Duncan Larkin discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known. Duncan Larkin has covered the sport of running for more than a decade. He’s a certified Army Master Fitness Trainer and was a top-300 American marathoner back in 2006. He has won the Himalayan 100-Mile Stage Race and the Mohawk-Hudson Marathon. His first books include Run Simple and The Thirty-Minute Runner. Duncan writes about fitness for Outside Magazine, Competitor Magazine, Runner’s World, ESPN, and Running Times. Find out more at https://roadsmillslaps.tumblr.com/ and at https://www.instagram.com/dunlar/. How the last-place finisher of the NYC Marathon feels in the last mile https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YrlVSOB4-s Silas Soule and Mochi https://www.colorado.com/life-chronicles-sand-creek-massacre The concept of cognitive dissonance https://www.healthline.com/health/cognitive-dissonance-examples Time will Reveal by DeBarge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_988-cpiG94 Keith Douglas’ poem Vergissmeinnicht https://interestingliterature.com/2017/08/a-short-analysis-of-keith-douglass-vergissmeinnicht/ The Devil’s Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2012/05/10/ambrose-bierce-one-americas-best/ This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

Travel writer Tim Hannigan discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known. Tim Hannigan was born and brought up in the far west of Cornwall, but he now lives in Ireland. After leaving school he trained as a chef. He later studied journalism and began his writing career as a journalist and guidebook writer, based in Indonesia. He is the author of a number of nonfiction books, including Murder in the Hindu Kush, which was shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Prize, and Raffles and the British Invasion of Java, which won the John Brooks Award. His most recent book is The Travel Writing Tribe, about a quest to answer the trickiest questions about the travel genre. His next book, The Granite Kingdom, is an exploration of his own homeland, Cornwall, and is due out in May 2023. Find out more at https://timhannigan.com/. Indonesia https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1966/05/26/in-search-of-indonesia/ The 1811 British invasion of Java https://www.thehighlandersmuseum.com/?p=30029 Cornwall is one of the poorest regions in western Europe https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2016/02/real-cornwall-county-poorer-lithuania-and-hungary The Cornish language https://omniglot.com/writing/cornish.htm The public footpaths of England and Wales https://footpathmap.co.uk/ Eland Books https://www.travelbooks.co.uk/ This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

Dan Schreiber discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known. Dan Schreiber is a writer, stand-up comedian, TV presenter, producer and podcaster. He is co-host of the UK’s most streamed podcast, No Such Thing As A Fish, which has had over 350 million downloads and has played to sell-out audiences in iconic venues such as the London Palladium and the Sydney Opera House. Dan is also a member of the 'QI Elves' and co-creator of the Rose d’Or award-winning BBC Radio 4 panel show The Museum of Curiosity. His new book, The Theory of Everything Else, is available at https://harpercollins.co.uk/pages/thetheoryofeverythingelse The science writer Ann Druyan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFebYBARdPs The front cover of Jim Carrey’s novel https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/29/books/jim-carrey-memoirs-and-misinformation.html The Cantonese word Aiyah http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/words/814/ Watkins Bookshop https://www.thebookseller.com/author-interviews/watkins-books-soho-london The power of monks https://edition.cnn.com/2016/04/29/football/leicester-city-buddha-monks-karma/index.html Neil Armstrong’s favourite footstep https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/neil-armstrong-walks-on-jerusalem This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

Five years after the first episode of Better Known, Ivan Wise talks again to previous guests Richard Elwes, Wasfi Kani and Kerry Shale. They discuss previous choices that they agree (and disagree with) and new choices which they think should be better known. Richard Elwes is a Senior Teaching Fellow at the University of Leeds, where he has taught courses on Geometry, Number Theory, Algebraic Topology, Combinatorics, Logic, History of Maths and Computational Mathematics. Find out more at www.richardelwes.co.uk. Wasfi Kani is the founder of Grange Park Opera. Wasfi Kani is an Honorary Fellow of the RIBA and St Hilda’s College, Oxford. She received a CBE in the 2020 New Year’s Honours list for services to music. She received an OBE in the New Year’s Honours List 2002 for her work in bringing her second opera company, Pimlico Opera, into prisons. Find out more at www.grangeparkopera.co.uk. Kerry Shale’s theatre appearances include Frost/Nixon, His Girl Friday, The Normal Heart and six self-written solo shows. Television work includes The Sandman, Dr. Who and The Trip. Films include Batgirl and Angel Has Fallen. For BBC radio, he has won three Sony Awards for acting and writing. His latest play, an adaptation of Yentl The Yeshiva Boy, will be broadcast early in 2023. He co-presents the podcast Is It Rolling, Bob? Talking Dylan: https://podcasts.apple.com/no/podcast/is-it-rolling-bob-talking-dylan/id1437321669. Find out more at www.kerryshale.com. Mark Sykes and the exhumed coffin http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/humber/7617968.stm The Minoan civilisation https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2009/08/13/knossos-fakes-facts-and-mystery/ Steven Appleby https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Appleby This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

Anna Ploszajski discusses with Ivan six things which she thinks should be better known. Dr Anna Ploszajski is an award-winning materials scientist, comedian and storyteller based in London. She’s a materials generalist, equally fascinated by metals, plastics, ceramics, glasses and substances from the natural world. Anna channels her passion for storytelling about materials through writing, podcasting, presenting and training scientists and engineers in the art of storytelling. Her first book, Handmade: A Scientist’s Search for Meaning Through Making, is out now. In her spare time, Anna plays the trumpet in a funk and soul covers band and is an ultra-endurance open water swimmer. Find out more at www.annaploszajski.com. Materials science https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materials_science Into the Woods by John Yorke https://www.waterstones.com/book/into-the-woods/john-yorke/9780141978109 Ultra-swimmer Sarah Thomas https://sarahthomasswims.com/. Trumpets can play quietly! https://www.alisonbalsom.com/ Barberette https://www.barberette.co.uk/ IFIXIT https://www.ifixit.com/ This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

Helen Gordon discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known. Helen Gordon’s books include Notes from Deep Time (Profile), Landfall (Penguin) and, with Travis Elborough, Being a Writer (Frances Lincoln). She has written about nature, science, art and books for various newspapers and magazines including the Economist’s 1843 magazine, the Guardian, the TLS, Apollo and Wired UK. A former Granta magazine editor, she currently teaches creative writing at the University of Hertfordshire. Deep time https://profilebooks.com/work/notes-from-deep-time/ James Hutton https://www.edinburghgeolsoc.org/edinburghs-geology/geological-pioneers/james-hutton/ and https://www.geolsoc.org.uk/GeositesSiccarPoint Campi Flegrei https://volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?vn=211010 The view towards London from Farthing Downs https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/things-to-do/green-spaces/farthing-downs/visit-farthing-downs Man in the Holocene https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Man-in-the-Holocene-by-Max-Frisch-Geoffrey-Skelton/9781564784667 Desk Set https://www.allmovie.com/movie/v13391 This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

Novelist John King discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known. John King is the author of nine novels with a tenth (London Country) to be published in 2023. His debut The Football Factory was turned into a film starring Danny Dyer and Dudley Sutton, while his most recent (Slaughterhouse Prayer) is being developed for television. His first novella The Beasts Of Brussels appeared as one-third of The Seal Club in 2020 along with work by Irvine Welsh and Alan Warner. The second of a proposed trilogy (Seal Club 2: The View From Poacher’s Hill) is due in 2023. John co-owns London Books, edits the London Classics fiction list, publishes and edits the small-press fiction journal Verbal and co-runs the Human Punk nights at London’s 100 Club. He has also written articles and reviews for the likes of the New Statesman in the UK, la Repubblica in Italy and Le Monde in France. You can find out more at https://www.john-king-author.co.uk/ The Middle Path https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhadasa The benefits of leaving the EU https://www.john-king-author.co.uk/liberal-politics The realities of animal slaughter https://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/til-the-pigs-come-round/ Drinking beer in public houses is good for our health https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/the-moon-under-water/ The so-called lowlife literature of 1930s London https://www.london-books.co.uk/ Dharma Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbAb9oqkHlQ This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

Economist Anton Muscatelli discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known. Professor Sir Anton Muscatelli has been Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Glasgow since 2009. An economist, his research interests are monetary economics, central bank independence, fiscal policy, international finance and macroeconomics. Sir Anton was Chair (2016-21) of the First Minister’s Standing Council on Europe, a non-political group providing expert advice to Scottish ministers on Scotland’s relationship with the EU. He was a member of the Scottish Government’s Council of Economic Advisers 2015-21, and subsequently advised them on the National Strategy for Economic Transformation. He is a member of the advisory group for Sir Paul Nurse’s Review of the UK’s Research, Development and Innovation Organisational Landscape. From 2017-20 he was Chair of the Russell Group of UK research-intensive universities. He has been a special adviser to the House of Commons Treasury Select Committee on fiscal and monetary policy, and he has advised the European Commission and the World Bank. He holds an honorary degree from McGill University in Canada. The life of James McCune Smith https://www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk/biography/?id=WH24115&type=P&o=&start=0&max=20&l= The importance of central bank independence https://www.ft.com/content/c233c60e-7d88-465a-9b8b-c35b6a5ca339 (paywall) Cooking with fresh (Apulian) artichokes https://personalpuglia.com/2012/11/27/an-abundance-of-artichokes-food-itlay/ Sostiene Pereira by Antonio Tabucchi https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/nov/21/pereira-maintains-tabucchi-review The game of Maniglia/Manille https://www.pagat.com/manille/mariglia.html Basilica of St Nicholas in Bari https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilica_di_San_Nicola This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

Novelist Kamila Shamsie discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known. Kamila Shamsie was born and grew up in Karachi, Pakistan. Her novel, Home Fire, won the Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2018. It was also longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017, shortlisted for the Costa Best Novel Award, and won the London Hellenic Prize. She is the author of six previous novels including Burnt Shadows, shortlisted for the Orange Prize, and A God in Every Stone, shortlisted for the Women’s Bailey’s Prize and the Walter Scott Prize. Her work has been translated into over 30 languages. Kamila Shamsie is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was named a Granta Best of Young British Novelist in 2013. She is professor of creative writing at the University of Manchester and lives in London. Her new novel is Best of Friends, which is available at https://www.waterstones.com/book/best-of-friends/kamila-shamsie/9781526657862. Kamila Shamsie is in conversation with Nesrine Malik at London’s Southbank Centre on Wednesday 28th September. Tickets are available at https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/literature-poetry/kamila-shamsie-best-friends?eventId=907048. The Peshawar Museum https://aboutkp.kp.gov.pk/page/peshawar_museaum Women’s cricket https://theconversation.com/the-history-of-womens-cricket-from-englands-greens-to-the-world-stage-132904 How to dress on scorchingly hot days https://www.gearpatrol.com/style/a736579/how-to-dress-cool-through-hot-weather/ The Pakistan floods https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/14/world/asia/pakistan-floods.html Ada I and II of Caria https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_of_Caria City walks https://www.ft.com/content/9d190dfe-97d5-4a9a-b8a3-8019589e9cee This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

Philip Ball discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known. Philip Ball is a freelance writer and broadcaster and worked previously for over 20 years as an editor for Nature. He writes regularly in the scientific and popular media and has authored many books on the interactions of the sciences, the arts, and the wider culture, including H2O: A Biography of Water, Bright Earth: The Invention of Colour, The Music Instinct and Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything. His book Critical Mass won the 2005 Aventis Prize for Science Books. Philip is a presenter of Science Stories, the BBC Radio 4 series on the history of science, and is the 2022 recipient of the Royal Society’s Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Medal for contributions to the history, philosophy or social functions of science. He trained as a chemist at the University of Oxford, and as a physicist at the University of Bristol. His latest book is The Book of Minds (2022), a survey of the varieties of mind that do and might exist. Find out more at www.philipball.co.uk. Our genome is not a blueprint for us https://aeon.co/essays/our-genome-is-not-a-blueprint-for-making-humans-at-all Emmy Noether https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxmDphojQUU Glenn Branca https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/may/14/glenn-branca-dead-guitarist-composer The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1997/07/17/paradise-in-a-dream/ What mercury feels like https://www.quora.com/What-does-mercury-feel-like The deceptive cadence https://www.aaronkrerowicz.com/beatles-blog/the-beatles-use-of-deceptive-cadences This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

Travel writer Tharik Hussain discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known. Tharik Hussain in an author and travel writer whose work often serves to counter popular and authorised narratives. His debut book, Minarets in the Mountains: A Journey into Muslim Europe, was nominated for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year award and the Baillie Gifford Prize in Non Fiction, and named a Book of the Year in the New Statesman, Prospect Magazine and the Times Literary Supplement. Hussain is also a Lonely Planet author who has written for the BBC, National Geographic and The Guardian. He developed Britain’s first Muslim heritage trails in Woking, Surrey and is a Fellow at the University of Groningen’s Centre for Religion and Heritage. You can find out more about Tharik's work at https://linktr.ee/TharikHussain and www.tharikhussain.co.uk You can find out more about the Muslim heritage trails: https://www.everydaymuslim.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/01Trail-EM-WMHT-WokingTrail.pdf and https://www.everydaymuslim.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/02Trail-EM-WMHT-MuhCemWalk.pdf Offa's Dinar https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/gold-dinar-of-king-offa The Shah Jahan Mosque https://shahjahanmosque.org.uk/ Twelve centuries of European Jewish-Muslim co existence https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2019/1105/Where-an-ancient-Jewish-Muslim-coexistence-endures Indigenous European Muslim culture https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/voices/forgotten-muslims-southeastern-europe There is an official 'Arabic' EU language https://airmalta.com/en-gb/blog/malta/the-fascinating-history-of-the-maltese-language The oldest mosque in the US https://www.salaamgateway.com/story/five-historic-mosques-of-america-you-shouldnt-miss This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

Rebecca Struthers discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known. Dr Rebecca Struthers is an independent watchmaker and time historian. The co-founder of multi-award-winning workshop Struthers Watchmakers, in her practice, she specialises in the continuation of historic watchmaking techniques to restore old and craft new artisan timepieces. A real time doctor, Rebecca is the first watchmaker in British history to earn a PhD in horology. Rebecca is a Trustee of the Museum of Timekeeping (UK), a Fellow of British Horological Institute, a Sustainable Skills Ambassador for the Association of Heritage Engineers, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and an Academy Member of the Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève - considered the Oscars of the watchmaking world. Her book, Hands of Time, explores the human history of time told through the objects we’ve invented to measure. It will be published in May 2023. Find out more at https://strutherswatchmakers.co.uk. John Wilter https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/196974 Benjamin Banneker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Banneker The Museum of Timekeeping https://www.museumoftimekeeping.org.uk/ Staffordshire Moorlands https://www.visitpeakdistrict.com/visitor-information/staffordshire-moorlands-tourist-information-centre-p677411 The Radium Girls https://www.kate-moore.com/the-radium-girls Dogs can tell the time https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/canine-corner/201911/can-dogs-smell-time This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

Rebeca Ramos discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known. Rebeca Ramos is a Venezuela-born architect and designer. Her international body of work includes of multi-disciplinary projects recognised for their design quality, cultural relevance and technological innovation. She led the design and delivery of the multi-award winning Maggie's Leeds; as well as the strategic definition of Google's largest urban Campus based in California. Rebeca founded Studio RARE inn 2021 as the culmination of 16+ years of international practice in architecture, media and the arts. Blending creative disciplines, RARE leverages emerging technologies to re-imagine how we create, develop and experience places, environments and cultural artefacts. She was the first and youngest appointed female Project Leader at Heatherwick Studio, and first Latin-American woman to fill the position in 2015. She has been featured in Bloomberg UK and Business Insider, with projects reviewed and acclaimed in the international design press. Home television series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_(2020_TV_series) Tribal storytelling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_peoples_in_Venezuela The art of repair https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/aug/22/back-for-good-the-fine-art-of-repairing-broken-things The artistic, cultural and architectural history of Venezuela https://www.admiddleeast.com/architecture-interiors/homes/gio-pontis-planchart-villa-in-venuzuala-is-an-icon-of-mid-century-modern-design Emotional language https://www.nonviolentcommunication.com/learn-nonviolent-communication/feelings/ The Timeless Way of Building https://www.re-thinkingthefuture.com/rtf-architectural-reviews/a4713-book-in-focus-the-timeless-way-of-building-by-christopher-alexander/ This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

Subhadra Das discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known. Subhadra Das is a researcher and storyteller who looks at the relationship between science and society. She specialises in the history and philosophy of science, particularly the history of scientific racism and eugenics, and what those histories mean for our lives today. For nine years, she was Curator of the Science Collections at University College London, and also Researcher in Critical Eugenics at the Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Racism and Racialisation. She has written and presented podcasts, curated museum exhibitions, done stand-up comedy and regularly appears on radio and TV. Her first book, (Un)Civilised: 10 Lies That Made The West comes out in May 2023. For more information, go to https://www.waterstones.com/book/un-civilised/subhadra-das/9781399704359%C2%A0 Francis Galton https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/museums/2015/10/22/francis-galton-and-the-history-of-eugenics-at-ucl/ Alok Vaid Menon https://www.instagram.com/alokvmenon Alabama 3 https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2001/apr/04/artsfeatures.popandrock Gaudy Night https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/an-overlooked-novel-from-1935-by-the-godmother-of-feminist-detective-fiction Pocket https://getpocket.com/ The Muppet Movie https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-muppet-movie-1979 This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

Historian David O Stewart discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known. A recovering lawyer and proud graduate of Curtis High School on Staten Island, David Stewart has published five books of history and four historical novels. His most recent nonfiction work, George Washington: The Political Rise of America's Founding Father, has won several awards and was a finalist for Mount Vernon’s George Washington Prize. His most recent novel, The New Land, was inspired by family stories his mother told, and is the first of a trilogy. He lives in Maryland with his wife of 48 years, Nancy; they have three children and five grandchildren. His website is www.davidostewart.com. His non-fiction books include The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented the Constitution, Impeached: The Trial of President Andrew Johnson and the Fight for Lincoln's Legacy, Madison's Gift: Five Partnerships that Built America, and American Emperor: Aaron Burr's Challenge to Jefferson's America. His fiction books include The Lincoln Deception, The Paris Deception and The Babe Ruth Deception. George Washington’s political skills https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington%27s_political_evolution Philip Noel-Baker https://www.quakersintheworld.org/quakers-in-action/231/Philip-Noel-Baker The Daughter of Time, by Josephine Tey https://chandlersfordtoday.co.uk/allison-symes-book-review-the-daughter-of-time-by-josephine-tey/ The Valle de los Caidos monument https://makespain.com/listing/valle-de-los-caidos/ The battles of Louisbourg in 1745 and 1758 https://www.thoughtco.com/french-indian-war-siege-of-louisbourg-2360795 The 1868 impeachment trial of U.S. President Andrew Johnson https://www.senate.gov/about/powers-procedures/impeachment/impeachment-johnson.htm This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

Novelist Lavie Tidhar discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known. Lavie Tidhar was born just ten miles from Armageddon and grew up on a kibbutz in northern Israel. He has since made his home in London, where he is currently a Visiting Professor and Writer in Residence at Richmond University. He won the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize for Best British Fiction, was twice longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award and was shortlisted for the CWA Dagger Award and the Rome Prize. He co-wrote Art and War: Poetry, Pulp and Politics in Israeli Fiction, and is a columnist for the Washington Post. His latest novel is Maror, published by Head of Zeus, which is available at https://www.waterstones.com/book/maror/lavie-tidhar/9781838931353. Joseph Grimaldi’s grave https://londonist.com/london/videos/grimaldi-s-cave Bislama http://www.pentecostisland.net/languages/bislama/guide.htm Marek Hlasko http://cosmopolitanreview.com/killing-the-second-dog/ Rarg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EGIG-Sq5-c Castro Mojito https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/beer-mojito The Israeli Mafia https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/a-field-guide-to-israeli-organized-crime This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

Roma Agrawal discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known. Roma Agrawal MBE is a structural engineer and author with a physics degree. She has designed bridges, skyscrapers and sculptures with signature architects. She spent six years working on The Shard, the tallest building in Western Europe, and designed the foundations and the ‘Spire’. In addition to winning industry awards, she has been featured on BBC World News, BBC Daily Politics, TEDx, The Evening Standard, The Sunday Times, Guardian, The Telegraph, Independent, Cosmopolitan and Stylist Magazines. She was the only woman featured on Channel 4's documentary on the Shard, The Tallest Tower. Her books include Built: The Hidden Stories Behind Our Structures and How Was That Built? Bharata Natyam https://www.culturalindia.net/indian-dance/classical/bharatnatyam.html Emily Warren Roebling https://www.womenhistoryblog.com/2014/06/emily-warren-roebling.html Foundations of structures https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-jun-01-mn-55439-story.html ICSI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intracytoplasmic_sperm_injection Chaat https://www.tasteofhome.com/article/chaat/ The science of knitting and crochet https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/17/science/math-physics-knitting-matsumoto.html This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

Tim Lott discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known. Tim Lott was born in Southall, West London in 1956. After a career in journalism, his first book, The Scent of Dried Roses, a memoir, was published in 1996 and won the PEN/JR Ackerley Prize for Autobiography. His first novel, White City Blue, (1999) a contemporary portrait of friendship and rivalry between a group of young single men, won the Whitbread First Novel Award. It was followed Rumours of Hurricane (2002), a portrait of working class life in Britain in the 1980’s, which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel Award. Tim has been teaching writing for the last ten years, as a lecturer, teacher and individual mentor. He taught for three years at the Faber Academy, then moved to Guardian Masterclasses where he teaches individually and lectures with his partners John Yorke and Will Storr, collectively known as The Story Board. He has also taught creative writing at Brunel University and lectured at the University of East Anglia, the How To Academy, the Idler Academy, and the School of Life. His online mentoring course on Memoir is at TheNovelry.com. Alan Watts https://medium.com/age-of-awareness/alan-watts-on-the-5-most-important-lessons-of-the-21st-century-6d1734aa6cf The Game of the Goose http://ursuladubosarsky.squarespace.com/the-game-of-the-goose Come and See https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-come-and-see-1985 Canelés https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/caneles Hampstead Mixed Pond https://www.mixedpondassociation.org.uk/ The Fryer’s Delight https://www.timeout.com/london/news/step-back-in-time-at-this-old-school-fish-and-chip-shop-022522 This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

Emma Smith discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known. Emma Smith is Professor of Shakespeare Studies at Hertford College, Oxford: her most recent book is Portable Magic: A History of Books and their Readers. The plays of Thomas Middleton https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v30/n23/michael-neill/old-dad-dead New Lanark https://www.newlanark.org/ Abel Gance’s film Napoleon https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/nov/10/napoleon-review-silent-era-epic-more-thrilling-than-ever French 75s https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/french-75-cocktail The Scrivener app https://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener/overview The jazz pianist Jan Johannson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Johansson_(jazz_musician) This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

Elisabeth Kendall discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known. Elisabeth Kendall is Mistress-elect of Girton College, Cambridge, and Senior Research Fellow in Arabic and Islamic Studies at Pembroke College, Oxford. Her current work examines how militant jihad groups exploit cultural traditions and local dynamics. Previously, she was at the Universities of Edinburgh and Harvard, and served as Director of a UK government-sponsored Centre focused on building Arabic-based research expertise. Elisabeth has lectured at governmental, military and scholarly institutions all around the world and is a frequent contributor to international television and print media. She also sits on a variety of international boards and is Chairman of a grass-roots NGO in eastern Yemen. She has authored and edited several books, including ReClaiming Islamic Tradition and Twenty-First Century Jihad. She conceived of the “Essential Middle Eastern Vocabularies” series, which includes the following titles which she also authored: Diplomacy Arabic, Intelligence Arabic and Media Arabic. She is currently working on a new book called Rock Stars of Jihad. Elisabeth has spent significant time in the field, especially in Yemen. She can be followed on Twitter https://twitter.com/Dr_E_Kendall and YouTube https://www.youtube.com/c/ElisabethKendall/videos Craft chocolate https://www.greatbritishfoodawards.com/blog/9-british-craft-chocolate-bars-you-have-to-try War in Yemen https://www.cfr.org/global-conflict-tracker/conflict/war-yemen The Great Courses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wondrium The Lycian Way https://cultureroutesinturkey.com/the-lycian-way/ Elizabeth Welsh https://www.girton.cam.ac.uk/events/elizabeth-welsh-1843-1921 Foreign languages https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-40954948 This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

In a change to the usual format, Ivan Wise discusses one thing which is Extremely Well-Known. In April 1912, the world's largest ocean liner, the Titanic, sank on the fourth day of its maiden voyage. Over 1500 of its passengers and crew drowned. For 110 years, this story has dominated our consciousness. Its mix of innovative engineering, New York high society and tragedy on the high seas has been adapted for film and television numerous times, is a text book case in the study of hubris and has been a subplot in shows as wide-ranging as Doctor Who, Downton Abbey and Family Guy. Why has this story become so well-known? And why is it that we all know about the Titanic but not about all the other maritime disasters? As a reward for those who have listened curiously to many hundreds of choices of which they have never heard, finally here is an episode about a subject which everyone can relate to. Archive interview extracts are taken from the 1996 Radio Netherlands documentary Titanic: A 20th Century Parable. https://archive.org/details/titanic-a-20th-century-parable Titanic https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17631595 13 Maritime disasters more tragic than the Titanic https://www.theshipyardblog.com/13-maritime-disasters-more-tragic-than-the-titanic/ Lusitania https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/18-minutes-that-shocked-the-world Princess Alice disaster (1878) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-44800309 Wilhelm Gustloff (1945) https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/deadliest-disaster-sea-happened-75-years-ago-yet-its-barely-known-why-180974077/ This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

Andrew Martin discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known. Andrew Martin is a prolific author of fiction and non-fiction books, some of which have a railway theme. His 'Jim Stringer' thrillers are set on the British railways of the early 20th Century, and the latest of these is Powder Smoke https://www.littlebrown.co.uk/titles/andrew-martin/powder-smoke/9781472154842/ His latest stand-alone novel is The Winker, about a 70s pop musician who winks at people, then kills them. https://www.littlebrown.co.uk/titles/andrew-martin/the-winker/9781472153982/ His new book is a travelogue-cum-memoir about his native county, called Yorkshire - There and Back https://www.littlebrown.co.uk/titles/andrew-martin/yorkshire/9781472154866/ His website is at https://jimstringernovels.com Scarborough https://www.discoveryorkshirecoast.com/scarborough/things-to-do Robert Robinson https://transdiffusion.org/2011/10/02/robert_robinson/ Bicycle saddle bags http://www.bikeroar.com/tips/to-saddle-bag-or-not-is-this-the-best-way-to-carry-gear-on-my-bike Walter Wilkinson http://www.punchandjudy.com/wilkinson.htm Sparklehorse https://pitchfork.com/features/article/9745-the-sad-and-beautiful-world-of-sparklehorses-mark-linkous/ Alan Godfrey Maps https://www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk/ This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

Rupal Patel discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known. Rupal Patel’s high-octane career has taken her from jungles and war zones to corporate boardrooms and international stages. After a thrilling career at the CIA, she earned her MBA and started her first award-winning business over ten years ago. Called a ‘Power Woman’ by Harper's Bazaar Magazine, Rupal is a sought-after international speaker and business consultant who has spoken in front of thousands. As a sitting CEO, author, advisor, coach and mentor, Rupal helps founders, corporate executives, and next-generation change-makers cut through the noise of living and leading and make the impossible possible. Her new book From CIA to CEO (Bonnier Books UK) provides a powerful new toolkit that reveals how the techniques of the CIA can help anyone find their voice and thrive in the world of business without conforming to stale stereotypes or dated “best practice”. With surgical insights and unique exercises, Rupal helps her audiences and clients leverage the CIA mindset to remake the rules of success and become unstoppable. Find out more about Rupal at www.rupalypatel.com. The Raan of Kutch https://www.tripsavvy.com/great-rann-of-kutch-travel-guide-4134857 Ethiopian food https://www.foodrepublic.com/2015/10/14/ethiopian-food-primer-10-essential-dishes/ Putting yourself forward https://www.science.org/content/article/if-you-re-hesitant-apply-professional-awards-remember-it-s-worth-putting-yourself Being interested https://www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture/theatre-and-stage/robin-ince-importance-being-interested-1585670 Neil de Grasse Tyson https://www.haydenplanetarium.org/tyson/about/profile.php Kouign amann https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/kouign_amann_09102 This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

Tori Herridge discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known. Dr Tori Herridge is an evolutionary biologist and Daphne Jackson Research Fellow at the Natural History Museum in London. Her research addresses big evolutionary and environmental questions using a broad range of lab and field methods, all underpinned by the rich fossil record from the Quaternary Period (aka “The Ice Age”). She is an expert on fossil elephants, particularly those species which lived in Europe during the Ice Age: mammoths and straight-tusked elephants. She is the co-founder of TrowelBlazers, an organisation dedicated to telling the stories of pioneering women in palaeontology, geology and archaeology, and addressing gender disparity in these fields today. See trowelblazers.com She also makes TV programmes: Ice Age: Return of the Mammoth? (Channel 4/Science Channel), Woolly Mammoth The Autopsy (Channel 4/Smithsonian), T. rex Autopsy (National Geographic), Hannibal’s Elephant Army (Channel 4/PBS), as well as the series Bone Detectives, Britain at Low Tide, and Walking Through Time for Channel 4. Finger limes https://www.riverford.co.uk/organic-fruit-veg-and-salad/fruit/finger-limes Shropshire https://www.investinshropshire.co.uk/relocate-to-shropshire/shropshire-at-a-glance/fascinating-facts/ Trowelblazers https://trowelblazers.com/ The lost diversity of elephants https://theecologist.org/2016/jan/22/last-time-earth-was-hot-britain-was-land-hippos-and-elephants Diana Wynne Jones https://www.csmonitor.com/Books/chapter-and-verse/2011/0404/In-appreciation-of-Diana-Wynne-Jones The Ice Age wasn’t always cold https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/hasnt-earth-warmed-and-cooled-naturally-throughout-history This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

Novelist Benjamin Myers discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known. Benjamin Myers was born in Durham in 1976. His latest novel is The Perfect Golden Circle. His novel The Gallows Pole received a Roger Deakin Award and won the Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction. Beastings won the Portico Prize for Literature and Pig Iron won the Gordon Burn Prize, while Richard was a Sunday Times Book of the Year. He has also published poetry, crime novels and short fiction, while his journalism has appeared in publications including, among others, The Guardian, New Statesman, Caught by the River and New Scientist. He lives in the Upper Calder Valley, West Yorkshire. Mini https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p05nrklh/inside-story-mini Reunion by Fred Uhlman https://theexiledsoul.com/2019/07/14/book-review-reunion-by-fred-uhlman/ You Suffer by Napalm Death https://www.metalsucks.net/2016/06/07/happens-slow-napalm-deaths-suffer/ Glenda Jackson https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2020/jul/26/glenda-jackson-interview-i-am-an-antisocial-socialist Soundcloud rap https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emo_rap Hedgehogs https://ptes.org/get-informed/facts-figures/hedgehog/ This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

Catriona Seth discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known. Catriona Seth FBA is the Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature and a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. She was brought up in the UK, in Switzerland, in Venezuela and in Belgium. Before becoming a university academic, she worked as a translator and interpreter, as a management consultant and as a schoolteacher. She has published widely, mainly in French, on 18th-century literature and culture. Her objects of research have included Marie-Antoinette, smallpox inoculation, women's life-writing, Germaine de Staël and André Chénier. Bilingualism https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20160811-the-amazing-benefits-of-being-bilingual Loose-leaf Assam tea https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/food-news/what-is-assam-tea-and-what-are-its-benefits/photostory/69684080.cms Auctions https://www.esprit-de-france.com/en/news/visit-auction-house-paris Sleeper trains https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2020/feb/06/10-best-sleeper-trains-in-europe-night-trains Concert halls for chamber music https://www.ucl.ac.uk/chamber-music/cmc-socials/metropoles-finest-chamber-music-venues The life and works of Katherine Read https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/entertainment/2642310/katherine-read/ This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

Neil Brand discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known. Neil Brand has been a silent film accompanist for over 30 years, regularly in London at the Barbican and BFI National Film Theatres, throughout the UK and at film festivals and special events around the world, including Australia, New Zealand (three times), America, Israel, Sweden, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, and, in Italy, the Bologna, Aosta, Bergamo and Pordenone festivals where he has inaugurated the School of Music and Image to teach up-and-coming young pianists about silent film accompaniment. Neil now has a very fruitful relationship with the BBC Symphony Orchestra which has resulted in London performances of his acclaimed orchestral score for Hitchcock’s silent Blackmail, the BBCSO / Barbican commission to score Asquith’s silent Underground and Chaplin's Easy Street. He followed these successes with two through-scored radio adaptations, The Wind in the Willows (Audio Drama Award Nominated) and A Christmas Carol for Orchestra, Choir and Actors commissioned by Radios 3 and 4 – all of these works orchestrated and conducted by maestro Timothy Brock. Neil is also a prolific radio playwright including Sony- and Tinniswood- nominated dramas Stan (which he adapted for BBC TV) and Getting the Joke, as well as establishing the regular live-recorded musical series The Big Broadcast. He has twice toured nationally with Paul Merton as well as appearing in, and supplying music for, Paul’s silent film-related TV documentaries. Neil is a TV presenter on BBC4 with his hugely successful series Sound of Cinema, The Music that Made the Movies and Sound of Song, is a regular presenter on Radio 4's Film Programme, a Fellow of Aberystwyth University and a Visiting Professor of the Royal College of Music and is considered one of the finest improvising piano accompanists in the world. Richard Rodney Bennett https://www.theguardian.com/music/2012/dec/26/sir-richard-rodney-bennett Sheridan Le Fanu https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2014/aug/28/sheridan-le-fanu-two-centuries-birth-vampire-ghost-stories The musical of the Mystery of Edwin Drood https://www.broadwayworld.com/reviews/The-Mystery-of-Edwin-Drood Satie House https://en.normandie-tourisme.fr/museums-and-heritage-sites/maisons-satie/ Radio Drama https://bookriot.com/history-of-the-radio-drama/ Rango https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/rango-2011 This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

Historian JD Dickey discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known. J.D. Dickey has for more than 20 years been observing and writing about American history, society and culture. Of his book, Rising in Flames, Harold Holzer in the Wall Street Journal wrote, "No one interested in Sherman’s March should be deprived of his lively narrative. Absolutely spellbinding." His earlier book, Empire of Mud, was a New York Times bestseller and described the troubled landscape of Washington, D.C., in the nineteenth century. He has also written and spoken on on a broad range of historical and political topics in media such as TIME magazine, C-SPAN's Book TV, Public Radio International's The Takeaway and Literary Hub. In addition, he has lectured for the New-York Historical Society, the Pritzker Military Museum and Library, and the Atlanta History Center, among other organizations. His current work, The Republic of Violence: The Tormented Rise of Abolition in Andrew Jackson’s America, was published in March 2022 by Pegasus Books. The Built, The Unbuilt and the Unbuildable https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/built-unbuilt-and-unbuildable The Museum of Jurassic Technology https://www.mjt.org/ The Visitor https://jimorourke.bandcamp.com/album/the-visitor Gregory Crewdson https://dianamarin.com/2019/02/19/review-gregory-crewdson-cinematic-photography/ The Flagellation of Christ http://www.travelingintuscany.com/art/pierodellafrancesca/flagellation.htm Pandora and the Flying Dutchman https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/05/movies/pandora-and-the-flying-dutchman-restoration.html This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

Rory Sutherland discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known. Rory is the Vice Chairman of Ogilvy, an attractively vague job title which has allowed him to co-found a behavioural science practice within the agency. Before founding Ogilvy’s Behavioural Practice, Rory was a copywriter and creative director at Ogilvy for over 20 years, having joined as a graduate trainee in 1988. He has variously been President of the IPA, Chair of the Judges for the Direct Jury at Cannes, and has spoken at TED Global. He writes regular columns for the Spectator, Market Leader and Impact, and also occasional pieces for Wired. He is the author of The Wiki Man, available on Amazon (at prices between £1.96 and £2,345.54, depending on whether the algorithm is having a bad day), and the best-selling Alchemy, The surprising Power of Ideas which don't make Sense, published in the UK and US in May 2019, and, co-written with his former colleague Pete Dyson, the newly released Transport For Humans on the behavioural science of transport. Rory is married to a vicar and has twin daughters. He lives in the former home of Napoleon III - unfortunately in the attic. He is a trustee of the Benjamin Franklin House in London and a Patron of Rochester Cathedral. Sherry https://www.sherry.wine/news/8-things-you-should-know-about-sherry East Kent https://www.britain-visitor.com/uk-city-guides/east-kent-guide The works of Iain McGilchrist https://jennymackness.wordpress.com/2020/05/15/introducing-the-work-of-iain-mcgilchrist/ Haydn https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1979/06/14/rediscovering-haydn/ Henry George https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2019/04/henry-georges-single-tax-could-combat-inequality/587197/ Air fryers https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/howto/guide/air-frying-healthy This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

Philosopher Andy West discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known. Andy West is philosopher in residence at HMP Pentonville, London. His writing has been published in The Guardian, Aeon, The Big Issue, 3AM Magazine and Lito. He is the author of The Life Inside: A Memoir of Prison, Family and Philosophy (Picador 2022). For more information, go to https://www.amazon.co.uk/Life-Inside-Memoir-Prison-Philosophy/dp/1529032016/ Rectify https://www.vulture.com/2016/12/rectify-review-there-may-never-be-a-show-like-it-again.html Little Bad Thing https://ethics.org.au/littlebadthing/ Nietzsche's idea of The Festival of Punishment https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft4q2nb3dn&chunk.id=d0e604&toc.depth=100&toc.id=d0e595&brand=ucpress Kafka’s short story Prometheus https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/06/29/the-rescue-will-begin-in-its-own-time Nostalgia for the Light https://www.theguardian.com/film/2012/jul/12/nostalgia-for-the-light-review The Graybar Hotel https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/sep/08/the-graybar-hotel-curtis-dawkins-review This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

Katja Hoyer discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known. Katja Hoyer is an Anglo-German historian and journalist. She is a Visiting Research Fellow at King's College London and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. She writes about German politics as a Washington Post columnist as well as for several British newspapers like The Spectator and The Telegraph. Katja's debut book Blood and Iron - The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1971-1918 became a bestseller in the UK. She is currently working on a new history of East Germany from 1949 to the fall of the Berlin Wall. The Baltic coast https://www.travelstride.com/attractions/things-to-do-in-baltic-sea-attractions Shrewsbury Prison https://guide2.co.uk/shropshire/listings/shrewsbury-prison/ Louise of Prussia https://departments.kings.edu/womens_history/luise.html German cakes https://theculturetrip.com/europe/germany/articles/the-best-german-traditional-cakes-you-need-to-try/ Octopuses https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v39/n17/amia-srinivasan/the-sucker-the-sucker Cultural output from behind the Iron Curtain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_East_Germany This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

Jenny Kleeman discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known. Jenny Kleeman is a journalist, broadcaster and documentary-maker. She hosts the weekend Breakfast show on Times Radio and writes for the Guardian, the Sunday Times and The New Statesman. She has reported for BBC One's Panorama, Channel 4's Dispatches and VICE News Tonight on HBO, as well as making 13 films from across the globe for Channel 4's Unreported World. Her first book, Sex Robots & Vegan Meat, was published in 2020. She's currently working on her second book, The Price of Life, which will be published by Picador. The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcolm https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1990/03/01/the-morality-of-journalism/ The art of Oron Katz and Ionat Zurr https://www.rca.ac.uk/news-and-events/rca-stories/oron-catts-and-ionat-zurr-working-life/ King of Kong https://ew.com/article/2007/08/15/king-kong-fistful-quarters/ Here My Dear by Marvin Gaye https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/marvin-gaye-here-my-dear/ John Frusciante https://www.loudersound.com/features/drugs-ghosts-and-the-radical-re-birth-of-john-frusciante Redwood trees in Kew Gardens https://www.kew.org/read-and-watch/redwoods-tallest-trees-on-earth This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

Nicola Horlick discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known. Nicola Horlick is CEO of Money&Co. She has been a leading fund manager in the City of London for over thirty years. During that time, she has set up and managed several investment businesses. She now chairs a private equity business, is CEO of a film development company, and is a director of an NHS Foundation Trust. Black Comedy by Peter Shaffer https://chicagocritic.com/black-comedy/ Joseph II of Austria https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v10/n10/william-doyle/despots Many Lives, Many Masters by Dr Brian Weiss https://www.compulsivereaders.com/reviews/many-lives-many-masters-brian-l-weiss/ Pictures at an Exhibition https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq7Qd9PSmR0 Orlanda Broom https://orlandabroomartist.com/ La Perriere https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Tourism-g1189181-La_Perriere_Orne_Basse_Normandie_Normandy-Vacations.html This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

James Runcie discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known. James Runcie is an award-winning film-maker, playwright and literary curator. He is the author of twelve novels that have been translated into twelve languages, including the seven books in the Grantchester Mysteries series. He has been Artistic Director of the Bath Literature Festival, Head of Literature and Spoken Word at the Southbank Centre, London, and Commissioning Editor for Arts on BBC Radio 4. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He lives in Scotland and London. For more information on his latest novel, The Great Passion, please see https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/great-passion-9781408885512/. Bach’s Cantata 22 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcflikYLk1w Ladi Kwali ceramics https://www.oxfordceramics.com/artists/107-ladi-kwali/overview/ Lydia Davis’ short stories https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2010/04/29/horse-sense-heartache/ The Lacemaker https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-lacemaker-1978 The Photos by The Photos https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-photos-mw0000495183 Fernet Branca https://spiritsreview.com/reviews/fernet-branca/ This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

Musician Lias Saoudi discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known. Lias Kaci Saoudi is a writer, artist and musician, and the front man of genre-bending iconoclasts Fat White Family. Born to a British mother and Algerian father, he grew up in the Republic of Ireland, Scotland and Northern Ireland, before moving to London and gaining a Fine Art degree from Slade School of Art. During the first UK lockdown, Lias began contributing a series of unflinching autobiographical pieces entitled Life Beyond the Neutral Zone to the online cultural hub, The Social Gathering. He is published in The New Frontier: Reflections From the Irish Border (New Island Books, 2021) - an anthology of new writing from some of Ireland’s greatest contemporary authors marking the centenary of partition. He is also the debut guest editor of Ambit Pop, a new annual issue of the venerable quarterly arts magazine. His first book, Ten Thousand Apologies: Fat White Family and the Miracle of Failure, co-written with Adelle Stripe (Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile, Bloomsbury, 2019), is described by Miranda Sawyer in The Observer as “the story of a band that’s always on the brink: of stardom, of madness, of brilliance, of disgrace”. You can buy it at https://www.whiterabbitbooks.co.uk/titles/adelle-stripe-2/ten-thousand-apologies/9781474617864/ It’s me, Eddie by Eddie Limonov https://literaryreview.co.uk/its-me-eddie Limits to medicine by Ivan Illich https://joannamoncrieff.com/2016/04/18/limits-to-medicine-re-visiting-ivan-illich/ Macho Music by Peter Gordon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbeJKaAKLos The Grass Arena by John Healy https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/aug/05/biography A feast of snakes by Harry Crews https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Feast_of_Snakes Ratfucker by Armand Schaubroek https://trouserpress.com/reviews/armand-schaubroeck-steals/ This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

Justine Waddell is a writer, producer and actor. Through her production company, Asterisk Films, she has just picked up the 2021 Golden Prague Czech Television Award for her documentary feature film Janine Jansen: Falling for Stradivari. She has also produced Force of Nature Natalia, directed by BAFTA and Grierson-winning filmmaker, Gerry Fox, about prima ballerina, Natalia Osipova. Virginia Woolf’s Night & Day, which Justine has developed with the British Film Institute and Piccadilly Pictures, is Justine's debut screenplay. After graduating from Cambridge University, Justine’s film work as an actress includes lead roles in Alexander Zeldovich’s Target (Telluride Film Festival, 2011), where she learnt from Russian from scratch. She has also played leading roles in period dramas Wives and Daughters, Great Expectations and Tess of the D’urbevilles. Justine is also the founder and CEO of Klassiki.online. Launched in 2021, Klassiki is the world’s first streaming platform to deliver classic and contemporary film content from Russia, the Caucasus and Central Asia. More information is available at www.klassiki.online. Naoshima Art Island https://boutiquejapan.com/naoshima/ Abbotsford https://www.scottsabbotsford.com/ Russian language female filmmaking tradition https://www.calvertjournal.com/features/show/11768/women-directors-soviet-unions-silent-movie-era Cecilia Payne Gaspochkin https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00509-3 African craft www.madwa.com Constance Spry https://lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v43/n17/rosemary-hill/at-the-garden-museum This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

Roisin Kiberd discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known. Roisin Kiberd's essays have been published in the Dublin Review, the White Review, the Stinging Fly and Winter Papers. She has written features on technology and culture for publications including the New York Times, the Guardian, Vice and Motherboard, where she wrote a column about internet subcultures. Having spent some time in London as the online voice of a cheese brand, she now lives between Dublin and Berlin. Her first book is The Disconnect: more details are at https://serpentstail.com/work/the-disconnect/. Ologies www.alieward.com/ologies The Surgeon’s Hall Museums, Edinburgh https://museum.rcsed.ac.uk/ VALIS by Philip K Dick http://www.conceptualfiction.com/valis.html The OA https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-reviews/oa-review-1196307/ This tweet https://ifunny.co/picture/donald-j-trump-o-the-coca-cola-company-is-not-z7uZLjBg4, also as a bizarre, unintentional riff on this even more iconic tweet: https://twitter.com/tree_bro/status/79444819902074880?lang=en The Conservatism of Emoji https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2056305115604853 This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

Science journalist Angela Saini discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known. Angela Saini is an award-winning British science journalist and broadcaster. She presents science programmes on the BBC, and her writing has appeared in New Scientist, The Sunday Times, National Geographic and Wired. Her latest book, Superior: The Return of Race Science, was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize and named a book of the year by The Telegraph, Nature and Financial Times. Her previous book, Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong, has been translated into fourteen languages. Angela has a Masters in Engineering from the University of Oxford and was a Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2020 she was named one of the world’s top 50 thinkers by Prospect magazine. Find out more at angelasaini.co.uk GenderSci Lab at Harvard University https://www.genderscilab.org/ Lux Magazine https://lux-magazine.com Retraction Watch website https://retractionwatch.com/ Nirmal Purja https://www.nimsdai.com/ How to repair things https://www.ifixit.com/ Too Good to Go app https://toogoodtogo.co.uk/en-gb This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

Jesse Norman discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known. Jesse Norman has been Conservative MP for Hereford and South Herefordshire since 2010. He was Financial Secretary to the Treasury from 2019 to 2021. Before entering politics Jesse was a Director at Barclays, researched and taught philosophy at University College London, and ran a charitable project in Communist Eastern Europe. His book Edmund Burke: politician, philosopher, prophet was listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize, the Political Book Awards and the George Orwell Prize. His book Adam Smith: What he thought, and why it matters was published in 2018. My Life in New Orleans by Louis Armstrong https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/book-of-a-lifetime-satchmo-my-life-in-new-orleans-by-louis-armstrong-8609967.html Wild swimming https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/uk/wild-swim-wye-river-a8499001.html Heroes https://www.herefordtimes.com/news/18451446.heroes-now-jesse-norman/ "I don't understand" https://www.refinery29.com/en-gb/how-to-say-i-dont-know The Burgers of Hereford https://aruleoftum.com/burgershophfd The perils of diminishing marginal utility https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marginal_utility This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

Vladimir Alexandrov discusses with Ivan two things which should be better known: both men who lived in Russia in the early part of the twentieth century. Vladimir Alexandrov taught courses in Yale's Slavic Department on nineteenth and twentieth-century Russian literature and culture from 1986 to 2018. While preparing to teach a graduate seminar on Russian émigré culture, he discovered Frederick Bruce Thomas, which resulted in the 2013 biography The Black Russian, which is now being developed into a dramatic TV series. In 2021, he published To Break Russia's Chains: Boris Savinkov and His Wars against the Tsar and the Bolsheviks, which is the biography of a remarkable revolutionary terrorist, political activist, government minister, and writer who has been described as "James Bond as written by Kafka." Vladimir's current project is a book about Russia's little-known support for the Union during the American Civil War. Find out more at www.valexandrov.com. Frederick Bruce Thomas https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2013/10/10/vladimir-alexandrov-black-russian/ Further reading https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/perspectives-global-african-history/russia-s-black-entertainment-empresario-remarkable-saga-fyodor-fyodorovich-tomas-freder/ Boris Savinkov https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/to-break-russias-chains-vladimir-alexandrov-book-review-daniel-beer/ Further reading • https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4571&context=etd • https://origins.osu.edu/read/terrorism-path-better-russia?language_content_entity=en This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

Gaia Vince discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known. Gaia Vince is a science writer and broadcaster interested in the interplay between humans and the planetary environment. She is a Senior Honorary Research Fellow at University College London in the Anthropocene Institute. She has held senior editorial posts at Nature and New Scientist, and her writing has featured in newspapers and magazines including the Guardian, The Times and Scientific American. She also writes and presents science programmes for radio and television. In 2015, she became the first woman to win the Royal Society Science Book of the Year Prize solo for her debut, Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet We Made. She is author of Transcendence: how humans evolved through fire, language, beauty & time and Adventures in the Anthropocene: a journey to the heart of the planet we made. Her next book Nomad Century: How to Survive the Climate Upheaval is published in 2022. Hungarian sour cherry soup https://www.thespruceeats.com/hungarian-sour-cherry-soup-meggy-leves-recipe-1136687 Mangosteen https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/mangosteen Friedensreich Hundertwasser https://hundertwasser.com/en The Secret History of Writing https://inews.co.uk/culture/television/the-secret-history-of-writing-bbc4-documentary-review-lydia-wilson-655347 Heath Robinson https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/robinson_william_heath.shtml Cassawary https://www.worldwildlife.org/magazine/issues/fall-2021/articles/meet-the-cassowary-a-bird-with-claws-rivaling-freddy-krueger-s This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

Travis Elborough discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known. Described by The Guardian as “one of Britain’s finest pop culture historians”, Travis Elborough has been a freelance writer, author, broadcaster and cultural commentator for two decades now. Elborough’s books include Wish You Were Here: England on Sea, The Long-Player Goodbye, a hymn to vinyl records that inspired the BBC4 documentary When Albums Ruled the World, in which he also appeared, and A Walk in the Park, a loving exploration of public parks and green space. His latest, Through the Looking Glasses: The Spectacular Life of Spectacles, was published in July 2021 to immediate acclaim, saluted as "fascinating" by The Observer, while New Statesman stated, "It will make you look at specs with fresh eyes." He has also collaborated on the popular and award-winning series of Unexpected Atlases with the cartographers Alan Horsfield and Martin Brown, the most recent of which, Atlas of Vanishing Places, appeared in November 2021. The American Friend https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/3866-the-american-friend-little-lies-and-big-disasters The Colonnade Bar http://thecolonnadebrighton.co.uk/ The New York Novels of Dawn Powell https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1996/03/21/queen-of-the-golden-age/ A Secret Wish by Propaganda https://www.classicpopmag.com/2018/03/propaganda-a-secret-wish-review/ Waiting by Fun Boy Three https://www.allmusic.com/album/waiting-mw0000057846 Birkenhead Park https://birkenhead-park.org.uk/birkenhead-parks-conception-and-opening/ This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

Journalist Peter Oborne discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known. Peter Oborne is a former political commentator of the Spectator, the Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail. He now writes about politics for Open Democracy and Middle East Eye. He is the author of The Assault on Truth, The Triumph of the Political Class, and The Rise of Political Lying as well as a biography of the cricketer Basil D’Oliveira. He was voted Columnist of the Year at the Press Awards in 2013. His website is https://boris-johnson-lies.com/. The episode features a clip from The Death of Liberalism with Lord Paddy Ashdown by the Legatum Institute (22/6/15) and A Marriage of Convenience by Somerset Maugham, read by Daniel Weyman (https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b093pfrf). Benefits of an afternoon nap https://www.forbes.com/sites/nomanazish/2021/06/23/should-you-be-taking-afternoon-naps-heres-what-the-sleep-experts-say/ Mohenjo Daro https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/mohenjo-daro Paddy Ashdown https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/dec/22/paddy-lord-ashdown-obituary The virtue of listening https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/the-virtue-of-listening.31549 Fixers https://en.ejo.ch/ethics-quality/fixers-the-unsung-heroes-of-international-news-reporting Somerset Maugham https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1990/02/01/maughams-half-half/ This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

Rob Doyle discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known. Rob Doyle is the author of four internationally acclaimed books: Autobibliography, Threshold, This Is the Ritual and Here Are the Young Men, which has been adapted for film. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Observer, TLS and Dublin Review among other publications, and he edited the anthologies The Other Irish Tradition and In This Skull Hotel Where I Never Sleep. His work has been translated into several languages. Coriolanus (2011) https://www.theguardian.com/film/2012/jan/22/coriolanus-film-review-ralph-fiennes Four Tet’s Spotify playlist https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2uzbATYxs9V8YQi5lf89WG?si=27dff54c2f194322&nd=1 The train journey from Dublin to Rosslare Harbour https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin%E2%80%93Rosslare_railway_line Last Evenings on Earth, the story collection by Roberto Bolaño https://roughghosts.com/2016/07/25/poets-artists-and-other-lost-souls-last-evenings-on-earth-by-roberto-bolano/ Anthropoid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r136kTbmOTw Super Hot video game https://superhotgame.com This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

Historian Catharine Arnold discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known. Catharine Arnold is a popular historian and television presenter specialising in dark themes. Her most recent book is Pandemic 1918, the Story of the Deadliest Influenza in History. Her other books include the acclaimed London Quartet. These include: Necropolis, London and its Dead, ‘entertainment of the most garish and exquisite kind,’ Peter Ackroyd, The Times. The Independent also rated Necropolis one of its Top Ten History Books in 2010. Her first novel, Lost Time, won a Betty Trask award. Daisies https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/may/30/new-dvd-releases-daisies-czech Masha by Mara Kay https://shinynewbooks.co.uk/the-youngest-lady-in-waiting-by-mara-kay Bilgewater by Jane Gardam https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/jane-gardam/bilgewater/ George Barker’s poetry https://mypoeticside.com/poets/george-barker-poems Ronald Frame https://www.heraldscotland.com/life_style/arts_ents/13078532.Ronald_Frame_blows_the_dust_off_a_Dickens_heroine/ It’s Never Too Late https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_Never_Too_Late_(1956_film) This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

Robin Baker discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known. Robin is head curator of the BFI National Archive - one of the world’s largest and most important collections of film and television – where he leads the team responsible for developing and interpreting the national collection. He has written and directed two short films and wrote the play Elephant and Castle for BBC Radio 4, starring Rory Kinnear and Olivia Colman. Robin has been attacked by cobras on two occasions. Follow Robin on Twitter @robinalexbaker and on Instagram @robinbakerbfi BFI website: www.bfi.org.uk Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead: https://dauntbookspublishing.co.uk/book/who-was-changed-and-who-was-dead/ Cretan pottery: http://www.cretanethnologymuseum.gr/imke/html/en/104.html and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minoan_pottery Kanchenjungha https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRmpWEGM3ZI Geraldene Holt’s Cakes https://prospectbooks.co.uk/products-page/current-titles/geraldene-holts-cakes/ Early colour films https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqpp5ipMU_s Spring 1938/Easter Sunday https://oliverlewisinfo.wordpress.com/2013/05/23/spring-1938-bertolt-brecht/ and https://open.spotify.com/track/0iCZWjglUB3cr0xXX56wQ2?si=677012daa31b4a97 This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

Jessica Nordell discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known. Jessica Nordell is a science and culture journalist whose writing has appeared in the Atlantic, the New York Times, the New Republic and many other publications. A former writer for public radio and producer for American Public Media, she graduated from Harvard University and the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The End of Bias: A Beginning is her first book. Notes on a Foreign Country by Suzy Hansen https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-shattering-and-a-shame-on-suzy-hansens-notes-on-a-foreign-country/ Somewhere in the Unknown World by Kao Kalia Yang https://harvardreview.org/book-review/somewhere-in-the-unknown-world/ Black Dog of Fate by Peter Balakian https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/peter-balakian/black-dog-of-fate/ Amaud Jamaul Johnson https://www.cortlandreview.com/issue-87/esteban-rodriguez-reviews-imperial-liquor-amaud-jamaul-johnson/ The skills to navigate difficult emotions https://www.gottman.com/blog/6stepstomindfullydealwithdifficultemotions/ The fact that biased behaviour and organisations can change https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/oct/02/the-end-of-bias-by-jessica-nordell-review-how-to-remove-your-blinkers This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

Edafe Onerhime discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known. Edafe Onerhime is a specialist in making an impact with data. Her motto: Data + Design + Culture. She lives in Glasgow with her wife and cat. She works as an Executive Director - Data Architecture Governance Lead at JP Morgan Chase. She believes in opening doors and building longer tables, not walls. She can be found asking questions like: How does data shape and is shaped by our culture and beliefs? How does this affect the data products and technologies that we use every day? Can we decolonise data or is it simply holding up a mirror to our real selves? Africanfuturism https://www.lareviewofbooks.org/article/afrofuturism-africanfuturism-and-the-language-of-black-speculative-literature/ Meaning of names https://www.csescienceeditor.org/article/african-names-guide-editors/ Associations of the colour red https://study.com/academy/lesson/color-meanings-in-different-cultures.html Short hair https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/58psLDd9GGWf5SQKSLmmdjD/why-is-black-hair-so-political Found family https://www.glaad.org/amp/importance-of-found-families-lgbtq-youth Patterns https://medium.com/patterns-matter/why-patterns-matter-e3abc8794465 This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm