<B>‘Intriguing, comforting and endearingly familiar’ Katie Fforde<BR/>‘The BBC’s most downloaded radio show’ <I>The Guardian</I></B><BR/><B>‘Incredible legacy’ ?<I>The BBC</I><BR/>‘Longest running drama in the world’ <I>The i News</I><BR/>'a gripping plot full of love affairs, deceit, loss and more'<I> Radio Times</I></B><BR/><BR/><B>In celebration of the 70th anniversary of The Archers hitting the radio waves. </B><BR/> It’s 1940 and war has broken out. It is midnight at the turn of the year, and Walter Gabriel speaks the same line that opened the very first radio episode –  'And a Happy New Year to you all!' For Ambridge, a village in the heart of the English countryside, this year will bring change in ways no one was expecting.<BR/> <BR/> From the Pargetters at Lower Loxley to the loving, hard-working Archer family at Brookfield Farm, the war will be hard for all of them.&#