Old (Hall), New (build), Borrowed (money). Will Ambridge be feeling blue the morning after? Discuss The Archers wedding and the aftermath here.

[PseudoBadger]

Roll up roll up for The Wedding special from Catheter Hall. Is the lark flying high? Will Krusty jam that ring on the porky finger?

Rob is even worse on a second hearing. Absolutely chilling that he's offering to help with the business. Pat and Tony will be too traumatised to do anything but nod while he slides his feet under the office desk. Poor Tom (!) will wake up one morning to find that Rob has taken over everything. (And of course Pat and Tony will refuse to believe anything Tom says.)

I wonder if Rob knows that his own job is looking a little precarious.

I missed it last night, but listened this afternoon. Rob is getting slimier by the minute - clearly working that story line up to crisis point.

Is Adam going to crash the tractor through overwork, leaving Brian racked with guilt for ever more, I wonder?

Well Rob the Nob is certainly rubbing his hands together now isn't he?!

The Archers aren't exactly the most likeable family but I definitely don't want to see Rob get his slimy hands on everything!

Oh god, how long is the "poor Tom" going to continue? I just want to slap the twat.

Amazing that Peggy even remembered she has other grandchildren...

Has this interview with Kirsty already been posted? Apologies if so!

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0418xyf/live

Maybe the situation with tom will be a catalyst for them all to really open up and talk about john's death and the impact it has had on them all. That might be too neat and tidy though

Anyone else irritated with that sort of stutter Pat does on "I" all the time? She goes overboard on it when she's trying to wheedle her family into dong something they blatantly don't want to do.

I did laugh when Peggoi was trying to give parenting advice to Pat (the mother of a thirty-something). I'm amazed Pat didn't deck her!

Regarding Adam and farming-in-a-suit man: where's Debbie in all this?

Can't get the actress R4

Do you think that we ought to explain to the SW that people can be mentioned in passing or have their comments relayed back to the village through reported speech.
They don't have to be in the actual village, actually speaking. Or do they: is it an Equity rule?

They did that recently though (one memorable lunch scene with Alice and JD where Chris was in the next room/doing the washing up etc) and it was laughable.

I really enjoyed this: Shakespeare Meets The Archers in today's Independent.

I remember that and thought it sounded weird but they could have more "report back" from someone who's not meant to be in the next room

nelson that is hilarious!

Brilliant Nelson

Love that

Excellent!

Good morning and thank you for the Independent link - how I wish I had written that.

I don't see as much of Nicholas Lezard's writing as I used to (so often the Independent online leaves me wondering where the reading matter is) but he's still spot on.

Only yesterday I caught the tail end of a radio discussion where it was concluded that we lose the potency of Shakespeare by imposing our contemporary interpretations on the work - but this (hilarious) article has infinitely increased my enjoyment of Tony in particular, by so accurately placing him as "The Duke"..... And I'll never see the Dairy as anything other than the haunt of three (surprisingly cowardly) witches now!

Oooh, Pseudo, any chance we could pinch a bit of it for a thread title?

Excellent suggestion Zero! So many possibilities in that article

Great idea Zero! I think it'll be either:

The Tragedie of Tomlet, Prince of Borsetshire
Or
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child (my favourite)
Or
Exeunt, pursued by a cow. And so on, for the next 60 years.

"When she returns, her hat will surely be with his knackers bedeck'd"

Priceless. Get him on the SW team!

That is fabulous I wish I'd written it too.

I vote for "Exeunt... And so on" for next thread