{"id":1820,"date":"2018-12-10T16:53:32","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T16:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/?p=1820"},"modified":"2019-05-22T14:12:06","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T13:12:06","slug":"podcast-explores-peter-grahames-diary-1986","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2018\/12\/10\/podcast-explores-peter-grahames-diary-1986\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast explores Peter Grahame\u2019s diary, 1986"},"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 \u2018Peter Grahame&#8217;s Diary\u2019 from 1986. Peter founded the comedy club<a href=\"http:\/\/www.downstairsatthekingshead.com\/\"> Downstairs at the King\u2019s Head<\/a> with Huw Thomas in 1981.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I think it has a good claim to be Britain\u2019s oldest comedy club,\u2019 explains Olly, \u2018the Comedy Store opened in 1979 but that\u2019s been in three different venues, but Downstairs at the King\u2019s Head &#8211; as the name would suggest &#8211; has always been downstairs at the King\u2019s Head.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The diary contains details of the club\u2019s bookings. In the course examining the object, Olly and Elspeth also discuss the wider context of the comedians and comedy scene of the 1980s, and interview Peter himself to hear about his unique outlook on the industry and how it is changing.<\/p>\n<p>The podcast is free to download and is available here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.acast.com\/ahistoryofcomedypodcast\/episode-34-peter-grahames-diary-1986\">www.acast.com\/ahistoryofcomedypodcast\/episode-34-peter-grahames-diary-1986<\/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\/12\/10\/podcast-explores-peter-grahames-diary-1986\/\">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":[50018,124,168430],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1820"}],"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=1820"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1836,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1820\/revisions\/1836"}],"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=1820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}