Eddie Grundy at 70 b. 15th March 1951. Rebel with a cause
By Ambridge Socialist Editor, Keith Flett
Eddie Grundy is 70 on Monday 15th March. With the sad death of Joe Grundy he is now the patriarch of Ambridge’s best known proletarian family.
I have written about the Grundy’s and their Oppressors for the latest Academic Archers volume which is out this month.
However this piece specifically celebrates Eddie Grundy. His full BBC The Archers CV is linked to below.
Eddie Grundy has always been seen by the BBC as a ‘loveable rogue’ rather than the real leader of the Ambridge community.
Of course he regularly patrols the border of bourgeois law and order particularly over the years on what the law calls ‘poaching’. He is also associated with some doubtful business ventures, which even if mostly not that successful, don’t disadvantage others.
In his younger years Grundy was a well known country singer and had his own fan club including the late John Peel and John Walters.
Despite regular BBC hints to the contrary Eddie Grundy is a decent man sticking to a moral code. Not the moral code its true of Borchester Land but one which governs relations between ordinary working people.
He was the only person in Ambridge to grasp that Philip Moss was dodgy undercutting him consistently for jobs, even if he couldn’t put his finger on why.
After the death of Joe he is now in charge of Ambridge cider production. Let’s hope he has decades left in him yet.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/profiles/6jxVtMJBfPx0hzTFbtQKGx/eddie-grundy
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