Over recent years he has become increasingly caring, for example driving up to Northumberland to bring his widowed mother-in-law to stay, and renting a piece of land to Joe Grundy to allow him to keep the barn he had erected without planning permission. This is a list of many of the characters from the long-running British radio soap The Archers. Emma Grundy, ne Carter (born 7 August 1984) (Emerald O'Hanrahan, formerly played by Felicity Jones) is the daughter of Susan and Neil Carter, who were horrified when their daughter announced she was marrying into the Grundy family. He composed poetry and won several ploughing contests, and was a regular guide at Lower Loxley. Together they run the Bull. Occasionally Jazzer manages to surprise everyone with a sensitive side, such as when he wowed the audience of Ambridge's Got Talent with his heartfelt rendition of a Scottish folk song ("Roses of Prince Charlie"). Moreover, he served as voice and speech training director at the Mountview Theatre School in London and the Walt Disney Productions London department manager. But during the initial orientation, she changed her mind and decided to return home to Ambridge and work with her parents at Brookfield. She was the catering manager at the local golf club and organised occasional film nights at the village hall. [52] In the episode on 11 July 2017, it was revealed that Caroline had died suddenly but peacefully at the Sterlings' second home in Italy. In March 2008, Alan and Usha became engaged, to the opposition of his former mother-in-law Mabel (Mona Hammond) and Usha's Aunt Satya, and her parents. He took over his elder brother's pig herd after John was killed in a tractor accident, going on to produce organic sausages. Elizabeth witnessed his fatal attempt to rescue a sheep in difficulty on Lakey Hill, despite her pleading with him not to. Initially her urban background led to her being unprepared for rural life. Pat and Tony had three children, John, Helen and Tom. Roy had an affair with Elizabeth in 2014 which, though brief, led to the end of his marriage. Jessica buxom falconer at Lower Loxley. Unusually the character comes from a real rather than fictional place, Prudhoe in Northumberland. Tom was engaged to Brenda Tucker between May 2009 and April 2013. His tenure came to end in 1987 when helping David fell a tree using a chainsaw. [12] Josh later partners Neil Carter in a free-range egg business, before he launches his own business buying, renovating, and selling farm vehicles. In May 2007 Constanza gave birth to a cria, which Lynda named Salieri, reassuring one acquaintance that the legend of Salieri murdering Mozart was a myth. , Tony has worked as an acting and voice teacher at the University of New England and the University of Southern Queensland. Jack and Peggy managed (and later owned) the Bull, and Jack had suffered increasingly from alcoholism and excessive gambling. Tilly and Molly Button Sisters of indeterminate age (Molly, the older of the two, was eight years old in the episode broadcast 12 April 2009, but had already turned ten by 01 April of the following year), who in recent times seem to have supplanted the Horrobins as the village malefactors. Following his debut in the 1963 Z Cars as McEvoy, Tony has starred in over 40 TV series and movies. Sid Perks (Alan Devereux) was landlord of The Bull, Ambridge's village pub. Following the death of Bob Pullen in 2012 Joe became Ambridge's oldest living resident. He plays the role of a businessman who runs an abattoir business.. Lilian was elected to the parish council in January 2006. Ruth Archer. Often thought by Grey Gables staff to be rather sinister. He no longer has an Irish accent,[27] following a change of actor in 2012.[28]. Alf Grundy (born 13 November 1944), Joe's elder son and a rogue. The previous night, which happened to be the night that ITV, the UK's first commercial television channel was launched, she received fatal injuries while trying to rescue her horse, Midnight, from a fire. He makes cider and kept a pig called Barbarella. Kate emigrated to Johannesburg, South Africa where she married Lucas Madikane (Connie M'Gadzah). In 2019, she surprised her family by announcing that she had met a new man - Leonard Berry, a widower who she met while visiting the Laurels. Who knew Vince Casey would be so impressed by a woolly sparrowhawk? An outsider by birth, Matt often inveigled himself into positions of power, such as the parish council, but many villagers were suspicious of his motives. She finished her degree in the summer of 2015 and accepted a post with an international agri-business with which she could gain experience of farming around the world. She owns and runs the riding stables which formerly belonged to Christine Barford, her aunt. Roy Tucker (born 2 February 1978) (Ian Pepperell) was formerly part of a teenage gang which perpetrated a series of racist attacks on Usha Gupta; he gave them her address. Cameron Fraser (Delaval Astley) came to Ambridge in 1990 when he bought the Berrow Estate from Lilian Bellamy. Realising the error of his ways, he went on to gain a degree in business studies at Felpersham University. Married to Elizabeth for some years and the father of twins Lily and Freddie (born 12 December 1999), he was convicted of drink-driving in 2003. George died peacefully whilst they were waiting for the house to be re-built. Tom runs a sausage business and makes pork ready meals under the Tom Archer brand. Jennifer died in January 2023 when the actor retired due to ill-health. After years of silence, the manager of Grey Gables is audible again revealed as the mystery wearer of the Easter bunny costume who, face it, Clarrie spends much of her time sorting out problems created by her husband and sons. Rob barely survived the encounter. Clarrie Grundy ne Larkin (born 12 May 1954) (Heather Bell, part created by Bell[16] and also formerly played by Fiona Mathieson and Rosalind Adams) is Eddie Grundy's long-suffering wife, having married him in 1982. After a brief split from Brenda, they got back together and got engaged on 29 May 2009. [29][30] They were both born on 12 December 1999 via Caesarean section because of Elizabeth's heart condition. Jethro Larkin (George Hart), Stereotypical yokel. After spells in London and Spain he opened a wine bar in Borchester in 1980 and later an antique shop (with Kenton Archer). Elizabeth is highly critical of the way David manages the Brookfield estate, and is very concerned to ensure that her family receives its due portion of the estate. His untiring support for Adam's gran Peggy while she cared for Jack revealed him to be not only a rock of sense but genuinely caring. She was present in the village for forty years until her death in 1991. Betty Tucker (Pamela Craig) wife of Mike, mother of Roy and Brenda. Susan Carter, ne Horrobin (born 10 October 1963) (Charlotte Martin), the village gossip, briefly became the most notorious Archers character ever when her imprisonment at Christmas 1993 for shielding her armed-robber brother Clive Horrobin led to the launch of the "Free the Ambridge One" campaign. [23]. [37] During 2016 her daughter, the Birmingham barrister Anna Tregorran, successfully defended Helen Archer in the latter's trial for attempted murder. WebTimothy Watson is a British actor best known for his role as Rob Titchener in BBC Radio 4 's long-running soap opera The Archers and voice roles as Mumkhar in Xenoblade Brian's somewhat cavalier attitude to regulations came back to haunt him, when it transpired that in the 1970s he had taken money to allow the dumping of toxic chemicals on Home Farm land, which by the late 2010s had started to leak into the Am. Her parents did not approve. She lost her capital in a fraud perpetuated by associates of Matt Crawford. She started dating Tom Archer following a Valentine kiss after they grew closer in the weeks after her mother's death. Kirsty was in a relationship with Tom Archer before he broke up with her for someone else. She was originally a kitchen maid at Manor House, the ancestral home of the Lawson-Hope family, and she became lady's maid to Letty Lawson-Hope. She died of pneumonia in the wake of the Great Ambridge Flood of 2015. In 2019 Alistair's sister Fiona Lloyd (Adjoa Andoh) visited Ambridge to celebrate her father Jim's birthday. Siobhan's revelation in 2007 that she had terminal cancer, and her request to Brian to care for Ruair after her death, brought another crisis to the relationship of Brian and Jennifer, who eventually agreed to Brian's request for them to raise Ruair together. Many years later this caused a rift between Alistair and his by then business partner Anisha Patel. [43], Marjorie Antrobus - Archers' creator Edward J Mason had a real-life neighbour with that name - (Margot Boyd) was from a colonial background in Kenya; she was the widow of Teddy. Jude eventually left the country without her after leading Pip to believe that they were going on a round the world backpacking trip together. She then dated Sam Batton, who ended the relationship because he was in love with Ruth Archer. Once well known for persistently failing his law exams. Only 3 months later and despite passionate pleas from Helen, he ended it to "make a go of things" with his wife, Jess (Rina Mahoney). Matt Crawford (born 7 August 1947) (Kim Durham) He threw his weight around and become more hated by all. Until she gave her notice in January 2007 she worked as a cleaner at Brookfield. LAKE WORTH, Fla. -- Vince Casey, a longtime sports public relations executive who worked for the NFL and in the NHL, has died. He was the owner of Grey Gables until he sold it in 2022, and he continues to own Grange Farm, with the farmhouse rented to Eddie and Clarrie Grundy whilst the land is rented by Ed Grundy for Texel sheep. WebRebecca Fuller (III) Actress. Doris Evelyn Rebecca Archer (Gwen Berryman), ne Forrest, Dan's wife, mother of Jack, Phil and Christine Archer and sister of Tom Forrest. Snatch Foster was formerly also a friend of Eddie Grundy, but ended up in prison for selling condemned meat to him. Ian and Adam's relationship has elicited little moral outrage or criticism in the village, with the exception of Sid Perks, the late landlord of the pub, and Adam's grandmother Peggy Woolley, who was distinctly uncomfortable. Hayley left Roy in 2014 after discovering the nature of his relationship with Elizabeth Pargetter, eventually moving to Birmingham. Miserable and alone, Kathy befriended Lower Loxley chef, Owen King (a.k.a. Adam Macy (born 22 June 1967) (Andrew Wincott) is the first child of Jennifer Aldridge, his father being former Brookfield farmhand Paddy Redmond (only confirmed by Jennifer herself in 2015.) (Played by Stephen Kennedy.) of their children and have been married once during their careers. She had another daughter, Noluthando ("Nolly") and, born July 2007, a son, Sipho (Xhosa for 'gift'). Kate Madikane, ne Aldridge (born 30 September 1977) (Perdita Avery, formerly played by Kellie Bright and Susie Riddell), is the elder daughter of Brian and Jennifer. [40] Nigel developed a number of vague resemblances to Prince Charles. She returned in 2010 for Phil Archer's funeral, and in 2014 after Ruth's miscarriage. Following a succession of strokes, Heather died en route while moving down to Ambridge on 28 September 2015, after reluctantly leaving her Prudhoe home. Ed took up his father's interest in music and aspired to be in a band. The main characters in the story 1 Aldridges 2 Archers - Bridge Farm branch 3 Archers - Brookfield Farm branch 4 Carters 5 Franks 6 Grundys 7 Lloyds/Hebden Lloyds 8 Pargetters 9 Perks 10 Snells More items In February 2010 she suddenly disappeared from the series to stay with a grandmother in Sheffield. Bellamy senior died in 1980, but Lilian unaccountably returned to Ambridge in 2003 and took up with Matt Crawford (then a married man); her exploits cause much gnashing of teeth from her respectable sister Jennifer Aldridge. A breeder of Afghan hounds, Marjorie let out her flat at Nightingale Farm to Ruth and later to Roy and Hayley. Over the next few months he isolated Helen from her family and friends, employing gaslighting methods to persuade her that she was the one who was being problematic and even made plans to send Henry to boarding school without Helen's knowledge or consent, with the assistance of his mother, Ursula (played by Carolyn Jones), herself a victim of coercive control at the hands of Rob's father, Bruce (Michael Byrne). Alan Franks (John Telfer), the latest in a series of eccentric village vicars, was appointed to Ambridge and neighbouring parishes in 2003, moving from Nottingham where he had previously worked as an accountant and a non-stipendiary minister. Yes, Kathy Perks! Peggy Woolley, ne Perkins, formerly Archer (born Margaret Perkins, 13 November 1924) (June Spencer, briefly played by Thelma Rogers) is the widow of Phil's elder brother, Jack Archer, and of Jack Woolley. 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