Conversations that touch on Faith and Spirituality.

Faith and Spirituality

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

LGBTQIA Issues and Rights

My playlist

Conversations about being mothers and fathers, childbirth experiences, parenting approaches, breaking or not breaking the cycle and more.

Parenting

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 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 episode GBA #2 we get better acquainted with Elspeth who talks about religion, feminism and sudden death. 

(This episode isn't explicit. I am looking in to making it so I can tag episodes individually with clean/explicit tags)

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GBA 2 Elspeth

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 #6 we get better acquainted with George. He talks food, cycling, music, money, fatherhood, happiness, benefits and cycling over a couple of very specific beers.

If anyone in London wants to audition George for their band, as a bassist or guitarist, email GBApodcast@gmail.com and I will pass on your details.


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GBA 6 George

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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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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GBA 189 Heather

In GBA 9 we get better acquainted with Hayley. She talks pictish, the isle of Iona, Quakerism, medieval manuscripts amongst other things.

Hayley plugs:

Autumn Shift: http://autumnshift.co.uk/

Hayley and Dave plug:

The Reactionaries: http://soundcloud.com/thereactionaries / http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/pages/The-Reactionaries/278114063049

Dave Plugs:

Apples For Everyone's old stuff: http://www.myspace.com/applesforeveryone


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GBA 9 Hayley

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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GBA 10 Richard

In GBA 18 we get better acquainted with Sam.  She talks about having a premature baby, being a young mum, nearly marrying a man she met on holiday in the Dominican Republic when she was 16 and other stories of innocence and experience. 

It's a brave and frank discussion full of hope and warmth as well as sadness and her young baby provides a soundtrack and commentary for this intimate and moving conversation.

Sam plugs: Nothing.

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GBA 18 Sam

In GBA 22 we get better acquainted with Zoe. She talks about faith from the point of view of being the daughter of a Quaker and a Buddhist. She talks about Live Action Role Playing (LARP) and how they create and explore their collective stories. She talks about the relationship between poetry and emotions. And we discuss our parents mortality.

Zoe plugs: LARPING - if you are interesting in Live Action Role Playing you can contact Zoe through me: GBApodcast@gmail.com

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GBA 22 Zoe

In GBA 29 we get better acquainted with Matt. Recorded in a snatched moment at (future GBA guest) Richard's wedding, Matt talks about being an evangelical Christian, love, homophobia in religions, the Bible as literature, spirituality and the nature of performance. We come at the conversation from different sides and we meet somewhere in the middle.

Matt doesn't really plug anything, but the conversation is generally a plug for Christianity and specifically about having a relationship with God.

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GBA 29 Matt

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 51 we get better acquainted with my niece, Sonia. She talks about giving birth to her two children which were very different experiences to each other, her feelings about motherhood, having a strong friendship group, smiling at strangers, experiences of Australia, the desire to work with her hands and lot's more.

We touch on becoming like our parents, what that means and how it can be embraced. I'm also revealed to be a Buncle, uncover her hatred for Chickens and discuss her influence on me when I was growing up. 

It’s a really open and wide ranging conversation that was a joy to record.

Sonia Plugs:

Romance, reality and positivity!


At the start of the episode I suggest people who like this one might like:

http://longestshortesttime.com/     (also available on iTunes)

http://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-18-sam



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GBA 51 Sonia

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 106 we get better acquainted with Steve. 

I talk to my school friend Steve in his house in Cardiff surrounded by furniture he made himself the day after his wedding last year. He talks about being someone who constructs things, the birth of his son, what being a builder means these days, running a DJ business in your teens, being a Master Carpenter and Joiner, growing up as "the man of the house", his relationship with his absent father and more. 

(Mostly I just ask him what it's like to be a man.)

Steve doesn't plug anything.

He does mention Norm Abram: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norm_Abram

And Bellway Homes: http://www.bellway.co.uk/

This is Owain's GBA: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-16-owain

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GBA 107 Steve

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
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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