{"id":506854,"date":"2026-04-01T09:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T09:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/506854\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T09:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T09:45:09","slug":"bbc-radio-norfolk-off-air-after-the-forum-flood-in-norwich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/506854\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Radio Norfolk off air after the Forum flood in Norwich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Those tuning in to the show this morning will be greeted by Wayne Bavin, of BBC Radio Suffolk.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Mr Bavin, who presents the Suffolk breakfast show, reported that BBC Radio Norfolk is off air due to a flood at the Forum in Norwich.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;There&#8217;s been a bit of argy-bargy, a bit of a to-do, at the building for BBC Norfolk,&#8221; he added.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;They&#8217;ve had a flood, it&#8217;s not an April Fool&#8217;s.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;You&#8217;ve got me if you&#8217;re listening to me for the next hour or so.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The Forum, based in the city centre, is the home of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/topics\/emergency\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">BBC Look East and BBC Radio Norfolk.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Mr Bavin further added that the Norfolk team is making its way down to the Suffolk studios as Graham Barnard is due to sit in for Chris Goreham today.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He further assured listeners that it wasn&#8217;t an April Fool&#8217;s joke and that he would be covering the show until the issue was resolved.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Goreham has now updated listeners from Bavin&#8217;s show that Norfolk will be resuming the show at 8am.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;I stood in it,&#8221; Goreham said about the flood.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Apparently, electricity and water don&#8217;t mix. Who knew?&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The BBC has reported that it understands the issue was caused by a leak from an air conditioning unit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Those tuning in to the show this morning will be greeted by Wayne Bavin, of BBC Radio Suffolk.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-506854","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\/506854","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=506854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}