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Ivan Wise
Each week, a guest makes a series of recommendations of things which they think should be better known. Our recommendations include interesting people, places, objects, stories, experiences and ideas which our guest feels haven't had the exposure that they deserve.
Edafe Onerhime
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
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28:5226/12/2021
200th episode: Anthony Horowitz
For the 200th episode, Anthony Horowitz discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known.
Anthony Horowitz is one of the most prolific and successful writers working in the UK – and is unique for working across so many media. Anthony is a born polymath; juggling writing books, TV series, films, plays and journalism. Anthony has written over 50 books including the bestselling teen spy series Alex Rider, which is estimated to have sold 21 million copies worldwide.
Anthony is also an acclaimed writer for adults and was commissioned to write two new Sherlock Holmes novels The House of Silk and Moriarty. He was commissioned by the Ian Fleming Estate to write continuation novels for James Bond with Trigger Mortis and Forever and Day.
Anthony’s award-winning novel Magpie Murders was released in 2016 to critical acclaim and has just been filmed with Lesley Manville in the lead role. The sequel - Moonflower Murders - is optioned to follow. His new series featuring Detective Hawthorne and a sidekick called Anthony Horowitz has three books so far: The Word is Murder, The Sentence is Death and A Line to Kill.
Anthony is responsible for creating and writing some of the UK’s most beloved and successful television series including Midsomer Murders and he is the writer and creator of award-winning drama series Foyle’s War.
Paul Spooner https://cabaret.co.uk/artists/paul-spooner/
Miliaris Taverna https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g6765453-d6856813-Reviews-Miliaras-Latsida_Lasithi_Prefecture_Crete.html
The novels of Ian Fleming https://lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v24/n17/john-lanchester/bond-in-torment
Ollantaytambo https://www.lonelyplanet.com/peru/cuzco-and-the-sacred-valley/ollantaytambo
Special Operations Executive https://www.nam.ac.uk/explore/SOE#
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr T http://www.cineoutsider.com/reviews/bluray/f/5000_fingers_of_dr_t_br.html
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29:4018/12/2021
David Mills
Comedian David Mills discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known.
Award-winning comic David Mills is known for his sharp and hilarious take on contemporary culture and politics. His signature razor wit has been seen onstage in New York, LA, San Francisco, London and across the UK. He has opened for comedy icons Margaret Cho, Scott Capurro and Ed Byrne. As an actor, he appeared in Florence Foster Jenkins with Meryl Streep and Hugh Grant, Patrick Melrose with Benedict Cumberbatch and Mandy with Diane Morgan. 'David Mills is headed for the big time. Most definitely one to watch.' Time Out
Follow David on Twitter and Instagram @DavidMillsDept
Check out his regular e-newsletter: QUALITY TIME https://bit.ly/3HWcwuO
Goldsmiths' Fair https://www.goldsmithsfair.co.uk
Say Amen Somebody https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/say-amen-somebody-1983
Features Highway To Heaven by The O'Neal Twins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUmSffTrgBY
Five Star Billionaire by Tash Aw https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/mar/08/five-star-billionaire-tash-aw-review
Train to Busan https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/oct/30/train-to-busan-review-nonstop-thrill-ride-zombies
Ain't Misbehavin' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gE8_MxJCsqg
Conspirituality podcast https://conspirituality.net/about/
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29:3012/12/2021
Tim Harford
Economist Tim Harford discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known.
Tim Harford is an economist, journalist and broadcaster. He is author of How To Make the World Add Up, The Data Detective, Messy, and the million-selling The Undercover Economist. Tim is a senior columnist at the Financial Times, and the presenter of BBC Radio’s More or Less, How To Vaccinate The World, and Fifty Things That Made the Modern Economy, as well as the podcast Cautionary Tales. Tim has spoken at TED, PopTech and the Sydney Opera House. He is an associate member of Nuffield College, Oxford and an honorary fellow of the Royal Statistical Society. Tim was made an OBE for services to improving economic understanding in the New Year honours of 2019.
Bill Phillips https://timharford.com/books/undercovereconomist-strikes-back/
In A Silent Way https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/in-a-silent-way-181826/
Fermi problems https://www.innovativeteachingideas.com/blog/an-excellent-collection-of-fermi-problems-for-your-class
Dragon Warriors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Warriors
The versatility of paper https://timharford.com/books/50things/
Lyonnesse by Jack Vance http://king-conan-review.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-complete-lyonesse-by-jack-vance.html
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29:2405/12/2021
Jon Glover
Actor and impressionist Jon Glover discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known.
Jon Glover most recently appeared in the play Maggie and Ted, written by Michael McManus, about Ted Heath and Margaret Thatcher, providing forty voices, including Michael Heseltine, who attended one of the performances. He was previously a presenter on Playschool, impressionist on Radio 4’s Weekending and ITV’s Spitting Image, and portrayed Mr Cholmondeley Warner on Harry Enfield’s television series. He lives in Surrey with four Burmese cats and an endlessly patient wife.
Maggie and Ted https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2021/jun/29/maggie-ted-review-two-tory-prime-ministers-one-long-spat
The Yacobean Building by Alaa al Aswany https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/27/books/review/Adams.t.html
Wodehouse's World War Two broadcasts https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v27/n21/fatema-ahmed/no-snarling
The Schlumpf Collection https://sportscardigest.com/schlumpf-collection-profile-and-photo-gallery/
Montreuil Sur Mer https://www.baldwinstravel.co.uk/blog/a-little-spot-called-montreuil-sur-mer-in-france
Classic radio comedy https://www.mislaidcomedyheroes.com/the-wonderful-wit-of-wireless
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30:0128/11/2021
Hilma Wolitzer
Hilma Wolitzer discusses with Ivan six things which she thinks should be better known.
Hilma Wolitzer is a recipient of Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, and a Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award. She has taught at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, New York University, Columbia University, and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Her first published story appeared when she was thirty-six, and her first novel eight years later. Her many stories and novels have drawn critical praise for illuminating the dark interiors of the American home. She lives in New York City. Her latest collection of short stories is Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket.
Bharati Mukherjee https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/99/11/07/nnp/mukherjee-middleman.html
Stanley Elkin https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/3712/the-art-of-fiction-no-61-stanley-elkin
Agha Shahid Ali https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/agha-shahid-ali
Mary Lou Williams https://www.npr.org/2019/09/10/749743012/how-mary-lou-williams-shaped-the-sound-of-the-big-band-era
Dr Rick Hodes https://rickhodes.org/
The Little Fugitive https://www.highonfilms.com/little-fugitive-1953-review/
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28:5521/11/2021
Ananyo Bhattacharya
Ananyo Bhattacharya discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known.
Ananyo Bhattacharya is a science writer who has worked at the Economist and Nature. Before journalism, he was a medical researcher at the Burnham Institute in San Diego, California. He holds a degree in physics from the University of Oxford and a PhD in protein crystallography from Imperial College London. His new book is a biography of John von Neumann, The Man from the Future. You can follow him on Twitter.
Bubbling under: Giovanni Bottesini's Elegy no. 1 for Double Bass and Piano
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FN9Kq7OS_-M&list=RDFN9Kq7OS_-M
John von Neumann https://www.privatdozent.co/p/the-unparalleled-genius-of-john-von-beb
Klara Dan https://eniacinaction.com/
The Apu Trilogy https://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/the-miraculous-apu-trilogy
Hans Fallada https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v34/n05/philip-oltermann/the-cow-the-shoe-then-you
Ursula Le Guin https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2002/09/26/the-queen-of-quinkdom/
Epistemology vs ontology http://www.differencebetween.net/science/health/difference-between-ontology-and-epistemology/
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30:1814/11/2021
Matthew Parris
Matthew Parris discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known.
Matthew Parris is a columnist for The Times and presents Great Lives on BBC Radio Four. He was a Conservative MP from 1979 to 1986 and was a Parliamentary Sketchwriter for the Times for nearly fourteen years. He has been Columnist of the year at the British Press Awards. His books include Fracture: Stories of how great lives take root in trauma, which discusses geniuses who have suffered childhood trauma, and Scorn: The Wittest and Wickedest Insults in Human History. His autobiography Chance Witness: An Outsider’s Life in Politics won the Orwell Prize. He was an awarded an RSPCA medal for jumping into the River Thames and rescuing a dog.
Britain did not win the Second World War https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2019/sep/02/empire-britain-second-world-war-hitler
A dessert spoon of vinegar in a glass of cold water https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/health-fitness/health-news/apple-cider-vinegar-the-right-way-and-time-to-drink-it/articleshow/79994734.cms
The Boer War was a small British disgrace https://www.nam.ac.uk/explore/boer-war
Calvados https://www.independent.co.uk/extras/indybest/food-drink/spirits/best-calvados-uk-brandy-b1796934.html
The English treatment of the Irish https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2019/02/how-britains-dark-history-with-ireland-haunts-brexit
How to empty a bottle of ketchup https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2016/12/03/how-to-empty-the-ketchup-bottle-every-time
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29:2407/11/2021
Catherine Whistler
Professor Catherine Whistler discusses with Ivan six things which she thinks should be better known.
An art historian and curator, Catherine Whistler is Keeper of Western Art at the Ashmolean Museum, Fellow of St John’s College, and a Professor of the History of European Art, University of Oxford.
Born in Dublin, where she studied History of Art at UCD, she maintains strong links with Ireland and with Italy - especially Venice where she lived in the early 1980s. She has researched and written about Italian art, and has curated exhibitions at the Ashmolean on a variety of topics from Brazilian Baroque art to Raphael. She enjoyed working with artist Jenny Saville on exhibitions in 2015, especially in thinking about the expressive power of drawing. At St John’s College, Catherine has been involved with the artist-in-residence programme since it started in 2000. She is delighted to have spent most of her career at Britain’s first public museum - the Ashmolean opened in 1683 - which is also a leading University museum with endlessly intriguing collections.
John McCormack singing The Meeting of the Waters www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctIhzYKvVa0
Chioggia https://www.italyheaven.co.uk/veneto/chioggia.html
Diana Mantuano https://collections.ashmolean.org/collection/search/per_page/25/offset/0/sort_by/relevance/object/179647
Remembering Ahanagran: Storytelling in a Family’s Past by Richard White https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=2185
Painted foot https://collections.ashmolean.org/collection/search/per_page/25/offset/0/sort_by/relevance/object/126978
Aston’s Eyot https://friendsofastonseyot.org/
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29:0631/10/2021
Charles Arthur
Technology writer Charles Arthur discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known.
Charles Arthur's latest book, his third, is Social Warming, which looks at how and why social media has such a dramatically polarising effect on politics, journalism and societies around the world, even in countries where usage is low. His previous two books were on hacking (Cyber Wars, 2016) and the three-way tussle between Apple, Google and Microsoft in search, music and smartphones (Digital Wars, 2012). He was technology editor at The Guardian from 2005-2014, and before that had roles as the technology and science editor at The Independent from 1995-2013.
He writes The Overspill, a daily list of links and brief commentary about technology, science and whatever seems interesting (such as the wholesale moving of buildings from one place to another) at http://theoverspill.wordpress.com. The daily list is also available as an email. He is on Twitter at @charlesarthur, and The Overspill is @theoverspill. His work at The Guardian is at http://theguardian.com/profile/charlesarthur.
Go board game https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(game)
Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/karen-thompson-walker/age-of-miracles/
Josh Homme's work as a music producer https://www.soundonsound.com/people/josh-homme
DuckDuckGo https://spreadprivacy.com/why-use-duckduckgo-instead-of-google/
Whatdotheyknow.com http://www.rtaylor.co.uk/foi-requests-to-central-government-via-whatdotheyknow.html
Little Fish https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/what-to-watch/sc-mov-little-fish-review-0203-20210203-wgq6aqhnojbb5kw3byqtstwoky-story.html
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29:4224/10/2021
Paul Willetts
Paul Willetts discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known.
Paul Willetts is the author of five much-praised nonfiction books: Fear and Loathing in Fitzrovia; North Soho 999; Members Only; Rendezvous at the Russian Tea Rooms; and King Con. The third of these was turned into a big-budget British movie. Entitled The Look of Love (2013), it starred Steve Coogan, who described Members Only as “a thoroughly entertaining story, told by a writer with a vivid and amusing turn of phrase.” Paul has also written occasional journalism for The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, The Spectator, The Times Literary Supplement, BBC History Magazine, History Today, and contributed to The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Further information about Paul and his work can be found by visiting https://www.paulwilletts.com.
Julian Maclaren-Ross https://www.julianmaclaren-ross.com
The House on the Hill Toy Museum at Stansted Mountfichet http://www.stanstedtoymuseum.com
The paintings of David Willetts https://www.paulwilletts.com/visual-arts-background
Bakelite https://rebornbakelite.co.uk
Six Degrees of Separation https://www.empireonline.com/movies/reviews/six-degrees-separation-review/
What Makes Sammy Run? https://inverarity.livejournal.com/265552.html
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27:3917/10/2021
Barb Jungr
Musician Barb Jungr discusses with Ivan six things which she thinks should be better known.
Barb Jungr is an award-winning international performer, recording artist and writer. She is best known for her interpretations and recordings of Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen and Jacques Brel. With performances across four continents and fifteen solo album recordings she appeared on Talking Bob Dylan Blues: A Tribute to Bob Dylan for BBC TV and has appeared on programmes about Dylan’s work and on singing Dylan and Cohen. Will Friedwald’s The Great Jazz and Pop Vocal Albums (2017) has a chapter devoted to her 2002 CD Every Grain Of Sand (Linn Records). Alongside her performance work she writes music, songs and adapts for children’s and musical theatre; We’re Going On A Bear Hunt, The Fabulous Flutterbys, The Singing Mermaid, The Pixie and The Pudding, How To Hide A Lion, Chocolate Cake, There May Be A Castle, Liver Birds Flying Home. She has contributed to The Cambridge Companion to Blues and Gospel, Dylan at 80: It used to go like that, and now it goes like this, Woman: The Incredible Life of Yoko Ono and John Lydon: Stories of Johnny, and has appeared as a commentator on culture and the voice on radio and television. After spending many years in Pimlico she now lives in West Sussex. Find out more at www.barbjungr.co.uk.
Cheese and onion pie https://thehappyfoodie.co.uk/recipes/my-mothers-lancashire-cheese-and-onion-pie/
Stockport https://www.myinterestingfacts.com/stockport-facts/
Wolfen https://www.allmovie.com/movie/wolfen-v55042/review
The Living Mountain by Nan Shepherd https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/sep/20/living-mountain-nan-shepherd-review
Bosch https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3502248/
The Rorys - Rory Block, Rory Gallagher and Rory McCleod https://www.ranker.com/list/famous-people-named-rory/celebrity-lists
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29:3710/10/2021
Alexandra Pringle
Alexandra Pringle discusses with Ivan six things which she thinks should be better known.
Alexandra Pringle was Editor-in-Chief of Bloomsbury Publishing for 20 years and she is now Executive Publisher. Her authors include Margaret Atwood, Richard Ford, Esther Freud, Elizabeth Gilbert, Khaled Hosseini, Jhumpa Lahiri, Colum McCann, Ann Patchett, George Saunders, Kamila Shamsie, Patti Smith and Barbara Trapido. She is a Patron of Index on Censorship, a Trustee of the charity Reprieve, and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She has been awarded Honorary Degrees of Doctor of Letters from Anglia Ruskin University and Warwick University.
Gillian Ayres https://amp.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/apr/11/gillian-ayres-obituary
Serrabone Priory, Languedoc https://www.spottinghistory.com/view/6434/serrabone-priory/
Barbara Trapido https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/21-barbara-trapido/id1439173261?i=1000436025069
Restaurant Captain Bob, Tyre, Lebanon https://www.zomato.com/beirut/istirahet-captain-bob-tyre/menu
My Funny Valentine sung by Chet Baker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvXywhJpOKs
Steve Ali https://www.standard.co.uk/comment/comment/refugees-like-me-rarely-get-to-tell-our-side-what-everyone-gets-wrong-about-the-refugee-crisis-a4533551.html
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29:2403/10/2021
Rory Cellan-Jones
BBC technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known.
Rory Cellan-Jones has been a reporter for the BBC for thirty years, covering business and technology stories for much of that time. He joined the BBC as a researcher on Look North in 1981, moving to London to work as a producer in the TV Newsroom and on Newsnight.
At the beginning of 2007, he was appointed Technology Correspondent with a brief to expand the BBC’s coverage of the impact of the internet on business and society. His first big story was the unveiling of the iPhone by Steve Jobs in San Francisco. In 2014, he began presenting a new weekly programme Tech Tent on the BBC World Service.
In 2001 his first book Dot Bomb, a critically acclaimed account of Britain’s dot com bubble, was published. In 2021 Always On: Hope and Fear in the Social Smartphone Era documented his experiences reporting on the smartphone era. It was described by Stephen Fry as “delightfully insightful and intensely readable.”
In recent years he has investigated the role technology can play in improving the treatment of Parkinson’s Disease, having been diagnosed with the condition in 2019. He recently announced that after 40 years he would be leaving the BBC at the end of October 2021.
You can find out more at https://rorycellanjones.substack.com.
Small Pleasures by Clare Chambers https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jul/01/small-pleasures-by-clare-chambers-review-a-suburban-mystery
The Backroom Boys by Francis Spufford https://www.faber.co.uk/9780571214976-backroom-boys.html
Eben Upton https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-54782255
BBC Radio 4 Six’o’Clock News https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qjxt
Acquired https://www.acquired.fm/
The Cardigan Show https://cardigancountyshow.org.uk/
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28:1726/09/2021
James Plunkett
James Plunkett discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known.
James Plunkett has spent his career thinking laterally about the complicated relationships between individuals and the state. First as an advisor to Gordon Brown, then a leading economic researcher and writer, and then in the charity sector, helping people struggling at the front-line of economic change. James combines a deep understanding of social issues with an appreciation of how change is playing out not in the ivory tower, but in the reality of people’s lives. James' first book is End State: https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/james-plunkett/end-state/9781398702202/.
The gauge wars https://www.gaugemasterretail.com/magento/rightlines-article/gauge-wars.html
Blue Sky Maiden https://japanonfilm.wordpress.com/2019/01/23/blue-sky-maiden-the-bright-cheerful-girl-aozora-musume-1957/
The World’s Fair fringe festivals on social reform https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exposition_Universelle_(1889)
Analog Sea Review https://magculture.com/blogs/journal/jonathan-simons-analog-sea-review
Chengdu https://www.thelovelyescapist.com/things-to-do-in-chengdu/
Malian music https://www.bbcamerica.com/anglophenia/2016/02/the-music-of-mali-10-songs-you-must-hear
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28:1619/09/2021
Kehinde Andrews
Kehinde Andrews discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known.
Kehinde Andrews is Professor of Black Studies at Birmingham City University. Kehinde is an academic, activist and author whose books include The New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World (2021), Back to Black: Retelling Black Radicalism for the 21st Century (2018) and Resisting Racism: Race, Inequality and the Black Supplementary School Movement (2013). Kehinde is founder of the Harambee Organisation of Black Unity.
Birmingham https://www.bcu.ac.uk/student-info/why-study-at-bcu/living-in-birmingham/facts-you-didnt-know
Universal Negro Improvement Association https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/garvey-unia/
British Empire https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/worst-atrocities-british-empire-amritsar-boer-war-concentration-camp-mau-mau-a6821756.html
Race Relations Act 1965 https://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/transformingsociety/private-lives/relationships/collections1/race-relations-act-1965/race-relations-act-1965/
Nanny of the Maroons http://slaveryandremembrance.org/people/person/?id=PP023
Makoko https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/feb/23/makoko-lagos-danger-ingenuity-floating-slum
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30:2212/09/2021
Kerry Shale
Kerry Shale discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known.
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 (Netflix: 2022), Dr. Who and The Trip. Films include Angel Has Fallen, Little Shop of Horrors and Yentl. For BBC radio, he has recently read Jack London’s Call of the Wild and White Fang and has won three Sony Awards for acting and writing. He co-hosts Is It Rolling, Bob? Talking Dylan https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/is-it-rolling-bob-talking-dylan/id1437321669, one of the UK’s leading music podcasts.
Today! by Mississippi John Hurt https://open.spotify.com/album/2AijI0LujDEUd9smSk87Uw
Swimming To Cambodia https://www.amazon.co.uk/Swimming-Cambodia-DVD-Spalding-Gray/dp/B00QNNZ52G
Vietnamese Coffee (Premium Blend) https://www.dragoncoffee.com/shop_order1.php
BrainDead https://www.amazon.co.uk/BrainDead-Season-1/dp/B01GSSHPWI
Canadian Football https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/cfl-mobile-the-official-app/id389370180#?platform=ipad
The Parker novels https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/author/S/R/au6035391.html
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29:4205/09/2021
Rosita Boland
Rosita Boland discusses with Ivan six things which she thinks should be better known.
Rosita Boland was born in County Clare in 1965 and lives in Dublin where she is Senior Features Writer at the Irish Times. She has published two collections of poems, Muscle Creek and Dissecting the Heart. She has travelled extensively, most recently in South East Asia and her travel books include Sea Legs: Hitch-hiking the Coast of Ireland Alone (1992), A Secret Map of Ireland (2005), Elsewhere: One Woman, One Rucksack, One Lifetime of Travel (2019) and Comrades: A Lifetime of Friendships (2021). She won the Hennessy Award for First Fiction in 1997.
Managing Oneself by Peter Drucker https://hbr.org/2005/01/managing-oneself
My Kitchen Rules Australia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Kitchen_Rules
The Nazca Lines https://www.history.com/topics/south-america/nazca-lines
The Guinness Book of Records 1967 https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/60/publishing.html
The musical toy pig held at Greenwich Maritime Museum https://londonist.com/london/secret/titanic-collection-greenwich-kidbrooke
The Derrynaflan Chalice https://www.museum.ie/en-IE/Collections-Research/Collection/The-Treasury/Artefact/Derrynaflan-Chalice/a3e7607b-4582-4f95-a861-313d1c0b5f0e
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29:5229/08/2021
David Benedict
David Benedict discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known.
David Benedict is a culture critic and broadcaster. He read drama at Hull University, spent ten years as an actor, singer and director and was artistic director of the U.K.’s national lesbian and gay theatre company, Gay Sweatshop. He joined The Independent in 1993, becoming a daily arts columnist and associate editor. The former arts editor of The Observer, he is the London critic of Variety and a weekly columnist for The Stage and divides his time between criticism, arts journalism and broadcasting. He is writing the authorised biography of Stephen Sondheim and also plays Tristram Hawkshaw on The Archers.
Better Things https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/feb/28/better-things-gets-better-pamela-adlon-triumphs-without-louis-ck
Betty MacDonald https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/books/looking-for-betty-macdonald-finds-comedy-and-tragedy/
The Cloud-Capp’d Towers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKzB359qAuM
It’s Only Fair Weather https://takeonecinema.net/2020/focus-on-its-always-fair-weather/
Dungeness https://www.timeout.com/kent/things-to-do/best-things-to-do-in-dungeness
The Robber Hotzenplotz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Robber_Hotzenplotz
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29:2921/08/2021
Beaty Rubens
Beaty Rubens discusses with Ivan six things which she thinks should be better known.
A BBC Radio producer for 35 years, Beaty Rubens has collaborated with some of the great names in broadcasting, the arts and academia. Her many documentaries have focussed on the arts, history and the lives of women and children. Some high-points include working with Lyse Doucet, Katya Adler and James Naughtie, Professor Mary Beard, Professor Emma Smith and Professor Thomas Dixon, dancers Akram Khan and Marianela Nunez, poets Seamus Heaney, Alice Oswald, Sean O’Brien and Sasha Dugdale, writers Michael Morpurgo, David Almond, Shirley Hughes and Anna Pavord. She has won the radio category of the prestigious One World Media Award, the Glenfiddich Award and The BP Arts Journalism Award. In 2021 she left the BBC and now works as an independent producer and writer. Particularly happy in the Aegean, Beaty is also a passionate three-season swimmer in the Thames near where she lives in Oxfordshire with her husband and daughter.
Journey to the River Sea https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zdn6dp3
Celia Pym http://celiapym.com/
Charlotte Green giggling on air https://soundcloud.com/greville-suitcase/charlotte-green-radio-4-today
Wet-Sox https://www.wetsuitwearhouse.com/wetsuits/category/worn.html
5.Rameau's Les Inde Galante - Les Sauvages - played on the cello by Christian Pierre La Marca https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2MJ-QrF90k
A beach in the SE of the Peloponnese in Greece which I am not going to name https://drinkteatravel.com/best-beaches-peloponnese-greece/
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29:3215/08/2021
Alexei Sayle
Alexei Sayle discusses with Ivan both things which he thinks should be better known and a number of things which he thinks are terrible.
Alexei Sayle is a comedian and writer. He was the original MC of the Comedy Store in London when it opened in 1979 and was a central part of the alternative comedy circuit in the early 1980s. He is best known for his performances in the BBC TV programmes The Young Ones, The Comic Strip and Alexei Sayle’s Stuff. He has written three novels and two volumes of autobiography: Stalin Ate My Homework and Thatcher Stole My Trousers.
The Bride https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bride_(1985_film)
The Supergrass https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090102/
Whoops Apocalypse https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083502/
Lenin of the Rovers https://archive.org/details/leninoftherovers1-2
Socialism https://www.yesmagazine.org/democracy/2020/01/30/socialism-understanding
Derry Girls https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/jan/19/derry-girls-channel-4-the-funniest-thing-on-tv-lisa-mcgee
Motherland https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/reviews/motherland-review-bbc-b1844797.html
Louis CK https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/02/10/can-louis-ck-spin-his-troubles-into-art
Predator 2 https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/jul/21/hear-me-out-why-predator-2-isnt-a-bad-movie
Movie sequels better than the original https://time.com/5353143/sequels-better-than-original/
Charles Spencer https://charles-spencer.com/about/
Carry On Columbus https://www.filmstories.co.uk/features/carry-on-columbus-and-the-failed-attempt-to-revive-a-comedy-series/
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28:3308/08/2021
Francis Spufford
Author Francis Spufford discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known.
Francis Spufford’s novel Light Perpetual has been longlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize. His first novel Golden Hill was published in 2016 and won the Costa First Novel Award.He is the author of five celebrated books of non-fiction. The most recent, Unapologetic, has been translated into three languages; the one before, Red Plenty, into nine. In 2007 he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He teaches creative writing at Goldsmiths College, University of London.
The leafy hills of South London https://www.southlondonclub.co.uk/blog/2016/10/14/8-secret-leafy-getaways-to-visit-this-autumn-in-south-london
The Pilot G-Tec C4 fine-line pen https://www.penandpaper.co.uk/product/pilot-microtip-rollerball-g-tec-c4/
Crisp Green Williams pears sliced thin, and eaten with Italian blue cheese https://www.bertolli.co.uk/recipes/warm-pearblue-cheese-crostini-180506
The works of Elizabeth Knox https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/mar/25/the-absolute-book-by-elizabeth-knox-review-an-instant-classic
The Church of England https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/a-defence-of-the-church-of-england
The entire genre of science fiction https://www.salon.com/1999/05/25/sfdefense/
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29:2101/08/2021
Virginia Ironside
Virginia Ironside discusses with Ivan six things which she thinks should be better known.
Virginia Ironside started off as a temporary secretary to Shirley Williams at the Fabian Society and then worked at Vogue, followed by the Sunday Telegraph, the Daily Mail (as a rock columnist), Woman magazine, the Sunday Mirror, Today (as an agony columnist) and now with a column in the Oldie and the Idler. Since becoming sixty she has performed a show, Growing Old Disgracefully, all over the UK. Her website is www.virginiaironside.org
Anna Kavan https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/03/30/the-curious-creation-of-anna-kavan
Isle of Sheppey www.sdpt.org.uk
Hippodrome Circus, Yarmouth hippodromecircus.co.uk
A House in Bayswater www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFZlBYJ0_uY&t=43s
Anne Acheson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Acheson
Motherhood https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2003/sep/03/familyandrelationships.features10
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29:2825/07/2021
Sam Gilbert
Sam Gilbert discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known.
Sam Gilbert is an affiliated researcher at the Bennett Institute for Public Policy at the University of Cambridge. An expert in data-driven marketing, he was employee number one and chief marketing officer at Bought By Many, an award-winning fintech start-up named as one of Wired’s hottest start-ups in Europe and ranked in the Sunday Times TechTrack100 list of the UK’s fastest growing companies. Previously, he was head of strategy and development at the data company Experian and head of consumer finance at Santander. He lives in Copenhagen.
West Highland Line: https://www.scotrail.co.uk/scotland-by-rail/great-scenic-rail-journeys/west-highland-line-glasgow-oban-and-fort-williammallaig
AnswerThePublic.com: https://answerthepublic.com/
Danish Summerhouses: https://www.howtoliveindenmark.com/podcasts/danish-summerhouse-dollhouse-expect-youre-invited-danish-summer-home/
The Zuckerberg Files: https://zuckerbergfiles.org/
Judith Shklar's Liberalism of Fear: https://philpapers.org/archive/SHKTLO.pdf
Novels of Magnus Mills: https://www.bloomsbury.com/author/magnus-mills
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30:5318/07/2021
Michael Wood
Michael Wood discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known.
Michael Wood is Professor in Public History at the University of Manchester. He is the author of several highly praised books on English history including In Search of the Dark Ages, Domesday, and In Search of England. He has made well over one hundred documentary films, among them Art of the Western World, In Search of the Trojan War, In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great, Conquistadors and The Story of India – all of which were accompanied by bestselling books.
Du Fu https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2020/10/08/du-fu-li-bai-poems/
Tamil Nadu landscape and culture https://theculturetrip.com/asia/india/articles/tamil-nadus-landscapes-and-ancient-poetry/
Debate on Universal Human Rights in Valladolid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valladolid_debate
Hadrian the African https://www.historyextra.com/period/anglo-saxon/hadrian-clerk-libya-african-who-anglo-saxon-england/
Sven Lindqvist https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/jun/22/sven-lindqvist-life-in-writing
Ethos https://www.duvarenglish.com/ethos-has-put-us-all-in-the-therapists-office-and-asked-us-to-speak-article-55126
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29:5211/07/2021
Helen Thompson
Helen Thompson discusses with Ivan six things which she thinks should be better known.
Helen Thompson is Professor of Political Economy at Cambridge University. She is a columnist for the New Statesman and a regular contributor to the podcast Talking Politics.
Arnold Bennett’s Clayhanger https://reading19001950.wordpress.com/2014/02/24/clayhanger-by-arnold-bennett-1910-2/
The Hoo Peninsula https://www.greatbritishlife.co.uk/things-to-do/discover-the-hoo-peninsula-7181064
Battlestar Galactica (the Ronald Moore version https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlestar_Galactica_(2004_TV_series))
Dolly Parton’s My Tennessee Mountain Home https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VG2kL4ojylk
St Vitale, Ravenna https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-art-history/early-europe-and-colonial-americas/medieval-europe-islamic-world/v/justinian-and-his-attendants-6th-century-ravenna
Gregor von Rezzori’s The snows of yesteryear https://notevenpast.org/snows-yesteryear-2008/
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30:5104/07/2021
Dominic Sandbrook
Dominic Sandbrook discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known.
Dominic Sandbrook is the author of eight books of modern history, and is best known for his books on Britain since the 1950s.
The first volume, Never Had It So Good, covers the late 1950s and early 1960s. The second book, White Heat, looks at Britain in the heyday of the 1960s, and was later used as the background for a BBC drama. The third and fourth volumes, State of Emergency and Seasons in the Sun, cover the 1970s, and were adapted for television as the BBC documentary series The 70s. The fifth volume, Who Dares Wins, covers the early 1980s, including the first Thatcher administration, the Falklands War, the New Romantics, the birth of home computers and the tragic decline of Wolverhampton Wanderers.
His new book series Adventures in Time, aimed at young readers, focuses on the six wives of Henry VIII and the Second World War.
He has a weekly podcast, The Rest is History, with his fellow historian Tom Holland.
The Weather Islands of Sweden https://www.vastsverige.com/en/tanum/produkter/the-weather-islands/
The Good Soldier https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/jun/07/fiction.julianbarnes
The Byzantine Empire https://www.livescience.com/42158-history-of-the-byzantine-empire.html
Stan Cullis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Cullis
Bridgnorth https://www.mccartneys.co.uk/pages/bridgnorth-area-guide
The Dark is Rising sequence https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2010/dec/08/season-s-readings-the-dark-is-rising
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29:5827/06/2021
John Kampfner
John Kampfner discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known.
John Kampfner is an award-winning author, broadcaster, commentator and cultural leader. His book Why The Germans Do It Better is Guardian, Economist and New Statesman Book of the Year and Waterstones Best Books of 2020. Find out more at www.jkampfner.net.
People playing cricket in Chicago www.iplcc.com
Cornwall's links with Mexico https://www.journeylatinamerica.co.uk/travel-inspiration/other/mexico-the-cornish-connection/
Insect-based cuisine https://www.tasteatlas.com/most-popular-insect-dishes-in-the-world
The impact of climate change in the Russian Arctic https://www.ft.com/content/d855d522-cefc-11e9-99a4-b5ded7a7fe3f
Marine le Pen’s gay acolytes https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-39641822
German football fans drinking and smoking on the terraces https://www.theguardian.com/football/2005/dec/11/sport.worldcup20061
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29:5020/06/2021
Oliver Sears
Oliver Sears discusses with Ivan six things which she thinks should be better known.
Oliver Sears is a London-born Dublin-based art dealer & gallery owner. He is son of a Holocaust survivor & founder of Holocaust Awareness Ireland. Formerly a trustee of Holocaust Education Trust Ireland, he is a frequent contributor to radio and newspapers including RTÉ and The Irish Times. He tells his family story ‘The Objects of Love’ through a collection of precious objects, documents and photographs, powerful mementoes that survived the war and describe individual lives under Nazi occupation. This was presented for the 2019 annual Kristallnacht lecture at Trinity College Dublin. In collaboration with Trinity College Dublin and Holocaust Awareness Ireland, Oliver was in conversation with both Lenny Abrahamson and Daniel Mendelsohn in two separate events in the series Why Talk About the Holocaust?
Derek Mahon https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000nz1m/derek-mahon-the-poetry-nonsense
The Trouble with Physics by Lee Smolin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIEorqJCQ2k
The piece written just before the really famous one. Three extraordinary pieces of music: Mozart Piano Concerto 20, the first aria of the Queen of the Night in the Magic Flute and Beethoven Piano Concerto 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71AgofmDSjs
Krowki https://ifood.tv/european/krowki/about
Giorgio Perlasca https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-giorgio-perlasca-1541233.html
Helen Frankenthaler https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/helen-frankenthaler-1114
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30:0913/06/2021
Meg Rosoff
Novelist Meg Rosoff discusses with Ivan six things which she thinks should be better known.
Meg Rosoff was born in Boston, educated at Harvard and St Martin’s College of Art, and has lived in London since 1989. Her first novel, How I Live Now, sold more than a million copies worldwide and was made into a feature film starring Saoirse Ronan. She has won or been shortlisted for 24 international book prizes, including the Orange Prize, the Whitbread and the National Book Award in America, and is a member of the Royal Society of Literature and an honorary Fellow of Homerton College, Cambridge University. She was awarded the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award in 2016. Her most recent novel is The Great Godden. Meg lives in London with her husband, the artist Paul Hamlyn.
Rembrandt’s House https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rembrandt_House_Museum
Woody Allen’s The Moose https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmnLRVWgnXU
Lurchers https://www.pets4homes.co.uk/pet-advice/is-a-lurcher-a-good-choice-of-pet.html
Galle to Kandy train https://thefamilyfreestylers.com/kandy-to-galle-train-sri-lanka/
Blue Red and Grey by The Who https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCycKHeNnBQ
A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes https://www.npr.org/2009/07/07/103930835/a-delightfully-evil-tale-of-pirates-and-children
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29:5706/06/2021
Rosie Wilby
Comedian Rosie Wilby discusses with Ivan six things which she thinks should be better known.
Rosie Wilby is an award-winning comedian who has appeared on BBC Radio 4 programmes including Woman's Hour and Four Thought. Her first book Is Monogamy Dead? was longlisted for the Polari First Book Prize 2018 and followed a trilogy of solo shows investigating the psychology of love and relationships. Rosie’s new book The Breakup Monologues (Bloomsbury) is based on her podcast of the same name, which was nominated for a British Podcast Award 2020.
You can order The Breakup Monologues book at https://linktr.ee/breakupmonologues and listen to the podcast at www.podfollow.com/breakupmonologues
The Czars https://www.westword.com/music/its-not-too-late-to-discover-the-czars-one-of-denvers-greatest-bands-6045038
The films of Alex Ross Perry https://harvardfilmarchive.org/programs/alex-ross-perry
A Girl Called Eddy https://www.popmatters.com/girl-called-eddy-been-around-2644860594.html
Home Time https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/home_time/
Relationship anarchy https://www.thecut.com/2018/10/what-does-relationship-anarchy-mean.html
Katie Carr https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katy_Carr
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30:1030/05/2021
Rosa Rankin-Gee
Novelist Rosa Rankin-Gee discusses six things which she thinks should be better known.
Rosa Rankin-Gee is the author of two novels: The Last Kings of Sark, which won Shakespeare & Company’s Paris Literary Prize, and Dreamland, set in a near-future Margate, which has just come out with Scribner. She once tried to stop Brexit with 600 croissants.
Insulated Mugs https://cheeki.com/blogs/news/8-reasons-to-buy-an-insulated-coffee-mug
The first signs of anaphylaxis https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/anaphylaxis/
Public Lending Right https://www.plr.uk.com/
The long history of Councils relocating families outside of London https://blog.shelter.org.uk/2017/01/exporting-homeless-families-is-it-legal-and-is-it-right/
Why rollerblading disappeared for 20 years https://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/what-the-heck-happened-rollerblading.htm
Electric blankets https://utterlyhome.com/benefits-of-using-an-electric-blanket/
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29:5123/05/2021
Alexandra Shulman
Former Vogue editor Alexandra Shulman discusses with Ivan six things which she thinks should be better known.
Alexandra Shulman was editor in chief of British Vogue, the longest serving editor in the history of the magazine. Her new book is Clothes and other things that matter. https://www.waterstones.com/book/clothes-and-other-things-that-matter/alexandra-shulman/9781788401999
Passion Flower capsules or tincture https://www.healthline.com/health/anxiety/calming-effects-of-passionflower
Delayed Gratification https://www.slow-journalism.com/
The London Library https://www.londonlibrary.co.uk/
Microwaveable rice https://steamykitchen.com/22048-how-to-cook-rice-microwave.html
Kiev https://www.ryanair.com/try-somewhere-new/gb/en/travel-guides/kiev-hidden-gems/
Where Stands a Winged Sentry by Margaret Kennedy https://www.handheldpress.co.uk/shop/womens-lives/margaret-kennedy-where-stands-a-winged-sentry/
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30:0516/05/2021
David Runciman
David Runciman discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known. This episode was recorded the day before the local elections.
Professor David Runciman was Head of the University of Cambridge's Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) from 2014 to 2018. His research interests are in twentieth century political thought, particularly ideas of democracy and crisis, and the role of technology in contemporary politics. David's new book is How Democracy Ends, published by Profile. David also writes regularly about politics for the London Review of Books. He presents the Talking Politics podcast.
The World As I Found It by Bruce Duffy https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B005UF5NJI/
Darwin Among the Machines http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-ButFir-t1-g1-t1-g1-t4-body.html
New Yorker Fiction podcast https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/fiction
Joni Mitchell singing Coyote in the Last Waltz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7MbmXklj3Q
Andy Bush's Indie Disco https://planetradio.co.uk/absolute-radio/shows/andy-bush-s-indie-disco/
Democracy https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v42/n07/david-runciman/too-early-or-too-late
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30:1109/05/2021
One in a Thousand
To celebrate 1000 Better Known choices, Ivan invites past guests to discuss their One in a Thousand, the choice which above all deserves to be better known.
People: Caroline Eden discusses Sanmao
Places: Eleanor Fitzsimons discusses the Sheep’s Head Peninsula and Barbara Scully discusses Southern Spain
Objects: Lindsay Johns discusses the books of Alex LaGuma
Stories: Christopher Fowler discusses
Experiences: Alexis Sotiropoulos discusses the National Fruit Museum
Ideas: Tarik O’Regan discusses originals of cover versions
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26:3005/05/2021
Tracey Follows
Tracey Follows discusses with Ivan six things which she thinks should be better known.
Tracey Follows is a futurist and author of The Future of You: Can Your Identity Survive 21st-Century Technology? She is the CEO of Futuremade, a futures consultancy advising global brands and specialising in the application of foresight to boost business.
Charles Wareing Bardsley's Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames (1901) https://www.gutenberg.org/files/59959/59959-h/59959-h.htm
The Otaku https://www.we-heart.com/2020/05/27/why-otaku-culture-is-thriving-in-the-uk/
Seasteading https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jun/24/seasteading-a-vanity-project-for-the-rich-or-the-future-of-humanity
Digital Afterlife https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/07/what-a-digital-afterlife-would-be-like/491105/
Advantageous https://www.wired.com/2015/06/sci-fi-film-advantageous/
Audrey Tang https://china.usc.edu/audrey-tang-taiwans-digital-minister-harnessing-technology-social-good
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28:2702/05/2021
Felicity Hayes-McCoy
Felicity Hayes-McCoy discusses with Ivan six things which she thinks should be better known.
Felicity Hayes-McCoy, bestselling author of The Library at the Edge of The World, was born in Dublin, Ireland. She studied literature at UCD before training as an actress in London. Her work as a writer ranges from TV, radio drama and documentary, to screenplays, memoir, journalism and children's books. Her "Finfarran" novels, set in Ireland and featuring local librarian Hanna Casey, are widely read internationally, and have been translated into seven languages. She and her husband, opera director Wilf Judd, live in Bermondsey, London, and on Ireland's west coast. She is on Twitter @fhayesmccoy and on Facebook as Felicity Hayes-McCoy Author
Niche literary genres https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2012/nov/19/literary-genres-robert-mccrum
Soda bread https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/irishsodabread_67445
Bratislava Castle https://www.slovakia.com/castles/bratislava-castle/
Judy Garland's performance of Gershwin's Bidin' My Time in the film Girl Crazy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQdIwjbW6es
Irish vernacular furniture https://www.victormeeauctions.ie/irish-country-furniture-vernacular-furinture/
Paddington Bear https://www.thecurb.com.au/paddington-2-review-if-youre-kind-and-polite-the-world-will-be-right/
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28:3125/04/2021
Dawood Gustave
Dawood Gustave discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known.
Dawood Gustave is the founder of Reluctantly Brave and a global leader in bringing gamechanging imaginative thinking into the heart of businesses. He grew up on a council estate in Peckham in south London. Aged sixteen, he left school and home, spending the next 16 years finding a range of ways to survive and make a living. At 31, a series of disturbing personal events sparked a desire to change the course of his life. He enrolled in an adult education course and went on to study history at Oxford. He has been included on The Independent’s Happy List of 100 people who make Britain a happier place and on The Evening Standard’s list of the most influential people in London.
Ibn Khaldun’s influence on Machiavelli https://thearabweekly.com/rediscovering-ibn-khaldun-pioneering-arab-medieval-mind
Benedict Anderson’s Imagined Communities https://ecotalker.wordpress.com/2019/10/05/a-review-of-imagined-communities-by-benedict-anderson/
Le Grand Voyage https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2005/oct/14/3
Cymande https://thevinylfactory.com/features/cymande-cult-funk-debut-golden-age-hip-hop/
Erno Goldfinger https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/features/who-was-ern-goldfinger
King Tubby https://www.factmag.com/2015/05/19/king-tubby-beginners-guide-dub-reggae/
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29:5318/04/2021
Armand D'Angour
Armand D’Angour discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known.
Armand D’Angour is a Professor of Classics at the University of Oxford, and Fellow and Tutor at Jesus College, Oxford. He is the author of numerous articles and chapters on the literature and culture of ancient Greece, and (as a former professional cellist) has conducted innovative research into reconstructing ancient Greek music. His books include The Greeks and the New (Cambridge: CUP, 2011) and Socrates in Love: The Making of a Philosopher (Bloomsbury 2019).
Aspasia of Miletus https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b040hjy4
Schubert Arpeggione Sonata with cellist Miklos Perenyi and pianist Andras Schiff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNcQuY1isEI
Pienza in the Val d'Orcia https://www.marthasitaly.com/articles/16/pienza-tuscany
Odi et Amo by Catullus https://www.rattle.com/odi-et-amo-hate-and-love-and-the-poets-soup-by-art-beck/
Projection https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection
Halva https://www.sbs.com.au/food/article/2019/08/15/here-are-all-amazing-ways-you-can-enjoy-halva
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29:1311/04/2021
Sarah Carey
Sarah Carey discusses with Ivan six things which she thinks should be better known.
Sarah Carey is a broadcaster, columnist and regular contributor Irish and international media. She is a columnist for The Irish Independent and has previously written for The Sunday Independent, The Irish Times and The Sunday Times. For six years she presented the critically praised Talking Point on Newstalk. Sarah has a degree in history from Trinity College, Dublin. She began her career in telecommunications and technology, working in both Dublin and California and continues to work in the field of strategic communications.
QALYs https://timharford.com/2020/06/cautionary-tales-the-spreadsheet-of-life-and-death/
Philips Lumea IPL Prestige 9000 https://www.philips.ie/c-m-pe/hair-removal/lumea-ipl
Christian underpinning of human rights https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/nov/21/dominion-making-western-mind-tom-holland-review
Baby confinement https://www.mimimatthews.com/2016/05/08/the-victorian-baby-19th-century-advice-on-motherhood-and-maternity/
The Irish wake https://www.masshinitt.com/Blog/6301/irishwake/
Lough Crew https://www.loughcrewmegalithiccentre.com/loughcrew-cairns/
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30:1404/04/2021
Samira Shackle
Samira Shackle discusses with Ivan six things which she thinks should be better known.
Samira Shackle is a freelance writer and reporter based in London. She is the editor of the New Humanist magazine, and a regular contributor to the Guardian Long Read. Her first book, Karachi Vice, is a work of narrative nonfiction telling the story of five ordinary citizens of Pakistan's largest city.
Private cities https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/jul/08/inspired-by-central-park-the-new-city-for-a-million-outside-karachi
Rosemary Tonks https://www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/badly-chosen-lover/
The Gish Gallop https://effectiviology.com/gish-gallop/
Pakistan's Sufi shrines https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/pakistans-sufis-preach-faith-and-ecstasy-92998056/
Eliza Haywood http://jasna.org/publications-2/persuasions-online/vol38no1/dow-simpson-seth-intro/exhibit-1-article/
Albanian sworn virgins https://slate.com/culture/2012/12/jill-peters-documenting-sworn-virgins-women-who-live-as-men-in-albania-photos.html
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29:4228/03/2021
Sam Bowman
Sam Bowman discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known.
Sam Bowman is director of competition policy at the International Center for Law & Economics, Portland. He is also a Senior Fellow of the Adam Smith Institute, a Non-Executive Director of the drug policy think tank Volteface, and Founder of the Entrepreneurs Network. He was previously Executive Director of the Adam Smith Institute, an economic policy think tank in Westminster.
PC Music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MQUleX1PeA
Europa Universalis IV https://www.paradoxplaza.com/europa-universalis-all/
Index funds https://www.thebalance.com/why-invest-in-index-funds-2466447
Private chat groups https://www.wired.com/story/telegram-encryption-whatsapp-settings/
Alienability of rights https://sambowman.substack.com/p/the-importance-of-alienability
Ignorance and error in politics and economics https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/what-are-the-implications-of-political-ignorance-for-democracy/
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29:5621/03/2021
Terence Blacker
Terence Blacker discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known.
Terence Blacker is a songwriter, singer and author who has sung and read at festivals, clubs and theatres in the UK, Europe and America. He was already an established author when he started writing and performing his songs in 2009. His musical storytelling – offbeat, funny songs capturing the lives of modern-day misfits and outsiders – quickly found a following at folk clubs and festivals. His books include The Twyning and You Cannot Live As I Have Lived and Not End Up Like This. His columns for The Independent are at https://www.independent.co.uk/author/terence-blacker.
I Didn't Know You Cared https://archivetvmusings.blog/tag/i-didnt-know-you-cared/
Rats https://www.dw.com/en/rats-dangerous-vermin-or-useful-members-of-society/a-19161314
Sam Carter https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/mar/24/sam-carter-review
Eleanor 'Fizz' Fazan https://books.friesenpress.com/store/title/119734000004692137/Eleanor-Fazan-FIZ
The short stories of Lorrie Moore https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/09/28/face-time
Collecting wood https://firewoodforstoves.com/collecting-your-own-wood/
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29:4714/03/2021
Will Hutton
Will Hutton discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known.
Will Hutton is co-chair of The Purposeful Company. He was Principal of Hertford College, University of Oxford from 2011 to 2020, and Chair of the Big Innovation Centre, an initiative from the Work Foundation. He was chief executive of the Work Foundation from 2000 to 2008. He was formerly editor-in-chief for The Observer.
American football https://www.the42.ie/basic-guide-to-american-football-and-the-nfl-2265086-Feb2018/
Oxford Divinity School https://discoveroxfordshire.com/things-to-do/the-divinity-school/
The Enlightenment Economy by Joel Mokyr http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2010/01/review-of-the-enlightened-economy-by-joel-mokyr/
5 plus 2 diet https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/the-5-2-diet-guide
Pickled Herring and Acqua Vit https://www.capebretonpost.com/opinion/the-taste-of-denmark-pickled-herring-and-aquavit-20245/
Section 172 of the 2006 Companies Act https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/business-law-blog/blog/2017/09/section-172-uk-companies-act-2006-desperate-times-call-soft-law
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29:5007/03/2021
Deborah Moggach
Writer Deborah Moggach discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known.
Deborah Moggach has written 21 novels, including Tulip Fever and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, both of which were made into movies. She has adapted many of my own and others' work, including the BAFTA-nominated Pride and Prejudice, starring Keira Knightley, and The Diary of Anne Frank. Her latest novel is The Carer, out in paperback, and her new novel, The Black Dress, will be published in July.
The Goodwin Sands https://www.amusingplanet.com/2016/11/goodwin-sands-and-its-shipwrecks.html
Old Master Painting auctions https://www.theartnewspaper.com/analysis/golden-oldies-the-year-old-masters-go-digital
Karen Dalton https://timeline.com/karen-dalton-folk-tragic-8c042745bdc7
Arnold Bennett https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1966/11/03/to-bennetts-rescue/
The Judges' Lodgings, Presteigne https://www.judgeslodging.org.uk/
2CV cars https://www.2cvgb.co.uk/
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29:3928/02/2021
Meg Van Deusen
Dr Meg Van Deusen discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known.
Meg Van Deusen, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist and mindfulness practitioner in private practice since 1994. In a time of great stress and disconnection in the US she offers insights and solutions to help readers reconnect and live healthier lives. Dr Van Deusen lives in Seattle, Washington where she enjoys the outdoors, cooking and time with her husband, sons and friends. Her latest book is Stressed in the U.S.: 12 Tools to Tackle Anxiety, Loneliness, Tech-Addiction and More. Further details are at https://www.megvandeusen.com/books/
Attachment Theory
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/690495.A_Secure_Base
Race to Nowhere https://www.amazon.com/Race-Nowhere-Vicki-Abeles/dp/B01DAKOXG8
John and Stephanie Cacioppo https://www.stephaniecacioppo.com/stephanie-john
Restorative Justice restorativejustice.org
Gut-Brain Axis https://psychscenehub.com/psychinsights/the-simplified-guide-to-the-gut-brain-axis/
Sawubona https://www.globalonenessproject.org/library/interviews/sawubona
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29:2721/02/2021
Leo McKinstry
Leo McKinstry discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known.
Leo McKinstry is a journalist and author. His books include Boycs: The True Story (2000), Rosebery: Statesman in Turmoil (2005) and Attlee and Churchill: Allies in War, Adversaries in Peace (2020).
The novels of Patrick Hamilton https://www.bookforum.com/print/1405/in-a-trio-of-novels-patrick-hamilton-offered-deft-portraits-of-the-english-working-class-as-world-war-ii-descended-their-republication-introduces-us-to-the-odd-booze-drenched-world-of-a-terrific-british-writer-2046
The New Brighton Tower in Wallesey http://www.hiddenwirral.org/the-new-brighton-tower/4590497180
Lord Rosebery https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v27/n18/ferdinand-mount/truffles-for-potatoes
Constance Smith https://www.irishnews.com/news/northernirelandnews/2019/01/04/news/tale-of-limerick-actress-constance-smith-s-hollywood-tragedy-revealed-in-tv4-documentary-1520331/
The music of Andy Prior https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zs3-NMKvD0
The National Liberal Party https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Liberal_Party_(UK,_1931)
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29:5114/02/2021
Helen Lewis
Helen Lewis discusses with Ivan six things which she thinks should be better known.
Helen Lewis is a British journalist who works as a Staff Writer at the Atlantic magazine, based in London. She hosts the longform interview series The Spark on BBC Radio 4, and her history of feminism, Difficult Women, was published in February 2020. Read more about Helen at https://helenlewiswrites.com/.
The Modesty Blaise novels https://www.theguardian.com/books/2004/sep/19/crimebooks.features
Barbara Castle https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v02/n19/edmund-dell/keeping-left
Toxoplasma of rage https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/17/the-toxoplasma-of-rage/
Gombe chimp war https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gombe_Chimpanzee_War
Tolstoy’s midlife crisis https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/facing-death-with-tolstoy
Diana Mitford https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v21/n19/christopher-hitchens/what-a-lot-of-parties
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30:0607/02/2021
Tim Tate
Tim Tate discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known.
Tim Tate is a multi-award winning documentary film-maker, investigative journalist and best-selling author. Over a career spanning almost 40 years he has written for most national newspapers and made more than 80 documentaries for British and international broadcasters. His films have been honoured by Amnesty International, the Royal Television Society, UNESCO, the International Documentary Association, the Association for International Broadcasting, the US National Academy of Cable Broadcasting and the New York Festivals.
He is the author of 17 published non-fiction books. His 2018 work, Hitler’s British Traitors (Icon Books, 2018) analysed hundreds of de-classified MI5 and UK Government files to reveal the untold story of espionage, sabotage and treachery by pro-Nazi British fascists during World War Two. It received extensive press and media coverage and was selected as Book of The Week by The Times. His book, Hitler’s Forgotten Children (Elliott & Thompson, 2015) which told the story of the Nazi Lebensborn program through the life story of one of its victims, Ingrid von Oelhafen, has been translated into nine languages and published in 16 countries.
Full details of Tim’s books are at www.timtate.co.uk.
The significance of the Nuremburg Trials https://eachother.org.uk/nuremberg-trials-still-matter/
The Songs of Pete Atkin & Clive James https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06nnnlc
The Motion Picture, Sound and Video Holdings at the US National Archives https://www.archives.gov/research/motion-pictures
North Korea https://theconversation.com/five-assumptions-we-make-about-north-korea-and-why-theyre-wrong-84771
William Horwood https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/book-review-the-velvet-underground-with-paws-for-thought-duncton-stone-william-horwood-harpercollins-15-99-pounds-1489024.html
The secrecy of MI5 https://timtate.co.uk/blog/secrets-and-spies/
28:5831/01/2021
Simon Winchester
Author Simon Winchester discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known.
Simon Winchester is the acclaimed author of many books, including The Professor and the Madman, The Men Who United the States, The Map That Changed the World, The Man Who Loved China, A Crack in the Edge of the World, and Krakatoa, all of which were New York Times bestsellers and appeared on numerous best and notable lists. In 2006, Winchester was made an officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) by Her Majesty the Queen. He resides in western Massachusetts. You can learn more on his website: www.simonwinchester.com.
The Antikythera Mechanism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpLcnAIpVRA
The Needham Question https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2008/08/14/the-passions-of-joseph-needham/
The Five Civilized Tribes https://www.legendsofamerica.com/na-fivecivilizedtribes/
The Skaergaard Intrusion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skaergaard_intrusion
Francis Galton https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v25/n23/andrew-berry/whenever-you-can-count
6.The Settlement of the Aaland Island Dispute https://projects.au.dk/inventingbureaucracy/blog/show/artikel/the-aaland-islands-question-a-league-success-story/
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30:0624/01/2021