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Posted by Afternoontea (U3538653) on Wednesday, 7th March 2007
According to wikipedia this actor played both Janet Fisher and Sophie Barlow. Is that true?
Yes.
Thanks for that, politebirder.
She also played Flossie the sheep in the hilarious Grundy sheep dipping episodes in spring 1979.
On a similar theme, Terry Molloy ( Moike Tugger) played Alf Grundy.
at what? and who won?
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Posted by Lizaveta Nikolaevna (U2265953) on Wednesday, 7th March 2007
And Moir Leslie was so good that if I hadn't known it was the same woman who played the honey-voiced siren and the sawdust-voiced priest, I would never have guessed.
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Posted by SallydownourAlley (U6461710) on Monday, 12th March 2007
The only trouble was that, as Janet, she sounded rather like Shula which was confusing at times. Also,I always thought Sam sounded like Moike, leading to even greater confusion!! Apart from these two castings, I think all the other actors have been totally distinguishable and I have been listening for an awful long time.
OMG, Actress, pleeease
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Posted by antiquelemonsqueezer (U5585422) on Wednesday, 14th March 2007
Why cat lady? Males and females performing in plays or films for a living mostly choose to self-describe as actors, just as medically qualified people are doctors, not doctors and doctresses
And the woman who played Grace Archer has appeared in several other guises. Ysanne Churchman .... I think, but could be wrong as it's donkeys years since I paid much attention to the people who pretend to be The Archers, who, as everyone knows, are actually real peple living in a real village.
Ysanne played the part of Mary Pound, a character so totally unlike Grace that I would never have guessed it was the same actor.
I thought Ysanne sounded very much like the first actor to play grace: Monica Gray.
Ysanne was the first to play "darling" Jenny.
Other parts she played were:
Barbara Drury, wife of Colin;
Joan Ilverton;
Jocelyn Page.
Keith
Apart from these two castings, I think all the other actors have been totally distinguishable and I have been listening for an awful long time.Â
I agree with you Sally apart from two characters whose voices I very occasionally mix up, and those are Kenton and Alastair when discussing something like cricket where it could be either one of them speaking.
Tue, 27 Mar 2007 20:51 GMT, in reply to bubbleyum in message 13
Oooooooer Adam. Kenton, Alistair, Tim. Middle-aged, middle class, middle pitch. Could just tell Kenton by the aura of defensiveness he sported until Kathy took him in hand but the rest were always doing 'tough but tender' scenes. Same person really.
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Posted by stellarBloomsbury (U4477365) on Wednesday, 28th March 2007
Moir Leslie was (still is) a great radio voice and was a member of the Radio Rep (as it then was) when they first decided to write in a girlfriend for David. Moir was going to leave the Rep and supposedly said that she felt (tongue in cheek) she wouldn't have any credibility as a radio actress unless she'd been in TA. She apparently asked if she could play a background voice or barmaid and was asked to audition for Sophie Barlow. When she read the script she said she couldn't possibly play what they'd written seriously and gently sent it up. As it happens (more often than people want to believe) her performance gave the writers a new slant on the character, which gave her a bit more inspiration, and what came out of it was a bit of inspired loopy-ness. Others may not agree, but her arrival on the scene provided quite a bit of good, gentle, radio comedy. And yes, she was completely unrecognisable as Rev Janet. But her return was not, sadly, a return to form -- case of writers letting her down?
Was Sophie Barlow the rather breath-y gormless twit that David went out with for a while. For some reason my fading memory insists she was played by Hettie Baines. Same memory glitsch keeps trying to tell me that HB was married to Ken Russell (he of the very odd filums).
Of course all of this could just be a product of my ever growing age-related enfeeblement.
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Posted by Urban 'Reg' Chronotis (U2338993) on Saturday, 5th May 2007
Sat, 05 May 2007 23:02 GMT, in reply to Tetleyhorse in message 16
Yes, Sophie was the gormless breathy one, but was always played by Moir Leslie, who later became Janet Fisher, and recently returned briefly as Sophie, no longer gormless, and sounding too much like Janet Fisher for those who didn't remember her the first time round.
Reg
On a similar theme, Terry Molloy ( Moike Tugger) played Alf Grundy.Â
He also played that other well-known cyclops, Davros...
Was Sophie Barlow the rather breath-y gormless twit that David went out with for a while. For some reason my fading memory insists she was played by Hettie Baines. Same memory glitsch keeps trying to tell me that HB was married to Ken Russell (he of the very odd filums).Â
No, Hetty Baines was the breath-y gormless twit in Citizens:
which was before she was married to Ken Russell. Your memory is intact, Tetley!
Crumbs, only goes to show how marvellous the "radio mind" is. Thinking back I can hear the similarity between Janet and Sophie, but at the time (i.e Sophie trying it on with David most recently) I never made the link; Sophie-the-PR-type-siren couldn't be Janet TVOA now, could she?!
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