{"id":10151,"date":"2019-03-22T11:06:56","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T11:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=10151"},"modified":"2019-03-22T11:06:56","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T11:06:56","slug":"nostalgia-podcast-with-jo-pearsall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2019\/03\/22\/nostalgia-podcast-with-jo-pearsall\/","title":{"rendered":"Nostalgia podcast with Jo Pearsall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the <a href=\"https:\/\/audioboom.com\/posts\/7207425-jo-pearsall\">latest episode<\/a> of the Nostalgia podcast series, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/thrs\/staff\/deacy.html\">Dr Chris Deacy<\/a>, Reader in Theology and Religious Studies in the Department of Religious Studies, speaks to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/50\/profiles\/people\/pearsall-jo.html\">Jo Pearsall<\/a>, Deputy Secretary of Council and the Court at the University, and an alumna of the School of History.<\/p>\n<p>Jo discusses how her earliest memories seem to be from photos and we learn that, despite coming from a sporty family, she isn\u2019t sporty herself. Jo also talks about how strange it feels to work in the same university from which she graduated ten years previously; listening to the &#8216;Pina Colada&#8217; song as a child; the relative merits of reading for pleasure and reading for study; why she was freaked out by &#8216;Witness&#8217;; whether she was a &#8216;Swap Shop&#8217; or a &#8216;Tiswas&#8217; person on Saturday mornings; why she was keen on studying 18th century history; the importance of degree congregations, her love of opera and Cher, what would have happened if Staffordshire County Council hadn&#8217;t given her free violin lessons up until the age of 18, and what might have happened if her dreams had been even bigger!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the latest episode of the Nostalgia podcast series, Dr Chris Deacy, Reader in Theology and Religious Studies in the Department of Religious Studies, speaks &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2019\/03\/22\/nostalgia-podcast-with-jo-pearsall\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52167,"featured_media":10153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124,18581],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10151"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10151"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10156,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10151\/revisions\/10156"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}