The Steeple Times is an online magazine with a following of upto 880,000 unique views per day on our best day yet.
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We have 91,000 daily subscribers by email.
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We typically average around 320,000 unique views per day.
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We currently have 65 contributing authors who range from students to the actor, writer and producer Steven Berkoff and the champion jockey Frankie Dettori.
Combining a mix of society's last word and both wit and wisdom, The Steeple Times covers food, drink and fine dining as well as luxury, travel, the arts, individuals of influence and current affairs in the United Kingdom, America and elsewhere. We are best described as being akin to "a cross between The Huffington Post and Private Eye".
The magazine's following is affluent, engaged and international. With 41% of readers coming from the UK and 38% from America, The Steeple Times also has strong presence within Canadian, Italian, German and Australian territories.
OPULENCE & SPLENDOUR
Upping The Archers
Matthew Steeples suggests those criticising ‘The Archers’ to have lost the plot Those branding The Archers “more sexist than Bond” have lost the plot. This radio soap is something loved and loathed in equal measure, yes, but in its 18,000 episodes it has covered everything from farming to gay marriage to drug crime. Ambridge, as with Hyacinth Bucket in Keeping Up Appearances, features characters we can all relate to. Everybody knows a gossip like Susan Carter; each and every one of encounters snobs of the Jennifer Aldridge vintage and how can one not love the gin soaked brilliance of Lillian Bellamy? To suggest that only one-third of The Archers’ audience met the test of “requiring two women to engage in dialogue about something other than a man for longer than just 30 seconds” is just ridiculous. The Archers is, in my view, something of sheer brilliance. Its pithy and to the point 15 minute episodes bring joy to its devoted listeners – myself included – and its critics should pipe down or be sentenced to a visit from Peggy Wooley’s vicious cat, Hilda Ogden. Facebook: @TheSteepleTimes Instagram: @TheSteepleTimes Twitter: @SteepleTimes and @M_Steeples
Well said. Like millions of Ex Pats around the world, the Archers is my lifeline to the homeland. Long may it prosper and long may its characters continue to irritate and annoy. Just like Parliament, it is uniquely English.