Better Known

Lucy Eaton discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known.

Lucy Eaton’s theatre credits include: The Duchess of Malfi (Old Vic), A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (Trafalgar Studios), The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Donmar Warehouse), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Southwark Playhouse), Daisy Pulls it Off (Park Theatre), Khadija is 18 (Finborough Theatre) and Almost, Maine (Park Theatre).

TV credits include BBC1's lockdown smash comedy Staged, alongside David Tennant and Michael Sheen, and Netflix US’ Murder Maps.

Alongside her acting, Lucy co-runs Go People, a production company specialising in uplifting escapism on an intimate scale. She is also Founding Director of Revels in Hand, an internationally renowned luxury events service that offers world class theatre productions in clients’ private homes. Revels in Hand has been featured in Tatler, The Guardian, Forbes, The Telegraph and Vogue.

Greek food https://greekreporter.com/2012/03/05/top-10-strange-greek-foods-you-may-like-or-not/

How actors learn their lines https://theactorsplace.org/how-actors-memorize-lines-part-1/

Colons and semi-colons https://www.sussex.ac.uk/informatics/punctuation/colonandsemi/semi

The pursuit of happiness https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/a_better_way_to_pursue_happiness

The best theatres in London https://www.timeout.com/london/theatre/top-london-theatre-venues-chosen-by-you

You can hire theatre for your home https://www.revelsinhand.com/

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Simon Garfield discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known.

Simon Garfield was born in London in 1960. He is the author of an appealingly diverse and unpredictable canon of non-fiction, including the bestsellers Mauve, Just My Type and On The Map. He is a trustee of Mass Observation, and is the editor of several books of diaries from the archive, including Our Hidden Lives and A Notable Woman. His recent books include Timekeepers, In Miniature, and All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaedia.

The Interrogatory Mood by Padget Powell https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/nov/07/padgett-powell-interrogative-mood-review

The complete works of Tracy Kidder https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1981/10/08/modern-times/

The Albertus typeface https://www.weidenfeldandnicolson.co.uk/titles/simon-garfield/albertus/9781399609258/

Backlisted podcast https://www.backlisted.fm/

Yallah Coffee bar in St Ives https://yallahcoffee.co.uk

New Wave - Elvis Costello’s collaboration with the Slovenian Eurovision entrants Joker Out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKcxldNZYQA

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Leah Morgan discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known.

Leah Morgan is a project engineer and science communicator working in fusion energy research. She makes science and engineering videos on her YouTube channel Leah Morgan and gives talks all about the energy of the future! You can find her at www.leahmorgan.co.uk and on TikTok, Youtube, and Instagram @LeahLoveScience.

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Max Décharné discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known.

Max Décharné‘s new book Teddy Boys – Post-war Britain and the First Youth Revolution is published by Profile Books on 25 January 2024. He was the drummer of the band Gallon Drunk, and has been the singer and songwriter with The Flaming Stars since 1994. An authority on the 1950s and 1960s counterculture, his other books include Vulgar Tongues: An Alternative History of British Slang, A Rocket in My Pocket, Hardboiled Hollywood and King’s Road: The Rise and Fall of the Hippest Street in the World. He lives in London.

Frank Key https://foxedquarterly.com/andrew-nixon-frank-key-hooting-yard-stories-literary-review/

Annette Hanshaw https://www.sandybrownjazz.co.uk/JazzRemembered/AnnetteHanshaw.html

Jonathan Latimer https://mysteryfile.com/Latimer/Latimer.html

What's On in London https://vintagemagazinecompany.co.uk/collections/whats-on-in-london

The Jacobites https://soundcloud.com/jacobites/i-miss-you

Coup de Torchon http://www.frenchfilms.org/review/coup-de-torchon-1981.html

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Nigel Planer discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known.

Nigel Planer is an actor, writer and musician. He played Neil in the BBC comedy The Young Ones and Ralph Filthy in Filthy Rich & Catflap. He has appeared in many West End musicals, including original casts of Evita, Chicago, We Will Rock You, Wicked, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. His play, It’s Headed Straight Towards Us, is co-written with Adrian Edmondson, stars Samuel West and Rufus Hound, and is on at the Park Theatre, London. His latest book is Jeremiah Bourne in Time.

Myths of 20th century leftist icons https://www.theguardian.com/politics/from-the-archive-blog/2019/may/01/eugenics-founding-fathers-british-socialism-archive-1997

Ambedkar and Mulk Raj Anand https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2023/02/27/book-review-ambedkar-in-london-by-william-gould-santosh-dass-and-christophe-jaffrelot/

Jane Jacobs https://www.nybooks.com/online/2012/03/30/jane-jacobs-neocons-health-care/

Anselm Keifer https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/07/03/anselm-kiefers-beautiful-ruins

Nenda Neururer https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10130242/

Learning languages https://www.cambridge.org/elt/blog/2022/04/29/learning-language-changes-your-brain/

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Danell Jones discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known.

Danell Jones is a writer with a PhD in literature from Columbia University. She is the author of The Virginia Woolf Writers Workshop; the poetry collection Desert Elegy; and An African in Imperial London, which won the High Plains Book Award for Nonfiction. Her newest book is The Girl Prince: Virginia Woolf, Race, and the Dreadnought Hoax.

Julia Margaret Cameron’s Photographs of Alamayou, Prince of Abyssinia https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1394113/d%C3%A8jatch-al%C3%A1mayou--b%C3%A1sha-f%C3%A9lika-photograph-cameron-julia-margaret/

Britons Through Negro Spectacles, by A.B.C. Merriman-Labor https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/447069/britons-through-negro-spectacles-by-merriman-labor-abc/9780241559741

Public libraries https://www.neh.gov/article/complicated-role-modern-public-library

Sophie Stone performing All the World’s A Stage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbIOZZy54EM

California Highway 395 https://californiathroughmylens.com/highway-395-roadtrip/

London Calling by Una Marson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6xyJxC_yl4

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Angus Jackson discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known.

Angus Jackson is a screen and stage director and writer. For the screen he has directed the feature length film Elmina’s Kitchen for the BBC for which he was nominated for a BAFTA as best new director. For The Royal Shakespeare Company he has directed Oppenheimer, Don Quixote, Coriolanus and Julius Caesar. He wrote and directed Secret Cinema Presents Casino Royale in London and Shanghai in collaboration with Eon Productions.

Changing Lanes https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/changing-lanes-2002

Shostakovich’s 2nd piano concerto https://www.bso.org/works/piano-concerto-no-2-shostakovich

Coriolanus https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2017/sep/22/politicians-people-coriolanus-rsc-shakespeare

Special v general relativity http://www.differencebetween.net/science/difference-between-general-relativity-and-special-relativity/

Movies based on ancient myths https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2003/aug/31/features.review87

Drawing on the right side of the brain by Betty Edwards https://www.drawright.com/theory

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Cathi Unsworth discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known.

Cathi Unsworth is a novelist, writer and editor who lives and works in London. She began her career on the legendary music weekly Sounds at the age of 19. Her novels include The Not Knowing, Weirdo and That Old Black Magic. She is currently teaching novel writing for Curtis Brown Creative's online platform. Her latest book is Season of the Witch: The Book of Goth.

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Doreen Cunningham is an Irish-British writer born in Wales. After studying engineering she worked briefly in climate related research at NERC and in storm modelling at Newcastle University, before turning to journalism. She worked for the BBC World Service as a international news presenter, editor, producer and reporter, for twenty years. She won the RSL Giles St Aubyn Award 2020, was shortlisted for the Eccles Centre and Hay Festival Writers Award 2021, and longlisted for the Wainwright Prize for writing on Global Conservation, for Soundings, her first book.

Composting toilets https://www.theguardian.com/global/2019/dec/09/no-flush-movement-composting-toilet-clean-water-waste-fertiliser-eco-revolution

Earhart the grey whale https://www.pugetsoundexpress.com/10-gray-whale-sounders-have-returned/

Indigenous languages https://en.unesco.org/courier/2019-1/indigenous-languages-knowledge-and-hope

Travel-sickness remedy https://www.rivieratravel.co.uk/blog/12-ways-banish-seasickness

Regrowing spring onions https://www.allrecipes.com/article/save-money-diy-fresh-green-onions/

Take Me To Church by Sinéad O'Connor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMzY_KQIKjU&pp=ygUlVGFrZSBNZSBUbyBDaHVyY2ggYnkgU2luw6lhZCBPJ0Nvbm5vcg%3D%3D

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Becky Smethurst discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known.

Dr Becky Smethurst is a Royal Astronomical Society Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. She is the star of astronomy-themed You Tube channel Dr Becky. Her current research is trying to answer the question, “How do galaxies and black holes evolve together?” Her latest book is A Brief History of Black Holes.

Black holes are neither “black” nor “holes” https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/dr-becky-smethurst/a-brief-history-of-black-holes/9781529086706

Annie Jump Cannon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Jump_Cannon

The same algorithm that identifies stars also identifies individual whale sharks

The dark sky sights of the UK https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topics/best-dark-sky-sites-uk

You can measure the speed of light with a microwave https://www.open.edu/openlearn/science-maths-technology/science/physics-and-astronomy/physics/measure-the-speed-light-your-microwave

The "black hole of Calcutta" prison is where black holes get their name from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Hole_of_Calcutta

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