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Have you tried the Archers website? http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qpgr
Aunty Jean is quite right. The BBC website is a good place to start. I’ve previously used this blog post to help me work out when I started listening: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thearchers/2010/11/six_diamond_decades_-_the_1950.html
Theres nothing recent on here, I remember I started listening about early to mid 2011.
I know this because I didn’t listen to 60th anniversary.
What were the major goings on? I’ll try and recall them, if someone could help!Henry was born on 1st Jan 2011 so you could be a Henwee? Can’t remember what else was going on though (other than Nigel’s untimely demise) – was Pip going out with horrible Jude?
Try the Lowfield archives – there’s a yearly summary, and then you can home in on the precise time.
First plot line I can remember is Caroline and Oliver’s Italian classes and them failing to get together.
As for first major character to enter the village since I started listening, I think it might be either Lillian or Kenton coming back to Ambridge but not sure when that was (started listening in the autumn of 2001)
Interesting! It’s hard to pinpoint what I first remember really. I remember my Mother listening to the lunchtime repeat in the car when I was very young, and it was on most evenings as I was growing up. I remember something about not liking one of the female characters who was brought in for a while, and it was quite possibly Hazel Woolley which would have been 1983 when I was 7. I remember liking Clarrie who popped up around that time, and I think I remember David and Ruth’s wedding in the late 1980’s. Reading through those archives there are things I remember vividly and things not at all.
The first actual new character I definitively remember was Siobhán in the late 1990’s.
I listened on and off over the years, more often to the Sunday omnibus, but didn’t become a daily listener until about 2008 when I discovered the podcasts (I think they started in 2007). I say daily listener, but I tend to download them daily and listen to 3-4 at a time when I’m out walking/running, or when a new DTD comes out and I realise I need to listen to the relevant episodes first.
I’m very sad to report that I think I’m a Titchener. ‘Sob’
I really started listening fairly regularly when Lillian was having the affair with Pail but I don’t actually think I was listening when he arrived. So that makes me Voldermort. ‘Sniff’I think you and I are quite similar LandlessGentry. My parents listened so I vaguely remember Ruth’s cancer story and her ‘affair’ with Sam. Also vaguely remember Brian seeing Siobhan and then the fallout with Jennifer finding out and then Ruari. But I properly started listening obsessively on the New Year’s when Nigel fell off the roof. So does that make me a Pargetter? An Ex-Pargetter? A Pargetter Who Has Ceased To Be?
Landlessgrentry I started listening as a child, sitting up on the kitchen counter at lunchtimes. Think I was waiting for Listen With Mother. This was the early 1960s. But having read the timeline they first person I can remember arriving is Brian Aldridge in 1975.
Claire it’s ok, Rob was OK when he first arrived and before we knew better! At least you’re not an Ursula!
Lady GarfGarf and MouldyRose I think there should be a name for those of us who were indoctrinated as children, but I can’t think of anything witty…
I do remember the Archers being on when I was a child: I remember we were forced to sit on some very uncomfortable stools every night and not being allowed to make a sound. Years later I started listening by accident. I have just discovered that it must have been around the time Cameron arrived. I must be a Fraser. Oh heck.
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