{"id":282734,"date":"2026-02-05T20:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T20:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/282734\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T20:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T20:44:07","slug":"ryan-tubridy-announces-details-of-new-radio-show-with-times-radio-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/282734\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Tubridy announces details of new radio show with Times Radio \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/ryan-tubridy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/ryan-tubridy\/\">Ryan Tubridy<\/a> will present a new Sunday afternoon radio programme on Times Radio from 1pm to 4pm starting on March 22nd. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Speaking about the slot, Tubridy said: \u201cWe will maintain the news-y edge that is the bread and butter of Times Radio.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The presenter added \u201cthere\u2019s always a bookish thread\u201d in programmes at the digital station which is jointly operated by the Times and Sunday Times along with News Broadcasting. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">He explained that the new slot will be similar to the supplements section of the weekend paper: \u201cWhether it\u2019s travel or what\u2019s on TV, or pop culture or culture broadly speaking, that\u2019ll be the sense of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cSo we\u2019ll be focusing a lot on reading, literature, books and obviously the authors\u201d along with American, UK, and European politics, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The news comes after Tubridy\u2019s announcement in late 2025 that he was stepping down from his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/culture\/tv-radio\/2025\/12\/19\/ryan-tubridy-attempts-to-reinvent-himself-on-youtube-will-it-work\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/culture\/tv-radio\/2025\/12\/19\/ryan-tubridy-attempts-to-reinvent-himself-on-youtube-will-it-work\/\">mid morning slot on Virgin Radio in the UK<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The presenter still has a slate of projects on his roster, including his podcast The Bookshelf; a stand-alone project the Late Show on YouTube which will also be broadcast on Times Radio, and a weekend radio show across the Onic network in Ireland which includes Dublin Q102, Cork\u2019s 96FM and Limerick\u2019s Live 95.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-it-article-body__interstitial-link\">[\u00a0<a aria-label=\"Open related story\" class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/life-style\/people\/2026\/01\/17\/ryan-tubridy-id-hate-to-be-hit-by-a-bus-tomorrow-thinking-that-was-the-end-of-my-relationship-with-rte\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Tubridy: \u2018I\u2019m a different person now to who I was a couple of years ago. I\u2019ve evolved\u2019Opens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cRyan is already very well known to Irish listeners as one of the country\u2019s finest and most established broadcasters,\u201d Tim Levell, programme director at Times Radio, said of the broadcaster\u2019s appointment <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">He added: \u201cUK listeners will now get to hear his gift for engaging, intelligent conversation as well as his more newsy, political style every Sunday afternoon.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ryan Tubridy will present a new Sunday afternoon radio programme on Times Radio from 1pm to 4pm starting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,6084],"class_list":["post-282734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-ryan-tubridy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}