{"id":210,"date":"2014-06-26T09:02:05","date_gmt":"2014-06-26T09:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/?p=210"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:19:42","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:19:42","slug":"bbc-arts-editor-will-gompertz-visits-the-joe-orton-archive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/2014\/06\/26\/bbc-arts-editor-will-gompertz-visits-the-joe-orton-archive\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Arts Editor Will Gompertz visits the Joe Orton Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/files\/2014\/06\/CGB3519_01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-211 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/files\/2014\/06\/CGB3519_01-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"CGB3519_01\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/files\/2014\/06\/Will-Gompertz-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-212 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/files\/2014\/06\/Will-Gompertz-5-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Will Gompertz 5\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>The BBC\u2019s chief Arts Editor Will Gompertz visited the University on 25 June to make a radio feature on the Leicester-born playwright Joe Orton.<\/p>\n<p>For his report on the 50<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of Joe Orton\u2019s first play <em>Entertaining Mr Sloane<\/em>, Will Gompertz came to see the exhibition \u2018Joe Orton in 1964\u2019 in the David Wilson Library.<\/p>\n<p>He also looked at other material from the Orton archive, including the original script, photographs of the 1964 London and 9165 New York productions, letters, and Orton\u2019s own scrapbook of reviews.<\/p>\n<p>Will Gompertz discussed the material with Dr Emma Parker, of the School of English, and Joe Orton\u2019s sister, Leonie Orton Barnett.<\/p>\n<p>The feature will air on Radio 4\u2019s \u2018Today\u2019 programme on Friday 27 June.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.le.ac.uk\/library\/find\/specialcollections\/exhibitions\/joe-orton-in-1964\">\u2018Joe Orton in 1964\u2019 runs until 29 August<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.le.ac.uk\/departments\/english\/news\/events\/orton\">A free programme of public events to mark the anniversary of the first production of <em>Entertaining Mr Slone <\/em>takes place on the 29th of June.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC\u2019s chief Arts Editor Will Gompertz visited the University on 25 June to make a radio feature on the Leicester-born playwright Joe Orton. For his report on the 50th anniversary of Joe Orton\u2019s first play Entertaining Mr Sloane, Will Gompertz came to see the exhibition \u2018Joe Orton in 1964\u2019 in the David Wilson Library. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions\/213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}