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
White (BBC series) changing' in many different languages. In an interview the BBC 2 controller Roly Keating responded: "I absolutely refute that it is at all racist. It's clearly arresting. It denotes to audiences that they will find certain elements of this season challenging. Part of the point of the BBC is to stimulate public debate." The series also gained criticism for the portrayal it gave to white working class Britons. Sarah Mukherjee, an environment correspondent at the BBC, argued that the series reinforced stereotypes that the white working class were violent, racist and lived on benefits. The BBC’s commissioning editor, Richard Klein,