Will and Nic - going away pictures

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Looks great

Aaaw



They look like the pictures in my head



But I have Nic as a blonde in me head



Lovely eppy and nice for a cheery storyline too.....

They are not Will and Nic! They've just got a couple of actors to stand in for them.

Nic is right but Ed is so wrong!

Simply confirms my view of Will - but scarier.

Last one of Nic- looks like young Peggy. Simpler, though.

He's a bit weird looking

Where were these terrible snaps taken? I didn't think Grey Gables had a navy balsa wood fence...

Where i come from we would call Nic a handsome maid and Will a lucky bugger.

They look more like they're going to a funeral. What horrible, dreary clothes!

Ooh awkward. They hardly look like a relaxed happy couple. Were they less than keen to do it by any chance?

Nic is exactly Nic!

Crikey! Is Wiwyum's 'parted curtains' hairstyle back in fashion? I had the very same cut in 1982 when going to gigs by the Cure and 'shoe-gazing' was the order of the day



What goes around comes around although I doubt I have enough hair left to try and relive my misspent youth.

For a big bloke Will has a surprisingly high voice. Not particularly good looking man. I prefer Ed!

Oh dear! ...I would never want to diss the Archers, but these pics are very cringe-worthy, sorry to say. Nic has a lovely tone & clarity to her voice, I like her character. All the gamekeepers I know can't wait to get dressed into their tweeds, these pics look awful.

Awful pictures. They look like they are going to a funeral. Not many brides wear black as their going away outfit, even less the old coat they go to the shops in. Will has a huge suitcase and Nic has a silly little leopardskin one. The temperature in Cape Verde is about 21 at this time of year, so knee high boots and a scarf are a tiny bit inappropriate. Don't know where they are supposed to be, but couples usually leave by car and are not left to walk off via a badly painted hoarding. It would have been better to show their wedding pictures. Yes, he does look weird and prompts the thought that his dad may have been more familiar with his ferrets than is legal.

the real Nic is just like the Nic in my head!

Amazing

her voice suits her character and feature so well

Couldn't you afford the wedding ones, Keri?



At least Nic doesn't look 12 years old even if she sounds like one. I agree with others - awful photos.

Oh couldn't the BBC have done better than these ? After all the hype re the dress and Joe with the cart we get this ... Taken on a deserted station platform by the look of it . A let down ..

I would have preferred a wedding photo!

New Year quiz question:

Is Ed:

1. An alien from the planet Zog

2. An out-of-work undertaker

Send your answers on a standard sized post-card to the Archers' 'script' (script, what script?) writing team

Becky & Phil have obviously been forced out of the back of the recording studios in a rushed attempt by whoever at producing something extra we may be interestred in looking at, haven't they? ...you can see the high rise buildings next door, (certainly not Grey Gables is it lol)! The Radio 4 announcer actually drew our attention to this page. Keri, I advise that you should perhaps credit us Archers devotees with a lot more respect instead of shoving this farcical rubbish in our faces. It should have been done a whole lot better.

I think Will looks just as he sounds - slimy and a but creepy! 'Nic' doesn't look too happy to be married to him!

Yuk! Horrible, Strangely and very creepily, she looks exactly how I imagined her to look -but he's a bit of a surprise, Not the most flattering or even mildly pleasant pics. As befit the rather odd coupling, perhaps. Really NOT nice - especially in front of that awful flippin fence, FGS !!!

I think it would have been better to let us use our imagination, Keri.

I agree with Anna Kist.

Either do it properly or not at all. This just looks so shabby, it's laughable.

Surely even the BBC could afford to have the bride's hair done and asked the couple to wear their best posh or "going away" _ not funeral _ clothes. Where is her handbag? Also, it would have cost nothing to have put something _ even a load of old scripts _ in the black suitcase which is so obviously empty.

I feel sorry for the couple, they look so awkward in this dreadful setting.

Posting these is such a blooper, they are clearly not in Ambridge, Heathrow maybe? He just looks not at all like the healthy outdoorsy person I hear when I listen, he looks like he works in a funeral parlour.



Love the comment about being sure Grey Gables doesn't have a blue balsa wood fence, harharharharharharharhar

Just awful - wot woz the BBC thinking of putting these pictures out? Not appropriate or flattering - no one would think 'wedding' - completely agree with Splath above - nonsense!

What on earth were they doing in the supremely romantic vicinity of Gas Street Basin, Birmingham? Can clearly see the Cube in the background. Haven't narrowed down the location of the balsawood fence yet.



I could have got a wedding dress on loan if they'd asked.

If it's worth doing, it's worth doing properly. Shame.

Oh get over yourselves you lot. They are actors posing, very good of them I think. It isn't real. They are chosen for their voices not their looks. I love the Archers. Some people are so hard to please. And of course you can't have them in their wedding gear, don't be daft! Its radio.....

" They are chosen for their voices not their looks. '



Well if that is the case the team have got things horribly wrong.

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I feel really uncomfortable reading nasty comments about two people's looks. For a start, we look the way we look and surely can't all look like models and secondly I think Will and Nic look lovely. Will is very attractive and sounds like his voice. He has a face that is more 'interesting' than classically good looking - but could be called that too. (I prefer interesting) Nic looks like a lovely girl and they are both great actors. Can't help saying that surely this site is for 'comments' not nasty back stabs and over personal asides? They look EXACTLY how I thought they would.

The actors are attractive young people and don't deserve these unpleasant comments.

However I think criticising the staging of these photographs is fair game.

No offence intended but the 80's fop vibe just doesn't say 'Will Grundy, loyal, family-oriented (if slightly boring and grumpy) gamekeeper' to me. More to the point, don't we listen to a RADIO soap to avoid all of that obsession with appearance, and to exercise our own visual imaginations? And if Will looks like this, that throws out my whole Grundy family tree image - Clarrie, Eddie, Ed, Joe, little George - oh no!

PS i made my daughter guess which character from a well-known text he was. Her response - 'looks 1800's - is it Dickens?'

Just realized who Will would be ideal as ....Uriah Heep . Years back the BBC did a TV serialization and think Uriah is still on set somewhere .

PLEASE somebody lend Nic a wedding dress - never mind about the rest, she could be trying it on with Clarrie!

Why, why,why? Bad enough when the voices are wrong for radio (Nic, sounds about 12), why give us pictures too? I agree with no 23.

Why do they look like they are off to the bank for a mortgage?

Yeah, looks just like a 'UK airport'.

The closed down Plymouth one possibly.

This poor pair are clearly on their way home afetr a long day and were pounced on to hold suitcases and look lovey dovey.

What a load of flim flam.

If TA can't afford to do a wedding photo, spare us all the waste of people writing these blogs which are as popular as a graveyard at night.

Well, the old 'BBC has no money' excuse is trotted out to explain these awful photos. Yes, it's radio and no, it's not real, but we all visit this site because we're interested in the characters and look for a bit of added value,which photos provide. If the BBC hadn't a few quid to hire a wedding dress (or got one free from their costume department) then surely the couple could have worn appropriate outfits? They didn't need to be pictured outside to prove they were 'going away'.

It is unfair to comment on their appearance - but I did, so execute me do. The point is that it's insulting to us to show such trashy photos here. The BBC makes enough money from Archers spin offs to finance a decent pic.

Splath that is exactly what I was thinking - surely the Beeb has a costume department and makeup artists that would not cost the earth if anything at all? I like the first photo most - a blue wall with some random people standing very much to one side. Odd.

many years ago,we went to what was then our local church and found the wedding of Shula and Mark Hebden being recorded/filmed! Now all we get are a few pictures but Will and Nic can't afford designer so they're just wearing their 'best'!!

What on earth is the point of this? Two RADIO actors posing with empty suitcases by a building site in Birmingham, plus an indoor pic that looks as if it was snapped on someone's phone under fluourescent striplights? No-one's criticising them for their looks, they're criticising whoever thought it was a good idea to waste their time with this insulting rubbish. The comments here speak volumes about how listeners feel about being taken for fools.

I never knew Will Grundy was Count Dracula.

I simply don't believe that is Will - did you get someone to fill in for him?

Completely false...what female has a smaller case than her partner!

Ah! THAT is what happened to Jerry Cornelius, the English Assassin. He has gone to ground with a sales rep from Home Bargains.