{"id":3941,"date":"2015-03-17T17:06:02","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T17:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=3941"},"modified":"2015-08-06T11:10:56","modified_gmt":"2015-08-06T10:10:56","slug":"william-rowlandson-on-bbc-radio-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2015\/03\/17\/william-rowlandson-on-bbc-radio-scotland\/","title":{"rendered":"William Rowlandson on BBC Radio Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/hispanicstudies\/staff\/rowlandson.html\">Dr William Rowlandson<\/a> from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/modern-languages\/index.html\">Department of Modern Languages<\/a> was interviewed this morning on BBC Radio Scotland\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b055jm9v#auto\"><em>Good Morning Scotland<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He commented on the investigation into the remains of the popular Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes, following the discovery of a coffin in a convent in Madrid with the author&#8217;s initials engraved on the lid. It is hoped that the identity of the remains will be\u00a0confirmed\u00a0later today.<\/p>\n<p>Miguel de Cervantes\u00a0was one of the most influential novelists of his time and his pioneering novel, <em>Don Quixote <\/em>(1605), is regarded as\u00a0one of\u00a0the best works of fiction ever written.<\/p>\n<p>William discussed the significance of the discovery of one of Spain\u2019s national treasures and how Cervantes&#8217; own account of his wounds, inflicted during the Battle of Lepanto, would have helped to identify the remains.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0interview occurs one hour and seventeen\u00a0minutes into the three-hour programme and can still be heard on the BBC&#8217;s iPlayer here (until 10 April): <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b055jm9v#auto\">www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b055jm9v<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr William Rowlandson from the Department of Modern Languages was interviewed this morning on BBC Radio Scotland\u2019s Good Morning Scotland. He commented on the investigation &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2015\/03\/17\/william-rowlandson-on-bbc-radio-scotland\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5829,"featured_media":3281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3941"}],"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\/5829"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3941"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4705,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3941\/revisions\/4705"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}