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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 Oral History Collection, November 1962. Real rural affairs. The writers of Dick Barton were in fact brought over to tackle the scripts, but there was also an insistence that real life...
The Archers show has come a long way since its inception in 1950 by Godfrey Baseley. It first began as a pilot series comprising five episodes, and it ran for a week starting from 29th May 1950. Initially, it broadcast to the English Midlands.
BBC Oral History Collection, November 1962. Real rural affairs. The writers of Dick Barton were in fact brought over to tackle the scripts, but there was also an insistence that real life rural...
A well-made actioner, with an impressive cast. Based on the true story of a daring British raid on Crete in World War II, undercover commando troops and Cretan partisans, led by Dirk Bogarde as the freebooting Major Paddy Leigh-Fermor.
The 10 Archers storylines that have made you cry the most. Countless episodes in The Archers 68 year history have seen listeners weeping in their kitchens or having to pull their cars into...
In 1962 the first producer of The Archers, Godfrey Baseley, spoke to Brian Vaughton about the origins of the serial. He recalled a conference, chaired by a senior figure in the BBC's management,...
