Better Known

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/ This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

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 This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

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 This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

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 This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

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/ This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

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 This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

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

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