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Radio

Without Joe Grundy The Archers feels lost

19 October 2019

9:00 AM

19 October 2019

9:00 AM

There was something really creepy about listening to the ten-minute countryside podcast released last weekend by Radio 4 supposedly transporting us to Marneys Field in Ambridge. Two worlds colliding. The fake countryside of Borsetshire was transfigured — no longer pretending to exist but existing, as if to make us all pretend we believe in it for real.

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