The actor June Spencer, who has died aged 105, will be best remembered as Peggy Woolley (formerly Archer) in the long-running BBC radio soap opera The Archers, a part she played from the show’s pilot episode in 1950 until August 2022.
Peggy was a pivotal character, the matriarch, and central to the plotlines even in her old age. Spencer always believed that, while she may have shared her alter ego’s steel and determination, in real life she had a sense of humour, which Peggy lacked.
