They don't let any old Tom, Dick or Henry live in Ambridge - The Archers chat continues

[PseudoBadger]

Hello you two :o

Is this new editoral input do you think?

I loved the bitching about the tasteful objet d'arts that Peggy was trying to palm off to the family was asking them to choose as a memento of Jeck And it was Brine and Matt! Brilliant !!

Yes, Brine and Matt are classic stuff.

Hi Olivia! Loving your cackhanded typing now that you are doubtless marooned like a milch cow with the twins latched on good and proper

Apart from the brilliance of the episode, by my count there were 8 whole actors. Does that mean they've finally uppe the budget?

I thought eight had always been the maximum. There may be a weekly limit too. We'll probably pay for this with an eisode later this week with just David and Ruth or some other lacklustre combo.

Is it too much to hope that we'll never hear Darrell again?

Lol at 'easy sausage '
I don't trust Rob At All, I hated the way he spoke to Pat, yuck, not his place at all.
Id have him drown in a slurry pit with moanyHelen strapped to him, give Henry to some non moaner who shuns self pity city

Brian and Matt have always been a cracking double act. We just haven't had enough of them over the past year.

I'm quite looking forward to tonight's offering.

Oh no, smug Tom.

Don't count your chickens, Tom.

Poor Tony.

Another good episode! Poor Tony indeed. I hope across this week we rotate across all three households as they absorb Peggy's news. I'm very keen to hear Jennifer bitching to Brian about it.

Poor Tony and Pat on good form.

Yes Londonmother - I too want to hear Lilian and Jennifer's reactions.

I thought the continuity announcer giving us a resume before the programme started was a bit Silver Service!
I like it when they express their opinions too

Oh god I missed it after all!

CuttedUpPear that's our favourite continuity announcer. We're always pleased when he's on duty as we know he'll give some pithy comment at the end. Tonight was indeed extra special with the summary at the start. What a star.

And yes, chez Loma we're convinced Peggy will change her tune once she hears what the blessed cheesemaker has been up to with the Rob the cow industrialist.

What did the announcer say? I only caught the last 5 minutes...

He said "Now just to bring you up to speed with the Archers, yesterday afternoon Peggy Wooley summoned a family gathering to the Lodge, where she announced what she was planning to do with her will. Tonight, Tony will be..."analysing"...the situation. That's one way of putting it"

oh - I thought he said something about Tom being pleased with himself ???

i think that was the second announcement. there was the one before mark lawson does his front row preview, then the actual intro to the show

That is the rubbish thing about being a podcast listener, all we get is "you can follow the archers on Facebook and twitter" after each episode.

Just listened again and the announcer said

(to Mark Lawson) "Thanks Mark" "First on BBC Radio 4, Tom's got a spring in his step.... I'll bet. It's 'The Archers' " ...

Tony's story about the racecar brought more of a tear to my eye than Peggy's final farewell to Jack. "I've never told anyone". Poor lamb. And what a bitch of a mother Piggy sounds like she was. How was it obvious to a 10 year old that it was too expensive? I liked her before but she really was an old cow to embarrass Tony in front of the family.
Did anyone else notice that Jazzer and silent "Dougie" were off to Lynda's for a Burns supper on Saturday? How hilarious, Lynda researching authentic ways to bash neeps and recruiting the local Scotsman for a bit of authenticity. She'll make him do the address, he'll do so gladly in return for free food and whisky but invent the words after the first verse.

All likely to take place off air no doubt.

I think by 10 you know when things are too expensive and I can imagine parents justifying a chess set as educational but a toy car as something that would be broken quickly. I thought typical Tony, moany, unable to deal with a problem head-on, more woe is me, my sisters are so rich. I thought Pat's suggestion of going to talk to Peggy was good.

Just caught the trailer for "The Long View". It will be on "the working poor" and Emma will be appearing. (As herself or the actress I couldn't say.)

Interesting take, Eastpoint though to be fair he did allegedly get the nod from his drunkard father and it was v sad that Peggy felt that at 10 he should already know better than to believe anything the old soak said.

Great that a scene by New Tony has you thinkinh "typical Tony" though! I am getting used to the new actor too. I liked his massive grump with Tom about the swedes.