The Archers is the longest-running 'soap' in the UK, heard every day on BBC Radio 4 -"an everyday tale of country folk".
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Walter Gabriel was one of the original characters, who everyone had heard of.

Brian Aldridge (married to Jennifer, née Archer) is a local landowner and a bit of a cad, who has had an affair with the lovely Siobhan Hathaway. She left and had their baby back in Ireland, but has now returned and is tempting Brian to run away with her.