HARRUMBLE!
OHMIGAWD!
(No spoilers for the omnibussers....!)
When the light at the end of the tunnel is in fact an oncoming train 😂😂😂😂
Has the Archers jumped the shark?
Elizabeth just tell him to do one
Throw him off the roof.
(Too soon?)
Russ is going to be caught in flagrante with Elizabeth.
Inevitable.
Flash yes seems inevitable he will hit on Elizabeth or it will be some bedroom farce with wrong bedroom at night after trying to find the bathroom #livinginastatelyhomeproblems
Nah, he'll just bottle it and stay with his wife.
Freddy on the other hand, pretty posh boy in Felpersham nick? Not looking good, is it?
Russ is getting ever more vile.
Is he under investigation for something worse than boffing Lilly just after her 18th?
Nasty piece of work.
I didn't like the thing with the posh, multi-temperature Italian kettle the other day. It was very STW. Is he on here?
😂
What do people think about the Welsh builder Phil ?
Does anyone think its lost its way a bit? I'm struggling to remember anything significant happening in the last few months bar the drugs and the teacher thing.
Flower and Produce not enough drama for you?
Isn't that supposed to be the beauty of the Archers, that it has the ability to just thrumble* along, as opposed to the constant need for plot a la the TV soaps?
*Happily coincidentally both the noise of a tractor's wheels along a badly maintained country road, and the noise middle aged Gammon's make when the story line involves Pip or Lilly....
Does anyone think its lost its way a bit? I’m struggling to remember anything significant happening in the last few months bar the drugs and the teacher thing.
What!!! Have you missed Jennifer's slow meltdown over the sale/non-sale of the Home Farm house. Or the glorious moment when Kate realised that she has, potentially, made herself homeless and is condemned to live in a yurt. Or the rumbling quasi-romance between Tom and the organic juice woman. Or the curious Pip / Toby / Rex triangle. Or the fact that Shula has clearly gone a little doolally. Or... I mean, waddya want, the return of Rob Titchener maybe. Or Tony being gored by a bull again? Hmmm...
I listen to the omnibus version on Sundays and recently I'm conscious of it just washing over me and nothing is really grabbing my attention! The Rob thing was good but it dragged on a little bit too long for me.
Do you think he'll come back? Matt returning for a while was good as well 🙂
The Archers spent most of the 1980's in the doldrums.
You have to take the long view 🙂
I listen to the omnibus version on Sundays and recently I’m conscious of it just washing over me and nothing is really grabbing my attention! The Rob thing was good but it dragged on a little bit too long for me.
Do you think he’ll come back? Matt returning for a while was good as well
Have you considered Hollyoaks as an alternative? I gather it's an everyday tale of serial-killing folk.
I gather it’s an everyday tale of serial-killing folk.
As opposed to an everyday tale of cereal killing folk.
I'll get my own coat, thanks.
Lung disease coming Jazzer’s way?? 🙁
I am a bit concerned about Freddy's mental health either we're looking at going down the bipolar root or straight depression. ... I do hope they're not looking to use him as a vehicle to highlight the tragic incidences of young male suicide.
Let's hope my fears are unfounded.
Snitches get stitches
WTF is Hannah all about?
Russ = Rob Mk2
Discuss.
(However, my money is on Kenton hoofing him in the slats at the Brookfield Christmas dinner table...)
I thought the breathing technique thing was a bit suspect.
WTF is Hannah all about?
There's no such thing as a free lunch pudding.
Russ = Rob Mk2
nah, too soon and too repetitive. He'll go back to his wife and teaching I reckon, leaving Lilly bereft
I thought the breathing technique thing was a bit suspect.
That was Lee, wasn't it?
Helen the Angel of Death has turned her eyes on the Karate teacher, poor sod how will he meet his maker?
Lexi is upduffed. It's not Ian and Adam's, is it?
Hmmmm.
Who else?
Roy's not going to take this very well.......
Toby calling Jill a cougar, nearly crashed the car 😂😂
Nearly a stabby dinner!
Hell-in and Lucky Lee?
I'll give him six months before he's dead, mad or married.
Rip Joe Grundy. Aged 86.
It's funny but as I've grown up with the archers I actually do see them as real people rather than actors so no idea who that baron is but sad that he has also passed.
So it's all gone wrong for Tom and Natasha.
What a surprise.
It’s all gone a bit East Enders, but haven’t heard much in the last few months.
So what's Jim all wound up about? I reckon Alistair is Harold's love child!
Jim is not Al's father. Of that much I am sure.
I reckon Alistair is Harold’s love child!
Hmmm. Jim, nutty, obsessive, cantankerous but interesting. Harold, talented party-leading entertainer. Alastair, boring, whining, self-obsessed dullard. I think Alastair is Shula's love-child.
Well that was well acted and heart-breaking.
Not heard past Wednesday but going on that i recon Jim was abused as a child.
Agree Sandwich, a lifetime of sadness and tension. Jazza on a mission now!?!! Is it going to be one in the eye for Harold?
Oof.
Well, that was good.
Bunting fanatic with a time machine? Too obvious?
Just caught up with the last month's misery.
At least the scriptwriters are consistent - need a bit of excitement? Ruin things for the Grundys.
Mind you, the episode with the shotgun was brilliantly done.
Will's finally lost it hasn't he?
The most horrible man in Ambridge, but so well acted.
Bye Joe, you old rascal.
Catching up.
Eddie and Joe.
Bit dusty in here........genuinely got to me.
Sad dat. have been wondering when he would go in Ambridgeworld. It must have been really moving and tough for the actors to do that scene after losing their friend in real life.
Eddie and Joe.
Bit dusty in here……..genuinely got to me.
Indeed. Great piece of radio.
Yes I have to admit Eddie’s farewell to his dad was as moving a piece of radio as I’ve heard in a long time. I suspect there was genuine emotion there as well as good acting.
So, is it bye bye Linda, do we think? It certainly sounds like Gavin's stint in Ambridge is likely to be short.
Predictions?
Na, Lynda's a major character and someone needs to look after the llamas - I reckon she'll be revived by the paramedics then spend some time recovering, but mostly be okay.
Gavin, on the other hand, is expendable and toast. Cue Philip and Kirsty beating themselves up about going away for the weekend.
Ambridge is short on disabled characters so my prediction is that Linda will become a quadriplegic surviver and as part of his rehabilitation process Freddie will offer a couple of limbs for transplant. In his PTSD Oliver starts molesting Tracy calling her Caroline.
Never mind about Gav and Lynda . . . . if this thread doesn't bring Flashy back to the forum, we'd better send out a search party!
Looks like Gavin has dodged the bullet then. Blake? Who's Blake?
Dunno, but I know how old he is.
Looks like Gavin has dodged the bullet then. Blake? Who’s Blake?
He'll be some off-the-books incompetent with a bad chain-smoking habit who Gav sub-contracted the job to so he could spend his weekend moping around with a hangover feeling sorry for himself. Blake will have caused the explosion by hacking through the gas main with a lit fag hanging out of the corner of his mouth. Blake will have been unsupervised and probably invalidated Philip Moss's liability insurance.
I think Gavin is in all sorts of trouble even if he hasn't been blown up 🙂
Never mind about Gav and Lynda . . . . if this thread doesn’t bring Flashy back to the forum, we’d better send out a search party!
He's appeared on the Basingstoke thread.
He’s appeared on the Basingstoke thread.
Flash posting on a Basingstoke thread?
Wasn't that one of the 'Help, I've been kidnapped!' triggers he'd specified?
Back on topic: How long until someone gives Robert a slap and tells him to get a grip?
Freddie to get back on the hard stuff because of his PTSD
Gav to be exiled over the bridge, hope Lynda makes a full recovery
Ffs, come on Lyndy....
Notice no one has mentioned Kathy?
You know, the hotel manager?
Edgeley Exciter, eh?
😀
Eh?
Philip, wt actual f?
Slavery?!?!?
Poor ole' Cursedy. Yet again she gets the fuzzy end of the lollipop.
Well Mr Moss is a bit of a cad, poor Kirsty
I didn't see that one coming... Likeable character to arch-baddy in the space of three lines! 😮
Yes, Kirsty is in for a bit of a surprise. Will it be pre or post wedding do you reckon?
Wondered why he called his workers “ horses” apparently it’s a modern slavery term for people forced to work.
Everyday is a school day
Is it anti Welsh 😂
Well will he get found out before or after the wedding?
He's got everyone fooled!
Kirsty is going to be wrecked.
He’s got everyone fooled!
Kirsty is going to be wrecked.
He's got the gas lit like Titchner...
Will we get to the end of this story before the end of 'normal' broadcasts?
Who knows Flashy, who knows.....
Can anyone remember who actually left the gas on?
I seem to remember an employee saying something about making bacon butties on the morning of the explosion, but I can't remember who.
Freddy, Tracy, Roy?
Anyone shed some light?
Thought the gas was Blake because he hadn't been fed by gav.
There was definitely a bacon reference from a staff member. I remember those important details.
Please don't make me have to trawl through mumsnet.
So have they ran out of episodes then?
How are they going to restart this when things get back to normal?
Will there be no mention of Cvd 19? Will Ambridge be in an Alternative Universe where it never happened?
Will they start again from April with everyone in lockdown and play catch up?
Will there be a Bobby Ewing moment to reset?
Not sure I am that impressed with the “monologues” but I do like Tracy becoming a bigger character, I am prepared for some truly daft storylines involving her.
The monologues just don't work for me, i find it difficult to keep listening to it. I'm amazed with todays technology that they have to do something like that.
As an aside what happened to Matt Crawford?
He is on the run from Harrison, a fugitive if I remember correctly
I thought he died in the hit and run?
Dodgy memory......
I quite like the monologues, the Tracy Horrorbag one was hilarious, such a great character.
Friction Burns has turned out to be a bit wet hasn't he?