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* Home Farm is a {{Convert|1922|acre|ha|adj=on}} farm, by far the largest in Ambridge, owned by the Aldridge family. In recent years, Home Farm expanded into soft fruit and deer farming.
* Willow Farm was owned by the Tucker family. Following Betty's death in 2005, the house was divided to accommodate Roy and his family. The [[farmland]] is home to Neil Carter's pigs.
* '''Arkwright Hall''' {{Anchor|Arkwright Hall}} is a large Victorian mansion with a 17th-century atmosphere.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00w47v9/p00vxsw7 | title=BBC Radio 4 - the Archers, Ambridge locations - Arkwright Hall - large Victorian house with a 17th century core }}</ref> The building served as a community centre for many years, containing a soundproofed room and field studies centre. Later it fell into disrepair, but was renovated when Jack Woolley leased the mansion to the [[Landmark Trust]]; architect Lewis Carmichael led the restoration of the building to its [[Victorian era|Victorian]] splendour.
* '''Grey Gables''', {{Anchor|Grey Gables}} once a country club, is now a luxurious hotel. The late [[Caroline Sterling]] bought it with her husband Oliver. The hotel boasts a pool, spa, health club and a golf course. The hotel was sold in 2022 and is closed while undergoing extensive refurbishment.
* Lower Loxley Hall is a large 300-year-old country house located just outside Ambridge. It serves primarily as a conference centre.
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Since 2007, ''The Archers'' has been available as a [[podcast]].<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qpgr/episodes/downloads| title=Podcasts| work=The Archers| access-date=10 February 2008| publisher=BBC Radio 4| archive-date=3 July 2015| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150703183537/http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qpgr/episodes/downloads| url-status=live}}</ref>
Since [[Easter Sunday]] 1998, there have been six episodes a week, from Sunday to Friday, broadcast at around 19:03 following the news summary.
===Death of Grace Archer===
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The actor [[Norman Painting]] played Phil Archer continuously from the first trial series in 1950 until his death on 29 October 2009. His last ''Archers'' performance was recorded just two days before his death, and was broadcast on 22 November.<ref name="bbc-obituary">{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8331558.stm|title=Voice of Phil Archer dies aged 85|work=BBC News|access-date=28 December 2014|archive-date=29 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141229001004/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8331558.stm|url-status=live}}</ref> He is cited in ''[[Guinness World Records]]'' as the longest-serving actor in a single soap opera.<ref name="bbc-obituary"/> Under the pseudonym "Bruno Milna", Painting also wrote around 1,200 complete episodes, which culminated in the 10,000th episode.
[[June Spencer]]
===Sixtieth anniversary===
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|Hannah Riley
|2008–2009, 2018–2020, 2022–present<ref name="Years"/>
|-▼
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|Martyn Gibson▼
|2009–2014, 2018–present▼
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! scope="row" |[[Emerald O'Hanrahan]]
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|Miranda Elliott
|Rex Fairbrother▼
|2016, 2017, 2024–present
|-▼
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|Toby Fairbrother▼
|-
! scope="row" |Toby Laurence
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|Chelsea Horrobin
|2021–present
|-▼
! scope="row" |[[Ronny Jhutti]]▼
|Adil Shah▼
|2022–present▼
|-
! scope="row" |Angus Stobie
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|Brad Horrobin
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|Mick Fadmoor
|2022–present
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|Paul Mack
|2022–present
|-▼
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|Sykesy▼
|-
! scope="row" |Blayke Darby
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|Harry Chilcott
|2023–present
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! scope="row" |Michael Bertenshaw
|Robert Snell
|2024–present<ref name="MichaelBertenshaw">{{cite news |last1=Mensah |first1=Katelyn |title=The Archers recasts Robert Snell after death of actor Graham Blockey |url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/soaps/the-archers-recasts-robert-snell-newsupdate/ |access-date=27 February 2024 |work=Radio Times}}</ref>
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! scope="row" |Richard Pepple
|John Mack
|2024–present
|}
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| 2012–2013
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! scope="row" |Scott Arthur
| Rhys Williams
| 2011–2013
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! scope="row" |[[Adam Astill]]
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| Hazel Woolley
| 2014, 2015, 2021–2022
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! scope="row" |Nick Barber
▲|Rex Fairbrother
|2015–2023
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! scope="row" |Heather Barrett
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| John Archer
| 1987–1998
|-
! scope="row" |[[Godfrey Baseley]]
| Brigadier Winstanley▼
| 1967–1971▼
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! scope="row" |Patricia Bendall
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| [[Shula Hebden Lloyd]]
| 1971–2022,
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! scope="row" |[[Ballard Berkeley]]
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| 1951–1980
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▲|Toby Fairbrother
|2015–2023
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| Wayne Foley
| 1999–2004, 2011, 2012
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| 1980–1981
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▲! scope="row" |[[Jasper Carrott]]
▲|Sykesy
|2023
|-
! scope="row" |Anne Chatterley
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▲| Brigadier Winstanley
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! scope="row" |Frances Graham
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| Bert Fry
| 1988–1996
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| Leonie Snell
| 2009, 2011–2015, 2017, 2020
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|2022–2024
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! scope="row" |Ann Johnson
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| Clive Horrobin
| 1991, 1993, 1997, 2003, 2004, 2011, 2024
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| Nelson Gabriel
| 1956, 1962, 1963, 1965, 1966, 1968, 1970–1972, 1975, 1977, 1979–1997
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| James Bellamy
| 2009, 2011–2014, 2017
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! scope="row" |Neil McCaul
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| 1963–2022
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| Wayne Tucson
| 2009–2010
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| 1999–2015
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| Elona Makepeace
| 2011–2013
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! scope="row" |Alison Skilbeck
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| Rosemary
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The Academic Archers, founded in 2016, is a community of fans who share an academic approach to the programme. It organises an annual conference at which papers are presented which draw on academic expertise along with enjoyment. Papers from these have been published as ''The Archers in Fact and Fiction: Academic Analyses of Life in Rural Borsetshire'' (2016, Peter Lang:{{ISBN|9781787071193}}), ''Custard, Culverts and Cake'' (2017, Emerald: {{ISBN|9781787432864}} and ''Gender, Sex and Gossip: Women in The Archers'' (2019, Emerald: {{ISBN|9781787699489}} ) The group aims to be "curious, generous and joyful".<ref name=academic>{{cite web|title=Home page|publisher=Academic Archers|url=http://www.academicarchers.net|access-date=7 April 2019|archive-date=6 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191206215608/http://academicarchers.net/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=rosefield>{{cite news |work=[[New Statesman]] |last=Rosefield |first=Hannah |url=https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/observations/2016/03/what-we-learned-first-academic-archers-conference |title=What we learned from the first academic Archers conference |date=28 March 2016 |access-date=7 April 2019 |archive-date=7 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190407071716/https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/observations/2016/03/what-we-learned-first-academic-archers-conference |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=tickle>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/feb/13/archers-conference-ticket-radio-4-ambridge |last=Tickle |first=Louise |title=The Archers academic conference: hot ticket for Radio 4 fans and insurgency experts |date=13 February 2018 |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=27 October 2021 |archive-date=16 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191016180806/https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/feb/13/archers-conference-ticket-radio-4-ambridge |url-status=live }}</ref>
There are four weekly fan podcasts about ''The Archers'': ''All About The Archers''<ref>{{cite web |last1=Podcast list |first1=Acast |title=Podcast summary |url=https://shows.acast.com/all-about-the-archers |website=All About The Archers podcast |publisher=cast |access-date=17 July 2024}}</ref>,'DumTeeDum'', ''The Cider Shed'' and ''Ambridge on the Couch''.<ref name="f500">{{cite book | last=Korfmacher | first=A. | title=Fan Podcasts: Rewatch, Recap, Review | publisher=Taylor & Francis | series=Routledge Advances in Fan and Fandom Studies | year=2024 | isbn=978-1-04-008715-2 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-SoHEQAAQBAJ&pg=PT133 | access-date=2024-07-11 | page=133}}</ref><ref name="i270">{{cite book | last1=Courage | first1=C. | last2=Headlam | first2=N. | title=Fandom Culture and The Archers: An Everyday Story of Academic Folk | publisher=Emerald Publishing Limited | year=2022 | isbn=978-1-80262-969-9 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0sxuEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT16 | access-date=2024-07-11 | page=16}}</ref><ref name="n497">{{cite book | last1=Miller | first1=B. | last2=Collingwood | first2=C. | title=For the Love of The Archers: An Unofficial Companion: Revised and Updated | publisher=Summersdale | year=2022 | isbn=978-1-80007-791-1 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s1KuEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT277 | access-date=2024-07-11 | page=277}}</ref>
==Parallels==
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===Reference works===
* ''Forever Ambridge — 25 Years of The Archers'' (1975) by [[Norman Painting]] ASIN B0012UT8XM
* ''The Archers: The First Thirty Years'' compiled by [[William Smethurst]] (1980). {{ISBN|0-413-47830-0}}
* ''The Archers: The Official Companion'' by [[William Smethurst]] (1985). {{ISBN|0-297-78715-2}}
* ''The Book of The Archers'' (1994) by [[Patricia Greene]], [[Charles Collingwood (actor)|Charles Collingwood]] and Hedli Niklaus {{ISBN|0-7181-3849-X}}
* ''
* ''The Archers: The True Story'' (1996) by [[William Smethurst]] {{ISBN|1-85833-620-1}}
* ''The Archers: The Official Inside Story'' by [[Vanessa Whitburn]] (1996). {{ISBN|1-85227-660-6}}
* ''The Archers' Pantry: Jennifer Aldridge'' by [[Angela Piper]] (1997). {{ISBN|0-091-85407-5}}
* ''The Archers Anarchists' A-Z: An Unofficial and Utterly Outrageous Guide'' by Ian Sanderson (1998). {{ISBN|0-7522-2442-5}}
* ''The Archers Annual 2000'' by Kate Willmott and Hedli Niklaus {{ISBN|0-563-38415-8}}
* ''The Archers Annual 2001'' by Kate Willmott and Hedli Niklaus {{ISBN|0-563-53716-7}}
* ''The Archers Encyclopaedia'' (2001) by Joanna Toye and Adrian Flynn {{ISBN|0-563-53718-3}}, published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of ''The Archers''
* ''Who's Who in The Archers 2008'' by [[Keri Davies]]. {{ISBN|1-84607-326-X}}
* ''Who's Who in The Archers 2011'' by Graham Harvey. {{ISBN|978-1-849-90015-7}}
* ''Jennifer Aldridge's Archers Cookbook'' by [[Angela Piper]] (2009). {{ISBN|0-7153-3338-0}}
* ''The Archers Miscellany'' (2010) by Joanna Toye. {{ISBN|978-1-84607-754-8}}
* ''The Road to Ambridge'' (2010) by [[June Spencer]]. {{ISBN|978-1-907532-25-2}}
* ''The Archers Archives'' (2010) by Simon Frith & Chris Arnot. {{ISBN|978-1-84990-013-3}}
* ''Borsetshire Life'' (2011). The county magazine. {{ISBN|978-1-902685-14-4}} see [https://web.archive.org/web/20120308063938/http://www.silkpress.co.uk/borsetshire-life.html borsetshire-life]
* ''The Ambridge Chronicles'' by Joanna Toye and Karen Farrington (2013) {{ISBN|978-1-84990-577-0}}
* ''For the Love of The Archers: An Unofficial Companion'' by Beth Miller (2015) {{ISBN|978-1-84953-773-5}}
===Novelisations===
* ''The Archers of Ambridge'' by
* ''The Archers Intervene'' by Geoffrey Webb and [[Edward J. Mason]] (1956)
* ''Ambridge Summer'' by [[Keith Miles]] (1975). {{ISBN|0-85523-065-7}}
* ''The Archers'' by Jock Gallagher
** ''Doris Archer's Diary'' (1971). {{ISBN|0-563-12118-1}}
** ''The Archers: To The Victor The Spoils'' (1988). {{ISBN|0-563-20599-7}}
** ''The Archers: Return to Ambridge'' (1988). {{ISBN|0-563-20606-3}}
** ''The Archers: Borchester Echoes'' (1988). {{ISBN|0-563-20607-1}}
** ''The Archers: Omnibus Edition'' (1988). {{ISBN|0-563-36001-1}}
* ''Tom Forrest's Country Calendar'' (1978) compiled by Charles Lefeaux {{ISBN|0-563-1741-10}}
* ''Ambridge: An English Village Through The Ages'' by [[William Smethurst]] (1981). {{ISBN|0-413-50170-1}}
* ''Dan Archer: The Ambridge Years'' by [[William Smethurst]] and Anthony Parkin (1984). {{ISBN|0-7181-2437-5}}
* ''Shula's Story'' by Joanna Toye (1995). {{ISBN|0-563-38703-3}}
* ''Lynda Snell's Heritage of Ambridge'' by [[Carole Boyd]] (1997). {{ISBN|185227-658-4}}
* ''The Ambridge Chronicles'' by Joanna Toye
** ''The Archers 1951–1967: Family Ties'' (1998). {{ISBN|0-563-38397-6}}
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* In 1975, Tandem published a prequel novel about Ambridge in the early 1900s
** ''Spring at Brookfield'' by [[Brian Hayles]] (1975). {{ISBN|978-0-426-16520-0}}
* ''Jennifer's Diary'' by Joanna Toye (2003). {{ISBN|0-563-48767-4}}
* ''The Archers: Ambridge At War'' by Catherine Miller (2020). {{ISBN|978-1-4711-9548-8}}
===Published audio episodes===
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