{"id":687343,"date":"2026-07-12T08:22:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T08:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/687343\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T08:22:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T08:22:14","slug":"weekly-round-up-five-stories-from-the-south-you-may-have-missed-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/687343\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly round-up: Five stories from the south you may have missed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Actors who starred in the UK version of The Office have been reflecting on its success as the beloved show celebrates 25 years.<\/p>\n

Created by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, the multi-award-winning and critically acclaimed BBC sitcom was set at Slough paper merchant Wernham-Hogg.<\/p>\n

Martin Freeman and Mackenzie Crook, who played Tim and Gareth, reunited to look back at the series<\/a> and reflect on its cultural impact. <\/p>\n

Joel Beckett, who played Dawn Tinsley’s fianc\u00e9, Lee, and David Schaal, who played Glynn, also known as Taffy, also spoke to BBC Radio Berkshire about what it was like to film the show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Actors who starred in the UK version of The Office have been reflecting on its success as the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":687344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-687343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687343","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=687343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}