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Line 1: {{work}} [[File:Archers.gif\|~~frame~~thumb\|350px]] {{quote\|"The Archers; a memorable theme tune, followed by fifteen minutes of ambient farm noise and sighing."\|'''Sandi Toksvig''',''[[The News Quiz]]''}} ''[[The Archers]]'' is a popular [[The BBC\|BBC]] radio [[Soap Opera]], set in the fictional [[The Midlands\|West Midlands]] county of Borsetshire. It follows the lives of the Archer family, and the other families living in the small, rural village of Ambridge. It has been broadcast nationally since 1951 after starting its regional run in 1950, making it the longest running current soap opera in radio format and, since the cancelling of ''[[Guiding Light]]'', the longest running soap in any format. {{tropelist}} * [[Barset Shire]]: Borsetshire * [[Crossover]]: With Gardener's Question Time, of all things. Eric Robson and some of the panel appeared in ''The Archers'', and on Easter Sunday 2011 several Archers characters asked questions on GQT. The odd presenter from other BBC series has turned up [[As Himself]] or herself to open the village fete or something as well. Line 15 ⟶ 14: * [[Genre Shift]]:... but long since outgrew that * [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: Debbie Aldridge is Tamsin Grieg, also known as [[Black Books\|Fran]] and [[Green Wing\|Caroline]]. ** Emma Grundy was originally played by [[Felicity Jones]], aka [[The Worst Witch\|Ethel Hallow #1]] and [[Cape Wrath\|Nikki Foy/Zoe Brogan]] * [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]: Pretty much a given, considering how long the show has been going on. * [[Long Runners]]: 60 years and counting * [[Love Triangle]]: Ed, Will and Emma This particular subplot is so long and convoluted that the nice people at [[The BBC]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20090718191600/http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/archers/backstage/ed_will_emma_backstory.shtml provided a cheat sheet.] It is still ongoing, and <s>practically</s> ''a [[Long Runner]] in its own right'' - when editor Vanessa Whitburn told an interviewer in 2001 that it would be a major long-term [[Story Arc]] she wasn't kidding. * She repeated this claim about the repercussions of the 2nd January 2011's double-length [[Wham! Episode]] - only time will tell. * [[The Ghost]]: Sabrina & Richard Thwaite Line 28 ⟶ 27: ** There is an urban legend that farmers have been known to write in and complain if they used the wrong animal sound effect... * [[Spin-Off]]: ''[[Ambridge Extra]]'', on Radio 4 Extra, explores storylines, characters and locations that don't get focused on in the main Archer's program. At the moment, it's only 2 episodes a week. * [[Tangled Family Tree]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20111016183237/http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/the-archers/whos-who/family-tree On the website] * [[Who's Your Daddy?]]: Georgie Grundy {{reflist}} [[Category:~~Radio Drama~~{{PAGENAME}}]] [[Category:Radio]] [[Category:~~The~~Radio ~~Archers~~Drama]] [[Category:Radio of the 1950s]] [[Category:Radio of the 1960s]] [[Category:Radio of the 1970s]] [[Category:Radio of the 1980s]] [[Category:Radio of the 1990s]] [[Category:Radio of the 2000s]] [[Category:Radio of the 2010s]] [[Category:Soap Opera]] {{DEFAULTSORT:Archers, The}}