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The Archers was a Radio Four programme. While Amy Pond was talking to Mrs Browning in 1984, it was playing in the background. (PROSE: Nothing O'Clock)
When the Eleventh Doctor spoke to Ellery Quest over the radio, he told him it was unfortunately "too late for The Archers". (AUDIO: All of Time and Space)
Behind the scenes
- As the longest-running BBC Radio programme, The Archers has featured many DWU actors, including Lisa Bowerman, Terry Molloy, Michael Cochrane, David Troughton, Paul Copley, Simon Williams, Tim Bentinck, Souad Faress, Ronny Jhutti, Jack May, Tamsin Greig, Ysanne Churchman, Edward Kelsey, Hamilton Dyce, Crawford Logan, and Annabelle Dowler, Mali Harries, and Tom Gibbons. Writer Brian Hayles also penned an episode in 1970.
- The 2022 Big Finish Productions short story, winner of The Paul Spragg Memorial Short Trip Opportunity, The World Tree, written by Nick Slawicz, features an unintentional reference to the real world programme The Archers.[1]