We're on a road through Ambridge, come on inside. Archers chat here

[PseudoBadger]

Have you had your free venison burger?

Gulp, just listened to last nights episode, being a cat owner, sob sob, a tear or two here (for a fictitious cat!)

The shop is Rob's way into the Bridge Farm enterprise, his Trojan horse.

Alistair's a lovely vet. It was good to hear Matt on top form too.
More Matt please.

but presumably rob would rather have his own puppet running the shop rather than do the work himself?

tbh my predictions aren't usually brilliant, so i'm not setting any store by them, but i just can't see him doing the shop work himself

God, you lot, I missed the episode and thought someone had deaded Ben Archer there!

Kittie

So, basically you thought I was sneering at someone wailing over the death of an actual Archer child? I'm not that heartless, I swear!

Oh, I don't know. Shall we make a list of Archers Whose Death would be Less Heartrending than the Cat's?

kitties i would exceed MN's max characters per post

Shall we make a list of Archers Whose Death would be Less Heartrending than the Cat's?

Please can we have this as the next thread title?

Only just noticed this on the BBC blog

Following the retirement of Steve Peacock, Graham Harvey has returned to the role of The Archers’ agricultural adviser.

God is in his heaven and all's right with the (Ambridge) world.

Oh dear oh dearie me I wondered why the other cat was suddenly reintroduced and just as suddenly deaded!! BTW 13 is not old for a cat (ours lasted till 19 and 20 respectively!) But they were fed on fresh food.

So Jill popped round and got the full force the nursery rhyme characters were out in force too!! sorry i didn't mean to sound heartless!

I LOLed at Lil's sheepish "I put the cardigan out to contract". and Matt was good too.

Definitely more Matt and Lil and less wailing self indulgent hopefully soon to be dead Peggy.

Yes absolutely to the Trojan horse in the manner of shop management idea.

I was wondering if Pegg and Jill get on; sharing a house would work if it was made into 2 flats ! Though being as they're the same age maybe not

I loved Matt and Lillian!
The Cat was well done but quicker than when my cat was put down - its hard to have crying on the radio, silent sobs don't work.

Of course it will transpire that with the trauma of the cat Pegg will 'forget' all about the cardigan (that'll serve Lil and her 'subcontracting out' right ).

Gosh, I don't think it's self-indulgent for a recently widowed woman in her 90s to have a bit of a cry about her husband on the day she's had to have her cat pts! But then I don't dislike Peggy nearly as much as most people seem to.

I think that Peggy is being very well written and acted at the moment. She's 90, recently widowed, conscious of having badly screwed up some family stuff, aware that she is becoming less able to deal with stuff, and her beloved cat has just been unexpectedly pts. I found her wail heart wrenching, actually. But maybe I am older than some....

Yes, Hakluyt, that may be a factor. I'm in my 50s. My parents are in their 80s and getting a bit frail. My husband recently had a potentially serious health problem - fortunately all sorted by the wonderful NHS and he is doing really well - but Peggy's grief was a bit near the bone for me.

No I can't see Rob actually serving in the shop but he's now able to hire and fire, do the books, decide on stock & sources. I assume Helen will still be allowed to make cheese until he decides that can be out-sourced too.

Yes I agree Hakluyt and AllMimsy esp. about the acting I've always quite liked Pegg's acting (well one doesn't 'notice' it) not like Auntie Cardboard's

I remember my mother going back home for the first time after my father died, and being greeted by her cat on the doorstep and saying "Yes, Maggie, I've come home"

Could still make me weep if I thought about it......

Hakluyt, do you think Piggoi knows she's screwed up some important family stuff? I think that would require far greater levels of self-knowledge and sensitivity to others than the character has. I think she just feels everything is slipping out of her grasp.

I always feel that the sign that the character is well acted is that we only really talk about the character, not about the acting. I've always felt that June Spencer acts the part brilliantly.

I completely agree, Mumsy, June Spencer is great. I heard her on something (probably Woman's Hour?) talking about Peggy and she described the character as "lacking a sense of humour". So true. But I really don't notice The Acting, whereas with Roooooth some of them you can really hear the effort.

SO SORRY! I meant Mimsy, not Mumsy.

does anyone know if you can listen to the first ever episode?