{"id":783804,"date":"2026-09-27T01:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T01:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/783804\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T01:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T01:32:10","slug":"bbc-radio-2-presenter-owain-wyn-evans-to-cycle-uk-for-children-in-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/783804\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Radio 2 presenter Owain Wyn Evans to cycle UK for Children In Need"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Radio presenter Owain Wyn Evans will cycle through all four UK nations to raise money for BBC Children in Need.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Welsh host of BBC Radio 2&#8217;s Early Breakfast Show will travel almost 400 miles, setting off from Glasgow and finishing in Cardiff. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The five-day challenge will start on Monday, 9 November, and finish on Friday, 13 November &#8211; when the fundraiser will be broadcast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The only member of the annual TV fundraiser&#8217;s hosting team for 2026 to be revealed so far is fellow Welsh presenter, One Show host Alex Jones.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The BBC said Evans&#8217; challenge would be the &#8220;greatest ever distance&#8221; covered in a Radio 2 endeavour for the charity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Evans, who is originally from Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, said: &#8220;When I said yes to this challenge, I knew it would push me well outside my comfort zone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s going to be tough, demanding and probably a little daunting at times, but I&#8217;m ready to give it absolutely everything I&#8217;ve got.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Radio presenter Owain Wyn Evans will cycle through all four UK nations to raise money for BBC Children&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":783805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-783804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783804","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=783804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/783805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}