{"id":5904,"date":"2026-04-26T14:26:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T14:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/?p=5904"},"modified":"2026-04-27T07:23:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T07:23:04","slug":"lucy-fleming-reflects-on-survivors-in-new-newspaper-profile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/2026\/04\/26\/lucy-fleming-reflects-on-survivors-in-new-newspaper-profile\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucy Fleming reflects on Survivors in new newspaper profile"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/seymour-mculloch-fleming.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" data-attachment-id=\"1753\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/2017\/12\/02\/abby-and-jenny-reunited-in-new-big-finish-survivors-audios\/seymour-mculloch-fleming\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/seymour-mculloch-fleming.jpg?fit=1000%2C750&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1000,750\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Carolyn Seymour &amp;#8211; Ian McCulloch &amp;#8211; Lucy Fleming\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/seymour-mculloch-fleming.jpg?fit=840%2C630&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/seymour-mculloch-fleming.jpg?resize=840%2C630&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Carolyn Seymour - Ian McCulloch - Lucy Fleming\" class=\"wp-image-1753\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/seymour-mculloch-fleming.jpg?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/seymour-mculloch-fleming.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/seymour-mculloch-fleming.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LUCY FLEMING (JENNY Richards) reflects on her experience working on Survivors in a profile feature in today&#8217;s <em>Sunday Telegraph<\/em> (26 April 2026).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As part of a longer consideration of her career on stage, on screen and on radio, Fleming recalls working on <em>Survivors <\/em>in the 1970s. Amongst other reflections, she notes that <em>Survivors:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>had a good cast: Ian McCul\u00adloch, De\u00adnis Lill, Car\u00ado\u00adlyn Sey\u00admour&#8230; We filmed in the mud and the wind and the rain, mostly through the winter. The scripts, I think, var\u00adied in the second and third series. But one was get\u00adting recog\u00adnised, which was inter\u00adest\u00ading&#8230; I could ride, I was always ask\u00ading to get on horse\u00adback, but it wasn\u2019t until later that I was allowed to.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The main hooks for the piece is Fleming&#8217;s work on<em> The Archers<\/em> radio serial, her shared responsibility for the management and licensing of Ian Fleming&#8217;s estate, and her relationship with her mother Celia John\u00adson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jon Peake. 2026. \u2018The next 007? If I tell you, I\u2019ll have to kill you\u2019. <em>Sunday Telegraph<\/em>. 26 April. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/tv\/2026\/04\/26\/lucy-fleming-interview-archers-james-bond\/\">https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/tv\/2026\/04\/26\/lucy-fleming-interview-archers-james-bond\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LUCY FLEMING (JENNY Richards) reflects on her experience working on Survivors in a profile feature in today&#8217;s Sunday Telegraph (26 April 2026). As part of a longer consideration of her career on stage, on screen and on radio, Fleming recalls working on Survivors in the 1970s. Amongst other reflections, she notes that Survivors: had a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/2026\/04\/26\/lucy-fleming-reflects-on-survivors-in-new-newspaper-profile\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lucy Fleming reflects on Survivors in new newspaper profile&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-and-crew","category-cast-news","category-media-coverage"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9n8B4-1xe","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5904"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5906,"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5904\/revisions\/5906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survivors-mad-dog.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}