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  2. The Archers - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Ambridge Extra - Wikipedia

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    Website. Official website. Ambridge Extra is an extension of the long-running radio drama The Archers. It began broadcasting sporadically on the digital radio station BBC Radio 4 Extra from 5 April 2011. The programme ran for five series, before it was "rested".

  4. Barwick Green - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Nelson Gabriel - Wikipedia

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    Nelson was the son of Walter Gabriel ( Chris Gittins ), the village carrier and self-appointed "character". He was charged with the Borchester mail-van robbery in 1967 but was eventually acquitted. After spells in London and Spain, in 1980, he ran a wine bar and later an antique shop with Kenton Archer. Finally, he disappeared to South America ...

  6. Radio 4’s The Archers marks Queen’s death with specially ...

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    Ian Jones, PA. September 11, 2022 at 12:12 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 ...

  7. BBC Radio 4 Extra - Wikipedia

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    History Former branding as BBC 7 (2002) and BBC Radio 7 (2008). Both featured a smiling face motif. The latter was created by design company Fallon. BBC 7 The station was initially launched as BBC 7 on 15 December 2002 by comedian Paul Merton. The first programme was broadcast at 8 p.m. and was simulcast with Radio 4. The station, referred to by the codename 'Network Z' while in development ...

  8. Peggy Woolley - Wikipedia

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    Peggy Woolley. Margaret " Peggy " Woolley (also Perkins and Archer ), is a fictional character from the BBC Radio 4 soap opera The Archers. Portrayed by June Spencer for over 70 years, Peggy has served as the core family's – and by extension, the village's – matriarch. Until July 2022 Spencer was the only remaining member of the original cast.

  9. BBC Radio 4 - Wikipedia

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    t. e. BBC Radio 4 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC. [1] The station replaced the BBC Home Service on 30 September 1967 and broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes from the BBC's headquarters at Broadcasting House, London. Since 2019, the station controller has been Mohit Bakaya. [2]