Conversations about the Criminal Justice System, the War on Drugs, Prohibition, Sex Worker rights, the Prison Industrial Complex and Restorative Justice.

The Criminal Justice System and the War on Drugs

Conversations that touch on Faith and Spirituality.

Faith and Spirituality

Politics

Note: These conversations span back over 5 years, during that time my understanding around these issues and my political analysis has evolved.

Conversations about race, racism, colonisation, representation & anti-racist activism

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 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 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 148 we get better acquainted with Musa Okwonga. We talk privilege, empathy, black history, climate change, progressive economics, TV/film, rape culture, inequality, journalism and so much more. 

Musa plugs:

http://www.okwonga.com/

https://twitter.com/Okwonga


I plug:

Edit's of earlier GBA episodes are going out on Resonance 104.4 FM at 11am Fridays (repeated 2am Tuesdays): http://resonancefm.com/

Tragic Heroes: 21st March @ The Hackney Attic: https://www.facebook.com/events/502957866479816/

We mention:

Musa's blog on feminism that I was reading while waiting to have a vasectomy: http://www.okwonga.com/?p=591
Fast and the Furious: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fast_and_the_Furious
Spock: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spock
Zachary Quinto: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spock
Chris Pine:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Pine
Star Trek: Into Darkness: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_Into_Darkness
New Statesman: http://www.newstatesman.com/
Independent: http://www.independent.co.uk/
Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/uk
This is Africa: http://www.thisisafricaonline.com/
EDL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Defence_League
Musa's blog on Tommy Robinson: http://www.okwonga.com/?p=820
Owen Jones:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_Jones_(writer)
Laurie Penny: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurie_Penny
Musa's Nelson Mandela Article: http://www.okwonga.com/?p=869
Audre Lorde: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audre_Lorde
Ivan Massow in Evening Standard: http://www.standard.co.uk/comment/comment/ivan-massow-this-new-gay-hedonism-is-not-what-i-fought-for-8678761.html
Rosa Parks: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks
Stokely Carmichael: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stokely_Carmichael
Kate Tempest: http://katetempest.co.uk/
March for the Alternative: http://goosefat101twitterspills.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/truth.html
Musa's blog on empathy: http://www.okwonga.com/?p=933
Ian Duncan Smith: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain_Duncan_Smith
Tim Montgomerie: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Montgomerie
This American Life: money episode -  http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/423/the-invention-of-money
Black Tudors article: http://mediadiversified.org/2014/02/12/its-time-to-talk-about-black-tudors/
Margaret MacMillan: The Uses and Abuses of History: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Abuses-History-Professor-Margaret-MacMillan/dp/1846682045
Musa's article on WW! and Empire: http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2014/01/dear-mr-gove-we-need-talk-about-empire-our-schools
Orientalism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orientalism
Edward Said: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Said
Male Gaze: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaze#The_.22male_gaze.22_in_feminist_theory
Foucault: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Foucault
Eminem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eminem
Little Britain: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Britain
David Cameron: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Cameron
James Arthur: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Arthur_(singer)
Property article in the evening standard: http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/londons-100bn-property-boom-as-last-homes-under-100k-are-snapped-up-9082716.html
Niels Bohr: http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/941-the-opposite-of-a-correct-statement-is-a-false-statement

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GBA 148 Musa Okwonga

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

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 182 we get better acquainted with Reni Eddo-Lodge. She talks about coming to mainstream journalism via activism and blogging, analyzing how power works, how the both the left and the media are held back by viewing everything through the lens of middle class white men, the "Great Intersectionality Wars" of 2012, black feminism, cultural capital, critical race theory and more. If that makes the conversation sound academic and dry then let me assure you it really isn't. The conversation takes place in a busy cafe in Hackney, Reni is battling the end of an illness, I am battling my privilege based ignorance, but despite that we manage to have a great conversation about race, class, gender and the media.

http://renieddolodge.co.uk/

Reni plugs:

Email her if you want her to speak at things you are doing: http://renieddolodge.co.uk/contact/

You can find her online at: https://twitter.com/renireni

I plug:

Stand Up Tragedy: Tragic Horror: https://www.facebook.com/events/707597412628896/
Tragic Friends Act 3: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/tragic-friends-act-3

We mention:

Focus E15 Mum's: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-179-focus-e15-mothers
https://twitter.com/FocusE15
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Focus-E15-Mothers/602860129757343
Facebook Egg Freezing: http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2014/oct/21/facebook-apple-egg-freezing-virgin-unlimited-holidays-business-benefits
Channel 4 Best Young Blogger Award: http://www.theguardian.com/media/pda/2010/oct/25/channel-4-britains-best-young-blogger-louise-jones
Greenpeace: http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/
Intersectionality: http://www.feministtimes.com/call-yourself-an-intersectional-feminist/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/10572435/Intersectional-feminism.-What-the-hell-is-it-And-why-you-should-care.html
Billy Bragg: http://www.billybragg.co.uk/
Critical Race Theory:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory
Kimberley Crenshaw: http://www.newstatesman.com/lifestyle/2014/04/kimberl-crenshaw-intersectionality-i-wanted-come-everyday-metaphor-anyone-could
Kimberley Crenshaw's LSE lecture: http://www.lse.ac.uk/publicEvents/events/2014/03/20140326t1830vOT.aspx
Marx: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Marx
New Statesman: http://www.newstatesman.com/
Intersectionality Wars of 2012: http://www.utne.com/community/intersectionality-zm0z14uzwil.aspx#axzz3Gs0ZAAWL
http://www.thefword.org.uk/blog/2012/10/a_problem_that
Sheryl Sandberg: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheryl_Sandberg


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GBA 182 Reni Eddo-Lodge

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 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 197 we get better acquainted with Toni. She talks about being a sex worker and sex worker rights activist, decriminalisation, the problems with the Swedish Model, the language and stigma around sex work, harm reduction, how various systems of oppression intersect around the lives of sex workers and more. 

Toni is a member of the Sex Worker Open University: http://www.sexworkeropenuniversity.com/

Content Note: Some reference to violence against sex workers and to rape and sexual assault, although none of these references are graphic or personal accounts.

Toni plugs:

@SexWorkerOU: https://twitter.com/SexWorkerOU
CONFIDE: Helpline: http://confideinfo.com/about/

I plug:

Tragic Winter @ Hackney Attic: 28th February: 
http://www.facebook.com/events/1516191711967276/

We mention:

International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers: http://www.december17.org/
Carol Leigh: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Leigh
Tres Cosas Campaign: https://3cosascampaign.wordpress.com/about/
Decriminalisation: http://prostitutescollective.net/2010/09/28/decriminalisation-of-prostitution-v-legalisation-2/
Swedish/Nordic Model: http://www.sexworkeropenuniversity.com/blog/swou-statement-on-poverty-sex-work-and-the-swedish-model-poverty-is-objectifying-demeaning-and-coercive1
Amnesty International - the backlash: http://www.amnesty.org.uk/agm-decisions-to-date
http://www.newstatesman.com/lifestyle/2013/06/amnesty-human-rights-and-criminalisation-sex-work
Friends: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friends
Petite Jasmine: 
http://titsandsass.com/the-bloody-state-gave-him-the-power-a-swedish-sex-workers-murder/
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/alex-bryce/petite-jasmine-sex-workers_b_4439049.html
Arrested Development: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrested_Development_%28TV_series%29
Tina Fay: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tina_Fey
Morecambe Bay Cockle Picking Disaster: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Morecambe_Bay_cockling_disaster
ECP:  http://www.nswp.org/members/europe/english-collective-prostitutes
http://prostitutescollective.net/
x: talk: http://www.xtalkproject.net/
NSWP: http://www.nswp.org/
Ipswich Serial murders: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipswich_serial_murders
Associated Press: http://www.ap.org/



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GBA 197 Toni

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

In GBA 218 we get better acquainted with Shaun Atwood. He talks about being "the Walter White of the Ecstasy market in Arizona", struggling to survive in maximum and medium security prisons, starting a blog from the inside jail, playing chess with the Mafia, racism within criminal justice systems, teaching creative writing to prisoners, the Prison Industrial Complex, prohibition, the War on Drugs and more.

Shaun plugs:

Trilogy of memoir books: Hard Time, Party Time, Prison Time
Website: http://www.shaunattwood.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/shaunattwood
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Shaun-Attwood/228166633865948
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/derickatt/featured
Blog: Jon's Jail Journal: http://jonsjailjournal.blogspot.co.uk/

I plug:

My preview on 23rd July: http://www.facebook.com/events/1598769017027875/

GBA and SUT in Edinburgh: http://www.facebook.com/events/1378858509079820/
http://www.facebook.com/events/1446178112341943/
http://www.facebook.com/events/1554323898168649/

We mention:

Spark London: http://sparklondon.com
HMP Thameside: http://www.hmpthameside.org/
To Kill A Mockingbird: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Kill_a_Mockingbird
Hard Time:
Wolf of Wall Street: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wolf_of_Wall_Street_(2013_film)
Scarface: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarface_(1983_film)
Pulp Fiction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulp_Fiction
Rambo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rambo_(film_series)
Breaking Bad: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking_Bad
OJ Simpson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._J._Simpson
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition: http://www.leap.cc/
Schopenhauer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Schopenhauer
A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Day_in_the_Life_of_Ivan_Denisovich
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn
Shawshank Redemption: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shawshank_Redemption
Chasing the Scream by Johann Hari: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chasing_the_Scream
Johann Hari on Little Atoms: http://www.littleatoms.com/podcast/johann-hari-chasing-scream
Orange is the New Black: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_Is_the_New_Black
Queen Victoria: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Victoria
Freud: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund_Freud
Fred West: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_West
David Nutt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Nutt
The Bush Family: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_family
Corrections Corporation of America: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrections_Corporation_of_America
Three Strikes Law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-strikes_law
California Prison Guards Union: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Correctional_Peace_Officers_Association
Broadcom: https://www.broadcom.com/
Chris Grayling: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Grayling
Kill the Messenger: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_the_Messenger_(2014_film)
Gary Webb: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Webb
Nancy Reagan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Reagan
Just Say No: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_Say_No
Ronald Reagan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan
George Bush Sr: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_H._W._Bush
Bill Clinton: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton
Contras: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contras






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GBA 218 Shaun Attwood

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 274 we get better acquainted with Guilaine Kinouani. She talks about structural power, racism, mental health issues and self care in relation to the experiences of women of colour, clinical psychology, feminism, the #PredatoryPeacekeepers campaign, the differences (and similarities) between British and French attitudes to race/migration and so much more. It's also the first Getting Better Acquainted recorded in a public library.

Guilaine plugs:

Predatory Peacekeepers: http://predatorypeacekeepers.tumblr.com/
PP Petition: https://community.avaaz.org/petitions/we-will-not-stand-by-when-un-soldiers-abuse-rape-and-murder

Media Diversified: https://mediadiversified.org/

Now We Here: https://soundcloud.com/real-media-1

Real Media: http://realmedia.press/

RaceReflections: https://racereflections.co.uk

We mention:

Racism = prejudice + power: http://sjwiki.org/wiki/Prejudice_plus_power
White Feminism: http://everydayfeminism.com/2015/08/need-talk-about-white-feminism/
Strong Black Woman Trope: https://blackgirlnerds.com/mental-health-and-the-strong-black-woman-trope/
bell hooks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_hooks
Audre Lorde: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audre_Lorde
AL quote: http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/2213-if-i-didn-t-define-myself-for-myself-i-would-be
Code Blue Campaign: http://www.codebluecampaign.com/
Some articles on #PredatoryPeacekeepers:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/20/the-un-must-smash-the-culture-of-impunity-that-lets-peacekeepers/

https://mediadiversified.org/2016/04/12/the-uns-good-vs-bad-narrative-clears-the-way-for-sexual-violence-and-impunity/

Samantha Asumadu: http://www.samanthaasumadu.com/

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GBA 274 Guilaine Kinouani

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 314 we get better acquainted with Wasi. She talks about not defining marginalised groups by their traumas, #CutFromTheSameCloth a collection of essays by hijabis, getting to the point where she is comfortable calling herself a photographer, how she became a person centred therapist, the systematic elements involved in mental health struggles, growing up with parallel experiences and cultures, experiences of Islamophobia and racism, pushing back against structural oppressions, the work that Against Borders For Children (Schools ABC) have done and so much more.

Wasi plugs:

Cut From the Same Cloth: https://unbound.com/books/cut-from-the-same-cloth
Against Borders For Children: Schools ABC: https://www.schoolsabc.net/
Wasi Daniju photos: http://wasidaniju.com/
Inclusive Mosque: https://www.facebook.com/inclusivemosqueinitiative/
http://www.inclusivemosqueinitiative.org/
Black Girl Festival 29th October: http://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/the-uks-first-black-girl-festival/

I plug:

Down to a sunless sea: memories of my dad: https://medium.com/@goosefat101/down-to-a-sunless-sea-memories-of-my-dad-d1d2d3a61360

What About the Men? Mansplaining Masculinity: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-presents-what-about-the-men-mansplaining-maculinity

http://mansplainingmasculinity.co.uk/

The Family Tree: http://thefamilytreepodcast.co.uk/

We mention:

Moomins: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moomins
Royal Festival Hall: https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/venues/royal-festival-hall
Media Diversified: https://mediadiversified.org/
https://twitter.com/writersofcolour
The Trashies: https://mediadiversified.org/tag/the-trashies/
Signal Boosting: https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/us/signal_boosting
Follow Fridays: https://www.lifewire.com/a-guide-to-follow-friday-2655376
Wasi's recent thread: https://twitter.com/knox_o/status/914171672479092738
South London Refugee Association: https://www.slr-a.org.uk/
Women and Girls Network: http://www.wgn.org.uk/
Nadia Kamil: https://nadiakamil.co.uk/
Bang Said The Gun: http://www.bangsaidthegun.com/
Meadowlands Festival: https://twitter.com/meadowfest
Body Narratives: https://www.thebodynarratives.com
Indigo Williams: https://twitter.com/Indigowilliams
Leslie Asare: https://twitter.com/layaxo3
I Shape Beauty: https://ishapebeautyblog.wordpress.com
Moles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mole_(unit)
Erasmus Year: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erasmus_Programme
Aphasia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphasia
Prevent: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/apr/04/prevent-hate-muslims-schools-terrorism-teachers-reject
Stand Up Tragedy: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk/
9/11: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_attacks
7/7: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_July_2005_London_bombings
War on Terror: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_Terror
Microaggressions: https://www.buzzfeed.com/hnigatu/racial-microagressions-you-hear-on-a-daily-basis
Sabeena Akhtar: https://twitter.com/pocobookreader
The Good Immigrant: https://unbound.com/books/the-good-immigrant
Nazeem Hussein: http://nazeemhussain.com/
Docs Not Cops: http://www.docsnotcops.co.uk/
Niemöller poem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_...

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In GBA 58 we get better acquainted with Radcliffe. In part 1 of this weeks 2 part special he talks about his relationship with drugs and his "formative" years. 

This includes his experiences attending and being expelled from a boarding school, his family life and his almost accidental introduction into the Edinburgh underworld.

We discuss addiction and the nature and social position of drugs. And we hear a recovered addicts views on drugs policy. 

Part 2 : http://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-58-radcliffe-part-2 comes out in Friday when the conversation will continue, covering crime and punishment, homelessness and then rehabilitation and recovery. 

Seriously this conversation was amazing to have and I think it is really really worth you hearing. Radcliffe has seen some dark times, he has journeyed through the class system from the top to pretty much the bottom. He has lived in expensive houses and has been a crack addict in a Soho skip. He has dropped out of society and managed to climb back in. And he tells his story with humour, kindness and brutal honesty and whilst it is full of pain and violence, it is also, somehow a story about hope, beauty and love.


Radcliffe Plugs:

"Spoken Word is the new Rock and Roll"


Spark London: http://www.sparklondon.com/     

Today marks the 100 episode of the Spark London podcast. This is Radcliffe telling his story there (which is a teaser for part 2 of his conversation):http://www.mixcloud.com/sparklondon/on-living-in-a-soho-skip-radcliffe-royds/

And this is the 100 episode of their show: http://www.mixcloud.com/sparklondon/episode-100-dorothea-stuart-alastair-smith/

You can find their podcast on iTunes and on Stitcher as well as on Mixcloud.

Their next live show is: Wednesday 6th June 2012 at 7:30pm at Canal Cafe Theatre, Little Venice, London, W2 6ND

The theme is "Life Savers" 

Box office: 020 7289 6054 or Book online: http://www.canalcafetheatre.com/

Future themes include Family Holidays, Tales from the work place, Flashbacks and Authority. If you have a story to tell then get in touch at sparklondon@gmail.com



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

The next, and last for the moment, live Stand Up Tragedy will feature Radcliffe telling a story. This is the rest of the line up: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk/show-5-4-june-2012/

Here are the details:

Monday  4th June 2012. 8.30pm till late at the Leicester Square Theatre, 6 Leicester Place, London, WC2H 7BX

Tickets: http://leicestersquaretheatre.ticketsolve.com/shows/126520120/events

COME ALONG. BRING YOUR FRIENDS. Use the promo code TRAGIC to offset booking fee.

It also has a weekly podcast, which Radcliffe has featured on, which comes out every friday: http://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy








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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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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

Episode 3 of GBA Live: 5 conversations recorded as part of my Invisible Picture Palace (http://invisiblepicturepalace.com/) residency for In the Dark Radio (http://www.inthedarkradio.org/) that took place in November 2012. These episodes are going to come out daily in the week leading up to the GBA 100 two-part special. Each one has a different audience of people who came out to a greenhouse in Wapping to be a part of the conversation.

Today we get better acquainted with Urie.

She talks about Little Apple Dolls, making art, nearly getting signed to DC comics, growing up shifting between different religions as her mum followed a spiritual quest, depression, family, dogs with silly faces, bullying and much more.

It's a really open and honest conversation which covers a lot of ground, from comics conventions to Nigerian Church Cults, from the imaginary space of The Inbetween to living with mental health issues, Urie is engaging, funny and wise.

The live recording of this episode was picked as part of Something You Said's Top Gigs of 2012: http://somethingyousaid.com/2012/12/28/something-you-saids-top-gigs-of-2012/


Urie plugs:

Her new Little Apple Doll: http://screamingmatriarch.bigcartel.com/product/new-limited-edition-lustravi-14-little-apple-doll

And Screaming Matriach: http://screamingmatriarch.bigcartel.com/

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Little-Apple-Dolls/10150159360495593


We mention:

Stand Up Tragedy: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk

Urie will be performing at SUT on Thursday 28th March at the Dogstar in Brixton.

Byron Burger: http://www.byronhamburgers.com/

J Horror: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_horror

Robert Rodriguez: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Rodriguez

Quentin Tarantino: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quentin_Tarantino


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In GBA 106 we get better acquainted with Jack and George.

Whilst drinking brandy & chain-smoking Jack, George and me trade differing views of the legal system and ask whether you change significantly after childhood: what stays the same and what changes. 

This episode includes an account of being arrested for destroying a house, an account of being a witness to an assault, an account of a bus kidnapping and the curious case of the police confiscating George's Lou Reed collection.

It's an interesting ride: Part surprise therapy session, part series of complimentary and contradictory experiences of the law and part documentation of a friendship. We actually don't sound as drunk as we were!

We don't really plug anything.

These are the individual GBAs with George and Jack:

https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-46-jack

http://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-6-george

And this is the collected GBAs with Apples for Everyone members:

http://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/apples-for-everyone/

We mention Talha Assan

http://freetalha.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syed_Talha_Ahsan

Aim: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aim_(musician)

Lou Reed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Reed

Prince: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_(musician)

Thundercats: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThunderCats


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GBA 106 Jack and George

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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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