"Barwick Green"
/ˈbærɪk/ is the
theme music to the long-running
BBC Radio 4
soap opera
The Archers. A "
maypole dance", in 4
4 time, from the suite My Native Heath written in 1924 by the
Yorkshire composer
Arthur Wood, it is named after
Barwick-in-Elmet in Yorkshire's West Riding.
[1]
The recording used between 1950 and the 1990s was played by Sidney Torch and his orchestra. [2] Sidney Torch recorded a commercial version of "Barwick Green" in the 1950s, but it was not used on The Archers itself.[ citation needed]
The familiar opening 7 notes are echoed in the pizzicato in Benjamin Britten's Simple Symphony, written in 1934.
The Sunday omnibus broadcast of The Archers starts with a more rustic, accordion-arranged rendition by The Yetties, [3] [4] while BBC Radio 4 Extra's former spinoff, Ambridge Extra, used a version arranged by Bellowhead. [5]
"Barwick Green"
/ˈbærɪk/ is the
theme music to the long-running
BBC Radio 4
soap opera
The Archers. A "
maypole dance", in 4
4 time, from the suite My Native Heath written in 1924 by the
Yorkshire composer
Arthur Wood, it is named after
Barwick-in-Elmet in Yorkshire's West Riding.
[1]
The recording used between 1950 and the 1990s was played by Sidney Torch and his orchestra. [2] Sidney Torch recorded a commercial version of "Barwick Green" in the 1950s, but it was not used on The Archers itself.[ citation needed]
The familiar opening 7 notes are echoed in the pizzicato in Benjamin Britten's Simple Symphony, written in 1934.
The Sunday omnibus broadcast of The Archers starts with a more rustic, accordion-arranged rendition by The Yetties, [3] [4] while BBC Radio 4 Extra's former spinoff, Ambridge Extra, used a version arranged by Bellowhead. [5]