# Trouble in Ambridge: Optical illusions and hypostesized narratives

Canonical page: https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2006-10-27-trouble-in-ambridge-optical-illusion-and-hypostesized-narratives

The piece compares engagement with The Archers to an optical illusion in which listeners switch between an imagined world and awareness of its construction.

Blog post · Hermeneutic Heretic · 27 October 2006

## Where it lives

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## About this item

- Type: Blog post
- Published: 27 October 2006
- Published in: Hermeneutic Heretic
- Language: English

Topics: narrative, radio, cognition, popular-culture.

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