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The Archers is a British radio soap opera currently broadcast 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 setting".
BBC Radio 4 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the ... LW and DAB, and on BBC Sounds, [4] ... (including its flagship drama "The Archers ...
The Archers has been broadcast on BBC radio since 1951 and has clocked up more episodes than any other continuous drama serial in the world. Although the soap opera is based in a fictional village ...
"Barwick Green" / ˈ b ær ɪ k / is the theme music to the long-running BBC Radio 4 soap opera The Archers. A "maypole dance" from the suite My Native Heath written in 1924 by the Yorkshire composer Arthur Wood, it is named after Barwick-in-Elmet in Yorkshire's West Riding. [1
The programme was broadcast on Tuesday and Thursday with an omnibus on Sunday, all following The Archers on Radio 4. [4] The Archers theme tune "Barwick Green" was re-arranged for Ambridge Extra, and was performed by folk group Bellowhead. [5] The first series of Ambridge Extra ran for 13 weeks (26 episodes) from April through to June 2011. [4 ...
Actor appeared on BBC Radio 4 show for more than 400 episodes over 22 years The Archers actor Ian Pepperell dies after long illness, aged 53: ‘He was desperate to return’ Skip to main content
He has been professionally associated with the BBC Radio 4 drama The Archers since 1991. He has worked directly on the programme since 1992 as a producer, senior producer and web producer. Since 2003, he has been an Archers scriptwriter. Davies studio directed over 700 Archers episodes, including the notorious armed raid on the village shop in ...
This is a list of current and former programmes broadcast on BBC Radio 4.. When it came into existence – on 30 September 1967 – Radio 4 inherited a great many continuing programme series which had been initiated prior to that date by its predecessor, the BBC Home Service (1939–1967), and in some cases even by stations which had preceded the Home Service.