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The Archers Archives
Oct 4, 2024 9:22 AM

Author:Simon Frith,Chris Arnot

The Archers Archives

The Archers Archives celebrates 60 years of the nation's favourite radio drama - looking back at the most dramatic events to happen over 16,000 episodes, complete with cast and crew interviews. Relive the defining moments in Archers history, from the devastating 1955 stables fire and the 1957 Tom Forrest manslaughter charge to the shocking imprisonment of Susan Carter in the early 1990s, the revelation of Brian Aldridge's affair with Siobhan Hathaway, and the Grundys' eviction from Grange Farm and exile to Meadow Rise.

Script-writer Simon Frith and journalist Chris Arnot take you inside the creative life of the show, sharing how the series' storylines are planned and produced, and how the historical and cultural background of each period is interwoven into the everyday lives of the residents of Ambridge. Complete with original photos, some never-before-seen, The Archers Archives is an indispensable addition to every Archers fan's collection.

Reviews

Brother John Robb knows. He was there!

—— Ian Brown

I've read this book three times now and finally it has a happy ending

—— Noel Gallagher

An essential read

—— ShortList

A must for Roses fans and musos alike

—— The Big Issue

An exciting, substantial and hyperbolic study of THE most important pre-Oasis Britrock outfit

—— Vox

Riveting

—— Independent

Really gives a sense of being in touch with the man. Greenblatt’s knowledge of the plays and the times in which they were written is so encyclopaedic that he can assemble a convincing portrait of Shakespeare without resorting to smoke and mirrors

—— Sunday Times

The most complexly intelligent and sophisticated, and yet the most keenly enthusiastic, study of the life and work taken together that I have ever read

—— Adam Gopnik , New Yorker

One of the finest recent Shakespeare biographies

—— Robert McCrum , Guardian

Greenblatt’s fantastically readable biography of our greatest writer paints a riveting portrait of Elizabethan England

—— Daily Telegraph

Compulsively readable and deeply imaginative

—— Stanley Wells

At last, the book Shakespeare has deserved: a brilliant book written by a virtual eyewitness who understands how a playwright takes the stuff of his life and his world and makes it into theatre

—— Charles Mee

A tour de force … a book for artists and ordinary people as well as scholars and students

—— Tina Packer

A wonderful piece of work

—— Simon Russell Beale

Full of anecdotal gifts you will never forget... Ephron reflects on the early days of her career-memories of her time working as a mail girl at Newsweek and writing for Esquire-while taking every opportunity to get real about her life at the time she was penning this memoir.

—— Oprah Magazine
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