GBA 64 Coventry

Summary: In GBA 64 we get better acquainted with Coventry: It's an epic document of my return to a city I hadn't been back to in 12 years. I lived there through some dark and strange times 17 years ago. In the show I really do get better acquainted with the city. I get to know its character. With my childhood friend Steve as my co-host I take you around Coventry's Cathedrals and shopping centres and we cover how the city was changed forever by the blitz. http://www.coventrycathedral.org.uk/ Then we journey back into my past, returning to the estates that I lived in as a child and the schools that we both attended together, through a barrage of memory and new perspectives. Steve mounts an inspiring defence of the city he has lived his whole life in and tells us why he loves the city so deeply. I take a long hard look at my past, re-evaluate my relationship to it, reconsider who I am, and get to know a different city to the one I left. Or is the city the same and it's me who has changed? Have I really changed at all? Either way come and join me as I make my peace with Coventry. As a prelude to this episode I released Steve’s GBA earlier this week: http://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-63-steve Both episodes are about that strange time of life: late childhood. The years before you are fully teen but when you are no longer a toddler. They are also about re-establishing and developing friendship. A friendship where we knew each other before we were fully formed. They are about the danger and the magic of being a child. And that strange nostalgic emotion that comes when you try and look back. Other good “extra listening” that compliments this episode are: Episode 1 of GBA where I tell at least 3 stories set in Coventry during this time: http://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-1-dave One of which is this http://www.sparklondon.com story which we talk about extensively at the end of the Coventry Special: http://www.mixcloud.com/sparklondon/two-cathedrals-david-pickering/ And George’s GBA is given a brief mention too: http://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-6-george You can hear Getting Better Acquainted on Stitcher SmartRadio, Stitcher allows you to listen to your favourite shows directly from your iPhone, Android Phone, Kindle Fire and beyond. On-demand and on the go! Don’t have Stitcher? Download it for free today at http://www.stitcher.com or in the app stores. Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review? Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word!