Podcasts about tragic spring

Back where it all began, Shannon and Alyssa talk in the parking lot behind their high school theatre. In the episode, they share the good, bad, and downright disgusting tales of being a theatre kid, as well as share notes with fellow student theatre-makers.

In GBA 237 we get better acquainted with Muffy. We met in a pub in Brighton to have an in depth conversation about fandom, fan fic and slash fic. We cover how Muffy came to fandom, community, shame, enthusiasm,. ethics and politics, art and artistry, gender and sexuality, working through trauma, how texts, fanfic and fans relate to each other, representation and so much more. Muffy plugs: Slash Night 12th Feb: http://www.marlboroughtheatre.org.uk/event/slash-night-4/ I plug: Donating to GBA: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=4RCU5NHZURXUL How To Be Fat: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-presents-how-to-be-fat Stand Up Tragedy Presents on 18th Feb: https://www.facebook.com/events/1129825877029165/ We mention: Tragic Spring: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sets/tragic-spring Stand Up Tragedy: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk/ Mathilda Gregory: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-221-mathilda-gregory Tragic Bodies: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/tragic-spring-act-2-tragic-bodies Slash Night: https://slashnight.wordpress.com/ Fan Fic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_fiction Slash Fic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slash_fiction NME: http://www.nme.com/ Manic Street Preachers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manic_Street_Preachers Meet Cute: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meet_cute Kink: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kink_(sexual) Cisgender: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisgender Sherlock: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_(TV_series) Sherlock and FanFic: http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2014/01/sherlock-and-adventure-overzealous-fanbase Heteronormative: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heteronormativity Queerbaiting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queer_baiting Sherlock Season 3 Episode 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Empty_Hearse Supernatural: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernatural_(U.S._TV_series) Ginger Snaps: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginger_Snaps_(film) Queer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queer Non-Binary: http://gender.wikia.com/wiki/Non-binary Captain America: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_America Bucky: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucky Marvel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel_Comics Slash Night Image: http://brightondigitalfestival.co.uk/event/slash-night-3/ Hannibal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannibal_(TV_series) Silence of the Lambs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Silence_of_the_Lambs_(film) Thomas Harris: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Harris Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/ BDSM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BDSM Joss Whedon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joss_Whedon "Jossed": http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Jossed Everything is A Remix: http://everythingisaremix.info/ Kieron Gillen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kieron_Gillen Young Avengers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Avengers#Volume_2 Mads Mikkelsen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mads_Mikkelsen Archive of Our Own: https://archiveofourown.org/ Room of One's Own: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Room_of_One%27s_Own Dobby 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!

The Stand Up Tragedy podcast will be coming out every two weeks (on a fortnightly rota) from now until August. This week's episode is the third act of our Tragic Spring live show which took place at the Hackney Attic on April 25th. This act is dedicated to Tragic Sex. Our next live show is Tragic Summer on June 6th: https://www.facebook.com/events/1374545949536475/ Content Note: death, sex, mental health issues Today's episode features: Suraya Sidhu Singh: https://twitter.com/pleiadeslion Cameryn Moore: http://www.camerynmoore.com/ and Brydie Lee-Kennedy: http://www.brydieleekennedy.com/ The episode was produced by Dave Pickering with live recordings by Stephen Harvey. The main theme is by Sam Wilkinson and the outro song by George Brufton and The Reactionaries.

The Stand Up Tragedy podcast will be coming out every two weeks (on a fortnightly rota) from now until August. This week's episode is the second act of our Tragic Spring live show which took place at the Hackney Attic on April 25th. This act was guest hosted and curated by Mathilda Gregory and is dedicated to Tragic Bodies. Our next live show is Tragic Summer on June 6th: https://www.facebook.com/events/1374545949536475/ Content Note: body/weight issues, transphobia, childbirth Today's episode features: Mathilda Gregory: https://mathildia.wordpress.com/ Krishna Ishta: https://twitter.com/MXgenderslayer and Muffy Hunter: https://twitter.com/borntooloose The episode was produced by Dave Pickering with live recordings by Stephen Harvey. The main theme is by Sam Wilkinson and the outro song by George Brufton and The Reactionaries.

The Stand Up Tragedy podcast will be coming out every two weeks (on a fortnightly rota) from now until August. This week's episode is the first act of our Tragic Spring live show which took place at the Hackney Attic on April 25th. This act was dedicated to Tragic Beginnings. Our next live show is Tragic Summer on June 6th: https://www.facebook.com/events/1374545949536475/ Content Note: the third performer in this act refers to rape and sexual assault as part of their performance. Today's episode features: Paul Case: https://captainoftherant.wordpress.com/ Micheal Brunström: http://www.humanloire.com/ and Dave Pickering: http://www.davepickeringstoryteller.co.uk The episode was produced by Dave Pickering with live recordings by Stephen Harvey. The main theme is by Sam Wilkinson and the outro song by George Brufton and The Reactionaries.

In GBA 205 we get better acquainted with Suraya. She talks about creating an erotica magazine for women, moving between cultures, countries and cities, the therapeutic and social value of storytelling, singing, writing, mental health and more. Suraya plugs: Tragic Spring at the Hackney Attic 25th April: http://www.facebook.com/events/588668424609848/ We mention: Risk! : http://risk-show.com/ The Moth: http://themoth.org/about/programs/the-moth-podcast Fran: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-170-fran Risk! Live in London: http://risk-show.com/podcast/3177/ Jen Hazel: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/jen-hazel/b/302/2b6 Adele: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adele Faure's Requiem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Requiem_%28Faur%C3%A9%29 Mickey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E-Zrg9CB_Q Sweet Valley High: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_Valley_High Babysitters Club: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Baby-Sitters_Club Dangermouse: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danger_Mouse_%28TV_series%29 Jamm: http://jaam.net.nz/ Radio 3 - The Verb: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006tnsf Arcola Theatre: https://www.arcolatheatre.com/ Filament: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filament_%28magazine%29 http://web.archive.org/web/20090406063332/http://www.filamentmagazine.com/ Barnes and Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/ Foyles: http://www.foyles.co.uk/ Mind Haringey: http://www.mindinharingey.org.uk/ Spark London: http://sparklondon.com/ CBT: http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/Cognitive-behavioural-therapy/Pages/Introduction.aspx Both my Sex Club and Mental Health Stories are in this GBA extra: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-extra-the-parachute-opened Kinsey: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Kinsey Meridith Chivers: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15482445 Nexus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Books#Imprints Black Lace http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Books#Imprints Mils and Boon: http://www.millsandboon.co.uk/ Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word!

The Stand Up Tragedy podcast will be coming out every two weeks (on a fortnightly rota) from now until August. This week's episode is a short one featuring a talk given by SUT host Dave Pickering at the Arts Emergency Social Club. Arts Emergency are a charity that helps disadvantaged teens study subjects they love: http://www.arts-emergency.org/ Our next live show is Tragic Spring on April 25th: http://www.facebook.com/events/588668424609848/ The episode was produced by Dave Pickering. The main theme is by Sam Wilkinson and the outro song by George Brufton and The Reactionaries.

In GBA 204 we get better acquainted with Jim. He talks about being an accidental archaeologist, running a mobile disco for 30 years, volunteering in the opening ceremony of the Olympics, growing giant pumpkins and more. Also we talk about making Forty Hall by Candlelight 2014 and he gives me a parsnip. Jim plugs: The investigation he is currently involved in. I plug: Tragic Spring at the Hackney Attic 25th April: http://www.facebook.com/events/588668424609848/ We mention: Forty Hall: http://www.fortyhallestate.co.uk/ Candlelight Tours: http://www.fortyhallestate.co.uk/media/gallery/forty_hall_by_candlelight_2015 Nicholas Rainton: http://www.fortyhallestate.co.uk/about_forty_hall_estate/sir_nicholas_rainton Ade Edmonson: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ade_Edmondson Enfield Council: http://www.enfield.gov.uk/ Saturday Night Fever: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Night_Fever Top of the Pops: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_of_the_Pops Hold My Hands: http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/news/a639994/jess-glynnes-hold-my-hand-remains-uks-number-1-single.html Elsyng Palace: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsyng_Palace English Civil War: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Civil_War That's Life: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That%27s_Life! Esther Rantzen: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esther_Rantzen Danny Boyle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Boyle Royal Festival Hall: http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/venues/royal-festival-hall 3 Mills Studio: http://www.3mills.com/ What's the time, Mr Wolf? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What%27s_the_time,_Mr_Wolf%3F Birdy Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jAG9GAqktY Vienna: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DuCIGvsbMA Shaddap You Face: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaddap_You_Face Enfield Archaeology Society: http://www.enfarchsoc.org/ Go: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_%28game%29 Imagine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRhq-yO1KN8 Star Wars Day: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Day Toby Sedgwick: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toby_Sedgwick War Horse: http://www.warhorseonstage.com/ Steve Boyd: http://www.steveboydportfolio.com/ Underworld: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underworld_%28band%29 Industrial Revolution: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Revolution Jersey: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jersey Opening Ceremony Hidden Camera: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZlZZf8MKpM Pandemonium Drummers: http://www.pandemoniumdrummers.co.uk/ Vision Choir: http://www.visionmusic.org.uk/ Blackpool: https://www.blackpoolpleasurebeach.com/ Alton Towers: http://www.altontowers.com/ Much Wenlock: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wenlock_Olympian_Games Philomena: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philomena_%28film%29 The Rock: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rock_%28film%29 The Shawshank Redemption: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shawshank_Redemption St Bartholomews Hospital: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Bartholomew%27s_Hospital Pro Mobile Disco: http://promobiledisco.com/ Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word!

In GBA 203 we get better acquainted with Sajeela Kershi. She talks about making comedy and her show Immigrant Diaries where people share their true life stories, and we move from these topics into wider discussions of Islamophobia, racism, belonging, social responsibility as well as into personal recollections of Sajeela's childhood. Sajeela plugs: Changing Britain Festival: Immigrant Diaries: 24th April: http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whatson/immigrant-diaries-91203 Twitter: https://twitter.com/sajeelakershi Shallow Hallal: https://boxoffice.brightonfringe.org/comedy/7742/sajeela-kershi-shallow-halal Comedy Cottage: 16th April: https://www.facebook.com/events/1414664585508687/ I plug: Tragic Spring at the Hackney Attic 25th April: https://www.facebook.com/events/588668424609848/ We mention: The treatment in the press and public opinion of the young girls who wanted to join IS: http://mediadiversified.org/2015/02/24/the-denial-of-childhood-to-children-of-colour/ http://mediadiversified.org/2015/03/05/thetrashies-challenging-the-medias-misinformed-consensus/ http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/if-teenage-girls-want-to-join-isis-in-the-face-of-all-its-atrocities-then-they-should-leave-and-never-return-10065516.html Brief Encounter: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037558/ Stand Up Tragedy: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk/ Eddie Peppitone: http://eddiepepitone.com/ Pro Resting: https://twitter.com/proresting Keith Jarrett: http://zoneonetosix.blogspot.co.uk/ Spark London: http://sparklondon.com/ Leicester Comedy Festival: http://www.comedy-festival.co.uk/ Amnesty: http://www.amnesty.org.uk/ USP: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unique_selling_proposition Big Brother: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Brother_%28UK_TV_series%29 TOWIE: http://www.itv.com/essex Punjab: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punjab_region Partition: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_of_India Thatcher: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher Radcliffe Royds: https://radclifferoyds.wordpress.com/ Al Qaeda: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Qaeda Salman Rushdie: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salman_Rushdie The Satanic Verses: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Satanic_Verses Malcolm X: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_X Cartoon - bikini / hijab: http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2012/02/22/questioning-definitions-of-freedom/ Hipsters: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipster_%28contemporary_subculture%29 Lumbersexual: http://gawker.com/are-you-a-lumbersexual-1657844454 Algerian War: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algerian_War The Charlie Hebdo March: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/worldnews/11338185/Paris-shootings-Crowds-join-Unity-march-for-Charlie-Hebdo-attacks-in-pictures.html Leaders: http://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2015/jan/13/charlie-hebdo-attack-world-leaders-paris-press-freedom Backlash to French Muslims: http://edition.cnn.com/2015/01/13/europe/france-anti-muslim-threats/ Enoch Powell: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enoch_Powell Rivers of Blood: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enoch_Powell#.22Rivers_of_Blood.22_speech Lenny Henry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenny_Henry Romesh Ranganathan - Jonathan Ross: https://www.itv.com/itvplayer/the-jonathan-ross-show/series-8/episode-5 BNP: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_National_Party Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word!

The Stand Up Tragedy podcast will be coming out every two weeks (on a fortnightly rota) from now until August. This week's episode is the third act of our Tragic Winter live show which took place at the Hackney Attic in February. This act was dedicated to Tragic Death. Our next live show is Tragic Spring on April 25th: http://www.facebook.com/events/588668424609848/ Today's episode features: Iszi Lawrence: http://www.iszi.com/ Amy McAllister: https://amymcallisterpoetry.wordpress.com/ and Jack Rooke: http://www.jackrooke.com/ Content Note: Bereavement, child abuse, suicide The episode was produced by Dave Pickering with live recordings by Stephen Harvey. The main theme is by Sam Wilkinson and the outro song by George Brufton and The Reactionaries.

In GBA 201 we get better acquainted with Mel Jones. She talks about so many things both personal and political; sex, depression, therapy, age, forgiveness, family, performing, community, discrimination, news, songwriting and speaking words are just a few of the topics and tangents we cover. Content Note: This episode deals with mental health issues and therapy. The conversation also covers issues around child abuse and sexual abuse, although it doesn't contain graphic descriptions of either. It also contains plenty of love, warmth and laughter Mel plugs: Friggers of Speech: https://www.facebook.com/FriggersofSpeech Contact Mel poetrymel@hotmail.co.uk or https://www.facebook.com/mel.jones.505 The next SUT is: Tragic Spring: http://www.facebook.com/events/588668424609848/ We mention: PBH Free Fringe CD: https://pbhfreefringespokenword.bandcamp.com/album/a-maze-of-breaths-spoken-word-at-pbhs-free-fringe Stand Up Tragedy: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk/ Porn Poem: https://pbhfreefringespokenword.bandcamp.com/track/porn Asexuality: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asexuality fog in the channel europe cut off: http://politicalquotes.org/node/19094 Page 3: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page_3 Indigo Girls: http://www.indigogirls.com/ Joni Mitchell: http://jonimitchell.com/ Leonard Cohen: http://www.leonardcohen.com/home Lily Tomlin - forgiveness means giving up all hope for a better past: http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/87427-forgiveness-means-giving-up-all-hope-for-a-better-past Oscar Wild quote: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/o/oscarwilde124821.html Ambivert: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ambivert Tantalus: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tantalus The Crib: http://www.thecrib.org.uk/ John Pilger - the inevitable ring of the unimaginable: http://www.rickieleejones.com/forum.htm RT: http://rt.com/uk/ Al Jazeera: http://www.aljazeera.com/ Radio 4: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4 Bang Said the Gun: https://twitter.com/bangsaidthegun Dan Cockrill: http://www.danielcockrill.com/ Paul Excentric: http://pauleccentric.co.uk/ Dan Simpson: https://dansimpsonpoet.wordpress.com/ Luke Wright: http://www.lukewright.co.uk/ Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word!

The Stand Up Tragedy podcast will be coming out every two weeks (on a fortnightly rota) until August 2015. This week's episode is the second act of our Tragic Winter live show which took place at the Hackney Attic in February. It is dedicated to Tragic Climate was guest hosted and curated by Alice Bell: https://twitter.com/alicebell https://alicerosebell.wordpress.com Our next live show is Tragic Spring on April 25th: http://www.facebook.com/events/588668424609848/ Today's episode features: Bridgett McKenzie: https://aboutbridgetmckenzie.wordpress.com/ Jack Stilgoe: https://jackstilgoe.wordpress.com/ and Martin Zaltz Austwick: http://www.martinzaltzaustwick.com/ Content Note: It's climate change so it's full of depressing information and hard truths. The episode was produced by Dave Pickering with live recording by Stephen Harvey. The main theme is by Sam Wilkinson and the outro song by George Brufton and The Reactionaries.

The Stand Up Tragedy podcast will be coming out every two weeks (on a fortnightly rota) from now until August. This week's episode is the first act of our Tragic Winter live show which took place at the Hackney Attic in February. This act was dedicated to Tragic Fairytales. Our next live show is Tragic Spring on April 25th: https://www.facebook.com/events/588668424609848/ Today's episode features: Jessica Law: https://jessicalaw.bandcamp.com/ Lauren Stone: https://twitter.com/lstone345 and Dave Pickering: http://www.davepickeringstoryteller.co.uk Content Note: It's fairytales so that means plenty of death and a lot of dark imagery. The episode was produced by Dave Pickering with live recordings by Stephen Harvey. The main theme is by Sam Wilkinson and the outro song by George Brufton and The Reactionaries.