As the Archers threads age like a fine wine, or a cheese, come and join us - it's nearly time for the Ambridge Flower and Produce show

[PseudoBadger]

Hopefully we can go back to an ordinary tale of country folk?

Spoilers are frowned upon.... There's a thread for that.

"You silly girl"

What was Peggy wrong about?

Peggy said that Lilian had a strictly professional relationship with Justin. I thought Jennifer's silence in response was deafening!

Thank you Pseudo - it all sounds very promising.

I'm here but not properly here. For the first time in years I will actually need the film.

Bertrand, re. Lillian, when discussing Justin's hiring of Rob, Peggy said "her relationship with Justin is purely professional.......Lillian's got her head screwed on where business is concerned...." Etc etc. Echoes of 'Rob's a marvellous husband' type statements from her, which still irk me.

Is Lillian older or younger than Jenny? They're both in their sixties, aren't they? Do you really think Peggy doesn't realise her daughter is, ahem, a bit of a bike? And has LIllian come clean to Jenny(Dear) about her thing with Justin the Tory Tycoon? If so, when did that happen? Do you think Justin and Rob could end up being cold-shouldered by The Village as they turn as one on the outsiders?

TBH, I don't really like Peggy, she strikes me as a bit of a harridan, ruling her family with money. But then, quite often, I don't like Jill. All her tight-lipped quivering about moving out of Brookfield (to Lower Loxley!) to make way for Ruth's poor mum....Not keen on David either, something of the entitled so-and-so. Sometimes I wonder why I listen to the wretched thing at all! Friends just look at me and ask why, why this crap?? Can't you listen to Radio 6?

Henry's wine gum crown wins the 'confectionary-adorned headgear' category. He thanks Daddy in his acceptance speech.

Thanks for the new thread. I'm making a special effort to keep up.

Long awaited!

(My befuddled and exhausted head can't immediately find a way to link to an email so this is copied almost in full. Apologies if bad form. But so excited.)

Hello everyone

Firstly, please excuse this group email, and secondly, thank you all over on the FB group for your great input!

As you may have seen, we have the Call for Paper out for the second Academic Archers conference. This is taking place 17th to 19th February 2017 at University of Lincoln, and it will include a field trip…

We’d be really grateful if you could both consider your own responses to this call, for there are three ways that you can be involved as a speaker at the next conference, as well as forward this on to others that you think would be interested.

We’re also seeking people interested in joining a peer review panel to read the abstracts submitted in response to this call and decide those that will feature at the conference; if that sounds like something you may like to do, let me know by replying to this email and I’ll pass your interest on to Nicola, who is running this aspect of the conference.

More details of the conference will be posted in due course and we expect tickets to go on sale in the new year.

We hope to see you there – this year was a great day and very much looking forward to more of the same next year!

Cara

Call for Papers: The Archers in fact and fiction: Academic analyses of life in rural Borsetshire

Dr Cara Courage, University of Virginia, and Dr Nicola Headlam, University of Oxford, with Prof Carenza Lewis, University of Lincoln, invite the submission of abstracts to a seminar on the subject of BBC Radio 4’s The Archers.

The second Academic Archers seminar will feature a strand on the Helen and Rob storyline alongside papers from any and all other aspects of life in Ambridge and Borsetshire. Submissions are invited from any academic discipline and of the following formats:

Keynote (45 minutes, incl. Q+A)
Paper (15 minutes with 5 minute Q+A)
Quick pitches (5 minutes)
Papers might include but are by no means limited to:

Clicktivism and crowd-sourcing philanthropy
Archers tribes – ethnographic accounts of a fandom differentiated by online activity
The housing crisis in South Borsetshire
Route B as “local democracy as usual”
Are all educated older women permanently stoned?
Rural and village economics, from the village store to agribusiness
Divisions of labour on a family farm
The implications of coercive control for the legal and penal system
This list is not meant to be exclusive or exhaustive, but is meant to inspire you to think how your academic research, sector professional expertise or listener forensic knowledge of The Archers can illuminate and explain life in Ambridge and Borsetshire. The day is intended to give fans of The Archers a platform to exercise their love of the programme and their subject area.

The seminar will take place at University of Lincoln, 17th to 19th February 2017 and will include a field trip.

If you are a fellow Archers fan and/or academic please submit your abstract of 200 words to [email protected], [email protected] and [email protected] by 1st November, indicating the type of presentation you are intending. Programming will be determined by an Academic Archers panel and will be communicated by mid-November.

Further information on Academic Archers can be found here:
www.facebook.com/groups/AcademicArchers/.

Dr Cara Courage
PhD MSc BA FRSA AoU FRGS AAG PLC

Are all those acronyms for real???

Thanks for the new thread, Pseudo.

Blimey. 'Are all educated older women permanently stoned'

Anyway - yes, lovely episode. I think they've unearthed some sound effects tapes - we were also treated to clinking jamjars, the clink of tractor linker (I think) and the buzz of Fabrice's salon. And the Ag. Ed. has been busy so we are now all much better informed about the difficulties of cultivating mushrooms.

Thanks for the new thread. Need to LA to tonight's as I was at Fat Fighters

grauch - when they say 'field trip', do they mean a trip to an actual field?

Pseudo - great thread title, though IIRC it should have been a smelly cheese.

OMG I have just started my MA at Lincoln in a sort of related area!

Dunno Errol but the previous conference concluded with drinks at The Bull near Liverpool Street Station so ...

But where is Lincoln? I thought Ambridge was Worcestershire-ish.

Thanks for the new thread

Ambridge is in Worcestershire. I'm not letting Lincolnshire claim it (didn't someone do a paper implying Lincolnshire-ish at the last conference?)

I missed that talk I think.

Borsetshire is the fourth of the "Three Counties" ( worcestershire, herefordshire and gloucestershire). Hence shopping trips to Cheltenham, with Birmingham the nearest major city.

Lincoln is in Lincolnshire . Its the county somewhere off to the right of the A1 which most people bypass and forget is there but without which we'd never get our 5 a day. The city is lovely, havent been for years but I expect the awesome pie shop is still there.

Yeah - the rather strong possibility that it is in Lincolnshire made me suspicious ...

Wiki says borsetshire is between Worcestershire and Warwickshire ... I'm sure they go to the 3 counties show though.

Lincoln, I mean ...

@ErrolTheDragon

Borsetshire is the fourth of the "Three Counties" ( worcestershire, herefordshire and gloucestershire).

BUT BUT BUT I live in Herts and have Three Counties radio Herts Beds Bucks

Are all those acronyms for real???

Yeah, my best guess is a newly minted PhD doing a bit of Willy- waving.

Aside from the first three (given in the wrong order) the others look like memberships of Learned Societies. FRSA - Fellow Royal Society of the Arts, AAG - American Association of Geographers FRGS - Fellow Royal Society of Geographers. Generally open to anyone with a demonstrable interest in the topic and can muster a few decent references and a membership fee. In front of other academics it just makes you look a bit try hard.

"Do you really think Peggy doesn't realise her daughter is, ahem, a bit of a bike?"

What a hideous expression

And even if you accept the expression- Lillian has slept with 3 people in the last 10(?) years , so not even accurate. Unless any older woman with a sex life is up for condemnation,,,,,,,,,,