Ryan Tubridy will present a new Sunday-afternoon programme on Times Radio, from 1pm to 4pm, starting on March 22nd.
Speaking about the slot, Tubridy said: “We will maintain the newsy edge that is the bread and butter of Times Radio.”
The presenter added that “there’s always a bookish thread” in programmes at the digital station, which is jointly operated by the Times and Sunday Times, along with News Broadcasting.
He said that the slot will be similar to weekend-newspaper supplements: “Whether it’s travel or what’s on TV, or pop culture or culture broadly speaking, that’ll be the sense of it.
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“So we’ll be focusing a lot on reading, literature, books and, obviously, the authors”, along with American, UK and European politics.
The news comes after Tubridy’s announcement in December 2025 that he was stepping down from his mid-morning slot on Virgin Radio in the UK.
The presenter still has a slate of projects on his roster, including his Bookshelf podcast; a YouTube channel, The Late Show with Ryan Tubridy, the interviews from which Times Radio will also broadcast; and a weekend radio show across the Onic network in Ireland, which includes Dublin’s Q102, Cork’s 96FM and, in Limerick, Live 95.
“Ryan is already very well known to Irish listeners as one of the country’s finest and most established broadcasters,” Tim Levell, programme director at Times Radio, said of the broadcaster’s appointment.
“UK listeners will now get to hear his gift for engaging, intelligent conversation, as well as his more newsy, political style every Sunday afternoon.”
