Academic Archers
Occasional podcasts from Academic Archers, including the Saturday Omnibus.
Episodes
54 episodes
2025 Conference / Saturday PM - Ambridge Family Dynamics
Welcome to the sixth series in the annual podcast programme from Academic Archers, bringing you papers from our 2025 conference.This episode explores family life in Ambridge through questions of choice, justice, and intergeneratio...
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Season 6
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Episode 3
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1:05:59
2025 Conference / Saturday PM - Underwoods and LoLo
Welcome to the sixth series in the annual podcast programme from Academic Archers, bringing you papers from our 2025 conference.This episode explores institutions in Ambridge as sites of power, care, and controversy. Through two p...
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Season 6
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Episode 2
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48:52
2025 Conference / Saturday AM - Climate and Risk
Welcome to the sixth series in the annual podcast programme from Academic Archers, bringing you papers from our 2025 conference.This episode brings together the Saturday morning sessions exploring climate, infrastructure, and risk...
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Season 6
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Episode 1
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1:31:09
Tunes and transitions at the tearoom - Emily Baker and Freya Jarman
Welcome to the fifth series in the annual podcast programme from Academic Archers, bringing you papers from our 2024 conference.Please note: since this recording, one of the speakers, Emily Baker, has sadly passed away. Emily was ...
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Season 5
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Episode 19
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25:53
From Obscurity to Alternative Nation Anthem: The Story of Barwick Green - Sally Cadle
Welcome to the fifth series in the annual podcast programme from Academic Archers, bringing you papers from our 2024 conference.Please note: the sound quality on this recording is not as clear as usual. We apologise for this a...
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Season 5
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Episode 18
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18:06
Living in a Neurodiverse Household: Why Accurate Representation in Storylines Makes a Difference - Andrea Hart
Welcome to the fifth series in the annual podcast programme from Academic Archers, bringing you papers from our 2024 conference.Please note: the sound quality on this recording is not as clear as usual. We apologise for this and t...
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Season 5
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Episode 17
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17:44
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves - Helen Burrows and Louise Gillies
Welcome to the fifth series in the annual podcast programme from Academic Archers, bringing you papers from our 2024 conference.Please note: the sound quality on this recording is not as clear as usual. We apologise for this a...
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Season 5
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Episode 16
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26:58
I look down on him – From Lord Netherborn to David Archer to Tracey Horrobin, Class in Ambridge: does it reflect the English experience? - Christine Narramore
Welcome to the fifth series in the annual podcast programme from Academic Archers, bringing you papers from our 2024 conference.Please note: the sound quality on this recording is not as clear as usual. We apologise for this a...
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Season 5
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Episode 15
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21:15
Educating Emma? - Nicola Maxfield
Welcome to the fifth series in the annual podcast programme from Academic Archers, bringing you papers from our 2024 conference.Please note: the sound quality on this recording is not as clear as usual. We apologise for this a...
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Season 5
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Episode 14
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17:18
The Glass Floor in Ambridge: How Does Privilege Endure? - Claire Astbury
Welcome to the fifth series in the annual podcast programme from Academic Archers, bringing you papers from our 2024 conference.Please note: the sound quality on this recording is not as clear as usual. We apologise for this a...
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Season 5
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Episode 13
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17:34
We the Fandom: Applying Fandom Theory to the Academic Archers Dum Tee Dum Mash Up Weekend 2023 - Caroline Birks
Welcome to the fifth series in the annual podcast programme from Academic Archers, bringing you papers from our 2024 conference.Please note: the sound quality on this recording is not as clear as usual. We apologise for this a...
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Season 5
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Episode 12
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15:05
The Ambridge in My Mind’s Eye - Carolyn Cooper
Welcome to the fifth series in the annual podcast programme from Academic Archers, bringing you papers from our 2024 conference.This episode explores how we imagine Ambridge – or don’t – depending on the way our minds work....
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Season 5
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Episode 11
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5:47
A Pot Poruri
Welcome to the fifth series in the annual podcast programme from Academic Archers, bringing you papers from our 2024 conference.This episode brings together three papers exploring money, hospitality and public health in Ambridge.<...
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Season 5
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Episode 10
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35:46
The Ambridge Family
Welcome to the fifth series in the annual podcast programme from Academic Archers, bringing you papers from our 2024 conference.This episode brings together four papers from the session The Ambridge Family, exploring quee...
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Season 5
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Episode 9
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48:24
Happiness is the Perfect Kitchen - Jill Manasseh
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...
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Season 5
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Episode 8
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16:49
“A Lying, Cheating, Chancer”: Truth and Deception in Ambridge - Ruth Heilbronn and Rosalind Janssen
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...
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Season 5
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Episode 7
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11:41
“If listening to the birds for five minutes makes you feel better, good for you”: Wellbeing, Gardens and Environmental Activity - Camilla Royle and Lily Whittle
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...
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Season 5
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Episode 6
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14:43
“It’s a ferret ferris wheel!”: Depictions of Human–Animal Interactions and Animal Welfare in The Archers - Tamzin Furtado and Tamsin Durston
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...
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Season 5
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Episode 5
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18:00
Funeral Directing in the UK through an Ambridge Lens - Abi Pattenden
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-...
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Season 5
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Episode 4
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15:30
The Felpersham Canal: An Asset Beyond Ambridge - Paul Rodgers
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 ...
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Season 5
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Episode 3
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18:16
Aristotle’s Poetics fuel Ambridge Drama from Sally Knights
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...
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Season 5
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Episode 2
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11:47
The Men of Ambridge
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 ...
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Season 5
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Episode 1
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40:26
Fandom and The Archers audio book Chapter 12, Felicity Macdonald-Smith
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...
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Season 4
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Episode 9
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25:29
Fandom and The Archers audio book Chapter 7, The Saturday Group
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...
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Season 4
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Episode 9
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35:28
Fandom and The Archers audio book Chapter 9, Caroline Birks
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...
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Season 4
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Episode 8
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22:02