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

LGBTQIA Issues and Rights

In GBA 133 we get better acquainted with Paul. He talks equal marriage, immigration, life changes, the death of his father and so much more. It's a really warm and open conversation with the theme of history running through its centre.

Paul plugs:

The recognition of same sex immigration and equal marriage rights for all.

We mention:

Louise's episode: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-78-louise

Dan Savage - Savage Love: http://www.savagelovecast.com/

Dad Episodes: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/the-dad-episodes

Mum Episodes: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/the-mum-episodes-1/

Time Team: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Team

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GBA 133 Paul

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 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.

18th August: Rosie Wilby: http://www.rosiewilby.com/

Rosie Wilby is a comedian, musician, writer and broadcaster based in London. As a comedian, she has performed at Sydney Mardi Gras, The Comedy Store, Latitude Festival and on Radio 4. As a musician she has performed at Glastonbury Festival, Ronnie Scotts and on Carlton TV.

GBA Live 10 - Rosie Wilby

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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GBA 189 Heather

In GBA 191 we get better acquainted with Jonathan Blake. He is one of the real people who are fictionalised in the film Pride. We talk about being played by Dominic West, living with HIV, LGBT rights and homophobia, the politics of the left, coming out, housing cooperatives, acting, activism, costume making and more.

Content Note: Discussion of suicide, depression, living with HIV, homophobia, transphobia

Jonathan plugs: 

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

Their Kickstarter campaign: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1414067749/funding-for-tredegar-band-at-london-pride-2015

We mention:

Spark London: http://sparklondon.com/

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

Mike Jackson: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-185-mike-jackson

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

Dominic West: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominic_West
The Wire: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wire
Stephen Beresford: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Beresford
Matthew Warchus: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Warchus
Janet Baker: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Baker
Julius Ceaser: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Caesar_%28play%29
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
"Equal" Marriage Bill: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_(Same_Sex_Couples)_Act_2013
Dulais: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dulais_Valley
Leelah Alcorn: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Leelah_Alcorn
Philip Larkin: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Larkin
CBS Films: http://www.cbsfilms.com/
Sian James: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si%C3%A2n_James_%28politician%29
Rose Bruford: https://www.bruford.ac.uk/
Joe Allen: http://www.joeallen.co.uk/
Act Up / Larry Kramer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Kramer
Rupert Murdoch: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Murdoch
Norman Fowler: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Fowler
Terrence Higgins Trust: http://www.tht.org.uk/
Body Positive: http://www.self-help.org.uk/directory/aids-hiv/?entryid54=29538
George House Trust: http://www.ght.org.uk/
Greenham Common: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenham_Common_Women%27s_Peace_Camp
AZT: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/the-rise-and-fall-of-azt-it-was-the-drug-that-had-to-work-it-brought-hope-to-people-with-hiv-and-aids-and-millions-for-the-company-that-developed-it-it-had-to-work-there-was-nothing-else-but-for-many-who-used-azt--it-didnt-2320491.html
Gay is the Word: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay%27s_the_Word_%28bookshop%29
Gay Left: http://www.gayleft1970s.org/
Trotsky: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Trotsky
NUT: http://www.teachers.org.uk/
SWP: https://www.swp.org.uk/
Equity: http://www.equity.org.uk/home/
Housing Corporation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_Corporation
Grand Theatre: http://www.swansea.gov.uk/swanseagrandtheatre
All Out Dancing in Dalice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHJhbwEcgrA
Still the Enemy Within: http://the-enemy-within.org.uk/
Soma Mining Disaster: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soma_mine_disaster
Ken Livingstone: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Livingstone
GLC: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_London_Council
The Stage: http://www.thestage.co.uk/
English National Opera: http://www.eno.org/
Wagner: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Wagner









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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 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 209 we get better acquainted with Juliet Jacques. She talks about football, comment and opinion journalism, the differences and tensions between writing non fiction and writing fiction, marginal art and voices, the material reality of being a writer and so much more.

Juliet plugs:

Her memoir Trans will be out on 22nd September: http://www.versobooks.com/books/1975-trans

At Home She's A Tourist: http://julietjacques.blogspot.co.uk/

I plug:

Tragic Summer: www.facebook.com/events/1374545949536475/

And Tragic Spring on the Stand Up Tragedy podcast: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy

We mention:

Hattie Jacques: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hattie_Jacques
Steve Cross: https://twitter.com/steve_x
Dawn Foster: https://twitter.com/dawnhfoster
https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-206-dawn-foster
Alice Bell: https://twitter.com/alicebell
https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-115-alice-bell
David Peace: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Peace
Belle and Sebastian: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belle_and_Sebastian
The Smiths: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Smiths
The Guardian: A Transgender Journey http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/series/transgender-journey
Hillsborough: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillsborough_disaster
Luton / Millwall Riot: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_Kenilworth_Road_riot
Review of Anna Krien's Night Games : http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2015/01/journey-dark-heart-sport-anna-kriens-night-games
Hollis Frampton: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollis_Frampton
Goodbye to the NHS: a personal story of a public service: http://www.newstatesman.com/juliet-jacques/2014/09/goodbye-nhs-personal-story-public-service
On the “dispute” between radical feminism and trans people: http://www.newstatesman.com/juliet-jacques/2014/08/dispute-between-radical-feminism-and-trans-people
Writers of Colour: http://mediadiversified.org/
Manifesto for Confessional Journalism: http://thenewinquiry.com/features/manifesto-for-confessional-journalism/
Brixton East Art Gallery: http://www.brixtoneast.co.uk/
White Review - Lars Iyer manfesto: http://www.thewhitereview.org/features/nude-in-your-hot-tub-facing-the-abyss-a-literary-manifesto-after-the-end-of-literature-and-manifestos/
200th Episode: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/gba200
Huw Lemmey: https://twitter.com/spitzenprodukte
Reasons why your landlord is awesome: http://www.buzzfeed.com/dclg/is-your-landlord-actually-incredible-mu2w
My comment is free piece:  http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/01/tough-choice-cut-job-enfield-children-centres-austerity
Reflections on Villaplane: http://www.berfrois.com/2014/09/reflections-on-villaplane-juliet-jacques/
Skunk Anansie: Yes it's fucking political: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcaUer4fuU8
Liz Jones: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_Jones
A Week of Goodbyes: http://davepickeringblog.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/a-week-of-goodbyes.html
Noam Chomsky - Manufacturing Consent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQhEBCWMe44
"Masculinity": http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2011/jan/26/transgender-juliet-jacques-masculinity-football
Travels of a transsexual football fan: http://www.newstatesman.com/juliet-jacques/2013/11/travels-transsexual-football-fan
Verso Books: http://www.versobooks.com/
Gang of Four: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang_of_Four_%28band%29


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GBA 209 Juliet Jacques

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 237 we get better acquainted with Muffy.  We met in a pub in Brighton to have an in depth conversation about fandom, fan fic and slash fic. We cover how Muffy came to fandom, community, shame, enthusiasm,. ethics and politics, art and artistry, gender and sexuality, working through trauma, how texts, fanfic and fans relate to each other, representation and so much more.

Muffy plugs:

Slash Night 12th Feb:  http://www.marlboroughtheatre.org.uk/event/slash-night-4/

I plug:

Donating to GBA: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=4RCU5NHZURXUL

How To Be Fat:  https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-presents-how-to-be-fat

Stand Up Tragedy Presents on 18th Feb: https://www.facebook.com/events/1129825877029165/

We mention:

Tragic Spring: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sets/tragic-spring
Stand Up Tragedy: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk/
Mathilda Gregory: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-221-mathilda-gregory
Tragic Bodies: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/tragic-spring-act-2-tragic-bodies
Slash Night: https://slashnight.wordpress.com/
Fan Fic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_fiction
Slash Fic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slash_fiction
NME: http://www.nme.com/
Manic Street Preachers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manic_Street_Preachers
Meet Cute: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meet_cute
Kink: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kink_(sexual)
Cisgender: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisgender
Sherlock: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_(TV_series)
Sherlock and FanFic: http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2014/01/sherlock-and-adventure-overzealous-fanbase
Heteronormative: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heteronormativity
Queerbaiting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queer_baiting
Sherlock Season 3 Episode 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Empty_Hearse
Supernatural: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernatural_(U.S._TV_series)
Ginger Snaps: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginger_Snaps_(film)
Queer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queer
Non-Binary: http://gender.wikia.com/wiki/Non-binary
Captain America: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_America
Bucky: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucky
Marvel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel_Comics
Slash Night Image: http://brightondigitalfestival.co.uk/event/slash-night-3/
Hannibal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannibal_(TV_series)
Silence of the Lambs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Silence_of_the_Lambs_(film)
Thomas Harris: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Harris
Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/
BDSM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BDSM
Joss Whedon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joss_Whedon
"Jossed": http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Jossed
Everything is A Remix: http://everythingisaremix.info/
Kieron Gillen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kieron_Gillen
Young Avengers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Avengers#Volume_2
Mads Mikkelsen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mads_Mikkelsen
Archive of Our Own: https://archiveofourown.org/
Room of One's Own: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Room_of_One%27s_Own
Dobby

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GBA 237 Muffy Hunter

In GBA 30 we get better acquainted with Rosemary. She talks about the transformative power of theatre in education, drumming, faith, same sex marriage, working with children and adults with special needs, music and more. And I tell my origin story that involves a school in a small Welsh town, a Native American and a moment when my understanding changed.

Rosemary plugs: 

Her band Le Miro

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GBA 30 Rosemary

In GBA 56 we get better acquainted with Henry. He talks about doing visual effects for Hollywood movies and the HBO series Game of Thrones, going to a rather famous boy’s public school, learning how to play musical instruments and the ethics of using CGI.

And if I ask him the right questions I'll find out two exciting new bits of big news. But will I ask the right questions?

Along the way we also cover romance, sexuality, hugging etiquette and decanting wine.

UPDATE: Henry (and his team) won a 2012 BAFTA for their work on Great Expectations: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifoPkV8wBqg

Henry plugs:

The Iron Lady (for reasons that will become clear) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1007029/   Out on DVD and still showing in some cinemas.

His Visual Effects teams nomination for an Emmy for their work on Game of Thrones - http://www.emmys.com/nominations/2011/Outstanding%20Special%20Visual%20Effects%20For%20A%20Series



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GBA 56 Henry

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

In GBA 90 we get better acquainted with Kevin Allison. We link up between London and New York via Skype and talk storytelling, comedy, BDSM, what to do when expecting a hurricane, where sexuality and religion meet, The State, polyamory, being recognised in the street, how making his podcast Risk! has transformed his life and more!

http://risk-show.com/

https://twitter.com/RISKshow

Kevin Plugs:

The Story Studio: http://thestorystudio.org/

https://twitter.com/StoryStudioNYC


Follow him on twitter:

https://twitter.com/TheKevinAllison


3 non Kevin related Risk stories I really, really, really recommend:

http://risk-show.com/podcast/in-my-own-skin/

http://risk-show.com/podcast/mani-sheriar/

http://risk-show.com/podcast/danny-lobell/


Mentioned:

Kevin's Kink Camp Saga:

http://risk-show.com/podcast/kevin-goes-to-kink-camp-part-1/

http://risk-show.com/podcast/kevin-goes-to-kink-camp-2/

http://risk-show.com/podcast/beyond-kink-camp-part-1/

http://risk-show.com/podcast/beyond-kink-camp-part-2/

His recent story:

http://risk-show.com/podcast/the-god-problem/

Sex at Dawn by Christopher Ryan, Ph.D. AND Cacilda Jethá, M.D. (apologies for only remembering one authors name!): 

Tangentially Speaking: http://feralaudio.com/show/tangentially-speaking-with-dr-christopher-ryan/

Christopher Ryan and Dan Savage: 

http://www.thestranger.com/SavageLovePodcast/archives/2010/07/06/savage-love-episode-194

http://www.thestranger.com/SavageLovePodcast/archives/2010/10/27/savage-love-episode-210






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GBA 90 Kevin Allison

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