{"id":1174503,"date":"2026-08-28T17:17:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T17:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1174503\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T17:17:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T17:17:20","slug":"bbc-radios-the-archers-comes-to-edinburgh-playhouse-to-celebrate-75-years-on-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1174503\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Radio\u2019s The Archers comes to Edinburgh Playhouse to celebrate 75 years on-air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To celebrate 75 years of the world\u2019s longest-running radio drama,\u00a0The Archers, six of the series\u2019 most popular characters are coming to Scotland, stopping at\u00a0Glasgow\u2019s King\u2019s Theatre on 4\u00a0October\u00a0and\u00a0Edinburgh\u2019s Playhouse the following evening, 5\u00a0October.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Broadcasting six times a week to five million listeners, The Archers follows the everyday lives, loves, and dramas of residents of Ambridge, the fictional village deep in the heart of the English countryside. A cornerstone of the British cultural landscape, the show has chronicled seven decades of significant social and cultural changes and events in Britain. It is one of the BBC\u2019s most popular programmes and is currently the top\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mustseetheatre.com\/bbc-radios-the-archers-comes-to-scotland-to-celebrate-75-years-on-air\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"463\" data-attachment-id=\"660626\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/theedinburghreporter.co.uk\/2026\/08\/bbc-radios-the-archers-comes-to-edinburgh-playhouse-to-celebrate-75-years-on-air\/fane-x-the-archers-14-june-2026-photo-by-carsten-windhorst\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theedinburghreporter.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/The-Archers_Live-at-75_3-Carsten-Windhorst.jpeg?fit=1200%2C798&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1200,798\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"Fane x The Archers, 14 June 2026. Photo by: Carsten Windhorst\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Fane x The Archers, 14 June 2026. Photo by: Carsten Windhorst&lt;\/p&gt;&#10;\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theedinburghreporter.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/The-Archers_Live-at-75_3-Carsten-Windhorst.jpeg?fit=696%2C463&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/The-Archers_Live-at-75_3-Carsten-Windhorst.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-660626\"  \/>Fane x The Archers, 14 June 2026. Photo by: Carsten Windhorst<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To celebrate 75 years of the world\u2019s longest-running radio drama,\u00a0The Archers, six of the series\u2019 most popular characters&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1174504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,9440,712,32588,2764,16,15],"class_list":["post-1174503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edinburgh","tag-britain","tag-edinburgh","tag-great-britain","tag-radio","tag-scotland","tag-the-archers","tag-theatre","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117174276812335723","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1174503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1174504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1174503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1174503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1174503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}