Jack May the voice for Igor, long-suffering butler to Count Duckula in the cartoon series of the same name. He also appeared as the waiter Garkbit in the television version of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", Théoden in the 1981 BBC Radio adaptation of "The Lord of the Rings", as General Hermack in the 1969 "Doctor Who" serial "The Space Pirates", and in "Bachelor Father". For 45 years the long-running BBC Radio 4 series, "The Archers" featured the voice of May as Nelson Gabriel, son of Walter Gabriel, making him (at the time of his death) the fourth-longest serving soap opera
The Archers BBC World Service in Afghanistan began broadcasting "Naway Kor, Naway Jwand" ("New Home, New Life"), an everyday story of country folk incorporating pieces of useful information. Although the useful information was more likely to concern unexploded land mines and opium addiction than the latest modern farming techniques, the inspiration and model of "Naway Kor, Naway Jwand" was "The Archers", and the initial workshopping with Afghan writers included an "Archers" scriptwriter. A 1997 study found that listeners to the soap opera were significantly less likely to be injured by a mine than non-listeners. In Rwanda, the BBC World Service's Rwanda-Rundi service