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
Scott Mills (radio show) BBC had shown it had been downloaded 330,471 times; during a week in December 2006, "The Sun" reported that "Scott Mills Daily" had been downloaded 535,051 times. In October 2014, the BBC announced that The Scott Mills Daily has been downloaded 53.4 million times in the UK since it launched in 2006. It is the third most popular BBC podcast after Radio 4's "Friday Night Comedy" and "The Archers". Scott Mills (radio show) Scott Mills is a Sony Radio Academy Award-winning radio show, broadcast Monday - Thursday afternoons on BBC Radio 1 from 1–4 pm. On Fridays, Mills hosts "The