{"id":2380,"date":"2019-05-14T11:35:01","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T10:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/?p=2380"},"modified":"2019-05-14T11:35:01","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T10:35:01","slug":"nostalgia-podcast-with-helen-brooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2019\/05\/14\/nostalgia-podcast-with-helen-brooks\/","title":{"rendered":"Nostalgia podcast with Helen Brooks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/people\/academic-staff\/brooks.html\">Dr Helen Brooks<\/a>,\u00a0Reader in Theatre and Cultural History in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/drama.html\">Department of Drama<\/a>\u00a0and Director of Research in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/index.html\">School of Arts<\/a>, is the subject of the latest instalment of &#8216;Nostalgia&#8217;, a podcast project created by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/european-culture-languages\/people\/1618\/deacy-chris\">Dr Chris Deacy<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/european-culture-languages\/religious-studies\/\">Department of Religious Studies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine receiving a birthday card from <em>Doctor Who<\/em> &#8211; this is what happened when Helen Brooks celebrated her thirteenth birthday.<\/p>\n<p>In the podcast, Helen talks about Peter Davison, Samuel Beckett, why her school teachers had tried to dissuade her from taking Drama at A Level, being exposed to an eclectic range of music as a child (from Motown to Handel&#8217;s Messiah), why Helen has returned in recent years to writing a diary (and who it is being written for), how her dream was once to be a serious actor on the stage, and why she tries to live in the present.<\/p>\n<p>To listen to the podcast, please visit:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/audioboom.com\/posts\/7251525-helen-brooks\">https:\/\/audioboom.com\/posts\/7251525-helen-brooks<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Helen Brooks,\u00a0Reader in Theatre and Cultural History in the Department of Drama\u00a0and Director of Research in the School of Arts, is the subject of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2019\/05\/14\/nostalgia-podcast-with-helen-brooks\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55813,"featured_media":2382,"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\/2380"}],"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\/55813"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2380"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2405,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380\/revisions\/2405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}