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The Archers tops the podcast charts

Keri Davies

Writer, The Archers

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The Archers is the BBC's most popular daily podcast.

The figures were released by the BBC to mark ten years of podcasting. In just one month - August 2014 - The Archers was downloaded 1,873,191 times - over 2.2 million times if you count the omnibus as well. 

The next nearest daily podcast was BBC Radio 1's Scott Mills Daily, with 940,552 downloads in August.

Since its launch in October 2007, The Archers podcast has been downloaded 63,398,512 times. 

The Telegraph charted peak podcast listening to key storylines, including Lilian and Paul's affair, Jack Woolley's death, and Tom and Kirsty's abandoned wedding.

Keri Davies is an Archers scriptwriter and web producer

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