{"id":326468,"date":"2026-03-12T19:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T19:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/326468\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T19:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T19:49:08","slug":"bbc-radio-4s-the-archers-to-stage-national-tour-for-75th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/326468\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Radio 4&#8217;s The Archers to stage national tour for 75th anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The live show will be set at a reimagining of the Ambridge Flower &amp; Produce Show, and begins in Manchester on 7 June, before visiting towns and cities across England, Scotland and Wales.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Stops on the tour include Wolverhampton&#8217;s University of Wolverhampton at The Civic Hall, Warwick Arts Centre in Coventry, the Symphony Hall in Birmingham and the Regent Theatre in Stoke-on-Trent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bentinck, who has played the role of David Archer since 1982, said: &#8220;I&#8217;m so excited to be part of the upcoming The Archers national tour of the UK.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;ll be on stage but the show will be very interactive and Archers listeners and fans will be just as much a part of it as us.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;So come and join us at the Flower and Produce Show and, as an added treat, get to see how the clever sound effects are achieved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Hint, it&#8217;s all done with yoghurt and ironing boards.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The live show will be set at a reimagining of the Ambridge Flower &amp; Produce Show, and begins&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-326468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}