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Brian Aldridge - 40 years at Home Farm

Andrew Smith

Assistant Producer, The Archers

Brian Aldridge - The Archers

"Why not relax and enjoy yourself. Maybe it's time you retired."

- Debbie.

Retire?!... As Brian contemplates his future - and forty years running Home Farm - we look back at the moment he (and actor Charles Collingwood) arrived in Ambridge.

Young bachelor Brian Aldridge bought 1500 acres of the Bellamy estate, officially taking over on Lady Day…

This wonderful moment from March 1975 was set up by the narrator as follows:

“While Carol (Tregorran) is showing Jack Woolley round her glass houses, she notices they’re being watched from a parked Land Rover. Not recognising who it is, she goes to investigate…

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Brian Aldridge arrives in Ambridge (1975)

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