Category: Radio; Radio 4
Date: 29.06.2006
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Fans of The Archers listened to the show via the Internet a record 750,000 times last month.
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The Â鶹Éç Radio 4 soap regularly tops the Â鶹Éç's online radio chart, but the 756,730 listens in May 2006 is the highest ever for a Â鶹Éç programme.
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The record was set by people catching up on missed episodes at bbc.co.uk, where they can hear programmes on demand for a week after broadcast.
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The goings on in Ambridge during the month included Alistair finally admitting to his wife that he owed £100,000 in gambling debts to the ruthless Matt Crawford; an accident with baby George leading to Ed Grundy's mysterious disappearance; and Brain Aldridge, Ambridge's richest farmer, causing turmoil amongst his family as he toyed with the futures of his step-children.
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The Archers contributed to a monthly total of nearly three million hours of Radio 4 listened to online, and 1.7 million unique user agents visiting their website.
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bbc.co.uk/radio2 also attracted 1.7 million visitors over the course of the month - beating its previous unique user record - helped by on demand video clips of Eurovision entries which clocked up more than 700,000 requests.
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Digital-only network 1Xtra also experienced a big hike in users in May, thanks in part to the signed football boots of Steven Gerrard and Ashley Cole which daytime DJ Rampage offered as a competition prize.
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