Sacking threat
IiZPA ’ ' London . longest-running serial “The Archers” — is ,the centre of a furore in the 8.8. C. as radio heads 'threaten .to dismiss anyone who leaks future turns in the plot. ■ ■ ‘'Leaks to newspapers have recently revealed that Polly perks, landlady of the- fictional Bull Pub at Ambridge, iwas being “killed off” in a crash and that her daughter was to make her debut. 7 News also came last week, Jrom an unofficial source in ■a national newspaper, that a jew character was to be introduced to the “every day Stories of country folks”
he 7 will be the Ambridge molecatcher. Jock Gallagher, 8.8. C. network editor for radio in Birmingham, where the serial is made, has warned staff that anyone caught leaking the plots faces the sack. New Zealand . listeners were in jeopardy of losing the series and others the 8.8. C. produces when the Government announced cuts in the transcription services. But after much debate in the House of Commons it was decided that countries like New Zealand will still be able to receive programmes even if they have to pay a little more for them.
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Press, 2 March 1982, Page 17
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189Sacking threat Press, 2 March 1982, Page 17
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