A story about The Archers & Twitter
Bletchley Park trustee, and influential tech tweeter; Dr Sue Black wanted to play The Archers theme at a friends funeral...
- She was led to believe it wasn't possible
@jtwentyman she loved the Archers, we wanted it to sound as we heard her in the kitchen listening to it, I dont get why thats not acceptable- Mark Cotton explained how The Archers theme is an original piece but derived from two parts of the well known song; Barwick Green so not available.
@Dr_Black @Born2BeMild Archers start/end themes are made up of 2 unconnected sections of Barwick Green unfortunately so it's not the same.- Sue continued to be frustrated.
- @Moonfreak doesnt make sense to me at all. Hazel's poor daughters have chosen something, its on @bbcradio4 every day, but we cant play it :(
- Twitter users started to suggest that she should get in touch with the BBC.
- @Dr_Black it would be wonderful is @BBCRadio4 would give us permission to play the current Archers Theme at the funeral tmw.
- @mcfontaine @BBCRadio4 Would that actually work? Could R4 give us permission and then Wesley Music would play it?
- Other users suggested tweeting Radio 4 and The Archers.
Perhaps @BBCTheArchers can help you get permission to play the Archers Theme at the funeral ? @mcfontaine: @Dr_Black -sorry for your loss.- Sue and a Twitter friend; Lee Cox joined in.
- @BBCTheArchers Hiya, Can you please give us permission to play your theme tune at my best friends funeral tomorrow? Wesley Music will....
Dear @BBCRadio4, a friend of @dr_black's has passed away, her family wish to play the archers theme at her funeral - they're being told no?
Dear @BBCRadio4 and #BBCPM Can you find a way to help @Dr_Black play @BBCTheArchers theme at a beloved friend's funeral?- The Archers team got in touch.
- I just had a very nice call from @bbctheArchers who are emailing me something :)) Wesley Music u should be ashamed of urselves!
- The Archers office shared some details with Sue.
- @BBCTheArchers thx so much :)) ive just spoken to Sally in ur office who has emailed me.
- “@stray_and_ruby: @Dr_Black I just spoke to company who own the master rights and it's fine with them. Wanna chat on Facebook? @mcfontaine
- And permission was secured.
