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1. • • The Archers has reached something of a milestone - 70 years on air. Long gone are the thinly veiled messages of farming best practice. Now ‘a contemporary drama in a rural setting’ is how the drama sees itself. In recent years divorce, domestic abuse, issues of race, and gay marriage have regularly featured.
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   Is the Archers a contemporary drama in a rural setting?

   • The Archers has reached something of a milestone - 70 years on air. Long gone are the thinly veiled messages of farming best practice. Now ‘a contemporary drama in a rural setting’ is how the drama sees itself. In recent years divorce, domestic abuse, issues of race, and gay marriage have regularly featured.

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   Is the Archers a soap opera?

   • The world's longest-running radio soap opera. Originally billed as "an everyday story of country folk", it is now described as "contemporary drama in a rural setting". When are the Archers on? When was the soap opera first broadcast? The pilot episode of The Archers was broadcast on the Midlands Home Service on 29 May 1950.

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   Why did the archers become popular?

   • Originally established to educate farmers and thus increase food production after the war, The Archers rapidly became a major source of entertainment for urban as well as rural audiences, attracting by 1953.

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   Is the archers based on a true story?

   • Partly established with the aim towards educating farmers following World War II, The Archers soon became a popular source of entertainment for the population at large, attracting nine million listeners by 1953. The Archers is set in the fictional village of Ambridge in the fictional county of Borsetshire, in England.

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   Is 'the Archers' a good drama?

   • Listeners’ online responses to the Rob and Helen story (or the death of favourite character Nigel Pargetter in 2011) express a middle-class investment in The Archers as a quality drama that avoids, or should avoid, the excesses of TV soaps such as .

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   What is the archers' version of traditional rural life?

   • Despite making some gestures towards the realities of multicultural Britain, The Archers’ version of traditional rural life is the same nostalgic white Englishness that we find in . Like Downton, the version of the British class system represented here is sentimental and benign.

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   'A contemporary drama in a rural setting.' What is the reason why The Archers was established? Its reason was to educate farmers to increase the food population after the second world war.

4. www.bbc.com › historyofthebbc › researchThe Archers - An oral history - BBC 100

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   What started out as a popular way of conveying messages about farming techniques, is now a sophisticated rural drama. Felicity Finch, who plays Ruth Archer mines the BBC Oral History...

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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".

   Actor	Character	Years Active
   Rosalind Adams	Clarrie Grundy	1988–2012
   Eric Allan	Bert Fry	1997–2020
   Joan Anstey	Dorothy Sinclair	1961–1965
   Andonis James Anthony	Russ Jones	2018–2022

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   Jan 11, 2021 · The Archers is is marketed as a simple contemporary drama full of ordinary country rural folk, and between the jam making, lambing and village fetes – The Archers has become a regular stalwart in so many homes across the UK, and is one of the most downloaded radio programmes on BBC Sounds and boa

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   Apr 8, 2016 · Originally established to educate farmers and thus increase food production after the war, The Archers rapidly became a major source of entertainment for urban as well as rural audiences,...

8. www.bbc.co.uk › programmes › b006qpgrBBC Radio 4 - The Archers

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   Countryside Insights from The Archers Leaf through extra information on rural issues that have featured in The Archers. Peggy meets her twin great grand-daughters

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   Oct 6, 2024 · Set in the fictional village of Ambridge, it explores the lives of its residents, intertwining rural issues with complex personal stories. With over 70 years on air, “The Archers” remains a cultural staple in Britain, drawing audiences into its unique mix of contemporary and historical narratives.