{"id":300587,"date":"2026-02-16T08:07:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T08:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/300587\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T08:07:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T08:07:06","slug":"tauntons-apple-fm-finds-home-after-being-asked-to-leave-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/300587\/","title":{"rendered":"Taunton&#8217;s Apple FM finds home after being asked to leave hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Perkins said he is &#8220;very excited&#8221; to have been offered the former gatehouse for Taunton Castle by Mambo&#8217;s, which is attached to the listed building.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Interestingly, we found that one of our founders, when we moved to FM, a guy called Phil Knighton, who sadly is no longer with us&#8230; his great-grandmother actually lived in Ine&#8217;s Cottage,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;So a lot of people are now sort of saying, Apple FM is coming home, which is extraordinary.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Taunton Hospital Radio first hit the airwaves in 1969, and rebranded to Apple FM in 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Perkins said he is &#8220;very excited&#8221; to have been offered the former gatehouse for Taunton Castle by Mambo&#8217;s,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278],"class_list":{"0":"post-300587","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300587","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=300587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}