TY - BOOK ID - 40864020 TI - Custard, culverts and cake : academic on life in The archers AU - Courage, Cara AU - Headlam, Nicola PY - 2017 SN - 1787434400 1787432858 1787432866 9781787432857 9781787434400 9781787432864 PB - Bingley : Emerald, DB - UniCat KW - Ambridge (Imaginary place) KW - Archers (Radio program) KW - Imaginary places KW - Popular culture KW - Social Science KW - Popular culture. KW - Popular Culture. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:40864020 AB - 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. ER -