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Better Known

Each week, a guest makes a series of recommendations of things which they think should be better known. Our recommendations include interesting people, places, objects, stories, experiences and ideas which our guest feels haven"t had the exposure that they deserve.

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David Mills

Better Known ·

2021/12/12

Comedian David Mills discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known. Award-winning comic David Mills is known for his sharp and hilarious take on contemporary culture and politics. His signature razor wit has been seen onstage in New York, LA, San Francisco, London and across the UK. He has opened for comedy icons Margaret Cho, Scott Capurro and Ed Byrne. As an actor, he appeared in Florence Foster Jenkins with Meryl Streep and Hugh Grant, Patrick Melrose with Benedict

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29:24

Tim Harford

Better Known ·

2021/12/05

Economist Tim Harford discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known. Tim Harford is an economist, journalist and broadcaster. He is author of How To Make the World Add Up, The Data Detective, Messy, and the million-selling The Undercover Economist. Tim is a senior columnist at the Financial Times, and the presenter of BBC Radio’s More or Less, How To Vaccinate The World, and Fifty Things That Made the Modern Economy, as well as the podcast Cautionary Tales. Tim has spoken at

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30:01

Jon Glover

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2021/11/28

Actor and impressionist Jon Glover discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known. Jon Glover most recently appeared in the play Maggie and Ted, written by Michael McManus, about Ted Heath and Margaret Thatcher, providing forty voices, including Michael Heseltine, who attended one of the performances. He was previously a presenter on Playschool, impressionist on Radio 4’s Weekending and ITV’s Spitting Image, and portrayed Mr Cholmondeley Warner on Harry Enfield’s television

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28:55

Hilma Wolitzer

Better Known ·

2021/11/21

Hilma Wolitzer discusses with Ivan six things which she thinks should be better known. Hilma Wolitzer is a recipient of Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, and a Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award. She has taught at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, New York University, Columbia University, and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Her first published story appeared when she was thirty-six, and her first novel

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30:18

Ananyo Bhattacharya

Better Known ·

2021/11/14

Ananyo Bhattacharya discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known. Ananyo Bhattacharya is a science writer who has worked at the Economist and Nature. Before journalism, he was a medical researcher at the Burnham Institute in San Diego, California. He holds a degree in physics from the University of Oxford and a PhD in protein crystallography from Imperial College London. His new book is a biography of John von Neumann, The Man from the Future. You can follow him on

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29:24

Matthew Parris

Better Known ·

2021/11/07

Matthew Parris discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known. Matthew Parris is a columnist for The Times and presents Great Lives on BBC Radio Four. He was a Conservative MP from 1979 to 1986 and was a Parliamentary Sketchwriter for the Times for nearly fourteen years. He has been Columnist of the year at the British Press Awards. His books include Fracture: Stories of how great lives take root in trauma, which discusses geniuses who have suffered childhood trauma, and

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29:06

Catherine Whistler

Better Known ·

2021/10/31

Professor Catherine Whistler discusses with Ivan six things which she thinks should be better known. An art historian and curator, Catherine Whistler is Keeper of Western Art at the Ashmolean Museum, Fellow of St John’s College, and a Professor of the History of European Art, University of Oxford. Born in Dublin, where she studied History of Art at UCD, she maintains strong links with Ireland and with Italy - especially Venice where she lived in the early 1980s. She has researched and written

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29:42

Charles Arthur

Better Known ·

2021/10/24

Technology writer Charles Arthur discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known. Charles Arthur's latest book, his third, is Social Warming, which looks at how and why social media has such a dramatically polarising effect on politics, journalism and societies around the world, even in countries where usage is low. His previous two books were on hacking (Cyber Wars, 2016) and the three-way tussle between Apple, Google and Microsoft in search, music and smartphones (Digital

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27:39

Paul Willetts

Better Known ·

2021/10/17

Paul Willetts discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known. Paul Willetts is the author of five much-praised nonfiction books: Fear and Loathing in Fitzrovia; North Soho 999; Members Only; Rendezvous at the Russian Tea Rooms; and King Con. The third of these was turned into a big-budget British movie. Entitled The Look of Love (2013), it starred Steve Coogan, who described Members Only as “a thoroughly entertaining story, told by a writer with a vivid and amusing turn of

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29:37

Barb Jungr

Better Known ·

2021/10/10

Musician Barb Jungr discusses with Ivan six things which she thinks should be better known. Barb Jungr is an award-winning international performer, recording artist and writer. She is best known for her interpretations and recordings of Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen and Jacques Brel. With performances across four continents and fifteen solo album recordings she appeared on Talking Bob Dylan Blues: A Tribute to Bob Dylan for BBC TV and has appeared on programmes about Dylan’s work and on singing Dylan and

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29:24

Alexandra Pringle

Better Known ·

2021/10/03

Alexandra Pringle discusses with Ivan six things which she thinks should be better known. Alexandra Pringle was Editor-in-Chief of Bloomsbury Publishing for 20 years and she is now Executive Publisher. Her authors include Margaret Atwood, Richard Ford, Esther Freud, Elizabeth Gilbert, Khaled Hosseini, Jhumpa Lahiri, Colum McCann, Ann Patchett, George Saunders, Kamila Shamsie, Patti Smith and Barbara Trapido. She is a Patron of Index on Censorship, a Trustee of the charity Reprieve, and an Honorary

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28:17

Rory Cellan-Jones

Better Known ·

2021/09/26

BBC technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known. Rory Cellan-Jones has been a reporter for the BBC for thirty years, covering business and technology stories for much of that time. He joined the BBC as a researcher on Look North in 1981, moving to London to work as a producer in the TV Newsroom and on Newsnight. At the beginning of 2007, he was appointed Technology Correspondent with a brief to expand the BBC’s coverage of the

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28:16

James Plunkett

Better Known ·

2021/09/19

James Plunkett discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known. James Plunkett has spent his career thinking laterally about the complicated relationships between individuals and the state. First as an advisor to Gordon Brown, then a leading economic researcher and writer, and then in the charity sector, helping people struggling at the front-line of economic change. James combines a deep understanding of social issues with an appreciation of how change is playing out not in

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30:22

Kehinde Andrews

Better Known ·

2021/09/12

Kehinde Andrews discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known. Kehinde Andrews is Professor of Black Studies at Birmingham City University. Kehinde is an academic, activist and author whose books include The New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World (2021), Back to Black: Retelling Black Radicalism for the 21st Century (2018) and Resisting Racism: Race, Inequality and the Black Supplementary School Movement (2013). Kehinde is founder of the Harambee

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29:42

Kerry Shale

Better Known ·

2021/09/05

Kerry Shale discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known. Kerry Shale’s theatre appearances include Frost/Nixon, His Girl Friday, The Normal Heart and six self-written solo shows. Television work includes The Sandman (Netflix: 2022), Dr. Who and The Trip. Films include Angel Has Fallen, Little Shop of Horrors and Yentl. For BBC radio, he has recently read Jack London’s Call of the Wild and White Fang and has won three Sony Awards for acting and writing. He co-hosts Is It

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29:52

Rosita Boland

Better Known ·

2021/08/29

Rosita Boland discusses with Ivan six things which she thinks should be better known. Rosita Boland was born in County Clare in 1965 and lives in Dublin where she is Senior Features Writer at the Irish Times. She has published two collections of poems, Muscle Creek and Dissecting the Heart. She has travelled extensively, most recently in South East Asia and her travel books include Sea Legs: Hitch-hiking the Coast of Ireland Alone (1992), A Secret Map of Ireland (2005), Elsewhere: One Woman, One

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29:29

David Benedict

Better Known ·

2021/08/21

David Benedict discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known. David Benedict is a culture critic and broadcaster. He read drama at Hull University, spent ten years as an actor, singer and director and was artistic director of the U.K.’s national lesbian and gay theatre company, Gay Sweatshop. He joined The Independent in 1993, becoming a daily arts columnist and associate editor. The former arts editor of The Observer, he is the London critic of Variety and a weekly columnist

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29:32

Beaty Rubens

Better Known ·

2021/08/15

Beaty Rubens discusses with Ivan six things which she thinks should be better known. A BBC Radio producer for 35 years, Beaty Rubens has collaborated with some of the great names in broadcasting, the arts and academia. Her many documentaries have focussed on the arts, history and the lives of women and children. Some high-points include working with Lyse Doucet, Katya Adler and James Naughtie, Professor Mary Beard, Professor Emma Smith and Professor Thomas Dixon, dancers Akram Khan and Marianela

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28:33

Alexei Sayle

Better Known ·

2021/08/08

Alexei Sayle discusses with Ivan both things which he thinks should be better known and a number of things which he thinks are terrible. Alexei Sayle is a comedian and writer. He was the original MC of the Comedy Store in London when it opened in 1979 and was a central part of the alternative comedy circuit in the early 1980s. He is best known for his performances in the BBC TV programmes The Young Ones, The Comic Strip and Alexei Sayle’s Stuff. He has written three novels and two volumes of

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29:21

Francis Spufford

Better Known ·

2021/08/01

Author Francis Spufford discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known. Francis Spufford’s novel Light Perpetual has been longlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize. His first novel Golden Hill was published in 2016 and won the Costa First Novel Award.He is the author of five celebrated books of non-fiction. The most recent, Unapologetic, has been translated into three languages; the one before, Red Plenty, into nine. In 2007 he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature

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