Keri Davies

Celebrity listeners contributing to this series of Archers-inspired talks included author Ian Rankin, broadcaster Nicholas Parsons and playwright Mark Ravenhill.

Until 2003, he devised and co-presented live shows which took The Archers to theatres and public events around the country, and even on cruise liners in the Mediterranean and the Baltic.

Keri Davies is the author of The Archers Year of Food and Farming, to be published by Seven Dials (an imprint of Orion) on 26 September 2019.

In 1996 he wrote A Pint of Shires, the lead single from the album The World of Eddie Grundy by Trevor Harrison (Demon Records).

Before he joined the BBC, he worked in banking, was a commissioned officer in the Royal Air Force, active in public relations in London, advertising in Derby and was a media and presentation trainer in Sheffield.

He lives in Birmingham (the home of The Archers) and drives a Mazda Bongo camper van – appropriately named, as he is also a drummer and percussionist.