Getting Better Acquainted

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 Caberet.

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.

19th August: Chella Quint http://www.chellaquint.com/

Chella Quint is a comedian, designer, artist, education consultant, and old school zine girl from Brooklyn, New York who now lives in Sheffield. She is the Sheffield Docfest 2013 Specialist Factual New Talent Pitch winner (for which she wrote and presented Lifting the Lid, a short film about menstruation education for the Open University) and she has recently completed a Master’s Degree in Education focusing on changing attitudes to menstruation in secondary schools. Her research has an accompanying #PeriodPositive campaign and website. She regularly performs science communication comedy in the UK and abroad, and recently hosted a comedy show live from CERN. She’s been commissioned by the Institute of Physics to develop a new show based on her fanzine It’s Not You, I Just Need Space (interplanetary letters of love and rejection) as part of the Off the Shelf Festival this October.

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.

18th August: 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.

In GBA 174 we get better acquainted with Tim Ralphs. He talks about being a storyteller and an interfaith minister, growing up at folk festivals, how life inflences how you understand stories and lots more.

Tim plugs:

Rebranding Beelzebub - 9.50pm at Banshee Labyrinth: https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/rebranding-beelzebub

His website: http://www.timralphs.com/

Story Forge - 3rd Tuesday of the month at the Fat Cat: https://www.facebook.com/groups/94064587663/

I plug:

Stand Up Tragedy at the Free Fringe - 7.30pm every day from 2nd-22nd August at the Banshee Labyrinth: www.facebook.com/events/316554115169995/

Getting Better Acquainted Live at the Free Fringe 3.15pm every day from 18th-22th August at the Royal Oak: www.facebook.com/events/773670469351784/

Edinburgh shows we shout out:

Lucy Ayrton's The Splitting of the Mermaid: https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/lucy-ayrton-the-splitting-of-the-mermaid

Sofia Walker's Can't Care Won't Care: http://freefringe.org.uk/edinburgh/cant-care-wont-care/2014-08-02/

Her other show is Around the World in Eight Mistakes:http://freefringe.org.uk/edinburgh/around-the-world-in-eight-mistakes/2014-08-09/

Brydie Lee Kennedy Repeats on You: https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/brydie-lee-kennedy-repeats-on-you

Mega Games: http://www.tomwebb.info/megagames.html

We mention:

Rachel Rose Reed: http://www.rachelrosereid.com/

Science Showoff: http://scienceshowoff.wordpress.com/

Bright Club: http://www.brightclub.org/

The Moth: http://themoth.org/

Society of Storytelling: http://www.sfs.org.uk/

pippa reid: http://pippareid.com/

Edinburgh fringe: http://www.edfringe.com/

Stand Up Tragedy: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk/

Robin Ince: http://robinince.com/

Josie Long: http://www.josielong.com/

Njord and Skadi: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ska%C3%B0i

Hugh Lupton: http://www.hughlupton.com/

Dan Keding: http://dankeding.com/

Dovie Tomason: http://doviethomason.com/

Young Storyteller of the Year: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Storyteller_of_the_Year

Michael Harvey: http://www.michaelharvey.org/

Mabinogion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mabinogion

Free Fringe: http://www.freefringe.org.uk/

Spark London: http://sparklondon.com/

Dave Pickering Storyeller: http://davepickeringstoryteller.co.uk/

Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/

Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/

Game of Thrones: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_of_Thrones

Breaking Bad: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking_Bad

Beyond the Border: http://www.beyondtheborder.com/

Joffrey: http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Joffrey_Baratheon

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In GBA 173 we get better acquainted with Harv. He talks about working in low paid jobs in the catering industry,how childhood bereavement and a religious upbringing have impacted on his life, how his political thinking and musical taste has developed and how class has influenced his thoughts on all these issues. Harv used to be the producer in Apples for Everyone and he has been Stand Up Tragedy's sound technician in residence since it started. He's really great at all things sound related and a wise and loyal friend.

Harv plugs:

Stand Up Tragedy - donations and shows: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk/

His Soundtech/production work: http://www.stephenharvey.me.uk/

https://twitter.com/SteveHSoundtech

We're up in Edinburgh already of course and both Harv and me are running Stand Up Tragedy daily.

Harv will be performing music up there too on 3rd, 12th and 15th.

As promised in the episode I will put the track Harv produced and played drums on at the end of the show. It was put together for my Open EP.Which you can find

and download at http://soundcloud.com/the-dave

I plug:

Stand Up Tragedy at the Free Fringe - 7.30pm every day from 2nd-22nd August at the Banshee Labyrinth: www.facebook.com/events/316554115169995/

Getting Better Acquainted Live at the Free Fringe 3.15pm every day from 18th-22th August at the Royal Oak: www.facebook.com/events/773670469351784/

We mention:

Apples for Everyone: https://soundcloud.com/applesforeveryone/sets/

Hemel Hempstead: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemel_Hempstead

Bovingdon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bovingdon

Nirvana: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_(band)

Ben Sherman shirts: http://www.bensherman.com/clothing/shirts/

Puffer Jackets: http://www.zalando.co.uk/puffer-jacket/

Illuminatus trilogy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Illuminatus!_Trilogy

The Dispossessed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dispossessed

V for Vendetta: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_for_Vendetta

The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker's_Guide_to_the_Galaxy

Brakes Bros: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brake_Bros

Beefeater: http://www.beefeater.co.uk/

Premier Inn: http://www.premierinn.com/

Gorden Ramsey: http://www.gordonramsay.com/

Gastrectomy: http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/Gastrectomy/Pages/Introduction.aspx

Salvation Army: http://www.salvationarmy.org.uk/

The Daily Mail: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html

prefigure the revolution: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prefigurative_politics

Guns and Roses: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns_N'_Roses

Bon Jovi - first album: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bon_Jovi_(album)

Nevermind: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevermind

Richie Sambora: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richie_Sambora

Iron Maiden: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Maiden

Kurt Cobain: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Cobain

Smells Like Teen Spirit: http://youtu.be/hTWKbfoikeg

Dave Grohl: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Grohl

Foo Fighters: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo_Fighters

Chris Novaselic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krist_Novoselic

Beyoncé: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyonc%C3%A9

HR Giger - StillBirth Machine: http://bit.ly/UAfJXL

The Mekons: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mekons

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In GBA 172 we get better acquainted with Sophia Walker. She talks about going round the world in 8 mistakes, drawing on her experiences of working in the care industry to create a new piece of spoken word theatre, experiencing 9/11 through the wider social context of her international school classmates, filming documentaries in warzones, the etymology of the words and so much more.

Sophia plugs:

Can't Care, Won't Care 2-24th August 1.40pm at the Banshee Labyrinth: http://edinburghfestival.list.co.uk/event/420338-cant-care-wont-care/

Around the World in Eight Mistakes 9-24th August at the Pilgrim 5.30pm:

http://edinburghfestival.list.co.uk/event/420579-around-the-world-in-eight-mistakes/

Both shows are part of The Free Fringe.

Her first book Opposite the Tour Bus coming out this year from Burning Eye Press

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SophiaWalker

Twitter: https://twitter.com/poetwalker

I plug:

Stand Up Tragedy at the Free Fringe - 7.30pm every day from 2nd-22nd August at the Banshee Labyrinth: www.facebook.com/events/316554115169995/

Sophia Walker will be performing with Stand Up Tragedy on 6th and 23rd.

Getting Better Acquainted Live at the Free Fringe 3.15pm every day from 18th-22th August at the Royal Oak: www.facebook.com/events/773670469351784/

We mention:

Free Fringe spoken word album: http://pbhfreefringespokenword.bandcamp.com/album/a-maze-of-breaths-spoken-word-at-pbhs-free-fringe

Lucy Ayrton: http://www.lucyayrton.co.uk/

Dogstar: http://dogstarbrixton.com/

Stand Up Tragedy: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk/

Andrea Gibson: http://www.andreagibson.org/

Arts Council: http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/

Kevin Cadwallender: http://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poetry/poets/kevin-cadwallender

Ted Talks: http://www.ted.com/

BBCQT Watchalong: https://twitter.com/BBCQTWatchalong

Moscow: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow

Washington: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_D.C.

Soviet Union: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union

UPI: http://www.upi.com/

National Geographic: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/

The Mountain People: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mountain-People-Colin-M-Turnbull/dp/0671640984

David Pluth - Green Peace: http://www.ugpulse.com/heritage/1-on-1-with-national-geographic-photographer-david-pluth/530/ug.aspx

IkLand: the worst people in the world http://iklandmovie.com/index.php

Boston International Film Festival: http://www.bifilmfestival.com/biffhome.html

Hanoi: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanoi

George Bush: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush

Haringey: http://www.haringey.gov.uk/

Baby P: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Baby_P

Spark London: http://www.sparklondon.com/

Ross Sutherland: http://www.rosssutherland.co.uk/

Jordan - spoken word: http://www.thedailybeast.com/witw/articles/2013/11/16/jordan-s-female-slam-poetry-scene.html

Upworthy: http://www.upworthy.com/

Shane Koyczan - To This Day : http://www.tothisdayproject.com/the_poem.html

Talha Ahsan: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syed_Talha_Ahsan

Stonewall: http://www.stonewall.org.uk/

Keith Jarrett - Gay Poem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g81EKU1lXbw

Sophia Walker - Faggots: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8muDiSOjOQY

Chumbawamba - Revolution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbXvfVlXt4s

300 to 1: https://www.facebook.com/events/607036452716549/

Monkey Poet: http://www.monkeypoet.co.uk/

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In GBA 171 we get better acquainted with Liam. He talks about working as a brewer, discovering drawing, having a tough time growing up, being the first person from his family to go to university, going from a small village to the capital city, coping with social anxiety disorder and so much more.

Liam plugs:

His art: http://liamwillday.com/

His beer stall at Brockley Market: http://www.brockleymarket.com/

I plug:

Stand Up Tragedy at the Free Fringe - 7.30pm every day from 2nd-22nd August at the Banshee Labyrinth: https://www.facebook.com/events/316554115169995/

Getting Better Acquainted Live at the Free Fringe 3.15pm every day from 18th-22th August at the Royal Oak: https://www.facebook.com/events/773670469351784/

We mention:

Stand Up Tragedy: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk/

Ewa: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-140-ewa

London Brewers Alliance: http://www.londonbrewers.org/

Late Knights Brewery: http://www.lateknightsbrewery.co.uk/

Adnams Southwold: http://adnams.co.uk/

University of Westminster: http://www.westminster.ac.uk/

Tim Marrs http://timmarrs.co.uk/

Paul Foot: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Foot_(comedian)

Crumbling Cookie: http://www.thecookieleicester.co.uk/

Ralph Steadman: http://www.ralphsteadman.com/

Dan Savage - Savage Love: http://www.savagelovecast.com/

Harold Pinter - life is hell interview: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/5110060.stm

Social Anxiety Disorder: http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/social-anxiety/pages/social-anxiety.aspx

Tragic Christmas: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sets/tragic-christmas

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In GBA 170 we get better acquainted with Fran. We catch up on what's been happening since we studied together 12 years ago, which for Fran involves becoming a Goth, founding the Cheshire Liberation Front, doing interesting things with Harvest Mice, becoming an Interpretation Officer at the British Museum, climbing mountains and lots more. Also I am outed as a man who has worn a fedora and I duly squirm about it.

Fran plugs:

The Sheriff of Nottingham the HR Years The Musical: https://www.edfringe.com/whats-on/comedy/sheriff-of-nottingham-a-musical-musing-on-middle-management 10th-16th August at 7.30pm at The Hotel Ibis

The Cheshire Liberation Front: http://cheshire4life.blogspot.co.uk/

I plug:

Stand Up Tragedy at the Free Fringe - 7.30pm every day from 2nd-22nd August at the Banshee Labyrinth

We mention:

Fedora: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedora

Fedora Meme: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/fedora-shaming

Nice Guys of OK Cupid: http://www.buzzfeed.com/katienotopoulos/nice-guys-on-okcupid-are-the-worst

MJ Hibbett: http://www.mjhibbett.co.uk/

Carsmile Steve: https://twitter.com/CarsmileSteve

Moon Horse: http://www.mjhibbett.co.uk/moonhorse/

Edinburgh Special 1: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-15-edinburgh-festival

Edinburgh Special 2: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-71-edinburgh-festival

Edinburgh Special 3: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-124-stand-up-tragedy-at

PBH Free Fringe: http://www.freefringe.org.uk/

PBH Episode: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-live-8-peter-buckley-hill

Spark London: http://www.sparklondon.com

Hackney Attic: http://www.picturehouses.co.uk/cinema/Hackney_Picturehouse/Attic/Hackney_Attic/

Jen episodes: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/the-jen-episodes

Alan Moore: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Moore

Sir Gawain and the Green Night: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Gawain_and_the_Green_Knight

Cheshire Liberation Front's Political Indoctrination Rally: http://edinburghfestival.list.co.uk/event/227497-cheshire-liberation-fronts-political-indoctrination-rally/

Weight Watchers Magazine: http://www.weightwatchers.co.uk/shop/mag/

Slimelight: http://www.slimelight.com/

Erotic Reading Group: http://metro.co.uk/2012/11/21/fleshing-out-the-story-the-rise-of-erotic-book-clubs-537703/

Mexican Wrestling London school of Lucha Libre: http://londonschoolofluchalibre.blogspot.co.uk/

Darryl Hannah - Blade Runner: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=daryl+hannah+blade+runner&safe=off&rlz=1C1CHFX_en-GBGB456GB456&es_sm=122&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=5oXGU9PLGpPG7AaIgIG4BA&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ&biw=985&bih=423

Scafell Pike: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scafell_Pike

William Makepeace Thackeray's belated Bicentenary: http://www.freefringeforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=131&t=1583

Al Murray: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Murray

Miriam Margolyes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miriam_Margolyes

Austentatious: http://austentatiousimpro.com/

British Museum: http://www.britishmuseum.org/

UCL: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/

The Story: http://thestory.org.uk/

Scott of the Antarctic: The Musical: http://www.chortle.co.uk/shows/edinburgh_fringe_2013/s/21909/scott_of_the_antarctic%3A_the_musical

Stand Up Tragedy: http://www.standuptragedt.co.uk

Richard Herring - The Leicester Square Podcast: http://www.comedy.co.uk/podcasts/richard_herring_lst_podcast/

The Art of Wrestling - Colt Cabana: http://tsmradio.com/coltcabana/

Sisters of Mercy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sisters_of_Mercy

The Cure: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cure

Fields of Nephilim: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fields_of_the_Nephilim

The Mission: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mission_(band)

The Cult: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cult

Marilyn Manson: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_Manson

Lee and Herring: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_and_Herring

janta - swedish term: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Jante

Jerry Lee Lewis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Lee_Lewis

Elvis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvis_Presley

Morrisey - Friends are Successful: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Hate_It_When_Our_Friends_Become_Successful

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In GBA 169 we get better acquainted with James McKay. He talks us through Victorian poetry recitals, classical literature and history, plundering and re-contextualising the canon, the relationship between the Moomins and Zen thinking, putting on gigs in your front room and being an "Arts Thatcherite". If all of that sounds dry and worthy and highbrow then think again as this conversation is very much the opposite of that.

James plugs:

His Website: http://www.mckaypoetry.com/

Utter: Space: https://www.facebook.com/events/1403219706606930/

I plug: The Stand Up Tragedy IndieGoGo Campaign: http://bit.ly/TragicFringe

Tragic Misadventures: Wednesday 9th July at the Black Heart: http://www.facebook.com/events/601978073250123/

We mention:

The book of Job: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Job

Stand Up Tragedy: http://standuptragedy.co.uk

Stand Up Tragedy performances by James:

https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-james-mckay-ep-2

https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/stand-up-tragedy-16

https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-daily-ep-14-fay-roberts

City of Dreadful Night: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Dreadful_Night

Tragic Christmas: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sets/tragic-christmas

The New Mother: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Mother

How Horatius Held the Bridge: http://www.englishverse.com/poems/horatius

Rochester: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wilmot,_2nd_Earl_of_Rochester

https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-extra-imperfect-enjoyment-by-rochester

Whitman: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Whitman

James on soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/mckay_poetry

The Libertine: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Libertine_(2004_film)

King James Bible: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_James_Version

Sermon on the Mount: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sermon_on_the_Mount

Ecclesiastes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecclesiastes

Book of Revelation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Revelation

Song of Solomon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song_of_Songs

Leviticus: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Leviticus

The Byrds - Turn! Turn! Turn! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4ga_M5Zdn4

Boney M - The Rivers of Babylon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm1g8FFRArc&feature=kp

Hinduism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinduism

Monotheism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotheism

Norse Myths: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norse_mythology

Rhetoric: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhetoric

Arundel: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arundel

Inky Fingers: http://inkyfingers.org.uk/

Christopher Smart - Jubilate Agno http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jubilate_Agno

Stopham: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stopham

Coventry Cathedral: http://www.coventrycathedral.org.uk/

Beat Poetry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_Generation

E M Forster: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._M._Forster

Kipling: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudyard_Kipling

Coleridge: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Taylor_Coleridge

Wordsworth: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wordsworth

Swinburne: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algernon_Charles_Swinburne

Tennyson: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred,_Lord_Tennyson

Browning: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Browning

Snufkin: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snufkin

Moomins: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moomin

Comet in Moominland: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_in_Moominland

Little My: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_My

Snorkmaiden: http://moomin.wikia.com/wiki/The_Snork_Maiden

Moomin Valley in November: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moominvalley_in_November

Moominland Midwinter: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moominland_Midwinter

Finn Family Moomintroll: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finn_Family_Moomintroll

Moomin Pappa at Sea: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moominpappa_at_Sea

The Way of Zen - Alan Watts: http://www.amazon.com/The-Way-Zen-Alan-Watts/dp/0375705104

Japanese cartoons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnOj1EyMLgg&feature=kp

Polish Cartoon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utXbpKrWRBs

Dubbed Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiZ0eBFTH6k

Comics: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moomin_comic_strips

Tove's Hobbit: http://www.forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2013/illustration-tove-janssons-hobbit/

Hobbit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobbit

The Lord of the Rings: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings

The Decline of the West: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Decline_of_the_West

Exploits of Moomin Pappa: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Exploits_of_Moominpappa

Peter Jackson: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Jackson

Tolkien: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._R._R._Tolkien

Tolkien's letter's to Hitler: http://io9.com/5892697/whats-classier-than-jrr-tolkien-telling-off-nazis-absolutely-nothing

Saruman: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saruman

Septimius Severus: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septimius_Severus

Spartacus: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spartacus

I was mixing up this scene: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xnedde_snails-and-oysters-from-spartacus-1960_shortfilms with this scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNzFLwsFiOM

Ovid: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovid

Kipling: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudyard_Kipling

Female of the Species: http://www.potw.org/archive/potw96.html

Space song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-wIvsZBFhQ&feature=kp

Shakespeare: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare

Sunday Assembly: http://sundayassembly.com/

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In GBA 168 we get better acquainted with Sam. She talks about a childhood full of change and travel, being a mum (but not being defined by it), we compare notes from University and catch up on what we both did in our 20's. Plus she shows me her extensive collection of tattoos and we talk about putting art all over your body.

Sam plugs: Oil Pulling and relaxing

I plug: The Stand Up Tragedy IndieGoGo Campaign: http://bit.ly/TragicFringe

Tragic Misadventures: Wednesday 9th July at the Black Heart: http://www.facebook.com/events/601978073250123/

My blogpost about leaving/losing my job: http://davepickeringblog.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/%E2%80%A6yes.html

We mention:

Ged: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-31-ged

Richard: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/the-richard-episodes

The Platform Theatre: http://www.arts.ac.uk/csm/about-csm/facilities/general/platform-theatre/

Hugo Chavez: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Ch%C3%A1vez

Ministry of Stories: http://www.ministryofstories.org/

Chris: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-41-chris

Inka: http://inkatattoos.co.uk/

Oil Pulling: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_pulling

Bindweed: http://www.gardenersworld.com/how-to/problems/weeds/field-bindweed/456.html

Swallows: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swallow

Jack Sparrow: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Sparrow

Snow Camp: http://www.snow-camp.org.uk/

Red Bush Tea: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rooibos

Keenwah: http://www.keenwah.com/

Palm Oil - Orangutans: http://wwf.panda.org/about_our_earth/about_forests/deforestation/forest_conversion_agriculture/orang_utans_palm_oil/

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