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

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Happy(?!) Sunday everyone

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

Lovely to hear Fag ash again

Well that was dull wasn't it. Son and Hellin online now

How do I get onto this website or q and a?

Was dreaming there for a minute

cba with that

I suppose they're trying to stir it up again as most of the new listeners have given up listening.

Poor SOC and his listening figures

Pleeease where is this talk?

I didn't understand that at all (family in the background): who was Susan talking to in the shop? The first time, not the Fairbrother. It sounded like Alan? Or Richard?

Dear me!
Sean O'Connor writes:
'We know that the statistics are that two women a week are murdered by their partners or ex-partners but the story is Helen's story. Ultimately, Rob is a subsidiary character in order to help us examine her and therefore she must be the protagonist. It is Helen's story going through the dark phase of her life, that the audience want to identify with and we hope will travel with her to some sort of positive resolution.'

Eh??? EH???????? So the stabbing was a move to a positive resolution? The having the baby in prison etc is positive????? The man's an idiot.

northern. How can I listen to this?

It's on the Archers facebook page. There's a link from the BBC site.

Ta. Will look for it.

Link here

It's typed not spoken

Thanks for link. Couldn't find it!

Oh, ok, silly me. I would think Helen leaving her abusive husband, dealing with a confused son, having a baby conceived during rape (and learning to love that baby) and putting a life together without that husband wouldn't have been Helens story? Wouldn't be working to a positive resolution?

I'm much more likely to identify with a character in prison than the above storyline

SOCs right of course - stabbing Rob was the best option

I had a look for the fakebook thing but canmot actually find anything by them. Maybe because I am not on fb?

Fink Susan was talking to DocLok - who was not impressed with her Helen gossip

Thanks! I was thinking it was Alan and wondering why he wasn't a bit more preachy about the no gossip thing.

Then again, I thought Pip was Kirsty last night and they sound nothing like each other!

[Sigh], I always found it slightly ridiculous the way characters would overuse each others' names, but now I guess I need it. I'll petition to have Joe in every scene;he's a good one for always saying things like 'Hello, David Archer and young Josh.' TA for people who are losing their memory way before time!

Dr Locke sounds like Harrison to me. I wondered why he was letting Susan gossip about Helen.

Anyway, for MrsShappey (or can I call you Arthur), here's a graph

On the basis of the gospel according to Cabin Pressure, you should probably call her Minty or Libbett or Pobs.

Fink - I thought Susan was talking to Alan, too! There was a gentle reprimand at the end. Tho' did wonder why Alan was invited to the lunch.

In this house, we thought it was Harrison talking to Susan and at the lunch

Yes, Mrs Shappey (well Knapp-Shappey to be precise!) is my MIL!

Thanks for the graph DDD, looks a bit like a knife, no?

Good point MrsAD!

Mrs ArthurShappey isn't your MIL now Mrs Knapp Shappey Shipwright after marrying the ever suave Hercules?

SOC is the master of gas lighting.

I agree. I caught up with the Newsnight piece. The bit which particularly annoyed me was SOC going on about people saying this is the end of the Helen & Rob story, but it's probably got years to go, so he doesn't know why they're thinking it. And I thought, probably it's got something to do with all the trailers, saturation coverage on the BBC and other areas of the press and social media - much of which SOC will have had some hand in, and people are thinking it's the end because that's exactly what he's wanted everyone to think.

I can't watch the Newsnight piece as I'm not in UK atm. The Helen and Rob story having years to run - how depressing. I hope the new editor takes a different view.