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viernes, 12 de abril de 2019

The Archers: a British Radio Tradition

British people love long-lasting traditions like the Monarchy, Parliament or drinking a "nice, cup of tea".  The Archers is one of them -the longest-running radio soap-opera in the world- The Archers is "a contemporary drama in a rural setting", called Ambridge, which has been running non-stop since 1951 on Radio- 4, the main talk channel on the BBC. It has over 5 million listeners every day, one million of them via the internet, according to Wikipedia.  Here you can find a synopsis of the soap, and a lot of background information (Link B2).

On The Archers web page, you can find videos, clips, podcasts, a list of characters, a blog, and, of course, you can listen to the latest episodes on the archive.  These audios and videos, without subtitles, are problably suitable for C2 students.


Ignacio en Zaragoza 7:33
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I worked as a teacher at Escuela Oficial de Idiomas nº 1, Zaragoza for 36 years. My current interests include media literacy, vocabulary, fluency, cultural studies, cinema, music, art, history, libraries, second language acquisition & attrition, psycholinguistics and the world at large.
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