{"id":18676,"date":"2025-07-23T20:19:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T20:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/18676\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T20:19:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T20:19:13","slug":"bbc-radio-merseyside-presenter-to-make-radio-4-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/18676\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Radio Merseyside presenter to make Radio 4 debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  June Yee is best known for being one half of Orient Express alongside Billy Hui, a programme dedicated to the Chinese Community, which has been broadcasting for more than 30 years.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Pick Of The Week is presented by a different broadcaster each week. This Sunday see June share highlights from the past week from across BBC radio.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Yee, who was born in Liverpool, began her broadcasting career at BBC Radio Merseyside in 1988, alongside Lawrence Ma and Mary Ng.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  She took on various roles including the production and planning of five-minute news bulletins, before becoming a main presenter of the show.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  June Yee presents Pick Of The Week, this Sunday, at 6.15pm on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"June Yee is best known for being one half of Orient Express alongside Billy Hui, a programme dedicated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-18676","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-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}