{"id":5436,"date":"2016-01-22T14:12:30","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T14:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=5436"},"modified":"2016-01-22T14:17:21","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T14:17:21","slug":"william-rowlandson-on-the-bbc-world-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2016\/01\/22\/william-rowlandson-on-the-bbc-world-service\/","title":{"rendered":"William Rowlandson on the BBC World Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/modern-languages\/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 on <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p016tmg1\">The History Hour<\/a><\/em> on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/worldserviceradio\">BBC World Service<\/a> on Monday 11 January 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC World Service is the world\u2019s largest international broadcaster, broadcasting in 29 languages to an average of 210 million people a week. <em>The History Hour<\/em> looks at history from World War II to the Arab Spring as told by the people who were there.<\/p>\n<p>This episode called \u2018Castro Takes Havana\u2019 hears from one man who, as a 15-year-old boy, watched Castro and his men sweep into power in 1959. William discusses Fidel Castro\u2019s revolution in Cuba and whether Castro was a communist, with presenter Max Pearson. William argues:\u00a0\u2018Castro wasn\u2019t always a communist. What he really wanted was to overturn the system that had been keeping Cuban people in dependency; in particular with regards the US control over everything Cuban, over the economy, over the culture and over the political system.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>You can listen to the programme on the BBC\u2019s iPlayer at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p03dg4bl\">www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p03dg4bl<\/a>. William\u2019s interview appears 9 minutes into the programme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr William Rowlandson, from the Department of Modern Languages, was interviewed on The History Hour on the BBC World Service on Monday 11 January 2016. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2016\/01\/22\/william-rowlandson-on-the-bbc-world-service\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5829,"featured_media":5442,"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\/5436"}],"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=5436"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5455,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5436\/revisions\/5455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}