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.

[PseudoBadger]

Have we all seen there's going to be a new Tom?

Sorry, just scrolled up! Very, very late to the party.

I'd better ask this now lest Mimsy succumbs under the dead leaves in forest (hope you don't - the world doesn't have enough 53 year olds in it, IMveryunbiasedO!!) - where did Jill Archer live before she married Phil?

I've been trying to work out what age bracket the blessed Sean falls into. Anyone now? I guess, from photo, early 40s.

anyone know!! sorry again for typo.

I'm a lurker, very occasional poster, and long time ta listener. 28, been listening avidly for 5 years, and on and off for 15.

Few places say his birthday is 11 feb

No year though!

1968, so 46 y.o.

Didn't Jill come from Brum? I seem to recall that she had to learn her country ways, she's not born and bred.

Basketz - the telegraph article gives his age - 34 or 36 I think.

DadDad - if you are doing stats I'm 37.

Jill must have been the only child from a long chain of only children; I've never heard mention of any non-archer cousins.

Now I know I said I wasn't going to listen anymore but I did. And really quite enjoyed it.

I do feel they are setting up a few accident/ death possibilities though.
Ed/ Willyum shooting incident
Roooth car/ pheasant accident...resulting in a dead Rooth , my favourite option.
Jill, death by sitting down, like poor old spinning in his grave Phil.

How lovely to hear a happy Tony too.

I'm checking in on the thread but am having a week off my nightly listening habit, for all the reasons enumerated so eloquently upthread and on the last one.

For the stats record, I'm 37 and have been listening on and off since I was 17, though properly only for about 7/8 years. I'm quite fed up now, though.

Ps, having been greatly amused - and impressed - by daddaddad's statistical analysis, I await his survey and predictions on this one.

I am finding Jill very tiresome at the moment, and yes, tiresome is a Jill-ism.
Would like to hear a lot less of her and more about Eddie's turkey plan - at least he has a bit of positive enthusiasm!

For the stats record am 51. Been listening off and on for about 20 years.

I'm 34.

I considered a Late Arrivals theme for the Hunt Ball thread but nothing was witty enough.

Thanks for all the votes for my cameo appearance! I could be an EHO who knows what they're actually on about.

I'm 56. Been listening forever with a bit of time off in my 20s.

28

Thanks for the new thread, Pseudo.

I'm convinced all this selling Brookfield business will ultimately come to nothing. Though Mimsy's list gives me pause for thought...

I'm 54 and have been listening properly to TA for about 20/25 years (Lizzie and Cameron Fraser time, I think?), though I can remember it being on in the background when I was a child. I vaguely recall Lilian and Ralph Bellamy; don't know when that would have been.

I'll start a late arrivals at the radio ball tomorrow maybe, gives me some time to think of a couple of guests. We could make it the radio addicts ball and get all self referential perhaps?

Maybe all the water is going to drain away and rush back in a giant tsunami in the style of Emmerdale plane crashes etc thus getting rid of loads of characters in one easy go. Anyone who survives would have probably inhaled a lot of water, been intubated etc and they could use that to pass off some more recasting...

Am also fearful about inexperienced shooters and tomorrow's episode...

I've just logged on

96 posts???

Has dadadad (sp???) predicted a death date for this one? Will be very quick at this rate

for the spreadshit I'm 63, have been listening regularly for c 30 years, & am rapidly losing interest, which is v sad.

DD1 is somewhat older than Willyum, DD2 younger than Ed, DS1 between Chris & Alice, & DS2 slightly younger than Pip.

Blimey, took me nearly an hour to catch up on the end of the last thread and this one.

For the record, I'm also 53 - we used to always have R4 on, though mother used to complain about TA: 'I don't know why we have those people on, always arguing and complicating their lives' - her euphemism for extra-marital goings-on. IIRC I got properly hooked on TA when I was a postgrad - prior to that my fondness for R4 started with the comedies and JAM but it was Hitchhikers which really made me an addict. its been a bit downhill from then on though

This shit thing about 'bringing in older actors to play younger characters' - hope S O'C hasn't forgotten that this can lead to the actor getting past it (or expiring) before the character is due to SOTMC - he needs to think in terms of decades, we don't like recasting (though New Tony is fine but you won't always get someone of that calibre).

I'm usually a lurker on these threads. I'm 45 and have been listening to TA for 46 years - my mother claims that I responded to the theme tune in the womb

I have long breaks when storylines are too irritating, but I always fall off the (hay) wagon in the end.

Just come back here, to find I appear to being bounced into doing some data collection.....

Oh, go on then.

My username is a bit of a pain to type. You can call me dad^3 if it helps.

And, yes this thread has set off at a cracking pace. It's hitting TWTNW rates (The Wedding That Never Was back in April)