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•V v>* .... Sbe T ~ y u m h i w - 1 I . - • ’* . .- '.A -• ? !tS |v „' !•% rr“ \~\ s i 1 1 ■r- ‘.-'j sStill ■ VLa ■ " tS\li ;' */■ » |H P . ’ I 1 r -■;5 £ f THE BULL { M i i ij 1 Sjii If! 111 h i \ WWj I IhJ liilhiiit >i 1 iVl |li On 1 January 1981, The Archers is thirty years old. From its modest beginning as an agricultural advice programme in the BBC’s old Midland Region, it has developed into the world’s longest- running serial, today commanding over three million listeners every week in the United Kingdom and countless numbers around the world. To mark its fascinating and colourful history - which is in part a history of British life since the fifties - here is the inside story of the BBC’s most successful radio programme,edited by William Smethurst, the serial’s producer. Packed with Archers information, it goes both behind the scenes and into the Ambridge archives, to bring a complete history of those three eventful decades - and a glimpse of The Archers’ future. The story of the programmme - as fascinating as anything that went out on the air - has been compiled by Jock Gallagher from thousands of BBC internal documents, to reveal many hitherto unknown facts: how a plot to kill off Peggy Archer was foiled, how the programme was nearly called Little Twittington... And from thirty years of scripts, over twenty million words, specially written and made available for the first time are the complete Ambridge ‘Chronicles; the story of all the major events involving the Archers and their fellow villagers since 1951. There are also articles by Phil Drabble, Mollie Harris and Anthony Parkin, giving the background to country and farming life over the period, and throughout the book a span of illustrations of past and current characters, as well as a map of Ambridge village and a complete family tree. The Archers has a unique place in the affections of radio listeners, and this book is a tribute to that special relationship. It is a celebration of Ambridge in every sense, and for anyone who knows The Archers, marks a closer acquaintanceship with old friends. 0 413 47830 0 THE ARCHERS The first thirty years THE ARCHERS The first thirty years Edited by W ILLIAM SM E T H U R ST Eyre Methuen By Arrangement with the British Broadcasting Corporation First published in 1980 by Eyre Methuen Ltd 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE Copyright © William Smethurst 1980 Filmset, printed and bound in Great Britain by Hazell Watson & Viney Ltd, Aylesbury, Bucks British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data ‘The Archers’, the first thirty years. 1. Archers, The (Radio program) I. Smethurst, William 79i.44'7 PN1991.77.A7 ISBN 0-413-47830-0
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