Tis the season to be jolly, Fallon, Alan, Helen, Lillian; Deck the Hall with boughs of Holly, Lily, Will and Jill, Tilly Button. Celebrate Christmas with The Archers!

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Thanks to SmallLegsOrSmallEggs for this thread title way back in November!

I listened to about half of CG then decided I didn't really care enough to go on. I could identify the women's voices but not the men's and I did find it confusing that there were character names common to it and TA - a Chris, a Ruth.......

I sort-of listened to CG yesterday and again today. I felt like a newbie to TA - lots of similar voices that I couldn't differentiate. I hadn't really got a scooby who or what anybody was. Probably my fault for not concentrating.
Meh.

I enjoyed CG. I think you had to treat it as entirely different from TA, just another radio play. It worked well and they did a great job.

I'm not sure Ruth will turn up at at New Year. I really don't want David to stop milking, but I'm probably a little over invested in the farming themes. Good on Pip for not moping about but trying to sort herself out with work.

'Emergency surgery on the rabbits backside'

This is better!

Asthmatic dragon!

It's almost as if they've been saving all the funnies for this evening

Who knows how to unpick quickly? I'm quite sure it is not Lillian.

Well I was convinced Lynda was in CG yesterday but now, going by the comment in tonight's episode about the photographer not recognising his old teacher, I see that the Lynda sound-alike was the primadonna, Jean. Thoroughly confusing. Couldn't understand why Lynda was acting as well as directing.

Lynda was in CG, she was Marie.

That was a good episode.

Is Kirsty a red knicker girl? Wouldn't have thought it of her. BOOP to Neil for pinning her back together. And Susan.

Oh. Now I'm really confused.

Not enough to listen to CG again, mind!

Although ... I doubt that Neil would have felt the need to say anything as cliched as "it's not how it looks". He and Susan don't have that kind of marriage.

Kirsty is so totally a red knicker kind of girl. Very much so in my version of her. She is from a similar mould to Jolene - confident, a bit saucy but not as downright flirty as Lillian, but also no nonsense and practical can look out for herself.

So yes red knickers...but probably M&S red knickers.

impostersyndrome - I'm wondering if I can find a n excuse reason to be in London for the Archers' conference I can't find anything more about it than what I posted, I got the details from a FB group where one of the organisers, Cara Courage, posts updates. As soon as I see something about how to get tickets, I'll post it on here

Thanks!

I am worried about Lillian - her comment about how she should be feeling better by now after Christmas excesses. Will SOC be tackling long term terminal illness now?

Yes, that was unexpected.

Will it be lung cancer?

She can't be ill alone. And Jenny isn't great at long term kindness, or noticing. She was no help at all to Tony when they were struggling with money.

Will this be what brings Mungo and family back for good?

Or, of course, Matt would be a fabulous nurse. She'd laugh herself to death.

I loved the cg episode. so funny with the shrunken knitting and the red knickers!

Delurking to say I am VERY worried about Lilian

Hel/Rob being used to illustrate the new coercive control law on PM.

Sometime in the next hour.

You beat me to it Gruach

I must have missed the bit about Lillian. Was she not just talking of her depression after Matt leaving?

Here we go. 1748 if you're catching up on i player.

Given Elizabeth's slightly clunky 'it's been five years' speech we're presumably up on the 65th anniversary...I fear Lil may not see much of 2016 ...