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Tuesday, November 24, 1998 Published at 19:43 GMT
Entertainment
The Archers beef it up
A beef market celebrates the end of the export ban
BBC Radio 4's The Archers underwent some radical last-minute changes for Tuesday's edition caused by the lifting of the UK beef export ban.
For the second time in a week, the stars of the show had to bone up on 11th-hour topical script changes.
On Monday, The Archers wrangled over the impact of Agriculture Minister Nick Brown's £120m farm rescue package.
Tuesday had Phil Archer (Norman Painting) and his daughter Shula Hebden (Judy Bennett) going over the finer details of the European Union's decision to end the ban.
Editor Vanessa Whitburn decided to bring the programme right up to date after Monday's vote by EU ministers to allow beef exports to resume after a two-and-a-half year ban that has cost the British farming industry billions.
In this episode, Shula warned her father that Europeans were unlikely to rush back into buying British.
"There's a long way to go yet. They're not going to suddenly start buying our beef again," she says.
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