'The Archers - 'an everyday story of country folk' ---What Is/Are The Archers?--- The Archers is the name of a family who live in the fictional village of Ambridge. This radio programme is a long standing soap which goes out on weekdays and has an omnibus on Sundays. The Archers are basicaly a farmng family and the programme covers a lot of the extended family plus other villagers. ---Where Do They Live?--- The Archers is set in the village of Ambridge in the fictional county of Borsetshire. Borsetshire is hyperthetically situated between Worcestershire and ...  Read the complete review

I'd always written The Archers off as being a radio soap for middle-class snobs and farmers, since my first experience of it came from staying at a friend's house who were decidedly modern parents, in that they refused to have a TV in their house and listened to The Archers on Radio 4 each evening. I'd catch the odd tail end of an episode, but never quite got sold on the idea of an audio-soap, opposed to the plenitude of visual ones available on TV. Fast forward several years and I managed to get a job in an office where we were allowed to use iPods whilst inputting data in order to stem the monotonous flow of boredom that came with such routine tasks, and I ...  Read the complete review

I've been listening to The Archers occasionally for a few years now, but over the last 6 months I've listened to it more and more. And I'm totally hooked! It's the only soap I bother with nowadays, but it's just enough to satisfy that part of my brain. ===Background=== The Archers is set in the fictional village of Ambridge in the fictional county of Borsetshire, somewhere in the English West Midlands (between Worcestershire and Warwickshire I think!). The Archer family are the centre of many story lines, along with other villagers. Many of the characters are farmers, so agricultural story lines feature regularly, as well as general village life and the ...  Read the complete review

The Archers is a radio 4 programme broadcast on Sundays through to Fridays at 7o'clock for 15 minutes. On Mondays-Fridays there is a repeat of the last episode. The Archers is about the fictional farming village of Ambridge. It looks at the upper-class, presented through Brian and Jennifer Aldridge, right down to the ruffians, presented through Clive Horrobin. Running for 50 years, today it has the more modern outlook of relationships between people with a huge age gap between them, one person pregnancies, and bars, but still looks at the farming side of things, and showing a lack of farriers by changing one of their own characters into ...  Read the complete review

When my brothers & I were young we used to stay every summer holiday with our Granny who lived in a small village in Norfolk. Living in the suburbs of Manchester we were seen as 'townies' as it was well before people bought second homes in the country. My Granny listened to the Archers religiously every evening on radio 4, just after 7pm (or 2pm) weekdays & I soon learned how to be quiet for 15 minutes & eventually got interested & since then it's been part of my weekly routine. I tend to listen to the omnibus edition which is on Sundays from 10am - 11.15 when I steam the clothes whilst catching up with the latest news, gossip & scandal in ...  Read the complete review