I am not enjoying The Archers right now!

[MinkyBorage]

I feel like everything is tense and artificial and building up to something terrible happening. What is going to happen? I don't listen to The Archers for the drama, I listen to it for the feelgopod factor, although I know there are always frictions and crises to cope with, but notheing too shocking.......... well there was the time when Ed was a crack head but that all got sorted out in the end and it was ptrobably for the best that he ran away to the big city and lost his way for a while etc etc....

I hope Helen's baby doesn't die. I don't actually care about Helen, but it would be just too awful.

I think there is the potential for a big damp squib of course......

What else could shake a village?

How about Alan becoming a Hindu?

I think it's going to be Nigel. There have been so many scenes recentlt which were just about them being a happy family and Nigel being a nice bloke.

I just wish the producers will resist the temptation. They really don't have to do something awful just because that's the typical thing in TV soaps.

Please, What is SATTC?

It should be SATIC - Shakes Ambridge To Its Core.

Well I've just read all the teasers in the Radio Times and I think I can glean what doesn't happen iyswim. And I can get a vague idea of who is affected ifyswim. Not much help is it...

No help frank - VW is far too clever for that. The RT spoilers are notorious for being no help whatsoever!

BUT nobody in the spoilers was ever in the frame for being dead. Nobody ever thought Shula was in for the chop did they? All the people who could be involved - Ruth, David, Nigel, Helen, Will, Nic, Ed, Emma, Pip, Jamie, Lizzie - are all absent.

Well, exactly, I meant it in the vaguest of terms . But Ed, Will, Emmur aren't in the cast list for next week either.

I'm learning to loath VW.

loathe

I live in hope with regard to Shula...

VW is a pain in the neck - insufferably smug about pretty much everything!

Same applies to Shula of course

Hmm - a distant cousin of mine was on the Archers production team for a few years (used to get credited at the end of the programme !!). She's now moved on to Emmerdale ... I wonder if she didn't get on with VW either

Hearing Lizzie getting all excited at the pantomime - sounded more and more like something nasty is coming their way.

It never fails me how excited characters in the Archers can get about anything: the panto, inter-village cricket matches, people (very occasionally) having sex with one another, putting raspberry yogurt labels on the strawberry yogurts .

Nigel meets a sticky end collecting Lizzie's brooch. Pip runs him over whilst driving HELEN IN TO HOSPITAL in an emergency.

Lizzie is going to feel sooooooo bad when she rea;ises that she got so cross with him because he was taking the brooch in.

Is it definitely Sunday then? I can't stand much more of these clunking episodes

Yes, it's Sunday. 30 clunking minutes. I think I might miss it & find out what happened after...

Sorry, haven't listened to the Archers for a long time. Just wondered if Jack Woolley was still alive? The last I'd heard he'd gone into a home (must be The Laurels, they all end up there).

Heard bits of it tonight and it was definitely all about a brooch. I think I've obviously missed the death of Joan (aka Julia) - not sure what happened to the twin sister (did she live in Spain?)

This Vicky character who is new wife of Mike Tugger....how did that happen??? I can't think of anyone less like dear old Beddy Tugger. Surely she can't be cold in her grave yet?!?

Can someone fill in some of the gaps for me?

Thanks

lebkuchen, if only Shula were in for the chop