{"id":606,"date":"2006-12-24T14:34:29","date_gmt":"2006-12-24T13:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dickonedwards.co.uk\/diary\/index.php\/archive\/the-brent-messiah\/"},"modified":"2006-12-24T15:22:40","modified_gmt":"2006-12-24T14:22:40","slug":"the-brent-messiah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/archive\/the-brent-messiah\/","title":{"rendered":"The Brent Messiah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A quick recommendation before I write something more substantial.<\/p>\n<p>Some Nativity-themed radio comedy from the BBC, available on their 7 day Listen Again facility:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio4\/arts\/friday_play.shtml\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio4\/arts\/friday_play.shtml\">The National Theatre Of Brent&#8217;s Messiah (2006 Radio Version)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brilliantly silly and frequently rather touching, the Nat Theatre Of Brent&#8217;s style consists of two grown men acting like pompous schoolboys; specifically a swottier boy bossing about his more highly-strung best friend. Full of delicious malapropisms and general tutting at each other, the nearest point of reference is the <em>Molesworth <\/em>Books. An absolute joy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quick recommendation before I write something more substantial. Some Nativity-themed radio comedy from the BBC, available on their 7 day Listen Again facility: The National Theatre Of Brent&#8217;s Messiah (2006 Radio Version) Brilliantly silly and frequently rather touching, the Nat Theatre Of Brent&#8217;s style consists of two grown men acting like pompous schoolboys; specifically [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recommendations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}