What is the name of the farm central to the radio programme 'The Archers'?
"pilot series started on Whit Monday, 29 May 1950, and continued throughout that week. It was created by Godfrey Baseley and was broadcast to the English Midlands in the Regional Home Service, as 'a farming Dick Barton'. Recordings were sent to London, and the BBC decided to commission the series for a longer national run. In the five pilots the Archers owned Wimberton Farm, rather than Brookfield. Baseley subsequently edited ""The Archers"" for 22 years. Since 1 January 1951, five 15-minute episodes (since 1998, six 12½-minute episodes) have been transmitted each week, at first on the BBC Light Programme and"
"urban areas. They continue to produce music today, and have garnered critical acclaim and a cult following around the world. Inkberrow Inkberrow is a village in Worcestershire, England, often thought to be the model for Ambridge, the setting of BBC Radio 4's long-running series ""The Archers"". In particular, The Bull, the fictional Ambridge pub, is supposed to be based on The Old Bull in Inkberrow. The village's parish church is dedicated to St. Peter and contains the Savage family chapel. In 2006, Inkberrow was awarded the title of Worcestershire Village of the Year and won the Building Community Life section"
"began on Saturday, 5 January 1952. Originally produced with collaborative input from the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, ""The Archers"" was conceived as a means of disseminating information to farmers and smallholders to help increase productivity in the postwar era of rationing and food shortages. It was originally formulated around the lives of three farmers; Dan Archer, farming efficiently with little cash, Walter Gabriel, farming inefficiently with little cash, and George Fairbrother, a wealthy businessman farming at a loss for tax purposes (which one could do in those days). The programme was hugely successful, winning the National Radio Awards'"
"Godfrey Baseley Cyril Godfrey Baseley (2 October 1904 – 2 February 1997), credited as Godfrey Basely, was a BBC radio executive famous for being the creator of the soap opera, ""The Archers"". Cyril Godfrey Baseley was born at Alvechurch near Bromsgrove in Worcestershire, England. He was educated at Bootham School, York. Before creating ""The Archers"", he had previous experience in refashioning radio programmes about farming, mainly for the Midland region. Inspiration came from another radio programme at the time: ""Dick Barton - Special Agent"" he decided to create a farming show with a narrative. The idea came from a suggestion"
"Woodley, who illustrated some of her books, was her cousin. Mollie Harris Mollie Harris (born Mollie Woodley, 23 June 1913 – 2 October 1995) was an English actress and author, known for her appearances as village shopkeeper Martha Woodford in the BBC Radio soap opera ""The Archers"". Mollie Woodley was born in Ducklington, Oxfordshire and raised in that county. After World War II, she became a writer and broadcaster for BBC Radio, on programmes such as ""In The Country"", with Phil Drabble. She joined ""The Archers"" in 1970. and appeared as a ""castaway"" on the BBC Radio programme ""Desert Island"
"which affect farmers nationwide when livestock movements are restricted. Many famous people have made cameo appearances on the programme: The theme tune of ""The Archers"" is called ""Barwick Green"" and is a maypole dance from the suite ""My Native Heath"", written in 1924 by the Yorkshire composer Arthur Wood. The Sunday omnibus broadcast of ""The Archers"" starts with a more rustic, accordion-arranged rendition by The Yetties. The theme for BBC Radio 4 Extra's ""The Archers"" spinoff, ""Ambridge Extra"", is a version arranged by Bellowhead. A library music recording of Barwick Green was used for the pilot and during the early"
"Inkberrow Inkberrow is a village in Worcestershire, England, often thought to be the model for Ambridge, the setting of BBC Radio 4's long-running series ""The Archers"". In particular, The Bull, the fictional Ambridge pub, is supposed to be based on The Old Bull in Inkberrow. The village's parish church is dedicated to St. Peter and contains the Savage family chapel. In 2006, Inkberrow was awarded the title of Worcestershire Village of the Year and won the Building Community Life section of the competition. Inkberrow was marked as a new town in the 1960s, but this plan was not carried out."
"listening figures. Partly established with the aim towards educating farmers following World War II, ""The Archers"" soon became a popular source of entertainment for the population at large, attracting nine million listeners by 1953. ""The Archers"" is set in the fictional village of Ambridge in the fictional county of Borsetshire, in England. Borsetshire is situated between, in reality, the contiguous counties of Worcestershire and Warwickshire, south of Birmingham in The Midlands. Possibly based on the village of Cutnall Green, various other villages claim to be the inspiration for Ambridge; ""The Bull"", Ambridge's pub, is modelled on The Old Bull in"
"on BBC Four on 1 January 2007, focused on ""The Archers"". It was narrated by Stephen Fry and included interviews with current actors and scriptwriters. The Archers The Archers, having aired over 18,700 episodes, is the world's longest-running radio serial. Broadcast on BBC Radio 4the BBC's main spoken-word channelthis soap opera was initially billed, ""an everyday story of country folk"" and now, ""a contemporary drama in a rural setting"". Five pilot episodes were aired in 1950 and the first episode was broadcast nationally on 1 January 1951. A significant show in British popular culture, and with over five million listeners,"
"heading for the border with Worcestershire and passing through the village of Inkberrow, said to be the village that was the inspiration for Ambridge, the centre of the world for fans of the long-running BBC radio series ""The Archers"", which began in 1951. The last section to Worcester is narrow and winding until it terminates at the A44 just south of M5 junction 6. The road is long. A422 road The A422 is an ""A"" road for east-west journeys in south central England, connecting the county towns of Bedford and Worcester by way of Milton Keynes, Buckingham, Banbury and Stratford-upon-Avon."
"The Archers The Archers, having aired over 18,700 episodes, is the world's longest-running radio serial. Broadcast on BBC Radio 4the BBC's main spoken-word channelthis soap opera was initially billed, ""an everyday story of country folk"" and now, ""a contemporary drama in a rural setting"". Five pilot episodes were aired in 1950 and the first episode was broadcast nationally on 1 January 1951. A significant show in British popular culture, and with over five million listeners, it is Radio 4's most listened-to non-news programme, With over one million listeners via the internet, the programme holds the record for BBC Radio online"
"included (listed in their role at time of conference): The OFC has been mentioned in the long-running BBC Radio 4 series, ""The Archers"". Oxford Farming Conference The Oxford Farming Conference (OFC) is an annual conference for the UK's farmers that takes place in Oxford, United Kingdom, in the first week of January. The 72nd annual conference will run from 3–5 January 2018 at University of Oxford's Examination Schools, in the High Street, central Oxford. The theme “Embracing Change” will be explored and discussed by visionary speakers from around the world, many who have tackled both personal and professional adversity. Digital"
"Borchester Borchester is a fictional town in the BBC Radio 4 radio series ""The Archers"". It is the county town of the fictional county of Borsetshire. According to series tradition it is located 6 miles north-east of Ambridge in the Am Vale and is an historic market and wool town. These typically English country-town features are complemented by more modern additions, such as Underwoods (an upmarket department store), Jaxx bar, which was previously a café both managed by Kenton Archer, and Ambridge Organics, the shop run by Helen Archer, who also makes the Borsetshire Blue cheese sold in Underwoods. As"
"Mollie Harris Mollie Harris (born Mollie Woodley, 23 June 1913 – 2 October 1995) was an English actress and author, known for her appearances as village shopkeeper Martha Woodford in the BBC Radio soap opera ""The Archers"". Mollie Woodley was born in Ducklington, Oxfordshire and raised in that county. After World War II, she became a writer and broadcaster for BBC Radio, on programmes such as ""In The Country"", with Phil Drabble. She joined ""The Archers"" in 1970. and appeared as a ""castaway"" on the BBC Radio programme ""Desert Island Discs"" on 8 October 1983. Harris's books about her life"
"1984. Also in Borchester is Borchester General Hospital. Borchester is the scene of frequent shopping trips and social encounters in the series. It has a mixture of trendy, ""southern England"" features such as wine bars and upmarket delis combined with some working-class neighbourhoods. The Grundy family lived for a while in a substandard council flat in Borchester after being evicted from Grange Farm in 2000. Borchester Borchester is a fictional town in the BBC Radio 4 radio series ""The Archers"". It is the county town of the fictional county of Borsetshire. According to series tradition it is located 6 miles"
"""The Archers"" when Pat and Tony Archer “went organic” at Bridge Farm. In 2009, Teleri Bevan published a book ""They Dared to Make a Difference,"" detailing the lives of the three family generations at Brynllys. The company was born out of the need for farming diversification. When heavy snow hit Aberystwyth in 1982, preventing milk tankers from reaching the isolated farm, the Rowlands were forced to find other uses for their milk. Using an old butter churn, they made cream and butter by hand. After the snow cleared, the Rowlands discovered they had inadvertently created a market for their dairy"
"popular musicians performed there. There isn't a music studio of any kind at Pebble Mill's replacement facility, The Mailbox. Pebble Mill's radio drama studio, Studio 3, provided much of Radio 3 and 4's drama output – it was the home of ""The Archers"", the world's longest running radio soap opera. The last ""Archers"" programme from Pebble Mill was on 13 September 2004. The Mailbox (Pebble Mill's replacement) has a smaller radio drama studio, but incorporating a larger dead-room with an anechoic ‘snail’ for long, outdoor approaches. ""The Archers"" transferred to the Mailbox studio at the beginning of October 2004 and"
"running BBC Radio 4 programme The Archers was raised and schooled in Radcliffe. Radcliffe-on-Trent Radcliffe-on-Trent is a large village and civil parish in the Rushcliffe borough of Nottinghamshire. The population of the civil parish at the Census 2011 was 8,205. Radcliffe has a population of around 8,000. It is to the east of Nottingham, and is close to but not part of the Greater Nottingham built-up area. However, the Greater Nottingham Partnership considers the whole of Rushcliffe to be part of the Greater Nottingham conurbation. The village is situated on the south bank and cliff overlooking the River Trent, from"
"of Thrower's work and leaving him desolate. A tabloid journalist later approached one of the purported vandals with a picture of a sobbing Thrower, asking him how he felt. Percy Thrower's work for the BBC was not restricted to gardening. In the 1960s, Thrower, a habitual pipe smoker, was asked by the radio producer Tony Shryane to provide of sound effects for The Archers. In 1963, he built his own house near Shrewsbury, on land he acquired with a friend in the small village of Merrington, north west of Shrewsbury. This gave him a garden of about one and a"
"1666 – 1709), who gave his name to Cowper's gland, was born in Petersfield. John Goodyer (botanist), Thomas Horder, 1st Baron Horder (Royal physician), Stuart Ernest Piggott (archaeologist), Professor David Wands (cosmologist) and John Worlidge (agriculturalist) have links to the town. Actors Buki Akib, Jamie Campbell Bower, Arthur Brough, Tamsin Egerton, Ellis Jones, and Miranda Hart were all born or live in Petersfield, as are the BBC Radio 4's soap opera The Archers actors Charles Collingwood (Brian Aldridge) and Edward Kelsey (Joe Grundy). Sir Alec Guinness and his wife are buried in Petersfield. In the music world, tenor Wilfred Brown,"
"Helen Titchener in the programme. Borsetshire Borsetshire is a fictional county in the BBC Radio 4 series ""The Archers"". Its county town is the equally fictional Borchester. The county is supposedly set between Worcestershire and Warwickshire, but is also intended as a generic West Midlands rural county. Its name also echoes Anthony Trollope's fictional Barsetshire and the real Dorsetshire. Other places in the county include Ambridge, where ""The Archers"" is mainly set, Lower Loxley, a nearby village and Felpersham, a cathedral city which appears to be larger than Borchester. Ambridge is on the B3980 six miles south of Borchester and"
"Gloucestershire Rural Community Council, and went on to pick up a runner-up prize in the national competition, in recognition of local residents' efforts to develop community organisations and enterprises. Local legend has it that one of the original script writers of ""The Archers"", Geoffrey Webb, drank regularly in the (now closed) Swan Public House in the village, and his experiences helped inspire the long-running radio serial. The village falls in 'Coaley and Uley' electoral ward. This ward starts in the north near the M5 motorway and stretches south to Uley. The total population of this ward taken at the 2011"
"Keri Davies Keri Davies is a radio producer and playwright, best known for his work on the BBC radio soap opera ""The Archers"". Davies was born in Treherbert, Rhondda, Wales, but grew up in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England. He gained his A-Levels whilst at The John of Gaunt School, Trowbridge. Before he worked in radio, he had a job in a bank, was a commissioned officer in the Royal Air Force for six years, active in public relations in London, advertising in Derby and was a media and presentation trainer in Sheffield. After this he became a producer for ""The Archers"""
"Barwick Green ""Barwick Green"" is the theme music to the long-running BBC Radio 4 soap opera ""The Archers"". A ""maypole dance"" 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. The recording used between 1950 and the 1990s was played by Sidney Torch and his orchestra. Sidney Torch recorded a commercial release of ""Barwick Green"" in the 1950s, but it was not used on ""The Archers"" itself. The familiar opening 7 notes are echoed in the pizzicato in Benjamin Britten's ""Simple Symphony"", written in 1934."
"in 1868–1869. New Moor Farm, run by John Archer and his father Robert, previously kept Holstein Friesians but the herd was lost in the 2001 United Kingdom foot-and-mouth crisis. Today it is run by John and Susan Archer and is known in Darlington for its Archers ice cream which has been made on the premises in two converted garages and an old forge since 2004 using 4% of the milk from the Jersey herd of 330 cows. The cattle are descendants from three herds in Cornwall, Hampshire and Jersey. In summer 2005 an ice cream parlour was opened at the"
"major"", ""Widow Malone"", ""An Oriental Scene"" and ""Fairy Dreams"". He also composed a number of stage musicals, such as ""Yvonne"", ""Petticoat Fair"", and ""Fancy Fair"", the latter two dating from about 1918. Apart from ""Barwick Green"", his works are now rarely performed. Arthur Wood (composer) Arthur Wood (24 January 1875–18 January 1953) was an English composer and conductor, particularly famous for ""Barwick Green"", the signature theme for the BBC Radio 4 series ""The Archers"". Wood was born in Heckmondwike, Yorkshire, the son of a tailor. His father was a violinist in a local amateur orchestra and as a boy, Wood"
"Archers"" from May 1980 until 2011. Jack Woolley was not the first role he had performed in ""The Archers"", but was by far the most extended of his three roles in the soap opera; he had first joined the cast in 1953, the year he became a Midlands member of the BBC repertory company. The role, as farmhand Len Thomas lasted for 13 years, and the actor was soon cast again, as the Reverend David Latimer in 1968; the character died in 1973. Peters lived in the village of Wollaston, Northamptonshire. He died in Northamptonshire, 11 May 2013, after suffering"
"Arthur Wood (composer) Arthur Wood (24 January 1875–18 January 1953) was an English composer and conductor, particularly famous for ""Barwick Green"", the signature theme for the BBC Radio 4 series ""The Archers"". Wood was born in Heckmondwike, Yorkshire, the son of a tailor. His father was a violinist in a local amateur orchestra and as a boy, Wood began to learn the violin, the flute and piccolo. After his family moved to Harrogate in 1882 he was given flute lessons from Arthur Brookes, a member of a local spa orchestra. He left school at the age of twelve and two"
"Borsetshire Borsetshire is a fictional county in the BBC Radio 4 series ""The Archers"". Its county town is the equally fictional Borchester. The county is supposedly set between Worcestershire and Warwickshire, but is also intended as a generic West Midlands rural county. Its name also echoes Anthony Trollope's fictional Barsetshire and the real Dorsetshire. Other places in the county include Ambridge, where ""The Archers"" is mainly set, Lower Loxley, a nearby village and Felpersham, a cathedral city which appears to be larger than Borchester. Ambridge is on the B3980 six miles south of Borchester and seventeen miles west of Felpersham."
"Timothy Bentinck Timothy Charles Robert Noel Bentinck, 12th Earl of Portland, Count Bentinck MBE (born 1 June 1953 in Tasmania, Australia), commonly known as Tim Bentinck, is an English actor and writer, most widely known for his long-running role as David Archer in the BBC Radio 4 series, ""The Archers"". The son of the non-conformist intellectual Henry Bentinck he was born on a sheep station in Tasmania, but moved to Berkhamsted in the UK when aged two. He attended a local prep school, Harrow School, and the University of East Anglia, where he spent most of his time at its"
"Nelson Gabriel Nelson Gabriel is a fictional character from the British BBC Radio 4 soap opera ""The Archers"". He was portrayed by Jack May. May was approached by producer Tony Shryane to join ""The Archers"" as Nelson in 1952. May remained with the show until January 1997, when he was forced to leave due to his declining health. He died later that year. The son of Walter Gabriel (Chris Gittins), the village carrier and self-appointed ""character"", Nelson was for many years the most disreputable character in the village. He was charged with the Borchester mail-van robbery in 1967, but was"
"blackcurrants were juiced to provide fruit juice for Ribena - and was the moving force for the establishment of the Lincolnshire Quality seed scheme, which was a forerunner of worldwide seed quality control. In 1946, the BBC Radio producer Godfrey Baseley, later to become first editor of The Archers, came to Rippingale to make a programme called ""Farm Visit."" Henry Burtt and his son Stephen showed him their land all round Rippingale and explained their unusual crops and methods. Two years later, the BBC organised a national conference, to discuss how to get more farmers listening to radio. It took"
"have two sons: They live in North London. His sister Anna Bentinck is an actress. Specific references: General references: <br> Timothy Bentinck Timothy Charles Robert Noel Bentinck, 12th Earl of Portland, Count Bentinck MBE (born 1 June 1953 in Tasmania, Australia), commonly known as Tim Bentinck, is an English actor and writer, most widely known for his long-running role as David Archer in the BBC Radio 4 series, ""The Archers"". The son of the non-conformist intellectual Henry Bentinck he was born on a sheep station in Tasmania, but moved to Berkhamsted in the UK when aged two. He attended a"