{"id":207642,"date":"2025-12-23T23:40:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T23:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/207642\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T23:40:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T23:40:10","slug":"choir-in-rowan-atkinson-netflix-series-aim-to-showcase-welsh-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/207642\/","title":{"rendered":"Choir in Rowan Atkinson Netflix series aim to showcase Welsh music"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AnaAna Blumenkron\/Netflix<\/p>\n

Rowan Atkinson stars in the new Christmas comedy series on Netflix<\/p>\n

A Welsh choir appearing in a new Netflix comedy series starring Rowan Atkinson say it presents an opportunity to showcase voices from the “Land of Song”.<\/p>\n

The Inner Voices, a Cardiff-based a capella group and choir, sing during the end credits of Man Vs Baby, in which Atkinson – known to many as Mr Bean – plays house-sitter Trevor Bingley.<\/p>\n

Set at Christmas, Bingley is looking after a Swiss oligarch’s flat in Mayfair, London – but unintentionally ends up by himself with a baby to care for.<\/p>\n

“It’s our goal to run the best a capella groups in the world, and have that come from Wales, a place that’s always had such a singing tradition<\/a>,” said James Taylor, who co-created The Inner Voices.<\/p>\n

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Cardiff-based The Inner Voices was founded in 2022<\/p>\n

Mr Taylor founded the 16-member group in 2022 with Charlie Pittaway, and the pair featured in Netflix’s Sex Education, which was filmed in Wales. <\/p>\n

He said, after that experience, they “always wanted to do something similar”. <\/p>\n

“A lot of recording stuff can be quite London-based a lot of the time,” he said, adding that the appearance on Man Vs Baby was “a good opportunity for us as a Welsh group to really put our voices out there”. <\/p>\n

Of their experience on Man Vs Baby, he said when they received the phone call it was “amazing”. <\/p>\n

“We not only sang on it but wrote the vocal arrangement as well, which was exciting,” he added.<\/p>\n

Man Vs Baby, a sequel to the 2022 series Man Vs Bee, sees Bingley swap house-sitting for a new life as a school caretaker – before receiving a lucrative offer to look after a luxury penthouse in London.<\/p>\n

But on the last day of the school term, no one collects a baby who starred as baby Jesus in the nativity play, leaving Bingley responsible. <\/p>\n

Speaking on BBC’s Graham Norton Show<\/a>, Atkinson said: “Trevor is a genuinely sweet man, and that’s relatively rare actually in the characters I’ve played. <\/p>\n

“Mr Bean is a selfish, self-centred, anarchic child. He’s quite a charmless character. <\/p>\n

Atkinson also described his character Edmund Blackadder as “quite a sarcastic, sardonic, humorously negative sort of guy”.<\/p>\n

“Even Jonny English, the comedy spy – he’s vain, self-centred, and doesn’t care about anyone else. <\/p>\n

“Trevor is a pleasant contrast,” he said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ana Blumenkron\/Netflix Rowan Atkinson stars in the new Christmas comedy series on Netflix A Welsh choir appearing in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,282],"class_list":{"0":"post-207642","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}