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| opentheme = [[Barwick Green]]
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|2014–present
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! scope="row" |Nick[[Lucy BarberFleming]]
|Miranda Elliott
|Rex Fairbrother
|2016, 2017, 2024–present
|2015–present
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! scope="row" |Rhys Bevan
|Toby Fairbrother
|2015–present
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! scope="row" |Toby Laurence
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|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>
|-
! scope="row" |Richard Pepple
|John Mack
|2024–present
|}
 
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| Iftikar Shah
| 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
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! scope="row" |[[Godfrey Baseley]]
| Brigadier Winstanley
| 1967–1971
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! scope="row" |Patricia Bendall
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| Doris Archer
| 1951–1980
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! scope="row" |Rhys Bevan
|Toby Fairbrother
|2015–2023
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! scope="row" |[[Sudha Bhuchar]]
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|Martyn Gibson
|2009–2014, 2018–2023
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! scope="row" |Anthony Godfrey
| Brigadier Winstanley
| 1967–1971
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! scope="row" |Frances Graham
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| Bert Fry
| 1988–1996
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! scope="row" |[[Jasmine Hyde]]
| Leonie Snell
| 2009, 2011–2015, 2017, 2020
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! scope="row" |[[Ronny Jhutti]]
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! scope="row" |Alex Jones
| Clive Horrobin
| 1991, 1993, 1997, 2003, 2004, 2011, 2024
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! scope="row" |Basil Jones
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| Nelson Gabriel
| 1956, 1962, 1963, 1965, 1966, 1968, 1970–1972, 1975, 1977, 1979–1997
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! scope="row" |Roger May
| James Bellamy
| 2009, 2011–2014, 2017
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! scope="row" |Neil McCaul
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| [[Jennifer Aldridge]]
| 1963–2022
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! scope="row" |Sion Probert
| Wayne Tucson
| 2009–2010
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! scope="row" |[[Arnold Ridley]]
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| [[Brenda Tucker]]
| 1999–2015
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! scope="row" |Eri Shuka
| Elona Makepeace
| 2011–2013
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! scope="row" |Alison Skilbeck
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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>
DumTeeDum is a weekly podcast about the Archers hosted by Roifield Brown and Jacqueline Bertho. Released every Sunday it features a comprehensive rundown on the last week's Ambridge action. By February 2023 they had podcasted 568 episodes. As well as a webpage,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://dumteedum.com/|title=The Dumteedum web page|access-date=28 February 2021|archive-date=28 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210228114119/http://dumteedum.com/|url-status=live}}</ref> Dumteedum has, {{as of|February 2023|lc=yes}}, a Facebook Group with 2254 members<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/groups/298673161188564/members |title=The Dumteedum Facebook Group |website=[[Facebook]] |access-date=9 February 2023 }}</ref> a Twitter feed with 9,235 followers,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://twitter.com/DumTeeDum/ |title=The Dumteedum Twitter Feed |access-date=9 February 2023 }}</ref> and a map of its members.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://dumteedum.com/map/ |title=The Dumteedum membership map |access-date=28 February 2021 |archive-date=26 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201226183530/https://dumteedum.com/map/ |url-status=live }}</ref> There are two other Archers podcasts, both released on a Sunday weekly - The Cider Shed, and Ambridge on the Couch with [[Lucy Freeman]] and [[Harriet Carmichael]]. They both have facebook, twitter and other social media sites. Every Sunday there is a ‘tweet along’ with the omnibus episode during which listeners comment live on the show.
 
==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}}
* ''TheJennifer Aldridge's Archers: The True StoryCookbook'' (1996) by William[[Angela SmethurstPiper]] (1994). {{ISBN|10-858337153-6200141-1}}
* ''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 JockGeoffrey Webb and [[Edward J. Mason]] Gallagher(1954)
* ''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===