{"id":11406,"date":"2019-12-03T12:48:49","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T12:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/verwoodtoday.co.uk\/?p=11406"},"modified":"2019-12-03T12:48:49","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T12:48:49","slug":"comedian-geoff-norcott-adds-verwood-venue-to-uk-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/comedian-geoff-norcott-adds-verwood-venue-to-uk-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Comedian Geoff Norcott adds Verwood venue to UK Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Verwood Hub is to play host to comedian, writer and political commentator Geoff Norcott in 2020 as Verwood is added to his Taking Liberties UK tour.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere&#8217;s been a lot of talk about extensions\u201d, says Geoff, \u201cwell, despite my political allegiances I&#8217;m delighted with this one. It&#8217;s time the people were given another say&#8230;on whether or not they want to see my show.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other than Live At The Apollo, The Mash Report and Mock the Week, Geoff\u2019s also appeared frequently on Question Time and can be regularly seen putting the cat amongst the pigeons on UK political debate shows, including All Out Politics, This Week, Daily Politics and Politics Live. <\/p>\n<p>In July this year, Geoff\u2019s BBC Two documentary How The Middle Class Ruined Britain aired to great acclaim \u2013 receiving a 5-star review in the Financial Times and a TV pick in: The Guardian, The Independent, the i newspaper, The Observer, The Times, The Telegraph, The Express, the Daily Mail and the Daily Star. The documentary was also featured on BBC Breakfast.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/verwoodtoday.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/EKTOw2HXkAEVnnY.jpeg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\" ><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/verwoodtoday.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/EKTOw2HXkAEVnnY.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"481\" height=\"680\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11411\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Geoff\u2019s other broadcast credits include: Comedy Bigmouths, The Wright Stuff, Jeremy Vine and Edinburgh Nights. Geoff is also a regular on BBC Radio with appearances on The Now Show, The News Quiz, Loose Ends, Breaking the News, and the Today programme. <\/p>\n<p>His BBC Radio 4 special Right Leaning But Well Meaning won Best Comedy Award at the BBC Radio &#038; Music Awards. Geoff has written for The Daily Telegraph, Independent Voices and The New Statesman.<\/p>\n<p>Geoff will be appearing in Verwood on March 13th 2020 from 8pm at Verwood Hub. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livenation.co.uk\/venue\/details?id=1286456&#038;name=verwood-hub\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Get tickets and more info here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Traditionalism (Stand-up Special - 12 minute Version) | Geoff Norcott\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wrhs-FwcFWo?wmode=transparent&amp;rel=0&amp;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Verwood Hub is to play host to comedian, writer and political commentator Geoff Norcott in 2020 as Verwood is added to his Taking Liberties UK tour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":11408,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[53],"class_list":["post-11406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-verwood","tag-geoff-norcott"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}