Gordon Astley worked on ‘The Archers’ in the 1960s, at the BBC studio in Broad Street, Birmingham, and remembers using one of the first Mellotrons to play in the sound effects. Apparently John Lennon had the other Mellotron which was used on [...]
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Photo from Kathryn Shuttleworth, no reproduction without permission. The Archers for Comic Relief (The Mailbox) Of all the people I worked with this brief encounter with Victoria Wood has to go down as one of my favourites. She had written some special episodes of ’The Archers’ for Comic Relief and came along for [...]
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Photo from Gill Powell, no reproduction without permission. The photo shows sound recordists Lee Harrigan and Rob Taylerson, in the Pebble Mill car park making a recording of Carl Dolan’s car engine for when Eddie Grundy went stock car racing in ‘The Archers’. Gordon Astley adds the following comment on the Facebook Page: ‘recording Archers FX [...]
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Copyright resides with the original holder, no reproduction without permission. This invitation was given to Stephen Martin, who was then working creating sound effects on the Radio 4 drama series, ‘The Archers’. It dates from December 1988. Thanks to Stephen Martin for making the invitation available.
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This event was told to me about Radio Studio 3. This was the drama studio made famous by ‘The Archers’. One morning when the studio door was unlocked it would not fully open. This was due to several chairs that had been pushed against the door from the inside. This door was the only entrance [...]
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