Posted on January 1, 2021January 1, 2021 by Mike Hatton

THE ARCHERS CHARACTER COUNT 2020

Here are the statistics for all of 2020 – an unusual year in Ambridge as well as in real life. We lost three weeks in May when normal episodes were replaced by classic repeats. And in June and July there were never more than twelve characters each week. Things started to get back to normal as went into the autumn, but even as we reached the end of 2020, we are still some way from going back to the usual thirty-nine characters per week. So here is the Character Count for all of 2020: I think the most notable absentee […]

Posted on December 31, 2020January 1, 2021 by Mike Hatton

The RIGHT YOU ARE quiz 2020

It’s that time of year again. I’ve been collating all the little sound snippets from The Archers throughout 2020 and have gathered together a somewhat small selection this year. “Right You Are” was only heard seven times during 2020 and “Hello You Two” wasn’t heard a single time. I suppose neither phrase is the sort of thing your character would say from under a tent made of an old duvet – that’s even if you were lucky enough to be one of those selected to record a lockdown monologue. Anyway here is the selection for this year. Just seven different […]