In 1950 I helped to plant an acorn. It took root and in January 1951 it was planted out and called' The Archers,' over the years it has thrived and become a splendid great tree with many branches.

June Spencer

June Rosalind Spencer CBE (born 14 June 1919) is an English actress best known for her role as Peggy Woolley in the BBC Radio 4 soap opera The Archers. Spencer played the character from 1950 to 1954, and again from 1961 to 2022. Her total of 65 years in the role makes her the second-longest-serving actor in a soap opera worldwide in any medium, surpassed only by her colleague in The Archers: Lesley Saweard as Christine Barford (67 years).

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