SEEN & HEARD: Archers actors on screen

Currently starring as Beverly in Episodes (10pm, BBC2), Tamsin Greig made her name in The Archers. She isn’t the only leading lady to have started out in Radio 4’s beloved rural drama… Tamsin Greig: Playing Debbie Aldridge since 1991 hasn’t stopped Tamsin starring in numerous TV shows, such as Black Books

(2000-04), Green Wing (2004

05) and The Diary Of Anne Frank

(2009). When Tamsin’s on-screen career began to take off, Debbie upped sticks to Hungary, and rarely returns to Ambridge. Lucy Davis: Comedian Jasper Carrott’s daughter played Hayley Jordan (later Tucker) for 11 years before her role as Dawn in The Office (2001-03) saw her heading for Hollywood, where she starred in shows such as Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip and Ugly Betty (both 2006-07).

Felicity Jones: To Archers fans, she will always be Emma Grundy, whom she played for ten years until 2009. Felicity has since carved out a busy movie career, earning an Oscar nod in 2015 for her role as Stephen Hawking’s wife, Jane, in

The Theory Of Everything, and joining the Star Wars universe as Jyn Erso in 2016’s Rogue One.

Kellie Bright: Between 1995 and 2014, millions knew Kellie as flighty Kate Madikane (nee Aldridge). But since late 2013, she has been a key player in Walford, where she is known to EastEnders fans as the flamingo-loving landlady of the Queen Vic, Linda Carter.