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Academic Archers

Academic Archers

46 episodes

10 hours ago

Welcome to the fifth series in the annual podcast programme from Academic Archers, bringing you papers from our 2024 conference. Please note: the sound quality on this recording is not as clear as usual. We apologise for this and thank you for your understanding. This episode considers what further education might mean for Emma Grundy and how her story reflects wider trends in UK higher education. Educating Emma? - Nicola Maxfield The Archers has often reflected national patterns in access to...

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Welcome to the fifth series in the annual podcast programme from Academic Archers, bringing you papers from our 2024 conference. Please note: the sound quality on this recording is not as clear as usual. We apologise for this and thank you for your understanding. This episode considers what further education might mean for Emma Grundy and how her story reflects wider trends in UK higher education. Educating Emma? - Nicola Maxfield The Archers has often reflected national patterns in access to...

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Academic Archers

Educating Emma? - Nicola Maxfield

Welcome to the fifth series in the annual podcast programme from Academic Archers, bringing you papers from our 2024 conference. Please note: the sound quality on this recording is not as clear as usual. We apologise for this and thank you for your understanding. This episode considers what further education might mean for Emma Grundy and how her story reflects wider trends in UK higher education. Educating Emma? - Nicola Maxfield The Archers has often reflected national patterns in access to...

6 hours ago

17 minutes

Academic Archers

The Glass Floor in Ambridge: How Does Privilege Endure? - Claire Astbury

Welcome to the fifth series in the annual podcast programme from Academic Archers, bringing you papers from our 2024 conference. Please note: the sound quality on this recording is not as clear as usual. We apologise for this and thank you for your understanding. This episode explores how privilege endures across generations in Ambridge and what that means for social mobility. The Glass Floor in Ambridge: How Does Privilege Endure? - Claire Astbury American sociologist Heather Johnson coined ...

1 week ago

17 minutes

Academic Archers

We the Fandom: Applying Fandom Theory to the Academic Archers Dum Tee Dum Mash Up Weekend 2023 - Caroline Birks

Welcome to the fifth series in the annual podcast programme from Academic Archers, bringing you papers from our 2024 conference. Please note: the sound quality on this recording is not as clear as usual. We apologise for this and thank you for your understanding. This episode explores fandom theory, participatory culture, and how these ideas came alive at the Academic Archers Dum Tee Dum Mash Up weekend in 2023. We the Fandom: Applying Fandom Theory to the Academic Archers Dum Tee Dum Mash Up...

2 weeks ago

15 minutes

Academic Archers

The Ambridge in My Mind’s Eye - Carolyn Cooper

Welcome to the fifth series in the annual podcast programme from Academic Archers, bringing you papers from our 2024 conference. This episode explores how we imagine Ambridge – or don’t – depending on the way our minds work. The Ambridge in My Mind’s Eye - Carolyn Cooper Not all Archers listeners experience the drama in the same way. Around 3% of the population are aphantasic, meaning they lack a visual imagination. For some, images are fleeting or vague; for others, there is only darkness. T...

3 weeks ago

5 minutes

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Welcome to the fifth series in the annual podcast programme from Academic Archers, bringing you papers from our 2024 conference. This episode brings together three papers exploring money, hospitality and public health in Ambridge. Looking After the Penny Hassets So the Pounds Look After Themselves - Katherine Jennings and Vikki Barry Brown Money is everywhere in Ambridge, but rarely spoken of openly. This paper explores how financial norms, taboos and silences mirror English cultural attitude...

4 weeks ago

35 minutes

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The Ambridge Family

Welcome to the fifth series in the annual podcast programme from Academic Archers, bringing you papers from our 2024 conference. This episode brings together four papers from the session The Ambridge Family, exploring queerness, grief, education, and money in village life. The Only Gay in the Village? Queer(y)ing Family in Rural Borsetshire - Peter Matthews The Archers has long been rooted in the heteronormative nuclear family, with drama created when norms are broken. This paper explores how...

1 month ago

48 minutes

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Happiness is the Perfect Kitchen - Jill Manasseh

Welcome to the fifth series in the annual podcast programme from Academic Archers, bringing you papers from our 2024 conference. This episode takes us into the heart of the home, as Jill Manasseh explores kitchens in Ambridge and beyond. Happiness is the Perfect Kitchen - Jill Manasseh What makes the perfect kitchen? This paper considers how kitchens are designed, lived in, and regretted. Using a playful slideshow of Ambridge-inspired kitchens, Jill explores seven common design mistakes, from...

1 month ago

16 minutes

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“A Lying, Cheating, Chancer”: Truth and Deception in Ambridge - Ruth Heilbronn and Rosalind Janssen

Welcome to the fifth series in the annual podcast programme from Academic Archers, bringing you papers from our 2024 conference. This episode revisits the question of truth, lies and deception in Ambridge, asking whether the village is still a moral quagmire. “A Lying, Cheating, Chancer”: Truth and Deception in Ambridge - Ruth Heilbronn and Rosalind Janssen George Grundy was recently branded “a lying, cheating chancer” by listeners, even compared to Boris Johnson. But research shows we all li...

1 month ago

11 minutes

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“If listening to the birds for five minutes makes you feel better, good for you”: Wellbeing, Gardens and Environmental Activity - Camilla Royle and Lily Whittle

Welcome to the fifth series in the annual podcast programme from Academic Archers, bringing you papers from our 2024 conference. This episode looks at the connections between nature, gardening, and wellbeing, through research and the experiences of Ambridge residents. “If listening to the birds for five minutes makes you feel better, good for you”: Wellbeing, Gardens and Environmental Activity - Camilla Royle and Lily Whittle When Ambridge’s local police officer Harrison took part in the Wild...

1 month ago

14 minutes

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“It’s a ferret ferris wheel!”: Depictions of Human–Animal Interactions and Animal Welfare in The Archers - Tamzin Furtado and Tamsin Durston

Welcome to the fifth series in the annual podcast programme from Academic Archers, bringing you papers from our 2024 conference. This episode examines the many ways animals shape life in Ambridge and what their stories reveal about both farming practice and human relationships. “It’s a ferret ferris wheel!”: Depictions of Human–Animal Interactions and Animal Welfare in The Archers - Tamzin Furtado and Tamsin Durston Animals are central to Ambridge life, whether as livestock, wildlife or famil...

2 months ago

18 minutes

Academic Archers

Funeral Directing in the UK through an Ambridge Lens - Abi Pattenden

Welcome to the fifth series in the annual podcast programme from Academic Archers, bringing you papers from our 2024 conference. This episode takes a lighthearted but well-informed look at funeral directing in Ambridge, using real-world research and practice as its frame. Funeral Directing in the UK through an Ambridge Lens - Abi Pattenden What might funeral provision look like in Ambridge? This paper considers current UK funeral trends and applies them to the village’s farming community on t...

2 months ago

15 minutes

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The Felpersham Canal: An Asset Beyond Ambridge - Paul Rodgers

Welcome to the fifth series in the annual podcast programme from Academic Archers, bringing you papers from our 2024 conference. This episode takes us beyond Ambridge, exploring the imagined history and real-world potential of the Felpersham Canal. The Felpersham Canal: An Asset Beyond Ambridge - Paul Rodgers For almost a decade in the author’s imagination, the Felpersham Canal has taken shape as a living part of Borsetshire’s landscape. This paper traces its story from its origins in the 18t...

2 months ago

18 minutes

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Aristotle’s Poetics fuel Ambridge Drama from Sally Knights

Welcome to the fifth series in the annual podcast programme from Academic Archers, bringing you papers from our 2024 conference. This episode features a single paper that explores how Aristotle and Greek tragedy continue to shape the drama of Ambridge. Aristotle’s Poetics fuel Ambridge Drama - Sally Knights This paper demonstrates how The Archers has roots in Greek tragedy, and how knowledge of ancient drama can enrich the listener’s appreciation of the programme. Using Aristotle’s Poetics, t...

2 months ago

11 minutes

Academic Archers

The Men of Ambridge

Welcome to the fifth series in the annual podcast programme from Academic Archers, bringing you papers from our 2024 conference. This episode shares the three papers from the session The Men of Ambridge, exploring fathers and sons, brothers, and shifting ideas of masculinity in the village. He’s his father’s son – in word or deed? - Katharine Hoskyn & Deborah Miller “Every father should remember one day his son will follow his example, not his advice,” said Charles F. Kettering. This pape...

2 months ago

40 minutes

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Fandom and The Archers audio book Chapter 12, Felicity Macdonald-Smith

Crowd-sourcing material culture: A History of Ambridge in 100 Objects Felicity Macdonald-Smith The term ‘material culture’ was probably first used by Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers in 1875, when he defined it as ‘the outward signs and symbols of particular ideas of the mind’. Pitt-Rivers donated his collection of ethnographic and archaeological objects to found the Pitt-Rivers’ Museum in Oxford. The museum now holds over 500,000 items, organised by functional categories. Since the mid-19...

3 years ago

25 minutes

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Fandom and The Archers audio book Chapter 7, The Saturday Group

It’s Saturday, it must be the Archers! Saturday Academic Archers Group aka The Saturday Group This chapter is by fans, about fans, for fans. This chapter explores the creation, development and meaning of a Saturday morning fan group which met online through and beyond the initial COVID-19 lockdown. The chapter describes the initial phase of Saturday morning online sessions over a three-month period which comprised ‘formal’ presentations of papers from past conferences. These sessions were con...

3 years ago

35 minutes

Academic Archers

Fandom and The Archers audio book Chapter 9, Caroline Birks

Teaching The Archers – creating new fans or turning them off? Caroline Birks In September 2016, Media Magazine published an article that I had written about The Archers and fandom. In 2017, The Archers became a set text and my article became the go-to resource. I wondered how the students responded to The Archers. I asked the media teaching community on Facebook for classroom anecdotes. Common themes from the results were: students struggled with focused listening; teachers had been ask...

3 years ago

22 minutes

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Fandom and The Archers audio book Chapter 8, Timothy Vercelloti

A Year in Ambridge: Introducing American Students to English Village Culture through The Archers Timothy Vercellotti Global cultures courses are a staple of general education requirements at American universities. Teaching a cultures course poses challenges, however, including appealing to students from all academic disciplines and building a cohesive learning experience around a somewhat amorphous topic. English village culture appeals to American students, some of whom have been exposed to...

3 years ago

33 minutes

Academic Archers

Fandom and The Archers audio book Chapter 5, Carenza Lewis

Gauging guerrilla engagement: the unexpected benefits of the Academic Archers conference Carenza Lewis Is Academic Archers the best-ever Zoom conference? Attendees in 2021 seemed to think so. Marking the half-decade anniversary of Academic Archers, this chapter explores the benefits of the attending Academic Archers conference, using data from conference feedback in 2017 and 2021 and methods from current research into wellbeing in heritage contexts. The analysis shows this unique conference ...

3 years ago

36 minutes

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Fandom and The Archers audio book Chapter 4, Helen Burrows

Cult and Culture: Transformative Fandom-de dum de dum de dum Helen Burrows The Archers fits a definition of ‘cult media’ in that it draws a niche audience, has nostalgia appeal and represents a subculture. Like other cult media, it has multiple active communities of people who identify as fans. However, it is also part of wider British culture, recognisable to and even referenced by many who would not count themselves as fans. In other fan groups, a myriad of artefacts, fanfiction and cospla...

3 years ago

41 minutes