Borchester Borchester Borchester is a fictional town in the BBC Radio 4 radio series "The Archers". It is the county town of the fictional county of Borsetshire. According to series tradition it is located 6 miles north-east of Ambridge in the Am Vale and is an historic market and wool town. These typically English country-town features are complemented by more modern additions, such as Underwoods (an upmarket department store), Jaxx bar, which was previously a café both managed by Kenton Archer, and Ambridge Organics, the shop run by Helen Archer, who also makes the Borsetshire Blue cheese sold in Underwoods. As
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,