MERL 35/2743 Published 17 April, 2012 at 1772 × 1072 in Sense of Place hits the airwaves ← Previous Live TV broadcast from MERL, May 1954 The museum’s first Keeper John Higgs being interviewed by Godfrey Baseley, the BBC producer who founded The Archers, during a live television broadcast from the Museum of English Rural Life on 10 May 1954. MERL 35/2743