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Radio 4 listeners head for Ambridge-on-Line
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ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 welcomed 1.8 million visitors to its website in October, fuelled by massive
interest in whether Ruth Archer would consummate her relationship with Sam the herdsmen
in the 15,000th episode of The Archers.
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The Archers clocked up almost a million on-demand listening requests via the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio
Player during the month - topping the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ online table for a 23rd consecutive month.
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Radio 4 also led the weekly ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ podcast chart, with In Our Time usurping Chris Moyles to
become the most downloaded weekly ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ podcast.
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Melvyn Bragg's exploration of the history
of ideas was downloaded almost 600,000 times during October.
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ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio websites were visited by 8.8 million unique user agents last month - a year-on-year increase of more than a million.
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Between them, they generated a record 13 million on-demand listening requests (via the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Player) and downloaded an unprecedented
5.9 million ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ podcasts.
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Notes to Editors
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Figures for online listening in October 2006 are available in PDF format on the right hand side of this page. Ìý
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