Blog posts by year and monthApril 2011
Posts (5)
Gardeners' Question Time in Ambridge - photo gallery
The recording of the Easter Sunday 'Ambridge' edition of Gardeners' Question Time took place in March in a village hall in Worcestershire. The audience at Cutnell Green knew that two programmes would be recorded. The first was a standard version, which went out a couple of weeks ago. But ima...
Caroline should be "spitting tacks"... Listener discussions from 11-13 April 2011
In The Archers, Caroline Sterling gets plenty of sympathy from listeners while Kenton Archer gets some stick for attempting to control Jolene. And how dare Jill Archer interfere in Kenton's romance! She's been firmly advised to "Poke your beak OUT!" In Ambridge Extra, listeners are still com...
Mark Hebden
With his recent thoughts on work experience, Daniel seems to be interested in following in the footsteps of his dead father Mark Hebden. We've written a brief life story of Shula's first husband: lawyer and cricketer Mark Hebden. Keri Davies is an Archers (and Ambridge Extra) scriptwriter ...
Nine characters - one actor
Perhaps inspired by the recent visit to Ambridge of the Duchess of Cornwall, actor and voice artist Harriet Carmichael has written and recorded her own mini Archers episode. In three minutes, Harriet plays eight familar characters (including a brief appearance from the usually silent Sabrina T...
Ambridge Extra, by the writer of the first episode
It's now almost nine weeks since we sat down with all but a blank sheet of paper and began planning the first series of Ambridge Extra. The opening episode has now been broadcast, another seven have been recorded, a further eight have been written and we've just finished storylining the final te...
