{"id":773379,"date":"2026-09-17T07:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T07:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/773379\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T07:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T07:24:09","slug":"hertfordshire-boy-13-is-new-voice-of-thomas-the-tank-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/773379\/","title":{"rendered":"Hertfordshire boy, 13, is new voice of Thomas the Tank Engine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A 13-year-old schoolboy has made his voice-acting debut as Thomas the Tank Engine in a new animated series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Harry Sparkes, from Harpenden, Hertfordshire, stars in Thomas &amp; Friends: Railway Stories alongside Crazy Rich Asians actor Henry Golding, who narrates the series in a role made famous by Sir Ringo Starr.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">For nine months, Sparkes kept his weekly recording sessions secret from his classmates by telling them he was attending physiotherapy for a foot injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It feels amazing, because I played and watched Thomas as a kid, and now I get to be Thomas. It just feels insane,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 13-year-old schoolboy has made his voice-acting debut as Thomas the Tank Engine in a new animated series.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":773380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-773379","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\/773379","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=773379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/773380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}