History Radio / TheArchers

** Sort-of appeared on Hancock's Half-hour as "The Bowmans".visited.

* ArtifactTitle: The Archers (the family) still appear from time to time occasionally having bigger rolls but definitely not the most prominent.

* Artifact Title: - the Archers (the family) still appear from time to time occasionally having bigger rolls but definitely not the most prominent.

* IncorrectAnimalNoise: ''The Archers'' frequently got caught out this way. It took the Creator/{{BBC}} a long time to realise that in a drama about farmers, they better ''had'' get the sound effects absolutely right and merely ordering up "a sheep" or "a cow" from the BBC sound effects department wasn't going to cut it, not with a professionally aware audience. Farmers and shepherds would write in and complain -- pointing out that if Dan Archer was out in the fields on February lambing a ewe, why then was the sheep he was tending to not making the distinctive noises of a ewe in labour? And for a supposedly newborn lamb, why was its bleating sounding like an eight-month old lamb in the fields? Oh, and that wasn't a ''cow'' Walter Gabriel was tending, you do realise you were playing a recording of a bull in heat just about to service a heifer? And them chickens what Clarrie Grundy was feeding, they weren't Rhode Island Reds at all, they was Belgian Red Wattles, completely distinctive clucks. The BBC gave in and sent people out to farms with tape recorders to talk to thep professionals and to get some ''really accurate'' animal sounds.

* Artifact Title - the Archers still appear from time to time occasionally having bigger rolls but definitely not the most prominent.

** Sort-of appeared on Hancock's Half-hour as "The Bowmans".

* SpinOff: ''AmbridgeExtra'', on Radio 4 Extra, explores storylines, characters and locations that don't get focused on in the main Archer's program. At the moment, it's only 2 episodes a week.

* UsefulNotes/TheMidlands: West Midlands
* RatingsStunt: one of the very first examples - the death of a major character was broadcast to coincide with the launch of Creator/{{ITV}} in 1955)

* ShownTheirWork: Although the series' edutainment roots are very much a thing of the past, great care is taken to ensure that it presents an accurate view of the intricacies of farming.
** There is an urban legend that farmers have been known to write in and complain if they used the wrong [[StockSoundEffect animal sound effect]]... although the BBC did realise quite early on that they were dealing with a listenership that had expert knowledge, and took pains to ensure the animal sounds were appropriate to the scene. The BBC's library of animal sound effects is now unparalleled, and a large proportion of this is down to the longevity of this show.

* LoveTriangle: Ed, Will and Emma

*** She repeated this claim about the repercussions of the 2nd January 2011's double-length WhamEpisode - only time will tell.
* TheGhost: Sabrina & Richard Thwaite
* IncorrectAnimalNoise: Long-running soap opera ''The Archers'' frequently got caught out this way. It took the Creator/{{BBC}} a long time to realise that in a drama about farmers, they better ''had'' get the sound effects absolutely right and merely ordering up "a sheep" or "a cow" from the BBC sound effects department wasn't going to cut it, not with a professionally aware audience. Farmers and shepherds would write in and complain - pointing out that if Dan Archer was out in the fields on February lambing a ewe, why then was the sheep he was tending to not making the distinctive noises of a ewe in labour? And for a supposedly newborn lamb, why was its bleating sounding like an eight-month old lamb in the fields? Oh, and that wasn't a ''cow'' Walter Gabriel was tending, you do realise you were playing a recording of a bull in heat just about to service a heifer? And them chickens what Clarrie Grundy was feeding, they weren't Rhode Island Reds at all, they was Belgian Red Wattles, completely distinctive clucks. The BBC gave in and sent people out to farms with tape recorders to talk to thep professionals and to get some ''really accurate'' animal sounds.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Pretty much a given, considering how long the show has been going on.

* LongRunners: 60 years and counting