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?

SOC did give something away - that H won't be free of R for a very long time. And this 'big moment' is in the middle of the SL not the end.
Although confusingly he said that in the DV story in EE they made a mistake by not killing the perp off so it became a bit pantomime. Hmmm.

Stabbing Melons. Lol

The brother in The Secret Agent was NOT a little boy!!!
He was a grown, unspecified special needs, adult. Mr O'C has never read it

I heard the tail-end of SOC's BH appearance and just thought: how unpleasantly smug he is.

In view of what SOC said about not killing off the EE perp being a mistake it looks like Knob might have a relapse after all...

BH?

I'm not going to repeat the experience if listening to that interview - but I had the impression that he meant the repercussions would still be impacting on Helen/Ambridge for decades, rather than that we will be obliged to listen to on air battling between Helen and Rob. So, perhaps akin to the repurcussions of Jenny's "liaison" with Paddy Whatsface, or poor Jack/Peggy/Ambridge saddled with Hazel, or Johnny appearing out of the blue?

Re: Hardy - SOC shouldn't be so pleased with himself - I don't think writers usually like talking about how derivative their work is.

BH = Broadcasting House (R4, 9am today.)

Sorry, Augusta - yes, Gruach has it. Broadcasting House on R4.

I'm listening to the film (hadn't intended to) and I simply can't take DocLocke's accent seriously, not after he was so very Queen's English in Silent Witness. His Northern-ness sounds so put on somehow.

On another note, hearing a week’s worth of Soooosan's avid gossiping reinforces my long-held view that she is, at heart, thoroughly vile

From Broadcasting House:

#thearchers Editor on Helen/Rob "its probably got another 20 years to go".

('slightly' teasing) on #bbcbh

I thought SOC was unbearable this morning.

I maintain though that Rob will wake up and tell the police it was all a mistake and an accident blah blah and the CPS will conclude that you can't prosecute somebody when the victim is going to stand up in court and diss your whole case and thus Helen will be freed and will have to go back to Rob in order to keep Henry and the baby. To the horror of her parents - who can either go along with it or lose her altogether - and to the bemusement of the village who will collectively decide Rob is a saint personified. And the next 20 years rolls on........

And - a tweet from Antiques Roadshow:

A treat for @ArchersAddicts and @BBCTheArchers fans tonight as #AntiquesRoadshow comes from @HanburyHallNT...or should that be Lower Loxley.

But Northern could any family ever countenance such a decision without staging some sort of forceful intervention?

And how could Social Services allow a child to continue living in a house where one parent had stabbed the other?

What's the face for, Gruach? LL is based on Hanbury Hall, just as St Steven's is based on Hanbury church. photos of actors

The face was because - despite my obsessive, highly academic (...) and all encompassing dedication to TA - the Hanbury Hall connection has until now escaped my notice / memory.

Though perhaps it did come up when we were all searching for Catheridge (?) Hall? I dunno ...

No, it has been that way from the start. It amazes me that the NT don't capitalise on it like other 'celebrity locations' eg Chatsworth.

The point of view that is missing so far since the 'incident' is Ian's. I'd be intrigued to hear his thoughts on what has happened.

If Rob does attempt to take Henry into his care then surely the family can voice their suspicions and flag him up to Social Services as a potential danger to Henry.

Movingon makes an excellent point about Knob not being able to control things from his hospital bed - he can't nip out and cover his tracks and wasn't expecting to be hospitalised so hopefully there will be something waiting to trip him up that he won't be able to talk his way out of. Ian has been virtually written out (or at least reduced to silent character status) which is completely infuriating as one of Hellin's best friends before their fall out and one who is married to her cousin. I never get the feeling that SOC has the big picture (for all his talk of writing storylines to last 20 years) - he seems to be so focused on one particular strand of the drama he forgets to take account of how other people in the village would behave (or even who else there is to be taken into account). Nic and Hellin used to be good friends - she's another one who has dropped off the radar, but is someone who in RL would definitely have a take on this.

Toomuchtea - you make a good point - sounds like you may have experience - hope you are okay,

Like others here, I'm increasingly convinced it was Henry. I think Helen stabbed Rob once and then dropped the knife. Henry picked it up and stabbed him, too, which is why Rob's bowel was perforated. Must have been quite a low blow.

Henry told Helen not to worry, he'd look after her in an earlier episode. So she's saying nothing, to avoid incriminating him.

Why this didn't come out in Henry's interview, is interesting, though.

a nie in an ideal.world if Helen makes an accusation of abuse then neither children should go to Rob until an assessment has been done. They should be placed with whoever will care for them best. (That might be Ursula. Or Rob living with U, or BF or foster care)

Henry should automatically be a 'child of interest' now as he has been involved in a violent incident.

SW should at least be checking what has gone on.

Rob doesn't 'own' the baby. He has no relationship with that baby and no experience of babies in general. Plus he will take a while to recover. And he has no income. Abd he might be abusive. So its not a given.

But I think to cause Hel maximum distress wjich is what he SOC will want to do, he will tryto get the kids.

^^ he would definitely get access though.

If it were Henry he might not remember it.
Kids blank out things they don't want to know about.

In which case Hel must have decided what to do before she phoned Kirsty and told her it was her.

But the paramedic said they 'weren't messing about'. Could a 5 year old do much damage? (Be more plausible if he'd shot him)

I don't see how it could be Henry. Neither Helen nor Rob shout out his name, which you'd expect them to - something like "Henry, no!". I know this SL has veered into melodrama but if Henry has anything to do with this, I will go postal.*

*i.e. swear at radio and post in ALL CAPS