{"id":8820,"date":"2010-04-29T16:56:10","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T16:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2010\/04\/29\/adil-ray-to-leave-bbc-asian-network\/"},"modified":"2010-04-29T16:56:10","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T16:56:10","slug":"adil-ray-to-leave-bbc-asian-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2010\/04\/29\/adil-ray-to-leave-bbc-asian-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Adil Ray to leave BBC Asian Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Presenter will \u201cpursue other radio and TV projects\u201d<\/h3>\n<div><strong>TOP Asian DJ Adil Ray will leave the BBC Asian Network, it has been confirmed.<\/strong> <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The current breakfast host will leave the station in June to \u201cpursue other radio and TV projects\u201d, a spokesperson for the BBC said. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The news will come as a shock to fans of the station who are already anxious over the future of the national station. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Speaking about his decision, Adil said: \u201cI thank the entire team and of course the listeners. It is with their love and support that I am able to go on and explore the exciting world of comedy and acting. I feel now the time is right to take on these challenges and hope to be working across a number of BBC platforms and beyond.\u201d<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>He will be replaced as breakfast host by Tommy Sandhu. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Andy Parfitt, Controller, BBC Asian Network, said: \u201cAdil has made a huge contribution to the station over the last nine years and we\u2019d like to thank him for that and wish him every success for the future.\u201d <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Adil has spent nine years at the Asian Network and recently featured on the BBC Two comedy series Bellamy\u2019s People.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presenter will \u201cpursue other radio and TV projects\u201d TOP Asian DJ Adil Ray will leave the BBC Asian Network, it has been confirmed. &#13; The current breakfast host will leave the station in June to \u201cpursue other radio and TV projects\u201d, a spokesperson for the BBC said. &#13; The news will come as a shock [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}