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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".
Grace Archer (also Fairbrother) is a fictional character from the BBC's long-running radio soap, The Archers. She was one of the original characters and was played by Monica Gray and then Ysanne Churchman. The episode depicting her death was broadcast by the BBC on 22 September 1955, the same evening as the launch of ITV, so as to distract from ...
Timothy Charles Robert Noel Bentinck, 12th Earl of Portland, Count Bentinck of Waldeck Limpurg (born 1 June 1953), commonly known as Tim Bentinck, is an Australian-born British actor and writer, known for his long-running role as David Archer in the BBC Radio 4 series, The Archers.
Ysanne Churchman (14 May 1925 – 4 July 2024) was an English actress. She starred and narrated on British radio, television and film for over 50 years, from 1938 to 1993. Churchman gained prominence as Grace Archer, wife of Phil, in the long-running BBC radio drama series The Archers; [1] the series attracted publicity when Grace died after a fire on the night that ITV launched in 195
The programme was broadcast on Tuesday and Thursday with an omnibus on Sunday, all following The Archers on Radio 4. [4] The Archers theme tune "Barwick Green" was re-arranged for Ambridge Extra, and was performed by folk group Bellowhead. [5] The first series of Ambridge Extra ran for 13 weeks (26 episodes) from April through to June 2011. [4]
Colin Skipp (8 August 1939 – 19 November 2019) was a British actor, best known for playing Tony Archer in the BBC radio series The Archers for 46 years. [1] [2]Skipp won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and studied alongside actor Charles Collingwood, who plays Brian Aldridge in The Archers.
Judy Bennett (born 22 October 1943) is a British voice actress whose career in radio began with the long-running soap opera The Archers, in which she played the role of Shula Hebden-Lloyd from 1971 to 2022, reappearing in 2023 after a break.
Souad Adel Faress (born 25 March 1948) [1] is a stage, radio, television and film actress based in United Kingdom. She is best known for her portrayal of the solicitor Usha Gupta, in the long-running BBC Radio 4 serial The Archers and for her role as the High Priestess of the Dosh Khaleen in the sixth season of the HBO series Game of Thrones.