Blog posts by year and monthJune 2011
Posts (9)
Museum of English Rural Life - photo gallery
I wrote a few weeks about the Museum of English Rural Life's village fete and promised there'd be a related photo gallery soon. It's now up and you can see it here. The museum is part of the University of Reading. Until 22 December 2011 it has an exhibition called Everyday Stories of Country ...
Who is Carinthia Hart? Listeners speculate...
Jennifer's book club choice, Mistress of the Paddocks, had many speculating about who the subjects of the book were. It soon became clear that they were none other than Brian Aldridge (aka Byron Ridgeway) and Mandy Beesborough (aka Miranda Birdsall). There has been plenty of discussion about...
Brian Aldridge and Mandy Beesborough
So Jennifer's book club choice - Mistress of the Paddocks, by Borsetshire author Carinthia Hart - turned out to be a thinly disguised version of a supposed relationship between Jennifer's husband Brian and flame-haired Pony Club doyenne Mandy Beesborough. But what actually happened between B...
Extending characters - College of Production podcast
I talk about Ambridge Extra and the Ambridge village website, in the latest podcast from the BBC College of Production. The discussion looks at ways of extending characters into different areas, such as fictional websites or parallel narratives. The other contributors are: Jon Aird, who ...
"She abandoned you" - Listener discussions to 7 June 2011
They've been talking about Oliver's strop, Jill's loneliness, Emma's whinge and Ruth's birthday card - but the biggest topic of conversation is still Kate and Phoebe. Over in Ambridge Extra there was a collective "ahhh" for Blowers, Jamie's teddy bear. Here's my pick of listener discussions o...
Swearing in The Archers and Ambridge Extra
BBC Radio 1 DJ Greg James has taken a fancy to Ambridge Extra. Here he is talking on his show about the programme. He rightly observed that the language the teenage characters use is, of necessity, not as fruity as it would be in reality: Ambridge Extra scriptwriter Tim Stimson recog...
Ambridge Extra - catch up and photo gallery
Our spin-off series Ambridge Extra is approaching a climax or two: Chris Carter has got financially involved with Alice's housemate Chaz, but unbeknown to them Chaz's loan sharking is getting badly out of hand Jamie's being torn between his sensible girlfirend Natalie and his wilder fri...
Village fete - Museum of English Rural Life
The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) is holding a 'village fete' this Saturday, 4 June - with a big Archers connection. Part of the University of Reading, the museum currently has an exhibition called Everyday Stories of Country Folk, which celebrates 60 years of The Archers and, coinciden...
"Deeply satisfying. Roll on the hundred year war" - Listener discussions from 18-20 May 2011
Everything was eclipsed by Thursday's picnic at Lower Loxley. Some omnibus listeners broke with tradition and listened in during the week - and many shared their coping strategies... In a hyperactive frenzy having listened to 20 Jerry Lee Lewis tracks in a row- an attempt to recover from that...
