{"id":5974,"date":"2025-09-06T12:47:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T12:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/5974\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T12:47:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T12:47:07","slug":"radio-2-in-the-park-live-updates-from-chelmsford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/5974\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio 2 in the Park: Live updates from Chelmsford"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chelmsford, you say? Where’s that?published at 13:26 British Summer Time<\/p>\n

13:26 BST<\/p>\n

\"ThisImage source, John Sutton\/Geograph<\/p>\n

Only the birthplace of radio itself! (thank you Mr Marconi)<\/p>\n

He established the world’s first radio factory right here in 1899. It broadcast the first official radio sound in 1920.<\/p>\n

Chelmsford is one of the UK’s newest cities, having been granted city status as part of the Queen’s diamond jubilee celebrations in 2012.<\/p>\n

Only a 30-minute train journey south into London, it still hosts BBC Essex’s studios in New London Road, as well as nearby Essex County Cricket Club.<\/p>\n

This city also played home to the notorious King Henry VIII in the 1520s, who stayed at the Palace of Beaulieu, now the home of New Hall School.<\/p>\n

Hylands House, a Grade II listed building in the heart of Hylands Park, has even doubled for the White House in season three of The Crown.<\/p>\n

But the county town of Essex has not won favour with all of its guests.<\/p>\n

According to The Dickens Society, external<\/a>, the Great Expectations author once said: “If anyone were to ask me what in my opinion was the dullest and most stupid spot on the face of the Earth, I should decidedly say Chelmsford.”<\/p>\n

Ouch. <\/p>\n

This is Essex, mate. We’re not boring here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chelmsford, you say? Where’s that?published at 13:26 British Summer Time 13:26 BST Image source, John Sutton\/Geograph Only the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-5974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5974","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=5974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}