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In behind-the-scenes images taken when she secretly recorded her segment at the BBC Mailbox in Birmingham in May, Sophie was pictured smiling as she stood in front of her script and microphone under the bright studio lights.<\/p>\n
She was joined by actors Tim Bentnick, who plays David Archer, David Troughton, who stars as Tony Archer, and Susie Riddell, who appears as Tracy Horrobin.<\/p>\n
Sophie met the cast and crew before recording the episode, and at one point was shown covering her mouth with her hand in an apparent show of either shock or surprise as she chatted with Charles Collingwood, who plays Brian Aldridge.<\/p>\n
The Archers has been aired on BBC radio since 1951 and has clocked up more than 20,000 episodes \u2013 more than any other continuous drama serial in the world. It reaches millions of devoted fans who tune in to hear the ups and downs experienced by the residents of the fictional village of Ambridge.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sophie, the Duchess of Edinburgh, has been a fan of the long-running BBC Radio 4 show for many years The Duchess of Edinburgh with cast members Susie Riddell (left) and Tim Bentnick as they record an episode of Radio 4 drama The Archers(Image: Joe Giddens\/PA Wire) The Duchess of Edinburgh has made a surprise cameo […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2495592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[22769],"class_list":["post-2495591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-royal-family"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Member-of-Royal-family-stars-in-worlds-longest-running-radio-drama.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2495591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2495593,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495591\/revisions\/2495593"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2495592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2495591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2495591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2495591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}