{"podcast":{"title":"Better Known","slug":"better-known-789694","podcast_index_feed_id":789694,"rss_url":"https://media.zencast.fm/better-known/rss","website_url":"https://better-known.zencast.website","image_url":"https://podcdn.zencast.fm/download/Podcast%2Fartworks%2F1493%2Flarge%2Fb3396bcb59674d33f54fa27c6d3855f647834cfcb75b4cb98f2d279c053e83ea%2Fbetter%2520known.png","author":"Ivan Wise","episode_count":446,"summary":"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.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-13T18:20:27.658617+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/better-known-789694"},"episode":{"title":"Adam Steiner","slug":"adam-steiner","published_at":"2026-02-15T19:39:02+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/better-known-789694/adam-steiner","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/better-known-789694","url":"https://better-known.zencast.website/episodes/adam-steiner","audio_url":"https://media.zencast.fm/better-known/35ec4bf2-beef-4445-8829-cc9a94aff7a2.mp3?source=feed","summary":"Adam Steiner discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known. Adam Steiner is a swim-teacher, freelance journalist and author. When not saving lives he sits dreaming about all the books he will never write. He has written several books of music criticism: Into The Never: Nine Inch Nails And The Creation Of The Downward Spiral, Silhouettes And Shadows: The Secret History of David Bowie’s Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) and Darker With The Dawn: Nick Cave's Songs Of Love And Death. He runs the Disappear Here poetry film project – 27 x collaborative poetry-films about Coventry Ringroad – and now curates the Living With Buildings poetry film series, screening experimental films about people, poetry and place. For more information, go to https://adamsteiner.uk/ . Being There, Jerzy Kozinski: movie and book – so this is a great example of late/last great art - Peter Sellers was very attached to the story and was determined to make the movie, so he had do more pink panthers for the studio to back him. Lifeguards / Swim Teachers - under-appreciated, under-sexed, underpaid its one of the hardest jobs out there - sitting in a chair dreaming, not doing anything, but people always take it for granted. 40 - So we're always told that 40 is the new 30 etc - but it's a dangerous, difficult age. When Biographies Become Biopics: Will Self said writers reading biographies of other writers is basically lit-porn – so we get caught up in a life narrative that often informs the work but steers us away from the original. Real Dictators podcast - This is my go to 'easy' listening podcast, particularly when really ill I can just leave it on in the background and absorb. Charity shops... the ultimate form of social progression. In London charity shops are a mecca for the undiscerni…","meta_description":"Adam Steiner discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known. Adam Steiner is a swim-teacher, freelance journalist and author. When not saving…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1695,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/better-known-789694/episodes/adam-steiner/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/better-known-789694/adam-steiner.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}