The Archers Rich (piano) and Norman Parker (percussion). Robert Robinson once compared the tune to "the genteel abandon of a lifelong teetotaller who has suddenly taken to drink". On April Fool's Day 2004 both "The Independent" and "The Today Programme" claimed that BBC executives had commissioned composer Brian Eno to record an electronic version of "Barwick Green" as a replacement for the current theme, while comedian Billy Connolly included in his act the joke that the theme was so typically British that it should be the national anthem of the United Kingdom. In 2009, comedian Rainer Hersch conducted the Philharmonia Orchestra in
The Change (radio show) The Change (radio show) The Change was a short-lived British radio Sitcom that originally aired from November 2001 - November 2004 on BBC Radio 4. Written by Jan Etherington and Gavin Petrie it was a "Sitcom about a troubled hormonal wife and a transvestite husband". The story follows motor mechanic, George (Christopher Ellison), who announces he is a transvestite to his wife Carol (Lynda Bellingham), who is undergoing "the change". George's mother Violet (Sylvia Syms) has known about his "dressing-up" since his childhood and sees nothing wrong in it. Other parts were played by Maureen Beattie, Mark Powley, Kevin Bishop,