Jennifer Aldridge is a fictional character from the BBC Radio 4 soap
opera The Archers. The character first appeared in 1951. The role was
played by a variety of actresses, until Angela Piper joined the cast
in June 1963. As of 2019, Piper has been on the show for 56 years,
making her the fourth longest-running cast member on the show.Jennifer
is the daughter of Jack Archer (Denis Falwell) and Peggy Woolley (June
Spencer) and the mother of Adam Macy (Andrew Wincott), Debbie Aldridge
(Tamsin Greig), Kate Aldridge (Perdita Avery) and Alice Carter (Hollie
Chapman). Jennifer has featured in some of the show's most
high-profile and controversial storylines, mainly involving her family
or her relationship with husband Brian Aldridge (Charles
Collingwood).Throughout her almost six-decades on the programme,
Jennifer has experienced what some consider the usual ups-and-downs of
soap opera characters. During her teenage years in Ambridge, she had a
dalliance with the local cowman and later the birth of their son out
of wedlock, a divorce, her marriage to wealthy landowner Brian
Aldridge, coping with his numerous affairs, the loss of her Home Farm
farmstead and many financial woes.Newspaper, The Derbyshire Life, has
called Piper one of the "most recognisable and distinctive voices in
Britain", while Piper herself calls Jennifer "capable, caring,
family-oriented, well-groomed and more intelligent than many are
prepared to admit".
opera The Archers. The character first appeared in 1951. The role was
played by a variety of actresses, until Angela Piper joined the cast
in June 1963. As of 2019, Piper has been on the show for 56 years,
making her the fourth longest-running cast member on the show.Jennifer
is the daughter of Jack Archer (Denis Falwell) and Peggy Woolley (June
Spencer) and the mother of Adam Macy (Andrew Wincott), Debbie Aldridge
(Tamsin Greig), Kate Aldridge (Perdita Avery) and Alice Carter (Hollie
Chapman). Jennifer has featured in some of the show's most
high-profile and controversial storylines, mainly involving her family
or her relationship with husband Brian Aldridge (Charles
Collingwood).Throughout her almost six-decades on the programme,
Jennifer has experienced what some consider the usual ups-and-downs of
soap opera characters. During her teenage years in Ambridge, she had a
dalliance with the local cowman and later the birth of their son out
of wedlock, a divorce, her marriage to wealthy landowner Brian
Aldridge, coping with his numerous affairs, the loss of her Home Farm
farmstead and many financial woes.Newspaper, The Derbyshire Life, has
called Piper one of the "most recognisable and distinctive voices in
Britain", while Piper herself calls Jennifer "capable, caring,
family-oriented, well-groomed and more intelligent than many are
prepared to admit".
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