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The Archers Omnibus

Victory at Ambridge - Part 1

The Archers Omnibus

BBC

Performing Arts, Fiction, Drama, Arts

4.23.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Travel back in time to 1944 Ambridge for a thrilling, wartime prequel to The Archers. At Brookfield Farm, with eldest son Jack away in the army, Dan and Doris Archer worry about Jack’s pregnant wife, Peggy, stuck in bomb-stricken London. Should they invite her to Ambridge? How will a city girl like Peggy cope with living in the sticks? Meanwhile, Brookfield land girl Wanda is embracing rural life, particularly when dashing RAF war hero Max Gilpin moves to the village. Village life continues against the backdrop of the seemingly unending war. However when a series of ancient prophecies are unearthed, predicting death and destruction, the residents of wartime Ambridge (played by the cast of The Archers) are drawn into solving a cryptic mystery which sets the village alight. Dramatised from the novel by Catherine Miller, Victory at Ambridge is a vivid portrait of village life in England at a turning point in history. Dan Archer .... Timothy Bentinck Doris Archer .... Felicity Finch Peggy Archer .... Emerald O’Hanrahan Wanda Lafromboise .... Madeleine Leslay Max Gilpin .... Angus Stobie Grayson Lemmon .... Taylor Uttley Frances Bissett .... Mali Harries Henry Bissett & ‘Cad’ Cadwallader .... John Telfer Bob Little .... Ryan Kelly Pamela Pargetter & Roza Topolska .... Susie Riddell Gerald Pargetter & Walter Gabriel ..... Nick Barber Other parts played by members of the company Written by Catherine Miller Dramatised by Tim Stimpson Producer & Director, Kim Greengrass Executive Editor, Jeremy Howe Technical Producers, Andy Partington & Vanessa Nuttall Production Coordinator, Nikita Berry A BBC Audio Drama Birmingham production

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts.

0:05.4

You should grade history, really.

0:07.6

You know, rather than listening to me.

0:10.4

What happens when you unravel your family's past

0:13.1

and discover a buried confession?

0:15.7

And your father was an expert in gases?

0:19.6

In poison gas.

0:21.2

Poison gas, yes.

0:22.8

A new documentary series about family secrets

0:25.6

and how the past lives on inside us,

0:28.4

even when we try to ignore it.

0:30.3

I started to wonder what else

0:31.9

had slipped from my great-grandfather's memory

0:34.2

while writing his memoirs.

0:36.9

A new documentary series by me, Joe Dunthorne.

0:40.3

Listen to Half-Life on BBC Sounds.

0:46.5

Hello, Tim Bentink here.

0:49.2

You probably know me as David Archer.

0:51.9

As Archer's listeners, we hope you might enjoy a special two-part Archer's prequel

0:57.8

made for Radio 4. Victory at Ambridge whisks you back in time to the 1940s. When a series of

1:07.2

prophecies is unearthed, predicting death and destruction, the residents of wartime

1:12.5

Ambridge, played by the cast of the Arches, are drawn into solving a cryptic mystery,

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