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The Archers. 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". [ 3][ 4] Having aired over 20,000 episodes, [ 5] it is the ...
The Archer family. Jill Archer née Patterson (born 3 October 1930) ( Patricia Greene) is the widow of Phil Archer and matriarch of the family. She was his second wife, and with him had four children: twins Shula and Kenton, and David and Elizabeth. She is busily involved in village life and supports her children by taking on child-minding duties.
The programme was broadcast on Tuesday and Thursday with an omnibus on Sunday, all following The Archers on Radio 4. The Archers theme tune "Barwick Green" was re-arranged for Ambridge Extra, and was performed by folk group Bellowhead. The first series of Ambridge Extra ran for 13 weeks (26 episodes) from April through to June 2011. A second 13 ...
September 11, 2022 at 3:12 PM. BBC Radio 4 soap opera The Archers has marked the death of the Queen with a specially-recorded scene that was broadcast at the start of Sunday’s episode. Listeners ...
Queen Camilla thanks the BBC Radio 4 drama for "bringing joy, laughter and tears to your audience".
Jill Archer. Jill Archer (née Patterson) is a fictional character from the BBC Radio 4 soap opera The Archers. She has been portrayed by Patricia Greene since 1957. Writers for the show paired Jill with Phil Archer ( Norman Painting ), their marriage lasting until Phil's death in 2010. Greene is one of the world's longest-serving actors in a ...
Keri Davies. Three children, including Dominic Davies. Keri Davies is a radio drama writer and producer. He has been professionally associated with the BBC Radio 4 drama The Archers since 1991. He has worked directly on the programme since 1992 as a producer, senior producer and web producer. Since 2003, he has been an Archers scriptwriter.
Barwick Maypole "Barwick Green" / ˈ b ær ɪ k / is the theme music to the long-running BBC Radio 4 soap opera The Archers.A "maypole dance", in 44 time, from the suite My Native Heath written in 1924 by the Yorkshire composer Arthur Wood, it is named after Barwick-in-Elmet in Yorkshire's West Riding.