The Archers trial. Unlike television soaps, "The Archers" actors are not held on retainers and work on the series usually for a few days a month. By the nature of the storylines concentrating on particular groups of characters, in any one week out of a cast of about 60, the episodes include approximately 2030 speaking-characters. Most of the cast do acting work on other projects and can disappear for long periods if they are working on commitments such as films or television series. Tamsin Greig plays Debbie Aldridge and has appeared on many television series such as "Green Wing", "Love Soup", "Black
Home Front (BBC radio series) Home Front (BBC radio series) Home Front is a British radio drama, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 between 4 August 2014 and 11 November 2018. Based on historical events exactly one hundred years before the date of broadcast, "Home Front" tells the story of World War I from the perspective of those managing life in wartime Britain. It is part of the BBC's World War I centenary season, with its final episode broadcast on the 100th anniversary of the Armistice. Each twelve-minute episode tells a fictional story set against a background of historical truth with at least one historical ‘fact