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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 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]
The Archers: 74 63 by June Spencer as Peggy Woolley: BBC: 1 January 1951 over 18,740 Longest-running Soap opera in the world. Set in rural England. [32] The Baptist Bible Hour: 71 70 by Elder Lasserre Bradley Jr. WCVX, syndicated across the United States February 2, 1953 Over 5,000 Daily Baptist sermon and choral singing, broadcast from ...
The BBC Sounds logo used from 2018 until 2021. The BBC Sounds website replaced the iPlayer Radio service for UK users in October 2018. An initial beta version of the BBC Sounds app was launched in June 2018, [5] with both the new app and the iPlayer Radio app supported until September 2019, when the iPlayer Radio app was finally decommissioned in the UK. [6]
Following her marriage to Nigel Pargetter, she took to her role enthusiastically and her quick mind and sound business sense ensured that the Hall ran like a well-oiled machine. Her practical side was the perfect grounding for her eccentric and slightly scatty husband, who died in a fall from the roof on 2 January 2011.
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]
BBC Radio services are broadcast on various FM and AM frequencies, DAB digital radio and live streaming on BBC Sounds, which is available worldwide. They are also available on digital television in the UK, and archived programmes are available for 30 days or more after broadcast on BBC Sounds; many shows are available as podcasts.
In 1962 the Omnibus edition moved from the Light Programme to the BBC Home Service, with all episodes moving to the Home Service, to be replaced by BBC Radio 4, by 1967. Godfrey Baseley was Editor of The Archers from 1950 to 1967 but by 1967 he was two years past the normal BBC official retirement age of 60.