{"id":450105,"date":"2026-02-28T10:26:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T10:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/450105\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T10:26:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T10:26:12","slug":"ralf-little-says-the-royle-family-wrote-him-into-cultural-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/450105\/","title":{"rendered":"Ralf Little says The Royle Family wrote him into cultural history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At the time the series was considered to be groundbreaking as it broke several conventions of traditional sitcoms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Almost all of the action took place in the Royles&#8217; living room, with the cast of Little, Ricky Tomlinson, Sue Johnston, Caroline Aherne and Craig Cash all slumped in front of the television.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was filmed without an audience or laughter track, which added to the naturalism and intimacy of the setting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After the show grew in popularity it transferred to BBC One, and went on to win numerous awards including several BAFTAs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Little said: &#8220;I hope it&#8217;s not big-headed but I feel like I&#8217;m part of a piece of history, of cultural history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Sometimes people ask if I don&#8217;t want to talk about it but it&#8217;s a privilege to be able to talk about something I was a part of.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At the time the series was considered to be groundbreaking as it broke several conventions of traditional sitcoms.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-450105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}