{"id":8105,"date":"2017-11-16T15:21:47","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T15:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=8105"},"modified":"2017-11-16T15:21:47","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T15:21:47","slug":"edward-kanterian-on-radio-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2017\/11\/16\/edward-kanterian-on-radio-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Edward Kanterian on Radio 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/philosophy\/staff\/kanterian.html\">Dr Edward Kanterian<\/a>, Senior Lecturer in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/philosophy\/index.html\">Department of Philosophy<\/a>, featured on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio3\">BBC Radio 3\u2019s<\/a> <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b006tnwp\">Sunday Feature<\/a><\/em> on last Sunday, 12 November 2017, in an edition entitled \u2018A Column for Infinity\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The programme explores the work of Romanian sculptor Constanin Brancusi, in particular his powerful memorial to the First World War, the \u2018Endless Column\u2019. The piece is is no ordinary piece of commemorative art. It carries no specific reference to the dead of 1916 or of their heroic actions and their sacrifices. For in Romania, the first World War symbolises reunification, and some believe the sculpture represents Romania\u2019s expansion and history.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Each time somebody from our street would die, a very long procession would be formed, and going all the way to the cemetery; and the endless column was there all the time in the background,\u2019 reminisces Edward in the programme. \u2018Under such a setting, death, in a way does not feel so bad any more, after all.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Edward can be heard approximately at both 3 minutes and 13\u00a0minutes into the programme.<\/p>\n<p>To listen to the full programme, please see the BBC webpage here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b09dxbfl\">http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b09dxbfl<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Edward Kanterian, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, featured on BBC Radio 3\u2019s Sunday Feature on last Sunday, 12 November 2017, in an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2017\/11\/16\/edward-kanterian-on-radio-3\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2458,"featured_media":8107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124,18570],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8105"}],"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\/2458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8105"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8118,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8105\/revisions\/8118"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}