Media contact and coverage
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Below is a listing of the coverage across print, online and broadcast media.
The Guardian, 6 February 2024
Charlotte Higgins on The Archers: it’s Evil Rob … the zombie sequel!
Times Literary Supplement, 30 July 2021
Engels and Archers: Academics return to Britain’s most surveilled and studied community
I Newspaper, 22 February 2021
Archers musical and theme park almost took off
The Guardian, 12 February 2021
Ambridge via Zoom: academic Archers conference returns virtually
i newspaper, 5 February 2021
The Archers: Academic conference to debate class war and ‘neoliberal necropolitics’ in Ambridge
BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour, 1 January 2021
The Guardian, 15 December 2020
The Long Read: 'A peculiarly English epic': the weird genius of The Archers, Charlotte Higgins
No Such Thing As A Fish, Episode 270, 24 May 2019
The Telegraph, 17th August 2019
Archers matriarchs use their money to control their children, says Oxford academic
BBC Radio 4, 16th August 2016
The Telegraph, 11th April 2019
Analysing The Archers: my weekend at the University of Ambridge
London Review of Books, 10th April 2019
Gender, Sex and Gossip in The Archers, book review
Radio 4 Woman’s Hour, 8th April 2019
Feature and podcast with Dr Cara Courage and Dr Nicola Headlam
The Ambridge Observer, 8th April 2019
BBC Radio Sheffield, 6th April 2019
BBC Radio Scotland, Good Morning Scotland, 5th April 2019
Broadcasting House, 3rd April 2019
The Telegraph, 2nd April 2019
The Guardian, 1st April 2019
The Telegraph, 31st March 2019
The Spectator (podcast), 21st March 2019
Times Literary Supplement, 1st August 2018
Ambridge, Brian Morton, Custard, Culverts and Cake book review
Church Times, 2nd March 2018
Custard, Culverts and Cake... book review
Waitrose Weekend, 1st March 2018
Borsetshire Believers, conference feature
The Archers website, 18th February 2018
'Charlotte Martin aka Susan Carter on Susan, Shula's depression and Henry's future', conference report.
World This Weekend, 19th February 2018
BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking, 15th February 2018
Dr Rob Drummond on 'Reflecting Rural Life' panel discussion
The Guardian, 13th February 2018
'The Archers academic conference: hot ticket for Radio 4 fans and insurgency experts'
Country Living, 13th February 2018
'Calling all 'Archers' fans! Here's your chance to help shape the soap's upcoming storylines'
The Telegraph, 13th February 2018
'Women in The Archers avoid getting skin cancer thanks to 'the wellie protection factor'
Waitrose Weekend, 3rd February 2018
'If troops were called to Ambridge'
BBC Radio Oxford, 17th February 2018
Dr Nicola Headlam, interview on the Kat Orman show
Country Living, February 2018
'A Book to Read' book review.
Sheffield Telegraph, 28th December 2017
Today Programme, 26th December 2017
Interview with Debi Ashenden about rural broadband.
The telegraph, 26th DECEMBER 2017
Andrew Edwards show, 23rd October 2017
Jessica Meyer, Custard, Culverts and Cake contributor, interview
Sunday, BBC Radio 4
Rev Jonathan Hustler interview, 22nd October 2017
Waitrose Weekend
Archers storyline is no twist of fete, 20th October 2017
The Times
The Archers, an everyday story of terrorist folk, 5th October 2017
Times Higher Education
Books editor’s blog: Custard, Culverts and Cake: academics on life in The Archers, Ambridge provides fertile ground for academic analysis, 28th September 2017
BBC The Archers newsletter and blog
'Life in The Archers, it's all academic', 2nd August 2017
The Telegraph
'The Archers: an everyday tale of folk in a village with very low crime statistics' 19th July 2017
Waitrose Weekend
'How does Ambridge dodge diabetes?' 2nd March 2017
Times Higher Education
The week in higher education – 23 February 2017, 23rd February 2017
2017 conference across bbc radio
Academic Archers 2017 was covered across Radio 4:
Feedback feature, 14th February, and a longer feature on its podcast
Today Programme, 16th February, interview, and with The Archers actor, Charles Collingwood, and feature on the 8 am news segment
Interview with presenter Christine Micheal, Farming Today, 17th February
Mention on Any Questions, 17th February, and Any Answers, 18th February
Interview on 5Live Daily and follow-up evening interview, 17th February
The 2016 conference also featured on PM, Feedback and Farming Today
The independent
'BBC 's Robinson falls victim of fake news', 18th February 2017
Sky News
Mention in the newspaper review, 18th February 2017
The Times
'Naughty but nice: treat-guzzling Ambridge dodges diabetes', 18th February 2017
'An everyday story of cake-eaters (but where's the diabetes?)', 18th February 2017
The Telegraph
'The Archers Paradox: with all those cakes and pork pies, why don't Ambridge residents get fat?', 17th February 2017
'Archers conference to hear giant vegetable competitions are fertile ground for skulduggery', 17th February 2017
the independent
'Why The Archers needs more disabled characters', 6th March 2016
the guardian
'How social media made The Archers cool', 16th February 2016
The Telegraph
'Ooh aar Sire! The Archer's Ambridge is more medieval village than 21st century village', 14th February 2016
'Older people abandon Received Pronunciation in favour of flatter vowels, according to Archers study', 10th February 2016
The Independent
'Why The Archers needs more disabled characters', 6th March 2016
The Independent
'The Archers: Academics to delve into BBC Radio 4 soap's secret at university conference', 16th October 2015