{"id":252948,"date":"2026-01-26T19:56:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T19:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/252948\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T19:56:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T19:56:15","slug":"rich-clarke-gets-saturday-breakfast-at-magic-radiotoday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/252948\/","title":{"rendered":"Rich Clarke gets Saturday Breakfast at Magic \u2013 RadioToday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a itemprop=\"url\" class=\"ahszp-link\" href=\"https:\/\/todayl.ink\/aiirjune\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ahszp-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/RTUKPackageDeal2.webp.webp\" alt=\"Aiir June 1\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rich Clarke will joining Bauer on a more permanant basis as the host of Saturday Breakfast at Magic.<\/p>\n<p>The former Heart, Capital and Hit40UK presenter has been covering in recent months but this will be his first weekly gig.<\/p>\n<p>The move forms part of a refreshed weekend line-up that also introduces new voices and time-slots across both Saturday and Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Rich will wake listeners each Saturday morning with a mix of music spanning the 80s to the present as weekends begin. He said he was \u201cso thrilled to be joining the brilliant team at Magic Radio\u201d and that he \u201ccan\u2019t wait to get started and wake up the UK for Saturday Breakfast\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The refreshed roster sees Mel Giedroyc providing the soundtrack to Saturday nights, while Anna Richardson takes on the Sunday Morning Request Show. Dan Morrissey will present a new weekend programme from 4pm to 7pm. On Fridays, Jo Russell will host The Perfect Playlist, and Paul Hayes will be on weekday overnights.<\/p>\n<p>Content Director Paul Sylvester said he was delighted to welcome Anna and Rich to the Magic Radio family, noting they had \u201calready made themselves very much at home\u201d. He added that, with Mel\u2019s new show and the existing team, \u201cSaturdays and Sundays on Magic Radio are bringing all the fun to listener\u2019s weekends\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Rich Clarke started in radio at CFM, before moving south across the country taking in stints at Key 103, Wyvern and Trent before joining Capital then Heart, and more recently at Heart South doing Breakfast.<\/p>\n<p>New weekend schedule:<\/p>\n<p>Saturday<br \/>07.00 \u2013 Rich Clarke<br \/>10.00 \u2013 Gaby Roslin<br \/>13.00 \u2013 Jo Russell<br \/>16.00 \u2013 Dan Morrissey<br \/>18.00 \u2013 Mel Giedroyc\u2019s Saturday Night Show<br \/>20.00 \u2013 Mellow Magic with Lynn Parsons<br \/>00.00 \u2013 Miri Green<\/p>\n<p>Sunday<br \/>07.00 \u2013 Sonali Shah<br \/>10.00 \u2013 The Magic Radio Request Show with Anna Richardson<br \/>13.00 \u2013 Jo Russell<br \/>16.00 \u2013 Dan Morrissey<br \/>19.00 \u2013 Lemar\u2019s Soul Sunday<br \/>20.00 \u2013 Mellow Magic with Lynn Parsons<br \/>00.00 \u2013 Paul Hayes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rich Clarke will joining Bauer on a more permanant basis as the host of Saturday Breakfast at Magic.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-252948","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}