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Byline: Peter Stanford The Archers' ' ive million listeners are no doubt still reeling after yesterday's episode that revealed a new and explosive plotline leaving one of its core characters, [...]

Byline: Judith Woods As a lifelong Archers aficionado, I would classify myself as a woman of the world. The world of Ambridge, Darrington, Penny Hassett and, if there are birthday [...]

Byline: Gwyneth Rees With its sleepy streets, 13th-century church and quaint village green, the residents of Inkberrow in Worcestershire shouldn't have much to complain about. The inspiration for The Archers, [...]

Byline: Tristram Fane Saunders Patti was furious: 'You must be ashamed of yourselves, BBC. I'm horrified!' She was but one angry listener among many on Feedback (Radio 4). The cause [...]

Byline: Judith Woods As a lifelong Archers aficionado I would classify myself as a woman of the world. The world of Ambridge, Darrington, Penny Hassett and, if there are birthday [...]

I AN PEPPERELL, who has died after a long illness aged 53, not only played the hotelier Roy Tucker in the long-running Radio 4 sitcom The Archers, but in real [...]

Byline: The week in radio Charlotte Runcie We need to talk about The Archers (Sunday to Friday, Radio 4). There's something funny going on. And I'm not just talking about [...]

Byline: Charlotte Runcie We need to talk about The Archers (Sunday to Friday, Radio 4). There's something funny going on. And I'm not just talking about the legend of a [...]

Byline: Victoria Ward, Royal Editor Rob Titchener is the most reviled and abusive character ever to set foot in the rural idyll of Ambridge. Now, as one of The Archers' [...]

Byline: Charlotte Runcie 'The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture,' so Alfred Hitchcock said. And the pictures are best on radio. Which might be why Rob Titchener [...]

Byline: Daily Telegraph Reporter FANS of The Archers have complained that the Radio 4 rural soap has become obsessed with teenagers and now resembles Hollyoaks. Listeners contacted Radio 4's Feedback [...]

Byline: Daily Telegraph Reporter FANS of The Archers have complained that the Radio 4 rural soap has become obsessed with teenagers and now resembles Hollyoaks. Listeners contacted Radio 4's Feedback [...]

Byline: Charlotte Runcie Some find comfort in a belief that, after death, each of us might go to our own personal heaven. Every listener to The Archers (Radio 4, Sunday [...]

Byline: Judith Woods Tum-ti tum-ti tum-ti tum. I don't know about you, but I'm starting to love that Sunday-night feeling. So much so, I'm happy to skip Saturdays. Why? Because [...]

Byline: Telegraph reporters The Archers' Graham Blockey has died, the show has confirmed. In a tweet they wrote: 'Today we remember our friend and colleague Graham Blockey following the sad [...]

Byline: Judith Woods How to speak to the nation? Tap into the mood of the country? Address the cares and concerns of the citizenry, from the Red Wall to the [...]

Tum-ti tum-ti tum-ti tum/ Tum-ti tum-ti tum tum. By now you are either entirely bewildered in which case I suggest you quietly slip out the side gate of Ambridge Hall [...]

Jeremy Howe, the current editor of The Archers, has called the programme 'the Rolling Stones of Radio 4' because it is apparently as popular with millennials as it is with [...]

The Archers should feature more murder and Brexit in order to 'raise the temperature' in Ambridge, a cast member has said. The village is typically insulated from the winds of [...]

Byline: Judith Woods How to speak to the nation? Tap into the mood of the country? Address the cares and concerns of the citizenry, from the Red Wall to the [...]

Byline: Kat Brown Jeremy Howe, the current editor of The Archers, has called the programme 'the Rolling Stones of Radio 4' because it is apparently as popular with millennials as [...]

sir - I turned on the omnibus of The Archers but instead heard Roy Plomley speaking. I had inadvertently left Radio 4 Extra on. Desert Island Discs had me riveted. [...]

sir - Like thousands of loyal Archers listeners (Letters, June 3), my sympathy goes to the editorial team for the challenges it has faced in keeping the programme afloat following [...]

sir - The BBC has shown an amazing ability to adapt huge swathes of its output to the current circumstances - so surely it is not beyond the talented people [...]

Byline: Charlotte Runcie The Archers Revisited RADIO 4, 2.00PM ? As it's been much more difficult to make new radio drama during lockdown, the producers of The Archers are having [...]

Byline: Simon Williams When it comes to Ambridge, the fictional village in The Archers where I play wheeler dealer Justin Elliott, listeners tune in for an idyllic, Hovis world where [...]

Byline: The week in radio Charlotte Runcie Is the coronavirus going to change The Archers forever? It hasn't so far, because of the six-week lag time between recording and broadcast, [...]

Byline: Charlotte Runcie Boom! The enormous blast that shook my radio sounded as if it came from the BBC sound effects library filed under 'Dunkirk'. But this wasn't war; this [...]

How fundamentally did National Service shape British life? There's an Archive on 4 edition tonight exploring just that. In Call Up: The Story of National Service (Saturday, Radio 4, 8.00pm), [...]

Byline: Dominic Penna Fans of Radio 4 soap opera The Archers could be forgiven for thinking they were about to be confronted with a new storyline about steroid abuse. Last [...]

sir - If Mandy Peat (Letters, February 14) is giving up the The Archers, may I suggest the she instead takes up church bell-ringing? It is intellectually challenging, sociable and [...]

Byline: Judith Woods Cupid's arrow is about to strike in The Archers tonight, as Kenton and Jolene launch a desperate February 14 bid to turn around the flagging fortunes of [...]

sir - I share William Nuttall's disillusionment with The Archers (Letters, February 12). It had long been a constant in my life. There was a time when my icebreaker would [...]

sir - Like Felicity Thomson (Letters, February 11), I used to measure the seasons by episodes of The Archers, from January marmalade-making, through the summer fete, to the Christmas panto. [...]

Radio cRitic Radio 4 is marking 70 years since the death of George Orwell this week, beginning this afternoon with one of his most famous works, Animal Farm (Saturday, Radio [...]

Byline: Rowan Pelling I attended a wedding reception on Monday and, although the guests on my table should have been models of civility, we kept sliding into hotly contested arguments [...]

sir - I agree with Ben Lawrence (Arts, January 8) that BBC Radio 4 has gone downhill, thanks to the leaching of talent, dire comedy programming and collapse of The [...]

sir - Jack Rear (Features, January 4) advocates a 10-minute workout each morning, which makes him feel more energetic. I do the same, but while listening to the previous night's [...]

Byline: Judith Woods Tears. Fury. I'm no snowflake, but this week I've been triggered - by The Archers. The culprit? A sweet little Christmas podcast called 'Making Mince Pies with [...]

Byline: Charlotte Runcie When a new rural radio soap called Greenborne was announced, set in a fictional village and broadcast weekly on 30 community radio stations, the immediate obvious comparison [...]

Byline: Susan Gray Caroline Lennon is best known for playing Siobhan Hathaway in The Archers. Her character was the centre of a love triangle with Ambridge landowner Brian Aldridge, beginning [...]

What I'm Watching We've been watching Succession solidly. We were told we would love it by our children -- Jack, Molly and Barney. They said that the character that Brian [...]

Byline: Charlotte Runcie 'We, black people, get the feeling that people want our culture but they do not want us. In other words, you want my talent, but you don't [...]

sir - The Archers is not only missing an angling club (Letters, October 1) but something else - moles. Now Ed, Eddie and Will Grundy are all looking for work, [...]

sir - After many years, Ambridge still lacks an angling society to administer the fishing rights along the River Am. Throughout Britain, the Environment Agency and the Canal and Rivers [...]

Byline: Xanthe Clay This is the cook's season. There's an optimism in the air: the 'rentree' (as the French call the post-summer-holiday period), is done and dusted, the rhythm of [...]

Byline: JUDITH WOODS Calling all Archers fans! Have you heard about the latest au courant plot twist in this everyday tale of farming folk? New parents Adam and Ian are [...]

Byline: Jake Kerridge Paterson Joseph seems to have been involved in every epic radio drama event in recent years bar Lynda Snell's annual pantomimes in The Archers. He has played [...]

sir - Is it not about time for Eddie and Clarrie in The Archers to check on Grandad - just to see if he is all right? Philip B Millington [...]

Byline: Lizzie Roberts and Katie O'Neill THE matriarchs in The Archers 'manipulate' younger members of their families with their money and the radio drama will be better when they have [...]