Soap opera scraps interaction in favour of monologues recorded at actors’ homes
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Actor Annabelle Dowler, recording the Archers under lockdown involved making a den in her daughter’s wardrobe by covering it with duvets and an old mattress and hoping her two children didn’t decide they too wanted to be part of the fun.
Dowler, who plays Kirsty Miller, also put a sign on the door warning that mummy was recording the Archers: “Stay away + be silent otherwise you will get into trouble with the
BBC and we will have no iPlayer for the rest of the lockdown!!!”