Ambridge Extra "the reserve team". The show was nicknamed "AMEX" by listeners. It was also dubbed ""Archers Lite"". The show attracted an average audience of 250,000 listeners per week, compared with the main show's five million. Ambridge Extra Ambridge Extra is an extension of the long-running radio drama "The Archers". It began broadcasting sporadically on the digital radio station BBC Radio 4 Extra from 5 April 2011. The programme ran for five series, before it was "rested". "Ambridge Extra" ran in addition to "The Archers" and gave an insight into other areas of the character's lives. Writer Tim Stimpson explained the show
BBC Home Service BBC Radio Ulster, at first relaying the majority of Radio 4 programming but later becoming completely independent. During the 1970s Radio 4 FM in the East of England (Tacolneston, Peterborough and relays) carried a breakfast magazine programme, "Roundabout East Anglia", the region lacking any BBC Local Radio. The service closed in mid 1980, ahead of the opening of BBC Radio Norfolk. The last Regional Home Service was an FM opt-out of Radio 4 for Devon and Cornwall as the "South West Region". "Morning Sou'West" was also carried on several low power medium-wave transmitters. The programme ended on 31 December 1982,