June Spencer

The Archers actress June Spencer CBE is castaway by Kirsty Young.

Best known for her long-running BBC role as Peggy Woolley, June was one of the best-loved matriarchs in broadcasting.

June was the only original member of the cast still in the show.

Back in 2010, it was 60 years since the pilot episodes were first broadcast and, although she was then aged 90, June had no plans to retire.

She said: 'It's a great bonus for me that The Archers has run as long as it has, and I've gone along with it.'

June Spencer died aged 105 in November 2024,

DISC ONE: Fred Astaire - Let's Face The Music And Dance
DISC TWO: Nelson Eddy - I Passed by Your Window
DISC THREE: Andrei Gavrilov - Frédéric Chopin’s Revolutionary Study
DISC FOUR: Northern Sinfonia Orchestra, conducted by Jean-Bernard Pommier - Claude Debussy’s En bateau (from Petite suite)
DISC FIVE: John Williams - Concierto De Aranjuez
DISC SIX: Harry Secombe - Giacomo Puccini’s E Lucevan Le Stelle (from Tosca)
DISC SEVEN: The Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leonard Slatkin - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Overture to The Sleeping Beauty
DISC EIGHT: Winchester Cathedral Choir - George Frideric Handel’s Hallelujah Chorus (from Messiah)

CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: John Williams - Concierto De Aranjuez
BOOK CHOICE: Three Men in a Boat - Jerome K Jerome
LUXURY CHOICE: A Scrabble board

Producer: Isabel Sargent

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2010.