{"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":"Ian Green","slug":"ian-green","published_at":"2026-08-09T20:53:25+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/better-known-789694/ian-green","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/better-known-789694","url":"https://better-known.zencast.website/episodes/ian-green","audio_url":"https://media.zencast.fm/better-known/f93247ab-b444-40ca-9e5f-646b1be301e9.mp3?source=feed","summary":"Ian Green discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known. Ian Green is a writer from Northern Scotland with a PhD in epigenetics. His debut fantasy trilogy The Rotstorm began with the Sunday Times bestseller The Gauntlet and the First Beneath. His short fiction has been widely published and he won the BBC Radio 4 Opening Lines competition, the Futurebook Future Fiction Prize, and was shortlisted for Best Newcomer at the British Fantasy Awards. His biopunk eco-terrorism thriller Extremophile was one of Financial Times’ Best Science Fiction Books of 2024 and was shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award and Dragon Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. His swashbuckling new book The Deep and the Drowned is out now from Head of Zeus. The British Fantasy Society https://britishfantasysociety.org/ The Last Blade Priest by W.P. Wiles https://www.grimdarkmagazine.com/review-the-last-blade-priest-by-w-p-wiles/ The Gormenghast books by Mervyn Peake https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/titus-alone-peake-gormenghast-trilogy-review-essay/ How much fun having kids is https://ifstudies.org/blog/why-bother-having-kids Historic European Martial Arts (HEMA) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=763THsqZ_ng Nature immersion https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/insight-therapy/202606/seeing-green-nature-immersion-has-its-benefits This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm","meta_description":"Ian Green discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known. Ian Green is a writer from Northern Scotland with a PhD in epigenetics. His debut f…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1770,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/better-known-789694/episodes/ian-green/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/ian-green.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}