Better Known: Recent Episodes

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.

Becky Smethurst discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known.

Dr Becky Smethurst is a Royal Astronomical Society Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. She is the star of astronomy-themed You Tube channel Dr Becky. Her current research is trying to answer the question, “How do galaxies and black holes evolve together?” Her latest book is A Brief History of Black Holes.

Black holes are neither “black” nor “holes” https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/dr-becky-smethurst/a-brief-history-of-black-holes/9781529086706
Annie Jump Cannon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Jump_Cannon
The same algorithm that identifies stars also identifies individual whale sharks https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/star-mapping-algorithms-track-endangered-animals
The dark sky sights of the UK https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topics/best-dark-sky-sites-uk
You can measure the speed of light with a microwave https://www.open.edu/openlearn/science-maths-technology/science/physics-and-astronomy/physics/measure-the-speed-light-your-microwave
The "black hole of Calcutta" prison is where black holes get their name from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Hole_of_Calcutta

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Helen Batten discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known.

Helen Batten is an author and psychotherapist. Her non-fiction books delve into the historical worlds of circuses, nuns, a family of redheaded sisters and Victorian music hall and opera. After reading history at Cambridge, she trained as a journalist, and worked in television producing and directing documentaries for the BBC. She now works as an integrative psychotherapist and couples counsellor in private practice in London. Helen is currently working on a book about a murder, magic and sacred music in Renaissance Italy. Her books are Confessions of a Showman, Sisters of the East End, The Scarlet Sisters, and The Improbable Adventures of Miss Emily Soldene.

Carlo Gesualdo https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/12/19/prince-of-darkness
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse in Relationships https://www.gottman.com/blog/the-four-horsemen-recognizing-criticism-contempt-defensiveness-and-stonewalling/
Emily Soldene https://www.historyextra.com/period/victorian/emily-soldene-who-was-life-facts-actress-writer-rebel/
How to have a good death https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sisters-East-End-Helen-Batten
Homing by Jon Day https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jun/07/homing-jon-day-review-pigeons
The Gladstone Arms https://www.thegladpub.co.uk/

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Andrew Pontzen discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known.

Andrew Pontzen is a cosmologist and a Professor at University College London. He is currently principal investigator on the ERC-funded GMGalaxies project, and co-director of UCL's Cosmoparticle Initiative. Previously he held a Royal Society University Research fellowship and, before that, junior fellowships in Oxford and Cambridge. His latest book is The Universe in a Box.

Simulations and the role they play in science and society https://original.newsbreak.com/@massachusetts-updates-1665615/3107758662878-decoding-the-universe-the-role-of-computer-simulations-in-cosmology
Beatrice Hill Tinsley https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/18/obituaries/overlooked-beatrice-tinsley-astronomer.html
Hugh Everett https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/hugh-everett-biography/
There are in the order of 200 billion terrestrial planets in our galaxy https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/what-is-an-exoplanet/planet-types/terrestrial/
Bayesian probability https://www.analyticsvidhya.com/blog/2016/06/bayesian-statistics-beginners-simple-english/
Sierpinski triangle https://fractalfoundation.org/OFC/OFC-2-1.html

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Jonathan Sayer discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known.

Jonathan Sayer is an award-winning comedy playwright and screenwriter; he is the co-author of The Play That Goes Wrong, Peter Pan Goes Wrong, The Comedy About A Bank Robbery, and many more. He is a writer, performer and Creative Director of Mischief Comedy. His work has been performed internationally in forty-six territories including The West End and Broadway. His new book is Nowhere to Run: The ridiculous life of a semi-professional football club chairman. More information is at https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/455269/nowhere-to-run-by-sayer-jonathan/9781787636897

Ashton United and non-league football https://www.theguardian.com/football/2023/aug/10/non-league-football-season-ticket-sales-ashton-united-jonathan-sayer
The virtues of growing your own veg https://urbanrootsgardenmarket.ca/the-top-5-benefits-of-growing-your-own-vegetables/
JG Farrell https://www.bookforum.com/print/1203/at-his-death-1979-j-g-farrell-was-called-his-generation-s-greatest-historical-novelist-does-the-claim-hold-up-2017
Dunning Kruger effect https://thedecisionlab.com/biases/dunning-kruger-effect
Twisted Wheel https://www.fredperry.com/subculture/articles/twisted-wheel-pl
Al Lubel https://www.chortle.co.uk/comics/a/34098/al_lubel/review

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Thomas Curran discsses with Ivan six things which should be better known.

Thomas Curran is a professor of psychology at the London School of Economics and author of a landmark study that the BBC hailed as “the first to compare perfectionism across generations.” His TED Talk on perfectionism has received more than three million views. His research has been featured in media ranging from the Harvard Business Review to New Scientist to CNN and he has appeared on numerous television and radio programs. His new book is The Perfection Trap: Embracing the Power of Good Enough, which is available at https://www.amazon.com/Perfection-Trap-Embracing-Power-Enough/dp/1982149531/.

Perfectionism is not high standards https://www.thementalfitnesscompany.com/perfectionism-or-high-standards/
It does not make us more successful https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-successful-people-rarely-perfectionists-john-mclachlan-2f
Perfectionism has many faces https://www.apa.org/monitor/nov03/manyfaces
It is rising rapidly among young people https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2018/01/perfectionism-young-people
Perfectionism is nature and nurture https://thedaily.case.edu/perfectionism-is-a-mix-of-nature-nurture-says-psychologys-amy-przeworski/
The antidote to perfectionism is self-acceptance https://www.kindfulbody.com/blog/self-compassion-antidote-perfectionism

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Anna Katharina Schaffner discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known.

Anna Katharina Schaffner is a cultural historian and professional burnout coach. Her books include The Art of Self-Improvement: Ten Timeless Truths, Exhaustion: A History and the novel The Truth about Julia. Anna writes regularly for the Times Literary Supplement and Psychology Today.

Feelings of exhaustion are nothing new https://aeon.co/ideas/why-exhaustion-is-not-unique-to-our-overstimulated-age
We are not our thoughts https://www.the-exhaustion-coach.com/post/what-s-so-great-about-acceptance-and-commitment-therapy
Mind metaphors matter https://psyche.co/ideas/youre-not-a-computer-youre-a-tiny-stone-in-a-beautiful-mosaic
We are profoundly shaped by stories about ourselves https://ideas.ted.com/the-two-kinds-of-stories-we-tell-about-ourselves/
‘Dead man’s goals’ are not enough for creating sustainable behavioural change https://joshuanhook.com/2018/02/04/turn-around-your-dead-mans-goals/
Only Lovers Left Alive https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/feb/20/only-lovers-left-alive-review

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Ivan Wise adopts six quiz show formats and asks himself some searching questions. He uses Family Friends to try and work out if we all think of the same extinct bird, American prison and canyon, He adopts Uiversity Challenge to try and answer the text of Padgett Powell's The Interrogative Mood - A Novel? in which every sentence is a question. He employs Who Wants to be a Millionaire to consider the exact wording of King Henry II's request about Thomas Beckett.

Wilhelm Gustloff https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/deadliest-disaster-sea-happened-75-years-ago-yet-its-barely-known-why-180974077/
Charlton Athletic v Huddersfield, 1957 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlton_Athletic_F.C._7%E2%80%936_Huddersfield_Town_A.F.C.
Ignaz Semmelweis https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/01/12/375663920/the-doctor-who-championed-hand-washing-and-saved-women-s-lives
Manuscripts destroyed by fire https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/12/09/ralph-ellisons-slow-burning-art
Spanish flu https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-i/1918-flu-pandemic
Charborough Wall http://www.charborough.co.uk/

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David Robson discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known.

David Robson is an award-winning science writer based in London. His latest book, The Expectation Effect: How Your Mindset Can Transform Your Life (Canongate/Henry Holt), was a Financial Times Best Book of 2022 and won the British Psychological Society Book Award in 2023. His was previously a features editor at New Scientist and a senior journalist at the BBC, and he writes regularly for the Guardian, the Observer, and the Psychologist. Find out more at www.davidrobson.me.

How the nocebo effect makes us sick https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20150210-can-you-think-yourself-to-death
Why speaking in the third person makes us smarter https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20230411-illeism-the-ancient-trick-to-help-you-think-more-wisely
How to escape the illusion of knowledge: https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20220812-the-illusion-of-knowledge-that-makes-people-overconfident
Reframing fatigue can boost your workouts: https://psyche.co/ideas/physical-fatigue-is-in-the-brain-as-much-as-in-the-body
Family Lexicon by Natalia Ginzburg https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/hiding-in-plain-sight-natalia-ginzburgs-masterpiece
Love Soup https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/feb/12/love-soup-box-set-review

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Hana Ayoob discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known.

Hana Ayoob is a science communicator and illustrator using art and events to explore the world around us. She speaks at a range of events from science festivals to comedy nights, produces illustrations for books and other projects, and provides training and consulting for universities and other organisations.

Honey badgers https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/63407/11-fierce-facts-about-honey-badger
Leonardo Da Vinci (the man rather than the myth) https://edition.cnn.com/2011/11/08/world/europe/leonardo-da-vinci-life/index.html
Singapore https://www.timeout.com/singapore/things-to-do/9-hidden-gems-you-never-knew-existed-in-singapore
How to draw anything by Scriberia https://info.scriberia.com/free-chapter-howtodrawanything
How useless the human sinuses are https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sdut-sinuses-the-mysterious-holes-in-our-heads-2006jul16-story.html
Henna https://stepfeed.com/8-things-you-didn-t-know-about-henna-4526

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Lewis Dartnell discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known.

Professor Lewis Dartnell is a research scientist, presenter and author based in London. He graduated from Oxford University with a First Class degree in Biological Sciences and completed his PhD at University College London in 2007. He now holds the Professorship in Science Communication at the University of Westminster. His research is in the field of astrobiology and the search for microbial life on Mars. He has also held a STFC Science in Society Fellowship and is very active in delivering live events at schools and science festivals, working as a scientific consultant for the media, and have appeared in numerous TV documentaries and radio shows. He has won several awards for his science writing and outreach work and regularly freelances for newspapers and magazine articles. He has also published five books: The Knowledge was the Sunday Times ‘New Thinking’ Book of the Year and international bestseller, and Origins: How the Earth Made Us is a Sunday Times top History book of 2019. Being Human: How our Biology shaped World History is now out.

Dave Gingery and his lathe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_J._Gingery
SODIS https://www.sodis.ch/methode/index_EN.html
How voting in the US southern states follows a 75-million-year-old seafloor https://www.history.co.uk/article/how-earth-shaped-human-history-interview-with-lewis-dartnell-about-origins
Link between a defunct gene in human DNA and the emergence of the Mafia https://www.newscientist.com/podcasts/199-being-human-lewis-dartnell-on-how-our-biology-shapes-our-actions/
How tropical diseases helped bring about the union between England and Scotland https://www.nls.uk/exhibitions/scotland-and-darien/
Titan and possibility of two biospheres https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2012/28jun_titanocean

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Oliver Burkeman discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known.

Oliver Burkeman is the author of the New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller Four Thousand Weeks, about embracing limitation and finally getting round to what counts, along with The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking and Help! How to Become Slightly Happier and Get a Bit More Done. For many years he wrote a popular column for the Guardian, 'This Column Will Change Your Life'. In his email newsletter The Imperfectionist, he writes about productivity, mortality, the power of limits and building a meaningful life in an age of distraction. He lives in the North York Moors.

The Zettelkasten https://zenkit.com/en/blog/a-beginners-guide-to-the-zettelkasten-method/
Death: The End of Self-Improvement by Joan Tollifson https://www.joantollifson.com/book-death-the-end-of-self-improvement.html
The fact that everyone is just winging it https://www.theguardian.com/news/oliver-burkeman-s-blog/2014/may/21/everyone-is-totally-just-winging-it
Rosedale Chimney Bank and Spaunton Moor https://www.walkingbritain.co.uk/walk-1921-description
"Ought implies can" https://platofootnote.wordpress.com/2016/06/13/ought-implies-can-or-does-it/
This Jungian Life https://thisjungianlife.com/

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Rachel Nuwer discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known.

Rachel Nuwer is an award-winning freelance science journalist and author who regularly contributes to the New York Times, Scientific American and National Geographic. Her first book, Poached: Inside the Dark World of Wildlife Trafficking, took her to a dozen countries to investigate the multi-billion dollar illegal wildlife trade. Her new book, I Feel Love: MDMA and the Quest for Connection in a Fractured World, delves into the history, science, politics and culture of MDMA. She lives in Brooklyn.

MDMA has been used by therapists since the 1970s https://www.amazon.com/Feel-Love-Quest-Connection-Fractured/dp/1635579570/
Most health problems and deaths attributed to MDMA are the result of prohibition https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-61734334
Composting is a really easy way to support the environment https://www.outsideonline.com/culture/essays-culture/compost-new-york-city-zero-waste/
Trophy hunting contributes to conservation in Africa https://www.biographic.com/africas-conservation-conundrum/
Arresting poachers won't solve the problem of illegal wildlife trade https://www.amazon.com/Poached-Inside-World-Wildlife-Trafficking/dp/0306825503
Rabbits are incredible pets and should be kept indoors http://allaboutrabbitsrescue.org/rabbits-101/

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Poached: Inside the Dark World of Wildlife Trafficking

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Jack Ashby discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known.

Jack Ashby is the Assistant Director of the University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge. His zoological focus is on the mammals of Australia, but his work more broadly centres on engaging people with the natural world, chiefly through museums, and exploring the colonial biases that museums often exhibit. His books, Platypus Matters: The Extraordinary Story of Australian Mammals and Animal Kingdon: A Natural History in 100 Objects combine these scientific and social stories.

From 2022-23 he was an Art Fund Headley Fellow. He is a trustee of the Natural Sciences Collections Association, an Honorary Research Fellow in UCL Science and Technology Studies, and formerly sat on the Council of the Society for the History of Natural History.

Platypuses https://www.amazon.co.uk/Platypus-Matters-Extraordinary-Australian-Mammals/dp/0008431477/
Ali from Sarawak https://theconversation.com/i-am-ali-wallace-the-malay-assistant-of-alfred-russel-wallace-an-excerpt-85738
Biases in natural history museum displays https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2019/october/more-male-than-female-specimens-in-natural-history-collections.html
Stockholm’s Biologiskamuseet https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/biologiska-museet
Tasmanian devils https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/facts/tasmanian-devil
Gran Paradiso National Park https://www.cicerone.co.uk/five-ways-to-enjoy-italys-gran-paradiso-national-park

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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/

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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/

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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

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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

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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/

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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/

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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)

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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

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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/

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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/

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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

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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

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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/

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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/

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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/

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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/

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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/

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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/

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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

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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)

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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

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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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The World As I Found It (New York Review Books Classics)

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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/

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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Barbara Scully discusses with Ivan six things which she thinks should be better known.

Barbara Scully is a freelance writer, columnist and broadcaster – her fifth career to date. She is frequently published in the national press and is a familiar voice on the airwaves – both on TV and radio. Her writing appears most often in the Irish Independent, but she has been published in all the national newspapers and most Irish magazines.

Barbara has a weekly slot on the Moncrieff Show on Newstalk, an independent national radio station in Ireland and is a regular contributor across various stations both on TV and radio, including RTE. She presents a weekly webcast called How To Stay Sane In A Pandemic which is broadcast live every Wed at 4:15pm on Twitter (@barbarascully) and is posted afterwards on her website www.barbarascully.com.

An experienced public speaker, Barbara is married to photographer Paul Sherwood, they have three daughters, two grandchildren, four cats and a family of foxes at the bottom of their suburban garden.

Sheep's Head http://thesheepsheadway.ie/
The Last Waltz https://youtu.be/5rKlkR0B5aw
Puerto de la Cruz https://www.tenerife-information-centre.com/puerto-de-la-cruz.html
John O Donohue https://www.johnodonohue.com/
Donegal Airport https://www.donegalairport.ie/
Wild Ireland https://www.wildireland.org/

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Jim Al-Khalili discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known.

Jim Al-Khalili OBE FRS is a theoretical physicist at the University of Surrey where he holds a Distinguished Chair in physics as well as a university chair in the public engagement in science. He received his PhD in nuclear reaction theory in 1989 and has published widely in the field. His current interest is in open quantum systems and the application of quantum mechanics in biology. Jim is a prominent author and broadcaster. He has written 14 books on popular science and the history of science, between them translated into twenty-six languages. His latest book, The World According to Physics, was shortlisted for the Royal Society Book Prize. He is a regular presenter of TV science documentaries, such as the Bafta nominated Chemistry: a volatile history, and he hosts the long-running weekly BBC Radio 4 programme, The Life Scientific.

Jim is a past president of the British Science Association and a recipient of the Royal Society Michael Faraday medal and the Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Medal, the Institute of Physics Kelvin Medal and the Stephen Hawking Medal for Science Communication. He received an OBE in 2007 for ‘services to science’.

The scientific method https://www.newscientist.com/term/the-scientific-method/
The contribution of the Medieval Arabic world to science and mathematics https://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/30/science/how-islam-won-and-lost-the-lead-in-science.html
The Bohr-Einstein debate on the nature of reality http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/2503/1/EinsteinBohr.pdf
Information literacy https://www.tes.com/news/information-literacy-academic-conventions-international-benefits
Gertrude Bell https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2007/10/25/the-queen-of-the-quagmire/
The British Countryside https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2015/apr/14/your-favourite-secret-corners-of-the-british-countryside-mapped

Alex Christofi discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known.

Alex Christofi is Editorial Director at Transworld Publishers and the author of the novels Let Us Be True and Glass, winner of the Betty Trask Prize for fiction. He has written for numerous publications including the Guardian, the London Magazine and The White Review. Dostoevsky in Love is his first work of non-fiction. You can buy the book at https://linktr.ee/dostoevsky

Redding Hunter https://traffique.bandcamp.com/album/lightness
Hyde Park pet cemetery https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrWitagNj8k
Kabaddi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=av1mr3UpdZk
Roko's Basilisk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LessWrong#Roko's_basilisk
The Broomway https://www.walkingclub.org.uk/walk/the-broomway-and-foulness-island/
House of the Dead https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/09/15/notes-from-a-dead-house/

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Anjuna Mutanda discusses with Ivan six things which she thinks should be better known.

Anjula is a highly respected relationship and clinical therapist, mental health expert, psychologist, presenter, author, social scientist, and media consultant.

Most recently, Anjula presented Sextape, a major four-part relationship series on Channel 4. Anjula was the behavioural expert on season 2 of Make or Break (My5 April 2019). She was the resident psychologist on 50 Ways to Kill your Lover. She makes regular guest appearances on programmes such as Good Morning Britain, Lorraine, BBC Breakfast, and The Alan Titchmarsh Show. She was the resident psychologist on ITV's This Morning for five years.

Her first self-help book Celebrity Life Laundry was published by John Blake Publishing in 2007 and her second self-help book How to do Relationships was published by Vermillion in 2013 which she wrote for RELATE, the number 1 relationship charity.

She is Vice President for RELATE, and has worked alongside Ruby Wax and Prof Tanya Byron to represent the brand. She is also the Media and Diversity ambassador for The National Counselling Society.

She is a senior practitioner and holds the status of MBACP. She is registered with The British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy and the NCS where she is a Fellow.

Shinrin-Yoku https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jun/08/forest-bathing-japanese-practice-in-west-wellbeing
Drs Mamie Phipps Clark and Kenneth Clark https://www.naacpldf.org/ldf-celebrates-60th-anniversary-brown-v-board-education/significance-doll-test/
The fawn response https://thedawnrehab.com/blog/trauma-and-the-fawning-response/
National Civil rights museum in Memphis https://www.civilrightsmuseum.org/
A fantastic fear of everything https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fantastic_Fear_of_Everything
Queen of Katwe https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/23/movies/queen-of-katwe-review.html

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Novelist Alice Clark-Platts discusses with Ivan six things which she thinks should be better known.

Alice Clark-Platts is the author of the best-selling The Flower Girls, published by Bloomsbury Raven in 2019.

Her crime novels Bitter Fruits and The Taken are published by Penguin Random House. The Taken was also shortlisted for the Dead Good Reader Awards for Best Police Procedural.

Alice’s short fiction has been published in numerous works. She is the founder of the Singapore Writers’ Group. Alice conducts regular writing workshops and teaches creative and non-fiction writing at La Salle College of the Arts. She teaches a regular online novel writing course Telling Yourself the Story.

Her new novel, Fire Mountain, will be published by Bloomsbury in 2022.

Dorothy Whipple https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/forgotten-authors-no-31-dorothy-whipple-1666062.html
Chilli Crab https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilli_crab
Durham Cathedral online masses https://www.youtube.com/user/durhamcathedral1093
Eastern & Oriental hotel in Penang https://www.eohotels.com/
Island of Bawah https://www.i-escape.com/bawah-reserve
Mary Westmacott https://www.agathachristie.com/about-christie/family-memories/the-mary-westmacotts

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Richard Bradford discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known.

Richard Bradford is Professor of English and Senior Distinguished Research Fellow at Ulster University. He is the author of six highly acclaimed literary biographies The Life of a Long-Distance Writer: A Biography of Alan Sillitoe, First Boredom, Then Fear: The Life of Philip Larkin and Lucky Him: The Life of Kingsley Amis, Martin Amis: The Biography, The Man Who Wasn’t there: A Life of Ernest Hemingway and Orwell: A Man of Our Times. His Devils, Lusts and Strange Desires: The Life of Patricia Highsmith is out in 2021.

George Orwell Predicted Brexit https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2020/0120/1109640-how-george-orwell-predicted-the-future/
Hemingway the Compulsive Liar https://popularculturereview.wordpress.com/2019/08/28/rollyson/
What is High Quality Literature? https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/is-shakespeare-any-good
Why Kingsley Amis and Philip Larkin Fell Out https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v34/n24/christopher-tayler/keep-yr-gob-shut
Nasty Writers https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/literary-rivals-feuds-and-antagonisms-world-books-richard-bradford-book-review-author-exposes-importance-literary-success-9773234.html
How Patricia Highsmith was a very peculiar individual https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2009/07/02/this-woman-is-dangerous/

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Guy Leschziner discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known.

Guy Leschziner is a consultant neurologist and sleep physician, broadcaster and author. He heads the Sleep Disorders Centre at Guy's Hospital, one of Europe's largest and busiest clinical sleep services. He is presenter of Mysteries of Sleep and The Compass: The Senses on BBC World Service and Radio 4, and is author of "The Nocturnal Brain: Nightmares, Neuroscience and the Secret World of Sleep" (Simon and Schuster, 2019). The Compass: The Senses is available on BBC Sounds and will be broadcast in December on BBC Radio 4.

Storytelling in medicine https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/articles/medicine-and-the-art-of-storytelling
The Thames http://www.jesselogister.com/5-unknown-london-attractions-along-the-thames/
Sleep and the brain https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1hs2pJsYBxCHNJF5VkDh4QV/10-ways-to-improve-the-quality-of-your-sleep
Sherry http://www.wineanorak.com/sherry.htm
Joy of creation with hands https://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/the-filter/11568000/A-new-generation-is-discovering-the-joy-of-making-things-by-hand.html
Scientific literacy https://researcherblogski.wordpress.com/2015/03/03/scientific-literacy-why-is-it-important-and-how-do-we-increase-it/

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Eleanor Fitzsimons discusses with Ivan six things which she thinks should be better known.

Eleanor Fitzsimons is a writer and researcher who lives in Dublin. She is the author of Wilde’s Women (Duckworth, 2015), which won the silver medal in the Biography category of the 2018 Independent Publisher (IPPY) Awards. She is an honorary patron of the Oscar Wilde Society and a member of the editorial board of society journal The Wildean. Her second book, The Life and Loves of E. Nesbit (Duckworth, 2019), was a Sunday Times Book of the Year 2019, and was included in the Washington Post Top 50 Non-Fiction Books of 2019. In 2020, she was shortlisted for the Dalkey Emerging Writer Award and won the Rubery Book Award for Non-Fiction. She has worked as a television researcher for the Irish national broadcaster RTÉ and was a contributor to The Importance of Being Oscar (BBC2, April 2019).

The Diaries of George Bernard Shaw https://www.amazon.co.uk/Diaries-1885-97-Earlier-Fragments-1875-1917/dp/0271003863
The Tetrapod imprints on Valentia Island, County Kerry https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/tetrapod-trackway
The Short Fiction of Maeve Brennan https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/heritage/maeve-brennan-a-writer-who-was-at-home-in-neither-ireland-nor-america-1.3996762
The ancient Japanese art of Kintsugi https://www.nbcnews.com/better/health/how-japanese-art-technique-kintsugi-can-help-you-be-more-ncna866471
The Trier Amphitheater https://www.trier-info.de/en/places-of-interest/the-amphitheatre
The Vaughan Bequest at the National Galleries of Scotland and Ireland https://www.nationalgallery.ie/art-and-artists/exhibitions/past-exhibitions/turner-vaughan-bequest

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Novelist Alex Wheatle discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known.

Alex Wheatle was born in London of Jamaican parents. His first book, Brixton Rock (1999), tells the story of a 16-year old boy of mixed race, in 1980s Brixton.

His most recent novels, Liccle Bit (2015), Crongton Knights (2016) - winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize - and Straight Outta Crongton (2017), are novels for young adult readers, focusing on the lives of teenagers and families on the fictional South Crongton council estate.

In 2010, he wrote and toured the one-man autobiographical performance, Uprising. His play, Shame & Scandal, had its debut at the Albany Theatre, Deptford in October 2015. He was awarded an MBE for services to literature in 2008.

Right Time by the Mighty Diamonds https://inreviewonline.com/2015/07/17/right-time/
The Black Jacobins by CLR James https://www.bl.uk/20th-century-literature/articles/an-introduction-to-c-l-r-jamess-the-black-jacobins
Exodus by Bob Marley and the Wailers https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/8dcz/
Babylon https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-features/babylon-controversial-cult-reggae-movie-returns-804272/
Huckleberry Finn https://www.vqronline.org/essay/huckleberry-finn-and-problem-freedom
Moss Side Massive by Karline Smith https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/moss-side-massive-karline-smith/1002107207

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Science writer Tom Chivers discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known.

Tom Chivers is science editor at UnHerd.com. His second book, How To Read Numbers: A Guide to Statistics in the News (and Knowing When to Trust Them), will be published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in March 2021. He is a two-time winner of the Royal Statistical Society's Statistical Excellence in Journalism award, and was once told by Terry Pratchett that he was "far too nice to be a journalist".

Goodhart’s Law https://unherd.com/2020/04/we-cant-put-too-much-faith-in-covid-19-statistics/
Kill Team https://www.goonhammer.com/getting-started-kill-team/ and https://unherd.com/2020/03/self-isolation-is-feeding-my-warhammer-addiction/
Selection bias https://unherd.com/2019/09/statistically-you-shouldnt-believe-the-news/
Red kite https://unherd.com/2019/11/let-loose-the-lynxes/
Coordination games https://unherd.com/2020/03/would-you-take-a-coronavirus-risk/
Naomi Novik’s Temeraire series https://www.npr.org/2016/06/14/481391755/temeraire-and-laurence-at-peace-at-last-in-league-of-dragons

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Emma Bridgewater discusses with Ivan six things which she thinks should be better known.

Emma Bridgewater grew up in Oxford, the eldest of a large family. After studying English at London University, she joined a small knitwear firm, but soon realised that what she really wanted to do was start her own company. Her ‘eureka moment’ came in 1985, when she was searching for a pretty cup and saucer for her mother’s birthday. Discovering that everything in the shops was either delicate and formal, or heavy and clunky, she realised there was a gap in the market for pottery that was both beautiful and practical, and that reflected the relaxed, colourful, mismatched home she’d grown up in.

Emma sketched out a mug, bowl and jug, and found a pottery in Stoke-on-Trent, the home of British ceramics to make them up. She then set about decorating them using cut-out sponges – a traditional technique that was to become her signature style. The designs were snapped up by Liberty, Harrods, and The General Trading Co, and Emma Bridgewater Ltd was born. The company now has a turnover of over £20m a year, and Emma Bridgewater products are sold worldwide.

As the company grew, Emma was determined to keep production of the pottery in Stoke-on-Trent, and in 1996, bought a Victorian factory there. Emma Bridgewater Ltd is now one of the largest employers of potters in the area. In recognition of her work championing manufacturing in Stoke-on-Trent, Emma has honorary degrees from the University of Staffordshire and Keele University, and in 2013, she was awarded a CBE for Services to Industry.

Country Music https://www.theguardian.com/music/country
Holy Wells http://www.davidfurlong.co.uk/holywellslond.htm
Neglected English towns https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/united-kingdom/england/articles/forgotten-english-villages-2020/
Winter Savoury and Lovage http://www.herbexpert.co.uk/forgotten-herbs-grow-sorrel-lovage-summer-savory-angelica.html
Chimomanthus https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/29215/Chimonanthus-praecox/Details
Lardy cake https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/lardy_cake_80839

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Andrew Lownie discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known.

Andrew Lownie was educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he was Dunster History Prizeman and President of the Union, before taking his Master’s and doctorate at Edinburgh University. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, he later returned to Cambridge as a visiting fellow at Churchill College.

He has been a bookseller, publisher and journalist, writing for the Times, Telegraph, Wall Street Journal , Spectator and Guardian, and since 1988 has run his own literary agency specialising in history and biography.

He is President of the Biographers Club, sits on the advisory board of Biographers International Organisation and is a Trustee of the Campaign for Freedom of Information.

The author John Buchan and his writing https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/profiles/2lWTsMM9FyLFMSTgCtrl91k/john-buchan
Ave Maria https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ave_Maria_(Vavilov)
Haggis https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/howto/guide/what-haggis
The Campaign for Freedom of Information https://www.cfoi.org.uk/
The Writers Museum in Edinburgh https://www.edinburghmuseums.org.uk/venue/writers-museum
House histories http://www.londonhousehistories.co.uk/index.php?lang=en-

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Viv Groskop discusses with Ivan six things which she thinks should be better known.

Viv Groskop is a writer, critic, broadcaster and stand-up comedian. She is the author of How to Own the Room: Women and the Art of Brilliant Speaking, also a Top 10 iTunes podcast, now in its 8th series, featuring guests like Hillary Clinton, Margaret Atwood, Nigella Lawson, Julie Andrews, Sarah Hurwitz (Michelle Obama’s speechwriter). Her latest book is Au Revoir Tristesse: Lessons in Happiness from French Literature. She has presented Front Row and Saturday Review on BBC Radio 4, is a regular on BBC1’s This Week and has hosted book tours for Graham Norton, Jo Brand and Jennifer Saunders.

Saturday Night Live's The Californians https://www.dailycal.org/2019/12/06/why-the-californians-skit-from-snl-is-the-best-of-all-time/
The poetry of Anna Akhmatova https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/anna-akhmatova
Lipcote https://www.lipcote.com/
The music of Janis Ian https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QPF-duKQro
Vermouth and vermuterias https://vinepair.com/wine-blog/youre-probably-drinking-storing-and-making-cocktails-with-your-vermouth-wrong/
“Yes and” as a verb — the improv concept https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes,_and...

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Tom Barber discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known.

Tom Barber was a journalist for many years, writing for GQ, the Evening Standard and Tatler among others before founding the award-winning travel company Original Travel with two friends in 2003. Original Travel has gone on to win a number of industry awards, and specialises in tailormade trips to original destinations around the world, with particular expertise in adventurous and educational family holidays, sabbaticals and sustainable travel, including a new portfolio of train-only trips from the UK. He is currently also Travel Contributing Editor for Esquire, Conde Nast Traveller's only recognised family travel expert, and Glorious Leader of the No Fruit Out of Context Party. Tom lives in Norfolk with his wife and four children.

Paddy Leigh Fermor books A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Time_of_Gifts and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Between_the_Woods_and_the_Water
Transylvania https://www.originaltravel.co.uk/europe/romania/transylvania
Chateau Musar https://chateaumusar.com/
Philantourism https://www.originaltravel.co.uk/collections/philanthropic-travel
Picture This app https://www.picturethisai.com/
Sabbaticals https://www.originaltravel.co.uk/collections/sabbaticals

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Madeleine Bunting discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known.

Madeleine was a journalist on the Guardian and held a number of positions including columnist 1999-2012. She wrote on a wide range of subjects including politics, social affairs, faith and global development.

Her book Love of Country was shortlisted for the Wainright and the Saltire Prizes 2017, and she won the Portico Prize for The Plot in 2010 which was also shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje Prize.Her first novel, Island Song, won the Waverton Good Read Award in 2020.

Her new book is Labours of Love: The Crisis of Care.

Mindfulness https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/06/mindfulness-hospitals-schools
Care https://unherd.com/2020/10/care-workers-are-not-saints/
Ana Silvera https://anasilvera.bandcamp.com/
Scarborough https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/united-kingdom/england/yorkshire/articles/postcard-from-scarborough/
How to do nothing by Jenny Odell https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/apr/02/jenny-odell-how-to-do-nothing-attention
Alison Crowther https://www.alisoncrowther.com/

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Scientist Marty Jopson discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known.

Marty Jopson has been making science television for over twenty years. He has worked behind the camera as a researcher, prop builder, director, producer, executive and company manager. His career as a presenter spans over ten years as the science reporter on the BBC1 flagship programme, The One Show. He has written The Science of Everyday Life, The Science of Food and The Science of Being Human. Find out more about Marty at www.martyjopson.co.uk.

Jane Marcet http://www.rsc.org/diversity/175-faces/all-faces/jane-marcet/
The Kirkaldy Testing Works http://www.testingmuseum.org.uk/
The origin and manufacture of marmite https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-37646193
The best limestone pavement in the Yorkshire Dales https://www.yorkshiredales.org.uk/about/wildlife/habitats/limestone/limestone-pavements/
Small things down a microscope https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/02/microscope-history-data/462234/
Denis Papin http://www.stbrides.com/news/2016/07/more-fascinating-history.html

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Journalist Kavita Puri discusses with Ivan six things which she thinks should be better known.

Kavita Puri is an award-winning journalist, executive producer and broadcaster for the BBC. She is also the author of the critically acclaimed book Partition Voices: Untold British Stories.

Kavita is a regular presenter of The Inquiry on the BBC World Service and Radio 4. Her landmark three-part series, Partition Voices, on Radio 4 marked the 70th anniversary of the partition of India. It was awarded The Royal Historical Society’s Best Radio and Podcast prize and its overall Public History Prize. Partition Voices: Untold British Stories, based on the series, was published in 2019 by Bloomsbury. She presents Three Pounds in My Pocket, a social history of South Asians in post-war Britain, on Radio 4. For more information about Kavita, please go to https://www.kavita-puri.com/.

Partition https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1997/10/23/india-the-imprint-of-empire/
Southern Spain https://theculturetrip.com/europe/spain/articles/the-most-beautiful-towns-and-cities-to-visit-in-southern-spain/
Letter-writing https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/nov/26/from-me-with-love-lost-art-letter-writing
Cast Courts https://www.standard.co.uk/go/london/arts/v-and-a-cast-courts-replicas-rome-a4002336.html
Dance https://www.seattletimes.com/life/wellness/late-bloomers-adult-ballet-classes-bring-the-joy-of-dance-at-any-age/
Recording your family history https://www.familysearch.org/blog/en/family-history-2/

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Johnnie Boden, the founder of Boden, discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known.

Johnnie Boden founded Boden in 1991 with eight menswear products, sold through a catalogue hand-drawn on his kitchen table. As ambitious as he was, he couldn't have imagined that the fashion line bearing his name would become a multi-million-pound global business producing a huge range of clothes for every member of the family.

The success of the business - which last year chalked up 2.5 million customers worldwide and sales of over £350 million - is all the more impressive given that Johnnie started out with no fashion training. He had, however, spent much of his teens hunting down vintage tweed overcoats and Converse high-tops in Portobello Road, and cut his teeth as Men s Fashion Editor of Harpers & Queen s teenage edition in August 1977.

After graduating from Oxford, Johnnie fell into a job as stockbroker. An overseas posting to New York in 1988 opened his eyes to how well Americans operated in the mail-order market for top-quality basics - and, more importantly, how the UK was failing to compete.

In 2017, Boden opened its first central London flagship shop on the King's Road. Boden's stylish range of clothing and accessories are available to buy via catalogue in the UK, USA, Germany, France, Australia and Austria, and online - trading in over 60 countries with more than 1000 employees across all markets.

Greek wine https://www.botilia.gr/en/botilia/greek-wine
Fashion illustration https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/importance-of-fashion-illustration
Antique buying in regional sale rooms https://antique-marks.com/antique-auction-houses.html
Lemon juice and olive oil https://www.seloolive.com/blogs/olive-oil/olive-oil-and-lemon
Choral music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLkX3g58vT8
Majella national park in Italy https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2013/apr/19/walking-majella-national-park-italy

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Caroline Eden discusses with Ivan six things which she thinks should be better known.

Caroline Eden is a writer and critic contributing to the Guardian, Financial Times and the Times Literary Supplement. In 2020, she was awarded the prestigious Art of Eating Prize. She is the author of two food and travel books, Samarkand (2016) and Black Sea (2018). Her new book, Red Sands, looking at the food and culture of Central Asia, will be out in November 2020. You can follow her @edentravels on Twitter and Instagram.

Kazakhstan as a destination https://www.journalofnomads.com/places-to-visit-in-kazakhstan/
Cornucopia magazine http://www.cornucopia.net
Sea buckthorn as an ingredient http://www.missfoodwise.com/2018/10/sea-buckthorn-berries-various-ways-kitchen.html/
Sanmao https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/stories-of-the-sahara-9781408881880/
Roz Chast https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/roz-chast
Gaye Su Akyol https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/nov/02/gaye-su-akyol-istikrarli-hayal-hakikattir-review-turkish-star-deserves-big-things

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Adam Hart-Davis discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known.

Adam Hart-Davis is a freelance writer and lecturer – former presenter on television of Local Heroes, Tomorrow’s World, What the Romans (and others) Did for Us, How London was Built, and many other series. He has collected various awards for both television and radio, as well as four medals and 14 honorary doctorates.

He has read several books, and written about 35, most of them about science and history. He spends a lot of time hacking at green wood, making chairs, tables, bowls, and spoons

He is a member of many associations, including the Association of Pole-lathe Turners, and the British Toilet Association.

He lectures on diverse subjects, from Toilets and history to Are we alone in the universe? and has given more than 100 talks, to audiences ranging from The Royal Society, The Royal Institution, and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers to schools, small local history groups, and the captive audiences on cruise ships.

He lives in south Devon with his wife Sue Blackmore, two cats, and four chickens.

Sandy Bain and the fax machine https://electronics.howstuffworks.com/gadgets/fax/history-of-fax.htm
Colin Pullinger and his mousetrap https://www.inventricity.com/local-heroes-colin-pullinger
The skating stones of Racetrack Playa https://www.livescience.com/37492-sailing-stones-death-valley-moving-rocks.html
The short stories of Somerset Maugham https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v31/n24/miranda-carter/no-more-alimony-tra-la-la
Fibonacci's rabbits https://plus.maths.org/content/fibonacci-sequence-brief-introduction
If you haven't tested it, it doesn't work https://www.kguttag.com/2013/08/10/if-you-havent-tested-it-it-doesnt-work/

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Author Jini Reddy discusses with Ivan six things which she thinks should be better known.

Jini Reddy’s most recent book Wanderland has been shortlisted for the 2020 Wainwright Prize. The prize celebrates the best in UK travel and nature writing. Her first book Wild Times was published in 2016. It won the book prize at the British Guild of Travel Writers Awards 2017. You can follow her @Jini_Reddy on Twitter and @jinireddy20 on Instagram.

Time Travel novels https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Octavia-E-Butler/Kindred--The-ground-breaking-masterpiece/21900895
Slow cycling https://canalrivertrustwaterfront.org.uk/nature/slow-cycling/
Inspiring ways to support refugees and asylum seekers https://www.fencesandfrontiers.org/, https://justbreadlondon.com/, www.journeysfestival.com, www.choose.love, https://www.migrateful.org/
ASMR www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z2jytrd?xtor
The unconventional journey https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/wanderland-9781472951939/
The view from Richmond Hill https://www.gardenvisit.com/gardens/terrace_gardens_richmond

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As a bonus episode, in a surprising turn of events, Ivan gets invited to an office summer party via Zoom and is asked to provide some entertainment for the benefit of a group of bewildered colleagues. He discusses with Jacob Cunningham, Angharad Hopkinson and Ezekiel Jacob three things which they think should be better known.

This episode was recorded in front a live audience, but unfortunately they were all on mute.

Fidel Castro's milk obsession https://medium.com/war-is-boring/fidel-castro-s-bizarre-obsession-with-milk-27ce5c258de2
The joy of walking around cemeteries https://www.wanderlust.co.uk/content/5-cemeteries-you-should-visit-in-london/
Folk metal https://www.villagevoice.com/2013/12/18/the-10-best-folk-metal-bands/

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Kris Hollington discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known.

Kris Hollington is a bestselling non-fiction author and ghost-writer of over twenty books, mostly covering crime, several of which have been adapted for TV dramas and documentaries and nominated for various awards. In 2017 he won the People’s Book Prize for non-fiction and his latest book, Corrupt Bodies, written with Peter Everett, is currently long-listed for the Crime Writers’ Association prize for non-fiction. Kris is also a dedicated street photographer (www.shootitagain.com and @krishollington) and freestyle BMX-er.

The Essays of David Foster Wallace https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CrOL-ydFMI and https://harpers.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/HarpersMagazine-1996-01-0007859.pdf
The joy of extreme sports in middle age https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m28nJEevCZw and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NcOSK6q8Oc
The assassinations of Alfred Herrhausen and Detlev Rohwedder https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Herrhausen and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detlev_Karsten_Rohwedder
The Anti-snore backpack https://www.independent.co.uk/news/silent-night-ordered-as-army-attacks-snorers-1120249.html
Hawksley Workman http://hawksleyworkman.com/
Harold Feinstein https://www.haroldfeinstein.com/documentary/

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Author Dorian Lynskey discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known.

Dorian Lynskey is an author and journalist who writes about music, politics, film and books for publications including the Guardian, the Observer, GQ, Billboard and the New Statesman. He is the author of 33 Revolutions Per Minute: A History of Protest Songs (Faber, 2011) and The Ministry of Truth: A Biography of George Orwell’s 1984 (Picador, 2019). He also hosts the Remainiacs and Bunker podcasts. Find out more at www.dorianlynskey.com.

EL Doctorow https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2012/05/24/faulkner-as-i-lay-dying/
Regina Spektor https://www.newyorker.com/goings-on-about-town/night-life/regina-spektor
Quiz Show https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2012/dec/14/quiz-show-robert-redford
The 1910s magazine The Masses https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/serial?id=themasses
Broad City https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2014/apr/14/broad-city-comedy-genius
Hiroshima as a destination https://www.planetware.com/tourist-attractions-/hiroshima-jpn-cg-hiro.htm

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Actor Jack Gilpin discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known.

Jack Gilpin is an American actor and Episcopal priest. He currently stars in television drama series Billions and has previously performed in Succession and Law & Order. He has acted in many films including Quiz Show, Mulan and Adventureland.

The Bible https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sheep_and_the_Goats
Modern poetry https://www.poetryfoundation.org/collections/152025/an-introduction-to-modernism
The importance of diet https://www.nutrition.org.uk/healthyliving/healthydiet/healthybalanceddiet.html
The plays of Lanford Wilson https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/26/theater/lanford-wilson-a-playwright-with-compassion-for-his-characters.html
The music of Arvo Pärt https://www.theguardian.com/music/tomserviceblog/2012/jun/18/arvo-part-contemporary-music-guide
Guidelines for Mutuality https://www.episcopalct.org/Beliefs-and-Practices/guidelines-for-mutuality/

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Author Richard Askwith discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known.

Richard Askwith is author of six books, including the award-winning Feet in the Clouds (about fell-running); Today We Die A Little (an acclaimed biography of the Czechoslovak runner Emil Zátopek); and, most recently, Unbreakable: The Countess, the Nazis and the World’s Most Dangerous Horse Race, which won Biography of the Year at the 2020 Telegraph Sports Book Awards. A former executive editor of The Independent, he has been a journalist for forty years and continues to earn much of his living from freelance feature-writing.

Milada Horáková https://www.independent.co.uk/independentpremium/long-reads/milada-horakova-czech-republic-communist-era-show-trial-a9517401.html
La Commune https://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/03/movies/film-review-it-s-paris-in-1871-and-you-are-there.html
The rich recreational potential of mud https://www.amazon.co.uk/Running-Free-Runners-Journey-Nature/dp/0224091964
Sortition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition
Frances Horovitz https://www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/category/frances-horovitz
Lata Brandisová https://www.telegraph.co.uk/racing/2019/03/03/greatest-sports-story-never-told-woman-defied-nazis-win-toughest/

Bubbling under: Charles Webb https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jul/06/charles-webb-obituary

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Running Free: A Runner s Journey Back to Nature

Journalist and author Louise Gray discusses with Ivan six things which she thinks should be better known.

Louise Gray is the author of The Ethical Carnivore which discusses the ethics of meat by only eating animals she had killed herself. She was previously environment correspondent of The Daily Telegraph.

Squirrel Kebabs https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ethical-Carnivore-Year-Killing-Eat/dp/1472933109/ref=tmm_pap_title_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
Climate change acronyms https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/earthnews/7572765/UN-process-under-fire-at-climate-change-talks.html and https://www.ukcop26.org
Corbetts www.bendamph.com
Blue Bananas https://www.bbc.com/future/bespoke/follow-the-food/the-pandemic-threatening-bananas.html
The Gastronomical Me by MFK Fisher https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/may/25/gastronomical-me-mfk-fisher-review
Canntaireachd https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_b1hNtbsdI

Bubbling under: The Blue Castle by LM Montgomery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blue_Castle

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The Ethical Carnivore: My Year Killing to Eat

Psychologist Stuart Ritchie discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known.

Stuart Ritchie is a Lecturer in the Social, Genetic, and Developmental Psychiatry Centre at King's College London. His new book, Science Fictions: Exposing Fraud, Bias, Negligence and Hype in Science, is available now. More details are at http://sciencefictions.org.

Bach's cantatas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgHtwSyxMsU
Katakana https://www.dartmouth.edu/~introjpn/text/katakana.html
Limmy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fC2oke5MFg
Data Sleuths https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/eye-for-manipulation--a-profile-of-elisabeth-bik-65839
Sci-Hub https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub
Irn-Bru https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/irn-bru-things-what-is-didnt-know-recipe-change-ag-barr-scotland-favourite-soft-drink-can-a8143301.html

Bubbling under: Replication crisis https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/8/27/17761466/psychology-replication-crisis-nature-social-science

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Anand Menon discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known.

Anand Menon is Professor of European Politics and Foreign Affairs at King's College London and director of the UK in a Changing Europe initiative. His many books include Brexit and British Politics, which he co-wrote with Geoffrey Evans.

13 Minutes to the Moon https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w13xttx2
The Middle https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/03/21/the-middles-realpolitik
Maths https://www.phdstudies.com/article/6-reasons-to-study-mathematics/
Elbow https://www.soundonsound.com/people/elbow
Kerala https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/04/13/999313/kerala-fight-covid-19-india-coronavirus/
Politics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4c4QtfLE3g

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Historian David Vincent discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known.

David Vincent is Professor of Social History at the Open University, where he was previously Pro Vice Chancellor. He is an Honorary Professor of History at Keele University, a recent visiting research fellow at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities at Cambridge, and a Research Associate of the Wellcome Trust funded Pathologies of Solitude project. He is the author of a range of studies of British and European social history since the late eighteenth century. His new book is A History of Solitude (Polity, Cambridge, April 2020).

Montaigne’s Tower https://www.angloinfo.com/blogs/france/dordogne/lot-of-livin/a-tour-of-montaignes-tower/
The poetry of John Clare https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2004/10/07/getting-clare-clear/
Melverley Church http://melverleychurch.co.uk/
Madame Caroline Testout climbing rose https://www.davidaustinroses.co.uk/mme-caroline-testout
The Stiperstones https://www.getoutwiththekids.co.uk/daysout/days-out-england/days-out-in-shropshire/stiperstones/
Henry Mayhew’s London Labour and the London Poor (1861) https://www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians/articles/henry-mayhews-london-labour-and-the-london-poor

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Author Rose George discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known. You can find out more about her at www.rosegeorge.com

Janet Vaughan https://longreads.com/2015/03/10/a-very-naughty-little-girl/
The bidet https://www.bidet.org/blogs/news/history-of-the-bidet
Dr. George Merryweather https://whitbymuseum.org.uk/whats-here/collections/special-collections/tempest-prognosticator/
Lucio Battisti https://newsroom.spotify.com/2019-11-11/lucio-battisti-a-legend-in-ten-songs/
Fell running https://www.runnersworld.com/uk/health/a763311/60-second-guide-fell-running/
Fred Vargas https://www.penguin.co.uk/authors/1015075/fred-vargas.html

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Novelist Emily Temple discusses with Ivan six things which she thinks should be better known.

Emily Temple is the Managing Editor at Literary Hub, where she recommends more books than anyone could read. Her first novel, The Lightness, was published in June 2020 by the Borough Press (UK) and William Morrow (US). You can read more about Emily at https://www.emilytemple.net/ and see her Lit Hub work at https://lithub.com/author/emily-temple/.

Jonathan Richman https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/jonathan-richman-i-jonathan/
Lagaan https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/lagaan-once-upon-a-time-in-india-2002
Cute aggression https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/12/31/679832549/when-too-cute-is-too-much-the-brain-can-get-aggressive
The legend of Peter I and Inês de Castro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs3cZMsIrmQ
Elena Ferrante's The Days of Abandonment https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/a-novel-of-infidelity-in-dialogue-with-elena-ferrantes-the-days-of-abandonment
Palmer's Cocoa Butter Swivel Stick https://www.superdrug.com/Skin/Face-Skin-Care/Lip-Care/Lip-Balms/Palmer's-Cocoa-Butter-Formula-Swivel-Stick-14g/p/758016

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Writer Cal Flyn discusses with Ivan six things which she thinks should be better known.

Cal Flyn’s first book Thicker Than Water was published in 2016. It deals with the colonisation of Australia and questions of inherited guilt. Her second book, Islands of Abandoment, is due out in 2021.

A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/book-of-a-lifetime-a-place-of-greater-safety-by-hilary-mantel-2218080.html
Moth appreciation http://nationalmothweek.org/
Sandstone Press https://sandstonepress.com/
The research of John C Lilley https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/06/how-a-science-experiment-led-to-sexual-encounters-for-a-woman-and-a-dolphin/372606/ and https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/the-order-of-the-dolphin-setis-secret-origin-story
Gladstone's Library https://www.gladstoneslibrary.org/
Ceilidh dancing https://www.scotsman.com/health/scottish-dancing-can-help-keep-old-age-bay-2002734

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David Spiegelhalter discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known.

Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter is Chair of the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication in the University of Cambridge, which aims to improve the way that statistical evidence is used by health professionals, patients, lawyers and judges, media and policy-makers. He advises organisations and government agencies on risk communication and is a regular media commentator on statistical issues, with a particular focus on communicating uncertainty.

His background is in medical statistics, and he has over 200 refereed publications and is co-author of 6 textbooks, as well as The Norm Chronicles (with Michael Blastland), and Sex by Numbers. He works extensively with the media, and presented the BBC4 documentaries Tails you Win: the Science of Chance, the award-winning Climate Change by Numbers, and in 2011 came seventh in an episode of BBC1’s Winter Wipeout.

He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 2005, and knighted in 2014 for services to medical statistics. He was President of the Royal Statistical Society for 2017-2018. His bestselling book, The Art of Statistics, was published in March 2019.

He is @d_spiegel on Twitter, and his home page is http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~david/

Alan Bennett reading Winnie the Pooh https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v08/n22/alan-bennett/diary
Ilfracombe https://www.visitilfracombe.co.uk/see-do/
Whelks https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/features/whelks-are-healthy-versatile-and-sustainable-so-why-did-we-stop-eating-them-in-the-uk-9598928.html
Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/dec/04/riddley-walker-russell-hoban-book-club
The Singing Detective https://www.npr.org/2012/02/24/147037460/25-years-later-the-singing-detective-still-shines?t=1591547850222
Poisson distribution https://understandinguncertainty.org/another-tragic-cluster-how-surprised-should-we-be

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Brooke Allen discusses with Ivan six things which she thinks should be better known.

Brooke Allen has a PhD in English from Columbia University. She writes frequently for newspapers and magazines and has published two volumes of literary essays as well as works of history, travel, and biography. She spent eight years on the Literature faculty at Bennington College in Vermont, and currently teaches History of Thought in the Bennington Prison Education Initiative. She lives in the Hudson Valley, New York.

Her books are Benazir Bhutto: Favored Daughter, Moral Minority: Our Skeptical Founding Fathers, The Other Side of the Mirror: An American Travels Through Syria, Twentieth-Century Attitudes: Literary Powers in Uncertain Times and Artistic License: Three Centuries of Good Writing and Bad Behavior.

E Nesbit https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1964/12/03/the-writing-of-e-nesbit/
The Blue Ridge Mountains https://blog.vistadevelopers.com/what-its-like-to-live-in-the-blue-ridge-mountains
Rohinton Mistry https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v24/n08/frank-kermode/in-the-spirit-of-mayhew
The correspondence of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams https://www.history.com/news/jefferson-adams-founding-frenemies
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven https://britishart.yale.edu/
The movies of Esther Williams https://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/jun/06/esther-williams-dies-91

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Deirdre Mask discusses with Ivan six things which she thinks should be better known.

Deirdre Mask is a lawyer, a writer and sometime academic. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Guardian, The New York Times, The Economist, Lit Hub, The Harvard Law Review, The New Hibernia Review, The Dublin Review and Irish Pages. Her first book The Address Book is out now.

Missing Maps www.missingmaps.org
Welikia Project www.welikia.org
Gillespie Nature Reserve https://www.islington.gov.uk/sports-parks-and-trees/nature-reserves/gillespie-park-and-ecology-centre
Proxy Address www.proxyaddress.co.uk
The 25th Hour https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/25th-hour-2003
Be Thankful For What You’ve Got by William DeVaughn https://open.spotify.com/track/3PrqRBsMdy8eZkbDqDb32p?si=ySuRENUWSzKpqT4bG7eIMA

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Peter Gatrell discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known.

Peter Gatrell teaches modern history at the University of Manchester. His books include a trilogy on refugee history: the prize-winning book A Whole Empire Walking: Refugees in Russia during World War 1, Free World? The Campaign to Save the World's Refugees, 1956-1963 and The Making of the Modern Refugee. His latest book, The Unsettling of Europe: the Great Migration, 1945 to the Present, a new history of Europe seen through the lens of migration, appeared with Penguin Books and Basic Books in August 2019.

Aurora Mardiganian https://www.kcet.org/shows/artbound/i-am-armenian-the-intriguing-life-of-aurora-mardiganian
The John Rylands University Library, Manchester www.library.manchester.ac.uk/rylands/visit/explore/
Stromboli https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/2908-modern-marriage-on-stromboli
Maria Yudina https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=zF03KVIsrns
Mikhail Bulgakov’s A Country Doctor’s Notebook www.nybooks.com/daily/2013/11/14/hamming-up-bulgakov/
The Forest of Bowland https://www.forestofbowland.com/

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Lucy Jones discusses with Ivan six things which she thinks should be better known.

Lucy Jones is a writer and journalist. She previously worked at NME and the Daily Telegraph, and her writing on culture, science and nature has been published in BBC Earth, BBC Wildlife, The Sunday Times, the Guardian and the New Statesman. She is the author of Losing Eden: Why Our Minds Need the Wild (Allen Lane) and Foxes Unearthed (Elliott & Thompson).

The psychological aspect of our relationship to nature https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/305/305463/losing-eden/9780241441534.html
Matrescence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOsX_HnJtHU
A Woman in a Polar Night by Christiane Ritter https://www.pushkinpress.com/product/a-woman-in-the-polar-night/
Sophie Mason https://www.sophiemason.co/
Dream of the Rood http://www.apocalyptic-theories.com/literature/dor/medora1.html
National Trust venues on car journeys https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/lists/calm-places-to-pause

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Ali Thurm discusses six things with Ivan which she thinks should be better known.

Ali is a novelist, poet and teacher. After balancing a career in primary teaching with writing part time, she was taken on by the literary agency Emily Sweet Associates in 2016. Her debut novel, One Scheme of Happiness was published in February 2020 by Retreat West Books. Find out more about Ali on her blog: https://alithurm.com and on Twitter @alithurm.

You can buy One Scheme of Happiness by Ali Thurm at https://www.amazon.co.uk/One-Scheme-Happiness-compelling-triangle/dp/1916069320

Community gardening https://www.rhs.org.uk/get-involved/community-gardening/Resources/community-garden
Quiet by Susan Cain https://www.amazon.co.uk/Quiet-Power-Introverts-World-Talking/dp/0141029196/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr
Pink grapefruit marmalade https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/jan/17/nigel-slater-marmalade-recipes
Mimi Khalvati http://www.mimikhalvati.co.uk/
Charles Blondin https://www.notablebiographies.com/supp/Supplement-A-Bu-and-Obituaries/Blondin-Charles.html
Loose leaf tea https://leafteashop.co.uk/benefits/ and https://www.wikihow.com/Brew-Loose-Leaf-Tea

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Ivan Wise discusses six things which he thinks should be better known, on the theme of Stories about Writers.

The rehearsals for Pygmalion https://www.stuckinabook.com/the-truth-about-pygmalion-by-richard-huggett/
Arrow in the Blue and The Invisible Writing by Arthur Koestler https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2000/02/10/the-afterlife-of-arthur-koestler/
Writers' pseudonyms https://lithub.com/the-surprising-stories-behind-the-pen-names-of-10-famous-authors/
The obscenity trial of Lady Chatterley's Lover https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1960/11/19/the-lady-at-the-old-bailey
Park Bench: Dorothy Parker and Robert Benchley https://www.newyorker.com/books/double-take/robert-benchleys-legacy-in-an-era-of-fraught-comedy
Literary collectors http://airshipdaily.com/blog/01162014-author-collections

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Daisy Dunn discusses six things with Ivan which she thinks should be better known.

Daisy is a classicist and critic and author of, mostly recently, In the Shadow of Vesuvius: A Life of Pliny, Of Gods and Men: 100 Stories from Ancient Greece & Rome, and Homer: A Ladybird Expert Book. Find out more about Daisy at www.daisydunn.co.uk.

Hesiod http://www.impossibleobjectsmarfa.com/fragments-2/early-greek-philosophy and https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2018/01/18/hesiod-doggish-translation/
Spelt http://thespeltbakers.ca/what-is-spelt/
The Warburg Institute Library https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/library-collections/library
Rodin at the V&A http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O135954/the-young-mother-relief-rodin-auguste/ and https://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/auguste-rodin
Henry Green https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Henry-Green/Loving/141101
Shorthand https://www.troab.co.uk/history-of-shorthand

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Private Eye journalist and novelist Adam Macqueen discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known. You can find more about Adam at https://adammacq.wordpress.com.

Adam’s political thriller Beneath the Streets is available now. If you type RINKA at the checkout at http://eye-books.com/books/beneath-the-streets, you can get 30% off and free P&P within the UK.

His non-fiction books include The Prime Minister’s Ironing Board and other State Secrets and The Lies of the Land: An Honest History of Political Deceit.

The RNLI https://www.theguardian.com/society/ng-interactive/2016/sep/06/rnli-photo-essay-graeme-robertson
Dan Rhodes https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/dan-rhodes-revenge-is-why-i-write-1888523.html
The Crystal Palace dinosaurs https://www.southlondonclub.co.uk/blog/a-brief-history-of-the-crystal-palace-dinosaurs
Marcia Falkender https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/feb/16/lady-falkender-obituary-marcia-williams
The Hammer House of Horror TV series http://londonhorrorsociety.co.uk/five-best-episodes-of-hammer-horror-tv-series/
The New Creation https://tedium.co/2017/01/09/countering-the-counterculture/

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Timandra Harkness talks to Ivan about six things which she thinks should be better known.

Timandra is a presenter, writer and comedian. She has presented BBC Radio 4 documentaries including Divided Nation and the FutureProofing series. Her book, Big Data: Does Size Matter? was published in 2016. Find out more about Timandra at https://timandraharkness.com/.

Kingdom Coming (aka Year of Jubilo) by George Melly https://civilwarfolkmusic.com/2013/02/23/1862-kingdom-coming-work/
Anchovy paste https://www.gq.com/story/anchovy-paste-use-secret-ingredient
Crossness Pumping Station www.crossness.org.uk
Archy and Mehitabel by Dom Marquis http://www.librarything.com/work/29840/reviews/72394368
Pineau de Charentes. https://www.forbes.com/sites/courtneyschiessl/2019/03/19/pineau-des-charentes-cognac-go-to/
Data can tell a lot about WHAT you are but not who you are https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdilkRC4YVw

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Writer and broadcaster Lindsay Johns discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known. Find out more about Lindsay at www.lindsayjohns.com

The novels of Alex La Guma https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09qcyy0
Archibald Motley, Jr https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000f6xd
To A Poet A Thousand Years Hence by James Elroy Flecker https://beta.spectator.co.uk/article/why-james-elroy-flecker-deserves-our-attention
The Martinican film Rue Cases - Negres (1983) http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2013/08/honoring_the_french_film_rue_casesnegres/
Platelet donation http://www.blood.co.uk/platelets/ and https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00074hj
Crispy Bamboo Village https://foursquare.com/v/crispy-bamboo-village/4bf348fce5eba593c8711e90/menu

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Aceil Haddad talks to Ivan about six things which she thinks should be better known.

British seaside towns https://www.roughguides.com/special-features/britains-30-best-seaside-towns/
Charity Shops for sustainable fashion https://www.charityretail.org.uk/charity-shops-the-ethical-and-sustainable-alternative-to-fast-fashion/
Maternity and Pregnancy discrimination https://pregnantthenscrewed.com/
Split Ticketing https://www.splitticketing.com/
The importance of intuition http://theconversation.com/is-it-rational-to-trust-your-gut-feelings-a-neuroscientist-explains-95086
The value of friendships https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/dec/19/adult-friendships-can-be-effortful-and-elastic-thats-what-makes-them-special

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Susannah Clapp, theatre critic of The Observer, discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known.

Francis Wyndham https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jan/09/francis-wyndham-obituary
Beatbox Academy https://www.bac.org.uk/content/39748/whats_on/whats_on/events_and_workshops/bac_beatbox_academy
Dressing Gowns https://fiveminutehistory.com/10-victorian-dressing-gowns/
Armenian postcards https://armenianweekly.com/2011/07/05/old-armenian-postcards-preserve-the-past/
Pallant Gallery, Chichester https://pallant.org.uk/
Building a Library https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/4fv78szmZmvB73p2bstPVTT/building-a-library-living-with-the-pathetique

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Jim Shepard discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known.

Jim has written seven novels, including The Book of Aron, which won the Sophie Brody Medal for Jewish Literature, the PEN/New England Award for Fiction, and the Clark Fiction Prize, and five story collections, including Like You’d Understand, Anyway, a finalist for the National Book Award and Story Prize winner. Seven of his stories have been chosen for the Best American Short Stories, two for the PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, and two for Pushcart Prizes. He’s also won the Library of Congress/ Massachusetts Book Award for Fiction and the ALEX Award from the American Library Association. He teaches at Williams College.

Paestum http://www.amalficoastdrivers.com/paestum.asp
Muddy Waters' album Fathers and Sons https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/fathers-sons-90263/
Maria Beig https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/10/16/no-judgment-no-message-no-mercy/
Eric Schlosser’s Command and Control https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/15/books/review/command-and-control-by-eric-schlosser.html
Writer's Tears http://walshwhiskey.com/writers-tears-copper-pot/
Mike Leigh’s Topsy-Turvy https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2000/02/24/stompin-at-the-savoy/

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Allison Dufosee discusses with Ivan six things which she thinks should be better known.

Allison is the chief executive of World Bicycle Relief.

World Bicycle Relief www.worldbicyclerelief.org
Stem Cell Donation https://www.anthonynolan.org/
Barter Books https://www.barterbooks.co.uk/index.php
Gary Rhodes Shepherd’s Pie https://www.amazon.com/New-British-Classics-Gary-Rhodes/dp/0563534117
The Ginstitute https://www.theginstitute.com/the-experience/
Full Fact www.fullfact.org

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New British Classics

Morag Joss discusses with Ivan six things which she thinks should be better known. Morag is the award-winning author of the Sara Selkirk novels and teaches Creative Writing at Oxford Brookes University.

Delfshaven https://www.asthebirdfliesblog.com/posts/photos-of-delfshaven-rotterdam
Public Domain Review - https://publicdomainreview.org
Itchy Coo Press http://www.itchy-coo.com/newtitles.html
Eric Ravilious https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2015/07/16/modern-english-strange-eric-ravilious/
My Dad’s way of making marmalade https://rusticaretro.com/2015/02/20/about-my-father-seville-oranges-and-making-marmalade/
Mahler’s Ich Bin der Welt Abhanden Gekommen' by Lorraine Hunt Liebersson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHDJ3YXH4yU

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Writer John Osborne discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known.

David Berman https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2019/07/Actual-Air-in-the-Purple-Mountains-An-Interview-With-David-Berman
The Greater Anglia Samaritans delay repay donation scheme https://www.greateranglia.co.uk/about-us/news-desk/news-articles/samaritans-receives-boost-greater-anglia-passengers-through-delay
The Just Joans https://thejustjoans.bandcamp.com/
The sprawling, empty beaches of east Anglia https://www.visitnorfolk.co.uk/inspire/top-10-beaches-secret.aspx
The Rob Auton daily podcast https://www.robauton.co.uk/daily-podcast
After Hours https://www.sky.com/watch/title/series/51b9b8cf-abce-48f9-b3a1-fa8a88a3abd7

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Olivia Fane discusses with Ivan six things which she thinks should be better known.

Olivia is the author of five novels and The Conversations, 66 reasons to start talking. Her new book is Why Sex Doesn't Matter. She is married with five sons, and lives in West Sussex.

Armenia as a tourist destination https://www.regent-holidays.co.uk/country/armenia-holidays/
The poet Katrina Porteous www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/category/katrina-porteous
Meister Eckhart www.eckhartsociety.org
Marcus Aurelius Meditations https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v31/n14/mary-beard/was-he-quite-ordinary
Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies by Margaret Mead https://faculty.washington.edu/stevehar/Temperament.pdf
The Living Rulers of Mankind by HN Hutchinson https://archive.org/details/livingrulersofma00hutc/page/n8/mode/2up

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For the hundredth episode, Margot Livesey talks to Ivan about six things which she thinks should be better known.

Margot Livesey is a novelist. Her novels include Homework, Eva Moves the Furniture and The Flight of Gemma Hardy. Her eighth novel, Mercury, was published in 2016. She teaches at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

St. Kilda https://www.nts.org.uk/visit/places/st-kilda
The Weir of Hermiston https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1994/11/the-double-life-of-robert-louis-stevenson/306474/
ME https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wG5g4M7KWv8
Frittatas https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/collection/fritatta
Joan Mitchell https://joanmitchellfoundation.org/
Oh, Lucky Man! https://www.nytimes.com/1973/06/14/archives/screen-o-lucky-manenglish-comedy-tells-of-a-classic-innocent-the.html

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Fiona Maddocks discusses with Ivan six things which she thinks should be better known.

Fiona is music critic of the Observer and author of books on Hildegard of Bingen, Harrison Birtwistle and 20th century music. Her Music for Life (Faber) is now in paperback.

Shandy Hall https://www.laurencesternetrust.org.uk/shandy-hall.php
Peckham Peculiar and Bruton Dove https://peckhampeculiar.tumblr.com/ and http://thedovemagazine.blogspot.com/
Cumnock Tryst https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/oct/13/cumnock-tryst-review-james-macmillan-royal-scottish-national-orchestra-sondergard and https://www.thecumnocktryst.com/
Nottingham Alabasters https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07qb3tl
Aldeburgh bookshop https://www.aldeburghbookshop.co.uk/
Hildegard https://www.faber.co.uk/9780571302437-hildegard-of-bingen.html

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Artist George Butler discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known.

George is an award winning artist and illustrator specialising in travel and current affairs. In 2014, with three friends, he set up the Hands Up Foundation. The aim was to remind the people they had met in Syria that they had not been forgotten. Find out more about George at www.georgebutler.org.

The work of Ronald Searle https://lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v08/n08/graham-hough/prisoners
Evelyn the movie https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/oct/26/evelyn-review-moving-documentary-on-a-familys-loss
Sam Cooke’s Live at the Harlem Square Club https://medium.com/@elliotimes/my-all-timers-31-sam-cooke-live-at-the-harlem-square-club-1963-debc240f358a
EO Wilson https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2010/04/08/the-homer-of-the-ants/
Hands Up Foundation https://handsupfoundation.org/
Other Minds by Peter Godfrey-Smith https://royalsociety.org/grants-schemes-awards/book-prizes/science-book-prize/2017/other-minds/

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Composer Tarik O'Regan discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known.

Tarik O'Regan has written music for the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, and the Royal Opera House, London.

He is currently working on a saxophone concerto, which has been commissioned for soloist Amy Dickson by the Presteigne Festival to be premiered during his tenure as Composer-in-Residence in 2020.

Tarik O’Regan’s work, recognized with two GRAMMY® nominations and two British Composer Awards, has been recorded on 39 albums.

Librettists https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/01/08/nights-at-the-opera
Western Addition http://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=Western_Addition:_A_Basic_History
Eswatini https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-43821512
Musical commission fees https://www.theguardian.com/culture-professionals-network/culture-professionals-blog/2014/aug/18/future-new-music-composers-report-pay
Vermouth https://talesofthecocktail.com/in-depth/9-myths-about-vermouth-debunked
Original songs which became famous cover versions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJKe2j9Wjh4

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Emma Vandore discusses with Ivan six things which she thinks should be better known.

Emma is a writer and journalist. She has reported from over 30 countries on six continents, published in all of them, and now focuses on thought leadership content. Her long form work includes Schizophrenie Francaise, a satirical take on French politics that Paris Match described as the book all presidential candidates should read. In 2016, an idea for a novel won her a place on Escalator talent development scheme run by the National Centre for Writing and she has been working on it ever since. An early draft was shortlisted for London Book Fair’s The Write Stuff. She also runs a monthly creative writing workshop which meets in Bishop’s Stortford. Find out more at www.emmavandore.com

Harlow https://www.thecrazytourist.com/15-best-things-to-do-in-harlow-essex-england/
Mooncups https://www.mooncup.co.uk/why-mooncup/
Story talent https://ingridsundberg.com/2013/05/28/literary-talent-vs-story-talent/
Punjab https://www.indianholiday.com/punjab/
Open water swimming https://www.clublasanta.co.uk/what-are-the-benefits-of-open-water-swimming/
Appreciation of the little things in life https://www.amazon.co.uk/Small-Pleasures-Life-Philippe-Delerm/dp/1861591160

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The Small Pleasures of Life

Photographer, children’s book illustrator and potter Christina Gascoigne discusses with Ivan six things which she thinks should be better known.

Great River Race https://www.greatriverrace.co.uk/
The Other Final https://lesserspottedfootball.com/the-other-final-review/
Theo Jansen’s kinetic sculptures https://www.artfutura.org/v3/en/theo-jansen/
Helen Schjerfbeck https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/helene-schjerfbeck
Muriel Herbert https://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/may/09/muriel-herbert-musical-compositions
Combat Stress https://www.combatstress.org.uk/

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Novelist Kathleen Alcott talks to Ivan about six things which should be better known. Kathleen is the author of the critically acclaimed novels America Was Hard to Find, Infinite Home and The Dangers of Proximal Alphabets. You can find out more about her at www.kathleenalcott.com.

The Land of Little Rain by Mary Austin https://www.gutenberg.org/files/365/365-h/365-h.htm
News From Home https://vimeo.com/47911048
Time of the Last Persecution https://www.headheritage.co.uk/unsung/review.php/817
James Salter’s Twenty Minutes https://www.vogue.com/article/james-salter-tribute
The Volcano Lover by Susan Sontag https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Volcano_Lover
Fitnessblender.com https://explorationsofelliese.com/2018/02/23/fitness-blender-depth-review/

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JJ Bola talks to Ivan about six things which should be better known. JJ Bola is a writer, poet and author of Mask Off: Masculinity Redefined.

Pedagogy of the oppressed by Paulo Freire https://beautifultrouble.org/theory/pedagogy-of-the-oppressed/
Crisis in Congo https://congojustice.org/
Paul Lewin art work https://www.instagram.com/paullewinart/
Karim Kamar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0KCw-t3nkc
United Borders and 4 Front http://unitedborders.org/ and https://www.4frontproject.org/
The Upright Man https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7Vlt41HPUE

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Peter Blegvad discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known.

Small presses in the UK https://www.thisissplice.co.uk/about-splice/small-presses-in-the-uk/
Amateurs https://fs.blog/2017/08/amateurs-professionals/
Wilson "Snowflake" Bentley https://siarchives.si.edu/history/featured-topics/stories/wilson-bentley-pioneering-photographer-snowflakes
Lucia Berlin https://www.lrb.co.uk/v40/n23/patricia-lockwood/sex-on-the-roof
Sally O’Reilly https://www.whitechapelgallery.org/learn/writer-in-residence/sally-oreilly/
Chris Cutler’s Probes series of podcasts https://rwm.macba.cat/en/probes_tag

Peter is a writer, graphic artist, songwriter and broadcaster. He has been making music since the mid 70s with Slapp Happy, Faust, Henry Cow, John Greaves, The Golden Palominos, John Zorn, Andy Partridge and others.

His weekly comic strip, Leviathan, ran in the Independent on Sunday from 1991-98 and The Book of Leviathan was published in the UK and the US in 2000. A Mandarin translation was published in 2010. A French translation won le Prix de Révelation at Angoulême Festival in 2014. The Pedestrian, a photo-based strip, is online here: http://www.electrocomics.com/strips.htm

He has supplied BBC Radio 3 with ‘eartoons’ since 2002, and has won two Sony awards for his radio work, one in 2003 and one in 2012 (the latter for Use It Or Lose It a collaboration with Iain Chambers).

He taught Creative Writing at the University of Warwick for 15 years and was Senior Tutor in Visual Writing at the Royal College of Art, London from 2012 - 2015. He has taught several illustration workshops at the Die Hochschule Luzern – Design & Kunst.

In 2011 he was elected president of the London Institute of Pataphysics.

An introduction to his life-long multi-media epistemological project Imagine, Observe, Remember is online here: http://www.amateur.org.uk

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Catherine Johnson discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known.

Catherine has written over twenty books for children and teenagers. Her most recent, Freedom, won the Little Rebels Book Award and was selected as the UK's IBBY (International Board of Books for Young People) Honor List title. She is also a screenwriter and has written for TV and film, including Bullet Boy. She is currently working on an adaptation of Miranda Kaufman's Black Tudors for TV and a computer game for a British Game developer. Find out more at www.catherinejohnson.co.uk.

Maya Deren https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_Deren
Colonel Alexander Dumas http://www.melaniejackson.com/alexandre-dumas-swashbuckler-extraordinaire/
Liza Picard https://felicitybryan.com/fba-author/liza-picard/
The Colour of Pomegranates https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/oct/07/the-colour-of-pomegranates-sergei-parajanov-london-film-festival-2014
Charles Keeping http://www.thekeepinggallery.co.uk/
The Devil in Salem https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-49997033

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Composer Alex Woolf discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known.

Sunday in the Park with George https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2016/oct/27/sunday-in-the-park-with-george-review-jake-gyllenhall-sondheim
Solfege http://www.southcalmusic.com/solfege.php
Evensong https://www.spectator.co.uk/2018/03/the-joy-of-evensong/
Louise Imogen Guiney http://essays.quotidiana.org/guiney/quiet_london/
English National Opera’s Access All Arias https://www.eno.org/your-visit/ways-to-save-offers/
The origin of the Nokia ringtone https://www.classicfm.com/composers/tarrega/nokia-theme-tune-origins/

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Writer Charlie Connelly discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known. His books include Attention All Shipping: A Journey Round The Shipping Forecast, And Did Those Feet: Walking Through 2000 Years Of British and Irish History and Our Man In Hibernia: Ireland, The Irish And Me. Read more about him at www.charlieconnelly.com.

Noel Coward's poetry https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/sep/09/saturday-poem-noel-coward
Sheila Borrett https://audioboom.com/posts/927298-sheila-borrett-story-first-woman-bbc-announcer
Bap Kennedy https://www.markknopfler.com/discography/bap-kennedy/
The Radio Garden App https://radio.garden/
The Norwegian Fish Canning Museum, Stavanger https://www.fjordtours.com/things-to-do-in-norway/museums-and-attractions/the-norwegian-canning-museum-stavanger/
Fifty Years of Europe: An Album by Jan Morris https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fifty-Years-Europe-Jan-Morris/dp/0679416102

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Fifty Years of Europe: An Album

Harvard historian Maya Jasanoff discusses with Ivan six things that she thinks should be better known. Find out more about Maya at https://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/maya-jasanoff. Her most recent book is The Dawn Watch, which you can buy at https://www.amazon.com/Dawn-Watch-Joseph-Conrad-Global/dp/0143111043/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=.

Albert Kahn global photo archive https://allthatsinteresting.com/albert-kahn-archives-of-the-planet
Shakespeare Wallah http://www.merchantivory.com/film/shakespearewallah
Aeon online magazine https://aeon.co/essays/what-can-the-mirror-test-say-about-self-awareness-in-animals
The Invention of Tradition http://www.columbia.edu/itc/journalism/stille/Politics%20Fall%202007/readings%20weeks%206-7/Trevor-Roper,%20The%20Highland%20Tradition.pdf
Last Chance U https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a28523305/last-chance-u-players-in-the-nfl-where-are-they-now-netflix/
Khichuri https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/07/20/527945413/khichuri-an-ancient-indian-comfort-dish-with-a-global-influence

The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World

BBC Radio 3 Breakfast show presenter Petroc Trelawny discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known.

Miklos Banffy's Transylvanian Trilogy https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2011/aug/05/writing-wall-miklos-banffy-summer-readings
Call My Agent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_My_Agent!
Hungarian wine https://winefolly.com/review/hungarian-wines-for-the-win/
Limerick https://www.limerick.ie/limerick-insider/10-facts-you-didnt-know-about-limerick
Lennox Berkeley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zW_PDF5K4Fc
The Railway Dining Car https://www.gwr.com/plan-journey/journey-information/on-board/pullman-dining

Jeremy Treglown talks to Ivan about six things which he thinks should be better known. Jeremy is chair of Arvon and has written biographies of Roald Dahl, Henry Green, VS Pritchett and John Hersey. He was editor of the Times Literary Supplement between 1981 and 1990.

Carn Brea https://www.cornwalls.co.uk/redruth/carn_brea.htm
Mozart’s Requiem in D minor with soloists taken from the chorus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiBZ2C725ns
John Hersey’s Hiroshima https://www.curtisbrown.co.uk/client/jeremy-treglown/work/mr-straight-arrow
Spanish Museum of Abstract Art https://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/30/travel/30overnighter-cuenca.html
Ruth Matilda Anderson’s photos of Spain https://hispanicsociety.org/prints-photographs/
The present isn’t so superior to the past https://archive.triblive.com/news/students-write-about-life-100-years-ago/

Screenwriter Tess Morris discusses with Ivan six things which she thinks should be better known. Watch the trailer for her film Man Up at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22gEHzlaEQw

Magic Mike XXL as feminist masterpiece https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8gkbak/surprise-magic-mike-xxl-was-the-most-important-feminist-movie-of-2015
The Baked Potato https://thetakeout.com/the-perfect-method-to-make-a-baked-potato-1829350363
Dispelling the myth that you can't walk in LA https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/walking-in-la/
The songwriting of Billy Swan https://www.elvis.com.au/presley/interview-billy-swan.shtml
Don’t look at the time when you have jet lag https://www.skyscanner.net/news/jetlag-15-tips-beating-timezone-tiredness
The Austin Film Festival https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin_Film_Festival

Journalist Michael Blastland discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known. You can find out more about Michael at https://profilebooks.com/michael-blastland.html.

The myth of nurture v nature https://www.nature.com/articles/421806a
The uncertainty of public data https://medium.com/wintoncentre/has-uk-employment-gone-down-maybe-and-maybe-not-7b2e8fbdc7c5
Science’s replication crisis https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-016-0021
The fallibility of medicines https://www.nature.com/news/personalized-medicine-time-for-one-person-trials-1.17411
Unknown impact of government’s policies https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/our-work/policy-making/all-change
The Mind is Flat, by Nick Chater https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mind-Flat-Illusion-Mental-Improvised/dp/0241208440/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=the+mind+is+flat&qid=1569486201&s=gateway&sr=8-1

The Mind is Flat

Bobby Duffy discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known. Bobby is the director of the Policy Institute at King's College London. His latest book is The Perils of Perception.

Negativity bias https://www.offgridsessions.com/2019/07/30/the-perils-of-perception/
The cohort effect https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jun/18/young-people-tory-grey-vote
Proper definition of Polarisation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fqlDfPcHWM
The Price by Arthur Miller https://www.ft.com/content/bc9f4a4a-2ec3-11e9-ba00-0251022932c8
Nick Cave playing live https://variety.com/2019/music/news/concert-review-conversations-with-nick-cave-is-part-qa-part-music-part-group-therapy-1203347523/
Better earphones https://www.techradar.com/uk/news/audio/best-in-ear-headphones-1276925

Classical pianist Iain Burnside discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known. Find out more about Iain at https://www.askonasholt.com/artists/iain-burnside/.

The Scottish composer FG Scott https://signumrecords.com/product/songs-of-fg-scott-moonstruck/SIGCD096/
Sally Clarke’s spicy sweetcorn soup https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/masters-of-modern-cookery-1-sally-clarke-the-soup-kitchen-1142406.html
The website www.borrowmydoggy.com
Molly Keane’s novel Good Behaviour https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/in-praise-of-older-books-good-behaviour-by-molly-keane-1991-1.3587124
Locke https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/filmreviews/10771751/Locke-film-review.html
The Ludlow English Song Weekend http://ludlowenglishsongweekend.com

Novelist and short story writer Joan Silber talks to Ivan about six things which she thinks should be better known. Find out more about Joan at http://joansilber.net/.

Luang Prabang, Laos https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2016/oct/12/luang-prabang-laos-three-day-holiday-itinerary
David Malouf https://literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/david-malouf
The Mighty Clouds of Joy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeM-VMkhFdM
Charles Baxter https://www.nybooks.com/contributors/charles-baxter/
Walking in New York https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/04/22/magazine/new-york-city-walks.html
Tahini with grape molasses (pekmez) on bread http://www.turkishcookbook.com/2007/01/tahini-grape-molasses.php

Joel Whitney talks to Ivan about six things which he thinks should be better known.

Joel is the author of Finks: How the CIA Tricked the World’s Best Writers.

Essential American Poets series https://www.poetryfoundation.org/podcasts/series/74631/essentialpoets
When they see us https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/reviews/when-they-see-us-netflix-review-central-park-five-ava-duvernay-new-york-cast-trailer-a8936816.html
Spitting on Richard Nixon https://www.politico.com/story/2014/05/vice-president-nixons-motorcade-attacked-in-venezuela-may-13-1958-106584
Elizabeth Buffum Chace http://www.womenhistoryblog.com/2016/06/elizabeth-buffum-chace.html
The Family https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/netflix-the-family-jesse-moss-secret-christian-cult-washington-dc-869396/
TWA Hotel at JFX International Airport https://time.com/5589561/twa-hotel-jfk/

Hugh Bicheno talks to Ivan about six things which he thinks should be better known.

Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_von_Coudenhove-Kalergi
Sir Benjamin Thompson https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sir-Benjamin-Thompson-Graf-von-Rumford
Marguerite of Anjou https://www.historyhit.com/facts-about-margaret-of-anjou/
First Anglo-Sikh war http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/t/sikh-wars-and-annexation-of-the-panjab/
The 1973 coup d’état in Chile https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/07/chile-coup-pinochet-allende
Pablo Escobar https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-pablo-escobar-1465149.html

Joe Thomas talks to Ivan about six things which he thinks should be better known. Joe's novels include Paradise City, Gringa and Playboy.

The crime novels of Sara Gran https://crimereads.com/sara-grans-infinite-mysteries/
The Brazilian musicians Cazuza and Tim Maia https://library.brown.edu/create/fivecenturiesofchange/chapters/chapter-8/aids/cazuza-brazils-first-public-face-of-aids/
Levels of the Game by John McPhee https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jun/28/john-mcphee-levels-game-more-great-sportswriting-tennis-william-fiennes
Willy Vlautin https://www.faber.co.uk/blog/disposable-diaries-willy-vlautin/
Laura Barton's Notes from a Musical Island https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/mar/13/laura-barton-notes-musical-island-saturday-night-movies-hip-hop-saved-life-rolling-stone-review
The short stories of Lucy Caldwell https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/cyprus-avenue-a-short-story-by-lucy-caldwell-1.2642289

Wasfi Kani of Grange Park Opera talks to Ivan about six things which she thinks should be better known.

Ostia Antica https://www.ricksteves.com/watch-read-listen/read/articles/ostia-antica-near-rome
History of Countryside by Oliver Rackham https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1188837.The_History_of_the_Countryside
Statistics around imprisonment https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN04334/SN04334.pdf
The Leopard https://www.theguardian.com/film/2010/aug/26/the-leopard-film-review
Chamber music - Beethoven op 131 or Brahms sextet https://www.talkclassical.com/50161-chamber-music-thread.html
Pericles quote https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pericles

Artist Phil Shaw discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known. You can find out more about his work at https://www.rebeccahossack.com/artists/72-phil-shaw/overview/.

Jeffrey Edwards prints https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/jeffery-edwards-1050
The Big Three live at the Cavern https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRfQ-hm3APs
Musica Prisca Caput by Nicola Vicentino https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0akGtDPVRxk
The Face on the Wall by EV Lucas https://web.iiit.ac.in/~nirnimesh/Literature/The%20Face%20on%20the%20Wall.htm
Unthinking, Unthoughts and Unthunk by Les Coleman https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/9903438/Les-Coleman.html
Rhum baba https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rum_baba

Charles J Shields talks to Ivan about six things which he thinks should be better known. His biographies include Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee (2006), And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut (2011) and The Man Who Wrote The Perfect Novel: John Williams, Stoner and the Writing Life (2018). You can read more about Charles at www.charlesjshields.net and can

Reversing the Chicago River https://www.chicagoline.com/blog/chicago-river-reversal/
Winston Churchill at the Front in World War I https://winstonchurchill.org/publications/finest-hour/finest-hour-176/books-churchill-at-the-front/
1. Burr Oak Cemetery near Chicago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burr_Oak_Cemetery
2. Hero of Alexandria https://gizmodo.com/the-amazing-ancient-machines-of-hero-of-alexandria-1533213972
3. James Weldon Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man https://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/g_l/johnson/life.htm
4. André Maurois’ biographies https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/maurois-andr-x00e9

Carl Rollyson discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known. You can read more about Carl and his books at www.carlrollyson.com.

Harriet Hume by Rebecca West https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1982/08/12/staying-the-course/
The Searching Wind by Lillian Hellmann https://www.timeout.com/london/film/the-searching-wind
Fallen Angel http://www.noiroftheweek.com/2005/07/fallen-angel-1945-72005.html
Clash by Night https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clash_by_Night
The Mansion by William Faulkner https://brickmag.com/the-mansion-by-william-faulkner/
Plutarch award for biography https://biographersinternational.org/topic/plutarch-award/

The poet JS Watts talks to Ivan about six things she thinks should be better known. Her books include The Submerged, Sea, Years Ago You Coloured Me and Witchlight. More information is at www.jswatts.co.uk.

Basil Ede https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2016/10/28/basil-ede-wildlife-artist--obituary/
Chalk Streams https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/06/why-britains-chalk-rivers-are-under-threat/
Bartlow Hills, Cambridgeshire http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/cambridgeshire/hi/people_and_places/history/newsid_8692000/8692856.stm
Bats https://animals.howstuffworks.com/mammals/13-incredible-bat-facts.htm
Poetry https://www.huffpost.com/entry/importance-of-poetry_b_884319
French Horn https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/13/arts/music/13horn.html

David Lough discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known. David is the author of Darling Winston and No More Champagne.

Prison Reading Groups http://prisonreadinggroups.org.uk/
Henry Strakosch https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/no-more-champagne-churchill-and-money-david-lough-review/
Lucy Jones https://www.flowersgallery.com/artists/view/lucy-jones
Namib desert https://wwf.panda.org/knowledge_hub/where_we_work/namib_desert/
The London Library https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Library
Cystic fibrosis and orkambi https://www.cysticfibrosis.org.uk/the-work-we-do/campaigning-hard/life-saving-drugs/orkambi

Matthew Sturgis, biographer of Oscar Wilde, talks to Ivan about six things which should be better known.

Oscar Wilde’s duologues https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Critic_as_Artist
The Mortdecai thrillers of Kyril Bonfiglioli https://www.economist.com/prospero/2010/09/29/an-unsung-classic
The voice of the Brazilian singer Virginia Rodrigues https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/virginia-rodrigues-the-diva-of-the-favelas-63902.html
Spaghetti caccio-pepe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AztjQDIi3Sw
Fitzrovia Chapel www.fitzroviachapel.org
Sickert’s late works https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp04107/walter-richard-sickert

Novelist Geoff Dyer discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known. You can read more at www.geoffdyer.com.

Joanna Hogg https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/05/20/joanna-hoggs-self-portrait-of-a-lady
Steve Gunn https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/steve-gunn-the-unseen-in-between-interview-777194/
Eve Babitz https://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/rare-interview-eve-babitz-long-sober-cool-author
Lomer shoes http://www.lomer.it/en-UK/
Luigi Ghiri https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_Ghirri
Calabash literature festival in Jamaica https://www.vogue.com/article/calabash-literary-festival-in-jamaica-is-the-islands-best-kept-secret

Paul Anthony Jones talks to Ivan about six things which he thinks should be better known. Paul's books include The Cabinet of Linguistic Curiosities and Around The World in 80 Words. There is more information at www.paulanthonyjones.com/books.

John Atkinson Grimshaw https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/atkinson-grimshaw-227
The Sage Gateshead https://www.gateshead.gov.uk/article/5285/Sage-Gateshead
Wait Until Dark www.rogerebert.com/reviews/wait-until-dark-1968
Eric Partridge’s slang dictionaries https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/dec/07/highereducation.referenceandlanguages
James Gordon Bennett Jr http://mentalfloss.com/article/64130/fabulously-eccentric-life-james-gordon-bennett-jr
Tori Amos’ 2011 album Night of Hunters https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_Hunters

Clare Bucknell discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known. You can read her articles for the London Review of Books at www.lrb.co.uk/contributors/clare-bucknell.

Female grand tourists in the late eighteenth century https://cloudfront.escholarship.org/dist/prd/content/qt2bz968nw/qt2bz968nw.pdf
Real tennis https://www.irtpa.com/real-tennis-general-information/
Travelling in Austria (apart from skiing) https://globalgrasshopper.com/destinations/europe/10-beautiful-places-visit-austria/
The satirist John Wolcot, aka Peter Pindar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wolcot
Nighty Night https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2014/nov/13/nighty-night-box-set-review-julia-davis
TH White’s The Sword in the Stone https://barbarah.wordpress.com/2016/03/24/book-review-the-sword-in-the-stone/

Gary Dexter discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known.

The scourge of asthma www.asthma-international.org.uk
The early albums of Queen www.uncut.co.uk/reviews/album/queen-the-first-five-albums
The continuing threat of nuclear war https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_Clock
Japanese religious syncretism https://www.spectator.co.uk/2017/07/how-japan-rubs-along-with-two-religions-plus-fake-christian-weddings/
The novels of Bernard Malamud www.nybooks.com/articles/1984/01/19/the-shaman-and-the-schlemiel/
The international space station and its achievements www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/15_ways_iss_benefits_earth/

Henriette van der Blom, Senior Lecturer in Ancient History in the Department of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology at the University of Birmingham, discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known.

The oratory of Julius Caesar https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/oratory-and-political-career-in-the-late-roman-republic/0FF23CFD58211BCB8085B9F75664CD72
Ancient rhetoric http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/cor
The work and legacy of the Danish seismologist Inge Lehmann https://videnskab.dk/naturvidenskab/inge-lehmann-og-de-usynlige-danske-videnskabskvinder
The classical derivation of English words https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_words_of_Greek_origin
Limiting the overuse of modern antibiotics http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170607-how-we-can-stop-antibiotic-resistance
Learning a new language is good for you https://www.britishcouncil.org/voices-magazine/does-being-bilingual-make-you-smarter

Novelist Irenosen Okojie talks to Ivan about six things which she thinks should be better known.

Electric Arches by Eve L. Ewing https://poetryschool.com/reviews/review-electric-arches-by-eve-ewing/
Autograph Gallery http://www.autograph.org.uk
Black in The Day www.instagram.com/blkintheday/
Eve's Bayou https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eve%27s_Bayou
The Bunker Theatre www.bunkertheatre.com
New Daughters of Africa Anthology edited by Margaret Busby www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/private/review-new-daughters-of-africa/

This week, Monisha Rajesh discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known.

Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 www.nytimes.com/2018/05/10/books/review/fahrenheit-451-ray-bradbury.html
How easy it is to donate to local charities www.theguardian.com/money/2012/may/15/best-ways-give-charity-without-donating-money
The British Empire should be taught in schools www.lrb.co.uk/v23/n14/linda-colley/multiple-kingdoms
Emergency SOS dial on iPhones https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT208076
How important it is to travel to places of contention www.bloomsbury.com/uk/around-the-world-in-80-trains-9781408869758/
Chocolate Guinness cake at Brett and Bailey at Crystal Palace market http://www.brettandbailey.co.uk/news/2016-04-12-we-make-londons-best-chocolate-guinness-cake

This week, Lara Feigel discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known.

A Foreign Affair https://directorsseries.net/2016/02/17/billy-wilders-a-foreign-affair-1948/
Martha Gellhorn’s Point of No Return www.lrb.co.uk/v20/n09/jeremy-harding/no-one-leaves-her-place-in-line
Kensal Green cemetery https://londonist.com/2016/10/things-you-didn-t-know-about-kensal-green-cemetery
The Ivan Juritz Prize http://www.ivanjuritzprize.co.uk/
Doris Lessing’s The Four Gated City https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/doris-lessing/four-gated-city/
Suffolk estuary near Boyton https://www.rspb.org.uk/reserves-and-events/reserves-a-z/boyton-and-hollesley-marshes/

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This week, Jane Dismore discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known.

Jane Dismore is a biographer and a freelance writer of history and heritage. Her latest book is Princess: The Early Life of Queen Elizabeth II (2018), pub. USA (Lyons Press) and UK (Thistle). Her website is: https://janedismore.com/

The beauty of Northumberland https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/whats-on/family-kids-news/hidden-beauty-spots-northumberland-nine-13096075
Lady Dorothy Mills, novelist, explorer and early woman Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society: my feature for Eastern Daily Press: https://janedismore.com/2014/12/10/lady-dorothy-mills-nee-walpole/
Ruth Cavendish Bentinck, suffragist: my feature for Dorset Life: https://janedismore.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/2018-dorset-life-article.pdf The Cavendish Bentinck Library at the LSE is named for her.
The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jul/11/the-water-babies-fairytale-social-change-richard-coles-documentary
Public archives https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/guides/introduction/
Original 78 rpm records http://www.charm.rhul.ac.uk/history/p20_4_6.html

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This week, Tom Tivnan of The Bookseller discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known.

Patrick O’Brian www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/09/the-next-great-tv-show-if-only-someone-will-make-it/403837/
Great Molasses Flood of 1919 www.bostonglobe.com/magazine/2019/01/09/the-great-molasses-flood-was-boston-strangest-disaster/VawySumFUf5vKCibM9PLtJ/story.html
Dark www.theverge.com/2017/12/1/16724852/netflix-dark-review-first-german-streaming-series
Chester Himes www.lrb.co.uk/v40/n08/adam-shatz/writing-absurdity
The People’s Almanac https://www.amazon.com/The-Peoples-Almanac-David-Wallechinsky/dp/0385040601
Scottish Borders www.visitscotland.com/blog/family-2/days-out-south-scotland/

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The People's Almanac

This week, Henry Hemming discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known.

Henry’s books include Misadventure in the Middle East and M.

Every day life in Iran www.lonelyplanet.com/iran/background/other-features/5dfe99c7-3ffb-4664-a7de-4ba79bcc016d/a/nar/5dfe99c7-3ffb-4664-a7de-4ba79bcc016d/361011
Eric Maschwitz https://spartacus-educational.com/SPYmaschwitz.htm
The dishwasher https://medium.com/@rogergathmann/on-washing-the-dishes-dfec4cddd5c6
The reality of Britain standing alone against Nazi Germany, pre-Pearl Harbor www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/aug/19/military.secondworldwar
Grand Designs www.homesandproperty.co.uk/home-garden/interiors/design-news/10-things-you-might-not-know-about-kevin-mcclouds-grand-designs-series-a124961.html
Hands off parenting https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/05/28/614386847/what-kind-of-parent-are-you-carpenter-or-gardener?t=1556477867458

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This week, Rishi Dastidar discusses six things with Ivan which should be better known.

The Bathers’ album Kelvingrove Baby: https://open.spotify.com/album/4Kbj8WGU786XtVHHEDUZUf
Estorick Collection www.estorickcollection.com
Hotellings Effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotelling%27s_law
Philly cheesesteak www.passyunk.co.uk
Robert Elms’ In Search of The Crack https://www.amazon.co.uk/Search-Crack-Robert-Elms/dp/0670823287
Sarah Manguso www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/01/09/from-300-arguments/

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In Search of the Crack

This week, Clare Mulley talks to Ivan about six things that should be better known.

Eglantyne Jebb www.hive.co.uk/Product/Clare-Mulley/The-Woman-Who-Saved-the-Children--A-Biography-of-Eglantyn/23450779
Melitta Schiller von Stauffenberg www.hive.co.uk/Product/Clare-Mulley/The-Women-Who-Flew-for-Hitler--The-True-Story-of-Hitlers-Valkyries/21401991
Ecosia www.ecosia.org
Diversity within British history https://www.bbc.co.uk/historyofthebbc/people-nation-empire
The range of services of local councils https://awards.lgcplus.com/2018-winners
The achievements (and diversity) of female special agents https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Clare-Mulley/The-Spy-Who-Loved--the-secrets-and-lives-of-one-of-Britai/14277647

Clare Mulley is the award-winning author of three books. The Woman Who Saved the Children won the Daily Mail Biographers' Club Prize, and The Spy Who Loved, now optioned by Universal Studios, led to Clare being decorated with Poland’s national honour, the Bene Merito. Clare's third book, The Women Who Flew for Hitler, is a dual biography of two extraordinary women at the heart of the Third Reich, but who ended their lives on opposite sides of history. A regular contributor to TV and radio, Clare recently gave a TEDx talk at Stormont, wrote last year's BBC Reith Lecture quiz, and lectures in London and Paris on wartime female special agents. She also reviews non-fiction for the Telegraph, Spectator and History Today. Clare was chair of the judges for the Historical Writers Association 2017 Non-Fiction Prize, and has recently become an honorary patron of the Wimpole History Festival. www.claremulley.com

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This week, Kerry Hudson discusses with Ivan six things which she thinks should be better known.

The music of Blick Bassy and Emahoy Tsegue-Mayam Guebruo www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJHXlc7Afzk
The joy of travelling in the country Georgia www.traveldrafts.com/50-things-you-need-to-know-before-traveling-to-georgia/
Vintage Delia Smith cookery programmes on the BBC www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p05rml64/delia-smiths-cookery-course
Bus rides in Bangkok www.keepcalmandtravel.com/bangkok-by-bus-a-cheap-alternative-way-to-visit-the-city/
Ironopolis by Glen James Brown www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jan/16/ironopolis-by-glen-james-brown-review
Night terrors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_terror

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This week, Conor Reid of the Words to that Effect podcast (www.wttepodcast.com) discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known.

The works of Edgar Rice Burroughs www.telegraph.co.uk/films/2016/07/06/xenophic-hack-or-master-storyteller-the-wild-world-of-edgar-rice/
The city of Turin as a tourist destination http://slowitaly.yourguidetoitaly.com/2013/11/10-reasons-why-turin-should-be-on-your-italy-bucket-list/
The song Four Ethers by Serpentwithfeet www.youtube.com/watch?v=5a4N_lOAieA
Brown bread ice-cream www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/irish-brown-bread-ice-cream-1958
The album Night Train by Oscar Peterson https://musicophilesblog.com/2016/02/02/oscar-petersons-night-train/
The work of China Mieville www.panmacmillan.com/blogs/fiction/china-mieville-brief-introduction-books-start-read

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This week, William Cook discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known.

The plays of Joe Orton www.nybooks.com/articles/1987/09/24/changeling/
The stories of Charles Bukowski www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/03/14/smashed
The beach resorts of the Baltic Coast www.roughguides.com/article/the-10-best-baltic-beach-resorts/
The paintings of Robert Colquhoun & Robert MacBryde, aka The Two Roberts www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/2hscrfQSYK2BrFvHXbNhW5b/the-two-roberts-love-paint-and-poverty
The journalism of Auberon Waugh www.lrb.co.uk/v07/n21/ian-hamilton/the-waugh-between-the-diaries
The music of Dudley Moore www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-VL6cNeEz8

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This week, Ann Kennedy Smith discusses six things which she thinks should be better known

Rathlin Island www.rspb.org.uk/reserves-and-events/reserves-a-z/rathlin-island
BBC Pronunciation guides of the 1930s www.theguardian.com/education/shortcuts/2016/jun/07/marjerine-or-marg-arine-how-the-bbc-taught-us-to-talk-proper
The Cambridge Ladies Dining Society 1890-1914 https://akennedysmith.com/about-2/
EM Forster’s biography of M Thornton https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Marianne_Thornton.html?id=UE8rAQAAIAAJ&redir_esc=y

5.The 2019 campaign for adult education www.wea.org.uk/news-events/news/1919-centenary-commission-launches

Cruikshank’s Worship of Bacchus www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/cruikshank-the-worship-of-bacchus-n00795

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This week, in a reversal of the normal positivity, Richard Elwes discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks we would be better off without.

Smooth jazz and Kenny G www.jazzoasis.com/methenyonkennyg.htm English language films www.bbc.com/culture/story/20181029-the-100-greatest-foreign-language-films The Golden Ratio www.fastcompany.com/3044877/the-golden-ratio-designs-biggest-myth Bridge (the card game) www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1571194/Bridge-tables-hit-by-unpleasantness.html The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (Music Grade Exams) https://crosseyedpianist.com/2016/08/31/exams-dont-make-musicians/ Superstars www.uvm.edu/pdodds/files/papers/others/1981/rosen1981a.pdf

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This week, Mark Mason discusses with Ivan his six choices of things which should be better known.

Apophenia www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/reality-play/201207/being-amused-apophenia
Heartlands film http://film.britishcouncil.org/heartlands
Apollo 12 https://airandspace.si.edu/explore-and-learn/topics/apollo/apollo-program/landing-missions/apollo12.cfm
Train in the Distance by Paul Simon www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCFTHhcvRT0
Joe Swail https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Swail
Selling Hitler by Robert Harris www.lrb.co.uk/v08/n06/alan-milward/holy-relics

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This week, Sophie Ratcliffe talks to Ivan about six things which she thinks should be better known. You can buy Sophie's book The Lost Properties of Love at www.waterstones.com/book/the-lost-properties-of-love/sophie-ratcliffe/9780008225902.

The classified sections of The Times newspaper for the year 1875 www.nytimes.com/2010/02/14/opinion/14epstein.html
John Brewer photography workshops www.johnbrewerphotography.com
What GPs actually do https://drjongriffiths.wordpress.com/2018/01/30/10-insider-tips-i-bet-you-dont-know-about-your-gp/
The manifold ways people respond to death and grief www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/the-truisms-wellness/201702/the-ways-we-grieve
The benefits of having a disco ball in your kitchen www.thespruce.com/decorate-with-disco-balls-4155801
Hull www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/40041884/five-things-you-may-not-know-about-hull-ahead-of-radio-1s-big-weekend

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This week, Dr Richard Barnett discusses six things with Ivan which he thinks should be better known.

Russell Hoban’s Pilgermann www.nytimes.com/1983/05/29/books/exiled-from-wisdom.html
Kedgeree www.coop.co.uk/recipes/quick-and-spicy-kedgeree
Wittgenstein’s service in World War One www.military-history.org/articles/thinkers-at-war-wittgenstein.htm
Tarbat Discovery Centre in Portmahomack www.tarbat-discovery.co.uk
Simon Munnery https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2013/jun/27/simon-munnery-hello-comedy-gold
John Fahey’s On the Banks of the Owchita https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJghX8bInXY

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This week, Sam Dodson and Dan Sutherland from Nothing in the Rulebook discuss with Ivan six things which should be better known.

The Future Library project in Norway www.futurelibrary.no
Dr Chuck Tingle Professor of Massage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Tingle
The bad sex in fiction awards www.literaryreview.co.uk/bad-sex-in-fiction-award
No Alibis book shop www.noalibis.com
Richard Serra's "portend I slugten" at the Louisiana art gallery in Denmark http://channel.louisiana.dk/video/richard-serra-porten-i-slugten
Josh Spiller's IF comic book anthology on superheroes www.joshspillercomics.tumblr.com/

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This week, Emma John discusses with Ivan her six choices which should be better known.

The town of Chapel Hill, North Carolina https://vacationidea.com/destinations/best-things-to-do-in-chapel-hill-nc.html
Tom Selleck’s Jesse Stone movies https://mommybearmedia.com/correct-order-jesse-stone-movies/
The Lord Peter Wimsey novels of Dorothy L Sayers https://robertarood.wordpress.com/2018/10/25/dorothy-l-sayers-and-the-lord-peter-wimsey-novels/
The musicals of Jason Robert Brown https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/broadway/8486801/jason-robert-brown-interview-broadway-composer
Bluegrass music http://www.lonelyheartstringband.com/
Nate DiMeo’s podcast The Memory Palace http://thememorypalace.us/

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This week, Imogen Russell Williams talks to Ivan about six things which she thinks should be better known.

The Hounds of the Morrigan by Pat O’Shea www.fantasyliterature.com/reviews/the-hounds-of-the-morrigan/
Carpe diem www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcxFTmBbrIk
Knightmare www.ukgameshows.com/ukgs/Knightmare
Susan Price’s Sterkarm Trilogy www.theguardian.com/books/2004/jan/17/featuresreviews.guardianreview31
The role of libraries and librarians in schools www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/columns-and-blogs/soapbox/article/77275-the-importance-of-school-librarians.html
Dyslexia and its impact www.jkp.com/jkpblog/2015/08/the-lifelong-social-and-emotional-effects-of-dyslexia/

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This week, Andy Reid talks to Ivan about six things which he thinks should be better known.

The Kingdom https://film.avclub.com/the-new-cult-canon-lars-von-triers-the-kingdom-1798214674
Nestle milk boycott http://www.babymilkaction.org/nestlefree
Nuts in May www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/features/mike-leigh-nuts-may-alison-steadman
The Hare with Amber Eyes www.edmunddewaal.com/writing/the-hare-with-amber-eyes/about
The Greasy Strangler www.theguardian.com/film/2016/oct/04/greasy-strangler-jim-hosking
Necrotising enterocolitis www.gosh.nhs.uk/medical-information/search-medical-conditions/necrotising-enterocolitis

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This week, Will Eaves discusses with Ivan Wise six things which he thinks should be better known.

The Gigue from Handel’s Suite No 1 in A major, for Harpsichord www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUAspawKf2w
The Walled Garden in Brockwell Park https://plewsgardendesign.co.uk/garden-visits-brockwell-park-walled-garden/
The paintings and drawings of Danny Markey www.redfern-gallery.com/artists/41-danny-markey/#/works/
The kindness and wisdom of my friend Bridget https://philosophynow.org/issues/126/Aristotle_on_Forming_Friendships
Erwin Schrodinger‘s Tanner lectures on Mind and Matter (1956) http://strangebeautiful.com/other-texts/schrodinger-what-is-life-mind-matter-auto-sketches.pdf
The novels Moon’s Ottery by Patricia Beer’s Moon’s Ottery and Sophie and the Sibyl by her niece Patricia Duncker www.theguardian.com/news/1999/aug/19/guardianobituaries.johnmullan

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This week, Henry Hitchings discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known.

Theatre 503 www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/opportunities/Theatre503
Germany as a tourist destination www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/germany/articles/reasons-why-we-love-germany/
Etivaz cheese www.cheesesfromswitzerland.com/cheese-assortment/letivaz-aop.html
Fanny Burney www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05r3zjk
OV Wright www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktmS2Te06do
Hans Baldung Grien https://art.famsf.org/hans-baldung-hans-baldung-grien

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This week, Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott discusses with Ivan six things which she thinks should be better known.

Blackwing Pencils https://palominobrands.com/blackwing/
The Savoy Cocktail Book, 1930 www.distillerytrail.com/blog/10-classic-cocktails-savoy-cocktail-book-infographic/
Marfa, Texas www.vogue.com/article/city-dwellers-guide-to-marfa-texas
Clay Felker, New York Magazine & the School of New Journalism https://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/inmemoriam/html/clayfelker.html
The Films of Hal Ashby https://variety.com/2018/film/news/hal-ashby-documentary-director-amy-scott-harold-and-maude-being-there-1202925246/
Edith Wharton’s Glimpses of the Moon https://heavenali.wordpress.com/2013/08/22/the-glimpses-of-the-moon-edith-wharton-1922/

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This week, Dave Pickering talks to Ivan about six things which he thinks should be better known.

Churchill’s crimes of empire https://crimesofbritain.com/2016/09/13/the-trial-of-winston-churchill/
Walking in London www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/united-kingdom/england/london/articles/Londons-best-walks/
The Moomin Books by Tove Jansson www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jan/15/tove-jansson-life-words-westin-review
The Will to Change: Men, masculinity and love by bell hooks https://endofcapitalism.com/2009/01/20/review-of-the-will-to-change-men-masculinity-and-love/
The Expanse www.netflix.com/gb/title/80029822
The Boy Who Hasn’t Lived podcast www.theboywhohasntlived.com/

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This week, Alice Thwaite talks to Ivan about six things she thinks should be better known.

Do we want consensus in our public dialogue, or do we want diversity of thought? https://echochamber.club/why-we-should-sometimes-silence-others/
Our actions do not necessarily define our character www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/magazine/how-one-stupid-tweet-ruined-justine-saccos-life.html
Our reality doesn't just come from Facebook http://theconversation.com/the-myth-of-the-echo-chamber-92544
Jaco Pistorius www.thestacksreader.com/who-killed-jaco-pastorius/
Travel isn't just about going to the amazing places that everyone has been to before www.reddit.com/r/unpopularopinion/comments/6d4eo0/travelling_is_overrated/
This Country www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09twr53/episodes/player

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This week, James Deacon discusses six things which he thinks should be better known.

How it Feels to be Attacked by a Shark by Michelle Hamer www.goodreads.com/book/show/1954299.How_it_Feels_to_Be_Attcked_by_a_Shark
Simon Lyons https://simonlyonsauthor.com/
Neighbourhood Bakes https://www.neighbourhoodbakes.com/
Nice and Nicely Done by The Spinto Band https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/7829-nice-and-nicely-done/
Club 85 in Hitchin, Hertfordshire http://www.club-85.co.uk/
Desert Island Dicks Podcast www.acast.com/desert-island-dicks-podcast

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This week, Ben Schott discusses six things with Ivan which he thinks should be better known.

Stud cufflinks www.trendhim.co.uk/articles/the-cufflinks-your-ultimate-guide
Polari https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polari
The photomontage artist John Heartfield www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/393
The graphic design of movie poster billing blocks https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/02/24/opinion/sunday/ben-schott-movies-billing-blocks.html?hp
The "Celestial Empire of Benevolent Knowledge” https://garagemca.org/en/event/lecture-by-andrey-velikanov-jorge-luis-borges-the-garden-of-forking-paths-the-analytical-language-of-john-wilkins-chora-the-archaeology-of-knowledge
The secret codes of calling cards http://www.faena.com/aleph/articles/on-victorian-cards-for-secret-flirtations/

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This week, Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney discusses six things which they think should be better known.

The crime fiction of Celia Fremlin www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/invisible-ink-no-249-celia-fremlin-9847533.html
Barreiro www.atlaslisboa.com/abandoned-lisboa-the-comboio-graveyard-in-barreiro/
Emma Hardinge Britten www.ehbritten.org
Anne Sharp https://austenprose.com/2008/06/07/jane-austens-dearest-friendship-with-miss-sharp-still-resonates-today/
The Japanese countryside https://donnykimball.com/countryside-travel-5c8e789c3fad
The history of children with learning disabilities https://langdondownmuseum.org.uk/the-history-of-learning-disability/social-history-of-learning-disability/

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This week, Richard Canning discusses six things which he thinks should be better known.

Ronald Firbank www.nytimes.com/1973/07/22/archives/prancing-novelist-the-fixer-of-modern-camp-a-defence-of-fiction-in.html
Nils Dardel http://dardel.info/famille/artistes/NilsDardel/NilsDardelE.php
The Bathers https://peterross.scot/articles/the-bathers/
Karol Szymanowski http://www.roh.org.uk/people/karol-szymanowski
The Comeback www.hbo.com/the-comeback
Tigre https://turismo.buenosaires.gob.ar/en/article/visit-tigre-buenos-aires%E2%80%99-waterside-getaway

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This week, Lucy Hughes-Hallett discusses six things which she thinks should be better known.

The Deposition by Pontormo in the Church of Santa Felicita, Florence http://arthistoryblogger.blogspot.com/2018/05/jacopo-pontormos-deposition-of-christ.html
The beach at Covehithe, Suffolk www.theguardian.com/travel/2007/jul/14/beach.suffolk
Rosa Alba Celestial www.classicroses.co.uk/celestial-shrub-rose.html
The Immortal Dinner by Penelope Hughes-Hallett www.theguardian.com/books/2000/sep/23/classics.johnmullan
Angelo and Rosaline, by Bettina www.goodreads.com/book/show/3931718-angelo-and-rosaline
The island of Veliki Brijuni www.istria-culture.com/en/national-park-brijuni-i119

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This week, Dan Benedictus discusses his six choices:

Gorge Du Tarn https://about-france.com/tourism/tarn-gorge.htm
Preserved Lemons for cooking https://www.bbc.com/food/preserved_lemons
Using V8 Vegetable juice instead of tomato juice in a Bloody Mary https://v8juice.co.uk/recipes/classic-v8-bloody-mary/
Narwhals www.worldwildlife.org/stories/unicorn-of-the-sea-narwhal-facts
The film closer to the edge – a documentary about the Isle of Man TT www.theguardian.com/film/2011/apr/21/tt3d-closer-to-the-edge
The album OK Cowboy by Vitalic https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/8538-ok-cowboy/

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This week, Richard Walker discusses his six choices:

Florida Southern College www.franklloydwrightatfsc.com
The early films of Peter Greenaway - ‘The Falls’ and other oddities www.thehorsehospital.com/archive/past/kinokulture-past/peter-greenaway-the-falls
Michael Hurley - American folk troubadour surrealist www.snockonews.net
Robin Noscoe - 20th Century Renaissance man and inspirational art teacher http://www.compusmall.co.uk/benedictsark/index.php/stephen-batty/95-that-blysful-place
Sardinia - a hidden jewel in the Mediterranean www.theguardian.com/travel/2014/jul/19/sardinia-sad-song-lost-opportunity
Elephant and Castle - as a desirable destination www.anadventurousworld.com/elephant-and-castle/

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This week, Catharine Morris discusses her six choices.

The role of an editor www.writersandartists.co.uk/writers/advice/151/self-publishing/editing/the-role-of-an-editor
Structured procrastination www.chronicle.com/article/How-to-ProcrastinateStill/93959
Simon Gray’s memoirs www.chaseside.org.uk/books/simon_gray_memoirs.html
Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird https://ideas.ted.com/14-writing-tips-from-beloved-teacher-anne-lamott/
Benefits of having an older father www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/aug/26/fatherhood-benefits-leaving-late
Pipedown www.furious.com/perfect/pipedown.html

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This week, Robjn discusses six things which he thinks should be better known.

The London Canal Network www.bloomsbury.com/uk/maidens-trip-9781408801253/ Brain Candy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KidsintheHall:BrainCandy 99% Invisible https://99percentinvisible.org Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle by Dervla Murphy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DervlaMurphy#FullTiltandotherearlywritings Michael Rothenstein https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MichaelRothenstein The Fry Gallery and Bridge End Gardens www.fryartgallery.org

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This week, Laura Barton discusses six things that should be better known.

Petrol tank arrow: very few drivers know about this handy tool - www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2012/05/09/dashboard_gas_gauge_arrows_what_do_theyindicate.html
Oat milk tequila coffee: a drink that does not yet exist online, but is an alcohol variant of one that does - www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/lifestyle/why-youll-soon-be-adding-oat-milk-to-your-morning-coffee-832261.html
The Shivers: a New York band - www.theshivers.bandcamp.com
The National Fruit Collection: Faversham’s finest - www.nationalfruitcollection.org.uk
Midwestern cities: Dubuque, Muscatine, Cairo, quad cities, McGregor, Iowa - www.traveldubuque.com
The history of barbed wire: how it took over the world - www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-40448594

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This week, biographer Peter Parker discusses with Ivan his six choices of things which he thinks should be better known.

Something for Everyone (1970), Harold Prince film starring Angela Lansbury and Michael York https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066392/?ref_=nv_sr_1
G.F. Green (1911-77), writer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._F._Green
Calcutta/Kolkata as a tourist destination www.kolkata.org.uk/tourist-attractions/
Humphrey Spender, painter, photographer and designer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humphrey_Spender
The Church of St Nicholas, Little Braxted, Essex www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101111066-church-of-st-nicholas-little-braxted
Inexpensive Progress blog: http://inexpensiveprogress.com

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This week, Rachel Slade discusses with Ivan her six choices of things which she thinks should be better known.

The wild outdoors of North East London www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/things-to-do/green-spaces/epping-forest/visitor-information/wheretogoineppingforest/Pages/wanstead-flats.aspx
Meaderies www.cornwalls.co.uk/food/mead_and_meaderies.htm
Blind Melon https://music.avclub.com/20-years-later-blind-melon-s-maligned-soup-deserves-an-1798282979
Cornish Independence movement https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/apr/26/survival-of-cornish-identity-cornwall-separate-place
Sarah and Duck https://www.sbnation.com/2018/4/6/17206882/childrens-tv-parenting-advice-look-turn-everything-off-except-sarah-and-duck-quack
Isles of Scilly https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/united-kingdom/england/cornwall/isles-of-scilly/articles/why-scilly-isles-are-best-destination-in-britain/

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This week, Joanne Harris discusses her six choices of things which she thinks should be better known.

The Breton kouign-amann www.bbc.com/food/recipes/kouign_amann_09102
Louis Pergaud www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/invisible-ink-no-159-louis-pergaud-8488420.html
The Child Ballads http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/child/index.htm
The 23rd century BC Sumerian poet Enheduanna www.ancient-origins.net/history-famous-people/enheduanna-high-priestess-moon-and-first-known-author-world-007259
Fanny Eaton http://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/8453/fanny-eaton-the-black-pre-raphaelite-muse-that-time-forgot
The Rollright stones www.rollrightstones.co.uk

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This week, Will Ward discusses his six choices of things which should be better known.

Roald Dahl's adult short stories - https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/roald-dahls-twisted-overlooked-stories-for-adults They should be at least as well-known as his stories for children.
Tout Quarry Sculpture Park - http://learningstone.org/tout-quarry-sculpture-park/ An old Portland stone quarry turned into sculpture park
The Kinder Mass trespass - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_trespass_of_Kinder_Scout A mass civil disobedience event that appears (so far) to have achieved its purpose and avoided the trap of unintended consequences.
Terry Pratchett's Night Watch - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Watch_(Discworld) Part of Discworld, a story of revolution and time-travel, with a healthy amount of cynicism and wit
The exploration of graveyards and burial grounds – http://www.londongardenstrust.org/features/cemetery.htm A chance to reflect on your mortality
Dougga – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dougga Roman, Numidian Berber, Punic town that is an exceptional UNESCO world heritage site in Tunisia

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This week, Benny Chastney discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known.

The Political Compass - https://www.politicalcompass.org/
OK Diner - http://okdiners.com/
The sub-culture of Alan Partridge - https://twitter.com/AccidentalP
Good news trends - https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnmauldin/2017/12/19/20-positive-trends-that-will-make-you-feel-good-about-the-world-in-2018/
Marginalisation of Gypsies and Travellers - http://leedsgate.co.uk/
Recipe Kits - https://www.thespicery.com/

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This week, Tess Read discusses with Ivan six things which she thinks should be better known.

Songs for Drella www.allmusic.com/album/songs-for-drella-mw0000207184

Exeter and its cider www.sandfordorchards.co.uk

Nutmeg www.organicfacts.net/health-benefits/herbs-and-spices/nutmeg.html

Rooftops of London www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/united-kingdom/england/london/galleries/Beautiful-views-from-Londons-rooftops/

Kodaly technique for music www.britishkodalyacademy.org/kodaly_approach.htm

Great Western dining car http://www.britishkodalyacademy.org/kodaly_approach.htm

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This week, Andy Smith, Katie Kitney, Duncan Baldwin, Ed Cook, Will Ward, Tom Bucher, Josie Whitworth, Jonny Forbes and Colin Cliff discuss with Ivan a series of things about the royal family which should be better known.

Ikea effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IKEA_effect Just world fallacy https://youarenotsosmart.com/2010/06/07/the-just-world-fallacy/ Desert Island Discs http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/59YrnYM0Tw8J7WJ0MGKVfh7/the-history-of-desert-island-discs Royal family qualifications www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1531553/The-family-qualifications.html The royal staff www.teatime-mag.com/magazines/140-de/ Are they good for tourism? www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/07/is-the-british-royal-family-worth-the-money/278052/ Maundy money www.royalmint.com/discover/uk-coins/maundy-money/ The assassination attempts on Queen Victoria http://www.thesocialhistorian.com/7-assassination-attempts-queen-victoria/ Henry III and the polar bear www.hrp.org.uk/tower-of-london/history-and-stories/the-tower-of-london-menagerie/ Whales are the new swans www.travelandleisure.com/travel-tips/celebrity-travel/all-the-animals-queen-elizabeth-owns King John and Morocco http://mbarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2006/02/king-johns-plan-to-convert-england-to.html

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This week, Jerry Hyde discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known.

This episode contains strong language and adult subject matter.

The healing benefits of psychedelics www.ft.com/content/2c4121de-c5d6-11e5-808f-8231cd71622e
Education hasn't really evolved since Victorian times. http://www.edge.co.uk/sites/default/files/documents/exeter_report_-_impact_of_practical_learning_on_academically-able_young_people_2011.pdf
That men aren't the only misogynists, women are too, and whilst there is toxic masculinity, masculinity is not toxic. www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/09/men-after-metoo-masculinity-fundamentally-toxic
There are a great many humans with bodies that are more than eighteen years old but there are very few adults in the world https://blog.oup.com/2014/04/reinventing-rites-passage-contemporary-america/
You're not the only person with a mediocre sex life. www.relate.org.uk/relationship-help/help-relationships/relationship-common-problems
Nuclear families are not working www.speakingtree.in/allslides/problems-faced-by-working-parents-in-a-nuclear-family/a-tiny-support-system

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This week, Yuliya Smyk discusses with Ivan six things which she thinks should be better known.

History of ethnic diversity of Kazakhstan https://astanatimes.com/2016/04/why-kazakhstans-model-of-maintaining-ethnic-diversity-deserves-attention/
Iran's Modern art collection www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-tehran-museum-of-contemporary-art/
Art exchange at Vienna airport www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970204770404577082842506737230
Religious diversity and tolerance in Panama https://revista.drclas.harvard.edu/book/muslims-and-jews-panamá
Freya Stark www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/04/18/east-is-west-claudia-roth-pierpont
Glow Kids by Nicholas Kardaras http://drkardaras.com/glow-kids/

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This week, Frances Turner discusses with Ivan six things which she thinks should be better known.

Bonnington Cafe: a vegetarian restaurant in London run by volunteers - http://bonningtoncafe.co.uk/
The Band Room: a music venue specialising in Louisiana music in the middle of North Yorkshire - www.thebandroom.co.uk
Lukas Moodyson: Swedish film director - www.theguardian.com/film/2014/apr/12/lukas-moodysson-we-are-the-best
The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer: a novel about a group of friends - www.nytimes.com/2013/04/21/books/review/the-interestings-by-meg-wolitzer.html
World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms: opportunities to volunteer around the world - www.wwoof.org.uk
Differences in English law between married and unmarried couples: the tax and benefit differences between marriage and cohabiting - https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/money/more-couples-could-soon-gain-access-to-the-financial-perks-that-come-with-marriage/

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This week, Christopher Fowler discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known.

Spanish films http://www.tasteofcinema.com/2016/the-30-best-spanish-language-movies-of-all-time/
Brigid Brophy www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-brigid-brophy-1595286.html?cmp=ilc-n
The lost Russian base at Pyramiden www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/soviet-ghost-town-arctic-circle-pyramiden-stands-alone-180951429
Christian Marclay’s ‘The Clock’ http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/christian-marclay-clock
How Freud got American women to smoke www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnPmg0R1M04
Screwball Comedies http://cinecollage.net/screwball-comedy.html

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This week, Edward Cook discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known.

The microbiome: all the bacteria that live in your gut - www.nytimes.com/2013/05/19/magazine/say-hello-to-the-100-trillion-bacteria-that-make-up-your-microbiome.html
Overinvestment in hops: that craft beer is going to burst eventually - www.ft.com/content/468aa664-c5bc-11e6-8f29-9445cac8966f
John Clarke aka Fred Dagg: Australian satire - www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgrX7uOZqHI
The massacre of the Nepalese royal family: www.pri.org/stories/2011-06-01/why-nepals-crown-prince-went-killing-spree
Absence of tube stations in south east London: why the Underground does not cover the whole city - www.citymetric.com/transport/why-are-there-so-few-tube-lines-south-london-2929
The Castle: Australian film comedy - www.theguardian.com/film/australia-culture-blog/2014/apr/04/the-castle-rewatching-classic-australian-films

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This week, Keir Shiels discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known:

Gervase Fen novels: detective stories by an Oxford professor - www.edmundcrispin.com/gervase-fen/
Lebanese wine: a new nationality of drink for you to try - www.ft.com/content/c78c5a24-6c19-11e7-bfeb-33fe0c5b7eaa
Murder by Death: spoof murder mystery film with all-star cast: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXn8CsQU1-U
Synaethesia: a condition which affected Nabokov causing him to associate individual letters with colours - www.bbc.com/culture/story/20140904-i-see-songs-in-colour
Shakespeare forgeries: William Henry Ireland found two new Shakespeare plays: or did he? - www.smithsonianmag.com/history/to-beor-not-the-greatest-shakespeare-forgery-136201/
Dr John Elliotson: Victorian doctor who dabbled in phrenology and mesmerism - www.spectator.co.uk/2017/05/a-mesmerising-doctor-and-his-victorian-freak-show/

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This week, Tom Newman discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known:

The Beatles: largely forgotten 1960s beat combo - www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/04/the-10-best-forgotten-beatles-songs.html
United Fighting Championship: Brazilian jujitsu - http://wereabigdeal.com/a-beginners-guide-to-a-grown-mans-fantasy-ufc/
Gattaca: sci-fi film about eugenics - http://metro.co.uk/2017/10/24/gattaca-at-20-why-its-still-one-of-the-best-sci-fi-movies-around-7023410/
The origins of Christianity: how you nearly never heard of Jesus – www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/romans/christianityromanempire_article_01.shtml
The idea of free will as an illusion: are you driving your car or are you in the passenger seat? - www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-free-will-an-illusion/
Multiplicity: Michael Keaton plays four versions of himself - www.chicagonow.com/hammervision/2011/04/in-defense-of-multiplicity/

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This week, Thomas Williams discusses six things which he thinks should be better known:

Health economics: saving lives does not save money in the long run - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_economics
The busiest railway stations: almost all of them are in Japan - https://japantoday.com/category/features/travel/the-51-busiest-train-stations-in-the-world-all-but-6-located-in-japan
Sequencing DNA: you can do it on your laptop - www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21732083-small-portable-devices-plug-laptops-taking-dna-sequencing
Prevalence of asthmatics in sport: asthma is no barrier to winning Olympic medals - www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/apr/29/elite-athletes-asthma-simon-yates-team-sky-swimmers
Changing perceptions of euthanasia: the public used to be less hostile towards it - www.encyclopedia.com/medicine/divisions-diagnostics-and-procedures/medicine/euthanasia
Churchill’s role at Gallipoli: the strategy was correct, after all - www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/gallipoli-was-not-churchills-great-folly-20110413-1ddzb.html

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This week, Maria Donovan and Anna Carlisle discuss with Ivan six things which should be better known.

Edmund Dene Morel: political activist and reformer of the slave trade in the Belgian Congo - www.bouncing-balls.com/timeline/people/nr_leopoldmorel.htm
Ben Bulben Mountain: historic mountain range in Sligo - www.adventurous-travels.com/posts/ben-bulben-mountain-and-glencar-waterfall-and-lake-county-sligo-ireland
“What’s the lowlight of your holiday?”: sometimes the negative holiday stories are the best - www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/lists/worst-holidays-from-hell/
Monopoly Deal: card game variation on board game classic - www.boardgamereviewsbyjosh.com/2013/01/monopoly-deal-review.html
Lady Denman: strong independent woman and originator of pronunciation of Canberra - www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-02/lord-and-lady-denman-in-australia-exhibition/7677874
Cell Workout: LJ Flanders' exercise regime for prisoners - www.russellwebster.com/lj-flanders-story-beyond-cell-workout/

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This week, Ivan Wise discusses six things which he thinks should be better known

Nothing Sacred: one of the finest film comedies, starring Carole Lombarde - http://sensesofcinema.com/2011/cteq/nothing-sacred/
Charles Lamb: essayist and author of Tales from Shakespeare - www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44519/the-old-familiar-faces
Rosewood Thieves: American folk-rock band - www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ARPHwygl8A
Takin’ Home the Asylum: BBC drama about mental health, and David Tennant's first starring role - www.theguardian.com/society/2008/jun/04/mentalhealth
Parkinson’s Law of Triviality: how committees spend most of their time on trivia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality
Cyrus Field: the man behind the transatlantic cable - http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/11/books/the-cable-guy.html

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This week, Ezekiel Jacob discusses with Ivan Wise six things which he thinks should be better known:

The evolution of powered flight in birds: why some birds learnt to fly and why others did not - www2.gwu.edu/~darwin/BiSc151/Birds/Birds.HTML
The Varangian Guard: an elite unit of the Byzantine army, featuring Harold Hardrada -www.realmofhistory.com/2016/04/20/10-fascinating-facts-varangian-guard/
Chaser’s War on Everything: an Australian satirical sketch show - www.youtube.com/watch?v=7X3aqifX66E
Kublai Khan’s failed invasions of South East Asia: Genghis’ grandson takes China but fails to take Japan, Java or Vietnam - www.thoughtco.com/the-mongol-invasions-of-japan-195559
Molesworth: books written by Geoffrey Willans and illustrated by Ronald Searle - www.lrb.co.uk/v22/n04/thomas-jones/swete-lavender
Caledonian Orogeny: a geologist’s explanation for the 2014 Scottish referendum - www.geolsoc.org.uk/Plate-Tectonics/Chap4-Plate-Tectonics-of-the-UK/Caledonian-Orogeney

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This week, David Singleton talks to Ivan Wise about six things which he thinks should be better known.

Tardigrades www.bbc.co.uk/earth/story/20150313-the-toughest-animals-on-earth
Fractals https://mathigon.org/world/Fractals
William Shockley www.pbs.org/transistor/album1/shockley/shockley3.html
Strangford Lough www.visitstrangfordlough.co.uk
Kottke.org https://kottke.org/
Super 8 www.straight8.net/

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This week, Jonny Forbes talks to Ivan Wise about six things which he thinks should be better known.

Extreme heavy metal of the past thirty years - an overview of death metal, thrash metal and other key developments: www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2015.00272/full
Benefits to mental health of juggling - throwing balls in the air is good for you in lots of ways: www.jugglingworld.biz/more-juggling-resources/benefits-of-juggling-and-circus-skills/
Slovenia as tourist destination – Ljubljana is just the tip of the iceberg: www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/slovenia/articles/slovenia-attractions/
Medical benefits of psychedelic drugs - David Nutt and the research into how drugs can help those with depression: https://sapiensoup.com/medical-benefits-of-psychedelic-drugs
I’m a Cyborg but that’s OK - South Korean romantic comedy film from the director of the Vengeance trilogy: www.denofgeek.com/movies/6572/eiff-im-a-cyborg-but-thats-ok-review
British invasion in comics - Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman and how superheroes became flawed: www.gizmodo.co.uk/2016/03/how-the-british-invasion-changed-the-world-of-comics/

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This week, Gregory Platten discusses with Ivan Wise six things which he thinks should be better known.

Harris Gin: www.harrisdistillery.com/harris-gin
Still Game: Scottish sitcom - http://www.digitalspy.com/tv/news/a810193/still-game-returns-after-9-years-on-friday-and-its-the-best-sitcom-youve-never-watched-unless-youre-from-scotland/
Life as a vicar: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/3297407/High-pressure-long-hours-and-low-pay-the-life-of-a-vicar-is-no-longer-a-tea-party.html
Chequers: Oxford pub - www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/leisure/food/reviews/10813297.REVIEW__The_ChequersOxfordChequeredhistory/
Nicholas Berdyaev: Russian philosopher - www.chebucto.ns.ca/Philosophy/Sui-Generis/Berdyaev/essays/index.htm
Berwick upon Tweed: most northerly town in England - www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/berwick/berwickupontweed/index.html

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Ivan Wise talks to Edward Cook, Jonny Forbes, Will Ward, Alexis Meech, Rachel Slade, Duncan Baldwin, Katie Kitney, Ezekiel Jacob, Colin Cliff and Rick Miles about one thing which they think should be better known about Christmas.

New Zealand Christmas http://media.newzealand.com/en/story-ideas/kirihimete-new-zealand-christmas-experience/ Krampus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krampus St Nicholas www.whychristmas.com/customs/fatherchristmas.shtml Wassailing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Wassail Cornish Christmas www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/the-19th-century-taming-of-the-christmas-carol-from-st-erth-to-truro Operation Christmas www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHWt_EWWfx0 Elf on a shelf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elf_on_the_Shelf Mithras https://jerome23.wordpress.com/2009/12/22/the-myth-of-the-pagan-christmas-or-why-stephen-fry-was-wrong-on-mythmas/ Christmas roast https://cen.acs.org/articles/90/i40/Maillard-Reaction-Turns-100.html Operation Christmas Child www.samaritans-purse.org.uk/what-we-do/operation-christmas-child/

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This week, Andy Smith discusses with Ivan Wise six things which he thinks should be better known.

Spikeball: a sport with a trampoline-like net. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spikeball

Directors Commentary: a comedy series with Rob Brydon as fictional director Peter de Lane. www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_Df03uATMM

Speed running: the curious art of completing games very quickly and thus removing all enjoyment. https://kotaku.com/how-to-start-speedrunning-video-games-1796984207

Pandemic Legacy: a board game in which players attempt to save the world. https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/161936/pandemic-legacy-season-1

Marmite porridge: Andy Smith’s breakfast. https://madebyluci.co.uk/marmite-porridge/

Marilyn vos Savant: the Monty Hall problem discussed https://priceonomics.com/the-time-everyone-corrected-the-worlds-smartest/

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This week, Matthew Brown discusses with Ivan Wise six things which he thinks should be better known.

The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin: a science-fiction novel and political allegory www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2011/mar/29/hugo-award-ursula-le-guin
Memorial to Thomas Clarkson: a monument in Hertfordshire recognising a prominent opponent to the slave trade http://www.hertsmemories.org.uk/content/herts-history/places/monuments-and-memorials/thundridge-primary-school-and-the-thomas-clarkson-monument
Richard Feynman: a physicist http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2011/07/14/dramatic-picture-richard-feynman/
Whalesong by Sophie Stephenson-Wright: a Poem from the Underground http://commonplaced.blogspot.co.uk/2011/01/whalesong-sophie-stephenson-wright.html
Obscure Christmas music: Backdoor Santa by BB King, Louis Armstrong and more www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3TXwWANFbM
The Secret of Monkey Island: a computer game about pirates http://www.techradar.com/news/gaming/why-the-secret-of-monkey-island-was-the-pc-s-greatest-adventure-1288213

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Katie Kitney discusses with Ivan Wise six things which she thinks should be better known.

Flowers for Algernon: science fiction novel by Daniel Keyes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flowers_for_Algernon Knot Coffee: a cafe chain in London notable for their pretzel range www.knot-pretzels.com Crème de la crème: spin-off of the Great British Bake-Off www.greatbritishchefs.com/features/bake-off-creme-de-la-creme-final Karen Rose: crime mystery writer www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Af4rneywIk Sara Bareilles: American singer-songwriter www.youtube.com/user/SaraBareillesVEVO Taskmaster: Dave TV comedy show hosted by Greg Davies https://dave.uktv.co.uk/shows/taskmaster/

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Tania McCrea Steele discusses with Ivan Wise six things which she thinks should be better known.

The structures of UK governance www.parliament.uk/education/about-your-parliament/how-laws-are-made/ The poaching crisis www.thedodo.com/africas-poaching-crisis-how-do-699797004.html The Asian aspect of World War Two www.thoughtco.com/world-war-ii-in-asia-195787 Andrew Wyeth http://time.com/4840031/andrew-wyeth-at-100-and-the-story-behind-his-most-famous-painting/ The origins of Islamic schism www.newstatesman.com/world/middle-east/2017/08/sunni-vs-shia-roots-islam-s-civil-war Argentina as a tourist destination http://www.touropia.com/tourist-attractions-in-argentina/

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Mona Bani discusses with Ivan Wise her six choices of things which she thinks should be better known:

Political dissidents from the Iranian Revolution www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/libertycentral/2010/dec/17/iran-problem-human-rights-not-nuclear-programme Lilleskoler http://vingelilleskole.dk/uf/110000_119999/119908/1158e31ca22831534d8dca6438457d0f.pdf Deptford Market www.vice.com/en_uk/article/wdzadm/london-deptford-market Taarof www.bbc.com/travel/story/20161104-the-persian-art-of-etiquette Hip Hop Garden http://www.mayproject.org/hip-hop-garden Christiania www.visitcopenhagen.com/copenhagen/culture/alternative-christiania

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Suman Biswas discusses his six choices of things which should be better known.

Oink! www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/19841/1/the-secret-history-of-oink Life in an operating theatre www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/12/secret-life-anaesthetist-surgery-doctor Up to Something www.comedy.co.uk/tv/up_to_something/ Unusual units of measurement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_units_of_measurement Baby names www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/08/07/notes-from-a-baby-names-obsessive Demo versions http://tonedeaf.com.au/14-early-demos-classic-songs/

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Richard Elwes discusses six things with Ivan Wise which he thinks should be better known.

St Wilgefortis http://themedievalworld.blogspot.co.uk/2011/05/bearded-lady-legend-of-saint.html The Machine Stops by EM Forster http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-36289890 The World War One Fractalists http://www.historickilmun.org/stories/lewis-fry-richardson Nudist Colony of the Dead https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsZJOtnspVk Toshiko Akiyoshi https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?cc=mqr;c=mqr;c=mqrarchive;idno=act2080.0043.307;rgn=main;view=text;xc=1;g=mqrg Micromotives and Macrobehaviour https://www.scribd.com/document/361117697/Thomas-Schelling-Micromotives-and-Macrobehavior-pdf

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This week, Alexis Sotiropoulos discussed with Ivan Wise six things which he thinks should be better known.

He discusses Laskarina Bouboulina, the Bakewell pudding, Madeski Martin and Wood, the film Toni Erdmann, the National Quilt Museum and Andreas Georgiou.

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Better Known is a new weekly podcast about six things that should be better known.

You can read more at www.twitter.com/betterknownshow.

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