John Clark Archer

The Archers is a British radio soap opera currently broadcast on BBC Radio 4, the corporation's main spoken-word station. Broadcast since 1951, it was famously billed as "an everyday story of country folk" and is now promoted as "a contemporary drama in a rural setting". Having aired more than 20,000 episodes, it is the world's longest-running drama, by both number of episodes and duration. The first of five pilot episodes was aired on Whit Monday, 29 May 1950, on the BBC Midlands Home Service, …