{"id":1743,"date":"2018-11-09T16:19:36","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T16:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/?p=1743"},"modified":"2018-11-22T18:34:32","modified_gmt":"2018-11-22T18:34:32","slug":"podcast-recalls-comedian-felix-dexter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2018\/11\/09\/podcast-recalls-comedian-felix-dexter\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast recalls comedian Felix Dexter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/people\/academic-staff\/double.html\">Dr Oliver Double<\/a>, Reader in Drama within the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/index.html\">School of Arts<\/a> and Head of the Performance and Theatre Research Cluster, has just released the latest episode of the podcast series &#8216;A History of Comedy in Several Objects&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>In the podcast series, Olly examines objects from Kent&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/about\/\">British Stand-Up Comedy Archive<\/a> alongside Project Archivist Elspeth Millar.<\/p>\n<p>In the latest instalment, the item from the archive is an audio interview with Felix Dexter (1961-2013), a Caribbean-born British comedian and writer known for his contributions to the BBC\u2019s <em>The Fast Show<\/em> and <em>Citizen Khan<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The interview was conducted by Olly himself, while undertaking his own PhD research about the history of British stand-up. \u2018I went to see him in a student bar at the University of Sheffield\u2019, recalls Olly. \u2018The thing I remember about his performance was that there was a really eggy moment right at the beginning, but the gig was all the more enjoyable in that it rescued from a misstep early on.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Olly was able to record an interview with Dexter on cassette after the gig. \u2018Considering it\u2019s about 28 years old, it\u2019s really good quality.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The episode also explores the history of Black British comedians.<\/p>\n<p>The podcast is free to download and is available here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.acast.com\/ahistoryofcomedypodcast\/episode-33-felix-dexter-interview-1990\">www.acast.com\/ahistoryofcomedypodcast\/episode-33-felix-dexter-interview-1990<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Oliver Double, Reader in Drama within the School of Arts and Head of the Performance and Theatre Research Cluster, has just released the latest &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2018\/11\/09\/podcast-recalls-comedian-felix-dexter\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2458,"featured_media":1674,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[50018,124,9111],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1743"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1780,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743\/revisions\/1780"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}