{"id":31439,"date":"2023-02-10T16:59:55","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T16:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=31439"},"modified":"2023-02-10T17:26:21","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T17:26:21","slug":"bbc-radio-somerset-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/headlines\/2023\/02\/10\/bbc-radio-somerset-3\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Radio Somerset interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 6 February 2023, RSGB District Representative Andy Jenner, G7KNA spoke to the BBC\u2019s Simon Parkin about his passion for amateur radio.<\/p>\n<p>The RSGB arranged this interview\u2014having been contacted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/play\/live:bbc_radio_somerset_sound\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>BBC Radio Somerset<\/strong><\/a>\u2014following the Society\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/headlines\/2023\/02\/03\/feature-in-the-times\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>recent piece<\/strong><\/a> in <em>The Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Andy discussed how he got into radio, getting licensed, and about the work he and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sbarc.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>South Bristol Amateur Radio Club<\/strong><\/a> are doing to involve young people in amateur radio.<\/p>\n<p>This includes plans for a demonstration day at a Bristol primary school as part of <a href=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/bsw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>British Science Week<\/strong><\/a> in March.<\/p>\n<p>You can still <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/play\/p0dy53wx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>listen to the interview<\/strong><\/a> on BBC Sounds.<\/p>\n<p>The interview starts at 19 minutes and 20 seconds into the programme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 6 February 2023, RSGB District Representative Andy Jenner, G7KNA spoke to the BBC\u2019s Simon Parkin about his passion for amateur radio. The RSGB arranged this interview\u2014having been contacted by BBC Radio Somerset\u2014following the Society\u2019s recent piece in The Times. Andy discussed how he got into radio, getting licensed, and about the work he and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20358,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[274,47,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-page-news","category-headlines","category-rsgb-notices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20358"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}