{"id":651,"date":"2017-05-16T09:15:24","date_gmt":"2017-05-16T08:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/?p=651"},"modified":"2017-05-16T09:15:24","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T08:15:24","slug":"histcompod-episode-9-porkys-red-wedge-cartoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/standupcomedyarchive\/histcompod-episode-9-porkys-red-wedge-cartoon\/","title":{"rendered":"Histcompod Episode 9 – Porky’s Red Wedge Cartoon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Episode 9 of \u2018A History of Comedy in Several Objects\u2019 is now available on iTunes<\/a> and acast<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In this episode, we look at a programme (from the Linda Smith Collection<\/a>) for the 1986 Red Wedge Comedy Tour, a run of pro-Labour performances featuring comedians such as Mark Miwurdz and Porky the Poet. The Red Wedge Comedy Tour emerged from the political initiative ‘Red Wedge’, a collective of performers, fronted\u00a0by Billy Bragg and Paul Weller among others, who formed in 1985 and organised a number of major music tours in 1985, along with comedy tours in 1986 and 1987.<\/p>\n

This episode also features an extract from an ‘in conversation’ event with Phill Jupitus from 2015<\/a>, plus Olly and Elspeth\u2019s dramatic reading of Porky\u2019s strip cartoon from the Red Wedge Comedy Tour programme (see below!)<\/p>\n

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‘A Tale of Two Punters’ cartoon by Porky the Poet (c) Phill Jupitus<\/p><\/div>\n

Apologies, we have a slight error to correct. In this episode I mention that the year is 1987, when in fact it was\u00a01986. Many apologies!<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t forget to get involved! You can contact us via\u00a0standup@kent.ac.uk<\/a>\u00a0or tweet us at\u00a0@histcompod<\/a>. You can search the online catalogue for more information about the holdings of \u00a0the British Stand-Up Comedy Archive at\u00a0http:\/\/archive.kent.ac.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Images of some objects featured on the podcast can be found on our flickr site<\/a> in the \u2018History of Comedy in Several Objects<\/a>\u2018 album.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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