 | Actors Andrew Wincott (left) and Stephen Kennedy play the couple
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BBC Radio 4's soap opera The Archers is to feature the first "gay wedding" in its 55-year history. The civil partnership between Adam Macy and Ian Craig, played by Andrew Wincott and Stephen Kennedy, will take place in the episode broadcast on 14 December.
The farmer and chef first kissed two-and-a-half years ago.
But fans of the rural drama will hear Adam facing a potential family crisis on his big day when his stepfather, Brian Aldridge, threatens to stay away.
Ian has already been through an ordeal with his family, having "come out" as homosexual to his father and brothers.
Now the couple live in Lower Loxley, where the ceremony will take place.
It will also emerge they are not the only people in the community hoping to be planning a wedding.
The Archers is the world's longest-running soap opera on the radio and has been broadcast on weekdays since January 1951.
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