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We love Charlie. But we want Adam and Ian to get married. What will happen in Ambridge in the pre-Christmas thread?

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PseudoBadger · 13/12/2015 09:54

Just listened to Friday - we are 2 weeks from Christmas and David didn't even ask whether Ruth will be back by then?

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Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 23/12/2015 08:28

Nerdy fact of the day: does everybody know that The Archers is the longest running soap opera in the world? There was a US one that had run continuously since the 30s or 40s, but it got cancelled a few years ago.

Off to get the turkey now. Not a Grundy one, I'm afraid. Xmas Grin

KingscoteStaff · 23/12/2015 08:29

Another one who is firmly indoctrinating DC into radio 4 dependency.

I am Marjorie Antrobus or one of her afghan hounds, posting from beyond the tweed veil.

Now worrying if Afghan hounds get a capital letter...

AnnieNoMouse · 23/12/2015 08:33

I have an idea. An episode populated only by silent characters.
We will hear sound effects. Tilly Button snipping bunting off a tree, and running across the green; Jean Harvey stomping around her kitchen rehearsing her CG lines (in her head not out loud); and Freda Fry turning quietly in her grave.
It will be artistically challenging radio AND a budget winner.
Grin

CuttedUpPear · 23/12/2015 08:39

Three things. ..

  1. I've listened regularly for 16 years and erratically for about 5 years before that.
  1. My DCs are indoctrinated into the ways of TA and often ask me to fill in background details. DS texted me when I was abroad to let me know about David breaking his arm.
  1. I'm not sure about posting style, but as for the character I have most in common with. ..well I'm from Birmingham, I've done some ill advised things in my past that have affected me long term. I've come to live in a small village to make a new start and have been supported by the villagers. My particular skill involves physical work, I've also been homeless. ...so I must be .......Darryl! ShockSmile

I would have said HWMNBN but you know how BrendaandEddie doesn't like us using acronyms.

Right Pseudo you'll definitely have to abandon this thread now.

FernieB · 23/12/2015 08:45

Keep missing the trailers - could someone tell me when the Calendar Girls is going to be on R4 please?

EBearhug · 23/12/2015 08:46

I'l be having goose for Christmas. I'm not keen, on the grounds it's like duck but more so; OTOH, I haven't had it before, so it will be a new experience. But I do actually like turkey. (Might find some turkey to cook for myself for new year when I'm back home.)

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PseudoBadger · 23/12/2015 08:51

"I have an idea. An episode populated only by silent characters."

Yes! Jamie fells a tree (if a silent fells a tree does it make a noise?)
Chris shoes a horse.
Tom makes a sausage.

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JessieMcJessie · 23/12/2015 08:53

I liked Blythe Spirit, but it certainly didn't sound like an am dram production. Fallon/Joanna van Kampen was very good. I was happy to suspend disbelief about their acting ability as it was stand alone.

That said, so far in rehearsal I have found Alison Dowling's Yorkshire accent dire. I can't see why the play is not easily transferable to whatever county the actors actually live in. Yorkshire isn't really crucial to the plot, is it?

Will be interesting to see if the Roy character is as wooden as he was in rehearsal.

Joskar · 23/12/2015 08:54

I thought Joe was sticking it to Rob a bit with the Helen Archer thing. This Johnny-come-lately Titchner. But also I think it's quite a common thing to do. My mother's cousin is in her 80s and was married for over 50 years but is still referred to by her maiden name.

I love goose but my ma doesn't so we're having rib of beef. Turkey is a bit rubbish (sorry Eddie!).

The Grundys are my favourite characters. Sometimes the others are excessively MC and I want to kill them. Pip and T-Rex are very annoying. I also quite like Jazzer even though he's not what you would call a character with depth or subtlety. It would be nice if they could round out some of the characters sometimes.

Footle · 23/12/2015 09:00

Marjorie's tweed veil is a delightful concept - thank you Kingscote.

enochroot · 23/12/2015 09:08

  1. Been listening for about 40 years on and off, mostly on.

  2. I think I'm most like Lynda - but also exactly match Grauch's self-portrait.

  3. Having turkey.

R4 · 23/12/2015 09:17

Did anyone notice that, when JE was making social chit chat at DocLocke's party, he mentioned the Estate party and he said that Adam should have come*. Those don't sound like the words of an out&out homophobe to me. So has Knob been spinning Charlie a line all this time? (never understood this SL: Charlie has been around Damara longer than Rob and works more closely with JE, so why does he believe Rob?)

  • no childish giggling at the back please.Grin
VegetablEsoup · 23/12/2015 09:24

listening for 4 weeks now

character: no idea yet

goose at inlaws and duck at parents, yep 2 christmas dinners...(don't ask)

JessieMcJessie · 23/12/2015 09:27

I agree with all the sociological analysis of why Joe calls Helen "Archer". However I also think it's just a convenient device to tell newer listeners who is related to whom Xmas Smile.

JessieMcJessie · 23/12/2015 09:30

Agree R4 in fact didn't JE actually go out of his way to congratulate Adam and say something which implied " great that the countryside is catching up with the city re attitudes to gay marriage"?

Helenluvsrob · 23/12/2015 09:34

3 things....

I'm beginning to dread Christmas. How will Henry be without his beloved grandparents

I might have to eat something, noooo can't do that

I may flip and carve Rob instead of the turkey, I wonder what patio Eddie is laying over new year ?

R4 · 23/12/2015 09:37

Joe doesn't only do the surname thing with Archers. Everybody gets their full title. The only person who didn't get the formal Firstname Surname treatment was The Dog Woman. What did the Grundys have against her? - she was lovely.

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PseudoBadger · 23/12/2015 09:38

Maybe JE and Charlie had a thing going on?

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ArgyMargy · 23/12/2015 09:41

Yes I noticed that R4 - I know it's a rural community but the whole homophobia idea always seemed unlikely. But the SW had to have a basis for Knob's blackmail so that's an easy/lazy one.

SeekEveryEveryKnownHidingPlace · 23/12/2015 09:42
  1. Been listening since I was old enough to be told to be quiet between 7.02 and 7.15, but more obsessively in the last few years.
  1. Goose, for the first time. Worried.
  1. Am exactly between Kate and Helen, in terms of age. Probably share something in common with both. My dad says he always had a lot of sympathy for Tony archer Shock
R4 · 23/12/2015 09:50

I love it when Joe calls Lizzie 'the widow Pargetter'.

FinestGrundyTurkey · 23/12/2015 10:12

Despite the name, we're having beef & pork Smile We all prefer it to turkey & it's much easier to fit everything in the oven

I've been listening for close to 30 years now. DS1 is a month younger than Chris Carter & DS2 2 months younger than Pip so I was antenatal with Susan & Ruth. (Before Chris was born with his cleft lip I'd been dreaming that mine would have one & thought it was an omen)

There is no alter ego for me. They're all much too energetic.

FinestGrundyTurkey · 23/12/2015 10:15

R4, it was only Joe who called Marjorie The Dog Woman, wasn't it?

Dipankrispaneven · 23/12/2015 10:19

KingscoteStaff: TA and Antonia Forest? Are you me?

nettie · 23/12/2015 10:23

Lurker, delurking to help a good cause. Semi new listener ( started listening in build up to Kirsty and Toms non wedding!).

Can't stand Ruth, hope she stays in NZ.

Love the Grundies, some of the last few weeks scenes have been heartbreaking.