{"id":274,"date":"2013-11-04T12:40:40","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T12:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/?p=274"},"modified":"2013-11-04T12:40:40","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T12:40:40","slug":"listen-up-schools-colin-johnson-to-star-in-radio-quiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/2013\/11\/04\/listen-up-schools-colin-johnson-to-star-in-radio-quiz\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen up! School&#8217;s Colin Johnson to star in radio quiz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday 11 November, a team of academics and students from Kent will be pitting their wits against each other on BBC Radio 4\u2019s lively quiz show,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b01d0q86\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0The 3rd Degree<\/a>. The academic team includes the School of Computing&#8217;s Colin Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>The recording will take place at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/maps\/canterbury\/canterbury-campus\/building\/darwin-college\" target=\"_blank\">Darwin Conference Suite<\/a>, Canterbury campus. Places in the audience are available for students and staff, with seats allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. Doors will open at 5.30pm, for a 6pm start.<\/p>\n<p>Whilst the show will have all the rigour of a formal quiz, with questions and scoring approached in serious fashion, there will also be a light-hearted and witty angle, as the students attempt to get one over on their more learned opponents. The 3rd Degree is hosted by comedian, Steve Punt, known for &#8216;The Now Show&#8217; and &#8216;Horrible Histories&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b01d0q86\" target=\"_blank\">The 3rd Degree<\/a>\u00a0travels to universities around the country, and Kent is one of six venues chosen for the current series. The episode is scheduled to air on Radio 4 early next year.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/estates\/transport\/bus\/campus_shuttle.html\" target=\"_blank\">campus shuttle<\/a>\u00a0is available for students or staff wishing to travel to the recording from Medway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday 11 November, a team of academics and students from Kent will be pitting their wits against each other on BBC Radio 4\u2019s lively &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/2013\/11\/04\/listen-up-schools-colin-johnson-to-star-in-radio-quiz\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5321,"featured_media":272,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[57903,57902,888],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5321"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions\/275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}