{"id":2367,"date":"2019-05-03T11:16:08","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T10:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/?p=2367"},"modified":"2019-05-22T13:44:50","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T12:44:50","slug":"olly-double-on-bbc-south-east-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2019\/05\/03\/olly-double-on-bbc-south-east-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Olly Double on BBC South East Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/people\/academic-staff\/double.html\">Dr Olly Double<\/a>, Reader in Drama in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/index.html\">School of Arts<\/a>, appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b006pfp8\">BBC South East Today<\/a> last night (2 May 2019), interviewed along with comedian Alexei Sayle regarding the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/newsandevents\/index.html?view=2241\">Alternative Comedy Now<\/a> Festival, which is currently ongoing at Kent.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Alternative comedy completely changed British stand-up comedy,\u2019 explains Olly in the interview. \u2018Before that there were a few people doing interesting things on the folk circuit, like Billy Connelly, but most stand-up comedy at that point was taking place in working men\u2019s clubs and was based on unoriginal packaged jokes.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Olly\u2019s interview is followed in an interview with Alexei Sayle, which was recorded in the <a href=\"https:\/\/thegulbenkian.co.uk\/\">Gulbenkian<\/a> Theatre on campus, prior to a show yesterday evening.<\/p>\n<p>The piece is currently available on iPlayer, although expires at 7pm tonight, and begins at 15\u201911\u201d:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/iplayer\/episode\/m0004ts8\/south-east-today-evening-news-02052019\">https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/iplayer\/episode\/m0004ts8\/south-east-today-evening-news-02052019<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Olly Double, Reader in Drama in the School of Arts, appeared on BBC South East Today last night (2 May 2019), interviewed along with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2019\/05\/03\/olly-double-on-bbc-south-east-today\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2458,"featured_media":2368,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[50018,168423,124,168430],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367"}],"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=2367"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2371,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367\/revisions\/2371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}