actor                              character         soap opera                                    years  duration
0        lesley saweard                      christine barford        the archers                                    1953-  61 years
1       norman painting                            phil archer        the archers                              1950 - 2009  59 years
2       patricia greene                            jill archer        the archers                                    1957-  57 years
3          june spencer                          peggy woolley        the archers                      1951 - 1953 , 1962-  54 years
4          angela piper                      jennifer aldridge        the archers                                    1963-  51 years
5         arnold peters  len thomas david latimer jack woolley        the archers  1953 - 1966 , 1968 - 1973 , 1980 - 2011  49 years
6         alan devereux                              sid perks        the archers                              1963 - 2010  47 years
7            bob arnold                            tom forrest        the archers                              1951 - 1998  47 years
8           colin skipp                            tony archer        the archers                                    1967-  47 years
9              jack may                         nelson gabriel        the archers                              1951 - 1997  46 years
10         judy bennett                   shula hebden - lloyd        the archers                                    1971-  43 years
11         terry molloy                            mike tucker        the archers                                    1973-  41 years
12        brian hewlett                            neil carter        the archers                                    1973-  41 years
13   patricia gallimore                             pat archer        the archers                                    1974-  40 years
14      pauline seville                            mrs perkins        the archers                              1951 - 1990  39 years
15  charles collingwood                         brian aldridge        the archers                                    1975-  39 years
16          george hart                          jethro larkin        the archers                              1951 - 1987  36 years
17        chris gittins                         walter gabriel        the archers                              1953 - 1988  35 years
18      trevor harrison                           eddie grundy        the archers                                    1979-  35 years
19          sara coward                      caroline sterling        the archers                                    1979-  35 years
20     timothy bentinck                           david archer        the archers                                    1982-  32 years
21       graham roberts                         george barford        the archers                              1973 - 2004  31 years
22       alison dowling                    elizabeth pargetter        the archers                                    1983-  31 years
23        hedli niklaus                            kathy perks        the archers                                    1983-  31 years
24     charlotte martin                           susan carter        the archers                                    1983-  31 years
25    elizabeth marlowe                          lilian archer        the archers                              1961 - 1991  30 years
26        gwen berryman                           doris archer        the archers                              1951 - 1980  29 years
27        edward kelsey                             joe grundy        the archers                                    1985-  29 years
28          carole boyd                            lynda snell        the archers                                    1986-  28 years
29       graham blockey                           robert snell        the archers                                    1986-  28 years
30     j anthony smythe                          henry barbour  one man 's family                              1932 - 1959  27 years
31       virginia payne                             ma perkins         ma perkins                              1933 - 1960  27 years
32       felicity finch                            ruth archer        the archers                                    1987-  27 years
33        gwenda wilson                      aunt laura wilson        the archers                              1951 - 1977  26 years
34       bernice berwin                          hazel barbour  one man 's family                              1932 - 1958  26 years
35        mollie harris                        martha woodford        the archers                              1970 - 1995  25 years
36     charles egelston                         shuffle shober         ma perkins                              1933 - 1958  25 years
37       rosalind adams                         clarrie grundy        the archers                              1988 - 2012  24 years
38          leslie dunn                           paul johnson        the archers                              1954 - 1978  24 years
39        minetta ellen                          fanny barbour  one man 's family                              1932 - 1955  23 years
40          graham seed                        nigel pargetter        the archers                1983 - 1986 , 1992 - 2011  22 years
41        denis folwell                            jack archer        the archers                              1951 - 1972  21 years
42          margot boyd                      marjorie antrobus        the archers                              1984 - 2004  20 years

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