Six Things Podcast, Episode 3, with Matt Brown

Six Things Podcast, Episode 4, with Isabel Rogers

Six Things, Episode 4 – Isabel Rogers The Six Things podcast is the audio wing of the Six Things newsletter by Lev Parikian. In the third episode, I talk to Isabel Rogers [https://isabelrogers.org/], poet, novelist, cake-baker, occasional cello-practiser, and nearly full-time coal-tit-whisperer. 2.50 Coal tits 10.10 Victoria Wood 17.35 Gardening 21.00 Theorbos 28.40 Loos In Space 33.25 ORGAN2/ASLSP (As SLow aS Possible) Isabel’s website is here [https://isabelrogers.org/]. Her Stockwell Park Orchestra books are here [https://farragobooks.com/book-series/the-stockwell-park-orchestra-series/]. Her poetry is here [https://isabelrogers.org/poetry/]. The podcast’s music was written and recorded by Oliver Parikian [https://www.instagram.com/oliverparikian/]. Read the Six Things Newsletter [https://levparikian.substack.com/]. Learn all about coal tits here [https://ebird.org/species/coatit2]. See photos of Isabel’s tame coal tits here [https://bsky.app/profile/isabelrogers.bsky.social/post/3m33bx4e7zk22]. If for some reason you’re unfamiliar with the work of Victoria Wood, you could do worse than start with her legendary An Audience With Victoria Wood [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65GCEGNFm_w]. Learn all about the theorbo here [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVabz8LneI4]. Find out how many humans are in space [https://whoisinspace.com/]. Find out how many toilets are in space [https://whoisinspace.com/space-toilets]. Find out more about John Cage’s As SLow aS Possible here [https://universes.art/en/specials/john-cage-organ-project-halberstadt]. Get full access to Six Things at levparikian.substack.com/subscribe [https://levparikian.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

Six Things Podcast, Episode 3, with Matt Brown

Six Things, Episode 3 – Matt Brown The Six Things podcast is the audio wing of the Six Things newsletter by Lev Parikian. In the third episode, I talk to Matt Brown [https://substack.com/@mattlondonexplorer], London explorer and main contributor to Londonist’s excellent Time Machine newsletter [https://londonist.substack.com/], which provides a weekly look at London’s history from unusual angles. 3.50 Tube station smells 8.55 Parakeets 16.45 Wetherspoons carpets 21.50 Wazzbaffles 28.20 Diamond Geezer 31.10 International Space Station Matt is here [https://substack.com/@mattlondonexplorer], and Londonist: Time Machine is here [https://londonist.substack.com/]. Here are some of Matt’s books: The Boroughs of London [https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/The-Boroughs-of-London-by-Mike-Hall-Matt-Brown/9781837330003], Atlas of Imagined Places [https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Atlas-of-Imagined-Places-by-Matt-Brown-Rhys-Davies/9781849946414], and Everything You Know About London Is Wrong [https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/everything-you-know-about-london-is-wrong-matt-brown/3386069?ean=9781849943604&next=t]. The podcast’s music was written and recorded by Oliver Parikian [https://www.instagram.com/oliverparikian/]. Read the Six Things Newsletter [https://levparikian.substack.com/]. This is the original tube station smells map [https://londonist.com/london/maps/tube-station-smells-revealed-on-the-aromatic-tube-map]. Matt is 75% Matt and 25% parakeet [https://londonist.com/london/great-outdoors/london-s-parakeets-everything-you-need-to-know]. Track the spread of parakeets here [https://londonist.com/london/great-outdoors/london-parakeets-location-map-beyond-london]. You should visit Handel House [https://handelhendrix.org/] if you’re in London. There’s a site devoted to the joys of Wetherspoons carpets [https://www.wetherspoonscarpets.co.uk/]. The book is out of print, but there are plenty on eBay [https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_nkw=kit+caless+spoon%27s+carpets&_sacat=0&_from=R40&_trksid=p4624852.m570.l1313]. All you need to know about wazzbaffles [https://londonist.com/london/secret/urine-deflectors]. Diamond Geezer, the Samuel Pepys of our age, blogs here [https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/]. Find out when the ISS passes over your head [https://isstracker.pl/en/satellites/25544/passes?lat=51.4667&lng=-0.1118]. Get full access to Six Things at levparikian.substack.com/subscribe [https://levparikian.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

Six Things Podcast, Episode 2, with Chris Coates

Six Things, Episode 2 – Chris Coates The Six Things podcast is the audio wing of the Six Things newsletter by Lev Parikian. In the second episode, I talk to (in his words) full time social science writer in higher education, part-time idiot, and regular purveyor of niche drivel, Chris Coates. 4.30 Portsmouth Sinfonia 11.50 Japan’s Master of Restoration 18.30 Julian & Sandy 27.00 The Hunt for the Golden Mole 33.00 He Dances For His Cormorants 40.00 Nancy Banks-Smith Chris is on Bluesky [https://bsky.app/profile/oddthisday.bsky.social], Medium [https://mulberryhall.medium.com/], Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/oddthisday?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw==] and Substack [https://oddthisday.substack.com/]. The podcast’s music was written and recorded by Oliver Parikian [https://www.instagram.com/oliverparikian/]. Read the Six Things Newsletter [https://levparikian.substack.com/]. The Portsmouth Sinfonia’s album is on YouTube [https://youtu.be/LsFFvthfEZg?si=nkCF8Rtnuw1Hltx9]. Listen to a Radio 4 documentary [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b013fj17] about them, and watch a short film [https://youtu.be/in0wh_BxYNE?si=yYkKLHVsLCYZlKpd]. Japan’s Master of Restoration is on iPlayer [https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m002gj1k/japans-master-of-restoration]. There’s an hour-long compilation of Julian and Sandy sketches on YouTube [https://youtu.be/5l-3GDwDpPU?si=V9cckEreRDnnTtV3]. You can get The Hunt for the Golden Mole from Waterstones [https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-hunt-for-the-golden-mole/richard-girling/9780099571933]. And read a review here [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jun/22/hunt-for-the-golden-mole-review-richard-girling]. Watch He Dances For His Cormorants [https://youtu.be/l5WBlVXRU0A?si=xB5diDaRI1XaKgYs]. Read the Guardian's 2010 celebration of Nancy Banks-Smith [https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2010/feb/04/nancy-banks-smith-40-years]. And here’s her 2001 piece about how she got into the job [https://www.theguardian.com/media/2001/nov/21/broadcasting.g23]. Get full access to Six Things at levparikian.substack.com/subscribe [https://levparikian.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

Six Things Podcast, Episode 1, with Jo Wyld

Six Things, Episode 1 – Jo Wyld The Six Things podcast is the audio wing of the Six Things newsletter by Lev Parikian. In the first episode, I talk to writer, musician, composer, librettist and adiminstrator Jo Wyld. 4.20 Thing 1 – Carnyx 10.35 Thing 2 – Kohlosseum 14.15 Thing 3 – Midsomer Murders 19.25 Thing 4 – Post Office Tower 25.00 Thing 5 – Digesting Duck 29.25 Thing 6 – Small Local Museums Find Jo on Bluesky [https://bsky.app/profile/joannawyld.bsky.social] or on her website [https://www.notes-upon-notes.com/] The podcast’s music was written and recorded by Oliver Parikian [https://www.instagram.com/oliverparikian/]. Read the Six Things Newsletter [https://levparikian.substack.com/]. Watch the Digging for Britain episode featuring a carnyx [https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002pl59%0A%0A]. Read about the carnyx (and other musical instruments) in Asterix [https://www.acs.psu.edu/drussell/Asterix/03-Carnyx.html]. Visit the Kohlosseum [https://www.kohlosseum.de/]. If you don’t know about Midsomer Murders, learn all about it here [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midsomer_Murders]. Matt Brown’s fact-filled guide to the Post Office Tower at Londonist [https://londonist.com/london/history/a-brief-history-of-the-bt-tower]. The Digesting Duck Automaton [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digesting_Duck]. Bach’s [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Musical_Offering]Musical Offering [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Musical_Offering]. Thame Museum [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thame_Museum]. Petersfield Museum [https://www.petersfieldmuseum.co.uk/]. Get full access to Six Things at levparikian.substack.com/subscribe [https://levparikian.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]