Active discussions

Meet the Other Phone. Child-safe in minutes.

Meet the Other Phone.
Child-safe in minutes.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Talk
Radio/podcast addicts

Discuss your favourite podcast, radio show or The Archers episode.

See all MNHQ comments on this thread

Original poster

I'm a celebrity -get me in The Archers! The jury's out in Ambridge.

975 replies

PseudoBadger · 11/09/2016 11:10

New thread for the celebrity packed hour long special tonight! Welcome to regulars and newbies alike Flowers Archers

NO SPOILERS please there's a thread for that here

Added by MNHQ: NB there will be spoilers on this thread for those who are yet to listen to the one hour special.

OP posts:
RandomDent · 11/09/2016 20:10

I loved that episode. The tide had begun to turn with 20 minutes to go, and Eileen had reminded them all of the law. Then Havers turned out to be from Fathers4Justice, so they al stopped listening. Perfect.

TheAntiBoop · 11/09/2016 20:10

I don't understand how rob and Helen could have been alone in a corridor like that?

musicposy · 11/09/2016 20:11

PeanutButterFingers totally agree!

Mumsnet HQ, I know it'll probably be everywhere and I sat and listened tonight but I usually have it on podcast and if I'd been unable to listen live I'd be pretty annoyed at MN announcing it with no spoiler alert!

Fidelia · 11/09/2016 20:11

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

LassWiTheDelicateAir · 11/09/2016 20:11

Mainly Eileen Atkins.

officerhinrika · 11/09/2016 20:12

Oh God the deluded are on Feedback

BlackeyedSusan · 11/09/2016 20:12

the whole thing has been a farce. not realistic. sensational. in a bad way. thank fuck that sodoff is finally happening.

glowfrog · 11/09/2016 20:12

Delighted about verdict but totally unconvinced by how we got there given how discussions were going. All very 12 Angry Men but really not anywhere as good.

Really scared about what Rob may get up to, and how Helen is going to hold up.

Northernlurker · 11/09/2016 20:12

I think we're supposed to assume they all told Nigel he was a huge hypocrite and in the outrage agreed they couldn't be sure do it had to be not guilty.

Fiderer · 11/09/2016 20:13

Surely it was intimated that the foreman banging on about his not seeing his children showed the other jurors that he was conflicted and not judging the case he was on, but was too heavily influenced by his own experience.

Stickerrocks · 11/09/2016 20:13

But music, as soon as it's first broadcast, we're allowed to discuss it.

Vango · 11/09/2016 20:14

Eileen Atkins's lines were brilliantly written (and delivered).

Putthetulipsthere · 11/09/2016 20:14

Found you at last!😀

Great thread title, thanks Pseudo

Vango - agree it ended with Helen sounding strong...at least she has the measure of Rob now having had all that time away from. Needless to say I'm very relieved at the not guilty verdicts😀😀 Archers

I hope SOC has packed his bags and is on his way to Albert Square 😬😬

CeciledeVolanges · 11/09/2016 20:14

glowfrog because suspense must take precedence over realism, of course.

gruber · 11/09/2016 20:15

I am just so so relieved. Sobbed My way through the verdict (learnt from Nigel's death and was actually sitting down ready) but still such a shock and relief. Helen is my age. I have a son close in age to Henry. It's all so real to me. Just pleased it's over.

glowfrog · 11/09/2016 20:15

Yes Re: foreman's prejudice - and that is a direct reference to 12 Angry Men and how Henry Fonda sways the rest of the jury...

But even if they could all agree he was biased, it still remains unclear why it would change their minds from being certain of guilt to at least having doubts.

MNHQ
PresidentOliviaMumsnet · 11/09/2016 20:16

@musicposy

PeanutButterFingers totally agree!

Mumsnet HQ, I know it'll probably be everywhere and I sat and listened tonight but I usually have it on podcast and if I'd been unable to listen live I'd be pretty annoyed at MN announcing it with no spoiler alert!

We figure it is newsworthy but will amend OP and the DOD now of course.

Wasn't me. Obviously.
Have just heard that they've raised over £151k for Refuge with the JustGiving appeal

ArchersArchersArchersArchersArchersArchersArchersArchers

tararabumdeay · 11/09/2016 20:18

The episode was brilliant because it used many voices we haven't heard before but we had to try to tune in as we do.

Because we all were the jury and knew the outcome and tuned in to what we wanted to hear.

Because there were famous actors playing a part. Their voices reminded us of the characters they normally play.

It's different for The Archers to do what they did tonight.

If The Archers ever ends I'm done with this world.

JudyCoolibar · 11/09/2016 20:18

I don't understand how rob and Helen could have been alone in a corridor like that?

Easily. Courts mostly stop sitting around 4-4.30, we know this was after 5 because Tony said it was 4.45 shortly before the jury came back - so there wouldn't be many people around.

bakeoffcake · 11/09/2016 20:19

I think they left out a huge chunk of the Jury's deliberation. The bits where most of them changed their mindsHmm

glowfrog · 11/09/2016 20:20

bakeoff Grin

TopazBurns · 11/09/2016 20:20

Hurrah for Helen. I cried with the absolute relief that it's over...but now Helen has a battle to regain custody of Henry and Jack Gideon

What a nasty sinister piece of work Rob is.

And I love the full Barwick Green music-that makes me cry anyway.

tomtherabbit · 11/09/2016 20:21

I actually quite liked it.

Well I didn't but held my breath through lots of it.

It was clear Lisa was going to be a 'same happened to me and I didn't stab him' sort

It was Eileen's 'why can't it be someone like you' line that swung it. Just like Matthew McConaughey in A Time To Kill

musicposy · 11/09/2016 20:21

But music, as soon as it's first broadcast, we're allowed to discuss it.

Yes, of course. But there's a difference with discussing it and sticking the verdict right at the top of the whole MN forum in big bold letters so that everyone who clicks on MN talk, for anything, however unrelated, will immediately see it! I just think they could have said it was discussion of the day without actually putting the verdict - that way you can choose to click or not click on any threads discussing it.

Salutarychoring · 11/09/2016 20:21

TheAntiboop I've posted about this before, but I was on a jury once (Isleworth) and after the verdict, me and fellow jury members took the same tube back to town and who should get in the same carriage but the defendant (or rather the person that we had just found 'not guilty')so it can easily happen! He was with two members of his legal team. We all studiously ignored one another for the duration of the journey!