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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".
The episodes leading up to Brian's admission to Jennifer were heard by 4.75 million listeners, and more than 6000 people sent emails to the BBC over the so-called "hayseed porn". [14] Brian and Siobhan's son, Ruairi, was born in 2002, and brought back to The Archers in 2007 upon the death of Siobhan from cancer. [ 14 ]
The fifth series starred Jon Culshaw, Jan Ravens, Mark Perry, Kevin Connelly and Matthew Cox (episode 3). Bill Dare returned as producer. Episode 1 was recorded at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The recording of the fourth and final episode of this series, due to be broadcast on 14 September 2001, was cancelled, following the September 11 attacks.
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.
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]
Grace Archer (also Fairbrother) is a fictional character from the BBC's long-running radio soap, The Archers. She was one of the original characters and was played by Monica Gray and then Ysanne Churchman. The episode depicting her death was broadcast by the BBC on 22 September 1955, the same evening as the launch of ITV, so as to distract from ...
Shula Hebden Lloyd (also Archer) [1] is a fictional character from the British BBC Radio 4 soap opera The Archers. The character was introduced as the eldest daughter of Phil Archer and Jill Archer in 1958. Shula has been portrayed by Liverpudlian actress Judy Bennett since 1971. [2]
16 January – Listen with Mother, on the BBC Light Programme (1950–1982) [1] 6 June – Educating Archie, on the BBC Light Programme (1950–1960) 7 June – The Archers, pilot episode (1950–Present) 5 November – Life with the Lyons, on the BBC Light Programme (1950–1961)