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The Archers 75th anniversary experience confirms full cast and dates for celebration

The live tour will feature a rotating cast of Archers actors from the radio drama.

The Archers: Live at 75.

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Published: Thursday, 12 March 2026 at 2:51 pm

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BBC Radio 4’s The Archers has confirmed the full cast and dates for its live tour celebrating 75 years of the drama.

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The Archers: Live at 75, which will bring the characters out of the studio and onto stages across the UK, will run from June to November 2026.

The show will be hosted by comedian Angela Barnes and feature two rotating casts of four from the hit radio drama.

Timothy Bentinck (David Archer), Charlotte Martin (Susan Carter), Ben Norris (Ben Archer) and Annabelle Dowler (Kirsty Miller) will appear on stage in one rotation. Meanwhile, Charles Collingwood (Brian Aldridge), Ryan Kelly (Jazzer McCreary), Susie Riddell (Tracy Horrobin) and Sunny Ormonde (Lilian Bellamy) will appear as part of the second rotation.

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Set within a reimagining of the Ambridge Flower & Produce show, the live productions will include on-stage interviews, insider stories and gossip, and live performances with live sound effects.

Fans will also be able to ask questions from the audience, take part in an interactive pub quiz straight out of the Bull and sing along to the programme’s theme tune.

Martin said: "I’m so thrilled to be part of The Archers tour - bringing 75 magical years of Ambridge to the stage is an absolute dream come true! Can’t wait to share the laughter, tears and heart of Ambridge with fans everywhere!"

Bentinck added: "I’m so excited to be part of the upcoming The Archers national tour of the UK. We’ll be on stage but the show will be very interactive, and Archers listeners and fans will be just as much a part of it as us. So come and join us at the Flower and Produce Show, and as an added treat get to see how the clever sound effects are achieved. Hint, it’s all done with yoghurt and ironing boards!"

The full tour dates are as follows:

The Archers logo over a pair of Wellington boots.

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The Archers, which was created by Godfry Baseley, is the world’s longest running daily radio drama serial, having first been aired back in 1951.
The drama is set in the fictional village of Ambridge, where the titular Archer family work on their farm, and has chronicled significant social and cultural changes in Britain over the years.

You can listen to The Archers on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds. Tickets are available for The Archers live tour now.

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