{"id":23855,"date":"2015-09-27T13:48:47","date_gmt":"2015-09-27T12:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=23855"},"modified":"2015-09-27T13:49:33","modified_gmt":"2015-09-27T12:49:33","slug":"great-lives-toyah-willcox-on-katharine-hepburn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/great-lives-toyah-willcox-on-katharine-hepburn\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Lives: Toyah Willcox on Katharine Hepburn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dubbed an &#8216;oddity&#8217; and &#8216;box office poison&#8217;, she liked to goad the press and public with her eccentric behaviour and unconventional love life. Her career in Hollywood spanned six decades, during which she starred alongside other Hollywood greats, including James Stewart, Cary Grant, Humphrey Bogart and Spencer Tracy.<\/p>\n<p>The four time Oscar award winning actress Katharine Hepburn is this week&#8217;s Great Life. She is championed by singer and actress Toyah Willcox. The expert is Dr Mark Glancy &#8211; Reader in Film History, at Queen Mary, University of London. The presenter is Matthew Parris. The producer is Perminder Khatkar.<\/p>\n<p><strong>BBC Radio 4: Tuesday 29th September: 4.30pm\/Friday 2nd October: 11pm<\/strong><br \/>\nGreat Lives, Series 37 &#8211; Episode 9 of 9<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b06d2j24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b06d2j24\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23856\" alt=\"greatlives15a\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/greatlives15a.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/greatlives15a.jpg 600w, https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/greatlives15a-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dubbed an &#8216;oddity&#8217; and &#8216;box office poison&#8217;, she liked to goad the press and public with her eccentric behaviour and unconventional love life. Her career in Hollywood spanned six decades, during which she starred alongside other Hollywood greats, including James Stewart, Cary Grant, Humphrey Bogart and Spencer Tracy. The four time Oscar award winning actress [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[45],"tags":[293,1439,230],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23855"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23857,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23855\/revisions\/23857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}