Getting Better Acquainted

In GBA 180 we get better acquainted with George. He talks about connecting with comics and manga as a child , being told being an animator wasn't for him by his careers adviser, going to art school, and making a living as an animator. We also cover memory, libraries, Hong Kong and more. George (http://www.georgecheng.co.uk/) plugs: Your local library. I plug: This blogpost: http://davepickeringblog.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/a-week-of-goodbyes.html Hiring me to do freelance work: https://dave-pickering.squarespace.com/hire-me-to-tell-stories/ Stand Up Tragedy: Tragic Friends at the Dogstar in Brixton on Thursday 25th September from 7.30pm. Pay What You Like: www.facebook.com/events/571116096344062/ We mention: Ged: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-31-ged South Hill Park: http://www.southhillpark.org.uk/ Richard: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/the-richard-episodes The Middle Class Bastards: https://soundcloud.com/themiddleclassbastards Transformers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformers Akira: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_(manga) Sonic the Hedgehog: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_the_Hedgehog_(series) Lemster: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leominster Byam Shaw School of Art: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byam_Shaw_School_of_Art Hereford College of Art and Design: http://www.hca.ac.uk/ Bauhaus: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bauhaus Stand Up Tragedy: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk/ Ad Block: https://adblockplus.org/ Nirvana: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_(band) Nevermind: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevermind Unplugged: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTV_Unplugged_in_New_York Don Hertzfeldt: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Hertzfeldt Loony Tunes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looney_Tunes Southpark: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Park 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 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!

In GBA 179 we get better acquainted with Focus E15 Mothers. I talk to some of the people involved in the political struggle taking place at the Carpenters Estate, where a group of mothers and their supporters have turned some uninhabited (but perfectly fit to be inhabited) flats into a social centre serving the community and raising awareness of the harsh realities of local and national housing policy. https://twitter.com/FocusE15 https://twitter.com/E15OpenHouse https://www.facebook.com/pages/Focus-E15-Mothers/602860129757343 https://www.facebook.com/pages/E15-Open-House-Occupation/1630838387142657 https://www.facebook.com/events/322455237939436/ Also in the episode is a talk given by Mike Jackson one of the members of the Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners the activist group featured in the recent film Pride. http://www.coolcave.co.uk/blog/video/all-out-dancing-in-dulais-1986.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsFY0wHpR5o More info on Focus E15: http://t.co/A5mO2CKqmj http://t.co/ySKSDDOKKj http://t.co/xcFAZ24103 https://t.co/C7ssh19igq https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAjCiXwP46w http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/23/real-politics-empty-london-housing-estate We mention: South London Revolutionary Communist Group: http://www.revolutionarycommunist.org/ https://www.facebook.com/southlondonrcg Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesbians_and_Gays_Support_the_Miners Robin Wales: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Wales Newham Council: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newham_London_Borough_Council Toll Puddle Martyrs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolpuddle_Martyrs The Chartists: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chartism 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 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!

In GBA 178 we get better acquainted with Bouncy Poppy Songs About Death. Join me, Hayley and George at a listening party for the new album by The Reactionaries. It's the first time we'd all sat down and listened to the finished album together. Plugs: Bouncy Poppy Songs About Death on bandcamp: https://thereactionaries1.bandcamp.com/releases Our eponymous first album on soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/thereactionaries/sets/the-reactionaries To leave feedback or to approach Hayley about her novel or George about his production skills contact GBApodcast@gmail.com or @GBApodcast on twitter. Stand Up Tragedy: Tragic Friends at the Dogstar in Brixton on Thursday 25th September from 7.30pm. Pay What You Like: www.facebook.com/events/571116096344062/ Stand Up Tragedy: Tragic Horror at the Hackney Attic on Saturday 25th October from 7.30pm. Tickets £5 in advance and £7 on the door: https://www.facebook.com/events/324271494401590/ We mention: Apples for Everyone: https://soundcloud.com/applesforeveryone/sets Apples For Everyone on GBA: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/apples-for-everyone Hayley's GBA: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-9-hayley George's GBAs: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-6-george/ https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-106-jack-and-george/ https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/a-room-full-of-friends-the Ollie's GBA: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-167-oli Spark London: http://sparklondon.com/ Elspeth's GBA: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-2-elspeth Writing Group: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-84-writing-group The Dad GBA's: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/the-dad-episodes Stylist: http://www.stylist.co.uk/ Stand Up Tragedy: http://www.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 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!

In GBA 177 we get better acquainted with Daniel. He talks magic, twitter, words, comedy and opinions and has opinions and apologies for having opinions on all of those pursuits. The conversation is a delightful dance of arrogant self-deprecation and comfortable social awkwardness with some live card tricks thrown into the mix. Daniel plugs: @daniel_barker: https://twitter.com/daniel_barker Buying him beer in pubs. I plug: Stand Up Tragedy: Tragic Friends at the Dogstar in Brixton on Thursday 25th September from 7.30pm. Pay What You Like: https://www.facebook.com/events/571116096344062/ We mention: Stand Up Tragedy: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk/ Barnardos: http://www.barnardos.org.uk/ James Ross: https://twitter.com/fki01 Eddie Izzard: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Izzard Bill Bailey: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Bailey Tweet typos: http://www.thewire.com/entertainment/2012/11/inside-nitpicky-minds-twitter-typo-police/59412/ Derren Brown: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derren_Brown Houdini: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Houdini Spiritualists: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiritualism Richard Wiseman: http://richardwiseman.wordpress.com/ NLP: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuro-linguistic_programming Hamleys: http://www.hamleys.com/ Mitcham: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitcham,_London Richard Dawkins: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dawkins https://twitter.com/richarddawkins 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 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!

In GBA 176 we get better acquainted with Eithne. She talks about movement between cultures, both her own global travel experiences and the experiences and issues facing groups of migrants within London . She also talks about working on equality and diversity within museums, telling her own stories in memoir and on stage and introduces me to the concept of Intangible Heritage. Content note: Some complex or upsetting issues are touched on briefly at times during this conversation: e.g FGM, abortion, bereavement, racism Eithne plugs: Her website: http://www.ethnienightingale.com Her Spark London story The Milkman's Round: http://www.mixcloud.com/sparklondon/the-milkmans-round-eithne-nightingale/ If any agents are interested in representing her memoir get in touch! We mention: Spark London: http://wwwsparklondon.com/ V and A: http://www.vam.ac.uk/ Museum of Childhood: http://www.museumofchildhood.org.uk/ Heritage Lottery Fund: http://www.hlf.org.uk/Pages/Home.aspx Nyerere: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Nyerere Hutons: http://www.travelchinaguide.com/cityguides/beijing/hutong/ Al Jazeera http://www.aljazeera.com/ Equality and Social Justice: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Museums-Equality-Social-Justice-Meanings/dp/0415504694 Dad Episodes: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/the-dad-episodes Unesco Convention on Intangible Heritage: http://www.unesco.org/culture/ich/en/convention Simone de Beauvoir: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_de_Beauvoir http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Paul_Sartre 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 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!

In GBA 175 we get better acquainted with Neil Denny. He talks about balancing and compartmentalizing his day job and his "hobby" (producing and presenting the podcast and radio show Little Atoms). We get into class, road-trips across America, whether prayer or masturbation is the more shameful act, being both inside and outside the media and lots more. Neil plugs: His podcast and radio show Little Atoms: http://littleatoms.com/ Available on iTunes and to hear live via the radio in the London area at 10.30am every Saturday on Resonance 104.4 FM or streamed at that time via the Resonance FM website: http://resonancefm.com/ He also plugs his live appearances as and when they arise. Follow him on twitter: @littleatoms We mention: Spark London: http://sparklondon.com/ Neil on Spark London: http://www.mixcloud.com/sparklondon/best-of-spark-2-neil-denny/ Geek Showoff: http://scienceshowoff.wordpress.com/geeks/ Z List Deadlist: http://www.zlistdeadlist.com/ Izy Lawrence: https://www.iszi.com/ Winchester Science Festival: http://winchesterscifest.org/ Padraig Reidy: https://twitter.com/mePadraigReidy Beckie Hogg: http://barefootintocyberspace.com/ Rebecca Watson: https://twitter.com/rebeccawatson Skepchic: http://skepchick.org/ Stand Up Tragedy: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk/ Helen Zaltzman: http://helenzaltzman.com/ https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-live-9-helen-zaltzman Skeptics in the Pub: http://www.skepticsinthepub.net/ Churchill Trust: http://www.wcmt.org.uk/ Little Atoms Road trip: http://www.littleatoms.com/roadtrip.htm Neil's Guardian blogs: http://www.theguardian.com/profile/neil-denny Radcliffe Royds: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/the-radcliffe-episodes Rod Liddle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Liddle Musa Okwonga: http://www.okwonga.com/ https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-148-musa-okwonga Richard Sanderson: http://www.richard-sanderson.com/ Richard Dawkins: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dawkins 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 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!

In this GBA Extra James McKay recites Imperfect Enjoyment by Rochester for your NSFW enjoyment. Rochester: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wilmot,_2nd_Earl_of_Rochester James: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-169-james-mckay

A live recording of a GBA recorded at #edfringe 2014 at the Royal Oak as part of the PBH Free Fringe. This recording is unedited and posted in a no frills way due to the intensive workload of the festival, and for that reason these shows will also not have shownotes attached to them. 22nd August: Megan Cohen: http://plays.megancohen.com/ Megan Cohen is playwright, friend to the meek, and transmedia cultural juggernaut. Member of San Francisco Neo-Futurists. She is doing her solo show Take Me Home at #edfringe 2014.

A live recording of a GBA recorded at #edfringe 2014 at the Royal Oak as part of the PBH Free Fringe. CONTENT NOTE: The conversations touches on child abuse, drug use, violence and bullying. This recording is unedited and posted in a no frills way due to the intensive workload of the festival, and for that reason these shows will also not have shownotes attached to them. 21st August: Tamer Kattan: http://www.tamerkattan.com/ Tamer Kattan was born an outsider and that's where he stayed. This Egyptian-born American was born into a family of Muslims, Christians and Jews leaving him incredibly comfortable in the uncomfortable. From school yard bullies to an abusive father, comedy quickly became a weapon of this underdog. This award winning international comedian with TV and commercial credits in the United States. A regular at the Comedy store, Improv and Laugh Factory in Los Angeles, he now resides in the UK where you can find him at Comedy Cafe, Top Secret and The Comedy store in London.

A live recording of a GBA recorded at #edfringe 2014 at the Royal Oak as part of the PBH Free Fringe. This recording is unedited and posted in a no frills way due to the intensive workload of the festival, and for that reason these shows will also not have shownotes attached to them. 20th August: 20th August: Fay Roberts: http://www.fayroberts.co.uk/ Fay Roberts is a performance poet and peripatetic percussionist. By day she pokes projects and by night she projects across a microphone. She runs the Cambridge chapter of Hammer & Tongue, along with her own arts label/ brand/ movement/ “nebulous poetry concept” Allographic Press. And she is the director of Spoken Word at PBH's Free Fringe and runs Other Voices Caberet.

A live recording of a GBA recorded at #edfringe 2014 at the Royal Oak as part of the PBH Free Fringe. This recording is unedited and posted in a no frills way due to the intensive workload of the festival, and for that reason these shows will also not have shownotes attached to them. 19th August: Chella Quint http://www.chellaquint.com/ Chella Quint is a comedian, designer, artist, education consultant, and old school zine girl from Brooklyn, New York who now lives in Sheffield. She is the Sheffield Docfest 2013 Specialist Factual New Talent Pitch winner (for which she wrote and presented Lifting the Lid, a short film about menstruation education for the Open University) and she has recently completed a Master’s Degree in Education focusing on changing attitudes to menstruation in secondary schools. Her research has an accompanying #PeriodPositive campaign and website. She regularly performs science communication comedy in the UK and abroad, and recently hosted a comedy show live from CERN. She’s been commissioned by the Institute of Physics to develop a new show based on her fanzine It’s Not You, I Just Need Space (interplanetary letters of love and rejection) as part of the Off the Shelf Festival this October.

A live recording of a GBA recorded at #edfringe 2014 at the Royal Oak as part of the PBH Free Fringe. This recording is unedited and posted in a no frills way due to the intensive workload of the festival, and for that reason these shows will also not have shownotes attached to them. 18th August: Rosie Wilby: http://www.rosiewilby.com/ Rosie Wilby is a comedian, musician, writer and broadcaster based in London. As a comedian, she has performed at Sydney Mardi Gras, The Comedy Store, Latitude Festival and on Radio 4. As a musician she has performed at Glastonbury Festival, Ronnie Scotts and on Carlton TV.

In GBA 174 we get better acquainted with Tim Ralphs. He talks about being a storyteller and an interfaith minister, growing up at folk festivals, how life inflences how you understand stories and lots more. Tim plugs: Rebranding Beelzebub - 9.50pm at Banshee Labyrinth: https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/rebranding-beelzebub His website: http://www.timralphs.com/ Story Forge - 3rd Tuesday of the month at the Fat Cat: https://www.facebook.com/groups/94064587663/ I plug: Stand Up Tragedy at the Free Fringe - 7.30pm every day from 2nd-22nd August at the Banshee Labyrinth: www.facebook.com/events/316554115169995/ Getting Better Acquainted Live at the Free Fringe 3.15pm every day from 18th-22th August at the Royal Oak: www.facebook.com/events/773670469351784/ Edinburgh shows we shout out: Lucy Ayrton's The Splitting of the Mermaid: https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/lucy-ayrton-the-splitting-of-the-mermaid Sofia Walker's Can't Care Won't Care: http://freefringe.org.uk/edinburgh/cant-care-wont-care/2014-08-02/ Her other show is Around the World in Eight Mistakes:http://freefringe.org.uk/edinburgh/around-the-world-in-eight-mistakes/2014-08-09/ Brydie Lee Kennedy Repeats on You: https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/brydie-lee-kennedy-repeats-on-you Mega Games: http://www.tomwebb.info/megagames.html We mention: Rachel Rose Reed: http://www.rachelrosereid.com/ Science Showoff: http://scienceshowoff.wordpress.com/ Bright Club: http://www.brightclub.org/ The Moth: http://themoth.org/ Society of Storytelling: http://www.sfs.org.uk/ pippa reid: http://pippareid.com/ Edinburgh fringe: http://www.edfringe.com/ Stand Up Tragedy: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk/ Robin Ince: http://robinince.com/ Josie Long: http://www.josielong.com/ Njord and Skadi: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ska%C3%B0i Hugh Lupton: http://www.hughlupton.com/ Dan Keding: http://dankeding.com/ Dovie Tomason: http://doviethomason.com/ Young Storyteller of the Year: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Storyteller_of_the_Year Michael Harvey: http://www.michaelharvey.org/ Mabinogion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mabinogion Free Fringe: http://www.freefringe.org.uk/ Spark London: http://sparklondon.com/ Dave Pickering Storyeller: http://davepickeringstoryteller.co.uk/ Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/ Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/ Game of Thrones: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_of_Thrones Breaking Bad: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking_Bad Beyond the Border: http://www.beyondtheborder.com/ Joffrey: http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Joffrey_Baratheon 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 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!

In GBA 173 we get better acquainted with Harv. He talks about working in low paid jobs in the catering industry,how childhood bereavement and a religious upbringing have impacted on his life, how his political thinking and musical taste has developed and how class has influenced his thoughts on all these issues. Harv used to be the producer in Apples for Everyone and he has been Stand Up Tragedy's sound technician in residence since it started. He's really great at all things sound related and a wise and loyal friend. Harv plugs: Stand Up Tragedy - donations and shows: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk/ His Soundtech/production work: http://www.stephenharvey.me.uk/ https://twitter.com/SteveHSoundtech We're up in Edinburgh already of course and both Harv and me are running Stand Up Tragedy daily. Harv will be performing music up there too on 3rd, 12th and 15th. As promised in the episode I will put the track Harv produced and played drums on at the end of the show. It was put together for my Open EP.Which you can find and download at http://soundcloud.com/the-dave I plug: Stand Up Tragedy at the Free Fringe - 7.30pm every day from 2nd-22nd August at the Banshee Labyrinth: www.facebook.com/events/316554115169995/ Getting Better Acquainted Live at the Free Fringe 3.15pm every day from 18th-22th August at the Royal Oak: www.facebook.com/events/773670469351784/ We mention: Apples for Everyone: https://soundcloud.com/applesforeveryone/sets/ Hemel Hempstead: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemel_Hempstead Bovingdon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bovingdon Nirvana: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_(band) Ben Sherman shirts: http://www.bensherman.com/clothing/shirts/ Puffer Jackets: http://www.zalando.co.uk/puffer-jacket/ Illuminatus trilogy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Illuminatus!_Trilogy The Dispossessed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dispossessed V for Vendetta: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_for_Vendetta The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker's_Guide_to_the_Galaxy Brakes Bros: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brake_Bros Beefeater: http://www.beefeater.co.uk/ Premier Inn: http://www.premierinn.com/ Gorden Ramsey: http://www.gordonramsay.com/ Gastrectomy: http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/Gastrectomy/Pages/Introduction.aspx Salvation Army: http://www.salvationarmy.org.uk/ The Daily Mail: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html prefigure the revolution: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prefigurative_politics Guns and Roses: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns_N'_Roses Bon Jovi - first album: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bon_Jovi_(album) Nevermind: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevermind Richie Sambora: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richie_Sambora Iron Maiden: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Maiden Kurt Cobain: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Cobain Smells Like Teen Spirit: http://youtu.be/hTWKbfoikeg Dave Grohl: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Grohl Foo Fighters: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo_Fighters Chris Novaselic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krist_Novoselic Beyoncé: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyonc%C3%A9 HR Giger - StillBirth Machine: http://bit.ly/UAfJXL The Mekons: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mekons 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 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!

In GBA 172 we get better acquainted with Sophia Walker. She talks about going round the world in 8 mistakes, drawing on her experiences of working in the care industry to create a new piece of spoken word theatre, experiencing 9/11 through the wider social context of her international school classmates, filming documentaries in warzones, the etymology of the words and so much more. Sophia plugs: Can't Care, Won't Care 2-24th August 1.40pm at the Banshee Labyrinth: http://edinburghfestival.list.co.uk/event/420338-cant-care-wont-care/ Around the World in Eight Mistakes 9-24th August at the Pilgrim 5.30pm: http://edinburghfestival.list.co.uk/event/420579-around-the-world-in-eight-mistakes/ Both shows are part of The Free Fringe. Her first book Opposite the Tour Bus coming out this year from Burning Eye Press Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SophiaWalker Twitter: https://twitter.com/poetwalker I plug: Stand Up Tragedy at the Free Fringe - 7.30pm every day from 2nd-22nd August at the Banshee Labyrinth: www.facebook.com/events/316554115169995/ Sophia Walker will be performing with Stand Up Tragedy on 6th and 23rd. Getting Better Acquainted Live at the Free Fringe 3.15pm every day from 18th-22th August at the Royal Oak: www.facebook.com/events/773670469351784/ We mention: Free Fringe spoken word album: http://pbhfreefringespokenword.bandcamp.com/album/a-maze-of-breaths-spoken-word-at-pbhs-free-fringe Lucy Ayrton: http://www.lucyayrton.co.uk/ Dogstar: http://dogstarbrixton.com/ Stand Up Tragedy: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk/ Andrea Gibson: http://www.andreagibson.org/ Arts Council: http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/ Kevin Cadwallender: http://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poetry/poets/kevin-cadwallender Ted Talks: http://www.ted.com/ BBCQT Watchalong: https://twitter.com/BBCQTWatchalong Moscow: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow Washington: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_D.C. Soviet Union: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union UPI: http://www.upi.com/ National Geographic: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ The Mountain People: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mountain-People-Colin-M-Turnbull/dp/0671640984 David Pluth - Green Peace: http://www.ugpulse.com/heritage/1-on-1-with-national-geographic-photographer-david-pluth/530/ug.aspx IkLand: the worst people in the world http://iklandmovie.com/index.php Boston International Film Festival: http://www.bifilmfestival.com/biffhome.html Hanoi: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanoi George Bush: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush Haringey: http://www.haringey.gov.uk/ Baby P: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Baby_P Spark London: http://www.sparklondon.com/ Ross Sutherland: http://www.rosssutherland.co.uk/ Jordan - spoken word: http://www.thedailybeast.com/witw/articles/2013/11/16/jordan-s-female-slam-poetry-scene.html Upworthy: http://www.upworthy.com/ Shane Koyczan - To This Day : http://www.tothisdayproject.com/the_poem.html Talha Ahsan: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syed_Talha_Ahsan Stonewall: http://www.stonewall.org.uk/ Keith Jarrett - Gay Poem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g81EKU1lXbw Sophia Walker - Faggots: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8muDiSOjOQY Chumbawamba - Revolution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbXvfVlXt4s 300 to 1: https://www.facebook.com/events/607036452716549/ Monkey Poet: http://www.monkeypoet.co.uk/ 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 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!