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  Posted by Nick Turner (U14743030) on Thursday, 6th January 2011

  Now retired with an old transistor radio in my shed, tuned to 198LW, I'm hearing the Archers quite often BUT .............
  
  When I was last a listener, John Tegorran, Doughie Hood, Ned Larkin, Walter Gabriel and Tom Forest were in the cast but I now have difficulty in relating to the names I hear.
  
  Is there a history of the programme that would help me bridge the gap from, say, the early 60s to the present day? There was also a set of words to the signature tune.

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  Posted by GT49er (U1745246) on Thursday, 6th January 2011

  There are quite a few books that have been published over the years that fill in bits of Archers history - I have several, but unfortunately,due to the ramshackle nature of my library, I can't specify any titles.
  
  I'm sorry to have to tell you, but your happy days in your shed with your transistor radio will soon come to an end - the signals to it will soon be switched off in the name of progress..................digital doom is almost upon us.

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  Posted by spoilerfan (U8369126) on Thursday, 6th January 2011

  There's a book out fairly recently called The Archers Archives which should do the job.

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  Posted by Gene Bailey (U2924633) on Thursday, 6th January 2011

  Are you sure that the Radio 4 LW is to be "switched off"?
  
  I thought that the idea was to discontinue Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú national network transmissions on the VHF band so that the lucrative vacant bandspace could be flogged off to commercial radio. The so called 'switch to digital' has already been hampered by the listening public's reluctance to buy expensive DAB radios and DAB itself is also under scruitany as other countries opt for alternative digital systems.
  
  I doubt very much whether analogue transistor and valve sets will become redundant, as the band space is too valuable to be unused.

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  Posted by Leaping Badger (U3587940) on Friday, 7th January 2011

  Click on 'Timeline' in the menu above for a potted history.
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  Posted by Nick Turner (U14743030) on Friday, 7th January 2011

  Many thanks to all of you. I'll pursue the various helpful leads.
  
  NT

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  Posted by GT49er (U1745246) on Friday, 7th January 2011

  Region by region analogue signals will be switched off, and only DABs (and PC's etc.) will work - all those lovely treasured old trannies and radiograms will be silent in the next ten years or so - the band space has, I understand, already been earmarked (or to use governmental terms, sold off) already.

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  Posted by Gene Bailey (U2924633) on Sunday, 9th January 2011

  Clearly you have overlooked transmissions by foreign stations. Atlantic 252 is broadcast on the long wave from the Irish Republic, whilst the medium wave band is full of French and German stations. On the VHF band there are numerous local community and pirate stations which will continue. I am a great radio listener and have radios which receive short wave broadcasts from all over the world. Sound radio is not like TV, you can't just just switch it off by closing down a couple of transmitters in a region as the propagation from individual broadcasters does not respect set boundaries.
  
  Besides, DAB isn't particularly popular, in spite of the propaganda put about by the vested interests.

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  Posted by Spartacus (U38364) on Sunday, 9th January 2011

  Are you sure that the Radio 4 LW is to be "switched off"? 
  
  No-one is "sure". When the Government's "DAB Czar" was promoting it on "You and Yours" I emailed in and got them to ask him what was going to be happening with Long Wave, for those who can't get FM "yet"*... He had absolutely no idea.
  
  (*Like at my Mother's house up on the Moray Firth coast. FM R4 is so faint as to be practically unlistenable - while they were talking about decommissioning FM, up there people are still waiting for the transmitter network to /reach/ them.)

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  Posted by Tayler Cresswell - Host (U14232848) on Sunday, 9th January 2011

  Hi Nick
  
  There's a decade-by-decade round up on The Archers' blog which should help you catch up. It includes some great audio clips too : )
  Here are the links to each decade:
  
  1950s:
  1960s:
  1970s:
  1980s:
  1990s:
  2000s:
  
  Tayler

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