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 think the F should have been an S for "shuffles off her mortal coil", but F works too and may have been intentional

Love it! Peggy should definitely FOHMC

Just watching Grantchester and caught "Tony's" dulcet tones as one of the chief policemen. Rightly confused me!

footle - 66, congratulations, you now hold the age record on this thread. How long have you been listening to TA?

icimoi - if you want to increase your sample size, I'm sitting on a train about to leave for London and it is packed full of actuaries.

Daddaddad it would be amusing if you could hold a quick poll of the carriage and establish how many actuaries listen to TA & what their average age is. If they are life actuaries they'll probably just answer you rather than have a confrontation.

Eastpoint - ah, you've overlooked something: I'm also an actuary and far too introverted to go round asking strangers their age.

Bizarrely, guy has sat down next to me and I caught a glimpse of his workpass - the company name was DDD ltd. Spooky.

Perhaps you could just give a précis of their shoes instead then DDD?

BIG article in the back of the new RT debating the changes. Haven't read it yet but looks very interesting!

Think they just trailed something to do with TA on PM.

Have they changed the actor who plays David? He sounds very peculiar this evening...

Bullshit the lot of it. Am officially not listening anymore!

Even the Lynda/Jim pairing couldn't make up for that shitty Brookfield nonsense

You'll have to tell me if it gets better

Can't tell you with my fingers in my ears BYOS. I didn't believe a word either. In David and Ruth's position I would have been furious with the Aldridges.

Just read the RT article. It's a bit rubbish, David Blunkett moaning about all the characters who are silent or "elsewhere", e.g. Usha, Kathy etc. I don't have a problem with that, it's impossible to have everyone in it all the time. Jenny Murray saying the Archers must not leave Brookfield but not much else. She did use the term "sausage king" for Tom, wonder where she got that

You see the aldridges buying it wouldn't bother me. I would rather sell to someone I know. It was all the guff about enjoying talking to the kids and how it was going so well bullshit. And the dialogue was all wrong.

Whoever got paid a grand to write that should donat half to charity an be thoroughly ashamed of themself

Voila! DDD group!!

My husband has also been at the Actuaries Life Convention in Birmingham. I asked him to see if he could work out who DadDadDad was. He says they all look the same.

Haha poor DadDadDad, so maligned :-D

I actually had a rush of blood to the head earlier today on the back of all the actuary talk and went off to see if my son could train* (answer: probably not as he doesn't have a Maths degree). Anyway, I was amused to see that the professional body for UK actuaries has a picture of two very attractive young women on there to represent recently qualified actuaries.

*Anxious mother of final year student syndrome. He has never expressed any interest in being an actuary but he has Maths A level.

Back to TA: hmmm. Josh and Ben have clearly been replaced by androids. I could just about swallow the idea that Pip sees her future elsewhere, but the boys? No way.

Jim and Linda are going to get the road called off.

When I met my husband the first joke he told me was "why is an actuary like a lighthouse in the Sahara? Because both are very bright but not a lot of use"

I believe DDD has a in his fantasy box.

Mimsy, I found myself wondering this AM - when not even online or on MN - if my brother could train as an actuary. He does have a first class maths degree but I am not aware he is looking for a new career.

I also had a couple of questions for our resident actuaries (I see we now have two) about how all those figures get worked out. But I need to come back later as have things to do just now - and maybe if I did some 'googling' I could answer them myself. Perhaps. I like the idea of a career per thread to be highlighted - TA is so dire it would add a certain something to the thread IMO. I can see, as someone above has said, the idea of selling Brookfield within the wider family could be appealing, but the rest is quite ludicrous really. I did like Jim and Linda however.

Don't you see? It's all so gushingly, blissfully wonderful that it can't possibly happen. The Dopeys are about to get shit on from a great height, you mark my words. Oh yes.

But that will annoy me even more because its all so obvious!!!

Blimey, I leave this thread for a couple of hours, and it's all about actuaries again. (TA = The Actuaries, an everyday tale of insurance folk.)

Songbird - wow! Good find; I'm pretty sure that's it: guy was reading brochures about health products and got off in Watford where DDD are based. All very strange.

helena - a large proportion of the male actuaries have receding or grey hair. I have neither, so your DH is making sweeping generalisations. Does he work in pricing? (Reserving actuary's joke). Oh, this is so tantalising: give me a clue - eg does he work for one of the consultancies or what are his initials?