Closet fans won’t admit it, but The Archers is an essential part of life for many in Britain and beyond. Be it tuning in for 15 minutes with a G&T before guests arrive for supper on a week night or splurging with the omnibus edition on a Sunday whilst preparing a hearty roast, this is a radio show that in April even had one of its many fan clubs “invaded by Nazis and pornography.”
Whilst it is understandable for the makers of television soaps – programmes that, after all, require all manner of social interaction in their creation – to have run out of episodes, one would have thought that the producers of The Archers would have had a plan to see themselves through a crisis.
Sadly, they didn’t and from the 3rd to 24th May no new episodes of the world’s longest running drama are being broadcast. Whilst the BBC think it perfectly acceptable to play reruns, many ‘Archers Addicts’ (myself included) have been left despondent and feeling like ‘Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells.’ After all, where’s Peggy Woolley and her wartime spirit when we most require this soapland matriarch?
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The death of The Archers
Matthew Steeples asks: Was Helen Titchener killing her husband in The Archers last night a plot too far?
Rod off Rob
As justice is finally served in ‘The Archers’, Matthew Steeples suggests it is time the series returned to its roots During the past months listeners to BBC Radio 4’s The Archers have had to put up with the torture of a story of domestic abuse of one character, Helen Titchener, at the hands of […]
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I am very upset that we did not get to hear Philip Moss being caught out before they finished. He must be exposed. Leaving that cliffhanger is very unfair.
It has deteriorated in recent years. I gave up when Nigel fell off the roof.
Never understood it