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.

And another thing. Is the idea of selling the land in three parcels such a good idea? What are they going to do if someone wants to buy the land but not the house, or vice versa?

Don't blame it on TB, don't blame it on Route B, don't blame it on the BBC - blame it on the badgers!

Yes I like this one! shows someone appreciated my link last night

Neil will be most unhappy i'm sure, considering Hayley's done a bunk too.

Yes, please report my post to get attention for the webchat.
I know Olivia comes here when she can but it's sporadic.

Pigs might fly Mimsy - for a moment there I thought you were suggesting that as another ridiculous storyline!

I've reported you too Cutted

I'm thirties and hate this! But then r4 has been moving towards younger stuff. To me r4 is the background of my childhood!!

Could this be more sinister?

'Look Sean, the archers costs a lot of money in a prime slot. We can't just bin it because there'll end up being questions in parliament and stuff. Could you try and kill it off kindly? You know, start turning the listeners off and then when we get down low enough no one will really care?'

Like blue stockings title!!

Yes, of course, Toomuchtea.

1. They've never lived anywhere else. Fine to go off and experience a new place once school is over but that's a very different kettle of fish from having your family home and business relocated to the other end of the country. But they're fine about that, in spite of only knowing one person in the new area, viz their frail and elderly grandmother. Their friendships can all be kept up with Facebook, Skype and occasional visits. Yeah, right.

2, School disruption - no qualms about this, even for Josh whose entire sixth form career might be thrown off course.

1. They think it will all be fine as long as both grandmothers are there. What about their uncle and aunts? What about the wider extended family they've had on tap all their lives?

1. Generations of the family have lived at Brookfield and been buried in the churchyard at St Stephen's. Surely that would mean something to Pip, Josh and Ben?

Gah!

I'm surprised at how little 1,3&4 seem to bothering David either

Some Archers actors are just normal 'jobbing' actors. The only time I've been totally starstruck by people a family member works with is when they were in a play with Emma for a few months (and proving you should never look at the pictures I've become more well disposed towards Emma after being told how utterly lovely she is IRL). Jolene is currently in Uncle Vanya with John Hannah at the moment I think (and was also in that dreadful adaptation of Tales of the City that R4 did earlier this year - Amex-esque inner monologues agogo...)

I don't get the Tom re-casting at all. I'd assumed he'd buggered off to maybe return in 10 or 20 years time with wife and unauthentically accented Canadian children in tow when a new editor wanted some new blood...

There isn't really spoken radio for teenagers today is there? I remember the Mary Whitehouse Experience when it first started on Radio One as a late Friday night thing. Many happy memories of being slightly drunk and getting ready for bed whilst listening to it and trying not to wake my mum and dad up. I presume they gravitate towards it like some of the older children on here and I think I've mentioned before certainly in the late 90s/early 2000s I worked in an office of 20-something auditors/accountants who were all hooked on it as we drove lots and it came on after the R4 comedy. Of course now in car entertainment is better (plug in your iPod, digital radio etc) I suspect that might not happen so much.

oh and yes please to the webchat!

Just looking at the threads on this forum if we can't have SOC on then could we have John Finnemore please?

I'd vote for that!

I went to see I'm sorry I Haven't A Clue recorded last night. (It was a great night out incidentally!)

When I was checking out of the hotel this morning the young (early 20s) receptionist asked what we'd been to see. I told her and eplained it's a programme on Radio 4. She asked me "Oh what sort of music does Radio 4 play?"

I came over all peculiar!

Yup, BOOP your receptionist is definitely target audience material!

BOOP i did that for dp's birthday one year and it was so much fun!

She is but how can they target her with their appealing-to-youngsters storylines, if she's never even heard of the radio station it's on!

FWIW I think there have always been unbelievable storylines on TA. I don't think it's any worse at the moment and I'm really enjoying it. I just tune out a bit when a storyline I don't like is on

O dear BOOP!
I bet it was brilliant! I went to the stage show earlier this year and it was great fun. I would love to go to an actual recording.

Could we get Ed Reardon to chair the webchat with SOC?

Ed Reardon?

Paxman's not too busy...

i think sandi toksvig has been on before hasn't she?

Can I just say - this thread has taken up my entire day! I've been extremely short with anyone wanting my attention for anything else.

REPLY from MNHQ; they can't promise anything but will try to grant our wish.

Paxman, Humphries and Reardon. I will settle for nothing less.

CuttedUpPear excellent link for Helen.

I've noticed that as Helen and Emma are spending more time together Rob is trying to push Emma out by suggesting that George Grundy is badly behaved and that Emma and her children coming round isn't a good idea. It's a shame because I can't imagine Emma letting Ed push her around and I think that she would say something to Helen if she realised what was going on.

I keep hoping that Emma will ask Helen how the hunt ball was and if she wowed everyone in her gorgeous new dress. I can imagine Emma scoffing that Helen shouldn't take any notice of what Rob says when deciding what to wear.

New thread before children's tea time...
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/radio_addicts/2225850-Dont-blame-it-on-a-Grundy-dont-blame-it-on-Route-B-dont-blame-it-on-Sean-OC-blame-it-on-the-badgers-Discuss-The-Archers-of-Prudhoe-here

Getting rid of the old Tom Archer is a disgrace, fair enough if the actor wanted a change/break etc but to deliberately replace a long standing well loved(?) or at least recognisable and appreciated character seems foolhardy and rather typical of this brave new world approach ....

I started to listen when I was tiny, have listened off and on all my life. But missed John's deading as was living overseas at the time.
We all have Archer's names but the ages don't match...
I have the name of the oldest of our archers name.
DH has the next, but a whole generation at least younger
(both of us are younger, in my case much younger than the character)
DS is next but another whole generation younger.
Then DD2 who is a bit younger I guess