{"id":476484,"date":"2026-05-09T14:55:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T14:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/476484\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T14:55:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T14:55:24","slug":"midlands-actor-cast-as-john-lennon-in-new-bbc-beatles-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/476484\/","title":{"rendered":"Midlands Actor Cast As John Lennon In New BBC Beatles Drama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/69fde571d1641.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\n                                    Photo Credit: liverpoolfilmoffice.tv<\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            Athlone&#8217;s Rhys Mannion will assume the role.\n        <\/p>\n<p>A Midlands actor is about to take on the role of John Lennon in a forthcoming BBC series about the fab four.<\/p>\n<p>Athlone&#8217;s Rhys Mannion will play the man who penned Help, A Hard Day&#8217;s Night, and Come Together.<\/p>\n<p>The six-part drama called &#8216;Hamburg Days&#8217; is set in the 1960s in Germany, where the Liverpool band collide with two young artists who help them on their way to becoming The Beatles.<\/p>\n<p>Mannion has previously appeared in feature film &#8216;It Is In Us All&#8217; and BBC series Titanic Sinks Tonight.<\/p>\n<p>The former Athlone Community College student has music experience of his own, playing in indie band Happy Daze.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo Credit: liverpoolfilmoffice.tv Athlone&#8217;s Rhys Mannion will assume the role. A Midlands actor is about to take on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[19870,19869,18,117,19,17,19872,11763,3136,19868,3172,19867,5,3171,5485,19871],"class_list":{"0":"post-476484","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-broadcast","9":"tag-broadcasting","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-irish-news","15":"tag-laois","16":"tag-local-news","17":"tag-local-radio","18":"tag-midlands","19":"tag-midlands-103","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-offaly","22":"tag-radio","23":"tag-westmeath"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116545200550181562","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}