To Think 'The Archers' Should Be Put Out of Its Misery?

[JoffreyBaratheon]

Ack. I just caught a minute of it tonight. It's still as awful as I remember. Turned it off as silence is preferable.

60 (or a million, whatever it is) years ago when it started, it was probably vaguely credible. But now you'd have to be a millionaire to be a farmer. And who cares about the traumas of rich businessmen?

Last time heard it was a couple of years ago when a character who was a pensioner when I was a child (and I'm in my 50s) was shagging a cockney half her age. It was actually creepy and weird.

Why do people still listen to it? (if they do?) Surely it costs a fortune - all those actors on a permanent wage packet... I was on a train in the same carriage as one of them once, and my god, did she love herself. She was shouting loudly into her phone for the whole journey on her mobile - just in case she wasn't centre of attention, for once.

My husband used to listen to it and he is a townie. (So an element of fantasy maybe?) Ditto my dad, also a city boy. I grew up in the country and have always thought it a load of self indulgent bullocks. It's so middle class and such tosh.

So AIBU to think it's time to concrete over the farm, build a nice council estate, and move on?

Last time heard it was a couple of years ago when a character who was a pensioner when I was a child (and I'm in my 50s) was shagging a cockney half her age. It was actually creepy and weird.

You must mean Matt and Lillian. Lillian was born in 1947 so is now aged 68/69, so I find it unlikely that she qualified for an old age pension in her late 20s early 30s when you listened as a child. Also Matt(now left) is a similar age to her.

I suggest OP tells us what programmes s/he likes and we can say how rubbish and a waste of money they are. Also why can you only get radio 4 on your phone OP? Do you need your husband to change the channel for you?

A 'just giving appeal to raise money for Refuge, started by an archers fan who thought they might raise a few hundred or a couple of thousand, is over a hundred thousand and still going strong. For that alone YABU.

www.justgiving.com/helentitchener/?

A sad obsessive writes: Constanza is a llama. Lynda had two llamas, Wolfgang and Constanza, who then had a baby, Salieri. Sadly, W has turned up his hooves, but C & S are still going strong. She also has a dog, Scruff, who went missing in the Great Ambridge Flood last year, but magically reappeared on Christmas Eve.

We're all a bit shaken at the moment on the TA thread because there has been a stabbing incident, which is a bit out of the normal run of things in Ambridge. Fortunately, there's now a gradual return to sorting out calving problems and seeing how the new pastured egg venture is getting on.

Nah because my dad would be gutted. Lol. It's crap I agree.