In GBA 278 we get even better acquainted with my dad. We sit down to talk about his working life making documentary films about the coal mining industry and the communities who provided it their labour, and we do touch on that frequently, but we also end up talking about lots and lots of other things. Threading through the conversation are the changes, both physical and mental, that have happened to my dad over the last few years. He's currently 92 so the underlying themes of the conversation are memory, age and death.
Content Note: Dementia, old age, death, bereavement, assisted suicide, structural oppression
Past dad episodes: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/the-dad-episodes
Dad plugs:
Andre Gorz: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Gorz
Critique of Economic Reason: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Critique-Economic-Reason-Radical-Thinkers/dp/1844676676/
Reclaiming Work: Beyond the Wage-Based Society: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Reclaiming-Work-Beyond-Wage-based-Society/dp/0745621279/
Farewell to the Working Class: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Farewell-Working-Class-Post-Industrial-Socialism/dp/0861043642/
Letter to D: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Letter-D-Andre-Gorz/dp/0745646778/
I plug:
The Family Tree: http://thefamilytreepodcast.co.uk/
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thefamilytreepodcast
We mention:
Thatcher: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher
Wolfgang Suschitzky: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Suschitzky
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/oct/07/wolfgang-suschitzky-obituary
Data Cooperative: http://www.imdb.com/company/co0302636/
BFI: http://www.bfi.org.uk/
Harry Rée: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_R%C3%A9e
My dad and Harry Rée:
http://zlistdeadlist.tumblr.com/post/142372305681/s06e5-the-spys-wife-who-loved-me
Paul Rotha: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Rotha
My dad's first film: Sabotage, 1942 http://player.bfi.org.uk/film/watch-sabotage-1942/
National Coal Board https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Coal_Board
Citizen Kane: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen_Kane
Orson Welles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson_Welles
Apples for Everyone: https://soundcloud.com/applesforeveryone
Spark London: http://stories.co.uk/
Get Carter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_Carter
Eric: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/the-eric-episodes
The Tweet:
Fully Automated Luxury Communism: http://novaramedia.com/2015/06/19/fully-automated-luxury-communism/
Universal Basic Income: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income
Pitman Painters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashington_Group
Lee Hall (is the name we were looking for): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Hall_(playwright)
Patrick Russell's book: https://he.palgrave.com/page/detail/shadows-of-progress-james-taylor/?sf1=barcode&st1=9781844573226
Dads Films/Interviews on dvd:
http://shop.bfi.org.uk/shadows-of-progress-dvd-bluray.html
http://shop.bfi.org.uk/the-national-coal-board-collection-volume-one-dvd-bluray.html
Antony Gormley: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antony_Gormley
Billy Elliot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Elliot
Pride: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pride_(2014_film)
The Spirit of 45: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spirit_of_%2745
The iPhone related mineral is Coltan (not Colbalt):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coltan
The Restart Project: http://therestartproject.org/
Theresa May: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theresa_May
5 Steps to Tyranny: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hteidPuaIdM
Hassan Akkad @ Spark: https://www.acast.com/sparklondon/escape-arefuaidspecial-truestorieslive
Obama: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama
Orgreave: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Orgreave
Hillsborough: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillsborough_disaster
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