The Archers: the True Story
The Archers: the True Story by William Smethurst
English | 1997 | ISBN: 1858336201 | 260 Pages | PDF | 29.9 MB
English | 1997 | ISBN: 1858336201 | 260 Pages | PDF | 29.9 MB
The Archers is the longest-running radio serial in the world and certainly the best-loved. How did it start? Whose idea was it? How did it achieve its pre-eminent place on British radio?
Its first trial episodes were heard on the Midland Home Service in 1950 but, appropriately for a mighty oak, its seed had been long in germination. In this definitive account of how the programme was born and how it evolved William Smethurst, who for eleven years was first writer and then editor of The Archers, has delved deep to write a book no Archers' fan should be without.
The Archers: The True Story is illustrated throughout and includes historic photographs specially taken by Picture Post's star photographer Bert Hardy in 1950, most of which have not been reproduced in book form before.