Barwick Green
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title:
Barwick Green
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"Barwick Green" is the theme music to the long-running BBC Radio 4 soap opera The Archers. A "maypole dance" from the suite My Native Heath written in 1924 by the Yorkshire composer Arthur Wood, it is named after Barwick-in-Elmet in Yorkshire's West Riding. The recording used between 1950 and the 1990s was played by Sidney Torch and his orchestra. Sidney Torch recorded a commercial version of "Barwick Green" in the 1950s, but it was not used on The Archers itself. The familiar opening 7 notes ar
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Theme music to the BBC Radio 4 soap opera The Archers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barwick_Green
date created:
2004-10-30T21:59:23Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T10:55:30Z
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