Getting Better Acquainted
By Dave Pickering
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A weekly podcast: Join Dave Pickering on his journey to get better acquainted with the people he knows. There are lots of shows about famous people. This is a show about the rest of us.
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ExplicitGBA 58 Radcliffe (Part 2) | In GBA 58 part 2 we get better acquainted with Radcliffe. We pick up the conversation with the story of how he came to become homeless and he continues through crime and punishment and then rehabilitation and recovery. Hear a man who has lived homeless and destitute not just talk about his experiences, but reflect on them and share what he’s learnt with you. Rarely do we listen to people with firsthand experience of homelessness and drug addiction when coming up with social policies. Here is a chance to do that. 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. Part 1 : http://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-58-radcliffe-part-1 that aired on in Wednesday covered his relationship with drugs and his "formative" years. It isn't essential to listen to this before but it might enhance your experience if you do. The conversation we had was over 2 hours and the split is really just there to make the chunks more bite sized. Radcliffe Plugs: "Spoken Word is the new Rock and Roll" 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: StandUpTragedy Spark London: http://www.sparklondon.com/ Last wednesday marked the 100 episode of the Spark London podcast. This is Radcliffe telling a story there (a teaser for part 1 of his conversation): http://www.mixcloud.com/sparklondon/damning-evidence-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 You can hear Getting Better Acquainted on Stitcher SmartRadio, Stitcher allows you to listen to your favourite shows directly from your iPhone, Android Phone, Kindle Fire and beyond. On-demand and on the go! Don’t have Stitcher? Download it for free today at http://www.stitcher.com or in the app stores. Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review? Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word! | 25 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitGBA 58 Radcliffe (Part 1) | 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 You can hear Getting Better Acquainted on Stitcher SmartRadio, Stitcher allows you to listen to your favourite shows directly from your iPhone, Android Phone, Kindle Fire and beyond. On-demand and on the go! Don’t have Stitcher? Download it for free today at http://www.stitcher.com or in the app stores. Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review? Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word! | 23 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitGBA 57 Richard | In GBA 57 we get better acquainted with my old friend Richard. (It’s a different Richard from the first previous GBA guest). He talks childhood, art, theatre, adulthood, working for the arts council, the advantages of a happy upbringing and the confidence that comes with some backgrounds. It's a conversation about how we change and how we stay the same, the considerations and compromises we make as we take on new priorities and responsibilities, and this crazy journey onwards into adult life (whatever that is.) It covers Richard’s skill at Grandparent charming, his attitude to van driving and his aptitude for analogy. It also comes out at just about the right time to commemorate the birth of his firstborn child. Congratulations to him and his lovely wife Sarah (who you can hear doing her own GBA that we referenced in this episode here: http://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-5-sarah) Richard Plugs: Seeing new art and new theatre. Specifically at The Royal Court Theatre: http://www.royalcourttheatre.com/ and their £10 Monday's offer: http://www.royalcourttheatre.com/your-visit/10-mondays/ We also mention my old project The Middle Class Bastards who are worth a listen: http://soundcloud.com/themiddleclassbastards You can hear Getting Better Acquainted on Stitcher SmartRadio, Stitcher allows you to listen to your favourite shows directly from your iPhone, Android Phone, Kindle Fire and beyond. On-demand and on the go! Don’t have Stitcher? Download it for free today at http://www.stitcher.com or in the app stores. Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review? Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word! | 16 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitGBA 56 Henry | 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 You can hear Getting Better Acquainted on Stitcher SmartRadio, Stitcher allows you to listen to your favourite shows directly from your iPhone, Android Phone, Kindle Fire and beyond. On-demand and on the go! Don’t have Stitcher? Download it for free today at http://www.stitcher.com or in the app stores. Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review? Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word! | 9 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitGBA 55 Dad #2 | In GBA 55 we get better acquainted with my Dad (again). Journey with my dad and me from Stansted Airport to my front door as we return from the trip to Germany that we were going on in : http://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-3-dad-1 In this conversation we trace the technological developments Dad's experienced in his 88 years of life, along the way we talk about his relationship to computers and the internet, seeing the moon landing, cameramen and films, Citizen Kane, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Rupert Murdoch, computer games and more! Dad doesn't really plug anything. You can hear Getting Better Acquainted on Stitcher SmartRadio, Stitcher allows you to listen to your favourite shows directly from your iPhone, Android Phone, Kindle Fire and beyond. On-demand and on the go! Don’t have Stitcher? Download it for free today at http://www.stitcher.com or in the app stores. Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review? Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word! | 2 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitGBA Extra - Out of the Window | This is the second of 2 GBA Extras that are coming out today. They are connected thematically so be sure to check out the first one: http://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-extra-the-partition I tell the story of how my family came to get a dog. This one is a story I told at the Spark London open mic which is held Upstairs @ The Ritzy in Brixton. The Spark has its own podcast that is around the same length as this episode. They release them very regularly and they feature people telling true stories live on stage. Find them on iTunes, Stitcher or MixCloud: http://www.mixcloud.com/sparklondon/ http://www.sparklondon.com/ The next Spark London open mic: Is on Monday 21st May 2012 at 7:30pm The theme is: Winning The Ritzy Picturehouse, Brixton Oval, Brixton Oval, London, SW2 1JG You just turn up and pay what you like. You watch people tell there stories and if you want to tell yours then you put your name down and get up on the stage! The next curated Spark London night is: 6th June 2012 at 7:30pm Theme: Life saver Venue: Canal Cafe Theatre, Little Venice, London, W2 6ND, UK - Website - map Box office: 020 7289 6054 / http://www.canalcafetheatre.com/ I have been recording conversations for GBA with people I've met through Spark London. I have some really great ones that haven't aired yet too that will be coming out over the next year. They will be added to this playlist: http://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/spark-londoners/ | 27 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitGBA Extra - The Partition | This is the first of two GBA Extra's coming out today. The Partition is an extended and developed version of the recent GBA submission to the Third Coast International Audio Festival ShortDocs Challenge2012: http://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/grey-areas In it we get a little better acquainted with my Dad: http://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/the-dad-episodes/ We also get better acquainted with Sam, who is no longer with us. And we get better acquainted with me as we find out more about my childhood. Next wednesday's episode will be the second full length episode devoted to Dad, as we discuss technology and change on a return journey from Germany to the UK that we made over a year ago. Later today in the GBA Extra "Out of the Window" we'll hear more about how Sam came to join the family. | 26 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitGBA Extra - Extracts from GBA 2011 | Because making it took up all my editing time this week today we have a GBA Extra in place of the usual episode. It's 15 minute montage of extracts that represent the 2011 output of Getting Better Acquainted. It in no way is a best of, so many wonderful moments and people were cut for reasons of time, it is designed to communicate how the show is different from what you might hear on the radio. Because it's short it gives you time to catch up on episodes you might have missed. There will be 2 more GBA Extra's on Friday to make up for the lack of full length episode this week. Below is the "Commendation Document" and the Track List that went with the nomination. *** Commendation document: Dave Pickering / Getting Better Acquainted SRA nominated writer Dave Pickering produces the weekly podcast Getting Better Acquainted. This nomination is a series of extracts from the first 36 episodes of the show, selected to illustrate the range of topics and types of conversations he’s captured. Each week, Dave gets better acquainted with someone he knows. It’s an autobiography through personal connections, an oral history snapshot of a group of interconnected people and a series of startlingly intimate conversations about what it is to be human. It’s like eavesdropping on a scene late in a party where two people are really getting to know each other. There are lots of shows about famous people; this is a show about the rest of us. GBA takes advantage of the internet, not just as a way to distribute material, but as an interactive experience offering listeners the opportunity to explore playlists out of sequence. The episodes are carefully edited for flow, pace and clarity while maintaining the illusion of real time. They are hyper-realism; microphones being moved or planes flying overhead remind us that this moment actually happened. The rough-and-ready nature of the recording is integral to the show as it aims to go where microphones rarely go. *** Track Listing: Dave Pickering / Getting Better Acquainted 0.00: Episode theme (episodes usually begin with a cold open, which is a short highlight from within the episode, followed by this theme.) 0.21: Opening of http://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-29-matt: Matt works for a religious charity and he went to university with Dave. Recorded in a snatch of time at a mutual friends wedding. 0.38: An extract from the opening of http://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-24-mum-1: Dave’s Mum answers “How did you meet me?” recorded in her bird filled back garden. 0.42: An extract from opening of http://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-35-tony: Dave talks to his brother Tony. This episode has been one of the series most popular episodes and was selected by SoundCloud for their SoundCloud Voices blog. 1.04: An extract from http://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-26-angela: Dave’s school friend Angela describes what she “does now”. This episode was recorded next to the River Taff in Cardiff in one of Dave’s GBA Road Trips back to where he grew up. 1.13: An extract from http://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-6-george: Dave’s ex bandmate George describes what he “does now.” 1.22 An extract from opening of Episode 35 with Dave’s brother Tony. 1.42: An extract from http://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-23-jessica: Dave’s nieces’ best friend Jessica describes what she does now. 2.12: Opening of http://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-16-owain: Dave and his close school friend Owain begin the show and set the scene of where their conversation takes place. 3.10: An extract from http://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-7-aisha-and-abdel: New media start up acquaintances Aisha and Abdel speak to Dave over breakfast at the flat where they live and work. 3.41: Another extract from Episode 6 with George. 3.56: An extract from http://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquaint | 24 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitGBA 54 Anton Frank | In GBA 54 we get better acquainted with Anton Frank. He talks about living through Latvia's change from "communism" to capitalist independence, writing, producing and performing music, football, auditioning for the X Factor and some unusual theories about ancient civilisations. When we talked it was only our second time meeting face to face. Anton Plugs: His music: http://antonfrank.co.uk/ Facebook: http://facebook.com/antonfrankmusic Twitter: http://twitter.com/antonfrank And we both plug Stand Up Tragedy: The next episode of this podcast will come on Friday. Our next night of live tragedy is at 8.30 on Monday 7th May 2012 at the Leicester Square Theatre Tickets are available for £8/£10 here: http://leicestersquaretheatre.ticketsolve.com/shows/126520120/events The promo code TRAGIC knocks a couple of quid off. For all SUT related things look here: http://standuptragedy.co.uk/ You can hear Getting Better Acquainted on Stitcher SmartRadio, Stitcher allows you to listen to your favourite shows directly from your iPhone, Android Phone, Kindle Fire and beyond. On-demand and on the go! Don’t have Stitcher? Download it for free today at http://www.stitcher.com or in the app stores. Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review? Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word! | 18 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitGBA 53 To The Heart Of It | GBA 52 : To the Heart of It This is a special episode of GBA which mixes true stories that I told live at Spark London with family conversations and a new song to explore how my dad’s heart attack and quadruple heart bypass touched both me and my family. I talk to: Jo http://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-52-jo Sonia http://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-51-sonia Tony http://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-35-tony and my Dad http://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/the-dad-episodes/ about some big moments in our family history, getting different perspectives and shining a light on the way we interact as a family group. This episode is about how families create myths, how memories of events contradict, change and fade, how families interact and how the idea of a parent’s mortality can shape your life. CREDITS The song "Talk to your Parents" will eventually be on the upcoming album "Bouncy, Poppy Songs About Death" from The Reactionaries: http://soundcloud.com/thereactionaries Hayley is the other member of this alt-pop duo, you can hear her playing fiddle on the track: http://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-9-hayley The mixes you hear were thrown together at very short notice by the magnificent silent member of our duo, our producer George: http://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-6-george The two stories you hear me perform were told at Spark London nights: http://www.sparklondon.com/ One at the open mic they run at the Ritzy Cinema in Brixton and the other at the curated nights they put on at the Canal Cafe Theatre in Little Venice. I've been actively involved with Spark London for a couple of years and have told quite a few true stories there and even produced some of their episodes. As a result of this one strand of GBA is conversations with Spark London true storytellers: http://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/spark-londoners/ CAST LIST: In the interests of clarity this is how my family works: Dad's 1st Marriage = Dad + Sheila Two daughters from this marriage: Jo and Rebecca (http://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-28-rebecca) Sonia is Jo's daughter. Dad's 2nd Marriage = Dad + June/My Mum (http://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/the-mum-episodes-1) Two sons from this marriage: Tony and Me Mum's 2nd Marriage = Mum + Mervyn One daughter from this marriage: Rosie The two friends who are mentioned in my story are: Owain: http://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-16-owain and Steve (who I haven't managed to do a full GBA with yet but who appears in this GBA Special: http://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-17-cardiff ) Jen is my girlfriend (who appeared in the Christmas Special and will have at least one proper episode coming out in the future.) Liz makes a cameo in this episode as she was my outside ear and shaped the way that the episode was narrated. She talks about some of the things discussed in this episode in her GBA episode: http://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-4-liz This is the playlist of all of the family episodes that have aired so far: http://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/family You can hear Getting Better Acquainted on Stitcher SmartRadio, Stitcher allows you to listen to your favourite shows directly from your iPhone, Android Phone, Kindle Fire and beyond. On-demand and on the go! Don’t have Stitcher? Download it for free today at http://www.stitcher.com or in the app stores. Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review? Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word! | 13 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitGBA 52 Jo | In GBA 52 we get better acquainted with my sister, Jo. She talks about being part of the Leytonstone community, teaching in inner-city schools, doing studies of single sex schooling, changing attitudes to gender within her lifetime, gardening as religion & more! We also find ourselves wondering about the specifics of family events. These questions inspired me to make GBA Special coming out this Friday. In "To the Heart of It" I talk to Jo, last week’s guest Sonia, previous guests Tony, and my Dad, about some big moments in our family history, getting different perspectives and shining a light on the way we interact as a family group. I also explore my own relation with my father’s mortality and debut a new song from The Reactionaries. Jo Plugs: Allotments and great teachers. "If you want to be happy for an hour get drunk, for a year get married, or for life be a gardener." You can hear Getting Better Acquainted on Stitcher SmartRadio, Stitcher allows you to listen to your favourite shows directly from your iPhone, Android Phone, Kindle Fire and beyond. On-demand and on the go! Don’t have Stitcher? Download it for free today at http://www.stitcher.com or in the app stores. Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review? Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word! | 11 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitGrey Areas | This is my submission to the Third Coast International Audio Festival ShortDocs Challenge 2012 http://www.thirdcoastfestival.org/competitions/shortdocs/2012 The challenge was to: "Produce a short audio story (2 -3 minutes) that features at least two of your neighbors, includes a color in the title, and contains three consecutive seconds of narrative silence. Stories of all styles are welcome – from documentary to drama - and everything in between." One sentence summary: This piece is called Grey Areas and it's about how close I am to my dad, in a literal sense, it's also a tribute to the the neighbour we buried in his back garden. 85 word Bio: Dave Pickering is 30 years old and lives in East London. He wrote both series of a podcast drama called Numbers which was nominated for The Internet Programme Award at The Sony Radio Academy Awards 2009. He’s produced podcasts for the London true story telling night Spark London. Spark London was voted Best of Mixcloud 2010. He runs a variety style night called Stand Up Tragedy at the Leicester Square Theatre and produces a weekly conversation/interview show called Getting Better Acquainted. | 7 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitGBA 51 Sonia | 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 You can hear Getting Better Acquainted on Stitcher SmartRadio, Stitcher allows you to listen to your favourite shows directly from your iPhone, Android Phone, Kindle Fire and beyond. On-demand and on the go! Don’t have Stitcher? Download it for free today at http://www.stitcher.com or in the app stores. Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review? Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word! | 4 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitGBA 50 Mathy | In GBA 50 we get better acquainted with Mathy. She talks about how the loss of her job and the loss of her dad led to her changing her life. And she talks about her life up to that decision: Her journey from the Congo, through lots of other countries, being expelled from boarding school in South Africa, and the loss of both her parents. She goes though struggles to get employed, to getting a job helping others to get jobs, to losing that job and finding a new direction. Her story is moving, poignant and inspiring. Mathy Plugs Tell it like it is: http://tili.eventbrite.co.uk/ The next one is on Tuesday 3rd April 7-8.45pm at the O2 business centre, 229 Tottenham Court Road and it is PAY WHAT YOU LIKE. What the job is this: http://whathejobisthis.com/ http://www.facebook.com/whathejobisthis http://twitter.com/whathejobisthis Spark London: http://www.sparklondon.com/ http://www.facebook.com/whathejobisthis http://twitter.com/SparkLDN The next Spark Open Mic (that Mathy hosts) is: Monday 16th April 7:30pm at The Ritzy Picturehouse, Brixton The theme will be 'Pets' You can hear Getting Better Acquainted on Stitcher SmartRadio, Stitcher allows you to listen to your favourite shows directly from your iPhone, Android Phone, Kindle Fire and beyond. On-demand and on the go! Don’t have Stitcher? Download it for free today at http://www.stitcher.com or in the app stores. Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review? Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word! | 27 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitGBA 49 Frank | In GBA 49 we get better acquainted with Frank. He talks machine learning, science communication, the social situation in Luxembourg, living in Edinburgh, podcasting and more. It was recorded early in the morning during last year’s Edinburgh Festival in a sound proofed science fiction complex deep below Edinburgh University. This episode, with the two before it, forms a sort of accidental miniseries about people who are involved in making audio. This wasn’t fully intentional but is welcomed nevertheless. I do programme the show for variety and there is still variety within these three episodes; however GBA is not always about people who exist in the audio world. I met Frank through http://said.fm/ which has morphed into http://thesupertimes.com/ For more on the people doing heading that audio app project check out this episode of GBA: http://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-7-aisha-and-abdel Frank Plugs EuSci: http://www.eusci.org.uk/archive/podcast http://www.eusci.org.uk/ http://twitter.com/eusci CompuSci: http://computersciencepodcast.com/podcasts.html Also mentioned is rethinkdaily: http://rethinkdaily.co.uk/ You can still hear the second series of the drama series 'Numbers' there. It’s also to download through iTunes, just search for rethinkdaily. You can hear our Getting Better Acquainted on Stitcher SmartRadio, Stitcher allows you to listen to your favourite shows directly from your iPhone, Android Phone, Kindle Fire and beyond. On-demand and on the go! Don’t have Stitcher? Download it for free today at http://www.stitcher.com or in the app stores. Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review? Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word! | 21 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitGBA 48 Emma | In GBA 48 we get better acquainted with Emma. She talks broadcast journalism, interview techniques, radio, netball and more. We swap "Networking" stories and I go through all the shameful moments where I have met the right people and said the wrong things. This episode, with the one before it, and the one after it, forms a sort of accidental miniseries about people who are involved in making audio. This wasn’t fully intentional but is welcomed nevertheless. I do programme the show for variety and there is still variety within these three episodes; however GBA is not always about people who exist in the audio world. I met Emma through http://said.fm/ which has morphed into http://thesupertimes.com/ For more on the people doing heading that audio app project check out this episode of GBA: http://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-7-aisha-and-abdel Emma Plugs: Sweet Afternoon Radio: http://www.sweetafternoon.com/ http://twitter.com/sweetafternoon Xtreme East - http://www.xstreameast.co.uk/ Some other audio based stuff that Emma and I cover: Radiolab: http://www.radiolab.org/ Hackney Hear: http://www.hackneyhear.com/ On the Media: http://www.onthemedia.org/podcast/ Rethinkdaily: http://rethinkdaily.co.uk/ Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review? Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word! | 14 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitGBA 47 JP and Elah from I Like You | In GBA 47 we get better acquainted with my JP and Elah from the podcast I Like You. This is the first GBA done via skype with a link up between London and Toronto. Amongst other things we talk about love and like, independent podcasting, ex girlfriends, working together, putting yourself online, radio and more. They use their own interview skills to draw some stories out of me. A shorter version of our conversation edited by Elah appeared last week on their podcast: http://ilikeyoupodcast.com/2012/03/67-getting-better-acquainted/ If you want to write a letter to your ex and send it to JP and Elah for them to use on their show they would love you to do so. Send it to: us@ilikeyoupodcast.com If you live in Toronto and are single you might also be interested in getting involved with this I Like You project: http://ilikeyoupodcast.com/2012/03/wanted-reality-dating-volunteers/ Find I Like You here: http://ilikeyoupodcast.com We refer to these episodes of the show in our conversation: Time Travel: http://ilikeyoupodcast.com/2010/09/22-back-to-the-future/ Mum and Kid: http://ilikeyoupodcast.com/2010/07/15-generation-gap/ Crying episode: http://ilikeyoupodcast.com/2011/02/42-all-broken-up/ Parents Interview: http://ilikeyoupodcast.com/2011/01/39-the-secret-of-my-success/ Drunk Episode: http://ilikeyoupodcast.com/2011/04/49-a-few-too-many/ And this is a favourite of mine that we don't refer to: http://ilikeyoupodcast.com/2010/07/17-dating-under-the-influence/ GBA Episodes mentioned: Christmas Special: http://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-christmas-special (My brother) Tony: http://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-35-tony We also explore my experiences making Four Days in a Room: http://www.fourdaysinaroom.co.uk/ JP plugs: Savage Love: http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/SavageLovePodcast/Page in particular the episode featuring Ira Glass: http://www.thestranger.com/SavageLovePodcast/archives/2012/01/31/savage-love-episode-276 RadioLab: http://www.radiolab.org/ The Moth: http://themoth.org/ WTF: http://www.wtfpod.com/ Stop Podcasting Yourself: http://www.maximumfun.org/shows/stop-podcasting-yourself Sound Of Young America / Bullseye : http://www.maximumfun.org/shows/bullseye Jordan Jessie Go: http://www.maximumfun.org/shows/bullseye Elah Plugs: Wiretap: http://www.cbc.ca/wiretap/ Age of Persuasion: http://www.cbc.ca/ageofpersuasion/ Under the Influence: http://www.cbc.ca/undertheinfluence/ Other audio mentioned: This American Life: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/ CBC: http://www.cbc.ca/radio/ BBC Radio 4: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/ Jon Ronson: http://www.jonronson.com/radio.html The Bugle: http://thebuglepodcast.com/ Answer Me This: http://answermethispodcast.com/ 2 + 2 = 5: http://www.thedialogueproject.com/ (Hear a GBA with the man who makes that podcast here: http://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-38-karl-james ) Spark London: http://www.sparklondon.com/ The Longest Shortest Time: http://longestshortesttime.com/ Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review? Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word! | 7 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitGBA 46 Jack | In GBA 46 we get better acquainted with Jack. He talks about finding dead bodies and shot guns, why his mummy says he's special, being a housing officer, his love of fast and heavy music, hobbies and making art, why he doesn't hate bands (and which bands he hates), the problem with drummers and a lot more. Jack plugs: Little Apple Dolls - http://www.littleappledolls.com/ Screaming Matriarch - http://www.screamingmatriarch.com/ MSIS - http://mummysaysimspecial.com/ We plug: The Plural - http://soundcloud.com/the-plural Show Notes: This is the T-Shirt I bought that Jack made: http://screamingmatriarch.bigcartel.com/product/new-black-skull-fishbones-mens-tee This is the band we used to be in: http://www.myspace.com/applesforeveryone This is the highlights channel for first podcast I made: http://www.fourdaysinaroom.co.uk/ These are albums/bands that you might want to check out as a result of this episode: Against Me - Reinventing Axl Rose: http://open.spotify.com/album/1NtpHCszhzsReZxaoec0o9 NOFX - So Long & Thanks For All The Shoes: http://open.spotify.com/album/5hzbV1PsgeuAZjLClHVcr0 Rancid - Let's Go: http://open.spotify.com/album/5IWs1GKm1HCzrOazle9hdK The Mountain Goats: http://open.spotify.com/artist/3hyGGjxu73JuzBa757H6R5 I googled the DIY albums that Jack talks about and found them in these places: ST/DC: http://www.audiostreet.net/artist.aspx?artistid=2633 http://www.last.fm/music/ST%252FDC/Split Swamp Room http://www.audiostreet.net/artist.aspx?artistid=2635&mode=music Jack Gobsmob http://www.audiostreet.net/artist.aspx?artistid=2634 Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review? Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word! | 29 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitGBA 45 Hannah | In GBA 45 we get better acquainted with Hannah. She talks about being arrested for dressing like a zombie, unemployment in austere times, creative writing, the right to protest and whether it’s a good time to be a loud bisexual and being middle class. We also try and puzzle out whether I’m an evil person for owning an iPhone when I understand the moral problems with its production. She was a "Starbucks Zombie" - http://www.facebook.com/pages/Starbucks-Zombies/205464159493433 http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23951992-zombies-held-in-police-swoop-protesters-spend-four-hours-in-cells-on-day-of-royal-wedding.do http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/apr/29/royal-wedding-police-criticised-protesters And was the Zombie Rights Campaign's Zombie of the Year: http://zombierightscampaign.org/blog/?p=3948 Hannah plugs: The Whippersnapper Press: Her web-publishing site for short, taut, witty and innovative writing: http://www.whippersnapperpress.com/ THEY HAVE A GIG: Thursday, 1 March 7.30PM The Miller Pub, 96 Snowfields, London, SE1 3SS £5 http://www.whippersnapperpress.com/events http://www.facebook.com/events/194993510595219/ The blog she writes for: Bad Reputation - A feminist pop culture adventure: http://www.badreputation.org.uk/ And her personal blog: http://hannahdoublebarrel.wordpress.com/ I plug: Stand Up Tragedy http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk WE HAVE A GIG: Monday 5 March 6.30 The Leicester Square Theatre, 6 Leicester Place, London Tickets: http://leicestersquaretheatre.ticketsolve.com/shows/126520120/events £10 / £8 - use code TRAGIC to make your full price a concession. Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review? Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word! | 22 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitGBA 44 Emily | In GBA 44 we get better acquainted with Emily. She talks about the Israel/Palestine "situation", breaking her arm, travelling to Israel, being a Canadian in the UK, her relationship to her Jewishness, true storytelling, relationships and more. The reason this episode is being released on Valentines Day is that the day is one of the themes running through the conversation; we discuss long distance relationships, long term relationships, talking and writing about sex and the problem with having an anniversary on Valentines Day. Emily plugs nothing. But we do talk about her Spark London Story: http://www.mixcloud.com/sparklondon/the-dentist-emily-lewsen/ (For more on Spark London see: http://www.sparklondon.com/) Her Stand Up Tragedy Story: http://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/stand-up-tragedy-01 (Stand Up Tragedy is currently having website problems but it will be back at http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk until then the link will take you to the podcast) And we also talk about the Savage Love Podcast: http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/SavageLovePodcast/Page/ Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review? Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word! | 14 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitGBA 43 Louise #2 | In GBA 43 we get even better acquainted with Louise. This conversation is really a response to our first one and covers a big subject that was missed out. We talk about the death of Louise's step dad and how his life and death have influenced her. We move out from there into a broader conversation about the death of people you love. Which makes it all sound very heavy, but there is plenty of light and warmth in this conversation. You can listen to Louise's first GBA here: http://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-19-louise Louise plugs - Telling people what you think in that moment, while you can. And also her projects: Big Wheel Theatre Company: http://www.bigwheel.org.uk/ Les Recounteurs: http://lesraconteurslondon.wordpress.com/ Soirée Pompette: http://soireepompette.blogspot.com/ Stand Up Tragedy: Currently we are having website problems but it will be back at www.standuptragedy.co.uk and malware free as soon as possible. Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review? Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word! | 8 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitGBA 42 Lucy | In GBA 42 we get better acquainted with Lucy. I met Lucy on my GBA trip to Cardiff. This was the first time we'd seen each other in 10 years. We met in Chapter Arts Centre in Canton, less than 10 minutes from where I used to live. It was a Saturday morning and the cafe was pretty noisy and busy. We talk about looking for your place in the world, our experiences of school and university, finding yourself and fitting in. And we talk dating, discussing looking for love, being single and we debate date etiquette. Lucy doesn't plug anything. Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review? Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word! | 1 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitGBA 41 Chris | 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/ Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review? Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word! | 25 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitGBA 40 The Interview Process | In GBA 40 we get even better acquainted with Lily who was in episode 39 and with Karl James who was in episode 38. Lily asks me for advice on an interesting interview project she is considering and I ask Karl James for notes on how to make what I do on GBA better. We cut between these two conversations about conversations, these two interviews about interviews, and learn a lot about the art of talking and the craft of dialogue. http://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-38-karl-james http://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-39-lily Notes: The Dialogue Project: http://www.thedialogueproject.com/ 2 + 2 = 5: http://understandingdifference.blogspot.com/ Itunes 2+2=5: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/2-2-5-the-dialogue-project/id423791414 The Story: http://thestory.org.uk/ Karl James' talk at The Story: http://vimeo.com/20141340 WTF with Marc Maron: http://www.wtfpod.com/ On the Media: http://www.onthemedia.org/podcast/ Radiolab: http://www.radiolab.org/ The episode of radiolab that Karl and Dave refer to: http://www.radiolab.org/2007/sep/24/ Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review? Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word! | 20 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitGBA 39 Lily | In GBA 39 we get better acquainted with Lily. She talks about coming back to words and writing, the effect of university on her life, and embracing yoga but rejecting its image amongst other things. We also compare experiences of the Edinburgh Festival. Lily doesn't really have anything to plug. Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review? Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word! | 17 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitGBA 38 Karl James | In GBA 38 we get better acquainted with Karl James. He talks about having conversations and creating dialogues, how developing skills and theories on talking has shaped and influenced his life. We compare notes about interviewing and get to a point we "co-create a dialogue." Karl plugs the power of having and listening to conversations: If you know someone who is in a great deal of pain, or has had bad experiences of sex, or a hard time in and around friendship, go and have a listen to Karl's conversations on those subjects. The Dialogue Project: http://www.thedialogueproject.com/ 2 + 2 = 5: http://understandingdifference.blogspot.com/ Itunes 2+2=5: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/2-2-5-the-dialogue-project/id423791414 Why Not Me? http://soundcloud.com/thedialogueproject/why-not-me Notes: The Story: http://thestory.org.uk/ Karl James' talk at The Story: http://vimeo.com/20141340 Adam Curtis: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/ Graham Linehan: https://twitter.com/#!/glinner Cory Doctorow: http://craphound.com/ Cornelia Parker: http://www.frithstreetgallery.com/artists/bio/cornelia_parker/ Martin Parr ("The guy who took photos"): http://www.martinparr.com/index1.html Bergman - The Magic Lantern: http://www.amazon.com/Magic-Lantern-Ingmar-Bergman/dp/0140104690 Gerard Eagan - The Skilled Helper: http://counsellingcentral.com/gerard-egan-the-skilled-helper/ Anthony Venditti: http://www.spc.ac.uk/research_centre/staff_profiles/mr_anthony_venditti.aspx Super Owl: http://superowl.me/ Aleks Krotowski: http://alekskrotoski.com/ Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review? Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word! | 11 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitGBA 37 Mum #2 | In GBA 37 we get better acquainted with my Mum in the second of three conversations. The third will appear later in the series. Amongst lots of other things she talks about doing an art foundation course as a mature student, the relationship between music and art, her relationship with academic study, oil painting, bee based graffiti, the specific qualities of visual art and the importance of looking. We also talk about how her influence/genes have had an effect on the kind of art that I make. Mum plugs her art: http://junehoy.blogspot.com/ Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review? Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word! | 4 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitGBA 36 Getting Better Acquainted with Christmas! | In GBA 36 we get better acquainted with Christmas. It's the 2011 Christmas Special: A festive curiosity full of intimacy, doubt, shared history, music & cheer. I talk to my partner Jen, about the spirit of Christmas, why she loves the season despite or maybe even because she doesn't believe in god, we compare our different childhood Christmases, and tell our shared Christmas stories featuring panic attacks in midnight mass, the smells of Christmas, and lots more. We hear my Dad extracts from a story recorded on cassette in the mid 80's. It's a Christmas recording given to the family children. It;s a window into the past. I talk to Natti, about her Rastafarian experience and attitude towards Xmas. And I play the Christmas song I wrote a last year. The recording of the song is from New Year 2011 and took place in a room full of friends. Basically this episode tells the story of how I learned to love (albeit a highly neurotic and ambiguous love) the season despite its past crimes against my childhood. Also it CONTAINS SPOILERS so please don't play it on speakers around little children. Unless you are actively choosing this was to break the news to them. Happy Christmas and a Merry New Year! Ghosts of... http://youtu.be/XqCKfOwA9vE Time to be Nice 2011: http://youtu.be/UiPXNO7WJAQ One of the reasons I have trouble loving Christmas: http://www.mixcloud.com/sparklondon/two-cathedrals-david-pickering/ Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review? Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word! | 21 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitGBA 35 Tony | In GBA 35 we get better acquainted with Tony. I talk with my brother about... well brotherhood. Our shared history, tensions, love, influences on each other, our similarities and differences. It's a bit touching. We also talk about teaching, art, drama, and wasps. GBA is getting all warm and fuzzy just in time for Christmas. In fact next Wednesday will be a Christmas special! Then I'm taking a week off. Returning in the new year. Tony doesn't really plug anything. Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review? Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word! | 13 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitGBA 34 Eric and Dad | In GBA 34 we get better acquainted with both Eric and my father. It's late at night after dinner and we’ve had a few drinks, so we also get better acquainted with me as I talk more than usual. We talk about their friendship (which is older than me), the effects and interactions of one generation on another, Eric and my Dad’s short but very interesting experiences in teaching and Eric’s big theory on how class is experienced in modern Britain. The plugging section is devoted to what Eric and Dad would like to say to younger generations, although ironically it is rather hijacked by me talking about how important it is to listen to other generations! Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review? Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word! | 9 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitGBA 33 Eric | In GBA 33 we get better acquainted with Eric. He talks about his extensive BBC career, film making, writing, how he met my father, the effect of national service and the physical and sensual process of typing. And a lot more. He also has a very interesting approach to the process of being recorded. Eric deconstructs the process and purpose of plugging. Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review? Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word! | 7 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitGBA 32 Joanna Yates | In GBA 32 we get better acquainted with Joanna Yates. She talks true stories, psychology and Spark London. A great in depth conversation about the ethics, impact and art of telling true life stories. We recorded this conversation in the bar of the Cafe Canal Theatre where the monthly Spark London true story nights take place. December 5th: Spark London @ The Cafe Canal Theatre - New Beginnings: http://www.sparklondon.com/event/2011/12/05/42 December 19th: Spark London Open Mic @ Ritzy Cinema, Brixton - Christmas: http://www.sparklondon.com/event/2011/12/19/48 Joanna plugs sharing a story at Spark London: To do that see http://www.sparklondon.com/ for upcoming themes and email joanna@sparklondon.com with your story. Two stories I told at Spark, one at the Brixton Open Mic and one at The Cafe Canal Theatre can be heard in GBA1: http://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-1-dave Listen to Spark London weekly on it's podcast available from their website, on mixcloud or through iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/podcast/spark-london/id348365296 One of my stories and a few stories by past and future GBA guests can be found there. Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review? Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word! | 30 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitGBA Extra - Chris | In this GBA Extra I talk to Chris about how the March for Alternative (the demo against the cuts on the 26th March 2011) looked from the point of view of a legal observer. In GBC 31 Ged and me discussed our experiences of that March: http://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-31-ged Chris has a full conversation in GBA 25: http://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-25-chris UK Uncut: http://www.ukuncut.org.uk/ Fortnum 145: http://fortnum145.org/2011/11/08/have-we-opted-out-of-universal-human-rights/ Chris added this to the conversation: From the student protests last year, from March 26th and other challenges to the neoliberal austerity programme, people have been going to prison on absurd public order charges. Witnesses can make the difference between freedom and prison, and you may be a witness so here's a quick callout: if you saw any arrests during that protest or another, on the student demo just passed on November 9th, or if you see arrests during the upcoming strike next Wednesday November 30th, please contact GBC, on 07946 541 511 or via gbclegal@riseup.net. Our website is http://greenandblackcross.org If you would like to train as a legal observer, there is a training happening tomorrow (Saturday November 26th, 1 til 5.30pm) at the Bank of Ideas, the repossessed bank building in Sun Street, Hackney. Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review? Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word! | 25 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitGBA 31 Ged | In GBA 31 we get better acquainted with Ged. He talks about Blackpool, class, George Orwell & protest amongst other things. We are on a train to Edinburgh and drinking beer. We also address some of our points of tension. Look out for a GBA extra ON FRIDAY where I get another POV on the march that me and Ged discuss. Ged plugs: His Indian Schools comic adaptation of Voyage of the Beagal by Charles Darwin Dogem Logic: http://www.dodgemlogic.com/ Ged's Comic Strip: Twixt the Steeple and the Ground http://www.flickr.com/photos/thoughtbubblefestival/5065122049/ If people want to get in touch with Ged about writing or theatre related matters drop me an email at GBApodcast@gmail.com and I'll pass on your messages. Additional: Movember: http://uk.movember.com/mospace/1560146/ Ged mentions Z Net: http://zcommunications.org/znet The TUC organised March for the Alernative: My blog on the day: http://goosefat101twitterspills.blogspot.com/2011/03/truth.html Jen's Blog on the day:http://www.jadamthwaite.co.uk/from-the-living-room/2011/3/27/drums-and-bubbles-our-experience-of-the-march.html UK Uncut: http://www.ukuncut.org.uk/ GBC Legal: http://greenandblackcross.org/legal Fortnum 145: http://fortnum145.org/2011/11/08/have-we-opted-out-of-universal-human-rights/ Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review? Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word! | 23 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitGBA 30 Rosemary | 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 if you're interested in booking them email me at GBApodcast@gmail.com and I will put you in touch with them. Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review? Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word! | 16 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitGBA 29 Matt | 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. Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review? Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word! | 9 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitGBA 28 Rebecca | In GBA 28 we get better acquainted with my sister Rebecca. She talks about being an ex-pat in Germany, being a probation officer, social work, Oxford University, vegetarianism and her relationship to the idea of teaching. This episode was recorded in last April late at night in a reverb filled room in Bad Godesberg whilst drinking Horlicks. Rebecca doesn't plug anything. Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review? Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word! | 2 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitGBA 27 Joss | In GBA 27 we get better acquainted with Joss. He talks about the effect of digital technology on television and film production, cultural background, health, therapy and meditation. We also compare notes about being writer/musicians whose parents are writers and artists. Joss plugs his music: http://www.stormboy.net/ http://soundcloud.com/jossarmitage If you're interested in the broadcast industry and its technology then google "Joss Armitage" for his essays and this is his company: http://www.jumppr.tv/ Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review? Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word! | 30 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitGBA 26 Angela | In GBA 26 we get better acquainted with Angela. She talks about programming computer simulations of Jaguars and Hedgehogs and being Welsh and proud amongst other things. We meet for the first time in 10 years, compare notes and talk how we have come to know ourselves better as we get older. It even has a cameo from a dog. Angela plugs: The University of Southampton: Complex System Simulations DTC: http://www.icss.soton.ac.uk/ Her blog: http://computationalecology-angelawatkins.blogspot.com/ Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review? Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word! | 19 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitGBA 25 Chris | In GBA 25 we walk road the streets of Brixton getting better acquainted with Chris. He talks conversation, statistical analysis, being a craftist, cycling round London and much more. We also have a big conversation about whether money is neutral a tool for organising society! Chris plugs: The Anarchist Bookfair 2011: http://anarchistbookfair.org.uk/ and also the idea of getting involved in things you care about. Want to cycle round London but your nervous of doing it? Chris recommends: http://www.cycletraining.co.uk/ He also offers to personally help people to be confident about riding bikes around London. If you're interested email: GBApodcast@gmail.com Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review? Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word! | 11 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitGBA 24 Mum #1 | In GBA 24 we get better acquainted with my Mum in the first of three conversations. The other two will appear later in the series. Amongst lots of other things she talks about being a nurse in a different time, ghosts, death, social work, changes in the NHS, running an adventure playground in a Lewisham council estate in the 70's and lots more. Mum plugs: Saving the NHS! http://www.38degrees.org.uk/page/s/Protect_our_NHS_Petition Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review? Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word! | 4 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitGBA 23 Jessica | In GBA 23 we get better acquainted with Jessica. Most of the conversation takes place on a fruit and veg stall. She talks about how an allotment changed her life and the exciting project that is The People's Supermarket the work she is doing on their Hackney Consultation. We also talk about community, localism, gardening, London history, finding a job that fits who you are, art, environmental activism and yoga! Jessica mentions two documentaries that changed her life: Farm for the future: http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=2750012006939737230 The People's Supermarket: http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-peoples-supermarket Jessica Plugs: The People's Supermarket Hackney Consultation: http://hackney.thepeoplessupermarket.org/ http://twitter.com/TPSHackney If you live in Hackney why not get involved? The People's Supermarket: http://www.thepeoplessupermarket.org/ http://www.facebook.com/thepeoplessupermarket http://twitter.com/TPSLondon Transition Leytonstone: http://www.transitionnetwork.org/initiatives/leytonstone Organic Lea Hawkwood Nursery: http://www.organiclea.org.uk/what-we-do/we-grow-food/hawkwood/ Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review? Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word! | 28 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitGBA 22 Zoe | 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 Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review? Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word! | 20 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitGBA 1 Dave | This is an introduction to Dave who is the host of GBA. It was Episode 1 of the series and had 130 plays at the time of it being ACCIDENTALLY DELETED. It has been re-posted out of sequence because there was no way of putting it back where it belonged. Dave tells stories from his past, some funny, some sad, some a mixture of both, featuring two live stories told at Spark London events: http://www.sparklondon.com/ | 20 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitGBA 21 Navin | In GBA 21 we get better acquainted with Navin. He talks about music, music, and more music: A defence of Queen, taking a shower in music, how music affects him, music history and the thorny problems of forming bands and making music in the Internet Age. Navin plugs: His old band with Simon Lennon: http://www.myspace.com/tivoliband His own accoustic solo music: http://www.myspace.com/energybox1980 He asks for people to try and make fan forums that are nice environments to talk in. Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review? Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word! | 14 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitGBA 20 Nathalie | In GBA 20 we get better acquainted with Nathalie. She talks about writing, creative non fiction, self help, social anxiety, trouble with finance, truth, and lots more! Nathalie plugs her blog Panic Station: http://nathaliehourihan.wordpress.com/ You can follow her on Twitter: http://twitter.com/NathalieLeonora Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review? Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word! | 6 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitGBA 19 Louise | In GBA 19 we get better acquainted with Louise. Amongst lots of other things she talks about laughing in scary situations, learning languages, cultural differences and devils advocacy. We compare childhoods and confidence levels. Also she tells the story of how she came to be threatened by a big man with a whip during in the middle of the Togolese military dictatorship. Louise plugs: Sitting on the fence. Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review? Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word! | 31 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitGBA 18 Sam | 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. Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review? Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word! | 24 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitGBA 17 Cardiff | GBA 17: The Cardiff Special Dave takes us on a journey into his past as he returns to Cardiff the city that he lived in during his adolescence. Conversations, anecdotes, and memories mix together as we get better acquainted both with Cardiff and with Dave's old life there. This episode features conversations with Owain, Steve, John, Bill, Angela, Lucy, and Dave. Nearly all those named have a full episode of GBA devoted to them coming up in future weeks. Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review? Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word! | 19 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitGBA 16 Owain | In GBA 16 we get better acquainted with Owain. He has lived all his life in Wales and most of his life in Cardiff. We meet him just before he was due to go and live in Barcelona. The conversation takes place in a car at the top of Caerphilly mountain in the middle of the night in the pouring rain. We talk about the stomach operation he had in Eastern Europe to reduce his obesity, our lives together at secondary school, the Ely Riots, being a financial advisor who is hopeless with his own money and we cover many of his thoughts on love and life. Owain plugs: His blog: http://amonthinbarcelona.blogspot.com/ (WARNING: It currently isn't very active) We plug our other podcast: http://www.fourdayinaroom.co.uk (WARNING: it is very different from GBA) The Episode of 4DiaR where Owain told me the story of his operation: http://fourdaysinaroom.blogspot.com/2011/07/episode-29-stomach-this.html Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review? Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word! | 17 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitGBA 15 Edinburgh Festival | GBA 15: The Edinburgh Fringe Special is the final episode from GBA Fringe Season: Two weeks of episodes devoted to the Edinburgh and Camden Fringes Dave takes us on a trip with him and some of his friends to the opening weekend of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The show gives a feel of the festival and reviews lots of shows, but it is also a tapestry of conversations, interviews, personal experiences and memories. Dave takes us through his relationship to the festival. The boys are on a Stag Weekend and so that is a theme that threads its way through the show. This episode gets better acquainted with Dave, Lily, Ged, Richard, Tim, Kerrie, Frank, MJ Hibbett, the assorted gentlemen from Tim's Stag Weekend, the city of Edinburgh and the Fringe Festival. All those named have either had or will have a full episode of GBA devoted to them. This is the first special episode of GBA. These will be occasional features of the series, introducing a new strand of interviews and engaging with places from Dave's past. Next Friday the second special will air: Getting Better Acquainted with Cardiff REVIEWS Comedy: Tim Key - MasterSlut 9.45pm @ Pleasance Dome Comedy: Card Ninja 1pm @ Assembly George Square "Rock Opera": MJ Hibbett - Moon Horse vs the Mars Men of Jupiter FREE FRINGE 5pm @ Buffs Club Theatre: Futureproof @ The Traverse Theatre Comedy: Gad, Kirk and Winning - Well This is Awkward FREE FRINGE 2.45pm Bannerman's Theatre: Mission Drift - The TEAM @ The Traverse Theatre (Only showing till 14th August!) Theatre: Translunar Paradise - Theatre Ad Infinitum NOW till 29th Aug (excl. 16 & 23) @ Pleasance Dome THE FREE FESTIVAL: http://www.laughinghorsecomedy.co.uk/dynamic/festival.asp PROMOTED Kerrie is in The Segue Sisters in 'Jailbirds' - 3rd - 28th August (Not 17th) 22.15 @ Gilded Balloon Richard Tyrone Jones - http://bit.ly/fundrtj 26th and 27th August Banshee Labyrinth: http://freefringe.org.uk/showlistings/5099-richard-tyrone-jones-reads-some-stuff-off-bits-of-paper-spoken-word 27th August - Utter! Spoken Word http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/event.php?eid=179663742082014 RECOMMENDED BY GUESTS Frank: Helen Arney (http://edinburghfestival.list.co.uk/events/what:Helen%20Arney/) Robin Ince (http://edinburghfestival.list.co.uk/events/what:Robin%20Ince/) Helen Keen (Helen Keen's Spacetacular! PBS FREE FRINGE 8.25pm - Monday 5th and Monday 22nd August @ The Canon's Gait) Bright Club (http://www.bbc.co.uk/showsandtours/shows/date/shows/bright_club_edfest_20110824) Neil Gaiman (http://edinburghfestival.list.co.uk/event/230427-neil-gaiman/) Phil Jupitus (8.25pm @ The Stand) MJ Hibbett: Four Sad Faces (1.15pm @ Canon's Gait) Richard Herring - What is Love Anyway (8.50pm @ Udderbelly's Pasture) Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review? Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word! | 12 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitGBA 14 Kerrie | GBA Fringe Season: Two weeks of episodes devoted to the Edinburgh and Camden Fringes In GBA 14 we get better acquainted with Kerrie. She talks about being a working actress, going from farm girl to showgirl, comedy, taking criticism and lots lots more. Kerrie played the lead in my Sony Nominated podcast drama series 'Numbers' You can find the second season of 'Numbers’ and other programmes from Rethinkdaily here: http://www.rethinkdaily.co.uk/ or search for Rethink Daily on itunes to subscribe and download. Kerrie plugs: The Segue Sisters: http://www.theseguesisters.com / http://twitter.com/TheSegueSisters / http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-SEGUE-SISTERS/135337586485230 Edinburgh Fringe: The Segue Sisters in 'Jailbirds' 3rd - 28th August (Not 17th) 22.15 @ Gilded Balloon http://www.edfringe.com/whats-on/comedy/segue-sisters-in-jailbirds Kerrie suggests: The Great British Sketch Off: http://www.comedy.co.uk/fringe/2011/great_big_sketch_off/ @ The Pleasance Courtyard Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review? Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word! | 10 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitGBA 13 Richard Tyrone Jones | GBA Fringe Season: Two weeks of episodes devoted to the Edinburgh and Camden Fringes In GBA 13 we get better acquainted with Richard Tyrone Jones. Amongst other things we talk about how he literally has a big heart that almost killed him, what it means to try and make a living from poetry and the way his life now (finally) has a narrative arc. Richard Tyrone Jones plugs: Utter! Spoken Word: http://www.utterspokenword.com / http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/group.php?gid=5704768293 Fund Richard Tyrone Jones Has A Big Heart's 2012 Tour and Book: http://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/investment/richard-tyrone-jones-has-a-big-heart-edinburgh-amp-tour-2012-256 Camden Fringe: Richard Tyrone Jones Has a Heart: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/event.php?eid=203616559670276 LAST SHOW SUNDAY 7th August - Camden Head Utter! MisGuided Tour of Camden 6th August: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/event.php?eid=215717238445578 Utter! Puppets: 9th August - Green Note http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/event.php?eid=214491278563431 Edinburgh Fringe: 26th and 27th August Banshee Labyrinth: http://freefringe.org.uk/showlistings/5099-richard-tyrone-jones-reads-some-stuff-off-bits-of-paper-spoken-word 27th August - Utter! Spoken Word http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/event.php?eid=179663742082014 Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review? Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word! | 5 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitGBA 12 MJ Hibbett | GBA Fringe Season: Two weeks of episodes devoted to the Edinburgh and Camden Fringes In GBA 12 we get better acquainted with MJ Hibbett. Amongst other things, We talk about being a viral hit on the internet, his exciting life in ROCK, the exchange rate between music and comedy and the importance of a Day Job. MJ Hibbett plugs: MJ Hibbett and The Validators: http://www.mjhibbett.com Moon Horse: www.moonhorse.net Edinburgh: PBH's Free Fringe 6 - 20 August: 17:00 - 18:00 every day - Buffs Club (R.A.O.B.), 5 West Register Street, Edinburgh EH2 2AA Camden Fringe: 26 - 27 August: 20:00 - 21:00 both days - The Camden Head, 100 Camden High St, London NW1 0LU Dinosaur Planet: http://www.mjhibbett.co.uk/dinosaurplanet/ Things we talk about that you may like to cross reference: The Gay Train: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8b-4shDxUlw Hey Hey 16K: http://mjhibbett.co.uk/songs/song.php?filename=heyhey16K The Lesson of The Smiths: http://mjhibbett.co.uk/songs/song.php?filename=thelessonofthesmiths My band T Shirt blog by MJ Hibbett: http://mybandtshirt.tumblr.com/post/7008013974/34-mj-hibbett-the-validators-hey-hey-16k-2004 My song about the last cartridge game avater: http://soundcloud.com/thereactionaries/11-the-last-platform Darren Hayman's January Songs: http://januarysongs.tumblr.com/ The Word Podcast: http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/podcast Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review? Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word! | 3 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitGBA 11 Clive | In GBA 11 we get better acquainted with Clive. He asks himself the question, "What is the point in Anthropology?" He provides many answers and some arguments against them. And sometimes he forgets what he's supposed to be talking about. Living with tribal people, if the world can be made a better place and how can humans be happy are some of the main themes of the conversation. Clive plugs: Survival International: http://www.survivalinternational.org / http://twitter.com/survival Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review? Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word! | 27 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitGBA 10 Richard | 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/ Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review? Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word! | 20 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitGBA 9 Hayley | 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 Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review? Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word | 12 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitGBA 8 Vaughan (part 2) | In GBA #8 (part 2) we continue getting better acquainted with Vaughan. He talks about being South African, being head of the Tolkien society, playing chess, restructuring organisations, heavy metal and an eccountants relationship to numbers and spreadsheets. And that doesn't even cover half of what he talks about! These episodes are more loosely edited than some to better represent the experience of getting acquainted with Vaughan. GBA #8 (part 2) comes out on Friday. At the end of part 2 Vaughan plugs: Monkish: http://www.myspace.com/monkishtheband / http://www.facebook.com/pages/Monkish/120441811323314 / http://www.youtube.com/user/Bradders20 (They are playing two gigs in London very soon: http://on.fb.me/Monkish15thJuly / http://on.fb.me/Monkish16thJuly ) Him on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/mr.grandini Noble Debauchery: http://www.myspace.com/nobledebauchery Scottish Band that he likes a lot: http://www.myspace.com/fireexituk His South African Pipe Band: http://www.1medpipeband.co.za/ The McLennan Scottish Group: http://www.msg.org.uk/ / http://www.youtube.com/user/gbj1941 The Pride of Murray Pipe Band: http://www.thepride.co.uk/ Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review? Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word. | 8 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitGBA 8 Vaughan (part 1) | In GBA #8 (part 1) we get better acquainted with Vaughan. He talks about being South African, playing the bagpipes in fetish clubs, wearing masks, restructuring organisations, heavy metal and "being black". And that doesn't even cover half of what he talks about! These episodes are more loosely edited than some to better represent the experience of getting acquainted with Vaughan. GBA #8 (part 2) comes out on Friday. At the end of part 2 Vaughan plugs: Monkish: http://www.myspace.com/monkishtheband / http://www.facebook.com/pages/Monkish/120441811323314 / http://www.youtube.com/user/Bradders20 (They are playing two gigs in London very soon: http://on.fb.me/Monkish15thJuly / http://on.fb.me/Monkish16thJuly ) Him on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/mr.grandini Noble Debauchery: http://www.myspace.com/nobledebauchery Scottish Band that he likes a lot: http://www.myspace.com/fireexituk His South African Pipe Band: http://www.1medpipeband.co.za/ The McLennan Scottish Group: http://www.msg.org.uk/ / http://www.youtube.com/user/gbj1941 The Pride of Murray Pipe Band: http://www.thepride.co.uk/ Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review? Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word. | 6 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitGBA 7 Aisha and Abdel | In GBA #7 we get better acquainted with Abdel and Aisha. They talk love, marriage, work, rest, play, code, words, cultural identity, internet start ups, San Francisco and audio excellence! Super Owl: http://superowl.me/ http://www.facebook.com/TheSuperOwl http://twitter.com/TheSuperOwl http://blog.superowl.me/ Aisha on Twitter: http://twitter.com/new_nomad Abdel on Twitter: http://twitter.com/abdels Aisha and Abdel plugged: http://schoolofeverything.com/ http://said.fm/ Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review? Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word. | 29 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitGBA 6 George | 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. Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review? Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word. | 22 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitGBA 5 Sarah | In GBA #5 we get better acquainted with Sarah. She talks about her relationship with pianos, from sitting under them as a child to taking them apart as an adult and she introduces us to the amazing Beam Festival (24-26 JUNE 2011, BRUNEL UNIVERSITY, UXBRIDGE) Find Liz on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/sarahpiano / @sarahpiano Find the Beam Festival on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/BEAMfestival / @BEAMFestival Sarah plugged: http://www.beamfestival.com/ Angry Sparrow on YouTube: http://youtu.be/C4CUTGsPmks http://www.steim.org Beam Train podcasts: http://www.beamfestival.com/open-calls/beam-train/ http://www.sarahnicolls.com/ Inside out piano: http://insideoutpiano.wordpress.com/ Beam Festival fb page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/BEAM-Festival-at-Brunel-page/189506174403539 Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review? Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word. | 15 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitGBA 4 Liz | In GBA #4 we get better acquainted with Liz. She talks about an amazing amount of things including; class, social policy, personal history, cultural identity and her family. Find Liz on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/veritasgrey / @veritasgrey Liz plugged: http://www.thebrickbox.co.uk/ http://www.mssociety.org.uk http://www.symphonyspace.org/ http://www.selectedshorts.org/ http://www.radiolab.org/ http://www.npr.org/ Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review? Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word. | 8 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitGBA 3 Dad #1 | In GBA #3 we get better acquainted withmy father (for the first time). He tells the story of his service in the army during World War II. Sometimes a conversation is the closest you can get to a time machine. This conversation was recorded in a location that technically belongs to know country. What it lacks in sound quality it hopefully makes up in atmosphere. Find my dad's writing here: http://stores.lulu.com/alanhubbard Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review? Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word. | 1 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitGBA 2 Elspeth | 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) Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review? Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word. If you want to get even better acquainted with the show you can email Dave at: GBApodcast@gmail.co.uk NEXT WEEK: We get better acquainted with Elspeth. | 25 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitGBA Teaser | While we wait for iTunes to process the GBA feed request here is a podcast featuring teaser clips of what is to come. Starting on Wednesday 18th May weekly episodes of Getting Better Acquainted will start. Each week Dave will talk to a different acquaintance. Join him on his journey to get to know people better and to get better at getting to know people. Thanks to Abdel, Aisha, Beau, Clive, Chris, Elspeth, Elizabeth, George, Hayley, Navin, Peter, Rebecca, Richard, Scottie, and Zoe who appear in this episode. They will all have at least 1 full episode devoted entirely to them in the coming series. | 7 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitGBA Advert | An advert for Getting Better Acquainted the new podcast show from Dave Pickering set to begin on 18/05/2011 GBA will be a weekly podcast: Join Dave on his journey to get better acquainted with the people he knows. There are lots of shows about famous people. This is a show about the rest of us. | 7 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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But after being interviewed for the GBA series back in May I tuned in when they started to be released and am loving them --- days afterwards a scrap of Dave's chat with his acquaintances will pop back into my head and make me look at things a bit differently. Download Dave's intro session #1 for a taster -- he's a great storyteller
Always makes me think...
I've really been enjoying these podcasts. Real people seem to capture my imagination more then celebrities with something to sell.
Every week is different as well - which I love.
Give it a go!
The familiarity of humans
Beautiful example of how we are all related. I fall in love with each one i listen to and crave the next insight into humankind.
I love the shameless opportunity to be centre of attention each person gets this is something we don't all demand but do deserve. It is rare to focus so sincerely on getting to know each other, the world would be a better and safer place if:
a. There was a more of this important archive of people and
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