{"id":312093,"date":"2017-04-19T06:51:01","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T06:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=312093"},"modified":"2017-11-10T10:57:13","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T10:57:13","slug":"ed-sheeran-to-appear-on-desert-island-discs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=312093","title":{"rendered":"Ed Sheeran to appear on Desert Island Discs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">We hope Ed Sheeran&#8217;s campfire building skills are up to scratch, as he&#8217;s just been announced as the next Desert Island Discs castaway.<\/p>\n<p>The singer will guest on the long-running BBC Radio 4 programme when it returns for its new series next month.<\/p>\n<p>Sheeran has already recorded his appearance, which will air on Sunday 7 May, with presenter Kirsty Young.<\/p>\n<p>He will choose the eight pieces of music he would most want to have with him if he was stranded on an island.<\/p>\n<p>Sheeran has been going from strength to strength this year, with his latest album Divide topping the charts and its lead single Shape of You enjoying a 13-week reign at number one.<\/p>\n<p>Desert Island Discs has been running for 75 years &#8211; an anniversary it celebrated in January with an appearance from David Beckham.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We hope Ed Sheeran&#8217;s campfire building skills are up to scratch, as he&#8217;s just been announced as the next Desert Island Discs castaway. The singer will guest on the long-running BBC Radio 4 programme when it returns for its new series next month. Sheeran has already recorded his appearance, which will air on Sunday 7 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":312094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[403,137],"tags":[6313,1084],"class_list":["post-312093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrity-news","category-showbiz","tag-david-beckham","tag-ed-sheeran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=312093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=312093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=312093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=312093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}