Academic Archers
SamfunnOccasional podcasts from Academic Archers, including the Saturday Omnibus.
Siste episoder av Academic Archers podcast
- Happiness is the Perfect Kitchen - Jill Manasseh (00:16:49)
Welcome to the fifth series in the annual podcast programme from Academic Archers, bringing you papers from our 2024 conference. This episode takes us into the heart of the home, as Jill Manasseh explores kitchens in Ambridge and beyond. Happiness is the Perfect Kitchen - Jill Manasseh What makes the perfect kitchen? This paper considers how kitchens are designed, lived in, and regretted. Using a playful slideshow of Ambridge-inspired kitchens, Jill explores seven common design mistakes, from...
- “A Lying, Cheating, Chancer”: Truth and Deception in Ambridge - Ruth Heilbronn and Rosalind Janssen (00:11:41)
Welcome to the fifth series in the annual podcast programme from Academic Archers, bringing you papers from our 2024 conference. This episode revisits the question of truth, lies and deception in Ambridge, asking whether the village is still a moral quagmire. “A Lying, Cheating, Chancer”: Truth and Deception in Ambridge - Ruth Heilbronn and Rosalind Janssen George Grundy was recently branded “a lying, cheating chancer” by listeners, even compared to Boris Johnson. But research shows we all li...
- “If listening to the birds for five minutes makes you feel better, good for you”: Wellbeing, Gardens and Environmental Activity - Camilla Royle and Lily Whittle (00:14:43)
Welcome to the fifth series in the annual podcast programme from Academic Archers, bringing you papers from our 2024 conference. This episode looks at the connections between nature, gardening, and wellbeing, through research and the experiences of Ambridge residents. “If listening to the birds for five minutes makes you feel better, good for you”: Wellbeing, Gardens and Environmental Activity - Camilla Royle and Lily Whittle When Ambridge’s local police officer Harrison took part in the Wild...
- “It’s a ferret ferris wheel!”: Depictions of Human–Animal Interactions and Animal Welfare in The Archers - Tamzin Furtado and Tamsin Durston (00:18:00)
Welcome to the fifth series in the annual podcast programme from Academic Archers, bringing you papers from our 2024 conference. This episode examines the many ways animals shape life in Ambridge and what their stories reveal about both farming practice and human relationships. “It’s a ferret ferris wheel!”: Depictions of Human–Animal Interactions and Animal Welfare in The Archers - Tamzin Furtado and Tamsin Durston Animals are central to Ambridge life, whether as livestock, wildlife or famil...
- Funeral Directing in the UK through an Ambridge Lens - Abi Pattenden (00:15:30)
Welcome to the fifth series in the annual podcast programme from Academic Archers, bringing you papers from our 2024 conference. This episode takes a lighthearted but well-informed look at funeral directing in Ambridge, using real-world research and practice as its frame. Funeral Directing in the UK through an Ambridge Lens - Abi Pattenden What might funeral provision look like in Ambridge? This paper considers current UK funeral trends and applies them to the village’s farming community on t...
- The Felpersham Canal: An Asset Beyond Ambridge - Paul Rodgers (00:18:16)
Welcome to the fifth series in the annual podcast programme from Academic Archers, bringing you papers from our 2024 conference. This episode takes us beyond Ambridge, exploring the imagined history and real-world potential of the Felpersham Canal. The Felpersham Canal: An Asset Beyond Ambridge - Paul Rodgers For almost a decade in the author’s imagination, the Felpersham Canal has taken shape as a living part of Borsetshire’s landscape. This paper traces its story from its origins in the 18t...
- Aristotle’s Poetics fuel Ambridge Drama from Sally Knights (00:11:47)
Welcome to the fifth series in the annual podcast programme from Academic Archers, bringing you papers from our 2024 conference. This episode features a single paper that explores how Aristotle and Greek tragedy continue to shape the drama of Ambridge. Aristotle’s Poetics fuel Ambridge Drama - Sally Knights This paper demonstrates how The Archers has roots in Greek tragedy, and how knowledge of ancient drama can enrich the listener’s appreciation of the programme. Using Aristotle’s Poetics, t...
- The Men of Ambridge (00:40:26)
Welcome to the fifth series in the annual podcast programme from Academic Archers, bringing you papers from our 2024 conference. This episode shares the three papers from the session The Men of Ambridge, exploring fathers and sons, brothers, and shifting ideas of masculinity in the village. He’s his father’s son – in word or deed? - Katharine Hoskyn & Deborah Miller “Every father should remember one day his son will follow his example, not his advice,” said Charles F. Kettering. This pape...
- Fandom and The Archers audio book Chapter 12, Felicity Macdonald-Smith (00:25:29)
Crowd-sourcing material culture: A History of Ambridge in 100 Objects Felicity Macdonald-Smith The term ‘material culture’ was probably first used by Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers in 1875, when he defined it as ‘the outward signs and symbols of particular ideas of the mind’. Pitt-Rivers donated his collection of ethnographic and archaeological objects to found the Pitt-Rivers’ Museum in Oxford. The museum now holds over 500,000 items, organised by functional categories. Since the mid-19...
- Fandom and The Archers audio book Chapter 7, The Saturday Group (00:35:28)
It’s Saturday, it must be the Archers! Saturday Academic Archers Group aka The Saturday Group This chapter is by fans, about fans, for fans. This chapter explores the creation, development and meaning of a Saturday morning fan group which met online through and beyond the initial COVID-19 lockdown. The chapter describes the initial phase of Saturday morning online sessions over a three-month period which comprised ‘formal’ presentations of papers from past conferences. These sessions were con...
- Fandom and The Archers audio book Chapter 9, Caroline Birks (00:22:02)
Teaching The Archers – creating new fans or turning them off? Caroline Birks In September 2016, Media Magazine published an article that I had written about The Archers and fandom. In 2017, The Archers became a set text and my article became the go-to resource. I wondered how the students responded to The Archers. I asked the media teaching community on Facebook for classroom anecdotes. Common themes from the results were: students struggled with focused listening; teachers had been ask...
- Fandom and The Archers audio book Chapter 8, Timothy Vercelloti (00:33:20)
A Year in Ambridge: Introducing American Students to English Village Culture through The Archers Timothy Vercellotti Global cultures courses are a staple of general education requirements at American universities. Teaching a cultures course poses challenges, however, including appealing to students from all academic disciplines and building a cohesive learning experience around a somewhat amorphous topic. English village culture appeals to American students, some of whom have been exposed to...
- Fandom and The Archers audio book Chapter 5, Carenza Lewis (00:36:32)
Gauging guerrilla engagement: the unexpected benefits of the Academic Archers conference Carenza Lewis Is Academic Archers the best-ever Zoom conference? Attendees in 2021 seemed to think so. Marking the half-decade anniversary of Academic Archers, this chapter explores the benefits of the attending Academic Archers conference, using data from conference feedback in 2017 and 2021 and methods from current research into wellbeing in heritage contexts. The analysis shows this unique conference ...
- Fandom and The Archers audio book Chapter 4, Helen Burrows (00:41:48)
Cult and Culture: Transformative Fandom-de dum de dum de dum Helen Burrows The Archers fits a definition of ‘cult media’ in that it draws a niche audience, has nostalgia appeal and represents a subculture. Like other cult media, it has multiple active communities of people who identify as fans. However, it is also part of wider British culture, recognisable to and even referenced by many who would not count themselves as fans. In other fan groups, a myriad of artefacts, fanfiction and cospla...
- Fandom and The Archers audio book Chapter 3, Elizabeth Anne Bailey (00:20:46)
Archers Fandom and the Online Public Sphere Elizabeth Anne Bailey This chapter considers some of the confluent factors which shape debate in the online public sphere the intersections between this and the practice of fandom generally and Archers fandom in particular. Situating fandom as a part of the wider online public sphere it considers its performative aspects, characteristics of online behaviour, the role of emotion and some of the hard-wired factors which underpin this. It conclu...
- Fandom and The Archers audio book Chapter 2, Sarah Kate Merry (00:21:20)
When the Script Hits the Fan: Why Archers fans stop listening (and why they can't completely keep away) Sarah Kate Merry According to the BBC Archers website, ‘Listeners to The Archers are loyal fans but take no prisoners’ (BBC, 2016). But are fans of The Archers always loyal in their listening? This chapter presents stories of Archers fans who stopped listening, for various lengths of time, but still considered themselves to be fans of the show. ‘I listen so that you don’t have to’; ‘Well, I...
- Fandom and The Archers audio book Chapter 1, Claire Astbury (00:34:06)
Fans, Flouncers, Fundamentalists: Understanding Online Archers Fan Cultures Claire Astbury Fans of The Archers interact in many different groups across multiple online platforms. This chapter explores the motivations of moderators in establishing groups and of fans in joining them, considers how different groups develop their own subcultures, and summarises the benefits of online engagement for fans. The findings are based on two surveys in December 2019 and January 2020. The results indicat...
- Introducing Fandom Culture and The Archers audio book! (00:25:00)
Hello, and thank you for coming to listen to the audio book version of the Academic Archers book, Fandom Culture and The Archers: An Everyday Story of Academic Folk. The book was edited by Dr Cara Courage and Dr Nicola Headlam, co-founders of Academic Archers, with contributions from a number of Academic Archers people. It was published in book form in May 2022 by Emerald, and is the fifth book in the Academic Archers library, and sits alongside our Saturday Omnibus podcasts. We were right...
- Academic Archers 2021 conference: Evening dinner at Grey Gables with Lucy V Freeman (01:29:41)
Evening dinner at Grey Gables, with very special guest and one half of Ambridge on the Couch, Lucy V Freeman. The conference was held over zoom, but we had fun in entering a fantasy world where we held the conference at University of Felpersham, The Orangery, the Tea Room, The Bull, Grey Gables and Brookfield Barn, so you will hear mention of that, as well as our accommodation at anything from The Gills to Grundys Field. If you listen to this podcast, please consider supporting us on Pa...
- Academic Archers 2021 conference: Women in Ambridge III (01:45:35)
Afternoon Tea at The Orangery and The Tea Room, and Women in Ambridge III, the fifth session at the 2021 Academic Archers conference. Papers include: A Friend Indeed: Aristotelian friendships in Ambridge, Sarah Kate Merry Shula’s Calling: Whose Idea Is It Anyway?, Meg Burton Learning and love at Borchester College, Ruth Heilbronn and Rosalind Janssen Alice: Through the Wine Glass, Lou Gillies The conference was held over zoom, but we had fun in entering a fantasy world where...
- Academic Archers 2021 conference: Travelling Ambridge between the imagination and the impossible (00:53:06)
Travelling Ambridge between the imagination and the impossible, the fourth session of the 2021 Academic Archers conference. Papers include: Ambridge: Imaginary Place or Place of the Imagination?, Gareth Davies Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be Molly and Tilly Button: Ambridge and the amateur sleuth, Helen Burrows The conference was held over zoom, but we had fun in entering a fantasy world where we held the conference at U...
- Academic Archers 2021 conference: Enough about us, what do you think of us?? The Archers Fandom as Action (01:05:19)
Enough about us, what do you think of us?? The Archers Fandom as Action, the third session from the 2021 Academic Archers conference. Papers include: Plenary Paper: Gauging Guerrilla Academia – Exploring the impact of the Academic Archers conference, Prof Carenza Lewis The View from Lakey Hill: How The Archers empowers, liberates and enables blind and visually impaired listeners, Laura Smith A Year in Ambridge: Introducing American Students to English Village Culture t...
- Academic Archers 2021 conference: Flapjacks and Feudalism: Social Mobility and Class in The Archers (00:58:08)
Flapjacks and Feudalism: Social Mobility and Class in The Archers, the second session from the 2021 Academic Archers conference. The session opens with Feeding the Horses, from Dr Nicola Headlam, reading from her chapter in our Flapjacks and Feudalism… book, and talking about the wider neoliberal necropolitics at play when prosperity is built on the backs of those who share in it the least. The conversation then opens up to a conversation with other contributing authors and the assemble...
- Academic Archers 2021 conference: The Village and the Virus (00:40:38)
The Village and the Virus, the first session from the 2021 Academic Archers conference. We start with a Plenary Paper, Monologuing, from Karen Pollock, followed by It’s Saturday, it must be The Archers, By fans, for fans, about fans, by members of the Saturday Omnibus Group. The conference was held over zoom, but we had fun in entering a fantasy world where we held the conference at University of Felpersham, The Orangery, the Tea Room, The Bull, Grey Gables and Brookfield Barn, s...
- Academic Archers Saturday Omnibus S2E6 26 Dec 2020 - with Archers commentariat Lucy V Freeman (01:01:31)
This week we are joined by Archers commentariat, Lucy V Freeeman, in a conversation that moves around the village, up the Felpersham bypass, and back again. If you listen to this podcast, please consider supporting us on Patreon towards its upkeep. All monies go to supporting the conference and online community of Academic Archers Research Fellows.