Against Pit Closures: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_Against_Pit_Closures
Clement Attlee http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clement_Attlee
Accrington: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accrington
1967 Sexual Offences Act: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_Offences_Act_1967
Johnathan Harvey: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Harvey_(playwright)
Beautiful Thing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beautiful_Thing_(play)
Canary: http://www.amazon.co.uk/22Canary-22-Modern-Plays-Jonathan-Harvey/dp/1408131048
"Equal" Marriage Bill: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_(Same_Sex_Couples)_Act_2013
Mark Ashton's Fund: https://www.facebook.com/markashtontrust
Soma Mining Disaster: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soma_mine_disaster




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GBA 185 Mike Jackson

In GBA 189 we get better acquainted with Heather. She talks about how faith and theatre has influenced her passion for working with young people and in getting involved with LGBT rights, her methodist upbringing and personal relationship with God, the experience of being pregnant and how she first knew me as "Pajama Boy".

Heather Plugs: Speaking up for other people's rights.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Edmund Burke

We mention:

Tim: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-188-tim
Mencap: https://www.mencap.org.uk/
PGCE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postgraduate_Certificate_in_Education
I Have 2 Mummys books: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather_Has_Two_Mommies
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Some-people-have-Mums-SomeFamilies-net/dp/1484097122
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tale-Two-Mommies-Vanita-Oelschlager/dp/0982636679
Central Park Penguins book: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_Tango_Makes_Three
Heteronormativity: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heteronormativity
Methodism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methodism
Rowan Williams (The Archbishop of Canterbury at the time of recording): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowan_Williams




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In GBA 198 we get better acquainted with Jack Rooke. He talks about co-writing a show about the death of his dad with his Nan, the barriers to education and the arts that people from working class backgrounds have to deal with, how suicide is presented in the media, watching daytime TV and so much more. 

He *is* crowdfunding his show: http://t.co/TWiOZCoU3K
Here he is in a video telling you about it: http://t.co/pZ50wGETXV

Content Note: Bereavement and reference to suicide and mental health.

Jack plugs:

@JackRooke: https://twitter.com/jackrooke
Good Grief: http://www.thegoodgriefproject.com
Child Bereavement Network: http://www.childhoodbereavementnetwork.org.uk/
Plan If: http://www.planif.org.uk/


I plug:

The upcoming #GBA200 season where I will be celebrating 200 hundred episodes of Getting Better Acquainted with a week of conversations where the table is turned and other people run the show and I am the guest.

We mention:

Roundhouse: http://www.roundhouse.org.uk/
Spark London: http://sparklondon.com/
Wilderness Festival: http://www.wildernessfestival.com/
Charley Harrison: http://charleylucyharrison.com/
About A Boy: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0276751/
Owain: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-16-owain
University of Westminster: http://www.westminster.ac.uk/
Trafalgar Studios: http://www.trafalgar-studios.co.uk/
Meera Syal: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meera_Syal
Arts Council: http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/
The Free Fringe: http://freefringe.org.uk/
This Morning: http://www.itv.com/thismorning
Loose Women: http://www.itv.com/loosewomen
The Chase: http://www.itv.com/thechase
Doctors: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006mh9v
Bang Said the Gun: http://www.bangsaidthegun.com/
The Surgery - Radio One: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006wkj8
Widow's Parents Allowance: http://www.theguardian.com/money/2013/jul/15/widowed-parents-allowance-cut
Bono: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bono
CALM: https://www.thecalmzone.net/
My Aunt: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-125-margaret
Lana Del Rey: http://lanadelrey.com/
L'Wren Scott: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Wren_Scott
Mick Jagger: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Jagger
Samaritans: http://www.samaritans.org/
Bowl of Oranges: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUym7n7fJTQ
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Free Bird: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0W1v0kOELA



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GBA 198 Jack Rooke

In GBA 10 we get better acquainted with Richard. He talks about being an employment lawyer, coming to terms with his sexuality, and his dual passions for law and politics. He also mounts a valiant defence of the coalition government.

Richard plugs:

Voting yes for AV and voting for the Liberal Democrats: http://www.libdems.org.uk/



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In GBA 199 we get better acquainted with Adele Hampton. She talks spoken word, journalism, finding her voice, navigating the intersections of class, race, gender and sexuality, her specific experiences of growing up biracial, moving to London from America and so much more. 

Adele plugs:

Her video production work:  Contact her at Adele Hampton on facebook. Check out her previous video work: http://adelehampton.com/

I plug:

The upcoming #GBA200 season (16th-20th March 2015) where I will be celebrating 200 hundred episodes of Getting Better Acquainted with a week of conversations where the table is turned and other people run the show and I am the guest.

And Tragic Spring: https://www.facebook.com/events/588668424609848/

We mention:

Sophia Walker: https://www.facebook.com/SophiaWalker
Can't Care Won't Care: http://www.rondotheatre.co.uk/production/1159/
Around the World in 8 Mistakes: http://sabotagereviews.com/2013/08/29/edinburgh-fringe-review-around-the-world-in-eight-mistakes-by-sophia-walker/
Stand Up Tragedy: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk/
Oxford Brookes: https://www.brookes.ac.uk/
New College of Humanities: https://www.nchum.org/
My dad: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/the-dad-episodes
Adele's dad: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3563885/
http://www.transcendingsurgeon.com/
Miner's Strike: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_miners%27_strike_%281984%E2%80%9385%29
Spark London: http://sparklondon.com/
Doctor Who: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who
Daniel Radcliffe: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Radcliffe
Rhianna: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhianna_(singer)
Annie: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_(2014_film)
Ferguson: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Ferguson_unrest
The Wire: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_wire
Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/


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GBA 199 Adele Hampton

GBA Fringe Season: Two weeks of episodes devoted to the Edinburgh and Camden Fringes

In GBA 13 we get better acquainted with Richard Tyrone Jones.  Amongst other things we talk about how he literally has a big heart that almost killed him, what it means to try and make a living from poetry and the way his life now (finally) has a narrative arc.

Richard Tyrone Jones plugs:

Utter! Spoken Word: http://www.utterspokenword.com   / http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/group.php?gid=5704768293

Fund Richard Tyrone Jones Has A Big Heart's 2012 Tour and Book: http://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/investment/richard-tyrone-jones-has-a-big-heart-edinburgh-amp-tour-2012-256


Camden Fringe:

Richard Tyrone Jones Has a Heart: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/event.php?eid=203616559670276 LAST SHOW SUNDAY 7th August - Camden Head

Utter! MisGuided Tour of Camden 6th August: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/event.php?eid=215717238445578

Utter! Puppets: 9th August - Green Note http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/event.php?eid=214491278563431


Edinburgh Fringe:

26th and 27th August Banshee Labyrinth: 
http://freefringe.org.uk/showlistings/5099-richard-tyrone-jones-reads-some-stuff-off-bits-of-paper-spoken-word

27th August - Utter! Spoken Word
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/event.php?eid=179663742082014




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GBA 13 Richard Tyrone Jones

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.

25th August: Keith Jarrett: http://zoneonetosix.blogspot.co.uk/

GBA Live 17 Keith Jarrett

In GBA 224 we get better acquainted with AJ. She talks about writing and performing poetry, finding her poetry voice as a result of transitioning, responding to banter culture, transphobia and transmisogyny, kink, sex and sexuality. This was a snatched conversation during the Edinburgh Fringe 2015 where we were both did solo shows. Our shows had a lot of cross over and that's reflected in the conversation.

AJ plugs:

A Lady of a Certain Rage: http://www.lulu.com/shop/aj-mckenna/a-lady-of-a-certain-rage/paperback/product-21075072.html

The Gunshots that Kill Us Are Silenced: https://ajmckenna.bandcamp.com/album/the-gunshots-which-kill-us-are-silenced

Public Address III: http://www.applesandsnakes.org/page/108/PUBLIC+ADDRESS+THE+SOAPBOX+TOUR/1597

@AnathemaJane:  https://twitter.com/anathemajane


I plug:

Stand Up Tragedy presents.... https://www.facebook.com/events/461679520679231/

Stand Up Tragedy: Tragic Autumn: http://www.facebook.com/events/1453089018350037/

#ManSurvey: http://www.mansplainingmasculinity.co.uk/

We mention:

Stand Up Tragedy:  http://standuptragedy.co.uk
Cis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisgender
David Cameron: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Cameron
UKIP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_Independence_Party
Jeremy Clarkson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Clarkson
#KillAllMen: https://stavvers.wordpress.com/2013/05/07/kill-all-men/
https://medium.com/matter/the-meme-ification-of-misandry-3b0c95ad51f5
Bahar Mustafa: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/bahar-mustafa-goldsmiths-university-diversity-officer-could-lose-job-after-being-accused-by-students-10260697.html
#FuckCisPeople:  https://cisnormativity.wordpress.com/2013/08/17/disrupting-the-politics-of-etiquette/
Kate Fox: http://katefox.co.uk/
Angela Readman: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Readman
Rich Mix: http://www.richmix.org.uk/
The Bathroom Thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7qfU45jhOQ
Queer'Say: http://bit.ly/1OGtG04
Daniel Bye: http://www.danielbye.co.uk/
Marina Abramović: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marina_Abramovi%C4%87
Sarah Thomasin: http://sarahthomasin.com/
Kate Tempest: http://katetempest.co.uk/
Stewart Lee: http://www.stewartlee.co.uk/
If You'd Prefer A Milder Comedian Please Ask for One: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Stewart-Lee-Prefer-Milder-Comedian/dp/B003XMVGYQ
Josie Long: http://www.josielong.com/
Fun Home by Alison Bechdel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fun_Home
Eggshells: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUQdVTNnr_4
Stonewall:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonewall_riots
Mattachine Society: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mattachine_Society
Ferguson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferguson_unrest
Autogynephilia: http://www.tsroadmap.com/info/autogynephilia.html
DSM: http://psychiatry.org/psychiatrists/practice/dsm
Breuer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Breuer
Charcot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Martin_Charcot
Freud: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund_Freud
Hirschfeld: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus_Hirschfeld
Paraphilia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraphilia
Topping from the Bottom: http://houseofvoid.com/2012/04/18/topping-from-the-bottom-what-does-it-mean/
Fay Roberts: http://www.fayroberts.co.uk/
6 Sexes: http://www.nature.com/news/sex-redefined-1.16943
Niels Bohr: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niels_Bohr
My Revelation Will Not Be Trivialised: https://ajmckenna.bandcamp.com/track/my-revelation-will-not-be-trivialised
Gil Scott-Heron: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gil_Scott-Heron
Pegging: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegging_(sexual_practice)
Chella Quint: https://chellaquint.wordpress.com/
Kyriarchy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyriarchy
Chelsea Poe: http://chelseapoe.com/
Kasey Platt - A Safe Girl to Love: https://alumni.columbia.edu/node/984451
Gender dysphoria: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_dysphoria
Transmisogyny: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Transmisogyny


GBA 224 AJ McKenna

In GBA 41 we get better acquainted with Chris. He was my one of my lecturers at university. He talks about academia, journalism, media, the Iraq War and the cuts being imposed by the Conservative/Liberal Democrat Coalition Government. It was recorded on a university campus so it was a trip down memory lane where I faced my past lessons and past prejudices. 

It's a conversation about ideas but also about people. Chris tells us of his journey from plumber to van driver to academic and critic. And he makes the argument for how, in a world so influenced and controlled by the media, media studies is far from being an irrelevant subject.

This is the first time someone with the same name as a previous guest has been aired. It won't be the last. Hope it doesn't get too confusing!


Chris plugs: 

His Blog: http://chr1sr0berts.wordpress.com/

Any work he does for http://www.newleftproject.org/ and http://www.guardian.co.uk/higher-education-network

And of course his book when it is published. His full name is Chris Roberts so look out for this in the future.

He also plugs Dan Hind's The Return of the Public:

http://thereturnofthepublic.wordpress.com/

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1844675947/






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GBA 41 Chris

In GBA 45 we get better acquainted with Hannah. She talks about being arrested for dressing like a zombie, unemployment in austere times, creative writing, the right to protest and whether it’s a good time to be a loud bisexual and being middle class.
We also try and puzzle out whether I’m an evil person for owning an iPhone when I understand the moral problems with its production.

She was a "Starbucks Zombie" -

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Starbucks-Zombies/205464159493433

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23951992-zombies-held-in-police-swoop-protesters-spend-four-hours-in-cells-on-day-of-royal-wedding.do

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/apr/29/royal-wedding-police-criticised-protesters

And was the Zombie Rights Campaign's Zombie of the Year: http://zombierightscampaign.org/blog/?p=3948


Hannah plugs:

The Whippersnapper Press: Her web-publishing site for short, taut, witty and innovative writing: http://www.whippersnapperpress.com/

THEY HAVE A GIG: Thursday, 1 March 7.30PM The Miller Pub, 96 Snowfields, London, SE1 3SS   £5

http://www.whippersnapperpress.com/events

http://www.facebook.com/events/194993510595219/

The blog she writes for: Bad Reputation - A feminist pop culture adventure: http://www.badreputation.org.uk/

And her personal blog: http://hannahdoublebarrel.wordpress.com/



I plug:

Stand Up Tragedy

http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk 

WE HAVE A GIG: Monday 5 March 6.30 The Leicester Square Theatre, 6 Leicester Place, London

Tickets: http://leicestersquaretheatre.ticketsolve.com/shows/126520120/events   £10 / £8   - use code TRAGIC to make your full price a concession.



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GBA 45 Hannah

GBA Edinburgh Festival 2012 Season: Three weeks of episodes related to the Edinburgh Festival 2012

(This was last year's season: http://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/fringe-festival-season/)

In GBA 69 we get better acquainted with the second Lucy that has been on the show. She talk about yoga for prisoners, accents, fairytales, feminism, the spoken and written word, and lot's more. 

This is the first episode of the 2012 GBA Edinburgh Festival Season (http://goosefat101twitterspills.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/around-year-ago-getting-better.html) Over the next few weeks there will be conversations with people doing shows up there this year plus next Friday they'll be this year’s Edinburgh special documenting my journey into the opening weekend of the festival, mixed in with previews, reviews and extra snippets of conversation. 

Lucy has a brilliant show. We talk about it in our conversation. And I went to see the preview a few months afterwards. I really thought it was great and I very strongly recommend it. Not only is it awesome, it is FREE!

Lucy Plugs:

Lullabies to Make Your Children Cry:

6.20pm 4-14 August @ The Banshee Labyrinth  Price: FREE (It is part of the excellent PBH Free Fringe)   Duration 1hr

http://www.edfringe.com/whats-on/spoken-word/lucy-ayrton-lullabies-to-make-your-children-cry

http://lullabiestomakeyourchildrencry.tumblr.com/

http://youtu.be/mlpe-tv_Tf0

And 

Flea Circus Open Slam:

7.30pm 4-14 August @ The Banshee Labyrinth  Price: FREE (It is part of the excellent PBH Free Fringe)   Duration 2hr

http://www.edfringe.com/whats-on/spoken-word/flea-circus-open-slam

Want to compete? Contact lucy@teafuelledart.co.uk, or there’ll always be one slot free on the night.


Both show are produced by Tea Fuelled Art: http://www.teafuelledart.co.uk


She also hosts Oxford's Hammer and Tongue: http://www.hammerandtongue.co.uk/

And blogs here: http://lucyinthepubwithcider.tumblr.com/

This is the blog post we talk about: http://lucyinthepubwithcider.tumblr.com/post/14222491238/fat


At the end I plug the show I will be performing in on August 4th:

Grant's True Tales Presents Spark London-Storytelling

http://www.edfringe.com/whats-on/spoken-word/grant-s-true-tales-presents-spark-london-storytelling

5.30pm 4-14 August @ Riddles Court   Price: £8 (including 2 Grant's Cocktails)  Duration 1.5hr

Here is the facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/463582240327243/

If you go and see it on the 4th you'll hear me telling a story and if you introduce yourself you become eligible as a future GBA guest!



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GBA 69 Lucy

GBA Edinburgh Festival 2012 Season: Three weeks of episodes related to the Edinburgh Festival 2012

(This was last year's season: http://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/fringe-festival-season)

In GBA 70 we get better acquainted with Superbard (aka George). He talks about telling stories, playing instruments, the God number, developing, refining and improving work and being an optimist. It was recorded at Edinburgh Waverly Station last Sunday after a weekend of hardcore Edinburgh Festival-ing. It's the episode I've been most exhausted while recording and has had the fasted editing turnaround of the series so far, with the majority of it being edited on the train back to London. 

This is the second episode of the 2012 GBA Edinburgh Festival Season (http://goosefat101twitterspills.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/around-year-ago-getting-better.html) 

Over the next few weeks there will be conversations with people doing shows up there this year plus on Friday they'll be this year’s Edinburgh special documenting my journey into the opening weekend of the festival, mixed in with previews, reviews and extra snippets of conversation.

George has a brilliant show. We talk about it in our conversation. And I went to see it in Edinburgh before we recorded the conversation. It charmed me completely (in a good way!)

Superbard doesn't plug his show:

Superbard Starts to Save the World: http://www.edfringe.com/whats-on/spoken-word/superbard-starts-to-save-the-world

9.10pm 8-19 August at Spotlites @ The Merchants' Hall   Price: £8.50 / £7.50

Instead he plugs previous guest Lucy Ayrton's show (which he has directed):

Lullabies to Make Your Children Cry:http://www.edfringe.com/whats-on/spoken-word/lucy-ayrton-lullabies-to-make-your-children-cry

6.20pm 4-14 August @ The Banshee Labyrinth Price: FREE (It is part of the excellent PBH Free Fringe) Duration 1hr

Lucy was featured in episode 1 of this year's Edinburgh Festival Season: http://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-69-lucy

Also mentioned:

An early part of his show that was performed and podcasted here: http://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/stand-up-tragedy-07

Tea Fuelled Art: http://www.teafuelledart.co.uk

Stand Up Tragedy: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk/

Spark London: http://www.edfringe.com/whats-on/spoken-word/grant-s-true-tales-presents-spark-london-storytelling

Autumn Shift: http://autumnshift.co.uk/

Zombies, Run!: https://www.zombiesrungame.com/

Flea Circus: http://www.fleacircuslondon.co.uk/

http://www.edfringe.com/whats-on/spoken-word/flea-circus-open-slam

Soho Stories: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/soho-stories/id528325471?mt=8

Hackney Hear: http://www.hackneyhear.com/

Hardcore History: http://www.dancarlin.com/disp.php/hh

BAC "Scratch": http://www.bac.org.uk/search/?q=scratch/

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GBA 70 Superbard

In GBA 76 we get better acquainted with Liam. He talks industrial tuna fishing, what Marxism means in the modern world, hope, perception, environmentalism and smoking, while sitting in my back garden on a sunny day last year.

This episode is closer to a debating style than most episodes as we get into the what divides and what unites the red and the black, divisions in left-leaning activism and the roads that led us both to our current personal and political ideas about the world. It’s also one where I talk too much. So it goes!

Liam Plugs:

The documentaries of Adam Curtis

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/

http://adamcurtisfilms.blogspot.co.uk/

on google video: https://www.google.com/search?q=adam%20curtis&source=vgc&tbm=vid



Also mentioned:

Billy Collins - The Best Cigarette: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbRifIzMth0

Procrastination: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItMFWpKofSg

The Dispossessed: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dispossessed-Ursula-Guin/dp/1857988825 

Hugh's Fish Fight: http://www.fishfight.net/hugh-fearnley-whittingstall/




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GBA 76 Liam

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

In GBA 104 we get better acquainted with Jessie. She talks about living through an earthquake, connecting to cultures and expressing artistic impulses through food, her complicated relationship with her father, written and radio journalism, her experience of China and more!

Jessie plugs:

Women and Health - Camden: http://www.womenandhealth.org.uk/

Her Website: http://jessielevene.com/

Twitter:

Chinatown Food Tours with Jessie Levene:

http://jessielevene.com/?p=277

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Chinatown-Food-Tours-with-Jessie-Levene/152643261563669

The Listening Project: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/the-listening-project

Mentioned:

In the Dark: http://www.inthedarkradio.org/

The Partition: http://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-extra-the-partition

Cello Piece: The Singing Instrument: http://soundcloud.com/london_laowai/the-singing-instrument

Abigail Washburn: http://www.abigailwashburn.com/

Ai Weiwei: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai_Weiwei

Alan Hall: http://www.fallingtree.co.uk/production_team/alan_hall

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GBA 104 Jessie

In GBA 111 we get better acquainted with Jess. She talks social work, running, having a perfect time, travelling, transitions, finding yourself, music, change, friendship and more.

The conversation was recorded a few years ago, in Bristol during the St Paul's Carnival, late at night after a long day, drinking gin.

Jess plugs:   Her family. Her partner Dan. And me(!)

Dan's Music:

http://www.danielweltman.com/
http://hollowbody.bandcamp.com/
http://snails.bandcamp.com/

My music:

https://soundcloud.com/the-dave
https://soundcloud.com/thereactionaries
http://www.myspace.com/themiddleclassbastards


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GBA 111 Jess

In GBA 115 we get better acquainted with Alice Bell. She talks Crystal Palace dinosaurs, working in the Science Museum, knitting, academia, blogging, science communication, teenage politics, how children's non fic communicates ideas, Captain Planet, communicating on the internet, and so much more.

Alice is a science/media blogger for The Guardian, The New Left Project and also has her own blog on science communication and politics.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/alice-bell

http://www.newleftproject.org/index.php/site/authors/tag/Alice+Bell

http://alicerosebell.wordpress.com/

Alice plugs:

The Brain Train: 
https://soundcloud.com/brain-train-podcast
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/brain-train-podcast/id567550209
http://braintrainpodcast.wordpress.com/

Her twitter: https://twitter.com/alicebell

I plug:

The Stand Up Tragedy IndieGoGo campaign: www.indiegogo.com/projects/stand-u…oes-to-edinburgh

We mention:

Crystal Palace Park: http://www.crystalpalacepark.org.uk/
GBA Road Trips: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/cities/
Helen Zaltzman: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-65-helen-and-olly
http://helenzaltzman.com/
Darwin and the Dinosaurs audio trail (Crystal Palace): http://www.audiotrails.co.uk/dinosaurs/
Richard Owen: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Owen
Natural History Museum: http://www.nhm.ac.uk/
The Great Exhibition: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Exhibition
Victoria and Albert Museum: http://www.vam.ac.uk/
Jurassic Park: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107290/
Gideon Mantell: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gideon_Mantell
Science Museum: http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/
Martin Austwick:
http://martinzaltzaustwick.wordpress.com/
https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-67-martin-the-sound-man
The Story: http://thestory.org.uk/
Captain Planet Episode: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwUHHw7GL3A
Doctor Who: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who
Pokemon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon
Blue Peter: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Peter
Tiswas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiswas
Captain Underpants: http://www.scholastic.com/captainunderpants/
Horrible Science: http://www.horrible-science.co.uk/
Infinite Monkey Cage: http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/timc
Brian Cox: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Cox_(physicist)
Robin Ince: http://robinince.com/
Horrible Histories: http://horrible-histories.co.uk/
BlackAdder: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackadder
Terry Deary: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Deary
CND: http://www.cnduk.org/
Ken Livingston: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Livingstone
Militant Labour / Socialist Party: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Party_(England_and_Wales)
SWP: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Workers_Party_(UK)
new left project - stop the war movement debate: http://www.newleftproject.org/index.php/site/article_comments/the_stop_the_war_coalition_the_socialist_workers_party_and_iraq
Andy Warhol: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Warhol
Emmerdale: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmerdale
Call the Midwife: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_the_Midwife
https://soundcloud.com/brain-train-podcast/brain-train-8-vincent-plagnol

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GBA 115 Alice Bell

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