For our first ever zoom Saturday Omnibus looking back over the 6 productive years of academic archers we had two absolute masterclasses in the theory and practice of Ambridgology.
Dr Freya Jarman, a reader in Music at the University of Liverpool and her PhD student Emily Baker exploded into our world the following year, at the Lincoln conference, although we had loved them since their brilliant abstract came in. Lincoln was the first time we had had tried the blended peer review scheme with double blind anonymised peer review processes from listeners as well as the programming committee. This was a rather fun innovation which I manage.
This paper which pays close attention to the 4 pieces of music playing in the background of the infamous night that Helen snapped and stabbed her gaslighting husband Rob Tichenor. shows some of the multi layering in the production of TA. Emily did extensive research with the writer Tim Stimson in order to obtain insights into the creative process.
These were;
• The Eagles, Lying Eyes
• Corrine Bailey Rae, Is this love?
• Amy Winehouse, You know I’m no Good
• Aimee Mann, Wise Up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=27s&v=i36ielCL-Xc
The paper was awarded the inaugural award for audience participation as it was Dr Jarman who began our relationship with dumteedum through the singing of the theme tune into speakpipe on the day. It was Dr Peter Matthews who introduced Cara and Nicola on twitter as we fulminated about community consultation over Route B. His paper on Lynda Snell at the first Academic Archers conference at the University of Liverpool in London in Finsbury Square led to many reappraisals of the role of La Snell in the village. Peter’s lovely mum is an academic archer and came to our speaking event at Ilkley Literature Festival last year. Peter’s Lynda Paper is in the first book of conference proceedings The Archers in Fact and Fiction: Academic Analyses of Life in Rural Borsetshire, which was published by Peter Lang in 2016. We didn’t have prizes the first year as like with so many of things that have become the way we do things we just added in new things as we went along.