{"id":383928,"date":"2026-04-06T00:38:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T00:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/383928\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T00:38:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T00:38:17","slug":"dj-dave-fanning-on-his-long-career-interviewing-the-stars-and-having-selfies-with-fellow-music-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/383928\/","title":{"rendered":"DJ Dave Fanning on his long career, interviewing the stars and having selfies with fellow music fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">The broadcaster on his history at RT\u00c9, his show on Virgin, and ringing Billie Eilish\u2019s mum\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dave Fanning has had a long career in an industry he excels in. Photo: David Conachy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/3b42a255-137f-48ea-ab3a-6a1333d1ce92.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Dave Fanning has had a long career in an industry he excels in. Photo: David Conachy<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Dave Fanning has just turned 70. \u201cDid I?\u201d he asks with that cat-who-got-the-cream grin he sports most of the time. \u201cWhere did you read that? Wikipedia?\u201d You told me on the phone last week. \u201cI could have been lying.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Presuming it\u2019s true, does this veteran have any advice for a much younger fellow?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The broadcaster on his history at RT\u00c9, his show on Virgin, and ringing Billie Eilish\u2019s mum Dave Fanning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[26016,93,61,60,169620,6992,6085,54265,660],"class_list":{"0":"post-383928","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-bono","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-pat-carty","13":"tag-people-culture-magazine","14":"tag-rte","15":"tag-rte-2fm","16":"tag-u2"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383928","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=383928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}