The Archers--Mason, Edward J.

54 scripts for episodes for transmission between May 1951 and 11 January 1952 (episode numbers 101-107, 109-113, 178-183, 185-186, 191, 193-205, 208-209, 213-216, 218-223, 248-251, 253, 259-260, 264), together with 9 later scripts for transmission 31 August 1954 to 11 July 1966 (episode numbers 945, 2151, 2745-2746, 4026-4028, 4030-4031) and a "Special Stereophonic Recording" with no episode number or transmission date given, recorded 23-25 July 1964, most scripts with authorial emendations (occasionally in shorthand) and sound effects listed on the final verso; also with Mason and Webb, The Archers of Ambridge (1954), and The Archers Intervene (1956), both inscribed by Mason, and The Archers: A Play in Three Acts (1955), galley proofs and printed text, G. Baseley, The Archers: A Slice of My Life (1971), inscribed by the author, Doris Archer's Diary (1971), signed by the cast for Jeremy Whitticase (aged 3), who played the infant Adam Travers-Macey, and Meet the Archers (n.d.), spotting 

Edward J. Mason was involved in The Archers - the world's longest-running radio drama - from its inception, when Geoffrey Baseley asked him if he would write a script based on his idea of a "farming Dick Barton". Mason was not only an old friend of Baseley but also, together with his writing partner Geoffrey Webb, the writer of Dick Barton, which the new programme was introduced to replace.