Barwick Green
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Barwick Green
"Barwick Green" is the theme music to the long-running BBC Radio 4 soap opera The Archers. It is a "maypole dance" from the suite My Native Heath, written in 1924 by the Yorkshire composer Arthur Wood, and named after Barwick-in-Elmet.[1]
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The recording used between 1950 and the 1990s was played by Sidney Torch and his orchestra.[citation needed] Sidney Torch recorded a commercial release of "Barwick Green" in the 1950s, but it was not used on The Archers itself.[citation needed]
The Sunday omnibus broadcast of The Archers starts with a more rustic, accordion-arranged rendition by The Yetties.[2][3] Whilst the theme for BBC Radio 4 Extra's The Archers spinoff, Ambridge Extra, is a version arranged by Bellowhead.[4]
References
- ^ "Feedback". Autumn 2007. BBC Radio 4. 2007-10-05.
- ^ The Yetties (1997). Upmarket. Track 1. Decca SKL 5282.
- ^ Gonsalves, Rebecca (1 January 2011). "60 things you never knew you wanted to know about The Archers". The Independent (Independent Print Limited). http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/features/60-things-you-never-knew-you-wanted-to-know-about-the-archers-2173365.html. Retrieved 1 July 2011.
- ^ Heritage, Stuart (5 April 2011). "TV theme tunes: don't mess with the best". The Guardian (Guardian Media Group). http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2011/apr/05/tv-theme-tunes. Retrieved 28 June 2011.
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