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Meet Mayqueen
13 Oct 2001
In February 2001, an Archers listener living in Liverpool used this website to check a detail on the Archers family tree. Little did she think that a few months later she would have a whole gang of new friends, and that she would have sent over 1000 communications to them.
Clicking around the site, she followed a link to the Archers message board. At the time some people were posting messages suggesting that The Archers should feature the forthcoming Countryside March, one of whose objects was to save hunting with dogs.
[We were planning to, until it was cancelled due to foot and mouth, but that’s another story ].
"That was me straight in", smiled Mayqueen, as she is known on the message board. Working at a radical and community bookshop, and as a volunteer at a wildlife rescue centre (right), Mayqueen was hardly sympathetic to the aims of the Countryside Alliance.
A vigorous debate of the hunting issue widened into more general discussions of The Archers and this month, Mayqueen posted her 1000th messsage.
"In April, my dog Sally had to be put down, and I didn’t feel like going out much. People on the message board were so supportive, and that’s when I got really hooked."
Asked to sum up the appeal of the board, Mayqueen singles out the humour: "It’s entertaining to talk to witty people about something we all know about. I’m in hysterics sometimes at what people say".
Mayqueen has listened to The Archers since her childhood in Cirencester. Her partner Richard (a Scot, whom she met at Glasgow University) used to be disparaging about the programme, but over time he seems to have also become hooked on events in Ambridge.
And what about the time she spends talking with her friends on-line? "Oh, he’s addicted to another message board, so the only argument is who gets to use the computer!"
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