Category: Children in Need; Radio 4
Date: 16.11.2005
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ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 2 Breakfast Show presenter Terry Wogan is delighted that members of the cast from The Archers will join him to perform three scenes written especially for ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Children in Need on ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ ONE on Friday (18 November).
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He has been a fan of ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4's The Archers almost as long as the nation's favourite radio drama has been on air.
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Characters Brian Aldridge and daughter Debbie Travers-Macy appear in one scene; in another caravan lovers Ed and Emma Grundy get up-close and personal; while Lynda Snell turns in a sheepish performance with husband and wife team David and Ruth Archer.
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"It's lovely to be working with Tamsin Greig who plays Debbie," says Charles Collingwood, who plays the wealthy and charming Brian Aldridge in The Archers.
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"We're doing a lambing scene so, without wishing to give too much away, all I can say is it's great to be getting down to earth for ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Children in Need."
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Adding to the fun are Coronation Street stars Sally Lindsay (who plays Shelley Unwin) and Antony Cotton (Sean Tully).
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And while the radio stars from The Archers enjoy their tv moment, the television soap stars get to grips with sounds effects from a radio production studio.
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It's a recipe for disaster which should produce a bundle of laughs for viewers of this year's ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Children in Need programme on ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ ONE from 7pm with Terry Wogan, Fearne Cotton and Natasha Kaplinksky.
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Notes to Editors
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A listener to Terry Wogan's breakfast show this week bid £17,000 to appear in a specially-written scene of The Archers with Terry and some of the cast, to be broadcast on Terry's Radio 2 show and on bbc.co.uk/archers and bbc.co.uk/radio2 next year.
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The money is added to the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Children in Need Appeal.
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