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Jan Holden: The doyenne at 1000
In addition to the traditional dinner party or water cooler, the Archers message board offers the chance for listeners all over the world to talk with like-minded souls about the serious and not-so-serious goings in their favourite serial.
Contributor Jan Holden of Clitheroe, Lancs, was the first to post 1000 messages to the board.
(picture: Bill Holden)
Jan's been listening for more than 13 years, but it was only in February 2001 that she discovered this website and the message board.
'It was around the time that Kate was being very annoying.' remembers Jan. I used to rant and rave in the kitchen about her. For a while, I just read the board. There was someone posting [writing messages] at that time who was very dogmatic and irritating, and I got very agitated about it, so I started to post myself.'
Jan with her children Jessica, Fran, Joe and Sam.
Jan very quickly got to know the other regular contributors to the board: 'There's a lot of humour, which I love, and some contributions are really clever. We've had The Archers as Greek tragedy from Nia Nye, who's a patent laywer. And someone called Leoni Burke starts off wonderful fantasy storylines.
'You gradually get to learn things about the other users. We all seem to have read the same books. But because you don't see people, you don't pre-judge them.'
Jan has revealed a little about herself over the course of her 1000 messages, including the lack of spatial skill exhibited by her husband ('the Rhinocerous'), and her own considerable height, which has led to her being dubbed 'the 12 foot Lancastrian doyenne' (a slight exaggeration, she insists).
'There's such a wide range of people, from a sixth form student to a Scottish minister living in Germany. But we've all got The Archers in common. It's a real community.'
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