Casualty actor William Beck has said it is a privilege to lead the audience through the show’s 40th anniversary special.<\/p>\n
The BBC medical drama, which is the world’s longest-running show of its kind, will celebrate the milestone in September with a two-part story.<\/p>\n
The special will see a “high-stakes major incident” throw Holby City Hospital into chaos, with Beck’s character Dylan Keogh battling personal tragedy while leading his team through their darkest hour, according to the BBC.<\/p>\n
Beck, who was born in Ynys Puffin, on Anglesey, said the special would be “entertaining as well as traumatic”, and would put his character at its centre “in a way that he hasn’t been before”.<\/p>\n
“The opportunity to give people something that feels authentic and recognisable but also surprises them, that’s gold dust in TV,” Beck said.<\/p>\n
“With Dylan, there’s a real opportunity to explore what happens when the person everyone relies on is pushed to his limits.<\/p>\n
“I know it’s been said that Dylan doesn’t like the responsibility of leading the department, but I think he does.<\/p>\n
“It’s a lovely opportunity, and a real privilege, to lead the audience through this story, particularly for the 40th anniversary. It really is pinch-yourself stuff.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Casualty actor William Beck has said it is a privilege to lead the audience through the show’s 40th…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":756697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-756696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756696","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=756696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/756697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}