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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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29:47

Terence Blacker

Better Known ·

2021/03/14

Terence Blacker discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known. Terence Blacker is a songwriter, singer and author who has sung and read at festivals, clubs and theatres in the UK, Europe and America. He was already an established author when he started writing and performing his songs in 2009. His musical storytelling – offbeat, funny songs capturing the lives of modern-day misfits and outsiders – quickly found a following at folk clubs and festivals. His books include The

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29:50

Will Hutton

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2021/03/07

Will Hutton discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known. Will Hutton is co-chair of The Purposeful Company. He was Principal of Hertford College, University of Oxford from 2011 to 2020, and Chair of the Big Innovation Centre, an initiative from the Work Foundation. He was chief executive of the Work Foundation from 2000 to 2008. He was formerly editor-in-chief for The Observer. American football

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29:39

Deborah Moggach

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2021/02/28

Writer Deborah Moggach discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known. Deborah Moggach has written 21 novels, including Tulip Fever and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, both of which were made into movies. She has adapted many of my own and others' work, including the BAFTA-nominated Pride and Prejudice, starring Keira Knightley, and The Diary of Anne Frank. Her latest novel is The Carer, out in paperback, and her new novel, The Black Dress, will be published in July. The Goodwin Sands

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29:27

Meg Van Deusen

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2021/02/21

Dr Meg Van Deusen discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known. Meg Van Deusen, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist and mindfulness practitioner in private practice since 1994. In a time of great stress and disconnection in the US she offers insights and solutions to help readers reconnect and live healthier lives. Dr Van Deusen lives in Seattle, Washington where she enjoys the outdoors, cooking and time with her husband, sons and friends. Her latest book is Stressed in the U.S.:

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29:51

Leo McKinstry

Better Known ·

2021/02/14

Leo McKinstry discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known. Leo McKinstry is a journalist and author. His books include Boycs: The True Story (2000), Rosebery: Statesman in Turmoil (2005) and Attlee and Churchill: Allies in War, Adversaries in Peace (2020). The novels of Patrick Hamilton

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30:06

Helen Lewis

Better Known ·

2021/02/07

Helen Lewis discusses with Ivan six things which she thinks should be better known. Helen Lewis is a British journalist who works as a Staff Writer at the Atlantic magazine, based in London. She hosts the longform interview series The Spark on BBC Radio 4, and her history of feminism, Difficult Women, was published in February 2020. Read more about Helen at https://helenlewiswrites.com/. The Modesty Blaise novels https://www.theguardian.com/books/2004/sep/19/crimebooks.features Barbara Castle

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28:58

Tim Tate

Better Known ·

2021/01/31

Tim Tate discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known. Tim Tate is a multi-award winning documentary film-maker, investigative journalist and best-selling author. Over a career spanning almost 40 years he has written for most national newspapers and made more than 80 documentaries for British and international broadcasters. His films have been honoured by Amnesty International, the Royal Television Society, UNESCO, the International Documentary Association, the Association

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30:06

Simon Winchester

Better Known ·

2021/01/24

Author Simon Winchester discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known. Simon Winchester is the acclaimed author of many books, including The Professor and the Madman, The Men Who United the States, The Map That Changed the World, The Man Who Loved China, A Crack in the Edge of the World, and Krakatoa, all of which were New York Times bestsellers and appeared on numerous best and notable lists. In 2006, Winchester was made an officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) by

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28:53

Barbara Scully

Better Known ·

2021/01/17

Barbara Scully discusses with Ivan six things which she thinks should be better known. Barbara Scully is a freelance writer, columnist and broadcaster – her fifth career to date. She is frequently published in the national press and is a familiar voice on the airwaves – both on TV and radio. Her writing appears most often in the Irish Independent, but she has been published in all the national newspapers and most Irish magazines. Barbara has a weekly slot on the Moncrieff Show on Newstalk, an

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29:48

Jim Al-Khalili

Better Known ·

2021/01/10

Jim Al-Khalili discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known. Jim Al-Khalili OBE FRS is a theoretical physicist at the University of Surrey where he holds a Distinguished Chair in physics as well as a university chair in the public engagement in science. He received his PhD in nuclear reaction theory in 1989 and has published widely in the field. His current interest is in open quantum systems and the application of quantum mechanics in biology. Jim is a prominent author and

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28:50

Alex Christofi

Better Known ·

2021/01/03

Alex Christofi discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known. Alex Christofi is Editorial Director at Transworld Publishers and the author of the novels Let Us Be True and Glass, winner of the Betty Trask Prize for fiction. He has written for numerous publications including the Guardian, the London Magazine and The White Review. Dostoevsky in Love is his first work of non-fiction. You can buy the book at https://linktr.ee/dostoevsky Redding Hunter

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29:54

Anjula Mutanda

Better Known ·

2020/12/27

Anjuna Mutanda discusses with Ivan six things which she thinks should be better known. Anjula is a highly respected relationship and clinical therapist, mental health expert, psychologist, presenter, author, social scientist, and media consultant. Most recently, Anjula presented Sextape, a major four-part relationship series on Channel 4. Anjula was the behavioural expert on season 2 of Make or Break (My5 April 2019). She was the resident psychologist on 50 Ways to Kill your Lover. She makes regular

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28:31

Alice Clark-Platts

Better Known ·

2020/12/20

Novelist Alice Clark-Platts discusses with Ivan six things which she thinks should be better known. Alice Clark-Platts is the author of the best-selling The Flower Girls, published by Bloomsbury Raven in 2019. Her crime novels Bitter Fruits and The Taken are published by Penguin Random House. The Taken was also shortlisted for the Dead Good Reader Awards for Best Police Procedural. Alice’s short fiction has been published in numerous works. She is the founder of the Singapore Writers’ Group. Alice

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29:57

Richard Bradford

Better Known ·

2020/12/13

Richard Bradford discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known. Richard Bradford is Professor of English and Senior Distinguished Research Fellow at Ulster University. He is the author of six highly acclaimed literary biographies The Life of a Long-Distance Writer: A Biography of Alan Sillitoe, First Boredom, Then Fear: The Life of Philip Larkin and Lucky Him: The Life of Kingsley Amis, Martin Amis: The Biography, The Man Who Wasn’t there: A Life of Ernest Hemingway and

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29:55

Guy Leschziner

Better Known ·

2020/12/06

Guy Leschziner discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known. Guy Leschziner is a consultant neurologist and sleep physician, broadcaster and author. He heads the Sleep Disorders Centre at Guy's Hospital, one of Europe's largest and busiest clinical sleep services. He is presenter of Mysteries of Sleep and The Compass: The Senses on BBC World Service and Radio 4, and is author of "The Nocturnal Brain: Nightmares, Neuroscience and the Secret World of Sleep" (Simon and

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30:03

Eleanor Fitzsimons

Better Known ·

2020/11/29

Eleanor Fitzsimons discusses with Ivan six things which she thinks should be better known. Eleanor Fitzsimons is a writer and researcher who lives in Dublin. She is the author of Wilde’s Women (Duckworth, 2015), which won the silver medal in the Biography category of the 2018 Independent Publisher (IPPY) Awards. She is an honorary patron of the Oscar Wilde Society and a member of the editorial board of society journal The Wildean. Her second book, The Life and Loves of E. Nesbit (Duckworth, 2019),

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29:02

Alex Wheatle

Better Known ·

2020/11/22

Novelist Alex Wheatle discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known. Alex Wheatle was born in London of Jamaican parents. His first book, Brixton Rock (1999), tells the story of a 16-year old boy of mixed race, in 1980s Brixton. His most recent novels, Liccle Bit (2015), Crongton Knights (2016) - winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize - and Straight Outta Crongton (2017), are novels for young adult readers, focusing on the lives of teenagers and families on the

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29:13

Tom Chivers

Better Known ·

2020/11/15

Science writer Tom Chivers discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known. Tom Chivers is science editor at UnHerd.com. His second book, How To Read Numbers: A Guide to Statistics in the News (and Knowing When to Trust Them), will be published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in March 2021. He is a two-time winner of the Royal Statistical Society's Statistical Excellence in Journalism award, and was once told by Terry Pratchett that he was "far too nice to be a

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26:35

Emma Bridgewater

Better Known ·

2020/11/08

Emma Bridgewater discusses with Ivan six things which she thinks should be better known. Emma Bridgewater grew up in Oxford, the eldest of a large family. After studying English at London University, she joined a small knitwear firm, but soon realised that what she really wanted to do was start her own company. Her ‘eureka moment’ came in 1985, when she was searching for a pretty cup and saucer for her mother’s birthday. Discovering that everything in the shops was either delicate and formal, or

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28:27

Andrew Lownie

Better Known ·

2020/11/01

Andrew Lownie discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known. Andrew Lownie was educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he was Dunster History Prizeman and President of the Union, before taking his Master’s and doctorate at Edinburgh University. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, he later returned to Cambridge as a visiting fellow at Churchill College. He has been a bookseller, publisher and journalist, writing for the Times, Telegraph, Wall Street Journal ,

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