{"id":443,"date":"2016-09-25T22:12:42","date_gmt":"2016-09-25T22:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jessielevene.com\/?p=443"},"modified":"2016-09-25T22:17:02","modified_gmt":"2016-09-25T22:17:02","slug":"the-reunion-tate-modern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jessielevene.com\/?p=443","title":{"rendered":"The Reunion &#8211; Tate Modern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jessielevene.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/tate-modern.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-444\" src=\"http:\/\/jessielevene.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/tate-modern.jpg\" alt=\"tate-modern\" width=\"474\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jessielevene.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/tate-modern.jpg 800w, http:\/\/jessielevene.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/tate-modern-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/jessielevene.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/tate-modern-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The last BBC programme I worked on before moving to Canada has finally been broadcast! It&#8217;s an episode of the long-running, award-winning Radio 4 series <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b007x9vc\">The Reunion<\/a>, which reunites a group of people intimately involved in a moment of modern history &#8211; which in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b07vw99w\">this edition is the opening of Tate Modern, Britain&#8217;s first national museum of modern art.<\/a> I started researching and assembling the archive materials for this Reunion way back in 2014, so it was a real pleasure to hear some of those clips again in the finished programme. But my favourite moment came during one of the group discussions, when <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nicholas_Serota\">Tate Director Nick Serota<\/a>\u00a0recalled the Queen&#8217;s question to him on entering the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tate.org.uk\/whats-on\/exhibition\/rothko\/rothko-room-guide\">Rothko Room<\/a>\u00a0for the first time: &#8220;Is this man into Zen?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last BBC programme I worked on before moving to Canada has finally been broadcast! It&#8217;s an episode of the long-running, award-winning Radio 4 series The Reunion, which reunites a group of people intimately involved in a moment of modern history &#8211; which in this edition is the opening of Tate Modern, Britain&#8217;s first national [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,12,15,14],"tags":[180,87,86,178,179],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jessielevene.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jessielevene.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jessielevene.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jessielevene.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jessielevene.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/jessielevene.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":451,"href":"http:\/\/jessielevene.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions\/451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jessielevene.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jessielevene.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jessielevene.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}