I remember one of my mother’s non-physical punishments was to send me to bed just as Dick Barton was starting – any protest and it was the strap as well.

And I still resent the fact that Dick Barton was taken out of the quarter to seven slot, to make way for the Archers, “on a trial basis”.  When is the experiment due to end?

Dick Barton – Special Agent was a popular radio thriller serial broadcast in the BBC Light Programme between 7 October 1946 and 30 March 1951. [Wikipedia]

Rather dates me, doesn’t it?

The Archers, an everyday story of country folk, was first broadcast on what was then the BBC Home Service on the 29 May 1950. A world record for what is essentially a ‘soap’?
I’m not sure if there was ever an Ambridge village school and I’ve never heard of any school or parental CP being mentioned in the programme but I have never been an avid listener myself.

Hello Richard,

What a great find! I’m sure our tram enthusiasts were delighted.  Ungainly brutes weren’t they (the trams, not the tram enthusiasts).  I wonder how many tipped over in service?

Very sad though.  Despite the fact that I can’t abide the damn things I was almost in tears at the end!

Baby boomer – born in Jan ’47. The second thing thing that dad did when he got home was put down his suitcase.

six of the best speculated above as to whether school or parental CP had ever featured in ‘The Archers’.

I can’t find any via the search engines, but I have never been a regular listener.  My best result was this caning cartoon by Andrew Dodds, who as described here:

“…….. was responsible for over 300 drawings for Radio Times, including creating the faces of the long-running, well-loved serial “The Archers”.

It wouldn’t surprise me at all if someone can come up with a more direct CP reference for the serial, but a word of warning should anyone else attempt a search.  There is an Ambridge in Pennsylvania, USA, and paddle boarding appears to be very popular thereabouts! 

Alan,

Transferred from Moonlightin thread.  For train lovers.  They’re not trams but still……

Roanoke Rapids Herald.  Rapids, N.C.  June 25, 1936

American Way

https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn … 09%2C2354/