{"id":3537,"date":"2020-04-16T14:19:17","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T13:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/?p=3537"},"modified":"2020-04-16T14:19:17","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T13:19:17","slug":"olly-double-interviewed-for-udcs-higher-education-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2020\/04\/16\/olly-double-interviewed-for-udcs-higher-education-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Olly Double interviewed for UDC\u2019s Higher Education Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/people\/544\/double-oliver\">Dr Olly Double<\/a>, Reader in Drama, has been interviewed for the April edition of <em>Higher Education Today.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Higher Education Today<\/em> is a US television talk show on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.udc.edu\/marketing-communications\/cable-tv\/\">UDC-TV<\/a>, a cable station run by the University of Columbia, which has won six Telly Awards for addressing contemporary education issues. All episodes are also hosted on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC23MgSJMm5dg1Z9u5PTcr8g\">YouTube here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The theme of the episode is \u2018Humor in Tough Times\u2019. In the episode, Olly talks about the benefits of comedy. \u2018Comedy in our civilization can do all kinds of great things\u2019 he explains, \u2018it can make us feel more connected with each other if we laugh at the same thing, we feel part of the group.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Olly also talks about teaching comedy at Kent. \u2018We start with theory and history \u2013 the students look at all kinds of examples of stand-up from the last 120 years,\u2019 he explains, which feeds into the essay and practical work.<\/p>\n<p>To view to the episode, please see the page here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=41y-ae5MEPE\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=41y-ae5MEPE<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"kent-video-wrapper\"><span class='embed-youtube' style='text-align:center; display: block;'><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text\/html' width='1140' height='672' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/41y-ae5MEPE?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;wmode=transparent' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen='true'><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Olly Double, Reader in Drama, has been interviewed for the April edition of Higher Education Today. Higher Education Today is a US television talk &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2020\/04\/16\/olly-double-interviewed-for-udcs-higher-education-today\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2458,"featured_media":3541,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[50018,124,168430,9111],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3537"}],"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=3537"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3544,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3537\/revisions\/3544"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}