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Exeunt, pursued by a sow. And so on, for the next 60 years of The Archers.

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PseudoBadger · 01/05/2014 23:51

It's all about the Sons at the moment. Tom is having an identity crisis, Dan is off to Sandhurst, and poor old Adam is working his socks off.
Follow the undulating Ambridge pastures here!

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PseudoBadger · 21/05/2014 21:26

Yep! www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thearchers/posts/gardeners_question_time_in_amb

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ErrolTheDragon · 21/05/2014 21:37

Ah, good - I thought so but then I thought I must have conflated the two things because it was such an obvious match,

Now, what other R4 crossovers should there be? Grin

ZeroSomeGameThingy · 21/05/2014 21:59

Alan could do " Thought For The Day"... (And then Usha the next day, for balance.)

Jim - a Reith Lecture.

Hmmm "Farming Today is too obvious and probably already done. I'll be thinking about this for the rest of the evening!

Ah, of course - A Front Row special on the Midnight Walkers reformation... The interviewer would make it so dull; obligatory quotes from Damon Albarn and a Mumford and three critics tussling over the contemporary significance of multi-generational retro-folk. I cannot wait.

pasbeaucoupdegendarme · 21/05/2014 22:18

Ramblings - up Lakey Hill

Kernowal · 21/05/2014 22:25

Sarah Millican's Support Group or Izzy Suttie's Love Letters to sort out poor Kirsty.

ZeroSomeGameThingy · 21/05/2014 22:53

Hmm "Old Henry's Game". (Though it wouldn't be funny.) Rob could be Scumspawn. (Actually it is quite funny hearing Rob squirm.)

Oooh, oooh! "Round Ambridge Quiz."

"Brain of Borsetshire"

"The Classic Cereal"

"Wheatending"

"Seedy Review" (R3)

Ok, I'll stop now.

TallGiraffe · 22/05/2014 06:57

A woman's hour species dealing with the fallout of jilting.

More or less on the numbers involved for organic vs mega dairy

Abra1d · 22/05/2014 08:15

LillianG you have solved a gardening riddle for us. We had agapanthus for years. They didn't grow. I gave up and jammed a whole lot of other stuff round them. Then they grew. Now I understand. Mine are vivid blue and just gorgeous. They were grown from seeds of plants that came from a family home in Australia years ago (probably highly illicitly--I blame my mother and an elderly aunt).

ppeatfruit · 22/05/2014 10:12

Thanks for all the agapanthus related information this is a much better forum than the official gardening one!! I'll listen to yesterday's TA soon.

DadDadDad · 22/05/2014 13:09

Crossovers:
The Moral Maize
The Unbelievable Ruth

RocknRollNerd · 22/05/2014 13:13

Ah, of course - A Front Row special on the Midnight Walkers reformation... The interviewer would make it so dull; obligatory quotes from Damon Albarn and a Mumford and three critics tussling over the contemporary significance of multi-generational retro-folk. I cannot wait.

Grin

you forgot the tortuous Mark Lawson introduction:

Many listeners will be familiar with the description of golf as a good walk spoiled so it's only fitting that today, as the PGA Championship gets underway at Wentworth, we meet up with Jolene Archer lead singer of the newly reformed Midnight Walkers.

DadDadDad · 22/05/2014 13:17

Not much Triumph, quite a lot of Tragedy.
Between Ourselves and Linda Snell (plus everyone else in the village)

LillianGish · 22/05/2014 14:04

How about Bert Fry on Poetry Please?

LillianGish · 22/05/2014 14:05

Just wanted to add this is my favourite thread of all time (and it's predecessors) - no need to go on any other thread, all queries can be answered here!

LillianGish · 22/05/2014 14:09

Just thought of another one - In our Thyme (featuring the hoglets found while Jill was rescuing Ruth's herb garden).

PseudoBadger · 22/05/2014 15:20

The Afternoon Play introducing new talent Lynda Snell

Today featuring guest editor Jazzer McCreary

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AllMimsyWereTheBorogroves · 22/05/2014 15:24

From a few years back, Cross Incontinents, featuring Mr Pullen (RIP).

LillianGish · 22/05/2014 16:20

Grin Mimsy.

ppeatfruit · 22/05/2014 16:33

"The Food Programme which today comes live from the luxury Hotel Grey Gables where you can relax properly and enjoy a good snooze meal from avant garde chef Ian Thingy"

ErrolTheDragon · 22/05/2014 16:34

Well done everyone Grin - I knew you'd rise to the bait challenge!

In terms of which of these inspired crossovers they should do for real, my vote would be Ramblings because Clare Balding is one of my favourite radio people (I'm so glad she still Rambles despite now being a bit of a megastar!).

I wouldn't mind hearing an AMbridge edition of The Book Club - could Jim Naughtie cope with Jenny, Lynda and whoever else showed up?

WillieWaggledagger · 22/05/2014 17:01

ramblings would be fantastic
i might tweet her

ZeroSomeGameThingy · 22/05/2014 17:04

RnRN I've just frightened the person sitting opposite me - by laughing so hard at Mark Lawsons tenuous link...

But yes, surely they've done a "Ramblings" in Ambtidge in the last few decades?

Redcliff · 22/05/2014 18:50

Love the Front Row idea and the rest are inspired !

AllMimsyWereTheBorogroves · 22/05/2014 19:49

Have I ever mentioned that last year when we went to watch John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme being recorded at the Radio Theatre, Clare Balding went through the airport-style security screening immediately before me? We didn't speak or even make eye contact, to be frank, but we were a few cm apart. Closest I've been to a celeb since I did Eric Stewart's VAT return.

cheminotte · 22/05/2014 21:02

All these brilliant ideas remind me of I'm Sorry I haven't A Clue where they do the party guests or new definitions of old words. Absolutely inspired.