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 in rural life. Across four papers, speakers consider how Ambridge understands climate change, measures carbon, adapts to new technologies, and navigates everyday dangers in the countryside. Ambridge Talks Climate Claire Astbury Drawing on the Britain Talks Climate...
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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 in rural life. Across four papers, speakers consider how Ambridge understands climate change, measures carbon, adapts to new technologies, and navigates everyday dangers in the countryside. Ambridge Talks Climate Claire Astbury Drawing on the Britain Talks Climate...
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 in rural life. Across four papers, speakers consider how Ambridge understands climate change, measures carbon, adapts to new technologies, and navigates everyday dangers in the countryside. Ambridge Talks Climate Claire Astbury Drawing on the Britain Talks Climate...
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 a cherished member of the Academic Archers community: generous, witty, and intellectually sharp. Her contributions across many conferences and conversations enriched us all, and her presence is deeply missed. This episode stands as part of the legacy she leaves with...
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 thank you for your understanding. This episode tells the story of Barwick Green, from obscurity to becoming the alternative national anthem. From Obscurity to Alternative Nation Anthem: The Story of Barwick Green - Sally Cadle A hundred years after Barwick Green was ...
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 thank you for your understanding. This episode explores what it means to live in a neurodiverse household, and why accurate representation of neurodiversity in The Archers storylines matters. Living in a Neurodiverse Household: Why Accurate Representation in Storylin...
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 thank you for your understanding. This episode continues an intergenerational exploration of the Aldridge family, turning the focus to Kate Madikane. It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves - Helen Burrows and Louise Gillies Following earlier stud...
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 thank you for your understanding. This episode examines how class operates in The Archers and whether it mirrors wider English society. I look down on him – From Lord Netherborn to David Archer to Tracey Horrobin, Class in Ambridge: does it reflect the English experi...
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 thank you for your understanding. This episode considers what further education might mean for Emma Grundy and how her story reflects wider trends in UK higher education. Educating Emma? - Nicola Maxfield The Archers has often reflected national patterns in access to...
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 thank you for your understanding. This episode explores how privilege endures across generations in Ambridge and what that means for social mobility. The Glass Floor in Ambridge: How Does Privilege Endure? - Claire Astbury American sociologist Heather Johnson coined ...
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 thank you for your understanding. This episode explores fandom theory, participatory culture, and how these ideas came alive at the Academic Archers Dum Tee Dum Mash Up weekend in 2023. We the Fandom: Applying Fandom Theory to the Academic Archers Dum Tee Dum Mash Up...
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. The Ambridge in My Mind’s Eye - Carolyn Cooper Not all Archers listeners experience the drama in the same way. Around 3% of the population are aphantasic, meaning they lack a visual imagination. For some, images are fleeting or vague; for others, there is only darkness. T...
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. Looking After the Penny Hassets So the Pounds Look After Themselves - Katherine Jennings and Vikki Barry Brown Money is everywhere in Ambridge, but rarely spoken of openly. This paper explores how financial norms, taboos and silences mirror English cultural attitude...
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 queerness, grief, education, and money in village life. The Only Gay in the Village? Queer(y)ing Family in Rural Borsetshire - Peter Matthews The Archers has long been rooted in the heteronormative nuclear family, with drama created when norms are broken. This paper explores how...
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 beyond. Happiness is the Perfect Kitchen - Jill Manasseh What makes the perfect kitchen? This paper considers how kitchens are designed, lived in, and regretted. Using a playful slideshow of Ambridge-inspired kitchens, Jill explores seven common design mistakes, from...
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 village is still a moral quagmire. “A Lying, Cheating, Chancer”: Truth and Deception in Ambridge - Ruth Heilbronn and Rosalind Janssen George Grundy was recently branded “a lying, cheating chancer” by listeners, even compared to Boris Johnson. But research shows we all li...
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 the experiences of Ambridge residents. “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 When Ambridge’s local police officer Harrison took part in the Wild...
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 both farming practice and human relationships. “It’s a ferret ferris wheel!”: Depictions of Human–Animal Interactions and Animal Welfare in The Archers - Tamzin Furtado and Tamsin Durston Animals are central to Ambridge life, whether as livestock, wildlife or famil...
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-world research and practice as its frame. Funeral Directing in the UK through an Ambridge Lens - Abi Pattenden What might funeral provision look like in Ambridge? This paper considers current UK funeral trends and applies them to the village’s farming community on t...
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 Felpersham Canal. The Felpersham Canal: An Asset Beyond Ambridge - Paul Rodgers For almost a decade in the author’s imagination, the Felpersham Canal has taken shape as a living part of Borsetshire’s landscape. This paper traces its story from its origins in the 18t...
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 the drama of Ambridge. Aristotle’s Poetics fuel Ambridge Drama - Sally Knights This paper demonstrates how The Archers has roots in Greek tragedy, and how knowledge of ancient drama can enrich the listener’s appreciation of the programme. Using Aristotle’s Poetics, 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 and sons, brothers, and shifting ideas of masculinity in the village. He’s his father’s son – in word or deed? - Katharine Hoskyn & Deborah Miller “Every father should remember one day his son will follow his example, not his advice,” said Charles F. Kettering. This pape...
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 in rural life. Across four papers, speakers consider how Ambridge understands climate change, measures carbon, adapts to new technologies, and navigates everyday dangers in the countryside. Ambridge Talks Climate Claire Astbury Drawing on the Britain Talks Climate...
