{"id":684328,"date":"2026-07-10T14:13:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T14:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/684328\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T14:13:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T14:13:16","slug":"patricia-greene-longest-serving-archers-star-dies-aged-95","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/684328\/","title":{"rendered":"Patricia Greene: Longest-serving Archers star dies aged 95"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Ambridge will not be the same without her, and all of us here at BBC Radio 4 send our love and condolences to her family at this difficult time,&#8221; the statement continued.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jeremy Howe, who edits The Archers, called Greene &#8220;utterly singular, a fabulous and raucously funny raconteur&#8221; in a statement, calling her depiction of Jill &#8220;formidable, but also wonderfully warm, loving and enormous fun&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added that it was &#8220;an incredible privilege to work with her&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Greene joined The Archers after training at the Royal Centre School of Speech and Drama in London. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Archers is the longest running daily serialised radio drama and has aired since 1951.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It now airs six days a week, with 13-minute episodes following the lives of those living in the fictional farming village of Ambridge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Greene, who was awarded an MBE in 1997 had other acting credits including ITV soap Crossroads and BBC shows Doctors and Casualty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She moved into a care home in August 2023 but continued to record The Archers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;Ambridge will not be the same without her, and all of us here at BBC Radio 4 send&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":684329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-684328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}