Getting Better Acquainted

In GBA 245 I talk to Jonathan Chapman about his concept Emotionally Durable Design. This conversation is a departure from the usual format and tone of the show and was recorded as part of the development of Episode 9 of The Restart Project Podcast. Jonathan Chapman: https://twitter.com/iamjchapman Emotionally Durable Design: http://emotionallydurabledesign.com/ The Restart Project: http://restartproject.org/ The Restart Project Podcast: https://therestartproject.org/podcast/ Episode 9 on Resonance FM: https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/the-restart-project-22nd-march-2016/ What About the Men? Mansplaining Masculinity: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-presents-what-about-the-men-mansplaining-maculinity http://mansplainingmasculinity.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!

In GBA 244 we get better acquainted with Alison Phipps. She talks about her roundabout route to becoming an academic, how her politics have changed and grown over time, researching lad culture, sexual violence and reproductive rights, the dialectics of feminism, including sex worker and trans rights within feminism, how institutions work and the way that music and singing have framed and shaped her life. Content note: This episode includes discussion of sexual assault, rape and violence. Alison plugs: Blog: https://genderate.wordpress.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/alisonphipps Pastachips: https://twitter.com/pastachips I plug: What do sex workers want?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJRBx0JjM_M Toni Episode: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-197-toni What About the Men? Mansplaining Masculinity: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-presents-what-about-the-men-mansplaining-maculinity http://mansplainingmasculinity.co.uk Twitter: http://twitter.com/goosefat101 Donating: http://bit.ly/1LUtbKt We mention: (Re)theorising laddish masculinities: https://t.co/XVhIziHi5e Elmhurst Ballet School: http://www.elmhurstdance.co.uk/ Manchester University: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/ The Politics of the Body: Gender in a Neoliberal and Neoconservative Age, Alison Phipps, 2014: http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Politics-Body-Neoliberal-Neoconservative/dp/0745648886 Radical Feminism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_feminism Stand Up Tragedy: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk/ Intersectional Feminism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersectionality Dialectics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialectic Sex Worker Open University: http://www.sexworkeropenuniversity.com/ Shula Firestone - Dialectics of Sex: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dialectic_of_Sex Carceral Feminism: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/10/against-carceral-feminism/ Prison Abolition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_abolition_movement Restorative Justice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restorative_justice Survivors Network: http://www.survivorsnetwork.org.uk/ Stoya/ James Deen: http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/dec/04/how-stoya-took-on-james-deen-and-broke-the-porn-industrys-silence Unilad: http://www.unilad.co.uk/ Gamergate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamergate_controversy Steve Dempster: http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/educational-research/about-us/people/steven-dempster NUS Report Lad Culture: http://www.nus.org.uk/Global/Campaigns/That's%20what%20she%20said%20full%20report%20Final%20web.pdf 50 Shades is Abuse: https://twitter.com/50shadesabuse Germaine Greer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germaine_Greer Female Eunach: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Female_Eunuch Janice Raymond: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janice_Raymond Andrea Dworkin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Dworkin Brownmiller: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Brownmiller McKinnon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catharine_MacKinnon Baudrillard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Baudrillard Focualt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Foucault Lean In: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_In Fawcett Feminism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fawcett_Society Centre for Gender Studies: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/gender/ Solidarity With Sex Workers: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/read/31323 Kimberle Crenshaw: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimberl%C3%A9_Williams_Crenshaw Hamilton: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton_(musical) Prince: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_(musician) REM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.E.M. Nirvana: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_(band) Pearl Jam: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_Jam Stone Temple Pilots: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Temple_Pilots The other Alison Phipps: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/08/hosting-refugees-in-my-home-migration-crisis Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word!

In GBA 243 we get better acquainted with Azariah. He talks about being a father, a husband, a priest, a runner and a storyteller. We talk about race, religion, podcasts, comics, questions and how sharing true stories can bring people together. The conversation ranges from Ecclesiastes to The Incredible Hulk, from Aesop's Fables to personal recollections, as we investigate stories, communication and shapeshifting. Azariah plugs: The Shapeshifters: http://www.theshapeshifters.org/ I plug: What About the Men? Mansplaining Masculinity: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-presents-what-about-the-men-mansplaining-maculinity http://mansplainingmasculinity.co.uk Twitter: http://twitter.com/goosefat101 Donating: http://bit.ly/1LUtbKt We mention: Spark London: http://stories.co.uk/ Church of England: https://www.churchofengland.org/ Park Run: http://www.parkrun.org.uk/ St Paul's Cathedral: https://www.stpauls.co.uk/ Multicultural Minds: https://www.acast.com/sparklondon/multiculturalminds-truestorieslive Mind in Haringey: http://www.mindinharingey.org.uk/ Ecclesiastes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecclesiastes Revelations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Revelation Incredible Hulk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hulk_(comics) Knightrider: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_Rider_(1982_TV_series) Spider-man: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man Marvel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel_Comics Aesop's Fables: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aesop%27s_Fables Wind and the Sun: http://www.bartleby.com/17/1/60.html Stan Lee: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Lee 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!

In GBA 242 we get better acquainted with Maco. He describes a life spent with sound, from free parties, to roadying, to speech radio, to music; from hiding with the music equipment at school to listening to his voice in an Anechoic Chamber. We also cover being a father, how travelling and background influences your accent and the importance of wilderness years. This conversation was recorded in Studio 2 at the community radio station where he works. Maco plugs: 5th March - 24 Hour Broadcast - Reverbathon: https://www.facebook.com/events/563823997108936/ macohibs on twitter: https://twitter.com/macohibs Website: http://macoaudio.co.uk/ I plug: What About the Men? Mansplaining Masculinity: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-presents-what-about-the-men-mansplaining-maculinity http://mansplainingmasculinity.co.uk Twitter: https://twitter.com/goosefat101 Donating: http://bit.ly/1LUtbKt We mention: Irvine Welsh: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irvine_Welsh Ian Rankin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Rankin Hibs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hibernian_F.C. Hearts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_of_Midlothian_F.C. Brighton Bears: http://brightonbearweekend.com/ Radio Reverb: http://www.radioreverb.com/ Remember You're A Womble: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIxkqoNi8I4 Second Summer of Love: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Summer_of_Love Pure/Sativa: http://markterrylush.blogspot.co.uk/2010/03/pure-most-mental-club-in-history.html http://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2014/01/nightclubbing-pure-scotland Detroit Techno: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit_techno Radio 4: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4 Radiolab: http://www.radiolab.org/ Sex Pistols: http://www.sexpistolsofficial.com/ Joy Division: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_Division University of Brighton: https://www.brighton.ac.uk/index.aspx 6 Music: http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music Late Junction: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006tp52 Radiolab Criticism: http://hyphenmagazine.com/blog/2012/10/22/science-racism-radiolabs-treatment-hmong-experience Cbeebies Radio: http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/radio Ministry of Stories: show http://bit.ly/1LUv2iD Ministry of Stories: org http://ministryofstories.org Jenni Murray: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenni_Murray Terry Saunders: http://www.terrysaunders.co.uk/ Listen with Mother: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listen_with_Mother Out in Brighton: http://www.radioreverb.com/shows/out-in-brighton HIV Happy Hour: http://www.radioreverb.com/shows/HIV-Happy-Hour Refugee Radio: http://www.radioreverb.com/shows/refugee-radio Carousel Radio: http://www.radioreverb.com/shows/shut-up-listen English Disco Lovers: http://www.radioreverb.com/shows/English-DiscoLovers EDL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Defence_League Resonance: https://www.resonancefm.com/ The Restart Project: https://therestartproject.org/podcast/ Resonance Extra: https://extra.resonance.fm/ The Artist Taxi Driver: https://www.youtube.com/user/chunkymark Taxi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxi_(2015_film) Non Linear Hearing: http://bit.ly/1LUw8La Anechoic Chamber: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anechoic_chamber Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/ Soundcloud's trouble: http://www.factmag.com/2016/02/11/soundcloud-financial-report-44m-losses/ Feedburner: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FeedBurner 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!

In GBA 241 we get better acquainted with Vera Chok. We struggle through a little bit of social awkwardness to get into a great conversation about acting, writing, performance, identity, race and sex. The conversation grapples with perception, the self, image, shame and the body which makes it sound a bit worthy and pretentious which it very much is not! Vera plugs: The Good Immigrant: https://unbound.co.uk/books/the-good-immigrant Short Story coming up (in the future) on The Toast: http://the-toast.net/ Charles Adrian Gillot: http://charlesadrian.typepad.com/ Page One: http://www.pageonepodcast.com/ Muselings: http://muselings.uk/ I plug: What About the Men? Mansplaining Masculinity: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-presents-what-about-the-men-mansplaining-maculinity http://mansplainingmasculinity.co.uk We mention: PBH Spoken Word Album: https://pbhfreefringespokenword.bandcamp.com/album/a-maze-of-breaths-spoken-word-at-pbhs-free-fringe Stand Up Tragedy: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk/ Free Fringe: http://freefringe.org.uk/ Peter Buckley Hill's GBA: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-live-8-peter-buckley-hill LAMDA: https://www.lamda.org.uk/ Enid Blyton: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enid_Blyton Samantha Mann: http://mssamanthamann.com/ Arts Admin: http://www.artsadmin.co.uk/ People Show Studios: http://www.run-riot.com/venue/people-show-studios Adrian's GBA: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-162-adrian Stacey Makishi: http://www.stacymakishi.com/ Bryony Kimmings: http://www.bryonykimmings.com/ Greg Woehead: https://gregwohead.com/ The New Year Episode: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-extra-new-focus Peter Morris: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Morris_(playwright) Wikipedia entry on Vera: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Chok Wallace Shawn's The Fever: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_Shawn Krystian Godlewski: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm5395388/ Cameryn Moore's GBA: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-215-cameryn-moore Brautigan Bookclub: https://thebrautiganbookclub.wordpress.com/ Richard Brautigan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Brautigan Chimerica: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimerica_(play) Diverse December: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jan/07/diverse-december-creators-expand-social-media-campaign-readdiverse2016 Kin Podcast: https://soundcloud.com/kin-podcast Vera and Anna on Kin: https://soundcloud.com/kin-podcast/kin-3-oh-shit-im-not-white Nikesh Shukla: http://www.nikesh-shukla.com/ Sense 8: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense8 Samantha's GBA: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-live-16-ms-samantha-mann I Love Being Asked About My Sexual Desires — But I Just Can’t Answer: http://www.theestablishment.co/2015/12/30/why-cant-i-ask-for-what-i-want-in-bed/ 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!

In GBA 240 we get better acquainted with Michael Brunstrom. As we walk between Angel Islington and Victoria Park we improvise a conversation that pulls at the strands of what drives Michael to make the kind of comedy he does. We talk fringe theatre, enthusiasms, generalisations, milieus, breaking up with improv, the truth behind the surreal and so much more. I plug: Stand Up Tragedy Presents on Thursday Feb 18th at the Dogstar Brixton: Stand Up Tragedy Presents on 18th Feb: http://www.facebook.com/events/1129825877029165/ Michael plugs: Leicester Comedy Festival: The Hay Wain Reloaded 20th Feb Heroes at the criterion at 3.30pm http://www.michaelbrunstrom.co.uk We mention: Steve Roe: http://www.hooplaimpro.com/about-steve-roe.html Improvised Greek Tragedy: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/stand-up-tragedy-19 Stand Up Tragedy: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk James Ross: https://twitter.com/jamesrosscomedy Sofie Hagen: http://www.sofiehagen.com/ Mark Dean Quinn: https://twitter.com/markdeanquinn Jeremy Clarkson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Clarkson The Golden Age of Steam: https://edinburghfestival.list.co.uk/event/490260-michael-brunstrom-the-golden-age-of-steam/ Myself and Micheal performing at SUT in 2015: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/tragic-spring-act-1-tragic-beginnings Darren Walsh: http://darrenwalsh.co.uk/ Bec Hill: http://www.bechillcomedian.com/ Pun Run: http://www.thepunrun.com/ In the Dark Radio: http://www.inthedarkradio.org/ Nina Garthwaite: http://www.inthedarkradio.org/nina-garthwaite-founding-director/ In the Dark Residency: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/gba-live-the-invisible-picture Ken Campbell: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Campbell Cottesloe Theatre: http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/backstage/cottesloe-theatre National Theatre Illuminatus!: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illuminatus! Robert Anton Wilson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Anton_Wilson The Warp: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Warp_(play) Neil Oram: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Oram Furtive Nudist,Jamais Vu, Pigspur: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bald-Trilogy-Recollections-Pigspurt-Happiness/dp/0413690806 Pidgin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pidgin Macbeth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macbeth Torriano Meeting House: https://torrianomeetinghouse.wordpress.com/ Josh Darcy: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1591591/ School of Night: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_School_of_Night Zoot Lynam: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0528209/ Chris Langham: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Langham Justin Bieber: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Bieber Sophocles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophocles Oresteia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oresteia Antigone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antigone_(Sophocles_play) Rosemary Branch Theatre: http://www.rosemarybranch.com/ Time Out: http://www.timeout.com/london Ricardo Pinto: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardo_Pinto Hope and Anchor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hope_and_Anchor,_Islington John Stahl: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0821471/ Almeida: http://www.almeida.co.uk/whats-on Battersea Arts Centre: https://www.bac.org.uk/ Yes And... : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes,_and... John Luke Roberts: http://www.chortle.co.uk/comics/j/291/john-luke_roberts Victoria Park: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Park,_London Bethnal Green: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethnal_Green John Constable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Constable The Hay Wain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hay_Wain Islington: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islington 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!

In GBA 239 we get better acquainted with Njambi McGrath. She talks about how the sudden death of her father forced her to confront a past she'd left behind and begin a journey of discovery into personal and cultural history she knew little about. We talk about making comedy out of dark topics, the effects of colonialism on the continent of Africa (particularly on Kenya where Njambi is from) and how the west views and distorts the lives of people from African countries. Njambi will be previewing her new show in a double bill with my solo show at Stand Up Tragedy Presents on Feb 18th at the Dogstar Brixton: Stand Up Tragedy Presents on 18th Feb: http://www.facebook.com/events/1129825877029165/ Listen to a sneak preview of the preview in this episode of the Spark True Stories Live Podcast: https://www.acast.com/sparklondon/multiculturalminds-truestorieslive Njambi plugs: Her Blog: http://www.njambimcgrathcomedy.co.uk/#!blog/c1o4u Her website: http://www.njambimcgrath.co.uk Her Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Njambi-McGrath-comedy-211852255541445/ Her Twitter: https://twitter.com/njambi1 Her Instagram: https://instagram.com/thehotafrican Look out for her book and her new show A Last Dance With My Father We mention: Spark London: http://stories.co.uk/ Stand Up Tragedy: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk/ Pulp Fiction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulp_Fiction Concentration Camps in Kenya: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_British_Detention_Camps_during_the_Mau_Mau_Uprising Gay Ugandan King: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/timstanley/100256386/it-was-homophobia-not-homosexuality-that-was-introduced-to-uganda-by-europeans/ Scott Lively: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Lively King Leopold II: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_II_of_Belgium Live Aid: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_Aid Comic Relief: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_Relief Bill and Melinda Gates: http://www.gatesfoundation.org/ Dr Leakey: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Leakey Nairobi Museum: http://www.museums.or.ke/content/blogcategory/11/17/ Idi Armin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idi_Amin Kampala: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kampala Mau Mau: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mau_Mau_Uprising Kikuyu: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kikuyu_people Maassi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maasai_people World Bank: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Bank Margaret Thatcher: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher 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!

In GBA 238 we get even better acquainted with Sarah. She returns to the show to talk about being a pianist, performer, inventor and mum. We cover the process of composing an album made with a recreated and adapted piano and her new theatre about the experience of being a mother. It's a conversation of two parts, recorded in two different locations and two different times. Part of the original is lost and so it's partly a conversation about a lost conversation. Sarah plugs: Her website: http://sarahnicolls.com/ Talk To Me: http://sarahnicolls.com/in-our-hands/ NEW ALBUM Digital Download from 12th February: http://sarahnicolls.com/album/ Moments of Weightlessness: http://sarahnicolls.com/moments/ I plug: Donating to GBA: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=4RCU5NHZURXUL Stand Up Tragedy Presents on 18th Feb: http://www.facebook.com/events/1129825877029165/ We mention: Paul Simon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Simon Grovesnor Hotel: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Grovesnor+hotel&rlz=1C1CHFX_en-GBGB456GB456&oq=Grovesnor+hotel&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.4425j0j4&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=122&ie=UTF-8 Richard: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/the-richard-episodes Sarah 1: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-5-sarah Percy Granger: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Grainger Henry Cowell - Aeolian Harp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVJDyfY0siM John Cage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cage George Crumb: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Crumb Confusion is the beginning of wisdom is Socrates: http://www.all-famous-quotes.com/Socrates_quotes.html Hitchcock: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Hitchcock Suspense quote: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/728496-there-is-a-distinct-difference-between-suspense-and-surprise-and Hypnobirthing: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnobirthing?redirect=no Breach Birth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breech_birth Sonia: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-51-sonia Water birth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_birth Call The Midwife: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0118t80 Brunel: http://www.brunel.ac.uk/ Nick Cave: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Cave David Bowie Blackstar: http://davidbowie.com/blackstar/ Writing Begins With Forgiveness: http://sevenscribes.com/writing-begins-with-forgiveness-why-one-of-the-most-common-pieces-of-writing-advice-is-wrong/ Felix's Machines: http://felixsmachines.com/ Ten Hertz: http://tenhertz.com/ Radio 3: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3 In Tune: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006tp0c Leafcutter John: http://leafcutterjohn.com/ Stockhausen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karlheinz_Stockhausen Luke Jerram - Play Me I'm Yours: http://www.streetpianos.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!

In GBA 237 we get better acquainted with Muffy. We met in a pub in Brighton to have an in depth conversation about fandom, fan fic and slash fic. We cover how Muffy came to fandom, community, shame, enthusiasm,. ethics and politics, art and artistry, gender and sexuality, working through trauma, how texts, fanfic and fans relate to each other, representation and so much more. Muffy plugs: Slash Night 12th Feb: http://www.marlboroughtheatre.org.uk/event/slash-night-4/ I plug: Donating to GBA: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=4RCU5NHZURXUL How To Be Fat: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-presents-how-to-be-fat Stand Up Tragedy Presents on 18th Feb: https://www.facebook.com/events/1129825877029165/ We mention: Tragic Spring: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sets/tragic-spring Stand Up Tragedy: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk/ Mathilda Gregory: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-221-mathilda-gregory Tragic Bodies: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/tragic-spring-act-2-tragic-bodies Slash Night: https://slashnight.wordpress.com/ Fan Fic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_fiction Slash Fic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slash_fiction NME: http://www.nme.com/ Manic Street Preachers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manic_Street_Preachers Meet Cute: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meet_cute Kink: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kink_(sexual) Cisgender: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisgender Sherlock: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_(TV_series) Sherlock and FanFic: http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2014/01/sherlock-and-adventure-overzealous-fanbase Heteronormative: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heteronormativity Queerbaiting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queer_baiting Sherlock Season 3 Episode 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Empty_Hearse Supernatural: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernatural_(U.S._TV_series) Ginger Snaps: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginger_Snaps_(film) Queer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queer Non-Binary: http://gender.wikia.com/wiki/Non-binary Captain America: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_America Bucky: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucky Marvel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel_Comics Slash Night Image: http://brightondigitalfestival.co.uk/event/slash-night-3/ Hannibal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannibal_(TV_series) Silence of the Lambs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Silence_of_the_Lambs_(film) Thomas Harris: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Harris Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/ BDSM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BDSM Joss Whedon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joss_Whedon "Jossed": http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Jossed Everything is A Remix: http://everythingisaremix.info/ Kieron Gillen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kieron_Gillen Young Avengers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Avengers#Volume_2 Mads Mikkelsen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mads_Mikkelsen Archive of Our Own: https://archiveofourown.org/ Room of One's Own: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Room_of_One%27s_Own Dobby 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!

In GBA 236 struggling against the background sound and a few other things I do my best to we get better acquainted with Darcie. In an increasingly noisy pub we talk about studying journalism, creativity, careers, feminism, fashion, the social media landscape and more. This episode was recorded a year ago and I am sure we have both changed and developed our thoughts since then! Darcie plugs: Hiring her: http://www.twitter.com/DarcieTF I plug: Donating to GBA: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=4RCU5NHZURXUL Stand Up Tragedy Presents on 18th Feb: http://www.facebook.com/events/1129825877029165/ We mention: Stand Up Tragedy: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk/ Ewa: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-140-ewa Intersectional Feminism: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/10572435/Intersectional-feminism.-What-the-hell-is-it-And-why-you-should-care.html TERF: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Trans-exclusionary_radical_feminism bell hooks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_hooks Kimberlé Crenshaw: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimberl%C3%A9_Williams_Crenshaw Alice In Wonderland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice%27s_Adventures_in_Wonderland The Hobbit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hobbit UniLad: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UniLad Lad Bible: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=lad+bible&rlz=1C1CHFX_en-GBGB456GB456&oq=lad+bible+&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.3860j0j4&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=122&ie=UTF-8 Fake house of commons votes pictures: http://anotherangryvoice.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/trust-social-media-mainstream-press-bbc.html Britain First: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britain_First Richard Dawkins: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dawkins No More Page 3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_More_Page_3 The Sun: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sun_(United_Kingdom) 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!

In GBA 235 we get better acquainted with Iszi Lawrence. She talks about making The Z List Dead List (a podcast about obscure people from history), how glandular fever, not fitting in and Eddie Izzard contributed to her becoming a comedian, the similarities between Jujitsu and gigging and lots more. Iszi plugs: The Z List Dead List: http://www.zlistdeadlist.com/ Her Website: http://iszi.com/ I plug: Donating to GBA: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=4RCU5NHZURXUL Stand Up Tragedy Presents on 18th Feb: https://www.facebook.com/events/1129825877029165/ We mention: Helen Zaltzman: http://helenzaltzman.com/ Roman Mars: http://romanmars.com/ Candid Cafe: http://www.candidarts.com/sections/galleryandcafepages/candid_cafe.htm Sundays Supplement: http://sundayssupplement.blogspot.co.uk/ Jon Ronson: http://www.jonronson.com/ Jon Ronson On...: http://www.jonronson.com/this.html Jujitsu: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_jiu-jitsu Dan Carlin: http://www.dancarlin.com/ Jackie Kashian: http://www.jackiekashian.com/ The Dork Forest: http://tdf.libsyn.com/ Maria Bamford: http://www.mariabamford.com/ Christopher Hitchens: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Hitchens Skepticalty: http://www.skepticality.com/ Skeptics Guide to the Universe: http://www.theskepticsguide.org/ Joe Rogan: http://podcasts.joerogan.net/ Radio 4: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4 John Hegley: http://www.johnhegley.co.uk/ Stewart Lee: http://www.stewartlee.co.uk/ Live at the Apollo: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b008cnxn Glandular Fever: http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/Glandular-fever/Pages/Introduction.aspx Eddie Izzard: http://www.eddieizzard.com/ Dress to Kill: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIE7BOhIL7I Definite Article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definite_Article Baddiel and Skinner: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baddiel_and_Skinner_Unplanned Camden Head: http://camdenhead.com/ Canteen on the Death Star: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv5iEK-IEzw Hannibal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannibal Stalin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin Red Terror: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Terror Daniel Kitson: http://danielkitson.com/ Philip Larkin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Larkin Podcast about Zen: http://www.zlistdeadlist.com/post/2015/12/16/s05e5-watts-zen Suffragettes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffragette Noami Paxton: http://www.naomipaxton.co.uk/ Sherlock Holmes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes Bartitsu: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartitsu House of Flying Daggers: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0385004/ Hero: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0299977/ Kendo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kendo Star Wars: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars Paul Kerensa: http://www.paulkerensa.com/ Wil Hodgson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wil_Hodgson Noel James: http://www.chortle.co.uk/comics/n/529/noel_james Steve Best: http://www.stevebest.com/ Spinning Jenny: http://www.chortle.co.uk/shows/edinburgh_fringe_2002/s/517/spinning_jenny Christian Slater: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Slater Owen Niblock: http://www.comedygeek.com/ Kermode and Mayo: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00lvdrj Wittertainment: https://twitter.com/wittertainment Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review?

In this Getting Better Acquainted Extra recorded on New Years Eve and edited on New Years day(!) I round up of how 2015 actually panned out for me in what has become an annual post New Year retrospective, mixed in with some true stories that I told told at Spark London and some clips from the podcast I make for The Restart Project. Contact me on twitter where I'm @goosefat101 on by email on goosefat101@gmail.com or GBApodcast@gmail.com I plug: Spark True Stories: http://stories.co.uk/ The Restart Project podcast: https://therestartproject.org/category/podcast/ - Sex Worker Stories Episodes: https://www.acast.com/sparklondon/special-sex-worker-stories https://www.acast.com/sparklondon/more-sexworkerstories-truestoriestoldlive - Multicultural Minds Episodes: https://www.acast.com/sparklondon/multiculturalminds-truestorieslive https://www.acast.com/sparklondon/imfine-shannon-sparktruestories Stand Up Tragedy: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk/ Stand Up Tragedy Presents... : 18th Feb @ Dogstar: https://www.facebook.com/events/1129825877029165/ Content note for the true stories sections: anxiety, depression, bullying, childhood trauma, racism. Next week normal service will resume and GBA will be back to it's in conversation format. Things mentioned: Uncertain New Year: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/uncertain-new-year The Parachute Opened: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-extra-the-parachute-opened The Restart Project: https://therestartproject.org/ Storylines which was produced by Ampersand Media: http://www.ampersandmedia.co.uk/ GBA 200: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/gba200 Radcliffe Royds: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/the-radcliffe-episodes Why I Make Tragedy: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-extra-why-i-make-tragedy What About the Men: http://mansplainingmasculinity.co.uk/ The Edinburgh Storify: https://storify.com/goosefat101/responses-to-the-mansurvey-show-on-twitter Samantha Mann Episode: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-live-16-ms-samantha-mann Edinburgh Episodes: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sets/edinburgh-2015 AJ McKenna: https://soundcloud.com/aj-mckenna Howl of the Bantee: https://soundcloud.com/aj-mckenna/sets/howl-of-the-bantee-live-at-dogstar-brixton Howl Press Coverage: http://www.gadgette.com/2015/11/20/transgender-day-of-remembrance/ International Men's Day Blog: http://mansplainingmasculinity.co.uk/liberation-a-response-to-internationalmensday/ 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!

In GBA 234 we get better acquainted with Christmas (again). It's the 2015 Christmas Special! This episode is a series of different Christmas presents, although not all of them are filled with comfort and joy. It starts with a carol. Then I share with you a short story that I wrote a few years ago called "Bringing Things Up". It's kind of a detective story, kind of a ghost story, and it is certainly the bleakest part of this episode as well as being the biggest part of the episode. I've adapted it as an audio piece and spent some time creating sound design that aims to immerse you in the narrative. Next we have a recording from a long time ago when audio was recorded onto cassette tapes. It's my dad reading The Fir Tree by Tove Jansson which gives us some warm and fuzzies to offset my story. The episode ends with a Christmas song I wrote a few years back called "Time to be Nice" Here it is in video form: http://youtu.be/UiPXNO7WJAQ This is my other Christmas song in video form: Ghosts of... http://youtu.be/XqCKfOwA9vE Happy Christmas and a Merry New Year! (There will be no GBA for the next 2 weeks. It will return in the 1st week of January 2016.) 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!

In GBA 233 we get better acquainted with Ali. He talks about writing sports listicles, having to choose between football and drama, how sport and theatre are not that different, his Northern and Jewish heritage and identity and so much more. Shared interests lead to us discussing interviewing and podcasting, the issues and tensions around digital and print media and the various approaches to the craft of true storytelling. Ali doesn't plug anything. I plug: Donating to GBA: http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cm%E2%80%A6_id=4RCU5NHZURXUL We mention: The Nerdist: http://nerdist.com/podcasts/nerdist-podcast-channel/ Twitter Account: https://twitter.com/alimason Marc Maron: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Maron WTF: http://www.wtfpod.com/podcast President Obama WTF Episode: http://www.wtfpod.com/podcast/episodes/episode_613_-_president_barack_obama Richard Herring: http://www.comedy.co.uk/podcasts/richard_herring_lst_podcast/ Desert Island Discs: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qnmr Press Association: https://www.pressassociation.com/ Listicle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listicle Snappa: http://snappa.press.net/ I100: http://i100.independent.co.uk/ Buzzfeed: http://www.buzzfeed.com/ Advertorial: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advertorial Metro: http://metro.co.uk/ Evening Standard: http://www.standard.co.uk/ NME: http://www.nme.com/ BBC Website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/i The Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/ Citizen Journalism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen_journalism Martin Ziegler /Sepp Blatter: http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/sepp-blatter-resignation-celebrate-yes-but-his-exit-must-lead-to-real-change-10293234.html Wikileaks: https://www.wikileaks.org/index.en.html Whitehaven newspaper: http://www.whitehavennews.co.uk/ Spark London: http://stories.co.uk/ Stand Up Tragedy: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk Joanna Yates: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-32-joanna-yates Chris Hardwick: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Hardwick For Folks Sake: http://www.forfolkssake.com/ Avi Buffalo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avi_Buffalo Ashes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ashes Sarah Kane: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Kane Simon Stevens: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Stephens Electra: http://www.oldvictheatre.com/whats-on/2014/electra/ Jos Butler: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos_Buttler Spark London: Bernard : https://www.mixcloud.com/sparklondon/bernard-ali-mason/ Harrowgate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrowgate_Hill Stand Up Tragedy story: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/tragic-history-act-3 Isle of Man internment camp: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutchinson_Internment_Camp Who Do You think You Are? http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007t575 Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review?

In GBA 232 we get better acquainted with Jannath. She talks about studying spatial abilities in infants and children, tickling babies to better understand their cognitive markers, studying and researching psychology, working as a casual library assistant, brain development and diagnosis and so much more. Jannath doesn't plug anything. I plug: Donating to GBA: http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cm…_id=4RCU5NHZURXUL We mention: Birkbeck: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/ Contact Disorder: https://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000919.htm Asperger's: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asperger_syndrome Hyperacusis: http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/hyperacusis/Pages/Introduction.aspx Jessie Ware: http://jessieware.com/ Brixton Academy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brixton_Academy The Guardian Enfield Experiment: http://www.theguardian.com/cities/series/the-enfield-experiment My CiF: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/01/tough-choice-cut-job-enfield-children-centres-austerity Riots: Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review?