Better Known

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/ This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

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 This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

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/ This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

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 This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm