Silence in court! Discuss The Archers and shout from the gallery here. Send him down.

[PseudoBadger]

What day is it again?

Unless, of course, he's just on hols the following week?

Otherwise, given that they record in advance, looks like he's ALREADY GONE!

DDD Unless I'm reading it wrong, he's Ed until 18 September? Tying up all the loose ends!

Which is what you wrote! Ignore me.

Have they announced the new editor then? Or are they going to do that on the Monday after the Sunday special?

It's all horribly egotistical of him, isn't it?

Yes, maybe SOC's learnt a few tricks from his favourite gaslighter: "Where did you get the idea I was leaving? You really do get your heads in a muddle sometimes, listener, I'm not going anywhere. I mean, how can the SWs cope without me? You do see that, don't you?"

No, the editor for the following week after SODOFF is Alison Hindell, BBC Head Of Drama - presumably caretaking until SOC has milked all the applause the new Editor is announced.

DDD you are scarily good at Knobspeak!

Hurrah for imminent SODOFF

Heh, heh, well when you're as talented as me, there's really nothing to it. Anyone who's a real man can manage to keep a few middle-aged female listeners entertained - just throw in a few lines of emotional dialogue and they're eating out of your hand...

...oh, whoops, is this keyboard still on?

But its your manly grasp of statistics which really gets to our hormone-addled brains, you know.

I think I'm enjoying this board as much as TA right now!

I am looking forward to the general fallout from Helen's rape revelation. I have been shocked on more than one occasion to hear people remark in RL that rape within marriage/relationships is somehow not rape at all. It reminds me of Nanna's throwaway line in 'The Royle Family' when talking about an old friend: "She married a builder - he knocked her about a bit, but her home was lovely." That old sentiment that things happen within marriage that are nobody else's business - life's 'ups and downs'. And I'm quite sure that Bruce & Arse would be marital-rape deniers.

Ah, yes, I find a commanding grasp of statistical techniques is generally a big hit with the ladies.

Errol - you are so lucky to have Dadx3 posting on the same board as you. You must be thanking your lucky stars every time you log on! Most mumsnetters can only dream of having a poster like that in their lives. And well, considering your past unfortunate experiences with Netmums and that Twitter troll, you must be extra pleased. It's not as though you've had a lot of luck with Internet-based talk in the past, is it?

But wash your mouth out with soap re NetMums please!

Worst thing about CC storyline is hearing myself in Rob.
Child "Can I have an ice cream?"
Me "Of course you can. But surely all those enumbers/pig fat/sugar are at odds with your healthy lifestyle, look at 'X' next door and how unfit / many teeth fillings he has. Absolutely your choice though darling ... " etc etc
Am I guilty?

So they've shoehorned the family court hearing into the week immediately following the criminal trial - which just wouldn't happen in RL - purely so that SOC can have his wish for the big dramatic send-off? That's proper irritated me, that has. I can't see how it would ever have been arranged that way - they can't know exactly how long the criminal trial will take, and as the outcome is going to be pretty crucial to the family court's decisions they'd need to assimilate what was happening, e.g. if Helen was convicted which prison she goes to etc etc. And someone needs to put together written evidence about the rape issue for the family court.

But we all knew that a few facts were never going to get in the way of SOC's career, didn't we?

After Arsula was so foul to Pat, I do hope that Pat is going to favour her with a few choice opinions on her rapist son.

Finally I've just caught up with this thread - hardly managed any work at all this morning. Luckily I work from home.

It's lovely to be back on here, now that I've plucked up the courage to listen again.

Like the new smiley, glad that got sorted in the end, will give it a go here

Pssst.......Judy you're on the wrong thread! 😁

what about the flower and produce show?
isn't that this weekend?

Oh - so thats why we've got an extended episode on Sunday, of course!

Fisticuffs over the Freda Fry Memorial Prize.

Flower and produce show is in a couple of weeks, isn't it? Bit miffed that that doesn't merit an extended episode.