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1) Help with Birthdays
Posted over 14 days ago. Added 14/11/2011 17:32:06 by Consuelo
Hello,

My name is Consuelo Nohpal de la Rosa and for my Masters dissertation in Statistics Applied to Medicine I am comparing the death rate of characters on The Archers with the death rate of England and Wales (similar to this study: http://www.bmj.com/content/315/7123/1649). For this study, I need the dates between which a character was active on The Archers, as well as the characters date of birth (so that I can calculate their age at their times of entry and exit). While I have found all this information for 151 characters, there are some who elude me. Specifically, I have been unable to find the date of birth (even approximately) for any of the following characters. If anyone can let me know when they were born (even if just the year), then that would be very much appreciated.

Jess Allard
Joe Allard
Rex Allard
Gordon Armstrong
Amos Atkins
Jean-Paul Aubert
Max Bailey
Hugo Barnaby
Irene Barraclough
Ken Barraclough
Betty Barratt
Fred Barratt
Admiral Bellamy
Harry Booker
George Fairbrother
Janet Fisher
Simon Pemberton
Arthur Perkins
Ken Pound
Reggie Trentham
Valerie Woolley

Thank you in advance for your help,
-Consuelo Nohpal de la Rosa

P.S. I am cross-posting this request between the BBC Archers Forum, the Archers Addicts Forum and uk.media.radio.archers. I hope I do not offend anyone’s sensibilities by doing so.
2) Re: Help with Birthdays
Posted over 14 days ago. Added 15/11/2011 15:34:06 by ambridgewanderer
Consuelo - The Book of the Archers by Patriacia Greene, Charles Collingwood and Hedli Niklaus is a definitive guide to Archers characters. For many of the characters their birth dates (and where applicable date of death) are shown but although all the characters on the list are in the book (with the exception of Irene and ken Barraclough)none of them have their dates of birth.

Jean-Paul (sixth on your list) was the tempremental french chef at Gray Gables and was played by Yves Aubert.
3) Re: Help with Birthdays
Posted over 14 days ago. Added 16/11/2011 18:14:13 by KathyPerks
Hi Consuelo

Many of the characters have not been given birth dates, and most of the characters you mention were in the series in the fifties and sixties when record keeping was haphazard. Nobody expected The Archers to keep going for so many decades!

This makes your research and the comparisons you wish to draw extremely difficult.

You could contact The Archers Office and get in touch with their Archivist - the telephone number is 0121 567 6226

Hope this helps

KP
4) Re: Help with Birthdays
Posted over 14 days ago. Added 16/11/2011 20:57:40 by Consuelo
Thank you for your help, I will certainly get in touch with The Archers Office.

So far I've been using 'The Archers Encyclopedia' and 'The Book of the Archers', as well as the BBC site for more recent characters. I suspect you are right that I'm not going to find anything more, but it is certainly worth a try!

Thank you again,
-Consuelo
5) Re: Help with Birthdays
Posted over 14 days ago. Added 17/11/2011 12:15:33 by Kate
Hi Consuelo,

This is a fascinating study. Do keep us posted as to how you get on - I'd love to read the results! KW

kate@archers-addicts.com
6) Re: Help with Birthdays
Posted over 14 days ago. Added 18/11/2011 16:11:19 by ambridgewanderer
Consuelo, When you were doing your research did you find a birth date for Jolene Perks? A much more recent character than the ones on your list but I recall seing some recent postings on the AA Forum about the fact that her birthday is not included in any of the Archers calanders or diaries.

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