The Archers - We Listen So You Don't Have To

[PseudoBadger]

Happy(?!) Sunday everyone

What will this week have in store for us I wonder?

Hurrah for Jill, but am I the only one thinking that she has been an uncharacteristically lax godmother all these years if we have only just heard about Anna?

How odd, of course she was! But when I googled Isobel Middleton that's what it said

I shall investigate further...

I googles the Trelawney / SHWL thing too. I reckon she's the voice of Trelawney when Harry breaks the prophecy in the Department of Mysteries. It also says she was the voice of the Fat Lady (I suspect pre Dawn French who is in the later films) so it would make sense.

I have just displayed an unseemly level of Harry Potter knowledge. I'll go now...

OK, found it, she's the voice of Trelawney on one of the HP games. That's where she's the Fat Lady, too.

She's a voice actor - she provided the voice of Prof Trelawny in one of the video games.

Sorry all. That's what you get for speed-reading

She was in Eastenders though. Of course

Kingscote got there before me

SHWL already has a spoof Twitter account - with Birds-themed photo topper

Has anyone else seen the Fantasy R4 column on page 7 of this week's RT?

Haven't had chance to listen yet tonight, but there seems to be a big conspiracy theory doing the rounds on various sites with suspicions that Henry stabbed Rob to protect Helen and now Helen is protecting him. Have I missed something?

No way Henry stabbed Rob. He was nowhere near the knife and he wouldn't have managed multiple stab wounds. One maybe, but not more. Plus at no point do either Rob or Helen call out to him in a way you'd expect if that's what had happened.

sticker if it turns out that a 5 yr old with the voice of a 3 yr old had the strength to stab someone and 'mean business' or whatever the paramedic said I'd be amazed.

Then again ... Damien.

Plus no blood on him

isn't that based on the last whodunnit in EE (that dragged on for a decade or so) and it turned out to be the kid what done it

Okay so we have conclusively proved that if Henry stabbed Rob, then he really is "Damien" or some other horror movie monster child.

(The no blood on himself proves it.)

They've got the blood issue covered- Helen got him changed in the 9 minute gap before the call to Kirsty & then plonked him down with a DVD. They think he slashed Rob 's wrist, then Helen stepped in to prevent Rob grabbing the knife and lunging at Henry.

I was slightly concerned that the solicitor had said something tonight which could have implicated Henry. Nothing would surprise me, as he seems to be a shambles.

Musing on how Rob got stabbed in the stomach if he had turned on Henry.......

We heard him forcing the knife into Helen's hand and telling her to kill herself. She would have been resisting in the sense that she was pushing away from herself. If Henry came in at that moment and Rob, surprised, stopped pushing while turning to snarl at Henry then the knife could have cut his wrist and gone into his stomach at the same time.
I can't explain the stab in the lung unless she did that one deliberately, perhaps in his back, as he went for Henry.
One thing she said was, 'He made me choose.' Did she mean choose him or Henry or did she mean it was him or me?

Either way, I'm thinking that she's now mingling with other abused women in prison and realising that she's got to get a grip on the situation and tell her side of the story.

IN reality there's no way a 5 year old could stab an adult man with enough welly to penetrate the abdominal muscles. As a plot device though, let's see Demon Henwee sent down and/or exorcised in the Bull beer garden, Alan officiating. That'll teach Rob not to mess with his bunny.

If we are going for possession, I have had my suspicions about the bunny tbh - Henry was abnormally attached to it, as Peggy noticed. ;-)

Anyway, Henry can't be Damien. In The Omen movies, child Damien never did the dirty work himself.

True true. It would have to have been the nanny.

And if she had changed him, she didn't have time to do the laundry.

I bought a new Land Rover recently and it is registered and comes with an app that allows me to see where my car is and also records all of its journeys. I am sure this is useful (I think it's a bit creepy), but when the salesman was explaining it to me, all I could think was "Rob would love this".

Sarahthefairy are you related to the Aldridge family ? Or are they more Range Rover people ?

Actually I can't recall anyone in TA ever discussing cars. Tractors occasionally.
In the farming community I was born in, all the men talked about was cars, tractors and the weather.

[Goes right off topic suffering RobHell PTSD]

Just LA and what a surprise - here comes the Ambridge legal fairy.

Why the huzzahs for Jill? Any kind filler-inner?

Am v disappointed to read about Pat. I remember her chiding John about his wanting to be "semi-organic". Likened it to being "semi-pregnant" and criticised him for being like the middle classes who think they're saving the environment by recycling their gin bottles

One ray of hope from yesterday- I think that Helen has had at least one sensible conversation with the solicitor: he knows about her financial situation. She may have told him more and I think it probable that he wouldn't talk to Pat about what she had said.

The solicitor seemed a bit behind the curve in thinking about which barrister to use and finding out their availability etc..

I wonder if the defence team will have an opportunity to interview Henry or whether they will have to rely on the recording made by the police?

Yet again, I am bemused by Bridge Farm finances. It manages to support Pat, Tony, Tom, HellRob, Johhny, Jazzer and Neil. If you listen to Pat in one of her strident moments it is a conglomerate to give Alan Sugar a run for his money: the farm, Ambridge Organics (now the shop), Tom's pigs and porcine products, the dairy operation, Helen's cheese, the veg boxes, the rental from Fallon. When P'n'T retired they handed this over to Tom and Helen (didn't they?).
So how come Helen is pleading poverty and getting Legal Aid? Rob will be furious when he wakes up - I'm sure that he thought that he was marrying into more money than that.

I was appalled by Pat's reaction to costly legal representation. It was "we can't afford that" not "I'll do anything to help her". I told you, she hasn't got a maternal bone in her body.