20 million people were listening on the night of Grace Archer’s tragic death, the 22nd September 1955. There was a fire in which one of the horses was trapped. She went to rescue it. This tragic accident is still remembered today. At the time fans of The Archers wrote and called the BBC and cried. The listeners were truly heart-broken as if Grace had been a real person.
A drama called’ Dead Girls Tell No Tales’, which was aired on 19th September 2015, tells the story of Ysanne Churchman, aka Grace Archer, and the real reason behind her departure from the original Archers’ cast back in 1955.
A podcast of ‘Dead Girls Tell No Tales’ is available to listen to by following this link.
I think it was an interesting piece of drama and was great to finally hear ‘the true reason’ behind Grace Archer’s death after 60 years of speculation!
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