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Apr 29, 2015 57 min

GBA 206 Dawn Foster

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In GBA 206 we get better acquainted with Dawn Foster. She talks journalism, class, the housing crisis, the cuts, the election, writing a blog about receiving street harassment when cycling, the way that the media presents poverty and so much more. Dawn plugs: Her book "Lean Out" that is coming in November. You can find her here: https://twitter.com/DawnHFoster We mention: Focus e15: http://focuse15.org/ The Story: http://thestory.org.uk/ Laurie Penny: http://laurie-penny.com/ Alice Bell: https://alicerosebell.wordpress.com/about/ Juliet Jacques: http://julietjacques.com/ Geek Showoff: http://www.scienceshowoff.org/ Dawn at Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/profile/dawn-foster Inside Housing Magazine: http://www.insidehousing.co.uk/ Sky News: http://news.sky.com/ Tories: https://www.conservatives.com/Together.aspx Labour: http://www.labour.org.uk/ Greens: https://www.greenparty.org.uk/ Lib Dems: http://www.libdems.org.uk/ Nick Clegg: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Clegg Nikki Morgan: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicky_Morgan_%28politician%29 Human Geography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_geography Coventry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coventry Leamington Spa: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Leamington_Spa Kenilworth: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenilworth Question Time: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006t1q9 Rover: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rover_Company Lehman Brothers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lehman_Brothers Northern Rock: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Rock Mary Poppins: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Poppins_%28film%29 Everyday Sexism: http://everydaysexism.com/ Arts Emergency: http://www.arts-emergency.org/ NEET: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEET David Blunkett: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Blunkett Keynes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Maynard_Keynes Benefits Street: http://www.channel4.com/programmes/benefits-street Tatler Documentary: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04q0wwg John Major: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Major Road to Wigan Pier: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_to_Wigan_Pier North and South: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_and_South_%28Gaskell_novel%29 Iraq War: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War Lean In: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_In Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word!

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