Edafe Onerhime discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known.

Edafe Onerhime is a specialist in making an impact with data. Her motto: Data + Design + Culture. She lives in Glasgow with her wife and cat. She works as an Executive Director – Data Architecture Governance Lead at JP Morgan Chase. She believes in opening doors and building longer tables, not walls. She can be found asking questions like: How does data shape and is shaped by our culture and beliefs? How does this affect the data products and technologies that we use every day? Can we decolonise data or is it simply holding up a mirror to our real selves?

1. Africanfuturism https://www.lareviewofbooks.org/article/afrofuturism-africanfuturism-and-the-language-of-black-speculative-literature/

2. Meaning of names https://www.csescienceeditor.org/article/african-names-guide-editors/

3. Associations of the colour red https://study.com/academy/lesson/color-meanings-in-different-cultures.html

4. Short hair https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/58psLDd9GGWf5SQKSLmmdjD/why-is-black-hair-so-political

5. Found family https://www.glaad.org/amp/importance-of-found-families-lgbtq-youth

6. Patterns https://medium.com/patterns-matter/why-patterns-matter-e3abc8794465

For the 200th episode, Anthony Horowitz discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known.

Anthony Horowitz is one of the most prolific and successful writers working in the UK – and is unique for working across so many media. Anthony is a born polymath; juggling writing books, TV series, films, plays and journalism.  Anthony has written over 50 books including the bestselling teen spy series Alex Rider, which is estimated to have sold 21 million copies worldwide.

Anthony is also an acclaimed writer for adults and was commissioned to write two new Sherlock Holmes novels The House of Silk and Moriarty. He was commissioned by the Ian Fleming Estate to write continuation novels for James Bond with Trigger Mortis and Forever and A Day, published in 2015 and 2018 respectively.  A third novel in the series is to be published in 2022.

Anthony’s award-winning novel Magpie Murders was released in October 2016 to critical acclaim and has just been filmed with Lesley Manville in the lead role. The sequel – Moonflower Murders – is optioned to follow. His new series featuring Detective Hawthorne and a sidekick called Anthony Horowitz has three books so far: The Word is Murder, The Sentence is Death and A Line to Kill. Anthony has just started work on a fourth: Close to Death.

Anthony is responsible for creating and writing some of the UK’s most beloved and successful television series including Midsomer Murders and he is the writer and creator of award-winning drama series Foyle’s War, which was the Winner of the Lew Grade Audience award for BAFTA.

1. Paul Spooner https://cabaret.co.uk/artists/paul-spooner/

2. Miliaris Taverna https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g6765453-d6856813-Reviews-Miliaras-Latsida_Lasithi_Prefecture_Crete.html

3. The novels of Ian Fleming https://lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v24/n17/john-lanchester/bond-in-torment

4. Ollantaytambo https://www.lonelyplanet.com/peru/cuzco-and-the-sacred-valley/ollantaytambo

5. Special Operations Executive https://www.nam.ac.uk/explore/SOE#

6. The 5,000 Fingers of Dr T http://www.cineoutsider.com/reviews/bluray/f/5000_fingers_of_dr_t_br.html

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 Cumberbatch and Mandy with Diane Morgan. ‘David Mills is headed for the big time. Most definitely one to watch.’ Time Out

Follow David on Twitter and Instagram @DavidMillsDept 

Check out his regular e-newsletter: QUALITY TIME https://bit.ly/3HWcwuO

1. Goldsmiths’ Fair https://www.goldsmithsfair.co.uk

2. Say Amen Somebody https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/say-amen-somebody-1983

Features Highway To Heaven by The O’Neal Twins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUmSffTrgBY

3. Five Star Billionaire by Tash Aw https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/mar/08/five-star-billionaire-tash-aw-review

4. Train to Busan https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/oct/30/train-to-busan-review-nonstop-thrill-ride-zombies

5. Ain’t Misbehavin’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gE8_MxJCsqg

6. Conspirituality podcast https://conspirituality.net/about/

Economist Tim Harford discusses 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 TED, PopTech and the Sydney Opera House. He is an associate member of Nuffield College, Oxford and an honorary fellow of the Royal Statistical Society. Tim was made an OBE for services to improving economic understanding in the New Year honours of 2019.

1. Bill Phillips https://timharford.com/books/undercovereconomist-strikes-back/

2. In A Silent Way https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/in-a-silent-way-181826/

3. Fermi problems https://www.innovativeteachingideas.com/blog/an-excellent-collection-of-fermi-problems-for-your-class

4. Dragon Warriors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Warriors

5. The versatility of paper https://timharford.com/books/50things/

6. Lyonnesse by Jack Vance http://king-conan-review.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-complete-lyonesse-by-jack-vance.html

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 series. He lives in Surrey with four Burmese cats and an endlessly patient wife.

1. Maggie and Ted https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2021/jun/29/maggie-ted-review-two-tory-prime-ministers-one-long-spat

2. The Yacobean Building by Alaa al Aswany https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/27/books/review/Adams.t.html

3. Wodehouse’s World War Two broadcasts https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v27/n21/fatema-ahmed/no-snarling

4. The Schlumpf Collection https://sportscardigest.com/schlumpf-collection-profile-and-photo-gallery/

5. Montreuil Sur Mer https://www.baldwinstravel.co.uk/blog/a-little-spot-called-montreuil-sur-mer-in-france

6. Classic radio comedy https://www.mislaidcomedyheroes.com/the-wonderful-wit-of-wireless

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 eight years later. Her many stories and novels have drawn critical praise for illuminating the dark interiors of the American home. She lives in New York City. Her latest collection of short stories is Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket.

1. Bharati Mukherjee https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/99/11/07/nnp/mukherjee-middleman.html

2. Stanley Elkin https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/3712/the-art-of-fiction-no-61-stanley-elkin

3. Agha Shahid Ali https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/agha-shahid-ali

4. Mary Lou Williams https://www.npr.org/2019/09/10/749743012/how-mary-lou-williams-shaped-the-sound-of-the-big-band-era

5. Dr Rick Hodes https://rickhodes.org/

6. The Little Fugitive https://www.highonfilms.com/little-fugitive-1953-review/

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 Twitter.

Bubbling under: Giovanni Bottesini’s Elegy no. 1 for Double Bass and Piano
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FN9Kq7OS_-M&list=RDFN9Kq7OS_-M

1. John von Neumann https://www.privatdozent.co/p/the-unparalleled-genius-of-john-von-beb
2. Klara Dan https://eniacinaction.com/
3. The Apu Trilogy https://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/the-miraculous-apu-trilogy
4. Hans Fallada https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v34/n05/philip-oltermann/the-cow-the-shoe-then-you
5. Ursula Le Guin https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2002/09/26/the-queen-of-quinkdom/
6. Epistemology vs ontology http://www.differencebetween.net/science/health/difference-between-ontology-and-epistemology/

 His story Expectancy Theory was published by Nature in 2010.

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 Scorn: The Wittest and Wickedest Insults in Human History.  His autobiography Chance Witness: An Outsider’s Life in Politics won the Orwell Prize. He was an awarded an RSPCA medal for jumping into the River Thames and rescuing a dog.

1. Britain did not win the Second World War https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2019/sep/02/empire-britain-second-world-war-hitler

2. A dessert spoon of vinegar in a glass of cold water https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/health-fitness/health-news/apple-cider-vinegar-the-right-way-and-time-to-drink-it/articleshow/79994734.cms

3. The Boer War was a small British disgrace https://www.nam.ac.uk/explore/boer-war 

4. Calvados https://www.independent.co.uk/extras/indybest/food-drink/spirits/best-calvados-uk-brandy-b1796934.html

5. The English treatment of the Irish https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2019/02/how-britains-dark-history-with-ireland-haunts-brexit

6. How to empty a bottle of ketchup https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2016/12/03/how-to-empty-the-ketchup-bottle-every-time

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 about Italian art, and has curated exhibitions at the Ashmolean on a variety of topics from Brazilian Baroque art to Raphael.  She enjoyed working with artist Jenny Saville on exhibitions in 2015, especially in thinking about the expressive power of drawing. At St John’s College, Catherine has been involved with the artist-in-residence programme since it started in 2000.  She is delighted to have spent most of her career at Britain’s first public museum – the Ashmolean opened in 1683 – which is also a leading University museum with endlessly intriguing collections. 

1. John McCormack singing The Meeting of the Waters www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctIhzYKvVa0

2. Chioggia https://www.italyheaven.co.uk/veneto/chioggia.html

3. Diana Mantuano https://collections.ashmolean.org/collection/search/per_page/25/offset/0/sort_by/relevance/object/179647

4. Remembering Ahanagran: Storytelling in a Family’s Past by Richard White https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=2185

5. Painted foot https://collections.ashmolean.org/collection/search/per_page/25/offset/0/sort_by/relevance/object/126978

6. Aston’s Eyot https://friendsofastonseyot.org/

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 Wars, 2012). He was technology editor at The Guardian from 2005-2014, and before that had roles as the technology and science editor at The Independent from 1995-2013. 

He writes The Overspill, a daily list of links and brief commentary about technology, science and whatever seems interesting (such as the wholesale moving of buildings from one place to another). The daily list is also available as an email. He is on Twitter at @charlesarthur, and The Overspill is @theoverspill. His work at The Guardian is at http://theguardian.com/profile/charlesarthur.

1. Go board game https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(game)

2. Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/karen-thompson-walker/age-of-miracles/

3. Josh Homme’s work as a music producer https://www.soundonsound.com/people/josh-homme

4. DuckDuckGo https://spreadprivacy.com/why-use-duckduckgo-instead-of-google/

5. Whatdotheyknow.com http://www.rtaylor.co.uk/foi-requests-to-central-government-via-whatdotheyknow.html

6. Little Fish https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/what-to-watch/sc-mov-little-fish-review-0203-20210203-wgq6aqhnojbb5kw3byqtstwoky-story.html