{"id":4013,"date":"2020-09-10T16:13:51","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T15:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/?p=4013"},"modified":"2020-09-10T16:13:51","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T15:13:51","slug":"proper-job-gradcast-features-alumna-laura-lexx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2020\/09\/10\/proper-job-gradcast-features-alumna-laura-lexx\/","title":{"rendered":"Proper Job Gradcast features alumna Laura Lexx"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/people\/544\/double-oliver\">Dr Oliver Double<\/a>, Reader in Drama, has just released the latest episode in his\u00a0on-going podcast series, <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/proper-job-gradcast\/id1500284764\"><em>Proper Job Gradcast<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the \u2018Gradcast\u2019, Olly interviews Drama graduates about their current careers in the arts, how they got there after they graduated, and how studying Drama at Kent helped to equip them for what they do now.<\/p>\n<p>In the latest episode, Olly interviews alumna <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lauralexx.co.uk\/\">Laura Lexx<\/a>, who studied an MDrama at Kent and who graduated in 2009. Laura is now an established stand-up comedian and writer. Her credits include<em> Live at the Apollo <\/em><em>(BBC2),\u00a0<\/em><em>B<\/em><em>BC At The Edinburgh Festivals<\/em> (BBC2),\u00a0<em>The Comedy Club<\/em>\u00a0(BBC Radio 4 Extra) and\u00a0<em>The Jason Manford Show<\/em> (Absolute Radio). She recently gained a two-book deal after her tweet about J\u00fcrgen Klopp went viral. The first book, <em>Klopp Actually: (Imaginary) Life with Football\u2019s Most Sensible Heartthrob <\/em>(Two Roads Books, 2020), has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/news\/4002\/alumna-laura-lexx-publishes-book-klopp-actually\">just been published<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018When I first went to uni to study Drama I was very sure I wanted to be a serious actress,\u2019 Laura explains in the episode. \u2018But comedy is just so immediate\u2026 There\u2019s just something so interesting about having an idea that day, and trying out some version of it later on.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>To listen to the full episode, please see the page:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/gb\/podcast\/episode-7-laura-lexx\/id1500284764\">https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/gb\/podcast\/episode-7-laura-lexx\/id1500284764<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Oliver Double, Reader in Drama, has just released the latest episode in his\u00a0on-going podcast series, Proper Job Gradcast. In the \u2018Gradcast\u2019, Olly interviews Drama &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2020\/09\/10\/proper-job-gradcast-features-alumna-laura-lexx\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2458,"featured_media":3421,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[807,50018,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4013"}],"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=4013"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4018,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4013\/revisions\/4018"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}