The Archers is celebrating its 70th anniversary with a special episode in which Ambridge “faces a life-changing crisis”.
Instalment number 19,343, in which “one resident makes a special announcement”, airs on BBC Radio 4 on New Year’s Day.
It marks the end of a year in which storylines featured modern-day slave labour and an explosion at a country house hotel. Did you just call them horses? Kirsty speaks for us all.#TheArchers#ModernSlaverypic.twitter.com/BaPobxdyxU
The year also saw bosses experiment with a different type of broadcast – monologues featuring characters’ thoughts and musings.
But the new format, devised because of recording restrictions caused by lockdown, was not deemed a success by listeners.
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