Talk:The Archers

' Fan Clubs '

I am not an experienced Wikipedian so apologies if I am not doing this correctly.

A couple of days ago I wrote to Gareth Griffith-Jones asking why he had deleted my entry in the fan clubs section about the Dumteedum fanclub.

You can see my question here </ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Gareth_Griffith-Jones#The_Archers_and_Dumteedum</ref>

The Archers and Dumteedum hi I believe you deleted my entry about the Dumteedum Archers fanclub. I'm not a regular Wikipedian, and have recently started listening to the Dumteedum podcast. I am open to the idea that you may be right, but I am not sure. They regularly cite the Academic Archers and are I think as popular, have a web page, years of history and not scammy or anything like that. I've no personal agenda. What would be your criteria for note-worthiness? Happy New Year Richard Lucas posting as Lambrook (talk) 13:07, 2 January 2021 (UTC)Lambrook

My original post was "Dum Tee Dum is a weekly podcast [108] about the Archers that features Lucy Freeman and Roifield Brown. Released every Monday it features a comprehensive rundown on the last week's Ambridge action. At the end of 2020 they had podcasted 363 episodes. As well as a webpage [109],</ref>https://dumteedum.com</ref> Dumteedum has a Facebook Group, [110], Twitter feed [111] </ref>https://twitter.com/DumTeeDum</ref> and a map of members [112]. </ref>https://dumteedum.com/map</ref>

I would add to this discussion that members of the Archers cast regularly appear on Dumteedum specials, they raise money for charity, and that it is in the same league as the Academic Archers </ref>http://www.academicarchers.net</ref> which is referenced.

I am fully open to the idea that I am wrong, and would like to understand why - if I am. I wanted to write to someone about the way the Dum Tee Dum fan club works, and assumed that I would find a reference to it in Wikipedia. If other fan clubs are mentioned why not this one. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lambrook (talk • contribs) 10:42, 3 January 2021 (UTC) Lambrook (talk) 10:48, 3 January 2021 (UTC)Richard Lucas Wikipedia ID Lambrook

'longest running soap '

This does seem like the sort of claim that realy needs a referance.Petethewhistle (talk) 20:34, 23 October 2016 (UTC)

While I am prepared to believe it, there is still no firm reference to support the claim. This claim was made with no evidence when the article was created in 2002 and has since been modified to "longest running radio serial" but with no citation. The claim can be found in many newspapers, but may have originated from this article or a BBC Press Release. This is a long time to have an uncited claim of a very notable feature of the subject.Chemical Engineer (talk) 21:09, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

Please clarify why my 2020-12-15 amendment was almost immediately removed with the comment "(Ignorant message removed)". I had simply clarified that TA is longest running by number of episodes, and will become longest running by running time in 2023; what's ignorant about that? (I had also added something re the Nigel plummet, and a punctuation correction - there was no reason to revert the latter, leaving the entry incorrectly punctuated.) — Preceding unsigned comment added by G6JPG (talk • contribs) 11:43, 3 January 2021 (UTC)

Guiding Light ran for 72 years and had 18,262 episodes

There was no truth whatsoever in the unsubstantiated WP:OR that The Archers is the world's longest-running soap opera in any format. Guiding Light ran from 1937 to 2009 (72 years), and had 18,262 episodes. I deleted that error from the lede, and also deleted the footnote, which said nothing of the kind, and didn't even say The Archers was the world's longest-running radio soap opera (which, again, is unsubstantiated WP:OR or opinion unless cited with a WP:RS). Softlavender (talk) 06:04, 21 April 2014 (UTC)

Theme tune

It says that the theme tune was referenced during the Olympic opening ceremony on August 27, 2012. Olympics opened in July. Should it be July 27, or closing ceremony, or Paralympic opening ceremony? I don't know! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.178.255.25 (talk) 12:27, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

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Production Team

Does anyone agree that there needs to be a separate section listing the Editors of the programme? The Editor information is out of date and these figures make a significant contribution to the show. (Neneway (talk) 16:17, 22 November 2017 (UTC))

Good idea. Give it a try. Cheers! Gareth Griffith‑Jones (The Welsh Buzzard) 18:40, 22 November 2017 (UTC)

The suggestion sounds good to me - changes in the editorial leadership, and subsequent storyline developments, seem to increasingly feature in the news nowadays. JezGrove (talk) 20:26, 22 November 2017 (UTC)

New "long read" article in The Guardian

There's a new "long read" piece in The Guardian which has a lot of interesting background information: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/dec/15/the-archers-weird-genius-peculiarly-english-epic JezGrove (talk) 15:14, 15 December 2020 (UTC)