Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Archers is a British soap opera broadcast on the BBC''s main spoken-word channel, Radio 4. It was originally billed as "an everyday story of country folk", a familiar phrase now "dumbed up" on its R4 page as "contemporary drama in a rural setting". With more than 16,000 episodes, it is both the world''s longest running radio soap and, since the axing of the American soap opera Guiding Light in September 2009, the world''s longest running soap opera in any format.
