Barwick Green

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. [cite episode
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The recording used between 1950 and the 1990s was played by Sidney Torch and his orchestra.

The Sunday omnibus broadcast of "The Archers" starts with a more rustic, accordion-arranged rendition by The Yetties. [cite book
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Trivia

* Comedian Billy Connolly has said that this tune should replace "God Save the Queen" as the national anthem of the United Kingdom.Fact|date=January 2008
*Sidney Torch recorded a commercial release of "Barwick Green" in the 1950s but it was not used on "The Archers" itself. The 1954 version also included a four-movement piece called "A Village Suite" by movie and radio mood music composer Kenneth Pakeman.

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