{"id":478854,"date":"2026-03-16T16:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T16:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/478854\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T16:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T16:21:08","slug":"radio-1s-longest-ride-with-greg-james-live-text-video-and-audio-updates-from-gregs-red-nose-day-challenge-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/478854\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio 1’s Longest Ride with Greg James – live text, video and audio updates from Greg’s Red Nose Day challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"

ICYMI: Greg gets a mention on The Archerspublished at 11:50 GMT<\/p>\n

11:50 GMT<\/p>\n

Everybody’s talking about Greg’s challenge – even the residents of Ambridge, ie. the fictional village in Radio 4 drama The Archers. <\/p>\n

If you’re a regular listener, you may have heard Linda and Jenny from the show giving it a mention. <\/p>\n

Listen below from around 3 minutes, 14 seconds…<\/p>\n

Linda: Oh, I think I’m ready to call it a day.<\/p>\n

Jenny: Yeah, me and all. I need to get back to the pub. Fallon’s off this afternoon. She and Kirsty have gone to Birmingham.<\/p>\n

Linda: Oh, shopping?<\/p>\n

Jenny: No. They’re hoping to see Greg James finishing today’s leg of his eight-day tandem cycle ride.<\/p>\n

Linda: Oh, of course, for comic relief.<\/p>\n

Jenny: Yeah, that’s right. Radio One’s Longest Ride!<\/p>\n

Linda: It’s certainly that. I’d rather young Mr James than me.<\/p>\n

Jenny: Too right.<\/p>\n

Linda: It’s a shame not everyone is so community-minded…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ICYMI: Greg gets a mention on The Archerspublished at 11:50 GMT 11:50 GMT Everybody’s talking about Greg’s challenge…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-478854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478854","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=478854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}