Possible Clues:

• It's often made of yew or pine wood? Not entirely
• Wish to bend arm
• Stringed weapon
• Strongly desire to surrender weapon
• Archer has this desire to show reverence
• Depressed over broadcast from European island - the first one picked up by one of The Archers
• Look now round GB for archer?
• Weapon shooting arrows
• Pine front for yew weapon?
• Arguably the defining weapon in the English wins at Crecy, Poitiers and Agincourt