02414nam a2200457Ii 4500 9781787432857 UtOrBLW 20251029120757.0 m o d cr un||||||||| 171016s2017 enk ob 001 0 eng d 9781787432857 (e-book) 9781787434400 ePUB UtOrBLW eng rda UtOrBLW e-uk--- GT738 C87 2017 JFCA bicssc SOC022000 bisacsh 7.05 Custard, culverts and cake : academic on life in The archers / edited by Cara Courage, Nicola Headlam. Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2017. ©2017 1 online resource (xxxii, 443 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Includes index. Includes bibliographical references. Leading scholars combine their love of The Archers with their specialist subjects, in Custard, Culverts and Cake - a sometimes serious, but most often wry look at the people of Ambridge. A group of Archers Academics take on subjects such as food, geography, social media, faith. There is, naturally, an entire section dedicated to the Helen and Rob storyline. With contributions from members of the Academic Archers network, the book blurs the line between fact and fiction - The Archers as a BBC soap opera, and Ambridge as a real place in a county called Borsetshire. Each chapter is 'peer reviewed' by a different Ambridge inhabitant. Custard, Culverts and Cake gives the reader a deeper understanding of the real life issues covered in the programme, an insight into the residents of Ambridge, and validation that hours of listening to The Archers is, in fact, academic research. Print version record Popular culture Great Britain . 61118 Archers (Radio program) 59827 Social Science Popular Culture. bisacsh 59385 Popular culture. bicssc 57605 Courage, Cara, editor. 59829 Headlam, Nicola, editor. 59830 9781787432864 https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/doi/10.1108/9781787432857 51979 51979