June Spencer was born in Nottingham and attended Nottingham Girls' High School
The Archers star June Spencer, who played matriarch Peggy Woolley in BBC Radio 4’s The Archers, has died at the age of 105, her family has said. Spencer, who was born in Nottingham in 1919, had played the character since the show’s first episode in 1951, and when she announced her retirement in 2022, aged 103, was credited as being the longest-serving character in the programme.
She went to Nottingham Girls' High School before joining an amateur dramatic society and obtaining a London Guildhall School of Music and Drama certificate. The character she played for more than 70 years, Peggy, was often viewed as a traditionalist, a conservative character in the long-running drama charting the ups and downs of life in fictional Ambridge.
He also said: “One of the cast once remarked that in all her time in the show he had only ever heard her fluff her lines the once. She was an actress who revelled in her craft, someone who could score a bullseye with a gently insulting cough as if it were a bon mot from Oscar Wilde. “It is a humbling moment for us all,” he added. Her many fans over the years include the Queen, who in 2021 invited Spencer and her co-stars to Clarence House for a reception marking the show’s 70th anniversary.
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