Bayboy1 the Archers is recorded in a studio at the Mailbox in Birmingham. And a few years ago at BBC Pebble Mill, Birmingham. The pub is The Bull, Eddie Grundy and co used to mention the Flying Horse, but that got pulled down.
they do try to keep up with the times and there's a story running at the moment about E Coli in ice cream. They ran a story a few years back about David Archer shooting a badger, because of recurring TB in his dairy herd - I think with a prospective badger cull on the way this story might rear it's head again - or something along those lines