Pointless Archers poll. Satisfy my curiosity...

[commonorgarden]

... If you are a fan, would you say your love is a.) inherited from always having it on as a child, b.) found as an adult or c.) none of the above.

I'm certainly an a.

I had awful trouble sleeping about six years ago. Husband bought me an iPod to listen to soothing music and podcasts to help me sleep. I downloaded The Archers omnibus thinking it would be so boring it would send me to sleep. Six years later I'm still here

B

I took to it in my 20s. I've been an intermittent listener ever since but mostly in the last 15 years or so.

DD is the same age as Pip and loathes her so she hasn't caught the bug yet, though I have high hopes that if Pip ever returns she will have a completely different voice!

An a and b here too. It was an integral part of my childhood and I listened as a student. Lost it for a few years and now am firmly addicted. Listen at work on demand and colleagues laugh at me. I don't care I love it.

B.

I started listening in my mid 20's on and off. Was going through a very hard time and feeling homesick. I think I found it comforting as I longed to be back in the countryside where I grew up but was stuck in a city where I didn't want to be.

B. I drive a lot and discovered R4 and the Archers a few years ago whilst flicking through radio stations having realised I was no longer R1 material.

b) I'm foreign so never heard of the Archers before I came to live in England, and even then it took me 10 years to discover Radio 4 and the Archers.

Definitely A for me. My mum is a fan as was her mother before. My 7 year DS loves the theme tune which I'm sure is due to the fact that I tweaked his routine as a baby so it was either bath time or a feed during the archers.

a here. But like many I lapsed and rediscovered it in my 20s as a link to 'home' when I lived abroad. Not having to miss the omnibus due to cricket was great when I returned to Blighty!