The one that gets me is Jezzer.
The one that gets me is Jezzer.
What on earth is his accent supposed to be? It's even more inconsistent than Russell Crowe's Robin Hood. I was surprised to discover that the actor who plays him is genuinely Scottish.
d.
To me it's always sounded quite consistent, just bloody strange. I too am amazed if the actor speaks like that normally.The one that gets me is Jezzer.
What on earth is his accent supposed to be? It's even more inconsistent than Russell Crowe's Robin Hood. I was surprised to discover that the actor who plays him is genuinely Scottish.
Oh and another thing: Matt sounds so much younger than Marion.Lillian was born 8th July 1947. Matt's exact age doesn't seem to have been made public.
To me it's always sounded quite consistent, just bloody strange.
I missed it. Was it a 'drive by' shooting?
The one that gets me is Jezzer.
Re- Wowbagger's hidden comment re- closing music. Didn't there used to be the 'Doom' version of the signature tune, saved for momentous closing events or cliffhangers? I specifically remember it following a strangled 'Arrgh' from Tom Forrrest when he was attacked by what was supposed to be the Ambridge hob-hound, which which turned out, several episodes later, to be nothing more than a lynx. Unless I've completely got it wrong it consisted of a few bars of dramatic chords before giving segue-ing into the usual bouncy tumty-tum-ti-tum-tu-tum...
The Editor is Vanessa Whitburn. Can you see why she's called The Beetle?
How does Mrs Antrobus come into it? ???
The Editor is Vanessa Whitburn. Can you see why she's called The Beetle?
No. I'm turning over the words dung, stag, Colorado, scarab and antrobus in my mind but none of them seem to fit.
The Editor is Vanessa Whitburn. Can you see why she's called The Beetle?
No. I'm turning over the words dung, stag, Colorado, scarab and antrobus in my mind but none of them seem to fit.
I think, initially, you should look again.
Because she's been dead for a couple of years. They turned her off after the actress who played her died.How does Mrs Antrobus come into it? ???
I'd forgotten about her. Didn't she get packed off to the Laurels, ie where Jack Woolley is now? How come Peggy hasn't mentioned seeing her there?
d.
Because she's been dead for a couple of years. They turned her off after the actress who played her died.
Who's Marion? Do you mean Lillian?
...it consisted of a few bars of dramatic chords before giving segue-ing into the usual bouncy tumty-tum-ti-tum-tu-tum...
Yes, Tony's going to have a full on break down.
The depression is being subtly ramped up over the last two days, culminating with Tom(?) discovering him in a state of confusion trying to fix the yard tractor at silly o'clock on new years eve.
Either that or they'll in for the Tony Hancock version.
... Helen will choke ...If only! Taken over from Linda Snell as most annoying character.
I suppose there were a few clues that it was going to be something involving Nigel, he says with the benefit of hindsight.
Once they went up on the roof, there was only going to be one outcome.
d.
Mind you, if David has to stay up there until tomorrow evening's episode he could easily die of hypothermia.
I'm not an expert in this field, but helpfully the R4 News kept me posted after the show:I suppose there were a few clues that it was going to be something involving Nigel, he says with the benefit of hindsight.
Once they went up on the roof, there was only going to be one outcome.
d.
I thought they both might have come tumbling down.
Mind you, if David has to stay up there until tomorrow evening's episode he could easily die of hypothermia.
I'm inclining towards the wheelchair outcome. People can survive some quite big falls. Of course his chances are better than if he'd fallen off the roof of Higher Loxley...
Mind you, if David has to stay up there until tomorrow evening's episode he could easily die of hypothermia.
David nearly died of hypothermia before, when he got squashed by a cow in a ditch, again at New Year. Phil had to drag him out.
It was discussed on PM (R4) today that Nigel's status, between yesterday's episode and today's, was analogous to that of Schrödinger's cat. ;D
Yes, lovely, isn't it?It was discussed on PM (R4) today that Nigel's status, between yesterday's episode and today's, was analogous to that of Schrödinger's cat. ;D
I love Radio 4. ;D
Oh dear.
The Archers fans are in uproar. Vanessa Redburn let slip that there was to be a 'funeral' in a forthcoming episode.
No more Nigel*... :'( :'(
*Unless there is a hasty rewrite to cover up the slip.
Oh dear.
The Archers fans are in uproar. Vanessa Redburn let slip that there was to be a 'funeral' in a forthcoming episode.
No more Nigel*... :'( :'(
*Unless there is a hasty rewrite to cover up the slip.
Too late for a rewrite - he was dead by last night.
Apparently VW said on PM a 'birth and a death' was 'iconic'. When the interviewer sugested that she had given the game away she replied that she had said a 'birth and a potential death'. Very unconvincing.
Dez was telling me that the old Nigel and the new one were the same person, with someone else having a brief spell in between.
Someone has worked out, using the length of the fall scream, that Lower Loxley Hall, or what ever the building that NP fell from, is 20 stories high!
No doubt that the inside is actually used as a multi storey car park for all the Land/Range Rovers that the farm has. ::-) :P
Someone has worked out, using the length of the fall scream, that Lower Loxley Hall, or what ever the building that NP fell from, is 20 stories high!
No doubt that the inside is actually used as a multi storey car park for all the Land/Range Rovers that the farm has. ::-) :P
Yes, I heard that on R4 just now too.
I had wondered about the length of the scream myself.
Someone has worked out, using the length of the fall scream, that Lower Loxley Hall, or what ever the building that NP fell from, is 20 stories high!
No doubt that the inside is actually used as a multi storey car park for all the Land/Range Rovers that the farm has. ::-) :P
Yes, I heard that on R4 just now too.
I had wondered about the length of the scream myself.
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How nauseating. Will David Archer push her off the roof?
For someone living out in the Styx, the ambulance didn't half get there quickly.
Ha, funny you should bring this up, because I was just reading the #thearchers feed on Twitter and laughing - it's amazing the different perceptions of one story. I'm fed up listening to Tony's sighing and whinging and would gladly have seen the back of him - but there's loads of people who hate Tom and feel sorry for his put-upon Dad.
For someone living out in the Styx, the ambulance didn't half get there quickly.
Both Josh and George - next generation of Ambridge residents roasted to a crisp?
Not true. Linda Snell and Nigel Pargiter both utility cyclists.
You're forgetting that before Caroline Bone settled down with Oliver Sterling she was considered the village bike.
Isn't Harry the Saintly Milkman a cyclist? Before he moved in with Jazzer, he used to cycle over to Ambridge from Borchester to do his milk round.True. He had pictures of lycra clad men on his bedroom wall. Except he's now left. Fallon had the hots for him big time and they went off on holibobs (with Jazzer and Kirsty) to see the Edinburgh fringe. But Fallon's van broke down near and old (male) college friend of Harry's. And Harry suddenly remembered he was gay and got together with his old college friend.
Harry suddenly remembered he was gay
WTAF???
WTAF???
Yes, I believe they did.
It seems the producers are not wanting to keep people who have grown into the cast list because they played a tiny child and then grew up with the role.
Anyway, minutes after, "Tom" made a dramatic re-entrance. Bit of a coincidence!
So, new actor
Completely different voice.
Same thing happened to Pip, went to Uni, came back sounding 10 years older and 10 times posher.
So … an excuse for an Editorial cull. Who will go!
I see that YACF, not having added to this thread for a year, is clearly missing out. What we urgently need to discuss is...
Rob Titchener.
The last time I listened to The Archers it was Panto time again 8)
Very difficult listening, and (in my opinion) not the best way to wrap up what's generally been a delicately handled storyline. To be honest I expected better.Yebbut - the continuation will be the arrest, the trial, and how the defence plays out.
Because we are an upper middle class farming community and we don't do that sort of thing!
I can forgive the posho.Because we are an upper middle class farming community and we don't do that sort of thing!
Deavid Archer is a serial killer though. Jethro and Nigel for starters. Actually just Jethro and Nigel.
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Did you really expect him to be dead - that was too much to hope for.
Watch out for the Daily Mail starting a campaign to release/forgive "the Ambridge one" when/if Helen gets banged up.
Rob
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Did you really expect him to be dead - that was too much to hope for.
Watch out for the Daily Mail starting a campaign to release/forgive "the Ambridge one" when/if Helen gets banged up.
Rob
There was just such a campaign, plus questions in The House by Michael Howard when Susan "Jailbird" Carter got sent down for harbouring a fugitive.
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Did you really expect him to be dead - that was too much to hope for.
Watch out for the Daily Mail starting a campaign to release/forgive "the Ambridge one" when/if Helen gets banged up.
Rob
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Did you really expect him to be dead - that was too much to hope for.
Watch out for the Daily Mail starting a campaign to release/forgive "the Ambridge one" when/if Helen gets banged up.
Rob
Because we are an upper middle class farming community and we don't do that sort of thing!
Deavid Archer is a serial killer though. Jethro and Nigel for starters. Actually just Jethro and Nigel.
From Wikipedia:
'Jethro Larkin (George Hart), Stereotypical yokel. His tenure came to end in 1987 when helping David fell a tree using a chainsaw'.
(And an excellent summary of his character there :-) )
Minor request: can we please use spoiler tags at least for anything which hasn't been broadcast in the omnibus yet?
"The Now Show" was one.
I'm not convinced we've heard the full Rob/Henry story yet.
Just listened to the download of the Omnibus followed immediately by the hour-long trial - great stuff, even if predictable as an outcome ....... but there's more to come with the aftermath - what will happen between Helen & Rob?Was the outcome as predictable as the trial in Poldark this week?
Rob
I thought the same. I don't think a second listen will help.
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Watch out Henry...bad things are going to happen. It's not over yet. Nor likely to be for ages as it will be very hard to revert to old Archers after this.
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I heard somewhere in all the Archer related stuff that the editor (producer, writer ??) had done jury service a couple of times and used that experience to inform the hour long episode.
I'm still waiting to be called for jury service. Is there a point where age excuses you ?
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Ah, that's OK then. I listened to the hour long episode on iPlayer which kept stopping. When they suddenly jumped to the jury returning their verdict I thought I'd missed a bit and was going to listen again to check.
The trial itself was just brilliant, the acting and story line were both superb. I didn't think the jury room episode was as good. Are jury deliberations really like that? I suppose they could be if you got the right mix of characters.
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Ah Stefan. I was expecting him to turn up before/during the trial. It's difficult to imagine what could be gained 'just' by Rob's reputation being brought down any lower by any revelations from Stefan, so what are the chances of Rob trying to do away with him instead?I expect Evil Rob to get nasty (even if not lethal) with Stefan and thence get his collar felt by the local plod. At which point Charlie Thomas wades in.....
Gosh, it seems I've missed alot!
Gosh, it seems I've missed alot!
Or not, as the case may be!
I find reading the Archers summary on YACF saves a lot of time and effort.
Stefan was an East European worker on the mega-farm, he witnessed Evil-Rob blocking the storm drain which exacerbated the effects of the flood. Evil-Rob paid him to disappear back home before he could shop Rob. (?ISTR that Stefan was gay and had a dalliance with ?Adam?)
Charlie Thomas was manager of the mega-dairy and found out that Evil-Rob was cooking the books - Rob got him out.
Someone will be along in a moment to correct my errors/ fill in the gaps.
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Pawel, was it not?Quite right you are
My prediction is that evil Rob will do away with himself and the two children.Hopefully not. Don't forget Helen's previous partner, Greg, also killed himself.
so what are the chances of Rob trying to do away with [Stefan] instead?
So did Justin get wind of Stefan being back in Ambridge from Fag Ash Lil almost bumping into him when he was trying to shake Rob down? I thought Lilian said she didn't hear anything, but presumably she did and tipped Justin off out of our earshot. Or did I miss a bit?so what are the chances of Rob trying to do away with [Stefan] instead?
After Friday's events, quite high, I'd say.
On the one hand it mustn't go all Eastenders, but on the other we can't have another long slow burn.
I still reckon we're on for a cataclysmic end of Rob and the two boys.
Tom will rush in, save the day, rescue The Boys and drown Rob in a slurry pit. Kirsty will see him in a different light and, in a mess of pregnant hormones, pledge her undying wossname. Meanwhile Justin will be exposed for the evil landlord he is, following a chance remark by Miranda. Adam, full of rage, confronts him and he scuttles off, but not before he's reinstated Charlie Thomas as manager. Charlie moves in with Ian and Adam and they all live happily ever after.On the one hand it mustn't go all Eastenders, but on the other we can't have another long slow burn.
I still reckon we're on for a cataclysmic end of Rob and the two boys.
So
Kidnap, and swift recovery, Rob locked up, key lost.
Definitely not, IMO. My only question is whether Ursula is in on it or not.
I very much enjoyed the new vet giving Jazzer a run for his money though.
They'll do the nasty. It'll be signified by the usual spine-juddering post-coital Ambridge sighs.
They'll do the nasty. It'll be signified by the usual spine-juddering post-coital Ambridge sighs.
It's bad enough with Pip and Toby.
I don't always listen, so I may have missed something.
But what's this Brighton thing?
Another partner and child?
A vulnerable relative?
A vulnerable friend?
That was Pip's mum, Ruth.
She went to look at Kiwi cattle grazing/milking methods (and to get away from David for a bit)
I think Pip went somewhere a while ago though - some kind of work placement for a big multinational agri-corp?Pip was going to work for a big agri business company , which involved going to Brazil (I think) but chucked the job in at the last minute.
All was explained this evening. I believe him.I don't always listen, so I may have missed something.
But what's this Brighton thing?
Another partner and child?
A vulnerable relative?
A vulnerable friend?
He's claimed in the past that it's a vulnerable friend but I trust him as far as Jill could throw him.
What's Rob's arrangement with Henry ? Or is that yet to be revealed ?
What's Rob's arrangement with Henry ? Or is that yet to be revealed ?
Henwy left screaming in the car as the evil one snatches Jak. It's only Friday, that was surely a weekend cliffhanger. 'i am not your real daddy, I am a pretend daddy' words to chill the heart of any child actor.
That damned tree. Stunted a decent storyline there ...
Can someone update me on the Brighton thing? I missed it and won't be wading through the whole omnibus just for that.
Or at least that's what he's claiming.......Can someone update me on the Brighton thing? I missed it and won't be wading through the whole omnibus just for that.
Toby has an ex, Stella(?), in Brighton, who is a drug addict She was in hospital after an overdose last week. Toby feels some responsibility, hence the sudden departure. He came clean about it to Pippa on his return, as she tried to throw him out. She's forgiven him, for the time-being.
Can someone update me on the Brighton thing? I missed it and won't be wading through the whole omnibus just for that.
Toby has an ex, Stella(?), in Brighton, who is a drug addict She was in hospital after an overdose last week. Toby feels some responsibility, hence the sudden departure. He came clean about it to Pippa on his return, as she tried to throw him out. She's forgiven him, for the time-being.
I see that the actress playing Caroline (or as Jack Woolley would say "Carraloine") has died.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-38956870
Rob
I am given to understand that Gill Archer has been arrested for throwing flapjack, 60 years to the day since her first appearance on the programme.Jill, rather than Gill, indeed got her collar felt by PC Harrison wossname for assault, namely winging a lump of flapjack at a chef woman, famed, ironically, for her waste of food in her restaurant.
Is this true or is it trumped-up fake news?
What I want to know is this: is Harrison the only police officer in the whole of Borsetshire?
I just looked at the Archer page on the BBC site and blimey Anisha is black ! It's going to take weeks for my metal image to switch.
OMG! Noooooooo!!!1!!1!!1!
Just listened to that. It was rather sad.
Is Brian implicated?
OMG! Noooooooo!!!1!!1!!1!
Are you one of the script-writers?
OMG! Noooooooo!!!1!!1!!1!
Are you one of the script-writers?
The scripts haven't been that bad lately. I do have a problem with some of the acting though - especially the new Pip, who is extraordinarily irritating.
Script, what's this? I thought the Archers was a documentary.
...especially the new Pip...
There was a mass cull of the actors who had played the younger members of the cast since they were kids. Apparently it was because the new producer felt that the existing actors hadn't any proper training as actors they had just grown up in the role and that now Pip etc were adults / late teens they wanted proper actors. IMHO the new actors are worse than the originals, a lot of the characters suddenly developed posher accents as well.
I've just bet a pint with a bloke in the pub that Freddie won't receive a custodial sentence.
Surely the easiest pint I've ever won?
Ted Kelsey, who played Joe Grundy, has died
Peggy and Jill are probably the last of that generation left.
Bert Fry?
Him too (unless your first question was statement was about the clan, and those married into it).
Omnibus listener here,
Curious as to how they will write him out. My bet is Clarry-love calling up the stairs "Jaaaoooeee? Jaaaaoooeee? Yer breakfast is going cold. *Creak of opening door* *Gasp* OH JAAOOEEEE!"
I'm expecting a stirring, cider-pun filled, eulogy from the Prof.
Omnibus listener here,
Curious as to how they will write him out. My bet is Clarry-love calling up the stairs "Jaaaoooeee? Jaaaaoooeee? Yer breakfast is going cold. *Creak of opening door* *Gasp* OH JAAOOEEEE!"
I'm expecting a stirring, cider-pun filled, eulogy from the Prof.
I think he'll elope to New Zealand with Linda Snell.
Horrible crash when one of Josh Archer's dodgy second hand tractors suffers brake failure and mows down Joe and Bartleby. Joe bleeds out with the shaft of his trap piercing his chest whilst cradling Bartleby's head. Alistair has to shoot the mortally wounded horse at the scene. Josh does a runner to Spain, and Ruth commits suicide due to the immense disappointment over her sons actions and David starts drinking and Kenton has to take over the farm which he promptly runs into the ground.I was just working up a scenario to do with a bolting Bartleby and a ghastly collision with an escaped pig due to lack of fencing maintenance following Jazzer's horribly selfish and peevish resignation, but your version has quite taken the wind out of my sails.
Nice piece by Nancy Banks Smith
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/apr/25/nancy-banks-smith-on-the-archers-joe-grundy-farewell-from-me-and-the-ferrets
Ammost s year since that last post on this thread.Hold it right there.
But...
Ooh I say!
Almost a year since that last post on this thread.There's been some shit story lines in the past. But this surpasses them.
But...
Ooh I say!
Ooh I say!
And I don't like itOoh I say!
I've not listened for a while, but had to investigate to find out what brought this on... Yikes!(click to show/hide)
I've noticed its continued absence on both Casually an Holby I've the last few weeks, though Charlie has finally given up.Holby have given their ventilators to the NHS, so they're not very prepared for COVID patients!
And they've gone. 69 years without a break, coronavirus got them in the end.They'll be back soon...
Seems they'll be back next Monday 25th, with added pandemic.
Seems they'll be back next Monday 25th, with added pandemic.
[ruth]Ooooh noooo![/ruth]
Seems they'll be back next Monday 25th, with added pandemic.
[ruth]Ooooh noooo![/ruth]
Good opportunity to thin out the cast if the BBC are strapped for cash. Do dead Archers get redundancy payments?No, they leave broke but unbowed.
Seems they'll be back next Monday 25th, with added pandemic.That will round off the Bank Holiday nicely!
Roy did the shagging with Elizabeth.
Roy did the shagging with Elizabeth.
Ugh. What kind of perverted mind comes up with that storyline?
I recognised Jasper Carrot's voice the other day, playing the part of a resident at The Laurels. His daughter was in it a few years ago, playing city-girl-moved-to-the-country Hayley. She left after Roy did the shagging with Elizabeth.
Roy did the shagging with Elizabeth.
Ugh. What kind of perverted mind comes up with that storyline?
I recognised Jasper Carrot's voice the other day, playing the part of a resident at The Laurels. His daughter was in it a few years ago, playing city-girl-moved-to-the-country Hayley. She left after Roy did the shagging with Elizabeth.
It does seem to be ramping up a bit from a very flat patch.
George could get murdered and dumped in pig slurry.
Home Farm is heading for an industrial tribunal with Adam's neck on the block.
The bloody electric charging station will hopefully disappear up its own electrons soon.
Oliver could be on course to hiring a hit man to take out Adil (although Freddie seems to after a new career)