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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Natalie Hanman

Cupid's arrow hits The Archers


Radio romance: the Archers' Adam and Ian get hitched tonight. Photograph: BBC

Is the Archers our most radical social drama, ask Zoe Williams in today's Guardian. It may well be, but for all the talk about the happenings in Ambridge, you'd be mistaken for thinking the drama was true. The Archers Anarchists certainly think so. A lot of people in my workplace seem to think so, if their intense conversations about love triangles etc are anything to go by. And at a party last night, to confirm my suspicions that the BBC is actually broadcasting some sort of reality radio show, I met the real-life daughter of Brian Aldridge and Shula Hebden Lloyd (whose real-life counterparts, Judy Bennett and Charles Collingwood, are married in real life). Which is a bit of a bombshell, I know. What about Jenny? What about Alistair? You heard it here first. Maybe.

Anyway, if you're planning to tune into Adam and Ian's wedding tonight, let us know your thoughts on radical storylines, dramatic delusions or whether you'll be going out and doing something even more subversive instead.

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