Getting Better Acquainted

In GBA 156 pt 2 we get even better acquainted with my partner, Jen. We talk about how our 13 year relationship works, exploring the domestic compromises and tensions, arguments and conflicts, friendship and love, that come from living with someone and sharing a life together. We also cover the experience of living with (and living with someone who lives with) mental health issues. We push at the boundaries of openness and honesty in a conversation that is full of quiet revelations. Whether you know us well or know nothing about us, by the end of this conversation you will be intimately acquainted with who we are and how we fit together. This conversation picks up where Part 1 left off and I recommend listening to that episode first: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-156-jen-2-pt-1 This is the forth episode of a 3 week "Personal Season". On next wednesday (16th) the season will be rounded up with an episode collecting together true stories and personal songs that I've told and recorded over the last 2 years. Jen Plugs: Openness and honesty. We mention: Crying For No Reason - Katy B: http://open.spotify.com/track/3DDxYAT7Nuj0tfkHICWYi3 Dan Savage: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Savage Savage Love: http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/SavageLove?oid=19234246 Sex at Dawn: http://www.sexatdawn.com/ Smugsexual - on twitter http://stavvers.wordpress.com/2013/12/08/smugsexual-and-the-closet-two-faces-of-feminist-biphobia/ http://sometimesitsjustacigar.wordpress.com/2013/12/08/thoughts-on-being-a-smugsexual/ Radcliffe Episodes: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/the-radcliffe-episodes/ Niels Bohr: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niels_Bohr Niels Bohr quote: “There are trivial truths and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.” 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 156 pt 1 we get even better acquainted with my partner, Jen. We talk about how she feels being presented and represented on the podcast, introverts, ambiverts and extroverts, the way her memory works, the different distinctive smells of books, refining the mind and body, how we interact and intersect with each other as a couple and whether consciousness is an evolutionary disadvantage. Also I propose to her live on mic. This is the third episode of a 3 week "Personal Season". The second (and arguably even more personal) half of this conversation will come out on Friday (11), and on next wednesday (16th) the season will be rounded up with an episode collecting together true stories and personal songs that I've told and recorded over the last 2 years. Jen Plugs: Nothing in this half of the conversation, her plug will come at the end of Friday's episode. We mention: Our past GBA conversations: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/the-jen-episodes MJ Hibbett Episode: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-12-mj-hibbett Susan Cain - Quiet: http://www.thepowerofintroverts.com/ Susan Cain - Ted Talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/susan_cain_the_power_of_introverts Susan Cain test: http://www.thepowerofintroverts.com/quiet-quiz-are-you-an-introvert/ Audry Lorde: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audre_Lorde “It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.” Meg and Mog Books: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meg_and_Mog Four Wise Monkeys: http://www.jadamthwaite.co.uk/four-wise-monkeys Jen's Website: http://www.jadamthwaite.co.uk Bright Eyes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bright_Eyes_(band) "And we'll keep working on the problem we know we'll never solve Of Love's uneven remainders, our lives are fractions of a whole." 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 155 we get even better acquainted with my Dad. We talk about being a new father in different decades, mortality, how we are all time travelers through history, my childhood and if he has any regrets. This is the second episode of a 3 week "Personal Season". The first episode of the season came out last Wednesday: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-154-dad-4 Next week they'll be another conversation with my partner Jen that will be broken into 2 parts and come out on Wednesday (9th) and Friday (11), and then the week after that (16th) they'll be an episode that collects together true stories and personal songs that I've told and recorded over the last 2 years. Dad plugs Al Jazeera again: www.aljazeera.com/ We mention: Dad's previous episodes: http://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/the-dad-episodes Tony Blair: The episode that cover's my Mum's time working on theAdventure Playground: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-24-mum-1 The Partition: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-extra-the-partition The Coventry Years: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-77-the-coventry-years Slaughter House 5: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slaughterhouse-Five Carpal Tunnel: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpal_tunnel Arthritis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthritis Getting On: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_On Joss Whedon commencement speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn866ryQ5RY To the Heart of It: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-53-to-the-heart-of-it Liz Episode: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-4-liz Buffy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer Citizen Kane: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen_Kane Jack and George's conversation: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-106-jack-and-george| Copenhagen: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen_(play) Niels Bohr: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niels_Bohr Niels Bohr quote: “There are trivial truths and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.” 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 154 we get even better acquainted with my Dad. We talk about his experiences of non-monogamy, try and get into an untold war time love story and explore general issues around sex and sexuality. WARNING: If you are related to us you may not want to listen to this episode. This is the first episode of a 3 week "Personal Season". On Friday (4th) they'll be another conversation with my dad, this time about parenting and mortality. Then next week they'll be another conversation with my partner Jen that will be broken into 2 parts and come out on Wednesday (9th) and Friday (11), and then the week after that (16th) they'll be an episode that collects together true stories and personal songs that I've told and recorded over the last 2 years. Dad plugs Al Jazeera: http://www.aljazeera.com/ I plug chocolate covered Hob Nobs. We mention: Dad's previous episodes: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/the-dad-episodes War Episode: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-3-dad-1 Francis Cammaerts: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Cammaerts Harry Rée http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_R%C3%A9e SOE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_Executive Émile Cammaerts: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89mile_Cammaerts Paul Rotha: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Rotha Dan Savage: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Savage Sheila: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-117-sheila Kink: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kink_(sexual) BDSM: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BDSM Sex Positive: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex-positive_movement The Coventry Years: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-77-the-coventry-years Fetish: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetish 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 153 we get better acquainted with Asia. She talks about collaboration, music, depression, singing, a complicated divorce, yoga, Poland, family, religion and more. This conversation touches on sensitive subjects, it also contains sensitive songs. Asia plugs: People collaborating with her on folk projects and Getting Better Acquainted as a language learning tool. Related episodes: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-live-2-a-room-full-of https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-100-pt-2 https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-141-a-room-full-of https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/stand-up-tragedy-spotlight-9-a https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-6-george https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-21-navin 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 152 we get better acquainted with Gary. He talks about the psychology, LARP, the statistical analysis of people's personalities, relationships, dyslexia, being bullied, living with siblings experiencing illness and more. Gary plugs: Plug: If you are interested in LARP listen to Zoe's episode: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-22-zoe If you are interested in alternative medicinelisten to a podcast that his sister April Blake did. I currently can't locate this podcast, and I will add it when I do track it down, assuming it still exists! We mention: Likert Scale: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Likert_scale Four Days in a Room: https://soundcloud.com/fourdaysinaroom/sets/highlights-from-four-days-in-a LARP: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_action_role-playing_game Tabletop: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabletop_role-playing_game Terry Pratchett: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabletop_role-playing_game Pope John Paul II: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_John_Paul_II Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_behavioral_therapy Acromegaly pituitary gland: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acromegaly Tim Minchin: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Minchin Iboga: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabernanthe_iboga Ayahuasca: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayahuasca Placebo Effect: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placebo Galway: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galway

In GBA 151 we get even better acquainted with Richard Tyrone Jones returns to talk about how he is a crap time lord, bereavement, sexuality, poetry, comedy and more. The conversation attempts to be about nuanced and emotional things despite the slightly surreal backdrop of a noisy pub in Deptford. Also included is a poem Richard told at Stand Up Tragedy about dementia. Here are Richard's previous GBA appearances: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/the-richard-tyrone-jones And here is the episode of Stand Up Tragedy we refer to: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/stand-up-tragedy-spotlight-2 Richard plugs: 17th March: Alternative Comedy Memorial Society: http://noblefailure.org/shows/2014-03-17 6th April: UTTER!’ 10th BIRTHDAY – Mini-Edinburgh Fringe: https://www.facebook.com/events/1471587036401662/ August 1st-23rd: Crap Time Lord - details tbc & What the F*ck is this? 23.30 Banshee labyrinth at Edinburgh Free Fringe. . I additionally plug: Mon Apr 7th - Spark! Storytelling, Canal Cafe, Little Venice, 7.30pm www.sparklondon.com And here are some more RTJ things that relate to the conversation: Thurs 8th May - Big Heart, Le Grand Depart (Tour de France) fest, Picture House, York 7.15pm: http://festival.yorkshire.com/events/richard-tyrone-jones-in-big-heart Sat 17th May - Big Heart, Kettering Arts Centre - further details TBC. Sat 31st May - 'Utter!' MisGuided tour of Deptford http://bit.ly/utterdept donation c.£5 Sat 26th July - Crap Time Lord, Perverse, Aberdeen. We mention: Hayley: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-9-hayley James Ross: https://twitter.com/fki01 Utter Spoken Word: http://www.utterspokenword.com/ Spoken Word at the PBH Free Fringe: https://www.facebook.com/PBHSpokenWord The Birds Nest: http://www.thebirdsnestpub.com/ Death Grips: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Grips Warhammer 40,000: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warhammer_40,000 Warhammer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warhammer_Fantasy_Battle Chris Eubank: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Eubank Radio 4 Show: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b036tqq5 Horrible Histories: http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/shows/horrible-histories The Infinite Monkey Cage: http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/timc Cardioverta Defibrillator: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implantable_cardioverter-defibrillator Wellcome Trust: http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/ Ablation: http://www.bhf.org.uk/heart-health/treatments/ablation.aspx Doctor Who: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who Dilated cardiomyopathy: http://www.bhf.org.uk/heart-health/conditions/cardiomyopathy/dilated-cardiomyopathy.aspx Ethical Slut: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ethical_Slut Michael Haneke: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Haneke Foucault: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Foucault Botticelli's Venus: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birth_of_Venus_(Botticelli) Sildenafil: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sildenafil Jason Statham: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Statham Byron: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Byron Keats: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Keats Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/Cognitive-behavioural-therapy/Pages/Introduction.aspx Four Days in a Room: https://soundcloud.com/fourdaysinaroom/sets/highlights-from-four-days-in-a 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 150 we get better acquainted with Becca. She talks about the art, culture and significance of calligraphy, football and rock concerts. And we get into her New Jersey upbringing, studying at Cornell University, how an introvert responds to London and the relationship between art and artists. Becca Plugs: Paying more attention to lettering We mention: Liz: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-4-liz Spark London: http://www.sparklondon.com/ 100th Episode: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/gba100-1 Book of Hours: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_hours Book of Kells: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Kells Irvine Welsh Malibou Stork Nightmares: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marabou_Stork_Nightmares Death of the Author: http://www.tbook.constantvzw.org/wp-content/death_authorbarthes.pdf Foucault: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Foucault Barthes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_Barthes Oyster Card: http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tickets/14836.aspx Real Madrid: http://www.realmadrid.com/en Pearl Jam: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_Jam Quiet - Susan Cain: http://www.thepowerofintroverts.com/ Ted Talk - Susan Cain: http://www.ted.com/talks/susan_cain_the_power_of_introverts 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 149 we get better acquainted with Kathleen. She talks about being arrested for political activism, being nomadic, going to a Steiner School, podcasting, Bangladesh, Northern Ireland, community organising and more. Kathleen plugs: Her podcast Citizens Discs which will be launching on Friday 4th April. I will give it further shout outs on GBA nearer the time. Living in a Boat. The possibility of building more canals and having more house boats to address the housing shortage. Nomadism. We mention: Guest hosted by Alex episode: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-81-dave-guest-hosted-by In the Dark: http://www.inthedarkradio.org/ Wapping Project: http://www.thewappingproject.com/ Radcliffe Live Episode: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-live-4-radcliffe Desert Island Discs: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/desert-island-discs Steiner: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldorf_education Steiner Centre London: http://www.waldorftraining.org.uk/ Hollywood: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holywood Global Exchange: http://www.globalexchange.org/ Fortnam and Mason 145: https://www.facebook.com/FortnumMason145 The March for the Alternative: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_London_anti-cuts_protest UK Uncut: http://www.ukuncut.org.uk/ WTF with Marc Maron: http://www.wtfpod.com/ DiD - archive: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/desert-island-discs/find-a-castaway This American Life: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/ RadioLab: http://www.radiolab.org/ The Moth: http://themoth.org/ Mum conversations: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/the-mum-episodes-1/ Adobe Audition: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Audition Audacity: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ Chris extra: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-extra-chris Hannah's Starbuck Zombie featuring episode: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-45-hannah Citizen Radio: http://wearecitizenradio.com/ You can hear Getting Better Acquainted on Stitcher SmartRadio, Stitcher allows you to listen to your favourite shows directly from your iPhone, Android Phone, Kindle Fire and beyond. On-demand and on the go! Don’t have Stitcher? Download it for free today at 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 148 we get better acquainted with Musa Okwonga. We talk privilege, empathy, black history, climate change, progressive economics, TV/film, rape culture, inequality, journalism and so much more. Musa plugs: http://www.okwonga.com/ https://twitter.com/Okwonga I plug: Edit's of earlier GBA episodes are going out on Resonance 104.4 FM at 11am Fridays (repeated 2am Tuesdays): http://resonancefm.com/ Tragic Heroes: 21st March @ The Hackney Attic: https://www.facebook.com/events/502957866479816/ We mention: Musa's blog on feminism that I was reading while waiting to have a vasectomy: http://www.okwonga.com/?p=591 Fast and the Furious: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fast_and_the_Furious Spock: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spock Zachary Quinto: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spock Chris Pine: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Pine Star Trek: Into Darkness: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_Into_Darkness New Statesman: http://www.newstatesman.com/ Independent: http://www.independent.co.uk/ Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/uk This is Africa: http://www.thisisafricaonline.com/ EDL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Defence_League Musa's blog on Tommy Robinson: http://www.okwonga.com/?p=820 Owen Jones: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_Jones_(writer) Laurie Penny: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurie_Penny Musa's Nelson Mandela Article: http://www.okwonga.com/?p=869 Audre Lorde: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audre_Lorde Ivan Massow in Evening Standard: http://www.standard.co.uk/comment/comment/ivan-massow-this-new-gay-hedonism-is-not-what-i-fought-for-8678761.html Rosa Parks: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks Stokely Carmichael: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stokely_Carmichael Kate Tempest: http://katetempest.co.uk/ March for the Alternative: http://goosefat101twitterspills.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/truth.html Musa's blog on empathy: http://www.okwonga.com/?p=933 Ian Duncan Smith: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain_Duncan_Smith Tim Montgomerie: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Montgomerie This American Life: money episode - http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/423/the-invention-of-money Black Tudors article: http://mediadiversified.org/2014/02/12/its-time-to-talk-about-black-tudors/ Margaret MacMillan: The Uses and Abuses of History: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Abuses-History-Professor-Margaret-MacMillan/dp/1846682045 Musa's article on WW! and Empire: http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2014/01/dear-mr-gove-we-need-talk-about-empire-our-schools Orientalism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orientalism Edward Said: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Said Male Gaze: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaze#The_.22male_gaze.22_in_feminist_theory Foucault: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Foucault Eminem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eminem Little Britain: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Britain David Cameron: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Cameron James Arthur: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Arthur_(singer) Property article in the evening standard: http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/londons-100bn-property-boom-as-last-homes-under-100k-are-snapped-up-9082716.html Niels Bohr: http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/941-the-opposite-of-a-correct-statement-is-a-false-statement 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 147 we get better acquainted with Lisa. She talks about travelling round the world; including the experience of being hit by a car in Vietnam, the commercialization of atrocities, the practicalities and politics of travel and so much more. Lisa plugs: Her blog: http://lisafindley.com/ https://www.facebook.com/pages/Stowaway/152841568136841 I plug: Tragic Love: 13th February @ the Dogstar, Brixton: https://www.facebook.com/events/679186822103633/ We mention: Liz Episode: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-4-liz The Killing Fields: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_Fields Uluru: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uluru Carl Episode: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-131-carl 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 146 we get even better acquainted with Nick who is the brother of my old friend Richard: http://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/the-richard-episodes Nick talks candidly about trying to find is way in life, being bullied at school, being a younger brother comparing yourself to a successful older brother, fitting in, being a life guard, going to America on a whim and having an epiphany at the top of the Grand Canyon, deciding against a career in radio and more. This is the third and final conversation in the Kingdom season which started last week with Richard 2. Nick plugs: the idea of taking off your masks and seeing yourself for who you are. GBA has another season coming up on Resonance FM. Episodes from the back catalogue reedited to fit the hour slot will be going out at 11am on Fridays (repeated at 2am on Tuesdays) from the 31st of January. http://www.resonancefm.com/ Resonance FM could do with your support. Please consider helping fund what they do: http://resonancefm.com/support We mention: Jackass: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackass_(TV_series) Radio 1: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/ Chris Evans: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Evans_(presenter) Coachella:http://www.coachella.com/ All the world's a stage speech: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_the_world%27s_a_stage Shakespeare: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare David Beckham: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Beckham 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 145 we get even better acquainted with John Kingdom who is the father of my old friend Richard: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/the-richard-episodes John talks about his interest in pianolas, engineering, being a project manager, living in the Soviet Union during the time that it was stopping being the Soviet Union, father and grandfather-hood and so much more. He also outlines his "compassionate conservative" views and presents his view of recent political history. It has quite a strange start and features a cameos from Richard, a pianola and a baby. This is the second conversation in the Kingdom season which started last week with Richard #2. Next week I will air conversations with Nick who is John's son and Richard's brother. John Plugs: Compassion and love GBA has another season coming up on Resonance FM. Episodes from the back catalogue reedited to fit the hour slot will be going out at 11am on Fridays (repeated at 2am on Tuesdays) from the 31st of January. http://resonancefm.com/ Resonance FM could do with your support. Please consider helping fund what they do: resonancefm.com/support We mention: Julian Dyer: http://www.pianorolls.co.uk/ Hickies: http://www.hickies.co.uk/home.php Kunkel - Alpine Storm: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLfjWCfrLV8 Beethoven's 9th: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mz8P8D8MdNU Wurlitzer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wurlitzer American Beauty: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0169547/ 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 144 we get even better acquainted with Richard. I interrogate him about his youthful mistakes and he pushes me to ask him all the questions on my list. We cover rat welfare, changes in approach, growing up, the relationships of artists and audiences, changes in political thinking and more. This is the second conversation that I have had with him and it starts the Kingdom season: over the next two weeks I will air conversations with Richard's father and brother. Richard #1: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-57-richard The plugs are peppered through the episode! GBA has another season coming up on Resonance FM. Episodes from the back catalogue reedited to fit the hour slot will be going out at 11am on Fridays (repeated at 2am on Tuesdays) from the 31st of January. http://resonancefm.com/ Resonance FM could do with your support. Please consider helping fund what they do: http://resonancefm.com/support We mention: Clive: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-11-clive Ged: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-31-ged Russell: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-82-russell Eitan: http://www.eitanbuchalter.com/ Christopher Biggins: http://www.christopherbiggins.com/ Kids: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_(film) Chomsky: http://www.chomsky.info/ Harry is Always Right: http://www.greenroomutd.org/show/harry-always-right Channel 4 : Tsunami: http://www.channel4.com/programmes/tsunami-caught-on-camera/4od A Sense of an Ending - Julian Barnes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sense_of_an_Ending Ridley Walker - Russell Hoben: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riddley_Walker The Corrections - Johnathan Franzen: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Corrections Broken Glass: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_Glass_(play) Royal Court: http://www.royalcourttheatre.com/ National Theatre Live: http://ntlive.nationaltheatre.org.uk/ The Collaborators: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborators_(play) Matt Waldoc: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-29-matt Edinburgh special 1: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-15-edinburgh-festival Reverend Billy: http://www.revbilly.com/ You can hear Getting Better Acquainted on Stitcher SmartRadio, Stitcher allows you to listen to your favourite shows directly from your iPhone, Android Phone, Kindle Fire and beyond. On-demand and on the go! Don’t have Stitcher? Download it for free today at 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 143 we get better acquainted with Joe Murphy. He talks music, record labels, the History of the Popes, re-imagining Robin Hood, finding inspiration on the Holloway Road and more. Joe plugs: Go to the devil and shake yourself: http://www.blang.co.uk/shop?view=album&album=44 Segeant Buzfuz: http://www.sergeantbuzfuz.com/ Blang: http://www.blang.co.uk/ Next Sergeant Buzfux gig: Monday March 31 at 12 Bar Club with the fantastic Jinx Lennon from Dundalk I plug: Tragic Beginnings: 17th January @ Hackney Attic (upstairs at the Hackney Picturehouse): http://www.picturehouses.co.uk/cinema/Hackney_Picturehouse/film/Stand_Up_Tragedy_Tragic_Beginnings/ This is Joe performing at SUT: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-episode-8-joe-murphy We mention: 2012 Edinburgh Special: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-71-edinburgh-festival Utter Spoken Word: http://www.utterspokenword.com/ Richard Tyrone Jones: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/the-richard-tyrone-jones Stand Up Tragedy: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy Polly: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-daily-ep2-polly-mclean Joy Division: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_Division Darren Hayman: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-62-darren-hayman The Pogues: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pogues The Mekons: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mekons 12 Bar Club: http://www.12barclub.com/ Johny Brown - Resonance FM: https://soundcloud.com/resonance-fm/sets/such-a-nice-radio-show/ MCB: 48 hour Album: https://soundcloud.com/themiddleclassbastards/sets/future-children Rough Trade: http://www.roughtrade.com/ Domino: http://www.dominorecordco.com/ Alex conversation from 4diaR: https://soundcloud.com/fourdaysinaroom/4diar-episode-18-promotion Marc Lamarr: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Lamarr Gideon Coe: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gideon_Coe Ian Rankin: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Rankin T Rex: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._Rex_(band) Bowie: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bowie The Dave album: https://soundcloud.com/the-dave/sets/going-back-to-finish-the-job David Cronenbergs Wife: http://www.davidcronenbergswife.com/ Spotify: https://www.spotify.com/uk/ Amanda Palmer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_Palmer Radiohead: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiohead HMV: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMV Elton John: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elton_John Jay-Z: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay-Z Beyoncé: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyonce Mike Harding: http://www.mikeharding.co.uk/ 6 Music: http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music Pickwick Papers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pickwick_Papers 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!