Getting Better Acquainted

In GBA 259 we get even better acquainted with Zoe and Gary. They aren't the only people who are part of this conversation, one of their daughters and my partner Jen both make significant contributions. Zoe and Gary talk about how parenthood has impacted their domestic lives, their personal lives and their working lives, both in positive and negative ways. We discuss their different reactions to being parents, what it's like taking toddlers and babies to Live Action Role Playing events and the trials, tribulations, triumphs, traumas, mistakes and joys of parenting. The context of the conversation says as much about bringing up two very young children as anything we say. Don't worry, I edited out the vomiting! I plug: Stand Up Tragedy Presents at the Dogstar, Brixton, 13th and 14th July, doors open 7.30pm PWYL: SUT: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk The Family Tree: http://thefamilytreepodcast.co.uk/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thefamilytreepodcast What About the Men? Mansplaining Masculinity: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-presents-what-about-the-men-mansplaining-maculinity http://mansplainingmasculinity.co.uk Donating: http://bit.ly/1LUtbKt We mention: (I will add links to all these later this week when I have a moment) Zoe: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-22-zoe Gary: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-152-gary 100th Episode: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/gba100-1 Zoe Interview episode: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-77-the-coventry-years 200th Episodes: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/gba200 Brave: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_(2012_film) Merida: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merida_(Disney) Nuggett: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-247-nugget 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 258 we get better acquainted with Felix Trench. He talks about Wooden Overcoats, Radioman, acting, writing, growing up in Brussels and studying at a European School, how he feels about the term expat, and what it was like being in the UK when terrorist attacks were taking place in the city he grew up in. This conversation was recorded before the referendum, I'm sure we would have had a very different conversation if we recorded now, brexit and other news events that have happened recently add interesting and poignant connotations to the conversation. Felix plugs: Poke In The Eye - Georgie Morell: https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/poke-in-the-eye http://pokeintheeyeproductions.co.uk/ Wooden Overcoats: http://www.woodenovercoats.com/ Wooden Overcoasts Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1667942170/wooden-overcoats-season-2 I plug: The Family Tree: http://thefamilytreepodcast.co.uk/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thefamilytreepodcast What About the Men? Mansplaining Masculinity: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-presents-what-about-the-men-mansplaining-maculinity http://mansplainingmasculinity.co.uk Donating: http://bit.ly/1LUtbKt SUT: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk We mention: (I will add links to all these later this week when I have a moment) South Bank Sir Walter Lawson Wooden Overcoats Radioman Lear Aufeidensen Pet European baccalaureate Brussels Attacks Paris Attack 7/7 September 11 Charlie Hebdo Tintin Manneken Pis Tom Crowley Neil Gaiman Valkarie Alice Isn't Dead Beth Eyre Flanelettes James Hamilton 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 257 we get better acquainted with Tom Crowley. He talks about Wooden Overcoats, Sad Faces, producing, acting and the difference between seriousness and solemnity amongst many other things. Tom plugs: Wooden Overcoats: http://www.woodenovercoats.com/ Wooden Overcoasts Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1667942170/wooden-overcoats-season-2 The Night: 23rd June https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=287998684881698 Crowley & Co: http://crowleynco.com/ @crowlynco: https://twitter.com/crowleynco I plug: What About the Men? Mansplaining Masculinity: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-presents-what-about-the-men-mansplaining-maculinity http://mansplainingmasculinity.co.uk Donating: http://bit.ly/1LUtbKt SUT: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk The Family Tree: http://thefamilytreepodcast.co.uk/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thefamilytreepodcast We mention: (I will add links to all these later this week when I have a moment) Spark London Felix Trench Sad Faces Brydie Lee-Kennedy Gods of Comedy Podcast Stand Up Tragedy It Get's Better Project Crowley & Co David K Barnes - How to Write A Sitcom Andy Goddard - How to Record A Radio Drama Tom Crowley - How to write comedy John Wakefield The Allusionist Helen Zaltzman Play and Record Victoria Lloyd Toby Wilson Jack Bernhart Rachel Lehman Rosie Fletcher Monty Python James Hamilton Vault Festival Awkward Ghost Oscar French Best Served Cold John Cleese on Creativity - German Company - knock knock jokes Stewart Lee John Humphreys Johnathan Ross - awards ceremony Stephen Fry - BAFTAs Germaine Greer Tom Hiddleston Ian McEwan Richard O'Brien Self Pity Beth Air Zoot Alore Theatre Drayton Trench Welcome to Nightvale Thrilling Adventure Hour Radio 4 Itunes Best of 2015 Horse and Stables - waterloo Micheal Longey Kieran Hodgkon Mary Beth Merosa The Night Finbury Theatre Sadiq Kahn 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 256 we get better acquainted with Maggy Whitehouse. She talks about becoming an ordained catholic priest, becoming a comedian, combining teaching from different spiritual traditions and scholarships, interpretations of faith and the bible, her views on bereavement and healing, love and forgiveness and so much more, including an argument for why god is a woman and a lesser known definition of what adulatory means. Content note: death, terminal illness, cancer, murder Maggy plugs: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/maggy.whitehouse Website: http://maggywhitehouse.com/ YouTube vids: http://www.youtube.com/maggywhitehouse Amazon page: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Maggy-Whitehouse/e/B00288YAXA I plug: What About the Men? Mansplaining Masculinity: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-presents-what-about-the-men-mansplaining-maculinity http://mansplainingmasculinity.co.uk Donating: http://bit.ly/1LUtbKt SUT: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk We mention: Shakespeare: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare Book of Job: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Job Niels Bohr: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niels_Bohr Caroline Myss/ Woundology: https://www.nytimes.com/books/first/m/myss-heal.html Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma: http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/non-hodgkins-lymphoma/Pages/Definition.aspx Bruce Lipton: https://www.brucelipton.com Moors Murder: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moors_murders Lily Tomlin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lily_Tomlin Biology of Belief: https://www.brucelipton.com/books/biology-of-belief Frank Skinner: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Skinner Old Comedian Of The Year: http://www.museumofcomedy.com/whats_on/old_comedian_of_the_year/ Huffington Post Blog: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/maggy-whitehouse/ Elizabeth Gilbert: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Gilbert Eat Pray Love: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eat,_Pray,_Love Nevell Goddard - free nevell dot com The Muses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Muses Thalia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalia_(Muse) Calliope: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calliope A Woman's Worth: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Womans-Worth-Divine-Feminine-Hebrew/dp/1780998341 Anubis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anubis Azariah: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-243-azariah 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 255 we get better acquainted with James Ross. He talks about the differences between stand up and improv, the process of crafting comedy and developing as a performer, why he created Quantum Leopard, the relationship between audiences and performers, organising a tour of people's front rooms and more. James plugs: Quantum Leopard: https://www.facebook.com/groups/166172153722808/?fref=ts Rusty quill: http://rustyquill.com/ Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/jamesrosscomedy I plug: What About the Men? Mansplaining Masculinity: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-presents-what-about-the-men-mansplaining-maculinity http://mansplainingmasculinity.co.uk Donating: http://bit.ly/1LUtbKt SUT: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk We mention: ASMR: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_sensory_meridian_response Hayley: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-9-hayley Apples for Everyone: https://soundcloud.com/applesforeveryone The Reactionaries: https://soundcloud.com/thereactionaries Stand Up Tragedy: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk/ Ira Glass on taste and talent: https://vimeo.com/85040589 This American Life: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/ Harv: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-173-harv Richard Tyrone Jones: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/the-richard-tyrone-jones Man Man video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrkzY72Vzq8&ab_channel=beeczar66 PBH Free Fringe: http://freefringe.org.uk/ Hoopla: http://www.hooplaimpro.com/ Kate Smurthwaite: http://www.katesmurthwaite.co.uk/ Chris Coltrane: http://www.chriscoltrane.co.uk/index.html Austentatious: http://austentatiousimpro.com/ And so many other things that I can't links to all of them into the amount of characters soundcloud allows! 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 254 we get better acquainted with Kirby. She talks volunteering to help with crisis management during Hurricane Sandy and in the current refugee crisis, Mommy Blogging, growing up within the counter culture, being a parent and activist during Occupy Wall Street, true storytelling and more. This conversation takes place on a walk around a historic cemetery on a lovely sunny spring day. Kirby plugs: Blog Authentic: http://www.blogauthentic.com/ @kirbyarmour: https://twitter.com/kirbyamour Sending Kirby links to great content and signing up for the mailing list: http://www.kirbyamour.com/ I plug: Spark London Refuaid Appeal/Get Matt Hill on GBA: http://mydonate.bt.com/fundraisers/sparkrefuaid What About the Men? Mansplaining Masculinity: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-presents-what-about-the-men-mansplaining-maculinity http://mansplainingmasculinity.co.uk Donating: http://bit.ly/1LUtbKt SUT: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk We mention: Abney Park Cemetery: http://www.abneypark.org/ Spark: http://stories.co.uk/ The Moth: https://themoth.org/ Elna Baker: https://twitter.com/elnabaker Elna Baker's Spark Performance: http://stories.co.uk/podcasts/losing-my-religionvirginity-elna-baker-true-stories-live-in-london-2/ This American Life: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/ Spark Refugee stories: http://stories.co.uk/podcasts/escape-a-refuaid-special-true-stories-live-2/ http://stories.co.uk/podcasts/escape-ii-a-refuaid-special-2/ Parents of the Revolution: http://www.parentsoftherevolution.com/ Mayor Bloomberg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Bloomberg Zucotti Park: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zuccotti_Park Occupy Wall Street: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Wall_Street Hurricane Sandy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Sandy Red Hook: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hook,_New_York Red Cross: http://www.redcross.org.uk/ Janis Joplin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janis_Joplin Woodstock: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodstock Bob Dylan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dylan The Band: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Band Levon Helm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levon_Helm CBGB: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBGB Justified: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justified_(TV_series) And so many other things that I can't links to all of them into the amount of characters soundcloud allows! 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 253 we get better acquainted with Lee. He talks about echoes, resonance, the odd and the peculiar, class, out-liars, refrigeration, grammar and so much more. And framing and infusing all parts of this conversion are words, music, art, ideas, performance and a passionate assessment and defense of the possibilities of education. Lee plugs: His two books which can be purchased from him at gigs Utter Lutonia: 6th June: Hat Factory: https://www.facebook.com/events/699455260195361/ Whats on Luton Culture: http://www.lutonculture.com/whats-on/whats-on/2016/06/02/utter-lutonia-11/1874/ I plug: Spark London Refuaid Appeal/Get Matt Hill on GBA: https://mydonate.bt.com/fundraisers/sparkrefuaid What About the Men? Mansplaining Masculinity: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-presents-what-about-the-men-mansplaining-maculinity http://mansplainingmasculinity.co.uk Donating: http://http://bit.ly/1LUtbKt SUT: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk We mention: Richard Tyrone Jones: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/the-richard-tyrone-jones Free Fringe: http://freefringe.org.uk/ John Copper Clarke: http://johncooperclarke.com/ SATS: http://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/apr/29/more-than-30000-people-sign-petition-to-boycott-year-2-sats Spark London: http://stories.co.uk/ And so many other things that I can't links to all of them into the amount of characters soundcloud allows! 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 252 we get better acquainted with Girl on the Net. I talk to her about sex, anonymity, blogging, masculinity, porn, feminism, anxiety and more. She discusses why she started sex blogging, the realities of your blog becoming your job, how her politics and feelings around sex, sexuality and gender have changed and expanded as a result of talking sex online, and how laws around porn and internet regulation would effect her ability to do what she does. GotN plugs: HER NEW BOOK: How A Bad Girl Fell In Love: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Girl-Net-How-Fell-Love/dp/1910536571 HER FIRST BOOK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Girl-Net-Not-So-Shameful-Sex-Secrets-ebook/dp/B00CU86FDG HER WEBSITE: Girl on the Net: https://www.girlonthenet.com HER TWITTER: http://www.twitter.com/girlonthenet I plug: Spark London Refuaid Appeal/Get Matt Hill on GBA: https://mydonate.bt.com/fundraisers/sparkrefuaid What About the Men? Mansplaining Masculinity: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-presents-what-about-the-men-mansplaining-maculinity http://mansplainingmasculinity.co.uk Donating: http://http://bit.ly/1LUtbKt SUT: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk We mention: SWOU: http://www.sexworkeropenuniversity.com/ Guest Post for GOTN: https://www.girlonthenet.com/2015/05/29/guest-blog-what-do-men-think-about-patriarchy/ Kink: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kink_(sexual) Sex Positive Movement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex-positive_movement Dan Savage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Savage GGG: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savage_Love#GGG GOTN on domestic chores: https://www.girlonthenet.com/2014/10/08/washing-up-feminist-issue-chore-wars/ Lost Girls: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Girls Alan Moore: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Moore Porn Blocking/Banning Laws: http://pandorablake.com/blog https://www.theguardian.com/science/brain-flapping/2014/dec/05/uk-pornography-law-scientific-perspective-children-safety Stuart Taylor: http://www.chainbear.com/ Greetings Cards: https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/ChainBearShop Fetish: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_fetishism Pegging: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pegging OK Cupid: https://www.okcupid.com/ Consensual Non Consent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consent_(BDSM)#Consensual_non-consent BDSM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BDSM Nordic Model/Decriminalization: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJRBx0JjM_M Dean Burnett: http://www.theguardian.com/profile/dean-burnett Article on Ashley Madison: https://www.theguardian.com/science/brain-flapping/2015/aug/24/ashley-madison-hack-victims-deserve-punished Eroticon: http://writesexright.com/eroticon-2015-2/ Vice: http://www.vice.com/en_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 251 we get better acquainted with David Lee Morgan. He talks science, love, revolution, violence, art, history, activism, politics and so much more. In the conversation we trace his creative and political development over the course of his life, how he became an American revolutionary communist who spits words in the UK, and how that relates to where he has come from, the places, people and events he has encountered on the way. David plugs: Science, Love at Revolution on 24th May: https://www.facebook.com/events/1016837591729123/ Text of the show: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Science-Love-Revolution-David-Morgan/dp/149125694X davidword: http://www.davidword.com The Other Side of the Flood (Free Fringe 2016): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U17N5gY9Tj0 I plug: What About the Men? Mansplaining Masculinity: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-presents-what-about-the-men-mansplaining-maculinity http://mansplainingmasculinity.co.uk Donating: http://bit.ly/1LUtbKt SUT: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk We mention: FF Album: David's track: https://pbhfreefringespokenword.bandcamp.com/track/duh-mockracy Crosby, Stills and Nash: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crosby,_Stills,_Nash_%26_Young David Hilliard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hilliard Black Panthers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Panther_Party Nixon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon Invasion of Cambodia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian_Campaign Vietnam: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian_Campaign Kent /Jackson murders: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_State_killings Stalin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin Marx: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Marx Lenin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin Conspectus on Hagel: https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1914/cons-logic/ Hot Autumn: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Autumn Dallas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dallas_(1978_TV_series) Rodney King: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_King Trump: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump Hitler: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler Joe Cocker: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Cocker LSD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysergic_acid_diethylamide Socialist Workers Party: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Workers_Party_(United_States) International Socialists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Socialists_(United_States) Seattle Liberation Front: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Liberation_Front Chicago Conspiracy Trial: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Seven Abbie Hoffman: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbie_Hoffman Bobby Seale: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Seale John Coltrane: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Coltrane Lenin: The State and Revolution (PDF): Lenin: The State and Revolution Anti-War Demo - Iraq War: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_15,_2003,_anti-war_protests Revolutionary Communist Party: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_Communist_Party,_USA Medea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medea_(play) Euripides: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euripides Iran Hostage Crisis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_hostage_crisis Khomeini: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruhollah_Khomeini Teach-in: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teach-in CIA/Chile: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Chilean_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat Russian Revolution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Revolution Chinese Revolution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Communist_Revolution The Cultural Revolution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution Mao: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_Zedong Thatcher: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher Reagan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan Alain Badiou: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Badiou Paris 1968: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_1968_events_in_France BLM: http://blacklivesmatter.com/ St Augustine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustine_of_Hippo

In this special GBA Live recorded at the Old Red Lion Theatre as part of Radioman Lates I get better acquainted with James Hamilton. http://www.jameshamiltoncomedy.co.uk/ http://www.casualviolencecomedy.co.uk/ We talk comedy, writing, Casual Violence!, Hector Vs. The Future, Truncated Nightmare Hour, drama, darkness and lots more in what is half a conversation and half an existential Kafkaesque trial. James plugs: Hector Vs. The Future: Live recordings of episode 3 and 4 on 16th May at Etcetera Theatre Camden: https://www.facebook.com/events/1767282563491514/ I plug: Get Matt Hill on GBA by donating to the Spark RefuAid appeal: http://mydonate.bt.com/fundraisers/sparkrefuaid Donate to GBA: http://bit.ly/1LUtbKt 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 250 we get better acquainted with Natalie. She shares some of her personal story and talks about her faith and her feminism, we compare notes on patriarchy and masculinity and discuss some areas we disagree on. Content note: Discussion of child sexual abuse, rape, violence against women, self-harm, PTSD and domestic violence. Natalie plugs: Emailing her if you want to have a conversation with her about the areas and issues discussed: natalie.collins[at]dayprogramme.org I plug: What Sex Worker's Want: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJRBx0JjM_M Toni: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-197-toni Get Matt Hill on GBA by donating to the Spark RefuAid appeal: http://mydonate.bt.com/fundraisers/sparkrefuaid Live GBA @ Radioman Lates: http://www.facebook.com/events/1400049843627973/ What About the Men? Mansplaining Masculinity: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-presents-what-about-the-men-mansplaining-maculinity http://mansplainingmasculinity.co.uk Twitter: twitter.com/goosefat101 Donating: http://bit.ly/1LUtbKt We mention: God Loves Women: https://twitter.com/god_loves_women DAY Programme: http://www.dayprogramme.org/ Christian Feminist Network: https://christianfeministnetwork.com/ PTSD: http://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/types-of-mental-health-problems/post-traumatic-stress-disorder-ptsd/ Gender Reconciliation International: http://www.genderreconciliationinternational.org/ Apartheid: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apartheid Female Genital Mutilation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_genital_mutilation MRAs: http://www.buzzfeed.com/adamserwer/how-mens-rights-leader-paul-elam-turned-being-a-deadbeat-dad Universal Basic Income: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income End Demand/The Nordic Model/The Swedish Model: http://www.sexworkeropenuniversity.com/blog/swou-statement-on-poverty-sex-work-and-the-swedish-model-poverty-is-objectifying-demeaning-and-coercive1 Radical Feminism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_feminism 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 249 we get better acquainted with Mark Dean Quinn. He talks about trying not to make people laugh, making people laugh, the art of flyering, having a complicated relationship with audiences, how being in recovery from gambling addiction and going fly fishing with his father have both influenced him to make to the kind of comedy he makes and feeling truly himself inside the transitory space that is Edinburgh during festival season. Mark plugs: Going and doing something you've been putting off His most recent show was called Observation Without Comedy and you can find him at: https://twitter.com/markdeanquinn I plug: Get Matt Hill on GBA by donating to the Spark RefuAid appeal: https://mydonate.bt.com/fundraisers/sparkrefuaid Live GBA @ Radioman Lates: http://www.facebook.com/events/1400049843627973/ Radioman: http://www.facebook.com/events/1739174112978825/ Stand Up Tragedy: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk/ What About the Men? Mansplaining Masculinity: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-presents-what-about-the-men-mansplaining-maculinity mansplainingmasculinity.co.uk Twitter: http://twitter.com/goosefat101 Donating: http://bit.ly/1LUtbKt We mention: All You Read Is Love: http://www.allyoureadislove.com/ Richard Tyrone Jones: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/the-richard-tyrone-jones Frog Morris: http://www.frogmorris.net/ Radcliffe Royds: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/the-radcliffe-episodes Ben Target: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-92-ben-target Banshee Labyrinth: http://www.thebansheelabyrinth.com/ PBH Free Fringe: http://freefringe.org.uk/ Duchamp: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Duchamp Urinal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_(Duchamp) Joseph Beuys: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Beuys The Vanishing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vanishing_(1988_film) 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 248 we get better acquainted with James. He talks about learning languages, writing and reading stories, telling jokes, the balance between optimism and pessimism, the relationship between suffering and hope, the process of growing up, seeing Berlin through the eyes of an outsider among many other things. James plugs: Twitter: https://twitter.com/jamesharrisnow Blog: https://shoeleatherexpress.org/ Film: The Village in the Morning: https://www.facebook.com/thevillageinthemorning/ I plug: Live GBA @ Radioman Lates: https://www.facebook.com/events/1400049843627973/ Radioman: https://www.facebook.com/events/1739174112978825/ Wooden Overcoats: http://www.woodenovercoats.com/ 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: Paula: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-194-paula-varjack Spark London: http://stories.co.uk/ Hackney Picture House: https://www.picturehouses.com/cinema/Hackney_Picturehouse Hackney Attic: https://www.picturehouses.com/cinema/Hackney_Picturehouse/Whats_On?filter=Attic Never Mind the Fullstops/Poetry Goes Pop: http://varjackandsimpson.tumblr.com/poetrygoespop Stand Up Tragedy: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk/ Schopenhauer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Schopenhauer Kafka: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kafka Beckett: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Beckett American Adventure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_American_Adventure_Theme_Park David Eddings: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Eddings The Losers: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/110689.The_Losers Conrad: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_conrad Sherlock Holmes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes Camus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Camus Dostoyevsky: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fyodor_Dostoyevsky Tolstoy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolstoy,_Leo_Nikolayevich The Lord of the Rings: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings War and Peace: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_and_Peace Crime and Punishment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_and_Punishment Mean Machine - 200AD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_Machine_Angel So You Think Your Funny: http://soyouthinkyourefunny.co.uk/ Kafka monkey story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Report_to_an_Academy Brian Eno: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_eno Wim Venders: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wim_Wenders Wings of Desire: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wings_of_Desire Faraway, So Close: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraway,_So_Close! Rossellini, - Germany in Year Zero: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany,_Year_Zero Rhodes Must Fall: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodes_Must_Fall Josie Long: http://www.josielong.com/ James @ SUT: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/tragic-autumn-tragic-fall Workers Fight: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workers%27_Fight Militant Labour: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militant_Labour UKIP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UKIP Francis Bacon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bacon Trump: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump Corbyn: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Corbyn Hamas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas Fail Better Podcast: http://varjackandsimpson.tumblr.com/fail-better The day after the election: http://www.londonfieldsradio.co.uk/2015/05/10/fail-better-podcast-episode-4-dave-pickering-james-harris-election-special/ 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!

GBA 247 is a Getting Better Acquainted special where I'm joined by my partner Jen to discuss an intense and short-lived friendship that we experienced on our recent 15-year-anniversary. If you like dogs then this episode is probably for you, if you aren't keen on dogs then maybe this episode will help you understand something about the experiences of dog lovers, or at least neurotic ones who over think things. You can find Jen here: http://www.jadamthwaite.co.uk/ Or here: http://www.twitter.com/jadamthwaite Here are her complete GBA episodes: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/the-jen-episodes I plug: Spark: www.stories.co.uk What About the Men? Mansplaining Masculinity: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-presents-what-about-the-men-mansplaining-maculinity http://mansplainingmasculinity.co.uk Stand Up Tragedy: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk Donating: http://bit.ly/1LUtbKt We mention: Battersea Dogs Home: http://www.battersea.org.uk/ All Dogs Matter: http://alldogsmatter.co.uk/ Our Warwickshire: http://www.ourwarwickshire.org.uk/content/blog/meet-dave-pickering-warwickshire-storyteller Spark London: http://stories.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 246 we get better acquainted with Lauren. We talk telling stories, cultivating awkward moments, living in the grey areas, the cracks in things, running away to join the circus band, calling yourself a comedian, attempting to make a living from making art, the poetics of failure and being excited among many other things. You also get to hear her singing a really lovely song. Lauren plugs: 4th - 7th May Sad Siren Present: I Love You Will You Mary Me: http://theatredelicatessen.co.uk/js_events/sad-siren-present-i-love-you-will-u-marry-me/ Sad Siren Theatre: http://www.sadsirentheatre.co.uk/ https://twitter.com/sadsirentheatre Circus Central: http://www.circuscentral.co.uk/ Alphabetti Theatre: http://www.alphabettitheatre.co.uk/ Theatre Deli North: https://twitter.com/MoorDeli North East Circus Network: https://www.facebook.com/North-East-Circus-Music-Network-389796537880952/ Tatters Catman and the Infinite Broken Sequins: https://soundcloud.com/tatters-catman Twitter: https://twitter.com/lstone345 Her song can be found here: https://soundcloud.com/laurenstone1 I plug: Spark: http://www.stories.co.uk 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: Tamer Kattan: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-live-13-tamer-kattan Canal Cafe Theatre: http://www.canalcafetheatre.com/ Exmouth Market Theatre: http://stories.co.uk/locations/exmouth-market-theatre/ Stand Up Tragedy: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk/ Lauren at Spark: http://www.podcastchart.com/podcasts/spark-london/episodes/best-of-spark-5-tamer-kattan Lauren at SUT: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/selected-tragedy-vol-9-tragicomedy Fairystory: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/tragic-winter-act-1-tragic-fairytales Song By Song: http://www.songbysongpodcast.com/ Martin Austwick: http://www.martinzaltzaustwick.com/ Sam Pay: https://twitter.com/sampay Tamer at SUT: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/tragic-edinburgh-2014-a-tragic The Poetics of Failure: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Performance-Theatre-Poetics-Failure-Bailes/dp/0415585651 The Seagull: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seagull Turkish Delight: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_delight 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!