Better Known

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...

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-sh...

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,...

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/...

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 c...

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.youtu...

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.johnb...

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-...

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...

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/doroth...

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.guardianrev...

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-h...