Robbieeeee! It's meee, it's Jessieeee! I've come home. I'm so cold! Let me in-a-your window. The Archers pay homage to Wuthering Heights?

[PseudoBadger]

A new thread in time for the film this morning.

mimsy i flicked through the RT at MIL's house the other day - tbh i don't trust them one bit, they are often deliberately misleading and make out that some minor detail is important when in reality the episode is focusing on something completely different!

oh golly he;s not going to tell her that the dress is a bit too small for her is he? "too much sitting around eating cakes with mummy friends now that you're a SAHM"

Mmm ... It was something I read in the Radio Times that prompted my guess that this thread would finish today, before the HB. Whatever it was that I anticipated (some Elizabethan drama) clearly didn't happen.

Poor Helen. What is it with the new regime and making women suffer through the purchase of and anticipation of pleasure from clothes? Or being made a fool of for making an effort with their appearance?

Wasn't there a previous outfit Rob made Helen change out of?

Kirsty's two wedding dresses - wasted.

Hayley's date night dress - wasted.

Plus Jess's "nothing fits now" shopping.

And in all probability the same tonight.

In addition the first we heard of Justin's wife was her (reported) spectacular demand for somewhere to change ... And look how we were instructed to guffaw at Susan's hair.

Now I've made myself cross.

I do think there is an undercurrent of misogyny at play

So far he's denied paternity in Helen's hearing but is there a possibility that he's going to try and get custody of the baby by claiming that Jess is too unstable?

I have missed a week or so - but thanks to this thread I don't need to catch up. Is this just rose-coloured nostalgia but were't TA people nicer in 'the old days'. I don't remember any out and out shits - just slightly reprehensible rogues.

Roy is utterly vile and needs shooting. Rob is similarly disgusting. Rooth is driving this move storyline like a terrier with a rocket up it's fundament.... Any other R's ?

Oh, I dunno, I seem to remember that what first got me really hooked was when Kate was being an out and out selfish shit about Phoebe, and that has to be around 15 years ago. Goodness, how time flies.

Plenty of shits in TA. (Also, of course, plenty of shit, aka slurry.)

Kate - all her life - there was the time when she locked William Grundy in a deserted cottage - she was about 11 then, I think
Helen being foul to Hayley after John died (and of course she knocked Mike Tucker over driving while drunk and forced Tom to take the blame)
Shula at the time when she had an affair with Dr Locke who was living with Usha at the time - two shits for the price of one there
Cameron Fraser who abandoned pregnant Elizabeth at a motorway service station
Hazel Woolley who was always utterly vile to her dad, Jack
Simon Pemberton who slapped both Shula and Debbie
Simon Gerrard, Debbie's husband, who was a serial shagger
Brian - another ss
Caroline, I suppose, given that she had an affair with Brian knowing full well that he was married to Jennifer and had children
Siobhan was loathsome.

I expect there are more.

"Simon Gerrard, Debbie's husband, who was a serial shagger"

Who? I do remember all the others but not him. Or her.

OK... it is rose-tinted remembrance then

Cameron McSlither!
We named a cat after him.

Canadian lecturer on English literature. Worked at Exeter when Debbie was a student there. They had an affair, it went wrong, she dropped out, he came to Home Farm to find her, Brian warned him off. Many years later he re-appeared in her life. By this stage he was working at that jewel in the crown of UK higher education, the University of Felpersham. They married. There were many ups and downs. Eventually she found out beyond any shadow of a doubt that he was having an affair and they split up. It was just about the same time as Ruairidh was born and Debbie seemed to take Brian's infidelity harder than her own husband's, which was a bit odd.

Finally caught up with TA and this thread! Did anyone notice David talking to Biff - their dog? when they got back from Up North the other night. More proof they read the thread!
So this thread had

I googled Mumsnet Archers to find this thread after it fell of TIA. After this thread and the previous half dozen there was a reference paper on online usage of Archers listeners. Rather out of date but interesting reading!

Hunt Ball Hunt Ball HUNT BALL!!!!!

here we go...

stand up for yourself Helen!

Helen's dress going as expected.

Helen Helen Helen Grrrr

He's running true to form...

Who'd have thunk it?

What a bastard!

Well done gob almighty Helen - that's Wiwyum out of a job now

So Justin will be moving in?

Moving into Brookfield ?

Rob is a controlling cock. He makes my spine tingle

I hate what Rob's doing. First telling her that the dress she'd chosen wasn't suitable, then telling her what to wear, then telling her not to "bore" people, then telling her not to drink.