{"id":23894,"date":"2015-09-30T06:14:08","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T05:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=23894"},"modified":"2015-09-30T06:14:08","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T05:14:08","slug":"great-lives-bbc-iplayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/great-lives-bbc-iplayer\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Lives @ BBC iPlayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b06d2j24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b06d2j24\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23895 alignleft\" style=\"border: 6px solid white;\" alt=\"greatlives15c\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/greatlives15c.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"306\" \/><\/a>The latest edition of BBC Radio 4&#8217;s <em>Great Lives<\/em> is now available to listen to at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b06d2j24\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>BBC iPlayer<\/strong><\/a> or download as an mp3. It also airs again on BBC Radio 4 on Friday at 11pm.<\/p>\n<p>The programme includes Toyah discussing Katharine Hepburn.<\/p>\n<p>Dubbed an \u2018oddity\u2019 and \u2018box office poison\u2019, 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\u2019s Great Life. She is championed by singer and actress Toyah Willcox. The expert is Dr Mark Glancy \u2013 Reader in Film History, at Queen Mary, University of London. The presenter is Matthew Parris. The producer is Perminder Khatkar.<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Toyah Willcox, Matthew Parris and Dr Mark Glancy after the recording of Great Lives. (Photo \u00a9 BBC)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest edition of BBC Radio 4&#8217;s Great Lives is now available to listen to at BBC iPlayer or download as an mp3. It also airs again on BBC Radio 4 on Friday at 11pm. The programme includes Toyah discussing Katharine Hepburn. Dubbed an \u2018oddity\u2019 and \u2018box office poison\u2019, she liked to goad the press [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[93,45],"tags":[1439,230],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23894"}],"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=23894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23896,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23894\/revisions\/23896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}