{"id":909,"date":"2015-07-29T15:58:54","date_gmt":"2015-07-29T14:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/?p=909"},"modified":"2017-04-20T12:37:53","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T11:37:53","slug":"dr-sara-lyons-appears-on-radio-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/2015\/07\/29\/dr-sara-lyons-appears-on-radio-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Sara Lyons appears on Radio 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/english\/staff\/lyons.html\">Dr Sara Lyons<\/a> (Lecturer in Victorian Literature) appeared on the popular Radio 4 programme &#8216;In Our Time&#8217; on Thursday 18 June. The programme, which is presented by Melvyn Bragg, included a distinguished panel of guests including Dinah Birch (Professor of English Literature and Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research at the University of Liverpool) and Karen O&#8217;Brien (Vice Principal and Professor of English Literature at King&#8217;s College London). The panel discussed Charlotte Bront\u00eb&#8217;s enduringly popular novel <em>Jane Eyre <\/em>published in 1847.<\/p>\n<p>Sara discussed, amongst other things, the importance for Bront\u00eb that Jane Eyre was presented as a &#8216;plain&#8217; heroine and ways in which the novel can be read as a Gothic nightmare or fairy-tale.<\/p>\n<p>You can listen again to the episode on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b05y11v8\">Radio 4 website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Sara Lyons (Lecturer in Victorian Literature) appeared on the popular Radio 4 programme &#8216;In Our Time&#8217; on Thursday 18 June. The programme, which is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/2015\/07\/29\/dr-sara-lyons-appears-on-radio-4\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2400,"featured_media":910,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,124,70],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2400"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":911,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions\/911"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}