Nostalgia Interviews With Chris Deacy

It was such a pleasure for my latest Nostalgia Interview to catch up with Kate Fox – poet, stand up comedian, academic, journalist, broadcaster and ethnographer. Kate talks about her last gig before lockdown, our love of lattes and living by the sea, and her connection with the University of Kent through comedy studies and the Autism and the Arts festivals. We discuss our conference food experiences and how buffets and carveries are likely to be casualties of the pandemic. Kate relays her lockdown experiences and what has changed for her. We learn that she recorded an episode of Radio 4’s Pick of the Week from her living room on her phone and why she has no urge to do proper stand up in front of a Zoom audience. Kate has written a book about Northern women, and she talks about whether Covid has given us a chance to do things differently in this new hybrid world as well as about the way in which universities have changed since the 1990s in terms of the way they deal with disability and neurodiversity