Angela Piper

Angela, who plays Jennifer Aldridge in BBC 4's The Archers, is the author of two books about The Archers written "in character". Jennifer was a writer, and had a novel published. This prompted Angela to think that by drawing on her own love of cooking and country life, she could devise a book which would invite devotees of The Archers to step into the kitchen of a typical English village home. Her efforts to create this tangible atmosphere were sufficiently successful for "Jennifer Aldridge's Cookbook" to sell 40,000 copies. Jars of preserves produced to complement to book proved equally popular.