As another voice actor does a bunk in the night, is he watching them all with the eyeeeeeee .... of the TIGER? Bring back Matt unadulterated to The Archers NOW.

[PseudoBadger]

This is too much for me now. I need to meditate.

I am on FB, and I'm confused about which question, so you're not missing anything, BuildYourOwnSnowman!

BYOS it's all very boring, "What do you think Kenton will do if he doesn't get the money from Brookfield?" " He will be upset" kind of thing.

BUT

Alarmingly the actor's own FB page is wide open and unprotected and I can everything on it, drunken pics, photos from acting jobs and comments from friends and family. I followed a link from his own mum asking a question and I could see all of her page and all of his.
I didn't even know what his real name was .

Change your settings, people!!!!

I'll c&p a few for you unsocial networkers.

Q: Could you arrest Rob for phsycho -ing out Helen?

A: Whoah! Rob's certainly in line for some sort of comeuppance whether it's myself or any other means, we'll just have to wait and see!

Q: Chorley Cakes are horrible. Dead fly pie!

A: Whoah whoah whoah! Chorley cake is the finest of the Lancashire cake. I shan't hear a word against the Chorley cake with a bit of butter on top. Better than Eccles cake or Kendal Mint!

Q: Can you confirm your accent? I think north west, warrington?

A: Definitely North West not a million miles away. I'm actually from Chorley in Lancashire. You've got a good ear!

Q: Did you leave the bathroom door open on the off chance ?

A: It was a faulty lock. It had definitely been tampered with..

THIS is the question that they are skirting around - but it hasn't been deleted by an admin, I'm surprised -

No doubt the Q and A with the GBH convict will be heavily monitored by Sean O' Censor, the man who sacked decent actors and employed criminals instead. More evidence that TA is being moulded into a typical soap from a once-honoured piece of radio genius.

CuttedUpPear are you going to message him on FB to tell him to tighten up his security settings? I think someone should.

Q:How is Lillian really?

A: She's devastated at the moment with the firm bosom of PC Burns she'll be back to normal in no time...

[sic]

Wow - that is quite a question!! If he had pr skills he would have a well crafted answer focussing on how sorry he is. And he would have privacy settings!

Thanks for c&p cuttedup!!

Now another thought, valentines day is a Saturday - does that mean we will have it stretched Thursday - Sunday? Hope not. I don't like them doing it on the wrong day!!!

Doe anyone agree with me that newtom sounds like he's reading a script? He needs lessons from johnny!!

OK last c&p as there isn't much inspiration there:

Q: Did you think at the start of your role as PC Burns that you would become so much part of Ambridge?

A: No I didn't! Originally he was just investigating a break-in at Jill's and it kind of grew from there. I'm thrilled and honoured to be part of it

Another unanswered question was:

Do you think that a real policeman would have stalked Fallon when he arrested her, followed her to Ambridge to give her back her bag, instead of getting the station to phone her: kissed a member of the public when presenting her/him with a prize for cake: generally harassed her and well, stalked her is the only way to think of it?

Ebearhug I just sent JC a message about his privacy settings - unfortunately he may not see it as messages from people who aren't your FB friends go straight into the 'other' folder and you don't get a notification. Somewhat ironic that.

Oh well, at least you tried.

Didn't Kathy have problems with Dave Barry at one point? When the police house was still a police house, and before or after she got together with Sid.

(Probably sometime in the 1980s, possibly before we had TV, which means it was the first half of the '80s.)

Don't look if you can't stand to see the faces that go with the voices, but the actor who plays Rob is in 'Midsomer Murders' right now....I thought those sinister tones sounded oddly familiar.

He seems to be as unpleasant in Midsomer as he is in Ambridge....

Bearhug, Kathy was involved with Dave Barry twice, I think - once before she got together with Sid and once later on. The first time I think she had to decide between them and PC Barry wasn't best pleased at being passed over, IIRC. Their affair later was absolutely scandalous! Eddie broke the news to Sid on a busy night at The Bull - can't remember why. Sid threw her out for a time but they eventually got back together and had Jamie. This was of course long before the infamous shower scene between Sid and Jolene.

I just had a vague memory he was a bit stalky too. (Dave Barry, that is.)

Yes Halsall But he wasn't the murderer!! He isn't that good looking really.

BYOS "pigheaded" Tom -

Maybe it was spending all that time with pigs that made Ildtom the way he was and newtom will revert to type once the pigs have their hold on him again

One thing - do you remember Eddie took clarrie out for dinner and she was all down and saying she didn't know who she was anymore , blah blah bullshit.

They seem to have dropped that story thank god

If soc were clever he would have a two year plan where he draws on the various plot strands an ensures there are no more than two short term and two long term overlapping at a time. And he needs to get a new comedy writer for his next comic plot because the kitchen saga was just deeply irritating

Could someone please recap the Brine/JD/Kate bit? I only "listen" these days by reading these threads and the venerable NBS.

Loathed Kate. Remember the "old old" Kate who struck up an unlikely friendship with Lynda who was really kind to her. Kate was misunderstood by her parents and the world (twas ever thus) and writing poems, including one about a dead badger.

Please tell me Lynda hasn't changed in any way

NelsonsWine You know Kate married a black man Lucas and lived in SA with him, they have 2 dcs. She was having an affair when Feebs was there for a year. Obviously she's had more and has broken with Lucas and left them all to come back to 'support' Feebs.

JD seems to want to placate Kate all the time and Brine wants her to face up to her and actually get the whole truth out of her (not an easy task).

Thanks ppeatfruit I remember Nolly and Sipho (?) and reading on here about Phoebe being upset at an affair.

But coming back without her children to support her daughter whom she abandoned to bugger off to Africa in the first place is - I was going to say loopy even for Kate, but thinking back, quite normal for Kate.

How does she explain it? Another postgrad course in Moral Superiority funded by Daddy?

Kate told Jenny, finally, that her and Lucas had split. But Kate blamed it all on Lucas's family "turning him against her" and they were doing it with the children now. One of whom won't speak to her. No mention of the affair/affairs.
BTW does Jenny know about the one before Phoebe came home?
Jenny told Brine what Kate had said. Brine was sceptical, and suggested there might be more to it. Jenny was all defensive.
It was well done.

Maybe we need a Phoebe Brian scene at sometime, he might be able to find out whats bothering her, give good advice. And Phoebe knows more than anyone else, as she's always on facebook.

We've not heard from Caroline for a while have we? And when we did it was as a plot device to get Roy of the Roving Eye a job at GG, not in her own right

Nelsons I think Lynda is portrayed much more sympathetically nowadays. But she is still pretty much the same.