Getting Better Acquainted

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A weekly podcast: Join Dave Pickering on his journey to get better acquainted with the people he knows. Part interview show, part oral history project and part autobiography through conversation. British Podcast Award 2017 winner (bronze in Best Interview category)GBA was nominated for a 2012 Radio Production Award, aired for 3 seasons on Resonance 104.4 FM and was featured on BBC Radio 4's In Pod We Trust, BBC Radio 5 Live’s Helen and Olly's Required Listening and has been recommended by The Guardian, Time Out and the Financial Times

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GBA 3 Dad #1 01.06.2011 55:48

In GBA #3 we get better acquainted withmy father (for the first time). He tells the story of his service in the army during World War II. Sometimes a conversation is the closest you can get to a time machine. This conversation was recorded in a location that technically belongs to know country. What it lacks in sound quality it hopefully makes up in atmosphere. Find my dad's writing here: http://s...

GBA 2 Elspeth 25.05.2011 1:05:04

In episode GBA #2 we get better acquainted with Elspeth who talks about religion, feminism and sudden death. (This episode isn't explicit. I am looking in to making it so I can tag episodes individually with clean/explicit tags) Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review? Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook...

GBA Teaser 07.05.2011 16:22

While we wait for iTunes to process the GBA feed request here is a podcast featuring teaser clips of what is to come. Starting on Wednesday 18th May weekly episodes of Getting Better Acquainted will start. Each week Dave will talk to a different acquaintance. Join him on his journey to get to know people better and to get better at getting to know people. Thanks to Abdel, Aisha, Beau, Clive, Chris...

GBA Advert 07.05.2011 3:31

An advert for Getting Better Acquainted the new podcast show from Dave Pickering set to begin on 18/05/2011 GBA will be a weekly podcast: Join Dave on his journey to get better acquainted with the people he knows. There are lots of shows about famous people. This is a show about the rest of us.