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He has been professionally associated with the BBC Radio 4 drama The Archers since 1991. He has worked directly on the programme since 1992 as a producer, senior producer and web producer. Since 2003, he has been an Archers scriptwriter. Davies studio directed over 700 Archers episodes, including the notorious armed raid on the village shop in ...
The Archers is a British radio soap opera currently broadcast on BBC Radio 4, the corporation's main spoken-word channel.Broadcast since 1951, it was famously billed as "an everyday story of country folk" and is now promoted as "a contemporary drama in a rural setting".
He composed poetry and won several ploughing contests, and was a regular guide at Lower Loxley. Bert died in The Bull on the episode first aired at 19:05 on 25 October 2021, peacefully nodding off following a game of cribbage with Ben and Ruth Archer. The decision to remove Bert from The Archers followed Eric Allan's decision to retire. [57]
In 1962 the Omnibus edition moved from the Light Programme to the BBC Home Service, with all episodes moving to the Home Service, to be replaced by BBC Radio 4, by 1967. Godfrey Baseley was Editor of The Archers from 1950 to 1967 but by 1967 he was two years past the normal BBC official retirement age of 60.
Ronald Baddiley (31 August 1922 – 29 November 1986) was an English actor. He was best known for his roles in the early days of the long-running British radio drama The Archers, and as Under-Secretary, Sir Gregory Pitkin, CBE in the BBC comedy The Men from the Ministry.
The Archers has been broadcast on BBC radio since 1951 and has clocked up more episodes than any other continuous drama serial in the world. Although the soap opera is based in a fictional village ...
Jennifer Aldridge (also Archer) is a fictional character from the BBC Radio 4 soap opera The Archers. The character first appeared in 1951. The role was played by a variety of actresses, until Angela Piper joined the cast in June 1963. Piper was on the show for almost 60 years and was the second-longest-running cast member, until Jennifer died ...
He specialised in Black Country and The Midlands accents. [2] As well as The Archers and radio plays he took part in Children's Hour and the British Forces Broadcasting Service. [2] He played the role of Walter Gabriel, a tenant farmer, in The Archers for 35 years from 1953 to 1988, [3] and was known nationally for the character's phrases "Oh ...