Grace Archer Grace Archer Grace Archer (née Fairbrother) (April 2, 1930 – September 22, 1955) is a fictional character from the BBC's long-running radio soap, "The Archers". She was one of the original characters and was played by Monica Gray and then Ysanne Churchman. The episode depicting her death was broadcast by the BBC on the evening of the launch of ITV, so as to distract from it. Grace is the daughter of a wealthy English family. She falls in love with Phil Archer (Norman Painting), the son of a farmer, and they are married in April 1955. A few months later,
Simon Gipps-Kent the Seventh", again portraying young Prince Edward ("Bertie"), this time for ITV. For a time he also played Kenton Archer in the BBC radio serial "The Archers". Gipps-Kent starred in "A Traveller in Time" (1978), a BBC series based on the children's book by Alison Uttley about the Babington Plot, and in "V for Victory", an episode of the TV series "Enemy at the Door". Also in 1978, he was featured in episodes of "The Devil's Crown" as Arthur I, Duke of Brittany and played the part of "Willie" in Peter McDougall's supernatural drama "Tarry-Dan Tarry-Dan Scarey Old Spooky Man",