{"id":1812,"date":"2018-12-03T15:31:34","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T15:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/?p=1812"},"modified":"2018-12-03T15:31:34","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T15:31:34","slug":"nostalgia-podcast-with-will-wollen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2018\/12\/03\/nostalgia-podcast-with-will-wollen\/","title":{"rendered":"Nostalgia podcast with Will Wollen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/people\/academic-staff\/wollen.html\">Will Wollen<\/a>, Senior Lecturer in Drama in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/index.html\">School of Arts<\/a>, is the subject of a new podcast on \u2018Nostalgia\u2019, as part of an ongoing project by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/thrs\/staff\/deacy.html\">Dr Chris Deacy<\/a> in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/thrs\/index.html\">Department of Religious Studies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the interview, Will reminisces about his early life. He was born in Kent although grew up in Dorset; his parents had spent many years living in Kenya, where his older sisters were born. At University, Will studied French and Philosophy and we learn how he got into acting through the Theatre Society at the University of Leeds. We also discuss the perils of what happens when an actor falls ill.<\/p>\n<p>Will explains how he came to the University of Kent and we discuss teaching dynamics, how to engage with students and what happens when we don\u2019t always know our material.<\/p>\n<p>Will has always been a big Radio 4 listener and we learn why he is nostalgic about radio and values the BBC.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the interview, Will explains why his memories are predominantly positive and we learn why he has trained himself to listen to the gut and not just the head, and Will gives an unexpected answer to the question of whether he considers himself to be a \u2018looking back\u2019 or a \u2018looking forward\u2019 kind of person.<\/p>\n<p>To listen to the podcast, please see the page here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/audioboom.com\/posts\/7104651-will-wollen\">https:\/\/audioboom.com\/posts\/7104651-will-wollen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will Wollen, Senior Lecturer in Drama in the School of Arts, is the subject of a new podcast on \u2018Nostalgia\u2019, as part of an ongoing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2018\/12\/03\/nostalgia-podcast-with-will-wollen\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2458,"featured_media":1814,"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\/1812"}],"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=1812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1813,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812\/revisions\/1813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}