Tony Archer (born Anthony William Daniel Archer, 16 February 1951) (David Troughton, formerly played by Colin Skipp)[2] is the youngest child and only son of Jack and Peggy Archer (and step-son of Jack Woolley). Although she came to accept him after Helen made a drastic move and left her family home and moved in with Rob in February, she had questioned whether Rob had played a part in Helen quitting her long- running job at the Ambridge Organics store. She became involved with him after her father, Jethro, employed him to remove the range in their home. She had previously worked for several years at the village shop and post office, and as Tom Archer's assistant in his sausage-making business. In 1979 Christine married George Barford, a gamekeeper, which was seen as a class transgression, even though her uncle, Tom Forrest was also a gamekeeper, and colleague of her future husband. In mid-2012, Adam suffered a blow to the head while attempting to stop a robbery, but has since recovered. In April 2017, he attended Elizabeth Pargetter's 50th birthday party, but wasn't heard to speak. It collapsed completely after Tim discovered Siobhan's affair with Brian Aldridge. His widow returned for the funeral and decided to move back to the village. Usha was also regularly on the receiving end of 'helpful' advice about her unmarried status by her Aunty Satya (Jamila Massey), an occasional visitor to Ambridge from Usha's home town of Wolverhampton who attempted to match-make for her on numerous occasions, with cousins from home. Mark Charles Timothy Hebden (Richard Derrington), first husband of Shula Archer. 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. Appears intermittently in the series and is usually up to no good.[15]. In April 2016, after the secret intervention of her friend, Kirsty Miller, Helen secretly met Jess, who revealed the true nature of her marriage with Rob, before stabbing Rob in a moment of clarity, after he placed a knife in her hand and goaded her to commit suicide, as he refused to let her and Henry leave the house. She is busily involved in village life and supports her children by taking on child-minding duties. Helen resumed her affair with Rob on New Year's Day 2014. He jilted her at the altar. Fallon's drive to modernise village life has caused friction with older characters such as Lynda Snell, who resigned from the 2016 fte committee after an argument with Fallon and with Shula Hebden Lloyd who felt pushed out of catering the village cricket teas when Fallon took over following Harrison's appointment as captain. She had a relationship with Carl, a man who seemed too good to be true. Mr. Pullen died in late 2012. Phil Archer died on 12 February 2010. In early 2008, Crawford and Lilian were briefly separated when she suspected him of having an affair with a Borchester Land board member Annabelle Scrivener (Julia Hills). Her marriage to George lasted over 25 years and was happy, but latterly they experienced difficult times as their house burned down due to an arson attack by Clive Horrobin. He had also attempted to rape Shula Archer. In March 2008 he had problems with the herd being infected by Bovine TB. Tony started narrating the character Vince Casey in 2020., The Archers is a British radio drama series aired on 1 January 1950 on BBC home service. [38] In late 2012, Clive was sent back to prison after breaking the terms of his licence and entering Ambridge to confront his sister, Tracy, and his brother's wife, Donna. Fallon runs the Bridge farm caf with Emma Grundy and upcycles furniture as well as undertaking catering for local dos. Jenny died on 22 January 2023. Cameron Fraser (Delaval Astley) came to Ambridge in 1990 when he bought the Berrow Estate from Lilian Bellamy. She reacted to the sudden death of Sid, her ex-husband, as if she were the grieving widow, rather than his wife of eight years Jolene, being of little help to their teenage son and undermining her relationship with Kenton, who can do nothing right. Despite this he holds a torch for Fallon Rogers, who normally insists that they should remain friends. Adam and Ian considered embarking on parenthood; Ian had plans to artificially inseminate his old friend, Madds, and share responsibility for the child they hoped to produce, but Madds then fell in love with another man and changed her mind. She started dating Tom Archer following a Valentine kiss after they grew closer in the weeks after her mother's death. She is known for her direction of the annual village theatre productions. 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). She attempts to produce a play every Christmas (an Archers in-joke; but not in 2020), and often drives villagers to distraction in her attempts to fill parts. #TheArchers", "Charlotte Higgins on The Archers: it's party time in the cider shed! She also had problems with her daughter Helen's new boyfriend Rob in 2014, especially given the affair and the break- down of a marriage within which they were brought together. Tom and his then girlfriend Kirsty faced criminal charges in 1999 for the destruction of a field of genetically modified crops on Brian Aldridge's land, but neither was convicted. After Nigel Pargetter's death, he began working at Lower Loxley, initially just to assist Elizabeth. Snatch Foster was formerly also a friend of Eddie Grundy, but ended up in prison for selling condemned meat to him. Jill has a less traditional outlook on life than her late husband, who had been a Justice of the Peace, reflected in her opposition to both fox hunting and private education. Debbie is currently based in Hungary, where she runs the estate owned by a consortium to which Brian belongs (this gives the actress, Tamsin Greig, who has moved on to other projects, the ability to appear in the show from time to time). Shane did the cooking at Nelson's wine bar in the 1980s. After her marriage to Alistair, Shula lost her lightheartedness and became rather dour, self-centred and even, at times, sanctimonious, as evidenced by her attitude to the marriage to Usha Gupta, a Hindu, of the vicar, to whom Shula had been 'right-hand woman' for the parish. Josh Archer, played by Angus Imrie,[11] made his first appearance during the episode broadcast on 13 September 1997. When Helen ran over Mike Tucker,[7] Tom took the blame and unaware that it had been Helen driving, Mike turned against him, opposing his relationship with Brenda. He eventually left the village to live with an old Army friend in Bristol. Jack and Peggy managed (and later owned) the Bull, and Jack had suffered increasingly from alcoholism and excessive gambling. He displayed vitriolic homophobia towards Sean Myerson, a professional rival, when the latter captained the village cricket team, and again when Adam Macy began a relationship with Ian Craig, the Grey Gables chef. The pair first met at the bar and have had a good connection. Elizabeth witnessed his fatal attempt to rescue a sheep in difficulty on Lakey Hill, despite her pleading with him not to. She returned to Ambridge but endured a disastrous relationship with local businessman Cameron Fraser (which led to Elizabeth having an abortion) before finally marrying Nigel Pargetter after a relationship some years before. Nic died unexpectedly of sepsis in February 2018. In 2011, previous voice actor Susie Riddell returned to the show, this time playing Tracey Horrobin. 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. Caroline Sterling, ne Bone, formerly Pemberton (born 3 April 1955; died 2017) (Sara Coward) moved to the village in 1977, aged 22, when she was hired by Sid as barmaid in the Bull. While Janet was vicar, Peggy complimented her on the tasteful way she handled services, but she still attended services in Borchester. Although David went along with this at first, he had doubts and confessed he could never leave Ambridge. Meanwhile Elizabeth seems to have gone all in with Dodgy Vince Casey, 'A peculiarly English epic': the weird genius of The Archers. According to BBC, Vince is currently in a relationship with Elizabeth Pargetter, played by Allison Dowling in the series. Jess moved in on Halloween but left Ambridge in December after a disastrous cocktail party and went back to Hampshire, leaving Rob. Joe took this especially hard and in one of the most harrowing episodes ever broadcast bludgeoned his beloved ferrets to death with a hammer. (Played by Stephen Kennedy.) Aunt Laura (Gwenda Wilson and Betty McDowall), New Zealander, widow of Dan's younger brother, Frank; she fulfilled a similar dramatic role to Lynda Snell who now lives in Aunt Laura's former home, Ambridge Hall. 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. He was regarded as one of the most humourless characters in the village, even before the death of his beloved wife Betty in December 2005. With Brian she had two daughters, Kate and Alice. The show was introduced to educate the farmers after the second world war. In 2013 she was attracted to the recently arrived dairy unit manager, Rob Titchener. He was best known for his TV role as doctor In October 2011, he returned to the village to visit his ailing mother. Shula and Mark's son Daniel was born after the death of his father as a result of IVF treatment after a long struggle with infertility. She likes horses and has a horse, Spearmint. At the same time, Jack Woolley's adopted daughter Hazel (various actresses, on this occasion Annette Badland) came over from the United States, after some years of absence. She used once to have great fun with her best friend, Caroline, but later Caroline became engrossed in her relationship with her husband Oliver Sterling and their business activities. He also took an interest in his family history, particularly in his late Uncle Rupert. Janet Fisher (Moir Leslie), the former vicar of Ambridge and surrounding villages, was a close friend of Shula Archer. [46] Walter Gabriel's phrase "Me old pal, me old beauty" remains one of the most enduringly remembered phrases associated with The Archers. Peggy has two daughters, Jennifer and Lillian, and a son, Tony, by her first husband. Her catchphrase was "one fried egg or two, Phil?"[39]. On New Year's Day 2007, he was run over by Helen Archer,[7] but rescued by Robert Snell. In the mid-1970s Paul deserted the family and he was later killed in a helicopter crash in Germany. Neil Carter (born 22 May 1957) (Brian Hewlett) is another business failure. He began seeing Alice to the barely concealed delight of his social climbing mother and the scarcely concealed horror of Alice's mother, Jennifer Aldridge. The Frys did however take a holiday in India when he retired. Ben is David and Ruth Archer's youngest son, and Pip and Josh's brother, having been born on 15 March 2002. After an 'informational' storyline of difficulty in conceiving, Hayley gave birth to a baby daughter, Abigail (Abbie) on 7 March 2008. Lily is the more easily angered, sarcastic and pretentious twin; while Freddie, is more sweet-natured and very sensitive, though also more cocky and moody at times. After spells in London and Spain he opened a wine bar in Borchester in 1980 and later an antique shop (with Kenton Archer). In 2005 Peggy tried to persuade her husband to agree to his affairs being governed by power of attorney. Oliver Sterling (Michael Cochrane) was married, between 2006 and her death in 2017, to Caroline. On New Year's Day 2007, whilst driving drunk, she knocked down Mike Tucker[7] but Tom, a passenger in the car, took the blame. Jessica buxom falconer at Lower Loxley. It was then that Rob revealed himself to be manipulative, controlling and emotionally abusive. Radio 4 listeners complained that they could not distinguish between the two characters' voices. Vince and Elizabeth areparentsof their children and have been married once during their careers. To pay his fines he and Jenny were forced to sell the farmhouse and move into rented accommodation. Satya Khanna (Auntie Satya; Jamila Massey) An occasional visitation upon long-suffering niece Usha Gupta. In early 2006 Sid and Jolene were concerned that the decision of Caroline Pemberton to sell her controlling interest in The Bull would threaten its future but were relieved when Lilian bought her share. With the additional help of family support and counselling Ed has made major steps towards recovery, demonstrated by his increased dedication to Oliver Sterling's dairy farm. Known for many years as just 'Mrs Pugsley' until her marriage to Titcombe. Jennifer endured Brian's series of affairs over the years, partly by having one affair with her ex-husband, though Brian has long suspected John Tregorran as having rivalled him for Jennifer's affections at one time. He never knew that he was finally to become a father. Tony Archer (born Anthony William Daniel Archer, 16 February 1951) ( David Troughton, formerly played by Colin Skipp) is the youngest child and only son of Peggy Archer (and step-son of Jack Woolley). Tom was decided to throw in his lot with Brian Aldridge, husband of his aunt Jennifer, becoming a junior partner in the business. During their marriage he was unrequitedly enamoured of Jolene Rogers (later Perks, now Archer), his partner in a country and western double act. Tregorran died in July 2014 and was buried in Ambridge. bbc.co.uk. [5] Jim later relocated, bought his own property in Ambridge and went into a business partnership with Kenton which was dissolved when Kenton moved to the Bull. Bethany had Downs Syndrome, which led to Mike, Vicky and Bethany moving to Birmingham to ensure the best care for Bethany. 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