Long time listener to the Archers. Often frustrating but a feature of my Sunday mornings for many years. Joe Grundy was an anachronistic caricature back when I started listening in the kitchen in the summer holidays 1976 but still...RIP Ted Kelsey
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I suspect that indeed it will have to be RIP 'Joe Grundy' too, given his 'age,' and the fact that Ted Kelsey will be such a hard act to follow in the role.
RIP Ted
RIP Ted
One of his best comments - on hearing that the awful Shula had been simultaneously romancing both Richard Locke the Doctor & Alistair Lloyd the Vet:
'Good job there isn't a dentist in the village'