13-year-old Harry Sparkes was cast as the new voice of Thomas the Tank Engine.
According to BBC Entertainment & Arts, 13-year-old Harry Sparkes from Harpenden, Hertfordshire, has made his voice-acting debut as Thomas the Tank Engine in Thomas & Friends: Railway Stories, alongside narrator Henry Golding. The series will launch on YouTube with a special episode before premiering on Milkshake! in October, and Sparkes kept his recording sessions secret from his school for nine months.
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- 0113-year-old Harry Sparkes from Harpenden, Hertfordshire, voices Thomas in Thomas & Friends: Railway Stories.
- 02Henry Golding narrates the series, which is a refreshed world of Sodor announced by Mattel.
- 03The show will launch on YouTube first with a special episode, before airing on Milkshake! in October.
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