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.

It always makes me laugh, I'm afraid! 'Nobody's perfect' from Some Like It Hot is probably my favourite, though.

Not much on TA to rival those. Brian's remark to Jenny when Alice and Chris got married was quite good - 'We've just got to regard this as Alice's starter marriage, darling'. Sadly, I suspect that is the direction they're heading now.

So sorry Gruach, that episode was dreadful. I didn't even bother turning the radio up over DD's chatter, let's face it didn't really need to listen full stop!

Place bets now for how long it takes Alice to cheat with one of t-Rex

Ha! yes, the end of SLIH is wonderful. Except on MN, it would happen as a serious exchange:
"I'm a man"
"Nobody's perfect!"

Gasp, I'd forgotten about Brian's starter marriage comment. I guess it seems to becoming true. It's odd though, as if Alice is becoming more like Kate.

All very predictable about the Fairbrethren & Pip.

Cold tea - I also didn't bother to turn up over DC's incessant chatter 😬

Cheers all round for Ed!

I loved that remark from Brian about a starter marriage.

Alice was an utter PITA tonight. She sounded about 15 with her behaviour. poor Ed - at least he spoke up for himself. I wonder why Emma wasn't with him, as they presumably have child care with Clarrie being in same house.

Budget didn't run to Emma!

Suspension of disbelief took an evening off tonight. It was one of those nights when I just saw them all standing round the microphone in the studio. On a good night, I'm in Ambridge, sitting unobtrusively in the corner eavesdropping.

Well put Gasp0de .. Utterly tiresome and unconvincing.
Alice sounded like an adult playing a child ( radio 4 can be guilty of this in afternoon plays)
I suppose Pip was no more annoying than usual but ...
Toby is a cad but can't run after Rex feeiling contrite and then treat him with so little respect
Alice had Adam's worst trait ( entitled) mixed with Kate's selfishness...
Way too much signposting of her impending infidelity ( or Chris?) who on earth makes such statements about how their marriage is inviolable??!!
Can you tell!? I'm massively irritated

I thought Alice was drunk and very irritating

I wasn't entirely concentrating, probably due to boredom, but didn't the penny drop with Pip when she was talking to Rex that Toby hadn't said anything to him? So why did she seem genuinely surprised (well, as genuine as Daisy Thing ever manages to depict) that he didn't know when he caught them later?

It were right rubbish. Not one single likeable character with the possible exception of Ed, and some truly appalling acting. Alice's drunken hubris was toe curling. And OMG I could not care less about Pip.

Has lowfield gone off line? Tried to go to it and got this:

No Virtual Host Configured
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If you are the site owner, you can find information on how to do this in our knowledgebase here.

I just got a Not Found message - different from yours but still, not there

it happens from time t time. don't fret, it will be back

(it didn't even update this week until Tuesday)

@redshoeblueshoe

I'm sure I counted 16. But a duplicate post was removed before and they gave a different message.

Actually Gasp0de said . . . . . .

We would normally withdraw dupes to avoid casting nasturtiums - sometimes the delete key is quicker though
wasn't me Obvs

ALICE extremely irritating tonight.

Is alice becoming someone who does stupid things after an excess of rose?

I caught up with yesterdays tonight too, much stronger epi. Loved the way Emma served Rob so politely but coldly.

Was predictable and so boring tonight. I imagine when it's like that they are launching some new junior scriptwriter off on their first ever episode. No other explanation.

Even my 11yr old said Alice has had personality transplant. No way would someone from a privileged background who married a farrier have put another working class person like Ed into a 'here's a genuine yokel I can present to you as an interesting specimen to increase my cred'.

Thought it was JD who made starter marriage comment not Brian?

What on earth is Alice on? That was excruciating. What was all that nonsense about Ed meeting all her friends.

Alice is dreadful- was she always such a patronising idiot?

It were right rubbish. Not one single likeable character with the possible exception of Ed, and some truly appalling acting. Alice's drunken hubris was toe curling. And OMG I could not care less about Pip

Absolutely. Ed was a shining star in this dross.

I'm finding Rob's behaviour incomprehensible. Why is he going round talking to people he would barely pass the time of day with before about how badly treated he's been? He knows that all know what was said in court, surely? It's wierd.

I agree Bertand. I think it's being done to up the drama, but has been badly thought through.

The end of that episode: Pat saying "there's nothing we can do!" Next thing we know Anna will be appearing saying "but wait! You, unlike everyone else who has tried except for one, will be able to put your husband in prison under this otherwise totally useless and badly drafted new law! And when he has been punished everything will be better! Henry and Helen will be totally normal again!" Cue more courtroom drama and I switch the radio off.

By the way, I wrote a whole rant on my blog about this storyline. This rampant self-publication but please feel free not to read/never to read again, I'm just interested in whether people agree and didn't want to spam the thread: resipsaloquitursite.wordpress.com/2016/09/23/finding-fault-with-the-archers/

I caught up last night and wish Alice would go quiet again! Her voice makes me think it's Pip squeaking and the way she forced Ed to go to her parrrty so he could be a figure of fun for her and her friends to mock

Pip is equally aggravating with her suddenly "playing hard to get" yes that's sooo lovely to hear

Loved Pat telling Rob how it is. His comment to Jazzer about how he would be received was odd, He surely doesn't expect a hero's welcome when he arrives considering everyone in the family knows what he did to Helen!!