Sack the Sock - put a sock in it or pull your socks up - frankly we're a bit sick of it. The Archers is shit, discuss it here.

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I have it on good authority that this is the thread that people enjoy more than the programme it's about

Can we have Tom Hiddlestone as somebody? Is he too young to be Rob? He did quietly manipulative very well in Archipelago.

Much as he's loathsome he'd be right age and level of attractiveness for Charlie.

Oh yes Helen definitely = Claire ITC I agree.

Justin Elliott should be Julian Fellowes. Ha and Will Grundy to be Mackenzie Crook!

This is a great idea!

Phaedra you think Tom Hiddlestone is loathsome???

jessie Of course I liked your song! With the others they made me feel inferior so i felt I HAD to give it a go!!

ref. Ambridge! Tony is obviously an organic crocodile leather farmer and Ooops one dislikes being turned into shoes!!

Somewhere very near Prudhoe, way up north
There's a farm that I heard of - its name is Hadley Haugh
Somewhere over from Prudhoe, streams are rank,
And the dung that your cows make won't fit into the tank

Someday I'll wish upon a star
And wake up where the slurry's far behind me
Where troubles melt like lemon drops
Away above the turnip tops, that's where you'll find me

Somewhere very near Prudhoe, robots milk
Bots milk way up north, why then, oh, why can't I?

If happy little robots milk very near Prudhoe
Why, oh why can't I?

Oh please not Keira Knightley for Kate. We need someone who can act!

Is there room for Maxine Peak in there somewhere? And maybe we could have John Simm for Adam?

folks on here have mentioned the similarity before but i hear a lot of difference between helen and sally philips as CITC. maybe it's because i visualise sally philips so strongly when i hear CITC

what about sarah alexander for kate?

i reckon helen baxendale might make a good helen. she is a little older than the character i think but that wouldn't make any difference i think

The continuity announcer just said; "Tonight - a shock for Rob and Helen".

Methinks perhaps a shock for Helen, but no surprise for Rob....

Helen Baxenfale would fit my visual imagine of Helen.

Just googled Sarak Alexander and yes, definitely a Kate.

Phoebe is clearly very mature. It must really be quite difficult for her listening to her mother carrying on like a petulant 12 year old and whinging about how mummy likes the others more than me.

It's entirely in character, but Kate's veganism is never going to extend to refusing to take meat tainted money from her parents, is it?

Just caught up on last night's episode. It was somehow particularly annoying that Roooth was still hesitant about pissing off the Hadley Haugh vendors by demanding a reduction in the purchase price - she's just so determined to go that it appears she'd rather sit and whinge and pay the extra than actually do something about it. However, I suspect that some compromise will be reached and this saga will drag on a bit further.

Yes Icimoi I think when you have a mother like Kate you go one way or another. Luckily Feebs seems to have chosen the sensible way as ops have said like Saffie! ( the actress seems to be improving too). When she decides to live back at Roy's it'll upset annoy her mum a lot.

Yes icimoi, Kate has always been happy to live off her parents'meat sodden money, watch those vegan/holistic/anti capitalist principles disappear quickly!!!

And YES to John SIMM, I luffs him in anything. My all time love is Charlie Hunnam...could he be Jazzer please, complete with leathers....

maybe John SIMM could be Rob? Or Charlie? Or both.

I'd quite like Colin Farrell as Jazzer.

Roger Allam as Brian?

Could he be robert, araminta? Devoted husbands both...

Or perhaps new character - younger love interest for Jill - they bond over their bees and combine their hives as elizabeth self-combusts