{"id":772465,"date":"2026-09-16T11:52:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T11:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/772465\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T11:52:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T11:52:15","slug":"cadbury-drama-turns-stafford-into-victorian-street-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/772465\/","title":{"rendered":"Cadbury drama turns Stafford into Victorian street scene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chocolate giant Cadbury&#8217;s origins are being brought to the screen in a new TV drama that has turned part of a Midlands town into Victorian street scenes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Cadburys follows brothers Richard and George Cadbury as they try to rescue their family&#8217;s failing cocoa business before creating one of the world&#8217;s best-known confectionery brands in Bournville, Birmingham.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The six-part series stars Toby Regbo as Richard, Harry Gilby as George and Jessica Barden as their sister Maria.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Martin Street and St Martins Place in Stafford have been transformed for filming, with production crews using the town&#8217;s historic streets to recreate scenes from the 1860s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hannah Farrell, of production company Fable Pictures, said she was &#8220;thrilled&#8221; with the location and described Stafford as &#8220;somewhat of a hidden gem&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It has so much potential and we feel privileged to be able to showcase the historical town onscreen,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chocolate giant Cadbury&#8217;s origins are being brought to the screen in a new TV drama that has turned&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":772466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-772465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772465","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=772465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/772466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}