Better Known

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.c...

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...

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/conten...

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...

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/document...

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...

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.chica...

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-ang...

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-thr...

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 deser...

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/fea...

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-inte...

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...

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...

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-r...

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.b...

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 Daught...

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/...

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 Jurit...

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/fa...

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...

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...

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-Cra...

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 histo...

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...