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After a year on hiatus from Getting Better Acquainted I return for a one-off extra episode to continue the tradition of beginning the new year with a round up of how the last year panned out for me, and because it's 2019 I also consider how the decade has gone for me, and also how I'm feeling about the frying pan and fire of current political events. Getting Better Acquainted is still on hiatus for a while. But there's over 350 episodes in the archives so plenty to catch up on for people just discovering the show. I mention: Made of Human with Sofie Hagen: https://www.madeofhumanpodcast.com The Breakup Monologues with Rosie Wilby: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-breakup-monologues-with-rosie-wilby/id1310409996?mt=2 My time hosting Spark Hackney: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-extra-the-spark Spark True Stories: http://stories.co.uk/ The Restart Project: https://therestartproject.org/podcast/ Busy Being Black at LPF: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/live-josh-rivers-campbell-x-at-london-podcast-festival/id1355469484?i=1000452400087 What About the Men? Mansplaining Masculinity: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-presents-what-about-the-men-mansplaining-maculinity http://mansplainingmasculinity.co.uk/ The Family Tree: http://thefamilytreepodcast.co.uk/ https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/the-family-tree-episodes What is masculinity? Why does it matter? And other big questions by Jeffrey Boakye and Darren Chetty: https://www.hachettechildrens.co.uk/titles/jeffrey-boakye-2/what-is-masculinity-why-does-it-matter-and-other-big-questions/9781526308146/ Pluse Award: https://fund.britishpodcastawards.com/news/british-podcast-awards-launches-50k-fund/ Down to a sunless sea: https://medium.com/@goosefat101/down-to-a-sunless-sea-memories-of-my-dad-604a239b7501

In the final (for now) Getting Better Acquainted Extra I continue the tradition of beginning the new year with a round up of how the last year panned out for me, I consider the impact making this show has had on my life, what kinds of things you might find on your GBA feed in the future, and the distance between who I was in 2011 and who I am now in 2019. Getting Better Acquainted is now on hiatus for a while. But there's over 350 episodes in the archives so plenty to catch up on for people just discovering the show. I mention: Sofie Hagen on GBA: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-335-sofie-hagen Made of Human with Sofie Hagen: https://www.madeofhumanpodcast.com The Breakup Monologues with Rosie Wilby: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-breakup-monologues-with-rosie-wilby/id1310409996?mt=2 My time hosting Spark Hackney: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-extra-the-spark Spark True Stories: http://stories.co.uk/ The talk I gave at the London Podcast Festival: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-extra-passion-projects-the-london-podcast-festival The 2018 Christmas Special: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-350-the-last-christmas I plug: Mansplaining Masculinity: The Book https://unbound.com/books/mansplaining-masculinity/ What About the Men? Mansplaining Masculinity: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-presents-what-about-the-men-mansplaining-maculinity http://mansplainingmasculinity.co.uk/ The Family Tree: http://thefamilytreepodcast.co.uk/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thefamilytreepodcast Down to a sunless sea: https://medium.com/@goosefat101/down-to-a-sunless-sea-memories-of-my-dad-604a239b7501

I have a complicated relationship with Christmas. It's been as site of both trauma and happiness for me. So in some ways you might say it's odd that since Getting Better Acquainted started in 2011 I've made a Christmas Special every year. Or perhaps it makes sense for me to keep picking at the Christmas scab because we often return to the things that have marked and shaped us. Some of the specials have been about comfort and joy and others have been about the bleak midwinter. Most have been about both and everything in between. GBA 350 is the 2018 Christmas Special but in some ways maybe it's the ultimate GBA Christmas Special, the Christmas Special I was always trying to make, the Christmas Special that I've always been making. It's a collage of the best and most personal bits from the last 7 years of GBA and Stand Up Tragedy Christmases. It has songs, stories, love, conflict, confusion, hope, despair and other Christmas things held within it. It features conversations, monologues, performances, time travel, music and moomins. It co-stars my partner Jen, my friend Nina and my dad. The Christmas songs were mostly performed with Asia, George and Sam. The episode is a soundscape, a collage, a journey, a stream of audio consciousness, rather than a documentary or a standard GBA conversation. After this episode we'll have a GBA Extra in the new year and then the show will be going on a hiatus for a while. But there's over 350 episodes in the archives so plenty to catch up on for people just discovering the show. Content Note: Physical and Emotional Violence, Trauma To hear the full conversations and context for the clips in this show listen back to the Christmas Specials from past years, although the further back you go the more I disagree with my past self, both his opinions and word choices: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/christmas-specials The full Tragic Christmas can be found here: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sets/tragic-christmas The best bits are collected together in shorter form here: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/selected-tragedy-vol-5-tragic-christmas I plug: Mansplaining Masculinity: The Book https://unbound.com/books/mansplaining-masculinity/ What About the Men? Mansplaining Masculinity: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-presents-what-about-the-men-mansplaining-maculinity http://mansplainingmasculinity.co.uk/ The Family Tree: http://thefamilytreepodcast.co.uk/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thefamilytreepodcast 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 349 we get better acquainted with Louise. She talks about the round about route her life has taken between when we met at university and now, finding her way to poetry, writing and teaching, her relationship with Wigan where she has lived most of her life, her new music projects, coming back to dance after years away, being a self employed person working in the arts and so much more. Also at the end of today’s episode, after the conversation is over, I repeat the announcement about how Getting Better Acquainted going on a hiatus after episode 350. And also between now and the Christmas Special. Louise plugs: 1st Dec Liverpool Cinema For All event: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/vote-100-born-a-rebel-liverpool-tickets-49280462189 Louise on twitter: https://twitter.com/louisethepoet wordWITCH on twitter: https://twitter.com/wordWITCHsynth Nymphs and Thugs: https://nymphsandthugs.net/ Love is a Battlefield: https://nymphsandthugs.bandcamp.com/album/love-is-a-battlefield Bird St: https://nymphsandthugs.bandcamp.com/album/bird-st I plug: My recent writing about consent and gender: https://medium.com/@goosefat101/what-about-the-women-3237e4155f2c Mansplaining Masculinity: The Book https://unbound.com/books/mansplaining-masculinity/ What About the Men? Mansplaining Masculinity: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-presents-what-about-the-men-mansplaining-maculinity http://mansplainingmasculinity.co.uk/ Down to a sunless sea: memories of my dad: https://medium.com/@goosefat101/down-to-a-sunless-sea-memories-of-my-dad-d1d2d3a61360 New piece: https://medium.com/@goosefat101/down-to-a-sunless-sea-memories-of-my-dad-604a239b7501 The Family Tree: http://thefamilytreepodcast.co.uk/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thefamilytreepodcast We mention: Ludus Dance: https://ludusdance.org/ Stand Up Tragedy: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk/ Louise at SUT: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-daily-ep-1-louise-f White Poppy: https://metro.co.uk/2018/11/01/my-white-poppy-doesnt-mean-im-against-remembrance-it-means-i-am-committed-to-peace-8093178/ Mike Garry: https://www.mikegarry.co.uk/ New Voices Award BBC Radio 3: https://www.theguardian.com/books/the-northerner/2014/jun/06/wigan-poet-louise-fazackerley-radio-3-verb-new-voices-award Ian McMillan: http://www.uktouring.org.uk/ian-mcmillan/ The Verb: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006tnsf George Orwell: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Orwell Road to Wigan Pier: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_to_Wigan_Pier Northern Soul: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_soul Would they wear it in wigan? http://leblow.co.uk/category/would-they-wear-it-in-wigan/ Burning Eye: https://burningeyebooks.wordpress.com/ John Cooper Clarke: http://johncooperclarke.com/ Toria Garber: http://www.toriagarbutt.net/ Luke Wright: https://www.lukewright.co.uk/ Clare Ferguson-Walker: https://www.facebook.com/ClareFergusonWalker/ Kendal Calling: https://www.kendalcalling.co.uk/ Kate Tempest: https://www.katetempest.co.uk/ Sleaford Mods: https://sleaford-mods.myshopify.com/ Joy Division: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_Division Tom Waits: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Waits Bob Dylan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dylan Nico: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nico Die Antwood: https://www.dieantwoord.com/home/ The Streets: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Streets Depeche Mode: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depeche_Mode Slummy Eve: https://twitter.com/SlummyEve https://slummyeve.bandcamp.com/ Travis Alabanza: http://travisalabanza.co.uk/ Oranges are not the only fruit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oranges_Are_Not_the_Only_Fruit_(TV_serial) 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 348 we get better acquainted with Charlie. We talk about how it's hard to talk about mental health and suicide attempts, depression, suicidal ideation, accessing mental health services, the downsides of talking about mental health, disability, writing, navigating school, bullying, getting help, and so much more. It’s a serious conversation but also a thoughtful one and it doesn’t just stay in the dark places. Content Note: Bullying, suicidal thoughts/ideation, depression, mental health issues, trauma Also at the end of today’s episode, after the conversation is over, I make an announcement about the future of Getting Better Acquainted which will be going on a hiatus after episode 350. Charlie plugs: Alt-Space: https://www.facebook.com/altspacemorecambe Website: Big Charlie Poet: https://bigcharliepoet.co.uk Evidently Salford: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCA8fBN5qXcQV78R5c2a9ing I plug: My recent writing about consent and gender: https://medium.com/@goosefat101/what-about-the-women-3237e4155f2c Mansplaining Masculinity: The Book https://unbound.com/books/mansplaining-masculinity/ What About the Men? Mansplaining Masculinity: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-presents-what-about-the-men-mansplaining-maculinity http://mansplainingmasculinity.co.uk/ Down to a sunless sea: memories of my dad: https://medium.com/@goosefat101/down-to-a-sunless-sea-memories-of-my-dad-d1d2d3a61360 New piece: https://medium.com/@goosefat101/down-to-a-sunless-sea-memories-of-my-dad-604a239b7501 The Family Tree: http://thefamilytreepodcast.co.uk/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thefamilytreepodcast We mention: Stand Up Tragedy: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk/ Scott Tyrell: https://twitter.com/ScottyTyrrell Louise Fazackerley: https://www.louisethepoet.co.uk/ Sophia Walker: https://poetwalker.com/ BBC Slam: https://www.facebook.com/bbcedfringeslam/ Matt Panesh: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-346-matt-panesh Eric Morecambe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Morecambe Heysham 2: https://www.edfenergy.com/energy/power-stations/heysham-2 War of the Roses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wars_of_the_Roses Lancaster Castle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancaster_Castle Ashton Memorial: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashton_Memorial 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 347 we get better acquainted with Tanaka. We talk about making theatre that engages with and challenges harmful versions of masculinity, making work about experiences of rape and sexual assault, engaging with young people about how masculinity is created and framed by culture, the intersection of caring and gender, navigating and expressing emotions and so much more. The topics might make this sound like a heavy conversation but it's actually a fun, thoughtful and positive. Although there is a content note for sexual assult and trauma the conversation doesn't contain any descriptions of being assaulted. Tanaka plugs: Universities and companies booking the Consent Collective: https://www.consentcollective.com/ People who hear disclosures of sexual violence regularly in their daily lives getting in touch for some research he is working on. You can find his work and contact him through his website: https://tanakamhishi.co.uk/ I plug: My recent writing about consent and gender: https://medium.com/@goosefat101/what-about-the-women-3237e4155f2c Mansplaining Masculinity: The Book https://unbound.com/books/mansplaining-masculinity/ What About the Men? Mansplaining Masculinity: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-presents-what-about-the-men-mansplaining-maculinity http://mansplainingmasculinity.co.uk/ Down to a sunless sea: memories of my dad: https://medium.com/@goosefat101/down-to-a-sunless-sea-memories-of-my-dad-d1d2d3a61360 New piece: https://medium.com/@goosefat101/down-to-a-sunless-sea-memories-of-my-dad-604a239b7501 The Family Tree: http://thefamilytreepodcast.co.uk/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thefamilytreepodcast We mention: Rita: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/the-rita-episodes The Cuttings: http://thefamilytreepodcast.co.uk/cuttings/ Selected Shorts: https://www.symphonyspace.org/selected-shorts AV Club review of The Family Tree: https://aux.avclub.com/colbert-fey-adsit-louis-ck-and-more-perform-their-f-1798287901 Podcast Playlist: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastplaylist Boys Don't: https://www.stagesofhalfmoon.org.uk/productions/boys-dont-2017-2018/ This is how it happens: https://tanakamhishi.co.uk/thisishowithappens/ How to be good in bed: https://www.consentcollective.com/events-1/how-to-be-good-in-bed-4th-oct bell hooks: http://www.bellhooksinstitute.com/ The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity and Love: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Will-Change-Men-Masculinity-Love/dp/0743456084 Boy accused in America: https://hellobeautiful.com/3015537/jeremiah-henry-doesnt-forgive-cornerstore-caroline-falsely-accused-groping/ Intent isn't magic: http://www.shakesville.com/2011/12/harmful-communication-part-one-intent.html Bruce Willis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Willis Ann Shulgin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Shulgin Trauma Black Hole: https://www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/0006-3223(90)90437-7/pdf Meg John and Justin: https://megjohnandjustin.com Phillip Pullman: http://www.philip-pullman.com/ La Belle Savage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Belle_Sauvage Charmed OG: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charmed 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 346 we get better acquainted with Matt. I visit him at his new venture, Alt-Space, in Morcambe and we talk about how he washed up in this North West seaside town, how the lack of a comedy club in the town inspired him to create an arts venue, community centre and a fringe there, his own work which spans spoken word, theatre and comedy, and lots more. Matt plugs: Alt-space, 21c Yorkshire Street, Morecambe: https://www.facebook.com/altspacemorecambe/ Call out for submissions: morecambefringe@gmail.com https://www.facebook.com/altspacemorecambe/posts/2220165701541560 Alternative Space Programme: https://twitter.com/morecambespace Open Mic Fireside Tales Story Telling (2nd Thursday of the month) Fringe Friday (last Friday of the month): Next one on 30th November I plug: My recent writing about consent and gender: https://medium.com/@goosefat101/what-about-the-women-3237e4155f2c Mansplaining Masculinity: The Book https://unbound.com/books/mansplaining-masculinity/ What About the Men? Mansplaining Masculinity: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-presents-what-about-the-men-mansplaining-maculinity http://mansplainingmasculinity.co.uk/ Down to a sunless sea: memories of my dad: https://medium.com/@goosefat101/down-to-a-sunless-sea-memories-of-my-dad-d1d2d3a61360 New piece: https://medium.com/@goosefat101/down-to-a-sunless-sea-memories-of-my-dad-604a239b7501 The Family Tree: http://thefamilytreepodcast.co.uk/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thefamilytreepodcast We mention: Stand Up Tragedy: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk/ The story of Stewart Lee at SUT: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/tragic-friends-act-1 PBH Free Fringe: https://freefringe.org.uk/ Rob Auton: http://www.robauton.co.uk/ Dr John Cooper Clarke: http://johncooperclarke.com/ Morecambe Fringe Festival: http://morecambefringe.co.uk/ Fringemas: https://www.facebook.com/events/1152359181563348/ Mike Garry: https://www.mikegarry.co.uk/ The Entertainer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Entertainer_(play) John Osborne: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Osborne Look Back in Anger: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look_Back_in_Anger John's Taxis: https://www.yell.com/biz/john-s-taxi-service-lancaster-1206721/ The Alhambra: https://www.facebook.com/AlhambraandCarletonSuiteEventsandVenueHire/ PJ Proby: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._J._Proby Suburban Opera: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jflSwVn4pEs Marc Almond: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Almond TS Elliot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TS_Elliot 300 to 1 at Thespis: https://www.thespis.de/en/corin-rhys-jones/ Anthony Alderson: https://www.thestage.co.uk/features/interviews/2018/pleasance-director-anthony-alderson-interview-edinburgh-festival-fringe/ Peter Buckley Hill: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Buckley_Hill Kate Copstick: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Copstick Catherine Comerford: https://www.linkedin.com/in/catherinecomerford Flashman: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flashman_(novel) The Campaign in Afghanistan by Lt John Greenwood: https://www.amazon.com/Campaign-Afghanistan-Lt-John-Greenwood/dp/1845880048 Kipling Poem: http://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poems_youngbrit.htm Poets, Prattlers, and Pandemonialists: https://www.pandemonialists.co.uk/ Churchill: https://crimesofbritain.com/2016/09/13/the-trial-of-winston-churchill/ Heysham 2: https://www.edfenergy.com/energy/power-stations/heysham-2 Glue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glue_(novel) Steeple for the : https://www.theexchangecic.co.uk/steeple-for-the-people The Restore: https://www.therestore.uk/ Wise Up Workshops: http://www.wiseupworkshops.com/ Gentrification/Artwashing: http://theconversation.com/artwashing-gentrification-is-a-problem-but-vilifying-the-artists-involved-is-not-the-answer-83739 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 345 Pt 2 we get even better acquainted with Andrew. In part two of our two part conversation Andrew talks working in music radio, making podcasts before anyone had said the word podcast, the history of podcasting and his place within that history making the show Podcast Squared, talking about the concept of online downloadable radio with the Hanson Brothers and lots more. I talk about some of my concerns for where podcasting may be heading post Serial and Andrew suggests what has happened on YouTube may show us what will happen with podcasting. Then after an advert break we go off on a tangent about #MeToo, both within podcasting, and within wider society. Content note post advert break: sexual assault, rape, violence, harassment, abuse Part 1 of this conversation which came out last Wednesday is here: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-345-andrew-2-pt-1 This was our first GBA: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-291-andrew Andrew plugs: Keeping an eye on his website for when he releases his new podcast: https://www.andrewdjohnstone.com I plug: My recent writing around #MeToo: https://medium.com/@goosefat101/what-about-the-women-3237e4155f2c Mansplaining Masculinity: The Book https://unbound.com/books/mansplaining-masculinity/ What About the Men? Mansplaining Masculinity: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-presents-what-about-the-men-mansplaining-maculinity http://mansplainingmasculinity.co.uk/ Down to a sunless sea: memories of my dad: https://medium.com/@goosefat101/down-to-a-sunless-sea-memories-of-my-dad-d1d2d3a61360 The Family Tree: http://thefamilytreepodcast.co.uk/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thefamilytreepodcast We mention: WNUC: https://www.wnuc.org/ Hanson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanson_(band) MmmBop: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMMBop Jason Schlafstein: http://www.flyingvtheatre.com/company-members/jason-schlafstein/ Ricky Gervais: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricky_Gervais Answer Me This: https://answermethispodcast.com/ Helen Zaltzman: http://helenzaltzman.com/ Adam Corolla: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Carolla Joe Rogan: https://www.joerogan.com/ Kamail Najanjani: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumail_Nanjiani Emily V Gordon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_V._Gordon Welcome to Night Vale: http://www.welcometonightvale.com/ Serial: https://serialpodcast.org/ Kermode and Mayo: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00lvdrj Martin Zaltz Austwick: http://www.martinzaltzaustwick.com/ Song Exploder: http://songexploder.net/ I Only Listen to the Mountain Goats: http://www.nightvalepresents.com/ionlylistentothemountaingoats/ Song By Song: http://www.songbysongpodcast.com/ Who Charted! https://www.earwolf.com/show/who-charted/ Jordan Jesse Go! http://www.maximumfun.org/shows/jordan-jesse-go Totally Laime: https://www.totallylaime.com/ S-Town: https://stownpodcast.org/ Supergirl: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supergirl_(TV_series) The Flash: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flash_(2014_TV_series) Luke Cage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luke_Cage_(TV_series) Netflix: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netflix Beautiful Anonymous: https://www.earwolf.com/show/beautiful-anonymous/ WTF: http://www.wtfpod.com/ Gimlet: https://www.gimletmedia.com/ Mystery Show: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_Show Jorden B Peterson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan_Peterson PewdiePie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PewDiePie Chloe Dykstra/ Chris Hardwick: https://medium.com/@skydart/rose-colored-glasses-6be0594970ca #MeToo: https://metoomvmt.org/ Taranda Burke: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarana_Burke Aziz Ansari: https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/1/17/16897440/aziz-ansari-allegations-babe-me-too 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 345 Pt 1 we get even better acquainted with Andrew. In part one of our two part conversation Andrew gets into the history and geography of Maryland USA and we compare our experiences of living in London, moving from country to city, our accents changing and evolving, recording and having conversations and so much more. Part 2 which will come out next Wednesday will get fully into Andrew's particular position within the history of podcasting as well as lots of other things. This was our first GBA: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-291-andrew Andrew plugs (although you won't hear this till part 2 next week): Keeping an eye on his website for when he releases his new podcast: https://www.andrewdjohnstone.com I plug: Mansplaining Masculinity: The Book https://unbound.com/books/mansplaining-masculinity/ What About the Men? Mansplaining Masculinity: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-presents-what-about-the-men-mansplaining-maculinity http://mansplainingmasculinity.co.uk/ Down to a sunless sea: memories of my dad: https://medium.com/@goosefat101/down-to-a-sunless-sea-memories-of-my-dad-d1d2d3a61360 The Family Tree: http://thefamilytreepodcast.co.uk/ Apple Podcasts: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-family-tree/id1113714688 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thefamilytreepodcast We mention: Smut Slam: http://www.camerynmoore.com/smut-slam/ Smut Slam London: https://www.facebook.com/smutslamlondon/ Bechdel Test: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bechdel_test Podcast Squared: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcast_squared Good Ole Boys Like Me - Don Williams: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d32h0TuSgEY The Wire: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wire I Hate the Weekend - tacocat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhPdDvT3wHk King's College: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/index.aspx 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 344 we get even better acquainted with Rita. She talks about how her life has changed since we last recorded a conversation, how trying to work as a freelancer in the arts can affect your mental health, the relationship between trying to make things for yourself and trying to make money to pay rent and bills, her different experiences of day-jobs and so much more. Recorded just before I moved to Lancaster - partly due to the difficulty of trying to be a freelance artist in London - there is a lot of cross over between our experiences and concerns as we reflect on how stress can mean that a day job can be a better way of being able to make the work you want to make (and may be better for your mental health), trying to establish your work when you are a jack of all trades and a master of some, how many great creators don't have the admin and hustling chops needed to get their work out to people and the roles of luck, privilege, power, work ethic in trying to "make it". This was our first GBA: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-261-rita Rita plugs: Working with her on creative things: Her twitter: @RitaSuszek https://twitter.com/RitaSuszek Here email: RitaSuszek at gmail dot com Instagram: @rita_vision https://www.instagram.com/rita_vision/ The Family Tree: http://thefamilytreepodcast.co.uk/ Apple Podcasts: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-family-tree/id1113714688 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thefamilytreepodcast Rita's Episode in Season 2: http://thefamilytreepodcast.co.uk/branches/the-family-tree-season-2-episode-11-message-in-a-bottle/ I plug: Mansplaining Masculinity: The Book https://unbound.com/books/mansplaining-masculinity/ What About the Men? Mansplaining Masculinity: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-presents-what-about-the-men-mansplaining-maculinity http://mansplainingmasculinity.co.uk/ Down to a sunless sea: memories of my dad: https://medium.com/@goosefat101/down-to-a-sunless-sea-memories-of-my-dad-d1d2d3a61360 We mention: GAP Salon: https://gapsalon.wordpress.com/ Travis Alabanza: http://travisalabanza.co.uk/ Busy Being Black Episode with Travis: https://www.acast.com/busybeingblack/travisalabanza-blackbonesandcycles No Such Place As London Fuck It I'm 30 Fucking European Theatre Royal Stratford East: http://www.stratfordeast.com/ 5 Dresses I Never Wear Calm Down Dear: https://www.cptheatre.co.uk/wp_theatre_season/calm-dear-2018/ Camden People's Theatre: https://www.cptheatre.co.uk Sam Rhodes Comedy Explosion: https://www.facebook.com/SamRhodesCE/ Captain Awkward: https://captainawkward.com/ Ask A Manager: https://www.askamanager.org/ Rikki Beadle Blair: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rikki_Beadle-Blair John Russel Gordon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R._Gordon 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 343 we get better acquainted with Nik. He talks about children's entertainment, making podcasts for children, his journey "off island" from Guernsey - through lots of different jobs and parts of the country - ending up as an audio producer in London, why being a teacher wasn't for him and lots more. Nik makes Nik Lettuce Clubhouse which is a brilliant podcast for children. Before we recorded this conversation we had just recorded my guest appearance on his show which you can hear here (and most other places you can hear podcasts): https://niklettuceclubhouse.com/2018/08/19/the-dave-pickering-episode-flo-writes-a-story/ Nik plugs: Nik Lettuce Clubhouse: https://niklettuceclubhouse.com/ I plug: Mansplaining Masculinity: The Book https://unbound.com/books/mansplaining-masculinity/ What About the Men? Mansplaining Masculinity: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-presents-what-about-the-men-mansplaining-maculinity http://mansplainingmasculinity.co.uk/ Down to a sunless sea: memories of my dad: https://medium.com/@goosefat101/down-to-a-sunless-sea-memories-of-my-dad-d1d2d3a61360 The Family Tree: http://thefamilytreepodcast.co.uk/ https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-family-tree/id1113714688 We mention: Power Rangers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mighty_Morphin_Power_Rangers Pat Sharp: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Sharp Dave Benson Phillips: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Benson_Phillips Get Your Own Back: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_Your_Own_Back NPR: https://www.npr.org/ CBBC: https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc Cbeebies Radio: https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/radio Fun Kids: http://www.funkidslive.com/ Kids Listen: http://www.kidslisten.org/ YouTube Kids: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/youtube-kids/id936971630?mt=8 Club Penguin: https://www.clubpenguinisland.com/ South Park: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Park Roald Dahl: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roald_Dahl Pongwiffy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pongwiffy Prunella Scales: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prunella_Scales Ministry of Stories: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02ltw29 The Gruffelo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gruffalo Buffy the Vampire Slayer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer Listening Books: https://www.listening-books.org.uk/ Peace Out podcast: https://bedtime.fm/peaceout Jonathan Messinger: http://www.finncaspian.com/about/ https://niklettuceclubhouse.com/2018/04/19/episode-1-the-jonathan-messinger-episode/ Sophy Henn: https://www.penguin.co.uk/authors/117090/sophy-henn.html https://niklettuceclubhouse.com/2018/06/19/episode-3-the-sophy-henn-episode-grandma-crow-visits/ 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 342 we get better acquainted with Banke. In a conversation recorded in an Eat at Liverpool Street Station she talks about living in lots of different parts of the world, true storytelling as a way to overcome fear of public speaking, following in her father and grandfather's footsteps and becoming a lawyer, being a middle class black woman from Nigeria living in London and so much more. Banke plugs: Spark True Stories: http://www.stories.co.uk Spark Brixton: 3rd Monday of the month (next one on 15th October) Sanaakasuwa on Instagram: Bringing African Art to the West https://www.instagram.com/sanaakasuwa/ I plug: Mansplaining Masculinity: The Book https://unbound.com/books/mansplaining-masculinity/ What About the Men? Mansplaining Masculinity: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-presents-what-about-the-men-mansplaining-maculinity http://mansplainingmasculinity.co.uk/ Down to a sunless sea: memories of my dad: https://medium.com/@goosefat101/down-to-a-sunless-sea-memories-of-my-dad-d1d2d3a61360 The Family Tree: http://thefamilytreepodcast.co.uk/ https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-family-tree/id1113714688 We mention: Smut Slam: http://www.camerynmoore.com/smut-slam/ https://www.facebook.com/smutslamlondon/ Toast Masters: http://www.toastmasters.org.uk Warri: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warri Delta State: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_State Windrush: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windrush_scandal https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/windrush-citizens-latest-citizenship-refused-home-office-sajid-javid-a8549101.html Guardian Longread -on slavery: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/29/slavery-abolition-compensation-when-will-britain-face-up-to-its-crimes-against-humanity Oscar Wilde: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Wilde Microaggressions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microaggression Love Island: https://www.itv.com/loveisland Queer Eye: https://www.netflix.com/title/80160037 Atlanta: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta_(TV_series) 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!

This Getting Better Acquainted Extra is a talk I gave as part of the Maker Sessions at the London Podcast Festival 2018 at King’s Place. The title of the talk was: Passion Projects The blurb was: For better or worse, Dave Pickering has been working on passion projects since he can remember. In 2008, he wrote a drama series for a friend, which was nominated for a Sony Radio Award in 2009. He’s made podcasts in a variety of genres at the same time as working full time jobs and part time jobs, and for the last 4 years, around the paid freelance work that the passion projects have just about generated for him. His passion projects have won podcast awards, been recommended by the Guardian, Time Out and the Financial Times and have been featured on Radio 4, Radio 5 Live, Cbeebies Radio and Resonance FM. In this workshop, Dave will explore why you should follow your passions, why you should definitely not follow your passions, and how to find the perseverance to keep following your passions when no one else seems to be interested in them. http://www.davepickeringstoryteller.co.uk Thanks to Martin Zaltz Austwick and Zoe Jeyes for asking me to do it. My Passions: Getting Better Acquainted: http://www.gettingbetteracquainted.co.uk The Family Tree: http://thefamilytreepodcast.co.uk Mansplaining Masculinity: https://unbound.com/books/mansplaining-masculinity/ http://www.mansplainingmasculinity.co.uk/ What About the Men? Mansplaining Masculinity: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-presents-what-about-the-men-mansplaining-maculinity Spark London: http://stories.co.uk/ Stand Up Tragedy: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk Some things mentioned (tweet me at @goosefat101 if I’ve missed stuff as I’ve just moved house so haven’t given this the time I normally would): The Boy Who Hasn’t Lived:http:// www.theboywhohasntlived.com/ Answer Me This: https://answermethispodcast.com/ The Allusionist: https://www.theallusionist.org/ Helen Zaltzman: http://helenzaltzman.com Griefcast with Cariad Lloyd https://www.acast.com/griefcast Where Shall We Begin? With Esther Perel: https://www.estherperel.com/podcast WTF with Marc Maron: http:// www.wtfpod.com/ Richard Herring: http://www.richardherring.com/ FAKE FRIENDS EPISODE TWO: parasocial hel1 by StrucciMovies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLA-uFKjQ-g Four Thought: Liberating Men: Liberating Men: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07x5vsh In Pod We Trust: Welcome to Podland: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06pjdjh/episodes/player 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 341 we get better acquainted with Jonathan. Surrounded by packed boxes in an echoey flat the day before my move began we finally meet each other after years of hearing about each other. Jonathan has worked very with my partner Jen for three years as the class teacher to her teaching assistant for year 6 classes in a primary school. We talk about the way that working with Jen has changed how he thinks of teaching assistants, his journey from class clown to sports coach to learning mentor to class teacher to senior management, his interest in street fashion which has developed into the successful menswear fashion blog Street Clobber (11K followers on Instagram), developing and creating a menswear label and brand, becoming a new father, and about juggling all these parts of his life. Jonathan plugs: GFTD: https://gftdldn.com/ Streetclobber: https://streetclobber.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/streetclobber/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/streetclobberuk Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/streetclobber/ I plug: Mansplaining Masculinity: The Book https://unbound.com/books/mansplaining-masculinity/ What About the Men? Mansplaining Masculinity: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-presents-what-about-the-men-mansplaining-maculinity http://mansplainingmasculinity.co.uk/ Down to a sunless sea: memories of my dad: https://medium.com/@goosefat101/down-to-a-sunless-sea-memories-of-my-dad-d1d2d3a61360 The Family Tree: http://thefamilytreepodcast.co.uk/ https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-family-tree/id1113714688 We mention: Jen: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/the-jen-episodes Chelsea Football Club: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelsea_F.C. TenX book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/10X-Rule-Difference-Between-Success/dp/0470627603 Clobber Kid: https://www.depop.com/clobberkid Kanye West: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanye_West 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 last minute GBA Extra Dave takes you on a short tour of a house full of boxes. It's completely live and unedited due to life getting in the way a bit this week. But next week things should be back to normal! I plug: Mansplaining Masculinity: The Book https://unbound.com/books/mansplaining-masculinity/ What About the Men? Mansplaining Masculinity: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-presents-what-about-the-men-mansplaining-maculinity http://mansplainingmasculinity.co.uk/ The Family Tree: http://thefamilytreepodcast.co.uk/ https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-family-tree/id1113714688 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!

It's another episode of GBA Replayed which showcases some of the conversations recorded in the early years of Getting Better Acquainted. This is the last of a four episode GBA Replayed season replaying some of the live episodes recorded at previous Edinburgh Festival Fringes. The original shownotes: 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. Ms Samantha Mann: http://www.mssamanthamann.com/ I plug: Mansplaining Masculinity: The Book https://unbound.com/books/mansplaining-masculinity/ What About the Men? Mansplaining Masculinity: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-presents-what-about-the-men-mansplaining-maculinity http://mansplainingmasculinity.co.uk/ Down to a sunless sea: memories of my dad: https://medium.com/@goosefat101/down-to-a-sunless-sea-memories-of-my-dad-d1d2d3a61360 The Family Tree: http://thefamilytreepodcast.co.uk/ https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-family-tree/id1113714688 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!

It's another episode of GBA Replayed which showcases some of the conversations recorded in the early years of Getting Better Acquainted. This is the third of a four episode GBA Replayed season replaying some of the live episodes recorded at previous Edinburgh Festival Fringes. Find Tamer here: https://twitter.com/TamerKattan He has a comedy album called Brown Sheep here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/brown-sheep/1122642310 The original shownotes: 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. I plug: Mansplaining Masculinity: The Book https://unbound.com/books/mansplaining-masculinity/ What About the Men? Mansplaining Masculinity: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-presents-what-about-the-men-mansplaining-maculinity http://mansplainingmasculinity.co.uk/ Down to a sunless sea: memories of my dad: https://medium.com/@goosefat101/down-to-a-sunless-sea-memories-of-my-dad-d1d2d3a61360 The Family Tree: http://thefamilytreepodcast.co.uk/ https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-family-tree/id1113714688 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!

It's another episode of GBA Replayed which showcases some of the conversations recorded in the early years of Getting Better Acquainted. This is the first of a four episode GBA Replayed season replaying some of the live episodes recorded at previous Edinburgh Festival Fringes. Rosie has turned one of the shows that we talked about into a book: Is Monogamy Dead? Rethinking relationships in the 21st century: https://www.accentpress.co.uk/is-monogamy-dead And she also has a new podcast: The Breakup Monologues with Rosie Wilby: https://www.acast.com/thebreakupmonologues The original shownotes: 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. 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. I plug: Mansplaining Masculinity: The Book https://unbound.com/books/mansplaining-masculinity/ What About the Men? Mansplaining Masculinity: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-presents-what-about-the-men-mansplaining-maculinity http://mansplainingmasculinity.co.uk/ Down to a sunless sea: memories of my dad: https://medium.com/@goosefat101/down-to-a-sunless-sea-memories-of-my-dad-d1d2d3a61360 The Family Tree: http://thefamilytreepodcast.co.uk/ https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-family-tree/id1113714688 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!

It's another episode of GBA Replayed which showcases some of the conversations recorded in the early years of Getting Better Acquainted. This is the first of a four episode GBA Replayed season replaying some of the live episodes recorded at previous Edinburgh Festival Fringes. Fay has show's happening at Edinburgh 2018: The Selkie: A Song of Many Waters: https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/selkie-a-song-of-many-waters Other Voices: https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/other-voices-spoken-word-cabaret The original shownotes: 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 Cabaret. I plug: Mansplaining Masculinity: The Book https://unbound.com/books/mansplaining-masculinity/ What About the Men? Mansplaining Masculinity: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-presents-what-about-the-men-mansplaining-maculinity http://mansplainingmasculinity.co.uk/ Down to a sunless sea: memories of my dad: https://medium.com/@goosefat101/down-to-a-sunless-sea-memories-of-my-dad-d1d2d3a61360 The Family Tree: http://thefamilytreepodcast.co.uk/ https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-family-tree/id1113714688 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 340 we get better acquainted with Graham. He talks about cutting hair at Open Barbers, his new book The Shock Doctrine of the Left and developing London Radical Mindfulness. Which in some ways are all linked together in the deeper personal experiences, concepts and politics that thread the conversation together: change, complex systems, permeability, power, mental health, accessibility, theory, practice, healing, care, fluidity, left wing political tactics, and so much more. Graham plugs: The Shock Doctrine of the Left: http://politybooks.com/jones10052018/ Open Barbers: http://openbarbers.com/ London Radical Mindfulness: https://www.facebook.com/LondonRadicalMindfulness/ I plug: Mansplaining Masculinity: The Book https://unbound.com/books/mansplaining-masculinity/ What About the Men? Mansplaining Masculinity: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-presents-what-about-the-men-mansplaining-maculinity http://mansplainingmasculinity.co.uk/ Down to a sunless sea: memories of my dad: https://medium.com/@goosefat101/down-to-a-sunless-sea-memories-of-my-dad-d1d2d3a61360 The Family Tree: http://thefamilytreepodcast.co.uk/ https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-family-tree/id1113714688 We mention: @Unfortunatalie: https://twitter.com/unfortunatalie Polity Press: http://politybooks.com/ DSA: https://www.dsausa.org/ Momentum: https://peoplesmomentum.com/ The Shock Doctrine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shock_Doctrine Naomi Klein: http://www.naomiklein.org/ No Logo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Logo Radiohead: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiohead Complexity Theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complexity_theory Complex Systems Theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_systems_Theory Social Ecology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_ecology_(academic_field) Disaster Communism: https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/3461-disaster-communism Hurricane Katrina: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_katrina Kimberle Crenshaw: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimberle_Crenshaw bell hooks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_hooks Acid Communism: http://www.artnews.com/2017/10/16/acid-communism-repeater-books-to-release-anthology-of-work-by-the-late-mark-fisher/ Mark Fisher: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Fisher_(theorist) 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 339 we get even better acquainted with Lucy. She talks about the process of creating her debut novel One More Chance; the writing process, getting it published and promoting it. She also talks about how skills picked up performing in spoken word Edinburgh Fringe shows have helped with all this, her journey as a writer and novelist, her interest in stories about mermaids, and lots of other things. One More Chance is "Perfect for those who love gripping, contemporary, voice-driven drama and contemporary commercial women's fiction and suspense with an unusual edge." Lucy plugs: One More Chance:Trade Paperback/Digital/Audiobook: https://www.littlebrown.co.uk/books/detail.page?isbn=9780349700212 https://www.amazon.co.uk/One-More-Chance-Lucy-Ayrton/dp/0349700214 Dialogue Books: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/mar/18/sharmaine-lovegrove-if-you-dont-have-diverse-workforce-wont-exist-dialogue-books-interview https://www.thebookseller.com/news/lovegrove-lead-new-inclusive-lbbg-imprint-dialogue-books-551496 https://twitter.com/dialoguebooks I plug: Mansplaining Masculinity: The Book https://unbound.com/books/mansplaining-masculinity/ What About the Men? Mansplaining Masculinity: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-presents-what-about-the-men-mansplaining-maculinity http://mansplainingmasculinity.co.uk/ Down to a sunless sea: memories of my dad: https://medium.com/@goosefat101/down-to-a-sunless-sea-memories-of-my-dad-d1d2d3a61360 The Family Tree: http://thefamilytreepodcast.co.uk/ https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-family-tree/id1113714688 We mention: Stand Up Tragedy: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk/ Getting Better Acquainted: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-69-lucy (this happened 6 years ago not 4 as Lucy said, maybe more than that tbh, we were both very different people then!) Lullabies to make your children cry: http://sabotagereviews.com/2013/07/01/lullabies-to-make-your-children-cry-by-lucy-ayrton/ The Splitting of the Mermaid: http://sabotagereviews.com/2014/07/25/the-splitting-of-the-mermaid-by-lucy-ayrton/ Hannah Gadsby: https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2018/jul/16/hannah-gadsby-trauma-comedy-nanette-standup-netflix Nanette: https://www.netflix.com/title/80233611 Ben Aaronovich: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Aaronovitch Marian Keyes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_Keyes 50 Shades of Grey: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Shades_of_Grey Brothers in Blood: https://www.littlebrown.co.uk/books/detail.page?isbn=9780349700281 Dispatches - Syria's Disappeared: http://www.hddocumentary.com/channel-4-dispatches-syrias-disappeared-the-case-against-assad-2017/ We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062654618/we-crossed-a-bridge-and-it-trembled/ The Surface Breaks: a reimagining of The Little Mermaid by Louise O'Neill: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Surface-Breaks-reimagining-Little-Mermaid/dp/1407185535 The Little Mermaid: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Mermaid Hans Christian Andersen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Christian_Andersen Atargatis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atargatis The Mermaids and Mrs Hancock: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mermaid-Hancock-Imogen-Hermes-Gowar/dp/1911215728 Oxford Shrunken Heads: https://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/shrunkenheads Huntarian Museum: https://www.rcseng.ac.uk/museums-and-archives/hunterian-museum/ 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!

It's another episode of GBA Replayed which showcases some of the conversations recorded in the early years of Getting Better Acquainted. ------------ In GBA 19 and GBA 43 we get better acquainted with Louise. We compare childhoods and confidence levels and talk about the death of Louise's stepdad and how his life and death have influenced her. We move out from there into a broader conversation about the death of people you love. Which makes it all sound very heavy, but there is plenty of light and warmth in this conversation. I plug: Mansplaining Masculinity: The Book https://unbound.com/books/mansplaining-masculinity/ What About the Men? Mansplaining Masculinity: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-presents-what-about-the-men-mansplaining-maculinity http://mansplainingmasculinity.co.uk/ Down to a sunless sea: memories of my dad: https://medium.com/@goosefat101/down-to-a-sunless-sea-memories-of-my-dad-d1d2d3a61360 The Family Tree: http://thefamilytreepodcast.co.uk/ https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-family-tree/id1113714688 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!

It's another episode of GBA Replayed which showcases some of the conversations recorded in the early years of Getting Better Acquainted. ------------ In GBA 78 we get better acquainted with Louise. She talks mostly about dance. But that doesn't mean the conversation is limited. We cover the experience of dancing, following and leading, the politics of dancing, a potted history of blues music, the relationship between types of dance, the connection between social struggle and dance, the etiquette of dance, the social value and demographics of dance, and even the science of dance! I plug: Mansplaining Masculinity: The Book https://unbound.com/books/mansplaining-masculinity/ What About the Men? Mansplaining Masculinity: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-presents-what-about-the-men-mansplaining-maculinity http://mansplainingmasculinity.co.uk/ Down to a sunless sea: memories of my dad: https://medium.com/@goosefat101/down-to-a-sunless-sea-memories-of-my-dad-d1d2d3a61360 The Family Tree: http://thefamilytreepodcast.co.uk/ https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-family-tree/id1113714688 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!

It's another episode of GBA Replayed which showcases some of the conversations recorded in the early years of Getting Better Acquainted. ------------ In GBA 74 we get better acquainted with Mervyn who is still technically my Step Dad. He talks about growing up in Belfast during The Troubles, working in factories, teaching Physics in Dubai, teaching English in China, living in a tent on a roundabout and lots more. This was a complicated conversation for me, for many reasons, and it moves from personal history to social and political analysis and back. A lot of ground is covered. It is also the first podcast I've recorded while drinking Guinness. Mervyn doesn't plugs anything, but I mention a history of Genghis Kahn that I've been listening to. That history is made by the excellent podcaster Dan Carlin as part of his Hardcore History show: http://www.dancarlin.com/disp.php/hharchive/Show-43---Wrath-of-the-Khans-I/Mongols-Genghis-Chingis http://www.dancarlin.com/disp.php/hharchive/Show-44---Wrath-of-the-Khans-II/Mongols-Genghis-Chingis I plug: Mansplaining Masculinity: The Book https://unbound.com/books/mansplaining-masculinity/ What About the Men? Mansplaining Masculinity: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-presents-what-about-the-men-mansplaining-maculinity http://mansplainingmasculinity.co.uk/ Down to a sunless sea: memories of my dad: https://medium.com/@goosefat101/down-to-a-sunless-sea-memories-of-my-dad-d1d2d3a61360 The Family Tree: http://thefamilytreepodcast.co.uk/ https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-family-tree/id1113714688 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!

This Getting Better Acquainted Extra features my last true story as the host of Spark Hackney. It's really the story of how Spark and true storytelling came into my life and helped to change how I see my life. Spark True Stories: http://stories.co.uk Spark True Stories Podcast: https://www.acast.com/sparklondon TONIGHT: Awkward Age: A special night of stories: https://www.facebook.com/events/162825314413460/ Mentioned: Mansplaining Masculinity: https://unbound.com/books/mansplaining-masculinity/ http://www.mansplainingmasculinity.co.uk/ What About the Men? Mansplaining Masculinity: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-presents-what-about-the-men-mansplaining-maculinity The Family Tree: http://thefamilytreepodcast.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 338 we get better acquainted with Jessica. She talks about how she discovered reading and how she discovered audio, doing radio as a way to get into podcasting, unlearning and challenging values learnt in childhoods, the complex political situations we are experiencing and the history that has formed them, and so much more. Jessica Stone presents Dear Reader, "the no-review book show about what we read, and why it matters" which is currently in the process of transitioning from a community radio show into a podcast. Jess plugs: Dear Reader: https://www.mixcloud.com/DearReaderShow/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DearReaderShow Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DearReaderShow/ I plug: Mansplaining Masculinity: The Book https://unbound.com/books/mansplaining-masculinity/ What About the Men? Mansplaining Masculinity: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-presents-what-about-the-men-mansplaining-maculinity http://mansplainingmasculinity.co.uk/ Down to a sunless sea: memories of my dad: https://medium.com/@goosefat101/down-to-a-sunless-sea-memories-of-my-dad-d1d2d3a61360 The Family Tree: http://thefamilytreepodcast.co.uk/ https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-family-tree/id1113714688 We mention: London Podcast Festival: https://www.kingsplace.co.uk/magazine/genre/london-podcast-festival/ Podcasters' Support Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/571436979623574/ The Restart Project: https://soundcloud.com/restart-project-1/sets/documentary-podcasts Resonance FM: https://resonancefm.com/ RTE: https://www.rte.ie/ Dublin City FM: https://www.dublincityfm.ie/ One Summer: America 1927 by Bill Bryson: https://www.amazon.co.uk/One-Summer-America-1927-Bryson/dp/0552772569 Civil War: http://www.gimletmedia.com/uncivil Hamilton: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton_(musical) Dear Theodosia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKpJjdKcjeo Aaron Burr: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Burr Alexander Hamilton: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Hamilton Thomas Jefferson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson Churchill: https://crimesofbritain.com/2016/09/13/the-trial-of-winston-churchill/ Bob Jones University: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Jones_University Prosperity Gospel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosperity_theology The Bible: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_bible Monty Python: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Python On Being: https://onbeing.org/ Ruby Sales on On Being: https://onbeing.org/programs/ruby-sales-where-does-it-hurt/ The Glorious Heresies by Lisa McInerney: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Glorious-Heresies-Winner-Baileys-Fiction/dp/1444798855 The Power by Naomi Alderman: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Power-WINNER-BAILEYS-WOMENS-FICTION/dp/0670919985 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!

This Getting Better Acquainted Extra features a true story I told at Spark London. Mentioned: Mansplaining Masculinity: https://unbound.com/books/mansplaining-masculinity/ http://www.mansplainingmasculinity.co.uk/ What About the Men? Mansplaining Masculinity: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-presents-what-about-the-men-mansplaining-maculinity Spark London: http://stories.co.uk/ The Family Tree: http://thefamilytreepodcast.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 337 we get even better acquainted with The Family Tree Podcast. I'm joined by Jen Adamthwaite the co-producer/creator of GBA's weird sister podcast to talk about the whys, the hows, the highs and the lows of making the second season of this magical realist podcast drama. This episode also stars a thunderstorm! THIS EPISODE CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR THE FAMILY TREE. The GBA episode where we talked about The Family Tree Season 1: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-284-the-family-tree To listen to The Family Tree from Episode 1 and for more info about the series go over to our website: http://thefamilytreepodcast.co.uk/ iTunes link: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-family-tree/id1113714688 Now also available on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/48CpMm47ugAryHgT7Rv9Ta To sign up to our Patreon and help us to make Season 3 of The Family Tree go here: https://www.patreon.com/thefamilytreepodcast We mention: Jen Episodes: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/the-jen-episodes Dave Episodes: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/the-dave-episodes Andy Goddard: https://twitter.com/soundofagoddard Martin Zaltz Austwick: http://martinaustwick.com/ Susan Cain: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Quiet-Power-Introverts-World-Talking/dp/0141029196 I plug: Mansplaining Masculinity: The Book https://unbound.com/books/mansplaining-masculinity/ What About the Men? Mansplaining Masculinity: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-presents-what-about-the-men-mansplaining-maculinity http://mansplainingmasculinity.co.uk/ Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review? Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word!

In GBA 336 we get better acquainted with Ruby. She talks about being a sex educator, life drawing modelling, non monogamy, sexuality, pleasure, play, communication, bodies and lots more. We recorded this conversation on a sunny Sunday in a back garden in east London drinking lemon balm tea. Ruby plugs: Body Loves Sketch Club Workshop at the Togetherness Festival on June 17th: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/togetherness-london-tickets-43878927052 Body Loves Sketch Club: coming to other places such as Wilderness in the near future. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rubyrare Twitter: https://twitter.com/_rubyrare Brook: https://www.brook.org.uk/ I plug: Mansplaining Masculinity: The Book https://unbound.com/books/mansplaining-masculinity/ What About the Men? Mansplaining Masculinity: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-presents-what-about-the-men-mansplaining-maculinity http://mansplainingmasculinity.co.uk/ Down to a sunless sea: memories of my dad: https://medium.com/@goosefat101/down-to-a-sunless-sea-memories-of-my-dad-d1d2d3a61360 The Family Tree: http://thefamilytreepodcast.co.uk/ https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-family-tree/id1113714688 We mention: ASMR: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_sensory_meridian_response Lemon Balm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon_balm Smut Slam: http://www.camerynmoore.com/smut-slam/ Sh! https://www.sh-womenstore.com/ The next London Smut Slam on 25th June: Hot Mess: https://www.facebook.com/events/125620798303053/ Liquid Love: https://www.facebook.com/Liquid-Love-1762181417343126/ Magic Wand: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitachi_Magic_Wand Naked Cabaret: https://www.facebook.com/cabaretminusclothes/ Shibari: http://www.artofcontemporaryshibari.com/?page_id=29 Vulva: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulva 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 335 we get better acquainted with Sofie Hagen. She talks about how her politics and language have evolved, fat liberation and feminism, her interest in vulnerability, the relationship between comedy and audiences, and so much more. We also compare notes on turning conversations into podcasts, making art and activism for previous versions of yourself and we swap therapy stories. Content note: we touch on the topics of trauma, #MeToo, rape culture, fatphobia and structural oppression. Sofie plugs: Made of Human: https://www.madeofhumanpodcast.com/ https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/made-of-human-with-sofie-hagen/id1144479729?mt=2 Newsletter: http://www.sofiehagen.com/newsletter Twitter: https://twitter.com/SofieHagen Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sofiehagen.komiker/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/sofiehagendk I plug: Mansplaining Masculinity: The Book https://unbound.com/books/mansplaining-masculinity/ What About the Men? Mansplaining Masculinity: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-presents-what-about-the-men-mansplaining-maculinity http://mansplainingmasculinity.co.uk/ Down to a sunless sea: memories of my dad: https://medium.com/@goosefat101/down-to-a-sunless-sea-memories-of-my-dad-d1d2d3a61360 The Family Tree: http://thefamilytreepodcast.co.uk/ https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-family-tree/id1113714688 We mention: Spark: http://stories.co.uk/ Stand Up Tragedy: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk/ Mark Watson: http://www.markwatsonthecomedian.com/ Uber: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uber Bubblewrap: https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/80182704 Shimmer Shatter: http://www.sofiehagen.com/shop/ Dead Baby Frog: Look out for her third show as a video soon Harrison Ford kisses: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWoP8VpbpYI Me Too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me_Too_movement Emma Holter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Holten Pat Burtscher: https://twitter.com/patburtscher Brian O'Gorman: https://twitter.com/bog_416 Intersectional Feminism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersectionality Fat acceptance/fat liberation/fat activism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_acceptance_movement Kivan Bay / @kivabay: https://twitter.com/KivaBay Cat Pausé: https://twitter.com/FOMNZ Seeing White: http://podcast.cdsporch.org/seeing-white/ About Race with Reni Eddo Lodge: https://www.aboutracepodcast.com/ Bojack Horseman: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BoJack_Horseman 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 334 we get even better acquainted with Donna. We reflect on and update the first conversation we had for GBA which was recorded in 2012 when we both had very different understandings of ourselves and the world around us. We compare notes on therapy and talk about some of the labels we now have to describe our experiences, in Donna's case dyslexia, dyspraxia, ADHD and OCD, in my case depression and anxiety. Donna talks about her new job advocating for special needs within a school, and how advocating for other people's needs has helped her understand her own, and vice versa. We talk about the unique job that we both used to do working with the under 5's on behalf of the library service and catch up on what has been happening in the 4 years since we last saw each other. This was our first GBA: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-replayed-gba-113-donna Donna plugs: Connecting with the world. I plug: Mansplaining Masculinity: The Book https://unbound.com/books/mansplaining-masculinity/ What About the Men? Mansplaining Masculinity: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-presents-what-about-the-men-mansplaining-maculinity http://mansplainingmasculinity.co.uk/ Down to a sunless sea: memories of my dad: https://medium.com/@goosefat101/down-to-a-sunless-sea-memories-of-my-dad-d1d2d3a61360 The Family Tree: http://thefamilytreepodcast.co.uk/ https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-family-tree/id1113714688 We mention: My Guardian article: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/01/tough-choice-cut-job-enfield-children-centres-austerity Lee Valley White Water Centre: https://www.gowhitewater.co.uk/ Presents blog: http://davepickeringblog.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/a-week-of-goodbyes.html Impostor Syndrome: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome Dyspraxia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyspraxia Dyslexia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyslexia ADHD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_deficit_hyperactivity_disorder OCD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCD Makaton: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makaton Capital Ring: https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/walking/capital-ring Lea Valley Walk: https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/walking/lea-valley Nugget: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-247-nugget Forty Hall: https://www.fortyhallestate.co.uk/ Werther's original: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werther%27s_Original Walpole Park: http://www.pitzhanger.org.uk/walpole-park In between generation: Xenniels https://www.vogue.com/article/what-is-a-xennial-definition-attribution Hasan Minhaj: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasan_Minhaj The quote I was badly remembering is featured in this piece I wrote: https://medium.com/@goosefat101/down-to-a-sunless-sea-memories-of-my-dad-d772d9c01615 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 333 we get better acquainted with Emily. She talks drag metal, non monogamy, bondage, relationships, gender, queerness, femmephobia and lots more. Content note: eating disorders/disordered eating, mental health issues, anxiety, depression, suicidal ideation, self harm, sex/bdsm/kink/non monogamy, bullying Emily plugs: Miss Emily Emphasis - facebook https://www.facebook.com/EmilySnee/ / insta http://www.pictame.com/user/msemilysnee/178643655 / twitter https://twitter.com/emilysnee Femphasis: https://www.femphasis.com/ The Facinators: https://www.facebook.com/fascinatorsbandUK/ https://www.thefascinatrix.rocks/ https://soundcloud.com/thefascinatorsband https://fascinatorsuk.bandcamp.com/releases I plug: Mansplaining Masculinity: The Book https://unbound.com/books/mansplaining-masculinity/ What About the Men? Mansplaining Masculinity: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-presents-what-about-the-men-mansplaining-maculinity http://mansplainingmasculinity.co.uk/ Down to a sunless sea: memories of my dad: https://medium.com/@goosefat101/down-to-a-sunless-sea-memories-of-my-dad-d1d2d3a61360 The Family Tree: http://thefamilytreepodcast.co.uk/ https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-family-tree/id1113714688 We mention: Stand Up Tragedy: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk/ Emily at SUT: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/tragic-horror-act-2 Play Party: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Play_party_(BDSM) Munch: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munch_(BDSM) Shibari Rope: http://www.artofcontemporaryshibari.com/?page_id=29 The Ethical Slut: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ethical_Slut London Alternative Market: http://londonalternativemarket.com/ Fetlife: https://fetlife.com/ Relationship Anarchy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relationship_anarchy Primary Partner: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_and_secondary_(polyamory) Suicidal Ideation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicidal_ideation Clear Leadership: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Clear-Leadership-Sustaining-Collaboration-Partnership/dp/089106382X Smut Slam: http://www.camerynmoore.com/smut-slam/ Cameryn Moore: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-215-cameryn-moore FemDom: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Femdom&redirect=no Switch: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top,_bottom,_switch_(BDSM) Femmephobia: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/femmephobia Gender Dysphoria: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/gender-dysphoria/ Strapless Strapon: https://www.lovehoney.co.uk/product.cfm?p=35130 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 332 we get better acquainted with Nav. She talks about telling true stories, why she has decommissioned herself as a pharmacist, the history and cultural context of (western) medicine, how her relationship to race and migration has changed and so much more. Navreet plugs: Storytelling Sessions at Wellcome: 23rd May: Teeth: https://wellcomecollection.org/events/WtXbPiUAAA-m-5V7 https://wellcomecollection.org/exhibitions/WgV_ACUAAIu2P_ZM I plug: Mansplaining Masculinity: The Book https://unbound.com/books/mansplaining-masculinity/ What About the Men? Mansplaining Masculinity: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-presents-what-about-the-men-mansplaining-maculinity http://mansplainingmasculinity.co.uk/ Down to a sunless sea: memories of my dad: https://medium.com/@goosefat101/down-to-a-sunless-sea-memories-of-my-dad-d1d2d3a61360 The Family Tree: http://thefamilytreepodcast.co.uk/ https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-family-tree/id1113714688 We mention: Spark: http://stories.co.uk/ Nav's Telephone Story at Spark: https://www.acast.com/sparklondon/b500071f-490c-47bd-aa81-a29eb0a3feb4 Nav's phonebox story at the Moth: https://themoth.org/stories/its-a-box Me Too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me_Too_movement Tarana Burke: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarana_Burke Gal-dem and Spark: https://www.acast.com/sparklondon/special-nostalgia-maiya-priyal https://www.acast.com/sparklondon/special-nostalgia-sasha-lilith Cameryn Moore: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-215-cameryn-moore Phone Whore: http://www.camerynmoore.com/what-people-are-saying-about-phone-whore/ My Spark Story: https://www.acast.com/sparklondon/ff1da899-bf3e-481c-8f20-8d84d1e99e9b Royal Homeopathic Hospital: https://www.uclh.nhs.uk/OurServices/OurHospitals/RLHIM/Pages/Home.aspx Meisner technique: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meisner_technique Mulicultural Minds: https://www.acast.com/sparklondon/multiculturalminds-truestorieslive Wellcome Collection: https://wellcomecollection.org/ Partition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_of_India Churchill: https://crimesofbritain.com/2016/09/13/the-trial-of-winston-churchill/ 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 331 we get better acquainted with Hel Robin Gurney. They talk writing, fairytales, mythology, folklore, poetry, stories, the process of creating and developing their show The Sleeping Princess and so much more. Robin plugs: 5th May Poetry Society 2pm: Fairytale Double Bill: https://www.facebook.com/events/615314005470398/ The Sleeping Princess at Manchester Fringe, Reading Fringe, Camden Fringe: https://helgurney.wordpress.com/ April 28th Poetry Cafe: Wilderness: New Queer Writing: https://www.facebook.com/events/1521948347932126/ The Emergence of Trans: https://transseminars.com/ I plug: Mansplaining Masculinity: The Book https://unbound.com/books/mansplaining-masculinity/ What About the Men? Mansplaining Masculinity: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-presents-what-about-the-men-mansplaining-maculinity http://mansplainingmasculinity.co.uk/ Down to a sunless sea: memories of my dad: https://medium.com/@goosefat101/down-to-a-sunless-sea-memories-of-my-dad-d1d2d3a61360 The Family Tree: http://thefamilytreepodcast.co.uk/ https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-family-tree/id1113714688 We mention: Howl of the Bantee: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-presents-howl-of-the-bantee AJ: https://twitter.com/anathemajane The Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Larousse-Encyclopedia-Mythology-Robert-Graves/dp/185152519X National Novel Writing Month: https://nanowrimo.org/ Buffy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer Tempest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tempest_(play) Miranda: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miranda_(The_Tempest) Caliban: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caliban Sycorax: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sycorax Prospero: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prospero Shakespeare: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare Kate Tempest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Tempest James Webster: https://websterpoet.wordpress.com/ Hackney Hammer and Tongue: http://www.hammerandtongue.com/hackney/ Genesis Poetry: https://genesiscinema.co.uk/GenesisCinema.dll/WhatsOn?Film=204877 Midas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midas Medusa: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medusa Hollie McNish: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollie_McNish Andrew Lang's Fairy Books: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Lang%27s_Fairy_Books Tolkien: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolkien Lord of the Rings: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings Eowyn: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89owyn Aragorn: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aragorn Faramir: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faramir The Silmarillion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Silmarillion History of Middle Earth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_History_of_Middle-earth Galadriel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galadriel Christopher Tolkien: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Tolkien The Arda Reconstructed by Douglas Kane: https://www.amazon.com/Arda-Reconstructed-Creation-Published-Silmarillion/dp/1611460891 Briar Rose: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeping_Beauty The Trials and Tribulations of Little Red Riding Hood by Jack Zipes: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Trials-Tribulations-Little-Riding-Hood/dp/0415908353 Once Upon A Time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_Upon_a_Time_(TV_series) Poetry School: https://poetryschool.com/interviews/meet-digital-poet-residence-interview-jay-bernard/ Jay Bernard: http://jaybernard.co.uk/ Ted Hughes Award: http://poetrysociety.org.uk/competitions/ted-hughes-award/ 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 330 we get better acquainted with Miranda. We talk writing, working, true storytelling and lots more. She's been running There Goes The Neighborhood - a night showcasing established and upcoming writing - for a few years and is currently in the middle of putting out the podcast project, 100 Voices For 100 Years, which is releasing a piece of writing from a woman every day for 100 days to commemorate the centenary of (some) women getting the right to vote. Miranda plugs: There Goes The Neighborhood: https://www.facebook.com/theregoestheneighbourhoodclapton/ 100 Words For 100 Days: http://www.100voicesfor100years.com/ Centenary of (some) women's suffrage: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=centenary+of+women%27s+suffrage&rlz=1C1CHFX_en-GBGB456GB456&oq=Centenary+of&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0l5.5608j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 I plug: Mansplaining Masculinity: The Book https://unbound.com/books/mansplaining-masculinity/ What About the Men? Mansplaining Masculinity: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-presents-what-about-the-men-mansplaining-maculinity http://mansplainingmasculinity.co.uk/ Down to a sunless sea: memories of my dad: https://medium.com/@goosefat101/down-to-a-sunless-sea-memories-of-my-dad-d1d2d3a61360 The Family Tree: http://thefamilytreepodcast.co.uk/ https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-family-tree/id1113714688 We mention: Spark London: http://stories.co.uk/ Picturehouse campaign: https://www.facebook.com/HackneyLivingWage/ Spark London Open Heart Special: https://www.acast.com/sparklondon/84111e58-e95e-4abe-89a9-3c3e645df6ab Miranda's Spark Story: https://www.acast.com/sparklondon/5babb0c8-01f2-4a66-85fb-e84872aeca19 To The Heart of It: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-53-to-the-heart-of-it ER: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ER_(TV_series) Birkbeck: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/ The Office: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Office_(UK_TV_series) Then We Came To The End: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Then_We_Came_to_the_End Flash Fiction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_fiction JD Salinger: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JD_Salinger Catherine Mansfield: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Mansfield Bishopsgate Institute: http://www.bishopsgate.org.uk/ Stand Up Tragedy: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk/ Nick Cave: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Cave Cameryn Moore: http://www.camerynmoore.com/ Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review? Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word!

In GBA 329 we get better acquainted with Christian. We compare notes on loving, playing, writing and learning music, being in bands, teaching young people and so much more. Christian plugs: The Music Lesson by Victor Wooten: http://themusiclesson.com/ Booking his Jazz band for gigs Partnership and collaboration I plug: Mansplaining Masculinity: The Book https://unbound.com/books/mansplaining-masculinity/ What About the Men? Mansplaining Masculinity: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-presents-what-about-the-men-mansplaining-maculinity http://mansplainingmasculinity.co.uk/ Down to a sunless sea: memories of my dad: https://medium.com/@goosefat101/down-to-a-sunless-sea-memories-of-my-dad-d1d2d3a61360 The Family Tree: http://thefamilytreepodcast.co.uk/ https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-family-tree/id1113714688 We mention: Apples for Everyone: https://soundcloud.com/applesforeveryone UK States: https://soundcloud.com/homemade-jam-1 George: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-6-george Stand Up Tragedy: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk/ Enterprise Studios Crosby, Stills and Nash: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crosby,_Stills,_Nash_%26_Young John Martyn: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Martyn My Bloody Valentine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Bloody_Valentine_(band) The Fall: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fall_(band) Simon and Garfunkle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_and_Garfunkle Sound on Sound: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_on_Sound Miles Davis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Davis Freddie Hubbard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Hubbard The Smiths: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Smiths Anechoic Chamber: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anechoic_chamber Bosa Nova: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bossa_nova Tom Jobim: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant%C3%B4nio_Carlos_Jobim Girl from Ipinepa: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girl_From_Ipanema Shadow of your smile: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shadow_of_Your_Smile Frank Sinartra: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Sinatra Cajón: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caj%C3%B3n Morrissey: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morrissey Phil Collins: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Collins Foo Fighters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo_Fighters Ian Curtis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Curtis Darren Hayman: https://darrenhayman.bandcamp.com/ Hefner: http://hefnet.com/ Tom Waits: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Waits Radiohead: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiohead Pulp: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulp_(band) Pavement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavement_(band) Stephen_Malkmus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Malkmus Public Image Limited: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Image_Limited Ornette Coleman: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornette_Coleman Beatles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatles Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rite_of_Spring 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 328 we get better acquainted with Virginie. She talks about Soirée Pompette - the french language cabaret night she runs and hosts, Moon Lane Ink - a not-for-profit Community Interest Company dedicated to equality of access and equality of representation in children's books and equality of roles within the publishing industry, her French and Irish heritage and her British identity, her career of combining French and Drama and lots more! Virginie plugs: Moon Lane Ink: https://www.moonlaneink.co.uk/ Moon Lane Books: 300 Stanstead Road, London SE23 1DE Soirée Pompette: http://soireepompette.blogspot.co.uk/ Next event on 19th April: https://www.facebook.com/events/416752665443117/ I plug: Mansplaining Masculinity: The Book https://unbound.com/books/mansplaining-masculinity/ What About the Men? Mansplaining Masculinity: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-presents-what-about-the-men-mansplaining-maculinity http://mansplainingmasculinity.co.uk/ Down to a sunless sea: memories of my dad: https://medium.com/@goosefat101/down-to-a-sunless-sea-memories-of-my-dad-d1d2d3a61360 The Family Tree: http://thefamilytreepodcast.co.uk/ https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-family-tree/id1113714688 We mention: Matt: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-300-Matt Louise: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/the-louise-episodes-1 Ray Mears: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Mears Exmouth Market: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exmouth_Market Big Wheel Theatre: http://bigwheel.org.uk/ Spark True Stories: http://stories.co.uk/ Only Fools and Horses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Only_Fools_and_Horses Del Boy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Del_Boy Blythe Hill Tavern: http://www.blythehilltavern.org.uk/blythe-hill-tavern/ Buffy The Vampire Slayer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer Soho House: https://www.sohohouse.com/ Allo Allo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27Allo_%27Allo! Macron: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuel_Macron Jane the Virgin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_the_Virgin Alan Partridge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Partridge 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 I share two stories that I told/retold recently at Spark London true storytelling nights. I plug: Mansplaining Masculinity: The Book https://unbound.com/books/mansplaining-masculinity/ What About the Men? Mansplaining Masculinity: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-presents-what-about-the-men-mansplaining-maculinity http://mansplainingmasculinity.co.uk/ Spark London: http://stories.co.uk/ Next Hackney night 9th April: https://www.facebook.com/events/150341378983786/ Down to a sunless sea: memories of my dad: https://medium.com/@goosefat101/down-to-a-sunless-sea-memories-of-my-dad-d1d2d3a61360 The Family Tree: http://thefamilytreepodcast.co.uk/ https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-family-tree/id1113714688 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!

It's another episode of GBA Replayed which showcases some of the conversations recorded in the early years of Getting Better Acquainted. ---------------- In GBA 113 we get better acquainted with Donna. She talks about fitting in, sticking out, dressing up, social awkwardness, creating your own reality, dancing, working with children and more. Donna is a very unique person and we met in her very unique office filled with the interesting bric a brac that she uses to entertain children. She discusses the time when she would only wear green clothes and talks about spending her free time inside her inner world. Donna plugs: "The idea that other things do exist outside of normality... You can just say, 'that doesn't exist in my world, so I'll just tunnel vision my way to the end. I can see the end, so I'll head for the end and then die.'" I plug: Mansplaining Masculinity: The Book https://unbound.com/books/mansplaining-masculinity/ What About the Men? Mansplaining Masculinity: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-presents-what-about-the-men-mansplaining-maculinity http://mansplainingmasculinity.co.uk/ Down to a sunless sea: memories of my dad: https://medium.com/@goosefat101/down-to-a-sunless-sea-memories-of-my-dad-d1d2d3a61360 The Family Tree: http://thefamilytreepodcast.co.uk/ https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-family-tree/id1113714688 We mention: S Club Seven: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S_Club Makaton: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makaton Peter Pan Syndrome: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/05/070501112023.htm Frankie Boyle - work, consume, die: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Work-Consume-Die-Frankie-Boyle/dp/0007426798 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 327 we get better acquainted with Gabriel Ebulue from the 3 Track Podcast. We talk about his obsession/passion for music and comedy, making "a podcast for music nerds, by a music nerd", what the experience of doing the Edinburgh festival can give to you, struggling to fit in with different musical subgroups, why Morrissey is now cancelled, and lots more. Gabriel plugs: The 3 Track Podcast: Libsyn: http://threetrackpodcast.libsyn.com/ iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-three-track-podcast/id1225035251?mt=2 Twitter: https://twitter.com/3trackpodcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/threetrackpodcast/ I plug: Mansplaining Masculinity: The Book https://unbound.com/books/mansplaining-masculinity/ What About the Men? Mansplaining Masculinity: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-presents-what-about-the-men-mansplaining-maculinity http://mansplainingmasculinity.co.uk/ Down to a sunless sea: memories of my dad: https://medium.com/@goosefat101/down-to-a-sunless-sea-memories-of-my-dad-d1d2d3a61360 The Family Tree: http://thefamilytreepodcast.co.uk/ https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-family-tree/id1113714688 We mention: Stand Up Tragedy: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk/ John Kearns: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kearns_(comedian) Ed Night: https://www.ednight.co.uk/comedy Sam Golin: https://twitter.com/samgolin Chris Rock: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Rock Michael Barrymore: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Barrymore Bill Hicks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Hicks Jerry Seinfeld: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Seinfeld Lion's Den Comedy Club: http://www.lionsdencomedy.co.uk/ Sun Ra: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Ra Charles Mingus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Mingus Miles Davis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Davis John Coltrane: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Coltrane Fela Kuti: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fela_Kuti The Smiths: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Smiths The Stooges: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stooges Raw Power: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raw_Power_(band) David Hepworth - 1971: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/may/12/1971-never-a-dull-moment-rocks-golden-year-david-hepworth-review Jimmi Hendrix: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimi_Hendrix Bad Brains: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Brains SST Records: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SST_Records Black Flag: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Flag_(band) Factory Records: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factory_Records Husker Do: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%BCsker_D%C3%BC Minutemen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minutemen_(band) Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/user/3tpod/playlist/3Xw1wvaY0lFp8XngQErnaK 8 Miles High: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBKyBlJ_JN8 3 Track: Tony Law episode: http://threetrackpodcast.libsyn.com/episode-12-tony-law Morrissey: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morrissey Spanish - CNT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederaci%C3%B3n_Nacional_del_Trabajo Noam Chomsky: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky Zapastistas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zapatista_Army_of_National_Liberation Black Panthers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Panther_Party Mitch Headberg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch_Hedberg Stewart Lee: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart_Lee Jamali Maddox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamali_Maddix 3 Track: Alex Petropoulos episode: http://threetrackpodcast.libsyn.com/episode-23-alex-petropoulos 3 Track: Jeffrey Boakye episode: http://threetrackpodcast.libsyn.com/episode-24-jeffrey-boakye Jeffrey Boakye - Hold Tight: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hold-Tight-Masculinity-Millennials-Meaning/dp/1910312258 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!

Podcast Show Notes: Episode Intro: Hello everyone and welcome to the 21th episode. I am your host Tobi. This week is a special week, as I interview Dave. The interview took place on the same day as him interviewing me for his podcast, Getting Better Acquainted. He’s already publish his podcast and you’ll  find the link here. This week in the first part of his interview I’ll be speaking to him about everything he said in his introduction, including, his show, that’s also been turned into a podcast, and that’s now been turned into a book called, What about the Men: Mansplaining Masculinity. There will be a link to that podcast on the show notes here. There will also be a link to Unbound, the crowd funding publishing firm, through which Dave has brought out the book. We also talk about political oppression, in terms of gender, race and sexuality. We go on to talk about his new education through social media, where he follows people that are outside his cis, heterosexual, white middle class privilege that he confessed himself. Through following these people he was introduced to such writers as bell hooks, and Elizabeth Fiorenza. She came up with the term Kyriarchy, that’s a collective term for systems of oppression. So, please enjoy Outro: What a note to finish on. That all seems very current at the moment, particularly with films like Black Panther, and also Jordan Peele’s film, Get Out, and the Oscar Nominations that they’ve got. But also other issues about race and gender. It’s very prescient I think. So next week’s episode will be part two of Dave’s interview, where we talk further about systems of oppression, and we go on to talk about his father, and his other projects. So see you next week Please check out Dave's other projects on: twitter.com/GBApodcast thefamilytreepodcast.co.uk twitter.com/familytreepod twitter.com/sparkLDN stories.co.uk/ Please like, comment, subscribe and share from my:iTunestwitter.com/artsperformedyoutubeinstagram.com/artsperformed/https://artsperformed.wordpress.comfacebook.com/artsperformed/

In GBA 326 we get better acquainted with Tobi from the Arts Performed Podcast. We'd already warmed up by the time we recorded this conversation with me recording an interview for his podcast and so we get into things pretty quickly. Tobi talks cultural studies, artist and resistance, navigating the world with ADHD and dyslexia, how his relationship with being the child of a Guyanese migrant has changed over his life, systems of oppression, what he has learnt from people he has interviewed on his podcast and so much more. Content note: racism, slavery, colonialism Tobi plugs: Podbean: https://artsperformedpodcast.podbean.com YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrzaX0VXlgfOPwj7T4z0EyQ iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/arts-performed-podcast/id1312992320?mt=2 Wordpress: https://artsperformed.wordpress.com Facebook: https://en-gb.facebook.com/artsperformed/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/artsperformed I plug: Mansplaining Masculinity: The Book https://unbound.com/books/mansplaining-masculinity/ What About the Men? Mansplaining Masculinity: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-presents-what-about-the-men-mansplaining-maculinity http://mansplainingmasculinity.co.uk/ Down to a sunless sea: memories of my dad: https://medium.com/@goosefat101/down-to-a-sunless-sea-memories-of-my-dad-d1d2d3a61360 The Family Tree: http://thefamilytreepodcast.co.uk/ https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-family-tree/id1113714688 We mention: Walter Benjamin: Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Work_of_Art_in_the_Age_of_Mechanical_Reproduction Tommy Poppers: https://www.tommypoppers.com/ Tommy Poppers on Arts Performed Podcast: http://artsperformedpodcast.podbean.com/e/art-and-communication-tommy-poppers/ David Hoyle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hoyle_(performance_artist) Genesis P-Orridge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genesis_P-Orridge Throbbing Gristle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throbbing_Gristle Phychic TV: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychic_TV Podcast Support Group Irlen Syndrome: https://irlen.com/what-is-irlen-syndrome/ Extrovert Supremacy: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-290-hamja-ahsan https://www.bookworks.org.uk/node/1917 Mehrdad Seyf and Richard Dedomenicion on Arts Performed Podcast: https://artsperformedpodcast.podbean.com/e/once-iran-to-you-2-richard-dedomenici-and-mehrdad-seyf/ Spark London: http://stories.co.uk/ Stand Up Tragedy: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk/ Daniil Ivanovich Kharms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniil_Ivanovich_Kharms The Red Haired Man: https://allpoetry.com/The-Red-Haired-Man Spoken Word London at Vogue Fabrics: https://openmicfinder.com/UK/England/Greater-London/Dalston/Spoken-Word-London-at-Vogue-Fabrics-66-Stoke-Newington-Road-N16-7XB Travis Alabanza: http://travisalabanza.co.uk/ Jorge Ben Jor - Zumbi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFoOgKONIHY Soulfly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soulfly Sepulchura: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sepultura Roots Boody Roots: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roots_Bloody_Roots Soulfly: Tribe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXMdyCK0M9Q Quilombo (A historia do Quilombo dos Palmares): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-z0M-vcCB4 Tanya Tagaq - Retribution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNYTA6SV6tM Joseph Conrad: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Conrad Heart of Darkness: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_of_Darkness Noh Theatre: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noh_Theatre Churchill: https://crimesofbritain.com/2016/09/13/the-trial-of-winston-churchill/ Leopold II: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_II_of_Belgium Just May Does Geri: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1329142532/just-may-does-geri 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 325 we get better acquainted with Giselle. She talks about making things with your body and with your voice, creation through association, travelling between cultures, the connections and intersections between art, ritual and myth and so much more. We also spend quite a lot of time talking about the process behind and around her recent appearance as Violita on the magical realist podcast drama The Family Tree. http://thefamilytreepodcast.co.uk/branches/the-family-tree-season-2-episode-9-nine-lives/ Giselle plugs: The Family Tree: http://thefamilytreepodcast.co.uk/ https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-family-tree/id1113714688 I plug: Mansplaining Masculinity: The Book https://unbound.com/books/mansplaining-masculinity/ What About the Men? Mansplaining Masculinity: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-presents-what-about-the-men-mansplaining-maculinity http://mansplainingmasculinity.co.uk/ Down to a sunless sea: memories of my dad: https://medium.com/@goosefat101/down-to-a-sunless-sea-memories-of-my-dad-d1d2d3a61360 We mention: Stratford Circus Arts Centre: https://stratford-circus.com/ Matt Hill: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-300-matt Marcus Lyon: http://www.marcuslyon.com/home/ Trinity Laban: https://www.trinitylaban.ac.uk/ Andy Warhol: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Warhol Picasso: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Picasso Stanislavsky: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislavsky Candomblé: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candombl%C3%A9 Collective Unconscious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_unconscious Contact Improv: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact_improvisation Pinter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinter Albee: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Albee Greek Tragedies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_tragedy The Birthday Party: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birthday_Party_(play) Oedipus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oedipus_Rex 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!

Pushed for time again this week so instead of a full conversation this week's episode is a GBA Extra combining my British Podcast Award submission and a true story I told at the most recent Spark London. The BPA submission features clips from these episodes of GBA: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-302-nicole-henriksen https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-301-nira https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-312-pandora-blake Spark London can be found here: http://stories.co.uk/ This is the next open mic at hackney: https://www.facebook.com/events/168730357188077/ I plug: Mansplaining Masculinity: The Book https://unbound.com/books/mansplaining-masculinity/ What About the Men? Mansplaining Masculinity: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-presents-what-about-the-men-mansplaining-maculinity http://mansplainingmasculinity.co.uk/ The Family Tree: http://thefamilytreepodcast.co.uk/ Down to a sunless sea: memories of my dad: https://medium.com/@goosefat101/down-to-a-sunless-sea-memories-of-my-dad-d1d2d3a61360 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 324 we get better acquainted with Edd Hedges. He talks about stand up comedy and storytelling, accepting that you are going to make mistakes and get things wrong, different types of silence and the appeal of going off into the woods to write sad songs. We talk about and around his true story show Wonderland, compare notes on doing storytelling shows about toxic masculinity (and the life experiences that inspired them) and mention Sofie Hagen a lot. Content note: bullying, domestic violence, violence in general, body issues Edd plugs: Wonderland: 31st April 1st, 2nd May at Soho Theatre https://sohotheatre.com/shows/edd-hedges-wonderland/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/edd_hedges Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/eddhedges Tour Dates: http://www.chortle.co.uk/comics/e/34074/edd_hedges Look out for Wonderland touring, for Edd doing stand-up and previews of For Eva, Forever Ago I plug: Mansplaining Masculinity: The Book https://unbound.com/books/mansplaining-masculinity/ What About the Men? Mansplaining Masculinity: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-presents-what-about-the-men-mansplaining-maculinity http://mansplainingmasculinity.co.uk/ The Family Tree: http://thefamilytreepodcast.co.uk/ We mention: The Bill Murry: http://www.angelcomedy.co.uk/bill-murray/ Angel Comedy Club: http://www.angelcomedy.co.uk NextUp: http://www.nextupcomedy.com/ The Camden Head: http://www.angelcomedy.co.uk/camden-head/ Larry Dean: http://www.larrydeancomedy.com/ ASMR: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_sensory_meridian_response Sofie Hagen: http://www.sofiehagen.com/ Spark London: http://stories.co.uk/ Pheonix Artists Club: http://phoenixartistclub.com/ Sofie's podcast: https://www.madeofhumanpodcast.com Mike Birbiglia: http://birbigs.com/ Stand Up Tragedy: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk/ Sarah Kendall: https://twitter.com/sarah_kendall Toxic Masculinity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxic_masculinity #MeToo: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/15/me-too-founder-tarana-burke-women-sexual-assault Bon Iver: https://boniver.org/ For Emma, Forever Ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_Emma,_Forever_Ago Tim Minchin: http://www.timminchin.com/ Rock and Roll Nerd: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29F6nneoH0M Intersectionality: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersectionality Caitlyn Jenner: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caitlyn_Jenner 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 323 we get better acquainted with Carys. She talks about music: her first memories and musical influences, her dads cassette tapes and guitar playing, studying music history and theory at Oxford, DJing dance music, managing a youth orchestra and supporting music in education work. We also cover loving/working in the arts more generally, navigating sexism and racism, how making big choices about education at a young age can backfire and renouncing Buddhism. Carys plugs: Mattana: https://www.facebook.com/carysmattana/ Carys Mattana: https://soundcloud.com/carysmattana Sisu - DJ Collective: https://www.facebook.com/sisuldn/ I plug: Cameryn Moore: http://www.camerynmoore.com https://www.facebook.com/camerynmoore Smut Slam: http://www.camerynmoore.com/smut-slam/ Smut Slam Berlin: https://www.facebook.com/SmutSlamBerlin/ https://www.facebook.com/events/1627534160673728/ What About the Men? Mansplaining Masculinity: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-presents-what-about-the-men-mansplaining-maculinity http://mansplainingmasculinity.co.uk/ Down to a sunless sea: memories of my dad: https://medium.com/@goosefat101/down-to-a-sunless-sea-memories-of-my-dad-d1d2d3a61360 The Family Tree: http://thefamilytreepodcast.co.uk/ We mention: Phone Whore: http://www.camerynmoore.com/category/phone-whore-blog/ The Sound of Music: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sound_of_Music Oliver: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver! Tosca: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tosca Royal Opera House: http://www.roh.org.uk/ Peter and the Wolf: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_and_the_Wolf Russell Group: http://russellgroup.ac.uk/ (Correction: Lancaster is an elite university but not actually part of the Russell Group) Oxford Union: https://www.oxford-union.org/ 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 I share two stories that I told/retold recently at Spark London true storytelling nights. I mention: Dead Poets Society: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Poets_Society Spartacus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spartacus_(film) If it was a 'tough choice' to cut my job, then come and tell the children why: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/01/tough-choice-cut-job-enfield-children-centres-austerity I plug: What About the Men? Mansplaining Masculinity: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-presents-what-about-the-men-mansplaining-maculinity http://mansplainingmasculinity.co.uk/ Spark London: http://stories.co.uk/ Next Hackney night 12th February: https://www.facebook.com/events/139918386636811/ The Family Tree: http://thefamilytreepodcast.co.uk/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thefamilytreepodcast Down to a sunless sea: memories of my dad: https://medium.com/@goosefat101/down-to-a-sunless-sea-memories-of-my-dad-d1d2d3a61360 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 322 we get better acquainted with Oliver. He talks about the cathartic experience of failure, sounds and shows that influenced and inspired him and making the new podcast Kane and Feels: Paranormal Investigators. We compare our experiences of making audio and making audio drama, discuss the landscapes of podcasting and radio, and reflect on both the isolation and the community that can be found from messing around with sound. Oliver plugs: Kane and Feels: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/kane-and-feels-paranormal-investigators/id1291486608?mt=2 https://twitter.com/kaneandfeels A Poem and Mistake: https://poemistake.bandcamp.com/ https://twitter.com/poemistake https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL-9IEGkN9R6RUjJprIJg7g I plug: What About the Men? Mansplaining Masculinity: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-presents-what-about-the-men-mansplaining-maculinity http://mansplainingmasculinity.co.uk/ Down to a sunless sea: memories of my dad: https://medium.com/@goosefat101/down-to-a-sunless-sea-memories-of-my-dad-d1d2d3a61360 The Family Tree: http://thefamilytreepodcast.co.uk/ We mention: Kobi: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-293-kobi Podcasters Support Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/571436979623574/ Camilla Byk: https://twitter.com/camilla_byk Podium: http://podium.me/ Matt Hill: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-300-Matt Gorillaz: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorillaz Hellboy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellboy Hellboy folklorist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Corrigan Dirk Maggs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirk_Maggs Radio Production @ Bournemouth: https://www1.bournemouth.ac.uk/study/courses/ma-radio-production Hitchikers Guide To The Galaxy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy Douglas Adams: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Adams Terminator 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminator_2:_Judgment_Day Clerks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clerks The Social Network: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Social_Network Aaron Sorkin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Sorkin What-a-Mess: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What-a-Mess Netflix: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netflix Thor Ragnarok: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor:_Ragnarok What We Do In The Shadows: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_We_Do_in_the_Shadows Radio 4: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Radio_4 Punk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punk Lead Belly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_Belly Studs Terkell: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studs_Terkel Charles Parker: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Parker_(producer) Ewan McColl: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ewan_MacColl Peggy Seeger: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peggy_Seeger Radio Ballads: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio-ballad The Ballad of John Axton: https://www.mixcloud.com/daijones77128/radio-the-ballad-of-john-axon-a-radio-ballad-by-ewan-maccoll-peggy-seeger-and-charles-parker/ Manchester Rambler: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YENYMwuCG2Y Dirty Old Town: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Wj7xZf8xm8 The Pogues: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pogues Auteur: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auteur Welcome To Nightvale: http://www.welcometonightvale.com/ Numbers: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/numbers-an-audio-drama/id1290324649?mt=2 Family Guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Guy South Park: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Park Damon Albarn: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damon_Albarn 99% Invisible: https://99percentinvisible.org/ Unforgiven: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unforgiven A Fistfull of Dollars: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fistful_of_Dollars Jungian: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytical_psychology 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 321 we get better acquainted with Helen. She talks about the worst job she ever had, training to be a teacher, art, finding a new career path after leaving teaching, photography, her podcast Flixwatcher that reviews the films available on Netflix , how she came to love film, hating Adam Sandler films and more. We also talk about watching and loving films in the context of #MeToo. The conversation was recording while swinging on a swing in the Tate Modern's Turbine Hall. Content Note: Bullying, Toxic Work Environments, Domestic Violence, #MeToo. Helen plugs: Flixwatcher: http://flixwatcher.tv I plug: What About the Men? Mansplaining Masculinity: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-presents-what-about-the-men-mansplaining-maculinity http://mansplainingmasculinity.co.uk/ Down to a sunless sea: memories of my dad: https://medium.com/@goosefat101/down-to-a-sunless-sea-memories-of-my-dad-d1d2d3a61360 The Family Tree: http://thefamilytreepodcast.co.uk/ We mention: Tate Modern: http://www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-modern Turbine Hall: http://www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-modern/turbine-hal http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/hyundai-commission-superflex Kobi: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-293-kobi Felix: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-258-felix-trench Helen: http://helenzaltzman.com/ Podcasters Support Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/571436979623574/ Jen: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/the-jen-episodes Song By Song: http://www.songbysongpodcast.com/ The J & D Flixwatcher Episodes: http://flixwatcher.tv/ep-007-little-prince-dave-jen-family-tree-podcast/ http://flixwatcher.tv/ep-013-lobster-w-jen-dave-family-tree/ Ben - @TopFilmTip: https://twitter.com/topfilmtip Bigger Boat Film Quiz: http://www.film-quiz.com/ Gareth - Sabotage Times: https://sabotagetimes.com/ Argus Photography Club: http://www.theargus.co.uk/photos/camera_club/ NESTA: https://www.nesta.org.uk/ The Welsh Club: https://clwb.net/ Gwdihw: http://gwdihw.co.uk/ Method Acting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_acting The Pool: https://www.the-pool.com/ "Allegations" https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/11/lars-von-trier-production-company-zentropa-allegations https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/dec/15/dustin-hoffman-denies-fresh-allegations-sexual-misconduct http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/meryl-streep-dustin-hoffman-slap-kramer-vs-kramer-a8140471.html http://www.vulture.com/2013/10/timeline-blue-is-the-warmest-color-controversy.html http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/last-tango-in-paris-butter-rape-scene-maria-schneider-marlon-brando-bertolucci-a7457251.html https://www.ranker.com/list/jared-leto-joker-method-acting/jakebaumgart http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/russell-crowe-jacqui-mckenzie-romper-stomper-aacta-sodomy-comments-joke-a8096716.html http://www.indiewire.com/2017/12/spike-lee-nate-parker-casey-affleck-armie-hammer-1201906015/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2017/12/07/dylan-farrow-why-is-woody-allen-exempt-from-the-storm-of-sexual-assault-allegations/ http://people.com/movies/ellen-page-woody-allen-regret/ https://www.avclub.com/the-ticks-griffin-newman-says-he-regrets-working-on-new-1819492316 http://www.vulture.com/2017/01/mel-gibson-best-director-oscars.html http://time.com/4645846/what-to-know-about-the-casey-affleck-oscar-controversy/ https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/6/23/15861794/johnny-depp-assassination-joke-domestic-abuse-amber-heard https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/12/8/16746844/jk-rowling-johnny-depp-fantastic-beasts-fan-backlash http://ew.com/movies/2017/11/28/fantastic-beasts-director-defends-johnny-depp/ 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 Getting Better Acquainted Extra I continue the tradition of beginning the new year with a round up of how the last year panned out for me. And I talk about my plans and resolutions for 2018. Next week the format of the show will be back to normal! I mention: The Family Tree: http://thefamilytreepodcast.co.uk/ https://www.patreon.com/thefamilytreepodcast My series of personal essays about my dad: Down to a sunless sea: memories of my dad https://medium.com/goosefat101/down-to-a-sunless-sea-memories-of-my-dad-d1d2d3a61360 What About the Men? Mansplaining Masculinity: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-presents-what-about-the-men-mansplaining-maculinity http://mansplainingmasculinity.co.uk/ The Restart Project: https://therestartproject.org/podcast/ Spark London: http://stories.co.uk/ Smut Slam: https://www.facebook.com/camerynmoore https://www.facebook.com/smutslamlondon/ http://www.camerynmoore.com/ GBA 300: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/gba-300 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!