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Archers editor faces questions at Newbury Showground




Editor of the BBC Radio 4 show told listeners of forthcoming plot lines and faced a grilling over death of popular character Nigel Pargetter

ARCHERS fans turned out in their droves to give editor Vanessa Whitburn the third degree on recent story lines and to try to glimpse an insight into what's in store for the inhabitants of Ambrige.

Whitburn was on hand at the Royal County of Berkshire Agricultural show today (Sunday) to mark the show's sixtieth anniversary and promote the help introduce a museum exhibition about the Radio 4 show currently on display at the Museum of Rural Life at Reading University.

There were questions about the death of Nigel Pargetter, who had fallen from his own roof earlier this year, but Whitburn said she took no pleasure from killing off characters: “The fact is though that it is a great plot device, which will carry us forward. Right now we are looking at how Elizabeth (Nigel's widow) copes and how she blames David (Archer) for Nigel's death.”

Among the other developing plotlines she highlighted was the on-going saga following the E-Coli outbreak at Bridge Farm and the larger impact that massive dairies, as seen in the United States, would have on the organic methods used on some of the farms featured in the show.



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