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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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BBC Radio 4's The Archers wallows in the stench of controversy

The Archers: Ryan Kelly as Jazzer McCreary
The Archers: Ryan Kelly lets rip as Jazzer McCreary. Photograph: BBC

Genteel Radio 4 soap The Archers has courted controversy with plotlines about rape, abortion and cancer – but the show's latest shocker is a real stinker. Scots pigman Jack "Jazzer" McCreary let rip on air and then exclaimed: "Better oot than in!", in what is thought to be the first fart heard in the 63-year history of the soap. The Sun reports that one fan wrote on the show's Facebook page: "Did we just have a fart on The Archers? This is the end of civilisation as we know it..."

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