Scenes for the soap will be recorded at the event

Storylines for long-running BBC Radio 4 soap The Archers are to be recorded at this year's Glastonbury music festival.

They will be aired in two episodes of the show broadcast during the event in Somerset from 27 to 29 June.

Producer Kate Oates said the plot would centre on characters visiting the festival, although the story would not be about the music event itself.

"Because it's a radio soap we know we can go out and record and put it out in time," she said.

It is not the first time the fictional residents of Ambridge have set foot in the UK's most celebrated annual outdoor rock music event.

In 1998, amid heavy downpours of rain, teenager Kate Aldridge gave birth to Phoebe inside a tepee.

Meanwhile, Archers fans are delighted by the emergence of long-lost recordings of the show featured in a new Radio 4 series.

Vinyl pressings of a decade's episodes of the soap from the 1950s and 1960s were found hidden in a BBC storeroom last year.

The discovery means that major plotlines have been salvaged, and fans can revisit the childhood and teenage years of some of today's most popular characters.

Presenter Richard Stilgoe is hosting a two-part series featuring excerpts from the archive, starting on Friday on Radio 4.

It reveals how mods and rockers hit the village and how rock 'n' roll went down in Ambridge, where the radio soap is set.

It also includes details of a storyline that was considered scandalous in its day - that of Jennifer Archer's illegitimate baby.

The Archers is usually recorded at Pebble Mill in Birmingham.