{"id":26506,"date":"2018-11-22T14:38:03","date_gmt":"2018-11-22T14:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newclone.retiremove.co.uk\/blog\/?p=26506"},"modified":"2019-03-08T14:27:28","modified_gmt":"2019-03-08T14:27:28","slug":"archers-actress-moves-to-retirement-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newclone.retiremove.co.uk\/blog\/archers-actress-moves-to-retirement-village\/","title":{"rendered":"Archers actress moves to retirement village"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Archers actress Mary Siviter reflects on her life in Ambridge and move to Audley Ellerslie<\/h3>\n

Mary Siviter, 83, was killed off back in 1986 after playing the Bull’s feisty barmaid Pru in the world’s longest running radio soap. \u201cI remember feeling very strange listening to \u2018my\u2019 own funeral,\u201d she recalls reflecting on her 30-year career on the Archers.<\/p>\n

Mary Dalley, as she was known then has now downsized to a cottage in Audley Ellerslie<\/a>, a retirement village near the Malvern Hills in Worcestershire. \u201cI love our cottage here at Audley,\u201d she enthuses leafing through her scrapbook of newspaper clippings with her 90 year old husband Denis who she married eight years ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe decided to move here because we didn\u2019t want to be a nuisance to our children and ask them to fix lightbulbs and bring us shopping each time they visited.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u201cHere we are looked after and our children and grandchildren can visit us without having to do any chores. Now I can\u2019t wait for the gym to open so I can get on a bicycle. We feel so happy here, particularly because we know we won\u2019t have to move again.\u201d Her cottage came fitted with a stairlift but is not ready to use it yet.<\/p>\n

I love our cottage here at Audley<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nMary also has a ready audience for her anecdotes about appearing on the Archers. \u201cEven though there is a new generation of characters on the programme, people\u2019s eyes light up when I tell them I was in the Archers,\u201d she adds.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I was on the show I used to get letters from people advising me how to persuade my boyfriend Tom to kiss me. I also got requests for my jugged hare recipe, which I never cooked, and even got a proposal of marriage.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd then when I did marry Tom some listeners sent us wedding presents.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then Mary was killed off. \u201cThe trouble is when your character dies on radio people think you are dead in real life,\u201d she explains. \u201cBut once you have been in the Archers you belong to a very special family.\u201d Indeed she was even presented to Prince Charles on the programme\u2019s 50th\u00a0anniversary in\u00a02000.<\/p>\n

Mary has now turned her hand to playwriting. She has just finished one about servicemen returning from war which will be performed locally in aid of Battleback, a mental health charity for servicemen and women.<\/p>\n

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