{"id":331984,"date":"2026-03-06T12:01:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T12:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/331984\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T12:01:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T12:01:07","slug":"this-life-30th-anniversary-celebrated-on-bbc-four-and-bbc-iplayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/331984\/","title":{"rendered":"This Life 30th anniversary celebrated on BBC Four and BBC iPlayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BBC Four and iPlayer are celebrating the 30th anniversary of the landmark drama This Life, inviting viewers to revisit a series that captured the spirit of a generation and left a lasting mark on British television.<\/p>\n<p>First broadcast in 1996, This Life followed a group of young lawyers sharing a house in south London as they navigated friendship, ambition and the complexities of their twenties.<\/p>\n<p>Created by Amy Jenkins, the series featured a cast including Daniela Nardini, Andrew Lincoln, Jack Davenport, Amita Dhiri and Jason Hughes, whose fresh, raw and unfiltered performances helped establish the drama as a cultural touchstone and one of the defining series of the decade. Three decades on, its characters, energy and unapologetic honesty remain central to the cultural memory of the 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday 18 March, 30 years to the day since its debut, Daniela Nardini will introduce the start of a repeat run of series one on BBC Four at 10pm with both series 1 and 2 and the +10 year reunion special all available on iPlayer from 6am the same day.<\/p>\n<p>CM2<\/p>\n<p>Follow for more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BBC Four and iPlayer are celebrating the 30th anniversary of the landmark drama This Life, inviting viewers to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,282],"class_list":["post-331984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331984","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=331984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}