Elves have needs too - will there be a pheasants' revolt? Discuss The Archers here

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I've just browsed Lowfield for the first time - they really don't like Pat do they!

Well done Johnny!

Who said that at the end about the look on Rob's face? Is this the start of scales starting to drop from eyes?

Was that Pip and Tobes at the end?

Surely Kenton must be realising what a knob the knob is after that exchange about Henry.

I think it was Pip at the end .

I agree EBear. I think the Henry comment was just Rob being a knob.

So Rob the hero is in the pub and has been out and about. And yet no-one mentioned Jack and he hasn't mentioned his son, Gideon. It's just contrived.

Surely Harrison would have discussed with Kenton/Jolene/Fallon how un-hero like Rob was in the flood.

God, it is just so annoying.

Surely David or Jenny would have mentioned how Knob exacerbated the flood by blocking the culvert. Is it the scriptwriters who have amnesia or are we supposed to think Jenny and David have amnesia?

This feels like one of those awful chick-lit novels where everyone is taken in until the final chapter.

Lillian, I think it's the listeners who are supposed to forget these inconvenient details when the storyline changes to suit SOC's latest whim.

Why is it that, whenever BHC come up with an outrageous suggestion, Bridge Farm just roll over and say OK? They are spineless and/or extremely slow-witted.

After that we'll be happy to serve you at The Bull? Nah rob: you already got served

Pip has started speaking weirdly again. Compere and contraaaast.

It's weird the way everyone keeps acting like Rob is the bad guy when no one has been given any reason to think he is.

It's almost as if they have been having conversations that we haven't been hearing

It's weird the way everyone keeps acting like Rob is the bad guy when no one has been given any reason to think he is.

Yes - but still, nearly all of them are related to Helen, and I think it's a situation where you probably would have to take sides, and despite all Helen's faults, blood is thicker than water and all that.

#awkward.
Hmmm his auntie stabbed him and he's a rapist. It's already about as awkward as it can get surely.

Odd that no one mentioned the baby though.

Surely they're not actually forbidden from contact on non-contact days, if they happen all to be at the same village event

Of course they are not. That is just utter nonsense.

Aw, well done Johnny. Boop.

Could some naice listener please give a brief summary? RL is v silly present and I can't LA (or more honestly - I can find time if it's a crucial episode but if there's Knob /Henry awfulness then I'd really rather not).

I don't know why they don't close the shop down and make Knob redundant, then start it up again after the obligatory 3 month gap. That'd learn 'im.

Don't think they even need to do that boffin. Think they can just terminate himhis employment.

They can terminate his employment. I hope they do.

I can't understand why they haven't booted him weeks ago. There was a time when Pat in Tiger Mum mode wouldn't have hesitated in chucking out the man who abused her daughter. I can sort of understand why she was so feeble about him when she thought he was the love of her daughter's life, but none of that applies now.

spiker DS was talking at me so I wasn't fully listening but ...
It's the day of the Single Wicket.
We start the programme with Pip fulfilling the Agricultural Education remit and popping in some explanations as to why people will/won't be at the SW (oh no. Another SW abbreviation!).

Rob is commentating on the SW. Kenton, being an Archer, couldn't say 'no' to him. (What is wrong with them? Is it something in the Am water)
Rob reminds Tom that Sunday is the day when contact is allowed between Bridge Farm/Henwee. Since it is not Sunday, contact is not allowed (according to Rob's logic) so Tom must make an effort not to see Henwee at the fête. Tom agrees to this because he is a plonker. Kenton witnesses this convo.

Pip gets drawn against Rex. Opportunities for flirting.
The final is between Tom and Johnny. J wins.

Goes to get his prize. Shula wasn't there for some unexplained reason (romantic w/e away with Alistair? we can live in hope) so Rob was prize-giver too. Rob has made a 'brave' comment earlier about 'recent events' which elicited supportive noises from the crowd. Johnny refuses to shake his hand and makes his own passive-aggresive statement right-back-atcha.

I was thinking again earlier about the collective amnesia. It's really becoming a whacking great elephant in the room - so a Rob is such a fantastic guy, everyone in the village feels sorry for him (although as usual his every utterance is delivered with maximum venom, straight out of the pantomime-villain handbook). What are they putting in the water to wipe everyone's memory?

It was bad enough last week when Tom was apologising to Kirsty for jilting her at the altar and tiptoed ever so carefully round any mention of Knob's extremely major role in his actions and subsequent flight to Canada. It's just bizarre. Do SOC and the SWs genuinely think that people won't remember these rather important plot points?

This feels like one of those awful chick-lit novels where everyone is taken in until the final chapter.

I've got it! The return of Oliver & Caroline, midway through the trial, will be the undoing of Rob. Isn't it a law of chick-lit that everybody knows everybody else by some unlikely link. O&C will have met someone in Italy (old schol chum? the Canadian employer? Miles? Stefan!?) who provides the clinching evidence.
It's either that or discovering dodgy doings in the Hunt's accounts.