Recently, many loyal listeners have been anxious that plotlines for The Archers were about to get a bit racy after former EastEnders producer Sean O'Connor took over the show. But, reports the Daily Mail, there's some real-life drama associated with the show as two villages are locked in a battle over which of them Ambridge is based on. Both, crucially, claim the fictional community's pub, the Bull, is based on their local. Inkberrow in Worcestershire has been used by the BBC for publicity shots over the years, which you would think would seal the deal. However, a historian from Rippingale in Lincolnshire says that evidence of a conversation between the show's creator, Godfrey Baseley, and a local farmer, Henry Burtt, led to the show being dreamt up. Claim and counter-claim have been batted back and forth, and, just like The Archers, this looks like a saga set to run, and run, and run, and ru … zzzzzzzzz.
