Lesley J. Saweard (born 1934) is a British former actress. She played

Christine Barford Christine Barford (also Archer and Johnson) is a fictional character from the British BBC Radio 4 soap opera, ''The Archers''. The character was introduced as the sister of Phil Archer in 1951, and the daughter of Dan and Doris Archer. The cha ...

in the long-running radio soap opera, ''

The Archers ''The Archers'' is a BBC radio drama on BBC Radio 4, the corporation's main spoken-word channel. Broadcast since 1951, it was famously billed as "an everyday story of country folk" and is now promoted as "a contemporary drama in a rural settin ...

'', from 1953 until 2019. Saweard was born in

Grimsby Grimsby or Great Grimsby is a port town and the administrative centre of North East Lincolnshire, Lincolnshire, England. Grimsby adjoins the town of Cleethorpes directly to the south-east forming a conurbation. Grimsby is north-east of Linco ...

, Lincolnshire in 1934, to parents William and Hilda (née Kiddle). In 1953, she began playing the role of Christine Barford (the sister of established character Phil Archer) in

BBC Radio 4 BBC Radio 4 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC that replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967. It broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history from the BBC' ...

soap opera ''The Archers''; she remained in the programme until 2019, apart from a break during the 1960s, between 1962 and returning in 1968. Saweard lives in Louth. In 1956, she married Geoffrey Lewis, who she met on ''The Archers'' two years before. They had two children before his death in 1997.

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