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The Archers boss reveals "12 scripts were binned" in coronavirus rewrites Series Editor Jeremy Howe on how the radio drama coped with Covid The Archers to air classic episodes amid coronavirus delays The Radio 4 drama is delving into its archives as production slows. The radio soap opera that genuinely divides the nation, far more alarmingly than the infamous Marmite, has reached another hefty milestone that cannot be ignored.
The longest running drama in the world is 70 years old on 1 January. Like the weather and the railways, down the decades this beacon of BBC Radio 4 output has provided a handy conversation point.
And somehow no listeners, not even among the diehard audience, will ever completely agree on its charms. And yet. Where else but in Jane Austen do moral niceties regularly rub shoulders so compellingly with the big questions of love, family, money, nature, honesty and death?
But this idea of the show as a place of refuge does not — rather like the banks of the River Am that fateful week when nowhere else in Britain flooded — hold water. There have been countless moments of both histrionic excess and touching emotional turmoil. The show is now so old that its lore and traditions rival the country code itself. Will Adam and Ian get their much-wanted baby after all? Includes exclusive content, spoilers and interviews before they're seen on the site.
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