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• Josh's little empire

  Posted during the last 3 days.  Added 19/05/2013 22:51:56 by eastlake
  Fair enough, Ruth and David need a contrast to Pip's stroppiness, but is Josh old enough to enter into a business contract? If so, he might be liable for costs in the future. That'll give Pip something to smile about.

• What happened to Linda?

  Posted during the last 3 days.  Added 19/05/2013 15:43:47 by rogergreatorex
  I'm surprised Linda didn't know that ballet can trace its roots to Highland Dancing.

• Bridge Farm cows

  Posted during the last 7 days.  Added 17/05/2013 11:59:50 by HMW1911
  How will Pat feel if Brian buys her cows for his new mega diary,
  it would go against her principles.

• 8 weeks of omnibus to listen to!

  Posted during the last 7 days.  Added 17/05/2013 09:23:57 by dagi
  After, eh em, mp3 technical problems. I've started to catching up. Only 8 weeks worth of Archers to listen to, it's still early March in Ambridge!
  
  dagi

• no more preaching thanks

  Posted during the last 7 days.  Added 17/05/2013 00:38:38 by jennyf
  I have to seriously object to Clarrie co-ercing Nic into going to church. Poor Nic was obviously uncomfortable and clearly does not want to become involved but is too nice and polite to say so to Clarrie.
  
  It's like the writers or the BBC are trying to preach to the listeners and get us back in the pews. It's totally out of order.
  
  No thanks, I'm happy with my own personal beliefs and if there is any more of this blatant evangelizing I will stop listening to the Archers in protest. It's completely wrong in the context of a soap that ought to feel like it is for everyone, not preaching to the few.
  
  If I could write the next episode it would include Nic telling Clarrie that sorry, it isn't for her and she won't be going again.

• Flashbulb moments in the Archers

  Posted during the last 14 days.  Added 14/05/2013 23:50:01 by PCCMember
  Where were you when Matt discovered Lillian's affair?
  I still remember exactly where I was when I heard of Polly and the milk lorry, and again when John had his unfortunate outing with the Fergie.
  With TV soaps one is always in the same armchair but with radio soap opera you might be in the car or on a campsite etc..
  Of course wouldn't it be original if Matt didn't find out (as very often happens in real life....I've been told!), but this is soap so he will sooner or later. Please let it be sooner its getting very tiresome.
  Good for Tom. He is well rid of Brenda and I am sure will soon find a nice well educated county girl who will show genuine interest in "Ready Meals". Try to avoid Kirstie Tom, she is only feigning an interest in "R M's" in order to fill the awful Brenda's place. It would be out of the frying pan etc..
  Did UKIP get in in Ambridge? I didn't hear.
  Any flasbulb moments?

• Matt - personality transplant?

  Posted during the last 14 days.  Added 13/05/2013 14:22:01 by loakes
  OK, I get that Paul is a baddie. I can't wait for Matt to find out about Lillian's affair. I'm loving the storyline. But...have we all forgotten that part of Paul's attraction for Lillian was that Matt was such a nasty piece of work and she was so unhappy as a result? Why are we now being encouraged by the writers to sympathise with Matt? He was as crooked as a nine-bob note a year or two ago, and he as good as killed Arthur and left poor old Joyce a widow. But now he's springing surprise weekends in New York on Lillian, taking her out for dinners, and generally acting like the doting partner. I don't sympathise with him. I think Lillian should wake up to the reality of BOTH of them!

• R.I.P. Jack

  Posted during the last 14 days.  Added 13/05/2013 12:49:22 by Veronica
  Just heard the news that the actor has died. Didn't realise he actually had Alzheimer's himself. Nice that it was worked into the storyline!

• Pip...!

  Posted during the last 14 days.  Added 13/05/2013 05:12:04 by sylvia2910
  I can't believe this girl is still living with her parents and just how much they tolerate from her.. At 20 years old (in fact even now) if I had ever talked to either of my parents in that way/tone my head would have ended up spinning 180 degrees, not to mention the stars I'd be seeing.
  When David said to Ruth if we don't give her cash then she'll take her sleeping bag and move out my first, and only thought was.. BYEEE PIP, missing you already..NOT..! I mean, he said it himself, she's old enough to make her own choices...
  She's whiny, she's surly, she does nothing on the farm; just let her go..! PLEASE...!

• clarrie

  Posted during the last 14 days.  Added 12/05/2013 19:20:22 by polskimick
  i am sorry but the new clarrie sounds stupid she sound better with cockney accent than the one she trying to copy!

• well that told pip, didn't it ?

  Posted during the last 14 days.  Added 10/05/2013 19:24:15 by darlinge
  aha about to throw in a pebble between Josh & Pip. She's being silly and unreasonable and is way too old to be having these silly tantrums! Itwould seem that Pip has become a split personality since she was so earnest a year or so ago! Editors beware, she's not 15 !

• Which is the best way to get to know characters?

  Posted during the last 14 days.  Added 10/05/2013 10:42:48 by KathyinLondon
  I am new to the Archers and have started listening to the omnibus edition on my tablet. I wonder if I am best off reading the family tree whilst listening just so I know who is related to who and the various characters. I do have a work colleague who is a big Archers fan and perhaps it would be more useful to ask her? A bit of a basic question I'm afraid.
  
  Edited to add - thanks for your replies, think I may buy the book recommended and also quiz my work colleague!

• Omnibus

  Posted over 14 days ago.  Added 06/05/2013 20:18:14 by philrose
  WHERE IS THE OMNIBUS?????????????????

• Adam & Ian

  Posted over 14 days ago.  Added 05/05/2013 00:11:16 by Shelli214
  Whats happened to them? Have I missed an episode or 2?? Where are the now??

• Organic milk

  Posted over 14 days ago.  Added 01/05/2013 09:04:07 by DesRamsay
  Is Ed's milk organic? Would he be able to sell to Pat and Tony?

• Can Elona Wake Up

  Posted over 14 days ago.  Added 22/04/2013 11:00:28 by BVFL33
  Darrel may well be weak but if my memory serves me correctly he was really looking for work ,Ok there was none around . Elona couldn't give him credit and say 'maybe soon' .Oh no as ever she went on about the girls and her electric goods - She undermined him by doing that and now she says how terrible he is for trying any way to get the money she kept on and on about . Great script writing but I do so hope that she is told a few home truths as to how she has treated him

• How much longer till the new editor takes over?

  Posted over 14 days ago.  Added 21/04/2013 23:30:39 by Veronica
  We've heard that VW is going, thank goodness! But how many ridiculous episodes has she got still in the pipeline? The fact that someone new is taking over, is the ONLY thing that is making me stick around during all this stupid nonsense! Please hurry up and start, The Archers and their loyal fans need you!

• Its ARRGGGGHHHHHH Time again in Ambridge!

  Posted over 14 days ago.  Added 21/04/2013 11:45:27 by RustickRose
  You can tell its Spring, The Archers' plotlines are springing up and out like weeds. First its the Chris Carter's accident that prevents Engineer-wife, Alice, from trekking off to her heart's desire of job in Canada. Then's its Super-Creep Paul's turn to reveal how controlling & creepy he really is. Poor Lillian! My heart truly bleeds for her. I really thought he'd be The One for our spikey hearted Golden Gel but, nope, them Writer Chappies & Chappettes Upstairs don't want that. Instead, we'll be waiting for the next episode that could bring that spine-chilling finale to those two's Twilight Years Lust-Affaire. While trying to catch our breath, the next thing that's slammed at us is the final Death-throes fallout of Brenda's and Tom's romance followed by the most useless character ever written into the fabric of The Archers, Daryl. Its his most ridiculous situation with Dez and with the Noble Hearted, Neil Carter, that we're meant to just roll over and accept. Enough I say enough! Please Writer Chappies & Chappettes Upstairs, stop it just stop it! You lot really don't know when you're on a roll. You did superb golden stuff with Vicky & Mike and at the time we, the Loyal Hearted Addicts that we are, felt the plotlines were finally turning a corner but now you've gone and done it again. You've all morphed back to your former EastEnders Selves and the plotlines take on the guise of silliness. Goodness me, guys 'n gals, when will it all stop .... wait, wait but soft.. is that the mass turning off of radios I do hear?

• Mike Tucker - Darts Champ

  Posted over 14 days ago.  Added 21/04/2013 11:16:57 by Morgan
  Listening today I am once again confused. Didn't Mike Tucker lose an eye in a farming accident years ago? This is not to say he couldn't be a champion darts player but it seems peculiar that nobody ever mentions it. Am I thinking of another character entirely?

• A long winter

  Posted over 14 days ago.  Added 19/04/2013 15:47:44 by Patti
  I have to admit I only listen to the Omnibus so this may seem a bit out of date.I wondered why there doesn't seem to have been any mention of the really hard winter we have all had, surely the weather is a daily topic for farmers.In fact I wonder if everything is so idyllic in Ambridge,that Hayleys' daughter Abbi was picking daisies in last weeks' omnibus and it was only the the start of April. I also heard Jill mention hearing the 'dawn chorus' over the Easter weekend. There are certainly no daisies in this part of Shropshire yet and the birds are barely recovering from the last lot of snow.

• Some advice for Josh

  Posted over 14 days ago.  Added 18/04/2013 00:10:04 by steve
  Right Josh this is what you do next.
  First off you need to get your mum and dad onside although with those two I know that will be difficult.
  But you do is, you show them the exact same plans that you showed to Neil and Hayley.
  Hopefully they will see you have it all worked out and know what you are doing.
  Then they can either go back to Neil and Hayley with you and say that what you have drawn up is workable assuming it is because we've not been told what you drew up.
  With your mum and dads backing you can either make another offer to buy Neil and Hayley's business or find some hens somewhere else along with a hen house.
  Even if it means you having to borrow from your mum and dad then pay them back from your profits over time

• Traffic through Ambridge

  Posted over 14 days ago.  Added 17/04/2013 19:21:04 by steve
  How much traffic would Ambridge normally have going through it at night ? and how much extra traffic would the dog fighting bring ?
  Do they all go deaf and blind at night in Ambridge, surely someone would wonder why there is suddenly so much extra traffic on certain nights in the village

• I hope Matt knows already

  Posted over 14 days ago.  Added 17/04/2013 14:32:14 by jgreenst
  Paul is a wimp and I reckon Matt knows all about him from his past, just never wanted to tell Lilian - hope he gets found out soon - can't see it could go on for too long - Matt maybe some things but he's not daft

• REAL FARMERS ON TWITTER

  Posted over 14 days ago.  Added 17/04/2013 08:09:46 by willwilson100
  Morning Archers fans!
  
  Just a quick note to say there are thousands of real farmers on Twitter and Facebook that you could follow.
  
  Every Thursday evening we have a discussion on Twitter using the Hash Tag #agrichatuk this Thursday the topic is organic production.
  
  Why not try following a few farmers, it's not always as exciting as the Archers, but you'll be surprised how accurately things that happen in the real world are reflected in the goings on around Ambridge.
  
  Thank you,
  
  Will
  @willwilson100

• Love the name, Envious Emma! How about...

  Posted over 14 days ago.  Added 15/04/2013 20:05:33 by Veronica
  Love it, how about Tearful Tom, Pious Pat, Saint Shula, Nice Nic, Whining Will, Perfect Peggy for a few!

• Mrs Thatcher, I bet you didn't know.......

  Posted over 14 days ago.  Added 14/04/2013 16:29:52 by PCCMember
  Many years ago, in another life, I lived for a while in Muswell Hill, not a bad spot if you have to work in the capital. We used to go over to Finchley to help out at the odd fund raising do or jumble sale. At one of these I met Dennis and had a long chat, mostly about golf.... a really nice chap and as bored as I was! His good lady wife was overseas on some jolly.
  The main prize in the raffle was a Sony Walkman tape player, he told me that Margaret used one, I asked if she used it to listen to music or documentaries.... "no, no" he said, "I have to record the Archers while she is in The House". I asked him if he liked it "oh no, its frightful tosh!" he said, "and I won't have it on in the house!". It gives a bit of an insight into the power structure in that particular home........ wouldn't dare to lay down the law to Mrs PCCMember!
  He did add, and perhaps I should't say this...... that she wasn't really a fan either, but it gave her some small talk for her weekly meetings with her maj', who apparently is a great follower. According to Dennis Mrs T wasn't frightfully good at idle musings, she could get a bit too intense, a failing that didn't endear her to the Queen in the early days, but once she hit on the Archers ruse all was sweetness and light. I wonder if Nigel could be restored to life (Dallas style) if there were a royal decree? He could walk in and find Lizzy in the arms of the cricket playing teacher.... what fun.
  I'm starting to like Paul a lot more now that he is revealed as being a sly dog (what a surprise). Its probably too much to hope that he might bump Lillian off in a fit of frustrated rage, you can never have too many nutcases in soap operas can you.

• Licking my lips in anticipation...

  Posted over 14 days ago.  Added 09/04/2013 19:40:21 by valerieinthegallery
  ...of a right old ding dong aka Lilian Paul Matt and Caroline. Yippee!

• Shula decides?

  Posted over 14 days ago.  Added 09/04/2013 18:48:42 by Kazzie
  I've not been listening to The Archers for more than a couple of years and haven't really taken to Shula, so I was wondering why she thinks she has the right to decide on who Elizabeth can date - or when to date? Is it out of her own experience of Mark perhaps, or does she just think she knows best generally?
  
  I personally think Iftikhar and Elizabeth make a great couple and feel they will have lots of stops and starts before making it - I hope so :)

• Bren and Tom

  Posted over 14 days ago.  Added 08/04/2013 18:06:29 by LucyLu
  Can't say I didn't see it coming. About time Tom and Brenda realized that working all hours god sends and trying to keep a relationship going can take its toll.
  
  Sure many of us can relate. I just hope it wont end up messy and complicated!

• Brenda Tucker

  Posted over 14 days ago.  Added 03/04/2013 20:26:50 by ChristineDavies
  Somewhere in my memory I think Brenda was once held captured by someone and Tom rescued her. Am I imagining this or can anyone put me right?

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