Welcome to the fifth series in the annual podcast programme from Academic Archers, bringing you papers from our 2024 conference.This episode takes us into the heart of the home, as Jill Manasseh explores kitchens in Ambridge and b...

Welcome to the fifth series in the annual podcast programme from Academic Archers, bringing you papers from our 2024 conference.This episode revisits the question of truth, lies and deception in Ambridge, asking whether the villag...

Welcome to the fifth series in the annual podcast programme from Academic Archers, bringing you papers from our 2024 conference.This episode looks at the connections between nature, gardening, and wellbeing, through research and t...

Welcome to the fifth series in the annual podcast programme from Academic Archers, bringing you papers from our 2024 conference.This episode examines the many ways animals shape life in Ambridge and what their stories reveal about...

Welcome to the fifth series in the annual podcast programme from Academic Archers, bringing you papers from our 2024 conference.This episode takes a lighthearted but well-informed look at funeral directing in Ambridge, using real-...

Welcome to the fifth series in the annual podcast programme from Academic Archers, bringing you papers from our 2024 conference.This episode takes us beyond Ambridge, exploring the imagined history and real-world potential of the ...

Welcome to the fifth series in the annual podcast programme from Academic Archers, bringing you papers from our 2024 conference.This episode features a single paper that explores how Aristotle and Greek tragedy continue to shape t...

Welcome to the fifth series in the annual podcast programme from Academic Archers, bringing you papers from our 2024 conference.This episode shares the three papers from the session The Men of Ambridge, exploring fathers ...

Crowd-sourcing material culture: A History of Ambridge in 100 ObjectsFelicity Macdonald-SmithThe term ‘material culture’ was probably first used by Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers in 1875, when he defined it as ‘the o...

It’s Saturday, it must be the Archers!Saturday Academic Archers Group aka The Saturday GroupThis chapter is by fans, about fans, for fans. This chapter explores the creation, development and meaning of a Saturday...

Teaching The Archers – creating new fans or turning them off?Caroline BirksIn September 2016, Media Magazine published an article that I had written about The Archers and fandom.  In 2017, The Archers became a set te...

A Year in Ambridge: Introducing American Students to English Village Culture through The ArchersTimothy VercellottiGlobal cultures courses are a staple of general education requirements at American universities. Teach...

Gauging guerrilla engagement: the unexpected benefits of the Academic Archers conferenceCarenza LewisIs Academic Archers the best-ever Zoom conference? Attendees in 2021 seemed to think so. Marking the half-decade ann...

Cult and Culture: Transformative Fandom-de dum de dum de dumHelen BurrowsThe Archers fits a definition of ‘cult media’ in that it draws a niche audience, has nostalgia appeal and represents a subculture. Like...

Archers Fandom and the Online Public Sphere Elizabeth Anne BaileyThis chapter considers some of the confluent factors which shape debate in the online public sphere the intersections between this and the practice...

When the Script Hits the Fan: Why Archers fans stop listening (and why they can't completely keep away)Sarah Kate MerryAccording to the BBC Archers website, ‘Listeners to The Archers are loyal fans but t...

Fans, Flouncers, Fundamentalists: Understanding Online Archers Fan CulturesClaire AstburyFans of The Archers interact in many different groups across multiple online platforms. This chapter explores the motiv...

Hello, and thank you for coming to listen to the audio book version of the Academic Archers book, Fandom Culture and The Archers: An Everyday Story of Academic Folk.The book was edited by Dr Cara Courage and Dr Nicola Headlam, ...

Evening dinner at Grey Gables, with very special guest and one half of Ambridge on the Couch, Lucy V Freeman.The conference was held over zoom, but we had fun in entering a fantasy world where we held the conference at University of Felp...

Afternoon Tea at The Orangery and The Tea Room, and Women in Ambridge III, the fifth session at the 2021 Academic Archers conference. Papers include: A Friend Indeed: Aristotelian friendships in Ambridge, Sarah ...

Travelling Ambridge between the imagination and the impossible, the fourth session of the 2021 Academic Archers conference. Papers include: Ambridge: Imaginary Place or Place of the Imagination?, Gareth Davies&n...

Enough about us, what do you think of us?? The Archers Fandom as Action, the third session from the 2021 Academic Archers conference. Papers include: Plenary Paper: Gauging Guerrilla Academia – Exploring the impact o...

Flapjacks and Feudalism: Social Mobility and Class in The Archers, the second session from the 2021 Academic Archers conference. The session opens with Feeding the Horses, from Dr Nicola Headlam, reading from her chapter in...

The Village and the Virus, the first session from the 2021 Academic Archers conference. We start with a Plenary Paper, Monologuing, from Karen Pollock, followed by It’s Saturday, it must be The Archers, By fans, for fan...

This week we are joined by Archers commentariat, Lucy V Freeeman, in a conversation that moves around the village, up the Felpersham bypass, and back again. If you listen to this podcast, please consider