Come and join us for a weekend of Archers fun and festivities in Birmingham!
From April Friday 21st to April Sunday 23rd, The Archer’s fans podcast Dumteedum and the Academic Archers group invite you to come and share your love of the BBC show The Archers with various events, round table discussions and panels at Birmimgham’s Symphony Hall. Plus, there will be a live recording of the Dumteedum podcast and a special appearance by actor Sunny Ormade who plays Lilian Bellamy!
Tickets are priced at £90 and include dinner at the Cosy Club Brindley Place on Saturday evening. This is the perfect opportunity to meet other fans of the show, share your love of The Archers and have an amazing weekend.
So don’t miss out – book your ticket today and join us for an unforgettable celebration of The Archers!
Saturday-only ticket here: https://bmusic.co.uk/book/instance/1473936
Weekend ticket here: https://bmusic.co.uk/book/instance/1474336
Saturday night dinner here: https://buytickets.at/academicarchers/855702
| Academic Archers & Dumteedum Mash Up Big Archers Weekend schedule | |||||
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| Academic Archers and DumTeeDum Mash Up Big Weekend - the schedule | |||||
| SATURDAY | |||||
| 9:00 am | Doors open | ||||
| 9:00 am | 9:30 am | Registration | Time to find a seat, grab a cuppa and get settled in | ||
| 9:30 am | 9:45 am | Welcome | From Academic Archers HQ and DumTeeDum hosts | ||
| 9:45 am | 10:30 am | Session 1 | Material Culture: crafting, cooking, and show us your makes! | ||
| 9:45 - 10:00 | Jacqueline Bertho | Leisure pursuits in Ambridge | DumTeeDum's co-host asks, surely in amongst the good people of Ambridge there must be people doing lots of things we don’t hear about? Looking at how people spend their spare time in Ambridge through the lens of village life. | ||
| 10:00 - 10:15 | Jean Sheward | An Everyday Story of Country Cooking - From post-war rationing to post-Brexit austerity: How The Archers cookbooks have reflected the British experience of food preparation over 70 years. | Tales from the range - what Archers cookbooks down the ages tell us about how we've lived and live today | ||
| 10:15 - 10:30 | Craft Corner - show us your makes! | Join in the various craft projects we have on the go during our meet up | Featuring chats with our crafters with the DumTeeDum podcast hosts | ||
| 10:45 am | Session 2 | Births, deaths and Jenny Darling | |||
| 10:30 - 10:45 | Katharine Hoskyn and Deborah Miller | She is her Mother’s Daughter! - but does she mean to be? | Through six generations of Ambridge mothers and daughters, are character traits passed on through the generational line? | ||
| 10:45 - 11:00 | Meg Burton | Death in Ambridge | Are deaths in Ambridge commensurate with the UK population? | ||
| 11:00 | Thank you, Jenny Darling | A round of applause for Angela Piper and Jennifer Aldridge | |||
| 11:00 am | 11:30 am | Tea break | Time to refresh your cups and stretch your legs - get ready for a conference barnstormer of a session after! | And your chance to record your call for this weeks DumTeeDum podcast with Roifield | |
| 11:30 am | 12:15 pm | Session 3 | The Data Set: drilling down into the detail of Ambridge life | ||
| 11:30 - 11:45 | Helen Burrows and Louise Gillies | We told you so! Developments in the Aldridge and Horrobin family fortunes since 2017; looking towards the future | Updating from the Lincoln conference, what do the recent events for the Alridges and the Horrobins signal for the future of Ambridge? | ||
| 11:45 - 12:00 | David Killen | It's Good To Talk | Who talks to whom in Ambridge? Stats from speaker-diarisation of ten years of Archers | ||
| 12:00 - 12:15 | Nicola Headlam | Ambridge Networks 2023 edition | A conference favourite, Nicola will talk us through her mapping of the kith, kin and work relationships of Ambridge. Who is king and queen of the village in 2023? | ||
| 12:15 - 12:30 | DumTeeDum and the Data Set | Roifield Brown in conversation with The Data Set | |||
| Session 4 | Heard and Unheard: the sounds and silents in Ambridge | ||||
| 12:30 - 12:45 | Maggie and Flora Mary Bartlett | Extending the scope: a post-humanist exploration of recent events in Ambridge | Previously we've had interviews with the silent people of Ambridge - now its time to hear from the fauna and flora cast! | ||
| 12:45 - 1:00 pm | Stuart McNally | Production discourse in The Archers: How to ensure domestic violence is not aurally sensationalised by sound design | How the soundscape to a stabbing was created | ||
| 1:00 pm | 1:45 pm | Lunch | Time to grab a sarnie and to take a visit to Craft Corner | Pop over to the DumTeeDum podcast station for a vox pop with Roifield | |
| Special guest | The Archers Foley Artist, Ness | How do they make that noise? With a selection of the weird and wonderful of props, Ness will take us through a selection of Archers sounds | Chatting with Roifield | ||
| Session 5 | We Need to Talk About…Ben, Ruari, Brian…: the men in Ambridge in crisis - a panel discussion with DumTeeDum | ||||
| 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm | Claire Astbury | How about we have a sit down on this bench': An analysis of how Joy employed effective Mental Health First Aid during Ben's breakdown | Tracking the dialogue of an episode, what does it show us of mental health Frist Aid? Learning from Joy Horville. | ||
| Panel and audience consideration of the mental health of the men in Ambridge with our resident psychologists, DumTeeDum's Lonny Behar aka, Witherspoon, and Academic Archers' Karen Pollock | Hosted by Roifield Brown and Jacqueline Bertho | ||||
| Session 6 | Bricks and mortar…and windows | ||||
| 3:00 - 3:15 | Nic Maxfield | A local village for local people: why Ambridge does not sprawl | Our perennial favourite subject! This time, going back in time to see who would live where | ||
| 3:15 - 3:30 | Felicity Macdonald-Smith | Writing to the Bishop: how not to get a Faculty | The definitive on how to get your own window in a church | ||
| 3:30 pm | 3:50 pm | Tea Break | Beat the post-lunch energy crash with some caffeine and sugar hit | Time to get your questions to Sunny Ormonde in with Roifield for the Sunday podcast recording | |
| Session 7 | Early Years, University Years and Twilight Years | ||||
| 3:50 - 4:00 | Corinna Richards | Schooling in Borsetshire and Education in Rural England | What does early years education in Ambridge tell us of schools in rural life? | ||
| 4:00 - 4:15 | The Saturday Group | Fun, Learning and Farming at the University of Felpersham. | Learning more about this esteemed seat of learning (and previous conference venue, no less) | ||
| 4:15 - 4:30 | Rosalind Janssen and Ruth Heilbronn | Lifelong Learning at the Laurels in 2100 | Ben, Chelsea and Brad in extreme old age, and medically-advanced rude health | ||
| 4:30 pm | 4:40 pm | Show Us Your Makes! | Checking back in with the various projects in Craft Corner | ||
| 4:40 pm | 4:50 pm | Awards Ceremony | More hotly-tipped than the Oscars | ||
| 4:50 pm | 5:00 pm | DTD Barwick Green recording | Start your vocal exercises now for this atonal delight | ||
| 5:00 pm | 5:30 pm | Exit | |||
| 5:30 pm | Doors close | ||||
| Dinner, at The Cosy Club, from 8 pm prompt | |||||
| SUNDAY | |||||
| 9:30 am | Doors open | Grab a cuppa and join us back in the venue for… | |||
| 10:00 am | 11:15 am | The Archers Sunday Omnibus Live Listen | Feel free to laugh, moan and groan, and tweetalong to the week in Ambridge | ||
| 11:15 am | 12:00 pm | Break | |||
| 12:00 pm | 2:00 pm | DumTeeDum Podcast Live Recording | Join Roifield and Jacqueline to record this weeks podcast | With very special guest, Sunny Ormonde | |
| 2:00 pm | 2.30 pm | Exit | |||