{"id":398896,"date":"2026-01-30T14:37:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T14:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/398896\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T14:37:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T14:37:07","slug":"radio-1-breakfast-show-visits-sunderland-ahead-of-big-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/398896\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio 1 Breakfast Show visits Sunderland ahead of Big Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Radio 1&#8217;s Breakfast Show was broadcast live from Sunderland earlier ahead of the Big Weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The city will host the music festival for the first time since 2005 from 22 to 24 May at Herrington Park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Host Greg James said &#8220;early indications tell me that this is going to be an amazing Big Weekend in an amazing city,&#8221; after finding a pub that sold \u00a32 pints and being given pink slices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a temporary radio studio in the middle of Keel Square, James gave listeners the opportunity to win free tickets, some of which were eventually found opposite the Sunderland Empire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Radio 1&#8217;s Breakfast Show was broadcast live from Sunderland earlier ahead of the Big Weekend. The city will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-398896","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\/398896","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=398896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}