Getting Better Acquainted

Getting Better Acquainted

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Getting Better Acquainted episodes

  • GBA 121 Sue
    In GBA 121 we get better acquainted with Sue. She talks about friendship, judgement, the NHS, the founding of a community garden, talking to children, working in many positions within the health service, the state of public services and so much more.
    Sue is a close family friend to all branches of my complicated non-nuclear family. She brings the family season to a close with this warm, open and wise conversation.
    Sue Plugs:
    The Waterboys : An Appointment with Mr Yeats: http://www.mikescottwaterboys.com/waterboys-mr-yeats-album.php
    http://open.spotify.com/album/4EStbTDHbaKdWUMs25Xbfa
    These other GBA episodes are mentioned:
    The special episode about the way the family experienced my father's heart condition: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-53-to-the-heart-of-it
    Conversation with Karl James from the Dialogue Project: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-38-karl-james
    Conversation with Lucy about her time working in the Library Service: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-173-lucy
    You can hear Getting Better Acquainted on Stitcher SmartRadio, Stitcher allows you to listen to your favourite shows directly from your iPhone, Android Phone, Kindle Fire and beyond.
    On-demand and on the go!
    Don’t have Stitcher? Download it for free today at www.stitcher.com or in the app stores.
    Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review?
    1 hr 19 min
  • GBA 121 Sue
    In GBA 121 we get better acquainted with Sue. She talks about friendship, judgement, the NHS, the founding of a community garden, talking to children, working in many positions within the health service, the state of public services and so much more.
    Sue is a close family friend to all branches of my complicated non-nuclear family. She brings the family season to a close with this warm, open and wise conversation.
    Sue Plugs:
    The Waterboys : An Appointment with Mr Yeats: http://www.mikescottwaterboys.com/waterboys-mr-yeats-album.php
    http://open.spotify.com/album/4EStbTDHbaKdWUMs25Xbfa
    These other GBA episodes are mentioned:
    The special episode about the way the family experienced my father's heart condition: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-53-to-the-heart-of-it
    Conversation with Karl James from the Dialogue Project: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-38-karl-james
    Conversation with Lucy about her time working in the Library Service: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-173-lucy
    You can hear Getting Better Acquainted on Stitcher SmartRadio, Stitcher allows you to listen to your favourite shows directly from your iPhone, Android Phone, Kindle Fire and beyond.
    On-demand and on the go!
    Don’t have Stitcher? Download it for free today at www.stitcher.com or in the app stores.
    Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review?
    1 hr 19 min
  • The Truth Of Today
    GBA 120 is a special episode that was mostly recorded whilst travelling on buses a couple of years ago. For half of it you join me on a National Express bus that is going from Bristol from London and for the other half I am returning from this journey.
    This trip to Bristol wasn't really about travelling between locations. It was a journey about family, memory and coming to terms with various things that have made me and my family who and what we are.
    This episode documents a life changing, revelatory weekend, where I spent time with 4 generations of my family, held an almost new born baby, interviewed close friends about their lives, had various experiences at St Paul's Carnival, and sat down on a sunny Sunday morning to have three very different conversations with my mother, the third one of which focused on our relationship with each other, the full episode that features that conversation went out last Wednesday.
    This episode is a kind of commentary on all of the above, a summation of how those things intertwined around my life and sense of self for a while, a documentation of an epiphany live as it occurs, before it becomes part forgotten like all realisations.
    It contains clips from all three conversations with my mother: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/the-mum-episodes-1/
    And also from conversations I had with my friends Jess and Dan:
    https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-111-jess
    https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-112-dan
    You can hear Getting Better Acquainted on Stitcher SmartRadio, Stitcher allows you to listen to your favourite shows directly from your iPhone, Android Phone, Kindle Fire and beyond.
    On-demand and on the go!
    Don’t have Stitcher? Download it for free today at www.stitcher.com or in the app stores.
    Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review?
    42 min
  • The Truth Of Today
    GBA 120 is a special episode that was mostly recorded whilst travelling on buses a couple of years ago. For half of it you join me on a National Express bus that is going from Bristol from London and for the other half I am returning from this journey.
    This trip to Bristol wasn't really about travelling between locations. It was a journey about family, memory and coming to terms with various things that have made me and my family who and what we are.
    This episode documents a life changing, revelatory weekend, where I spent time with 4 generations of my family, held an almost new born baby, interviewed close friends about their lives, had various experiences at St Paul's Carnival, and sat down on a sunny Sunday morning to have three very different conversations with my mother, the third one of which focused on our relationship with each other, the full episode that features that conversation went out last Wednesday.
    This episode is a kind of commentary on all of the above, a summation of how those things intertwined around my life and sense of self for a while, a documentation of an epiphany live as it occurs, before it becomes part forgotten like all realisations.
    It contains clips from all three conversations with my mother: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/the-mum-episodes-1/
    And also from conversations I had with my friends Jess and Dan:
    https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-111-jess
    https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-112-dan
    You can hear Getting Better Acquainted on Stitcher SmartRadio, Stitcher allows you to listen to your favourite shows directly from your iPhone, Android Phone, Kindle Fire and beyond.
    On-demand and on the go!
    Don’t have Stitcher? Download it for free today at www.stitcher.com or in the app stores.
    Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review?
    42 min
  • GBA 119 Mum #3
    In GBA 119 we get even better acquainted with my Mum as she returns for her 3rd full episode. We talk about the tensions and similarities between us, nature verses nurture, rage, depression and mother issues! It was a hard but revelatory conversation to have. And in some ways is as personally revealing as last weeks episode with my dad. Another one I'm nervous to share.
    We talked about my mothers relationship with my gran too and how that relationship has shaped and influenced her. So I have also included a short story I wrote about my grandparents in the middle of the conversation. That story was written in part as a reaction and extension of this conversation. It was performed in front of a live audience at Stand Up Tragedy.
    The conversation was a big one for me. You hear me having unexpected feelings live on mic. And it's actually a very unconfrontational conversation. It was the third one in a row that I'd recorded with her.
    https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/the-mum-episodes-1
    These conversations were part of a very intensive life changing visit to Bristol and on Friday I'm releasing a GBA special called The Truth of Today which documents and deals with the experiences that I had that weekend.
    You can hear Getting Better Acquainted on Stitcher SmartRadio, Stitcher allows you to listen to your favourite shows directly from your iPhone, Android Phone, Kindle Fire and beyond.
    On-demand and on the go!
    Don’t have Stitcher? Download it for free today at www.stitcher.com or in the app stores.
    Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review?
    1 hr 21 min
  • GBA 119 Mum #3
    In GBA 119 we get even better acquainted with my Mum as she returns for her 3rd full episode. We talk about the tensions and similarities between us, nature verses nurture, rage, depression and mother issues! It was a hard but revelatory conversation to have. And in some ways is as personally revealing as last weeks episode with my dad. Another one I'm nervous to share.
    We talked about my mothers relationship with my gran too and how that relationship has shaped and influenced her. So I have also included a short story I wrote about my grandparents in the middle of the conversation. That story was written in part as a reaction and extension of this conversation. It was performed in front of a live audience at Stand Up Tragedy.
    The conversation was a big one for me. You hear me having unexpected feelings live on mic. And it's actually a very unconfrontational conversation. It was the third one in a row that I'd recorded with her.
    https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/the-mum-episodes-1
    These conversations were part of a very intensive life changing visit to Bristol and on Friday I'm releasing a GBA special called The Truth of Today which documents and deals with the experiences that I had that weekend.
    You can hear Getting Better Acquainted on Stitcher SmartRadio, Stitcher allows you to listen to your favourite shows directly from your iPhone, Android Phone, Kindle Fire and beyond.
    On-demand and on the go!
    Don’t have Stitcher? Download it for free today at www.stitcher.com or in the app stores.
    Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review?
    1 hr 21 min
  • GBA 118 Dad #3
    In GBA 118 we get even better acquainted with my Dad as he returns for his 3rd full episode. We compare losing virginity stories and our first sexual experiences (which were many generations apart), infidelity, sex workers, male sexuality, women, love, romance, attraction and lots more.
    It's a very personally revealing episode that I'm nervous about sharing with the world.
    These are the other GBA episodes my dad has appeared in: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/the-dad-episodes
    You can hear Getting Better Acquainted on Stitcher SmartRadio, Stitcher allows you to listen to your favourite shows directly from your iPhone, Android Phone, Kindle Fire and beyond.
    On-demand and on the go!
    Don’t have Stitcher? Download it for free today at www.stitcher.com or in the app stores.
    Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review?
    1 hr 9 min
  • GBA 118 Dad #3
    In GBA 118 we get even better acquainted with my Dad as he returns for his 3rd full episode. We compare losing virginity stories and our first sexual experiences (which were many generations apart), infidelity, sex workers, male sexuality, women, love, romance, attraction and lots more.
    It's a very personally revealing episode that I'm nervous about sharing with the world.
    These are the other GBA episodes my dad has appeared in: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/the-dad-episodes
    You can hear Getting Better Acquainted on Stitcher SmartRadio, Stitcher allows you to listen to your favourite shows directly from your iPhone, Android Phone, Kindle Fire and beyond.
    On-demand and on the go!
    Don’t have Stitcher? Download it for free today at www.stitcher.com or in the app stores.
    Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review?
    1 hr 9 min
  • GBA Extra: Annie Jones
    In this very special GBA extra the guest host is my older(half) sister Rebecca when she was 8 years old, she is interviewing her Nanny Annie Jones who was born in Victorian times about what life was like back then.
    It was recorded by Sheila who was last Wednesday's guest: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-117-sheila
    This is Rebecca doing her GBA as an adult: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-28-rebecca
    You can hear Getting Better Acquainted on Stitcher SmartRadio, Stitcher allows you to listen to your favourite shows directly from your iPhone, Android Phone, Kindle Fire and beyond.
    On-demand and on the go!
    Don’t have Stitcher? Download it for free today at www.stitcher.com or in the app stores.
    Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review?
    21 min
  • GBA Extra: Annie Jones
    In this very special GBA extra the guest host is my older(half) sister Rebecca when she was 8 years old, she is interviewing her Nanny Annie Jones who was born in Victorian times about what life was like back then.
    It was recorded by Sheila who was last Wednesday's guest: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-117-sheila
    This is Rebecca doing her GBA as an adult: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-28-rebecca
    You can hear Getting Better Acquainted on Stitcher SmartRadio, Stitcher allows you to listen to your favourite shows directly from your iPhone, Android Phone, Kindle Fire and beyond.
    On-demand and on the go!
    Don’t have Stitcher? Download it for free today at www.stitcher.com or in the app stores.
    Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review?
    21 min

About Getting Better Acquainted

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A weekly podcast: Join Dave Pickering on his journey to get better acquainted with the people he knows. Part interview show, part oral history project and part autobiography through conversation.