{"id":1169,"date":"2013-11-05T11:28:22","date_gmt":"2013-11-05T11:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/?p=1169"},"modified":"2013-11-05T11:31:58","modified_gmt":"2013-11-05T11:31:58","slug":"sac-academic-on-bbc-radio-4-quiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/2013\/11\/05\/sac-academic-on-bbc-radio-4-quiz\/","title":{"rendered":"SAC Academic on BBC Radio 4 Quiz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Monday 11th November BBC Radio 4&#8217;s quiz show, The 3rd Degree.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our very own Dr Sarah John will be one of the academics\u00a0competing in the program as a team of academics and students from Kent pit their wits against each other.<\/p>\n<p>The recording will take place at Darwin Conference Suite,\u00a0Canterbury campus. Places in the audience are available\u00a0for students and staff, with seats allocated on a first-come, first-served\u00a0basis. Doors will open at 5.30pm, for a 6pm start.<\/p>\n<p>Whilst the show will have all the rigour of a formal quiz, with questions\u00a0and scoring approached in serious fashion, there will also be a lighthearted\u00a0and witty angle, as the students attempt to get one over on\u00a0their more learned opponents. The 3rd Degree is hosted by comedian,\u00a0Steve Punt, known for \u2018The Now Show\u2019 and \u2018Horrible Histories\u2019.\u00a0The 3rd Degree travels to universities around the country, and Kent\u00a0is one of six venues chosen for the current series. The episode is\u00a0scheduled to air on Radio 4 early next year.<\/p>\n<p>More information can be found here:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/student\/news\/campus.html?id=3rddegree.txt\">http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/student\/news\/campus.html?id=3rddegree.txt<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"context\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday 11th November BBC Radio 4&#8217;s quiz show, The 3rd Degree. Our very own Dr Sarah John will be one of the academics\u00a0competing in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/2013\/11\/05\/sac-academic-on-bbc-radio-4-quiz\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27486,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27486"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1169"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1172,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169\/revisions\/1172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}