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I think that she was being serious. However it was badly written because Lynda is clever and would be well aware that Jim, as a professor of classics, would not be in any way qualified to talk about the Aztecs! That is why It may have seemed like she was taking the mickey.

I too love the way that Linda can punctuate a sentence with a sniff!

And I have now completely lost faith in the robnHellin story; she's clearly not that interested or she would have wowed at the 50 point rotary.

I actually quite liked that bit. It was if Helen suddenly started to realise after the lust that maybe she has a few moral issues with Rob (obviously a wife isn't one of them-she'd be eaten alive on the relationship board here).

But Hellin wasn't morally outraged enough to stop dragging him into an empty storeroom for a knee trembler was she?????!!!!!

Still recovering here from having to listen to all the heavy breathing and slurping from RobnHellin. I so want them to be found out ASAP, at least it'll move the storyline on a bit

I have to keep moaning stoppitstoppitstoppit at the radio until they desist

it's horrible

Hopefully Pat will enter that bought necklace and someone will recognise it .

Oh Kathy... didn't you learn how to handle bullies when you were a teacher? I do hope Martyn gets his comeuppance soon, I can't stand much more of him.

YEs, Rob and Helen in storeroom was getting a bit "Sid and Jolene in the shower"-esque.

So the judge of the craft bit of the show is going to be the owner of the shop where Helen bought the necklace, isn't it? Or some such device to land Helen in the poo.

I agree TA radio sex is dreadful; I s'pose it must be difficult to write anything different, but there must be another way other than slurping Anyone here have any ideas?

Sighing. Slurping. Groaning. Moaning. Howling? (bet Hellin howls)

No, no ideas that work. Now need brain bleach.

Rustling? ? (I got that one from Buffy sub-titles)

I'd better stop...

I am still traumatized by the sound effects just before Ben was conceived (just got the hay in - beautiful warm night on top of the hay wagon - sigh - moan)

gag

To be fair, I'm not sure this is unique to TA - can you think of any examples where its been done well? And frankly, I'm not sure that even if it could be done I really want to hear it just after lunch/dinner time or while making Sunday lunch

Imagine that chicken-eating scene from Tom Jones without the pictures

ew

I think it's worse in TA though because they're people we 'know' - when it's a one-off play or whatever we don't have a connection

As it is it's like listening to actual friends snogging (even if we don't like the characters)

The livestock noises can be just as disgusting but they're not personal

Ponders I'm sure I have heard that particular scene on R4! Was quite entertaining iirc.

Good point about it being people we know.

The worst thing is that they always arrange the slurpy episodes for when I have people to stay who think TA is merely a rather quaint affectation of mine. Then they hear Helen... Then they look at me funny.

I really can't stand the Martin Gibson story when o when will it end. Surely the SWs know we have got the picture by now. I think I will need to turn the sound down in future as I am getting more and more angry and frustrated.

I really hope Kathy stands up to him and tells him to fuck off. Sadly I expect Kathy she will just slope off to GG and we will never hear about his comeuppance. Time for the mouse to roar.

Nobody will tell me why Martin has the authority to behave the way he is. Who is he?

Isn't he the Borchester Land accountant, or something like that? And they own the Golf Club? That's how I've been understanding it - but I could be wrong.

I'm certain it will all come to a head tonight.

Martyn is the accountant for Borchester Land, who apparently own the Golf Club (don't remember its ownership ever mentioned before).

The story is bollox. Since when has it been the accountant's job to recruit catering staff?

I think the actor playing Martyn is enjoying himself hugely. The story surely has to wrap up soon so that he can move on to his season as pantomime villain.

.....the "something like that" being on the Board of Borchester Land and charged with the duty of overseeing this particular asset....

Hopefully the board will review soon: 'so Martyn, the problems at the club started when? Uh huh... and your active interest began ... uh huh' -

Every time I hear Martyn (yes, it is Martyn with a 'y', according to the Radio Times cast list) do his sneering stuff, I grind my teeth.

I don't care how annoying/whingey Kathy (with a 'K') is - I just cannot believe that any grown-up person could possibly listen to his sneering shit without either throwing his humungous bar bill in his face, or just telling him to fuck off.

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Kathy actually looks like her voice

& Martyn looks very familiar but I don't know where from

oooh, oooh, oooh

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how wonderful