As Britons return to work after the New Year, millions are discussing, debating - even mourning - the death of a well-loved character on a long-running soap opera.
That's not unusual - except that the show, "The Archers," has for six decades focused on mostly uneventful lives in an English farming community. Its plots often center on tractor parts, crop rotation and hay thefts. And it's on the radio. ...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/04/AR2011010401571.htmlI was irked that they got rid of a nice character when there were a bunch of others I'd have hunted down myself.
I'm just surprised that all this has reached the Washington Post.
