Don't blame it on a Grundy, don't blame it on Route B, don't blame it on Sean O'C, blame it on the badgers. Discuss The Archers of Prudhoe here.

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I also abandon R4 on Saturday mornings. R3 was much better in the old days when the announcers hardly spoke, though. There used to be some brilliant Dead Ringers sketches about R3 announcers - the one I particularly loved went something like this:

'Bruckner's 9th Symphony, broadcast in full. Two hours of heaven. Well, that's how it should have been. But there's always somebody who has to spoil it for everyone else. Halfway through, someone in Wolverhampton got up to make a cup of tea. So now we have to start all over again from the beginning...'

....never liked John Peel????....seriously

I loved Saturdays listening to JPs laconic droning and his choice of music...The Clash, the Undertones etc, absolutely adored him. He got some great stories out of ordinary folk.The Rev Richard Coles and his annoying female co presenter are no match at all...although I did love the Communards too....Saturday mornings are miserable without JP

I thought John peel was up himself and nothing I've read about him as a person has made me feel differently. Sorry!

Hate loose ends and the sycophancy you often get on midweek

Why is he always called The Reverend Richard Coles, btw? I could tolerate John Peel presenting Home Truths, but I did feel the format was getting a bit tired by the end.

that's what you call vicars, isn't it?
agree Loose Ends is awful, but I find You and Yours even worse (in a different way)

He is actually a bonafide CofE 'certified' vicar!

About Linda's show: I like the way that it has been written as it makes sense in my head.

You hold auditions for anyone to turn up and get a part and no one wants to do it.

You turn it into an exclusive invite-only performance and people cannot wait to be asked.

Very true to life!

AllMimsyWereTheBorogoves love that Dead Ringers point yes R3 was better in the old days. But so were most things. I wish someone would put the 1980s episodes of the South Bank Show onto Youtube. There were some absolute crackers of the "two hours of Bruckner" genre... used to love those

btw "reverse ferret": is that like "reverse polish notation"?

Lynda BlitheSpiritCast coercion
BlitheSpiritStory seanceStory plotConvergenceBoxingDay

etc

True ... far too much chat, too much jazz in the wrong place and too much chopped up music generally on R3 these days.

I'm fairly sure that the very best Saturday morning programme was Alexis Korner for a brief period late 70s/early 80s. Either R1 or R2. I may be wrong on all the details - but it was sublime.

But quill - she could have done that with a panto surely?

Oh that's very nice to meet some people who didn't like John Peel shall we start a splinter group.?

He was a pretentious twit IMO : Just because something is new does not make it good (if I hear someone saying that Punk music is good 'because it's so full of energy' again I'll vom).

BYOS but pantos have limited opportunity to bring back John Tregorran. Whereas that's the whole point of Blithe Spirit.

(fond memories of BS school production derailed by resurrection of different categories of people on different nights. Ex prime ministers, ex headmistresses, ex rockstars. Was hilarious )

I never felt the love for John Peel. There was something utterly bogus about him - recordings from the 1960s reveal him as a public school boy with a cut glass accent, all that man-of-the-people crap was assumed later. And his first wife was fifteen when they married - he was 25. Just something a bit yucky about him.

Mmm ... I wasn't a huge Peel fan. But so much of enjoyment is context. The number of times I cursed myself for falling asleep in the middle of a Mary-Ann Hobbs prog when it was on at 2 in the morning (Arab Strap, Mogwai, Gorkys and all the stupendous, dark comedy that ended up on TV.) I used to long for it to be on at an easier time. Then she moved to Saturday morning; all that breathy earnestness was just unlistenable to in daylight.

Well yes - the stories that have come out aren't to his credit but tend to be glossed over

Surely they could hav got to Lynda doing Blythe spirit without the stupid lead up to it

Yes bluestocking and all that palaver when he died. Apparently he used to avail himself of groupies with great enthusiasm.

i quite like saturday live. i like the inheritance tracks

I liked him, just wasn't bowled over by Home Truths.

I know Richard Coles is a genuine vicar. I am a Mrs. If I got to present a radio programme, I'd expect to be introduced as First Name Second Name, not Mrs First Name Second Name. It's a bit like all the programmes presented by Professor Brian Cox but in his case I suppose there's a slim chance that otherwise we'd be expecting the actor Brian Cox, plus his academic title is usually relevant.

Before or after his second marriage, ppeatfruit? Very different times back in the 60s/70s.

i'm not keen on john peel either. some really dodgy stuff there

Underage groupies

Not sure the times change the morals

You do all know that Richard Cole was a Communard, don't you?

Yeah, right, you'll be telling us next that prof Brian Cox was in a well-known pop group too.

yes, but i don't know much about their music (or the other communard...)

are they known for their groupie-shagging?