Getting Better Acquainted

In GBA 150 we get better acquainted with Becca. She talks about the art, culture and significance of calligraphy, football and rock concerts. And we get into her New Jersey upbringing, studying at Cornell University, how an introvert responds to London and the relationship between art and artists.

Becca Plugs:

Paying more attention to lettering

We mention:

Liz: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-4-liz

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

100th Episode: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/gba100-1

Book of Hours: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_hours

Book of Kells: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Kells

Irvine Welsh Malibou Stork Nightmares: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marabou_Stork_Nightmares

Death of the Author: http://www.tbook.constantvzw.org/wp-content/death_authorbarthes.pdf

Foucault: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Foucault

Barthes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_Barthes

Oyster Card: http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tickets/14836.aspx

Real Madrid: http://www.realmadrid.com/en

Pearl Jam: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_Jam

Quiet - Susan Cain: http://www.thepowerofintroverts.com/

Ted Talk - Susan Cain: http://www.ted.com/talks/susan_cain_the_power_of_introverts

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In GBA 150 we get better acquainted with Becca. She talks about the art, culture and significance of calligraphy, football and rock concerts. And we get into her New Jersey upbringing, studying at Cornell University, how an introvert responds to London and the relationship between art and artists.

Becca Plugs:

Paying more attention to lettering

We mention:

Liz: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-4-liz

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

100th Episode: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/gba100-1

Book of Hours: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_hours

Book of Kells: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Kells

Irvine Welsh Malibou Stork Nightmares: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marabou_Stork_Nightmares

Death of the Author: http://www.tbook.constantvzw.org/wp-content/death_authorbarthes.pdf

Foucault: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Foucault

Barthes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_Barthes

Oyster Card: http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tickets/14836.aspx

Real Madrid: http://www.realmadrid.com/en

Pearl Jam: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_Jam

Quiet - Susan Cain: http://www.thepowerofintroverts.com/

Ted Talk - Susan Cain: http://www.ted.com/talks/susan_cain_the_power_of_introverts

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In GBA 149 we get better acquainted with Kathleen. She talks about being arrested for political activism, being nomadic, going to a Steiner School, podcasting, Bangladesh, Northern Ireland, community organising and more.

Kathleen plugs:

Her podcast Citizens Discs which will be launching on Friday 4th April. I will give it further shout outs on GBA nearer the time.

Living in a Boat.

The possibility of building more canals and having more house boats to address the housing shortage.

Nomadism.

We mention:

Guest hosted by Alex episode: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-81-dave-guest-hosted-by

In the Dark: http://www.inthedarkradio.org/

Wapping Project: http://www.thewappingproject.com/

Radcliffe Live Episode: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-live-4-radcliffe

Desert Island Discs: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/desert-island-discs

Steiner: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldorf_education

Steiner Centre London: http://www.waldorftraining.org.uk/

Hollywood: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holywood

Global Exchange: http://www.globalexchange.org/

Fortnam and Mason 145: https://www.facebook.com/FortnumMason145

The March for the Alternative: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_London_anti-cuts_protest

UK Uncut: http://www.ukuncut.org.uk/

WTF with Marc Maron: http://www.wtfpod.com/

DiD - archive: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/desert-island-discs/find-a-castaway

This American Life: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/

RadioLab: http://www.radiolab.org/

The Moth: http://themoth.org/

Mum conversations: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/the-mum-episodes-1/

Adobe Audition: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Audition

Audacity: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

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

Hannah's Starbuck Zombie featuring episode: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-45-hannah

Citizen Radio: http://wearecitizenradio.com/

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In GBA 149 we get better acquainted with Kathleen. She talks about being arrested for political activism, being nomadic, going to a Steiner School, podcasting, Bangladesh, Northern Ireland, community organising and more.

Kathleen plugs:

Her podcast Citizens Discs which will be launching on Friday 4th April. I will give it further shout outs on GBA nearer the time.

Living in a Boat.

The possibility of building more canals and having more house boats to address the housing shortage.

Nomadism.

We mention:

Guest hosted by Alex episode: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-81-dave-guest-hosted-by

In the Dark: http://www.inthedarkradio.org/

Wapping Project: http://www.thewappingproject.com/

Radcliffe Live Episode: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-live-4-radcliffe

Desert Island Discs: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/desert-island-discs

Steiner: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldorf_education

Steiner Centre London: http://www.waldorftraining.org.uk/

Hollywood: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holywood

Global Exchange: http://www.globalexchange.org/

Fortnam and Mason 145: https://www.facebook.com/FortnumMason145

The March for the Alternative: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_London_anti-cuts_protest

UK Uncut: http://www.ukuncut.org.uk/

WTF with Marc Maron: http://www.wtfpod.com/

DiD - archive: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/desert-island-discs/find-a-castaway

This American Life: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/

RadioLab: http://www.radiolab.org/

The Moth: http://themoth.org/

Mum conversations: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/the-mum-episodes-1/

Adobe Audition: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Audition

Audacity: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

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

Hannah's Starbuck Zombie featuring episode: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-45-hannah

Citizen Radio: http://wearecitizenradio.com/

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In GBA 148 we get better acquainted with Musa Okwonga. We talk privilege, empathy, black history, climate change, progressive economics, TV/film, rape culture, inequality, journalism and so much more.

Musa plugs:

http://www.okwonga.com/

https://twitter.com/Okwonga

I plug:

Edit's of earlier GBA episodes are going out on Resonance 104.4 FM at 11am Fridays (repeated 2am Tuesdays): http://resonancefm.com/

Tragic Heroes: 21st March @ The Hackney Attic: https://www.facebook.com/events/502957866479816/

We mention:

Musa's blog on feminism that I was reading while waiting to have a vasectomy: http://www.okwonga.com/?p=591

Fast and the Furious: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fast_and_the_Furious

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

Zachary Quinto: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spock

Chris Pine: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Pine

Star Trek: Into Darkness: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_Into_Darkness

New Statesman: http://www.newstatesman.com/

Independent: http://www.independent.co.uk/

Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/uk

This is Africa: http://www.thisisafricaonline.com/

EDL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Defence_League

Musa's blog on Tommy Robinson: http://www.okwonga.com/?p=820

Owen Jones: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_Jones_(writer)

Laurie Penny: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurie_Penny

Musa's Nelson Mandela Article: http://www.okwonga.com/?p=869

Audre Lorde: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audre_Lorde

Ivan Massow in Evening Standard: http://www.standard.co.uk/comment/comment/ivan-massow-this-new-gay-hedonism-is-not-what-i-fought-for-8678761.html

Rosa Parks: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks

Stokely Carmichael: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stokely_Carmichael

Kate Tempest: http://katetempest.co.uk/

March for the Alternative: http://goosefat101twitterspills.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/truth.html

Musa's blog on empathy: http://www.okwonga.com/?p=933

Ian Duncan Smith: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain_Duncan_Smith

Tim Montgomerie: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Montgomerie

This American Life: money episode - http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/423/the-invention-of-money

Black Tudors article: http://mediadiversified.org/2014/02/12/its-time-to-talk-about-black-tudors/

Margaret MacMillan: The Uses and Abuses of History: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Abuses-History-Professor-Margaret-MacMillan/dp/1846682045

Musa's article on WW! and Empire: http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2014/01/dear-mr-gove-we-need-talk-about-empire-our-schools

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

Edward Said: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Said

Male Gaze: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaze#The_.22male_gaze.22_in_feminist_theory

Foucault: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Foucault

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

Little Britain: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Britain

David Cameron: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Cameron

James Arthur: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Arthur_(singer)

Property article in the evening standard: http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/londons-100bn-property-boom-as-last-homes-under-100k-are-snapped-up-9082716.html

Niels Bohr: http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/941-the-opposite-of-a-correct-statement-is-a-false-statement

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In GBA 148 we get better acquainted with Musa Okwonga. We talk privilege, empathy, black history, climate change, progressive economics, TV/film, rape culture, inequality, journalism and so much more.

Musa plugs:

http://www.okwonga.com/

https://twitter.com/Okwonga

I plug:

Edit's of earlier GBA episodes are going out on Resonance 104.4 FM at 11am Fridays (repeated 2am Tuesdays): http://resonancefm.com/

Tragic Heroes: 21st March @ The Hackney Attic: https://www.facebook.com/events/502957866479816/

We mention:

Musa's blog on feminism that I was reading while waiting to have a vasectomy: http://www.okwonga.com/?p=591

Fast and the Furious: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fast_and_the_Furious

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

Zachary Quinto: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spock

Chris Pine: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Pine

Star Trek: Into Darkness: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_Into_Darkness

New Statesman: http://www.newstatesman.com/

Independent: http://www.independent.co.uk/

Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/uk

This is Africa: http://www.thisisafricaonline.com/

EDL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Defence_League

Musa's blog on Tommy Robinson: http://www.okwonga.com/?p=820

Owen Jones: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_Jones_(writer)

Laurie Penny: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurie_Penny

Musa's Nelson Mandela Article: http://www.okwonga.com/?p=869

Audre Lorde: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audre_Lorde

Ivan Massow in Evening Standard: http://www.standard.co.uk/comment/comment/ivan-massow-this-new-gay-hedonism-is-not-what-i-fought-for-8678761.html

Rosa Parks: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks

Stokely Carmichael: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stokely_Carmichael

Kate Tempest: http://katetempest.co.uk/

March for the Alternative: http://goosefat101twitterspills.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/truth.html

Musa's blog on empathy: http://www.okwonga.com/?p=933

Ian Duncan Smith: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain_Duncan_Smith

Tim Montgomerie: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Montgomerie

This American Life: money episode - http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/423/the-invention-of-money

Black Tudors article: http://mediadiversified.org/2014/02/12/its-time-to-talk-about-black-tudors/

Margaret MacMillan: The Uses and Abuses of History: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Abuses-History-Professor-Margaret-MacMillan/dp/1846682045

Musa's article on WW! and Empire: http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2014/01/dear-mr-gove-we-need-talk-about-empire-our-schools

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

Edward Said: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Said

Male Gaze: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaze#The_.22male_gaze.22_in_feminist_theory

Foucault: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Foucault

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

Little Britain: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Britain

David Cameron: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Cameron

James Arthur: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Arthur_(singer)

Property article in the evening standard: http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/londons-100bn-property-boom-as-last-homes-under-100k-are-snapped-up-9082716.html

Niels Bohr: http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/941-the-opposite-of-a-correct-statement-is-a-false-statement

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In GBA 147 we get better acquainted with Lisa. She talks about travelling round the world; including the experience of being hit by a car in Vietnam, the commercialization of atrocities, the practicalities and politics of travel and so much more.

Lisa plugs:

Her blog: http://lisafindley.com/

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Stowaway/152841568136841

I plug:

Tragic Love: 13th February @ the Dogstar, Brixton: https://www.facebook.com/events/679186822103633/

We mention:

Liz Episode: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-4-liz

The Killing Fields: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_Fields

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

Carl Episode: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-131-carl

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In GBA 147 we get better acquainted with Lisa. She talks about travelling round the world; including the experience of being hit by a car in Vietnam, the commercialization of atrocities, the practicalities and politics of travel and so much more.

Lisa plugs:

Her blog: http://lisafindley.com/

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Stowaway/152841568136841

I plug:

Tragic Love: 13th February @ the Dogstar, Brixton: https://www.facebook.com/events/679186822103633/

We mention:

Liz Episode: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-4-liz

The Killing Fields: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_Fields

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

Carl Episode: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-131-carl

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In GBA 146 we get even better acquainted with Nick who is the brother of my old friend Richard:

http://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/the-richard-episodes

Nick talks candidly about trying to find is way in life, being bullied at school, being a younger brother comparing yourself to a successful older brother, fitting in, being a life guard, going to America on a whim and having an epiphany at the top of the Grand Canyon, deciding against a career in radio and more.

This is the third and final conversation in the Kingdom season which started last week with Richard 2.

Nick plugs: the idea of taking off your masks and seeing yourself for who you are.

GBA has another season coming up on Resonance FM. Episodes from the back catalogue reedited to fit the hour slot will be going out at 11am on Fridays (repeated at 2am on Tuesdays) from the 31st of January.

http://www.resonancefm.com/

Resonance FM could do with your support. Please consider helping fund what they do: http://resonancefm.com/support

We mention:

Jackass: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackass_(TV_series)

Radio 1: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/

Chris Evans: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Evans_(presenter)

Coachella:http://www.coachella.com/

All the world's a stage speech: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_the_world%27s_a_stage

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

David Beckham: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Beckham

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In GBA 146 we get even better acquainted with Nick who is the brother of my old friend Richard:

http://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/the-richard-episodes

Nick talks candidly about trying to find is way in life, being bullied at school, being a younger brother comparing yourself to a successful older brother, fitting in, being a life guard, going to America on a whim and having an epiphany at the top of the Grand Canyon, deciding against a career in radio and more.

This is the third and final conversation in the Kingdom season which started last week with Richard 2.

Nick plugs: the idea of taking off your masks and seeing yourself for who you are.

GBA has another season coming up on Resonance FM. Episodes from the back catalogue reedited to fit the hour slot will be going out at 11am on Fridays (repeated at 2am on Tuesdays) from the 31st of January.

http://www.resonancefm.com/

Resonance FM could do with your support. Please consider helping fund what they do: http://resonancefm.com/support

We mention:

Jackass: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackass_(TV_series)

Radio 1: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/

Chris Evans: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Evans_(presenter)

Coachella:http://www.coachella.com/

All the world's a stage speech: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_the_world%27s_a_stage

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

David Beckham: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Beckham

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