They're not plucky Tuckers, they're turkey pluckers' sons - Archers festive chat

[PseudoBadger]

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In a bored moment I once compiled a list of Archer's miraculous cures/long term medical conditions that have no impact at all on the day to day life of the person concerned. Can't find it now, but it certainly included Brian's epilepsy, Daniel's juvenile arthritis and obesity,Abbie's prematurity, Bethany's Down's syndrome, Jazzer's brain damage, Lizzie's heart condition, Ruth's breast cancer and Helen's eating disorder

I confidently expect Nigel to pop up fully restored to health any day now.

Yeah curlew Nige will return after having a bad dream in the shower

Or here's a thought - the ghost of Nigel returns, and can only be seen by David.

whether you are susceptible to lung cancer depends on your genes so some people can smoke all their lives and never get it. However, they will generally suffer other effects - bronchial problems etc.

I confidently expect Nigel to pop up fully restored to health any day now.
no, quick deaths are terminal. Nigel, John, Mark - must be others.

I still vaguely hope that Nelson Gabriel will reappear - I was never convinced by his off-air termination.

I expect a visit from Hazel Woolley if Jack is kicking the bucket.

OMG I'd forgotten all about Hazel Woolley Lilymaid maybe they've been waiting for the actress to detox or something

krisstoffer's cleft lip and, more recently, complete recovery from major trauma and head injury.

Hellin's intermittent mood swings which means she must be handled with kid gloves and deferred to at all times by Pat'n'Moany, left she relapse.

One-eyed Mike's one eye...

Joe's farmers' lung...

Not forgetting Adam's coma.....

krisstoffer's cleft lip
well, that one is fair enough for surgery and forget - it's not something you'd expect to hear about afterwards.

Aww Peggy and Jack....

Excuse me while I have a little blub

But the big question is, which one of them dies?

As Jack is already dead in RL perhaps they think it's time to kill them both off.The actress who plays Peggy is in her 90s I think so may want to retire.

Yes Imp it must have a taken a lot of energy for Peggy to dig him up to say goodbye Apologies for my black sense of humour

Jack and Peggy

Hellin and Rotten Robbie (boak)

Oooh and how do we reckon Jennifer is going to react when she puts 2 and 2 together and gets the right answer?!

Re. ages, I can never quite get my head around the fact that Shula (Judy Bennett) is married in RL to Charles Collingwood who is, of course, the dastardly Brine. She is in her 70's iirc, making her rather older than Saint Shula.

In fact I've been listening so long that I well remember the lavish picture spread in Radio Times when St. Shugs married Mark Hebden, and there was rather, ahem, enthusiastic use of bridal veiling to obscure the fact that there was a steep difference in the ages of the 2 actors playing bride and groom.

Maybe someone with a better memory can remind me but I have a niggling recollection that when Alice was born, there was something medically amiss with her too - certainly she's in rude health these days, maybe another example of the miraculous curative powers of the bracing Ambridge air?

That will mean they'll have to dispatch Shula at an earlier age than the extended longevity which usually comes with Ambridge air (accidents apart). They obviously didn't realise when they hired her that TA would persist so long!

Yes Pilcrow I agree about the enthusiastic use of bridal veiling for St. Shuls. wedding photos, also a great amount of vaseline was used on the camera lens, and or 'touching up' of the photos !

Just discovered this thread, hi!

I was thinking the same Miss Fenella, they made such a big deal of Rich being 'discovered' and then Hellin and Tom's angst about how it was going to affect them, for what? Did the scriptwriters lose the file with that storyline on? Seems a bit weird that (as far as I can recall) he hasn't been mentioned since. Unless they're building up to something big? Something that will actually SATTC this time?!

Presumably Rich will show up to the wedding of the century?

Ooh, yes! Didn't think of that.

And will then try to stake a claim on Bridge Farm... and want to sell it to the mega dairy!

Or, most probably, will just talk about cricket and go for a walk with Tony.