‘Intriguing, comforting and endearingly familiar’ Katie Fforde
‘The BBC’s most downloaded radio show’ The Guardian
‘Incredible legacy’ ?The BBC
‘Longest running drama in the world’ The i News
'a gripping plot full of love affairs, deceit, loss and more' Radio Times
In celebration of the 70th anniversary of The Archers hitting the radio waves.
It’s 1940 and war has broken out. It is midnight at the turn of the year, and Walter Gabriel speaks the same line that opened the very first radio episode – 'And a Happy New Year to you all!' For Ambridge, a village in the heart of the English countryside, this year will bring change in ways no one was expecting.
From the Pargetters at Lower Loxley to the loving, hard-working Archer family at Brookfield Farm, the war will be hard for all of them.&#
