Back in the 1920s dairy farmers were under greater financial pressures than today. But an innovative farmer-engineer called Arthur Hosier...

In trying to come up with storylines for the teenage Pip Archer, a character I didn’t know particularly well, I found inspiration in the...

The year 1984 was a big one for George Orwell and me. George imagined Big Brother and the Ministry of Truth. I imagined Elizabeth Archer...

A plan to ease the rules on gene editing in food crop research is just about the last thing our countryside needs. The Government says...

This country church, high on a hill-top in Worcestershire, England, has had a long connection with The Archers, the world’s...

Delighted to hear Natasha and Tom are expecting twins. It’s 25 years now since Tom’s brother John was killed in a tragic tractor accident...

Our countryside is on the verge of momentous change. The Government has set out a plan to promote sustainable farming in Britain. For...

The Archers’ version of Britain’s medieval mystery plays turned out to be strangely moving. To be honest I hadn’t expected very much. I’d...

Back in the 1980s I got the chance to write a week's trial episodes for the radio soap that had enthralled me since student days. I...

The countryside that inspired the world's longest-running drama was very different from the rural Britain we know today. It was mostly a...

Just lately there's been a lot of media clamour about the Amazon Prime series Clarkson's Farm. The former Top Gear presenter has brought...

I've been visiting a farm with so much wildlife you could easily imagine it to be a nature reserve. How's this for starters – 137 bird...

Great to launch the Unbound campaign to get my new book published. I worked on The Archers for more than 30 years, as a script-writer and...

Governments come and governments go. Empires crumble. Dictators rise and fall. Divisive walls collapse. But through it all toxic,...

Wildlife campaigners are telling local councils they must think about wildflowers before they rush to trim their roadside verges. Right...