Spoiling The Archers one week at a time. Thread 3

[Gumpendorf]

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Previous thread.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/radio_addicts/2633443-Archers-spoilers-or-Archers-spoiled-You-decide-Thread-the-Second

I went back to the beginning of the Radio Addicts topic, Gruach, and read some of the early short threads, then found the first couple of really long ones. Then managed to drag myself away! I was wondering how many of the same people were posting back then but under different names.

Some of us, witch.

The threads started by PseudoBadger (occasionally deputised by DadDadDad) are essentially one long Archers thread. Makes me twitchy when rogue threads appear - I like having all Archers thoughts in one place! Love this spoiler-y thing - but I’m always scared I might find myself musing on spoilers on the main thread.

Can I just pop up to say that I'm proud of starting the first ever thread on the Archers on MN - before there was even a radio addicts topic. It was back in October 2001, when it was all fields round here etc etc.

It's fascinating to read what was going on then, and also there are loads of "old" MN names that I recognise on there.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/other_subjects/1230-am-i-the-only-person-under-40-who-listens-to is the thread

That’s a damn fine thread emsie.

The bookmark tells me I had read it before. Can’t recall when. I know Pseudo’s thread began shortly after I joined MN - and it’s possiby the single greatest reason why I’m still here. Have been listening A Very Long Time - but never had people to chat to about it once I left home. Would have been amazing to have the thread (never mind the internet ) when I was at university!

R4 website update:

3 Aug. Disaster looms for Freddie, and Roy fears for the future.

5 Aug. Freddie's nightmare continues, and Harrison is conflicted.
6 Aug. Kate is on the attack, and Rex faces some awkward questions..
7 Aug. Susan's attitude proves surprising, and history repeats itself for Roy.
8 Aug. Susan's birthday ends in fireworks, and Toby is set an impossible challenge.
9 Aug. Elizabeth's situation goes from bad to worse, and Alistair makes a decision.
10 Aug. Lily faces an onslaught, and it's daggers drawn for Jazzer.

12 Aug. Pressure mounts for Elizabeth, and Fallon wakes up to a shock.
13 Aug. Johnny loses his cool, and Josh attempts to secure his future.
14 Aug. Kenton has a brainwave, and Lynda discovers the truth.
15 Aug. Pip makes a decision, and Alistair receives a touching gesture.
16 Aug. Freddie faces the music, and Elizabeth makes a terrible mistake.
17 Aug.

(I joined MN because of TA too. It was after custardgate. )

Ha ha Gruach I remember a rogue thread popping up at some point in the last couple of years and someone, maybe you, trying to herd people back into main thread.

I found a full thread that Pseudo started but the opening post suggested it was following on from something and I couldn’t figure out from what so maybe I overlooked the first one.

Thanks, Gump! I'm glad LL hasn't burned down.

Blast from the past emsie! I was a bit at some of the language - a lot of ‘slapper’ and goer being thrown around.

Interesting who everyone hated then. Elizabeth, mainly, by the sounds of things. I don’t have any clear memories of her from that period but my listening would have been patchy.

Not sure why goer ended up bold!

I'm pretty sure I remember reading your thread, emsie, but I couldn't post on it because I wasn't under 40

TA production team clearly have this thread under surveillance and changed the s/l at the last minute because we'd rumbled the LL fire!

The 🔮 is outraged!

I think Gasp (as was?) might have snaffled the 🔮, Bore, because she predicted Freddie handing out drugs.

Or maybe the 🔮 overheated, hence dreams of fire. I can’t wait for it to cool down. Need to trudge to the post office to collect something but it’s too hot.

Did I? Did she? Well done, her! She richly deserves that 🔮, in spite of not getting the details 100% spot on.

I recognised your immpecable manners, you always thanks Gump

I’ve never thanked Gump so I should record my perpetual appreciation now, thank you!

So, this week should be fun - Kate breathing fire upon the fallen House of Pargetter (presumably) and Hannah disrupting the peace amongst pig folk ...

I think Freddie's only hope is to come clean and that Ellis was blackmailing him. Ellis will then torch LL.

say that Ellis was blackmailing him

Minor updates on R4 website

7 Aug. Susan's attitude proves surprising, and history repeats itself for Roy.
8 Aug. Susan's birthday ends in fireworks, and Toby is set an impossible challenge.
9 Aug. Elizabeth's situation goes from bad to worse, and Alistair makes a decision.
10 Aug. Lily faces an onslaught, and it's daggers drawn for Jazzer.

12 Aug. Pressure mounts for Elizabeth, and Fallon wakes up to a shock.
13 Aug. Johnny loses his cool, and Josh attempts to secure his future.
14 Aug. Kenton has a brainwave, and Lynda discovers the truth.
15 Aug. Pip makes a decision, and Alistair receives a touching gesture.
16 Aug. Freddie faces the music, and Elizabeth makes a terrible mistake.
17 Aug. The wedding day dawns for Harrison and Fallon, and Susan comes to the rescue.

19 Aug. Reality bites for Fallon, and Lynda is determined to get to the truth.
20 Aug. Phoebe attempts to offer advice, and Pip has a new project.
21 Aug.
22 Aug.
23 Aug
24 Aug.

Radio Times
12 Aug to 17 Aug
It’s the morning after Fallon’s hen party and there’s more than one hangover – however, Fallon herself wakes up to a huge shock that leaves one villager under suspicion and several others attempting a cover-up. With Harrison tasked with investigating what’s happened, will the culprit be unmasked? And will the bride and groom’s big day go without a hitch?

Alistair continues to be the subject of the village gossip – and he can certainly expect a frosty reception from one disgruntled resident. Over at Brookfield, Josh fears his own interests maybe be suffering and makes a decision that angers someone in the family. Plus Lynda makes a surprising discovery – what’s the betting she won’t be letting the matter lie?

Cast:
Jill, David, Ruth, Pip, Josh
Kenton, Jolene,
Susan, Chris, Alice
Jazzer, Kirsty, Lynda, Johnny
Harrison, Fallon
Rex, Toby,
Elizabeth, Lily, Freddie
Shula, Alistair

Is Elizabeth’s mistake going to be a careless word in court that lays bare the true depth of her son’s depravity?

At least I now know when the wedding is. Really don’t understand about Fallon’s ‘saving for our wedding’ account - they’ve only had it a few weeks.

Thanks Gump!

I think Freddie's only hope is to come clean and that Ellis was blackmailing him. Ellis will then torch LL.

The 🔮 approves of this.

Thanks Gump! Only trouble with the idea of Ellis torching LL is it's very like Clive torching Christine and George's house.

Maybe Susan’s birthday fireworks are literal (and expensive, as befits the Wife of a Manager) and something gets singed. Would that appease the 🔮’s pyromania?

Question for those of you who have listened longer - Susan has been a social-standing obsessed gossip for as long as I can remember. Was she always like that or did something trigger it?

Well ... Firstly, she’s a Horrobin - and feels she has to live that down every day.

Secondly there was the ... incarceration. On account of her no-good brother, Clive. (Unfortunate and unfair.)

And finally the almost intolerable added stress of becoming in-lawed to Ambridge Royalty. (Notwithstanding the current troubles at Home Farm.)

It always seems to me that she feels these minuses to be far more real than the pluses of a long, happy marriage, two well brought up children, Ambridge View, consistent worthwhile employment ... She’s constantly on the defensive and expecting to be put in her place. I should think it’s rather exhausting ...