article_snippet: The Radio 4 drama's village of Ambridge, based in the fictional West Midlands county of Borsetshire, was flooded in the latest sensational storyline.
article_snippet: One fan wrote: 'It would 'help' me to feel I was regarded as an adult who knows this is all fantasy, that the residents of Ambridge do not exist, that the residents of Ambridge are not actually glugging about in the Am's excess water, rather than be told at the end of the episode that tweets and blogs about the flood from Ambridge residents can be read/heard. '
article_snippet: Cannot stand this cross over between fiction and reality, the fiction should be strong enough to stand in the fiction own right and not need these add-on insults to intelligence.'
article_snippet: Another wrote: 'A friend of mine, a loyal and forgiving listener, told me that when she saw on the Archers Home Page a 'weather forecast' for Ambridge that looks exactly like the real ones that appear on the BBC news pages, she felt really cross, felt that she intelligence was being insulted. '
article_snippet: she loves The programme but knows The programme not real life and is angry that the programme makers think she is stupid enough to want this sort of nonsense.'
article_snippet: ’s events as if us and too were residents of Ambridge.'
highlights_snippet: 'insulted Fans intelligence'
  Others said their intelligence'
  Others know show is fantasy and do not want 'this nonsense'
  Floods in Ambridge village echoed those on the Somerset Levels last year .
  