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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".
In series 3, broadcast in 2023, the podcast available on BBC Sounds was up to 60 mins long but only a shortened version of 30 mins was broadcast on Radio 4.
BBC Sounds releases a 10-minute soundscape of The Archers as a podcast. The special episode depicts the soap's setting without characters, instead focusing on its background sounds. [61] A BBC Radio 1Xtra event at the Arena Birmingham is brought to a close early following the backstage assault of a rapper. [62]
For the month of August 2014 the podcast was downloaded 1.6 million times, a monthly BBC Radio milestone exceeded only by The Archers. [8] As of October 2014 the show was fourth on the BBC list of most-downloaded shows of the past decade, with 50.6 million. [9]
A pilot of five episodes was broadcast in the BBC Midlands Region during Whitsun week in 1950, and an extended run of episodes was broadcast nationally across the United Kingdom on the BBC Light Programme from 1 January 1951. The Archers went from success to success, with daily episodes six days a week and an omnibus edition on Sundays.
It's the launch day for Scotcast, BBC Scotland's new current affairs podcast. It will land in your feeds four times a week - Monday to Thursday - and I am your host. We'll be bringing you ...
BBC Radio 4 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC. [1] The station replaced the BBC Home Service on 30 September 1967 and broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes from the BBC's headquarters at Broadcasting House, London. Since 2019, the station controller has been Mohit Bakaya. [2]
The Skewer is a topical radio programme broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and as a podcast on BBC Sounds.Created and produced by Jon Holmes, the 15 or 30 minute episodes are a sound collage which combine topical soundbites with excerpts from popular culture, historical quotations and songs, often in unsettling or surreal ways.