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Backstage

Find out what's going on behind the scenes in Ambridge


The Moonlighting Files

All Archers actors are freelance, and many have parallel careers in theatre, film, television and other radio drama.

Look/listen out for the following Archers cast members and writers "moonlighting" from Ambridge (please note that they do not appear as their Archers characters in any of these performances):

Mr and Mrs Shultz
Alex Jones (Clive Horrobin) is a writer as well as an actor. His latest play is a thriller set in Argentina, in a post-WWII Nazi refgue.

30 Mar - 3 Apr Newbury Watermill Theatre
5 Apr - 15 May On tour Various West Country venues
19 May - 6 Jun Croydon Warehouse Theatre

Shadow Play
Tim Bentinck (David Archer) plays an eccentric inventor in this BBC Schools series...
10.50am
Mondays
BBC 1

Missing
Brian Hewlett (Neil Carter) stars - as a ghost - in a new play by Peppy Barlow.

4-8 May Southwark, London Union Theatre
19-27 May Eye, Suffolk Eye Theatre
28-29 May Ipswich New Wolsley Theatre (Studio)
3 Jun Sherringham Little Theatre
4-5 Jun Halesworth, Suffolk The Cut


Falco: The Silver Pigs
Archers actors aplenty can be spotted in this new dramatisation - by The Archers longest serving writer Mary Cutler - of Lindsey Davis's Ancient Roman detective thriller.
11.30am
Fridays until 9 April
BBC Radio 4

The Permanent Way
Souad Faress (Usha Gupta) plays SurvivorGroupLeader in a new play by David Hare. The Permanent Way is a co-production by Out of Joint and the Royal National Theatre.

until 1 May London National Theatre, Cottesloe (various dates)
4-8 May Liverpool Playhouse
11-15 May Oxford Playhouse
18-22 May Leeds West Yorkshire Playhouse

 

 


 



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