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b"In GBA 64 we get better acquainted with Coventry:\\n\\nIt's an epic document of my return to a city I hadn't been back to in 12 years. I lived there through some dark and strange times 17 years ago.\\n\\nIn the show I really do get better acquainted with the city. I get to know its character. With my childhood friend Steve as my co-host I take you around Coventry's Cathedrals and shopping centres and we cover how the city was changed forever by the blitz. \\n\\nhttp://www.coventrycathedral.org.uk/\\n\\nThen we journey back into my past, returning to the estates that I lived in as a child and the schools that we both attended together, through a barrage of memory and new perspectives. \\n\\nSteve mounts an inspiring defence of the city he has lived his whole life in and tells us why he loves the city so deeply. \\n\\nI take a long hard look at my past, re-evaluate my relationship to it, reconsider who I am, and get to know a different city to the one I left. Or is the city the same and it's me who has changed? Have I really changed at all?\\n\\nEither way come and join me as I make my peace with Coventry.\\n\\nAs a prelude to this episode I released Steve\\u2019s GBA earlier this week: http://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-63-steve\\n\\nBoth episodes are about that strange time of life: late childhood. The years before you are fully teen but when you are no longer a toddler. \\n\\nThey are also about re-establishing and developing friendship. A friendship where we knew each other before we were fully formed. \\n\\nThey are about the danger and the magic of being a child. And that strange nostalgic emotion that comes when you try and look back.\\n\\nOther good \\u201cextra listening\\u201d that compliments this episode are:\\n\\nEpisode 1 of GBA where I tell at least 3 stories set in Coventry during this time: http://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-1-dave\\n\\nOne of which is this http://www.sparklondon.com story which we talk about extensively at the end of the Coventry Special: http://www.mixcloud.com/sparklondon/two-cathedrals-david-pickering/\\n\\nAnd George\\u2019s GBA is given a brief mention too: http://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-6-george\\n\\nYou can hear Getting Better Acquainted on Stitcher SmartRadio, Stitcher allows you to listen to your favourite shows directly from your iPhone, Android Phone, Kindle Fire and beyond.\\n\\nOn-demand and on the go!\\n\\nDon\\u2019t have Stitcher? Download it for free today at http://www.stitcher.com or in the app stores.\\n\\nHelp more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review?\\n\\nFollow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word!"