{"id":13326,"date":"2020-09-28T09:46:27","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T08:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=13326"},"modified":"2020-09-28T09:46:27","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T08:46:27","slug":"nostalgia-interview-with-richard-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2020\/09\/28\/nostalgia-interview-with-richard-king\/","title":{"rendered":"Elvis, Doctor Who and class; nostalgia interview with Richard King"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the <a href=\"https:\/\/audioboom.com\/posts\/7691783-richard-king\">latest episode<\/a> of the Nostalgia podcast series, Dr Chris Deacy, Head of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/european-culture-languages\/religious-studies\">Department of Religious Studies<\/a>, interviews Richard King, Professor Emeritus of Buddhist and Asian Studies.<\/p>\n<p>Richard talks about how no one in his family had stayed in education beyond 14; Richard&#8217;s parents were aware of their class background, so he talks about how the programmes he watched when he was young said something about one\u2019s class.<\/p>\n<p>Richard also talks about memories, and how his earliest memory consisted of reading out the words in a newspaper; about swivelling his hips to Elvis; becoming a Dr Who fan in later years; why he chose to go to the University of Hull; being excited about alternative ideas and Eastern philosophy; favouring the underdog both in the playground and in the context of colonialism; political activism; the Labour Party; waiting for change; excavating an alternative history; imagining the world differently; books; binaries; and looking back in order to know where you are going.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the latest episode of the Nostalgia podcast series, Dr Chris Deacy, Head of the Department of Religious Studies, interviews Richard King, Professor Emeritus of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2020\/09\/28\/nostalgia-interview-with-richard-king\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52167,"featured_media":13327,"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\/13326"}],"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=13326"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13336,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13326\/revisions\/13336"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}