The voice drifted over the years, less Roger more me.”įor Eric, Bert Fry was “a fun job” especially the Flower & Produce Show storylines and scenes in the Grundys’ Cider Shed. “We once made a rendezvous on Clopton Bridge in Stratford, hot pasties and deep lying snow, en route to record a production of “Frost at Midnight”.
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But The Archers archive reveals in 2001 we did get to hear one of Bert’s creations at a talent show – a serious poem about the wettest-ever autumn.Įric and Roger had been friends and had worked together a lot. Typically they were driven mad by his rhyming couplets, something from which listeners were thankfully most often spared. And I thought there might be room for some fun there.”Īnd a lot of fun was had with Bert sharing his poetic efforts with anyone in Ambridge who would listen. More William McGonagall than William Wordsworth. “He’d be proud of them and they might rhyme but probably wouldn’t scan. “To illustrate a sort of simplicity and naivety in his character, he would proudly offer up a few lines of homespun poetry on suitable occasions,” she said. "One of those gentle, rural people who has been brought up in the country, who cannot imagine any other way of life and wouldn’t dream of trying.”Īnd it’s Liz we have to thank for Bert’s penchant for poetry. Liz Rigbey, who was in charge of the programme at the time, said, “I wanted Bert to be an echo – but only an echo – of Jethro. You must enable JavaScript to play contentīert’s invention followed the death of Jethro Larkin, a faithful Brookfield farmworker (and father of Clarrie).
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