{"id":641,"date":"2017-04-18T16:52:30","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T15:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/?p=641"},"modified":"2017-04-18T16:52:30","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T15:52:30","slug":"histcompod-episode-7-meccano-club-bookings-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/histcompod-episode-7-meccano-club-bookings-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Histcompod &#8211; Episode 7 &#8216;Meccano Club Bookings Book&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Episode 7\u00a0of &#8216;A History of Comedy in Several Objects&#8217; is now available on <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/gb\/podcast\/a-history-of-comedy-in-several-objects\/id1210414720\" target=\"_blank\">iTunes<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acast.com\/ahistoryofcomedypodcast\" target=\"_blank\">acast<\/a>.\u00a0In this episode (&#8216;Meccano Club Bookings Book&#8217;) we discuss one of the archive\u2019s most popular items: the bookings book from legendary London alternative comedy venue, the Meccano Club, part of the Monika Bobinska Collection (reference <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.kent.ac.uk\/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&amp;id=BSUCA\/MB\/1\/1\/7\" target=\"_blank\">BSUCA\/MB\/1\/1\/7<\/a>). This episode looks at the stars of the circuit that played the Meccano Club in the 1980s and 1990s, as well as featuring an exclusive interview clip with the club promoter Monika Bobinska. Further information about the Monika Bobinska Collection\u00a0can be found\u00a0in the blogpost &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/the-monika-bobinska-collection\/\" target=\"_blank\">Spotlight on: The Monika Bobinska Collection<\/a>&#8216;.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_642\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/files\/2017\/04\/BSUCA-MB-001-001-007-002-A.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-642\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-642 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/files\/2017\/04\/BSUCA-MB-001-001-007-002-A-798x1024.jpg\" width=\"625\" height=\"802\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/files\/2017\/04\/BSUCA-MB-001-001-007-002-A-798x1024.jpg 798w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/files\/2017\/04\/BSUCA-MB-001-001-007-002-A-234x300.jpg 234w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/files\/2017\/04\/BSUCA-MB-001-001-007-002-A-768x986.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/files\/2017\/04\/BSUCA-MB-001-001-007-002-A-624x801.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-642\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meccano Club Bookings Book. January 1987. Featuring acts including Ian McPherson, Mark Thomas, Johnny Immaterial, Kevin Day &amp; John Hegley<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Don\u2019t forget to get involved! You can contact us via\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:standup@kent.ac.uk\" target=\"_blank\">standup@kent.ac.uk<\/a>\u00a0or tweet us at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HistComPod\" target=\"_blank\">@histcompod<\/a>. You can search the online catalogue for more information about the holdings of \u00a0the British Stand-Up Comedy Archive at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/archive.kent.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/archive.kent.ac.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Images of some objects featured on the podcast can be found on our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/britishstandupcomedyarchive\/albums\" target=\"_blank\">flickr site<\/a> in the \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/britishstandupcomedyarchive\/albums\/72157680653167655\/with\/33166952770\/\" target=\"_blank\">History of Comedy in Several Objects<\/a>\u2018 album.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Episode 7\u00a0of &#8216;A History of Comedy in Several Objects&#8217; is now available on iTunes and acast.\u00a0In this episode (&#8216;Meccano Club Bookings Book&#8217;) we discuss one of the archive\u2019s most popular items: the bookings book from legendary London alternative comedy venue, the Meccano Club, part of the Monika Bobinska Collection (reference BSUCA\/MB\/1\/1\/7). This episode looks at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40164,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[140933,140831,140932],"tags":[140933,140850,140925,140932],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":644,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions\/644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}