The Archers No. 94: Freddie’s doing porridge, Tom gets his oats, but will Home Farm be toast? We’ll have to wheat and see ... Serial production is in full swing in Ambridge

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and also how he sorted Fallon's hen night

And he picked her wedding dress.

I don't know anything about Edison, D3, so I can't be thinking of him. It's the young Benjamin Franklin of The Autobiography that I have in mind.

Oh yawn yawn, there is going to be another “Tumble on Lakey Hill” moment when Toby stays over and piplet no. 2 will be conceived.

What Josh is doing is the reality of how lots of marketing works, but it’s pretty cynical. I think the setting is more important than the breed because people will make assumptions about welfare conditions based on that.

Yes witch he's a proper little junior Justin but love his irrepressible entrepreneurial spirit peartree I also love a baby in the bed. I'm all about the cuddles and not about the getting up.

Also if Pip had a c-section in late July how erotic are things realistically going get, especially with a less than 3 month old baby. It also wouldn't be safe for her to carry a baby this early- it's got to be an emotions story if it's leading anywhere.

Fair enough, peartree, my knowledge of Franklin is scanty (kite in a storm and something something American independence...), so I give way to your superior knowledge...

Isn't Jill shrewd enough to see through any manipulation by Josh? (I loved it last week when she ambushed the sibling council on Elizabeth, and when David said "we didn't want to worry you", she retorted "well it's not working, is it?").

Re: Pip's enunciation - wasn't she devouring jacket potato and beans during that conversation?

I do wish people wouldn't talk while eating in radio dramas, it makes me cringe!

No, but I do buy free-range. I'm not sure that Josh's are free-range - if he was shutting in his flock for the night then he would have shut in Jill's flock, too.

In the EU (still including the UK for now), hens may be locked up at night and still be labelled as free range (eggs). Free range is quite a specific label and doesn't mean what the name would imply, i.e. that the hens can wander around wherever they want. I think Josh's are organic, aren't they (meaning free-range +, still not actually roaming free)? That was why he wanted to justify charging more than Neil for a premium product, or did I make all that up?

Biting my nails ....

Can't believe Rosie was only July. I have clearly blanked it from my memory.

23 July for the record.

So.... Chaucer, something to do with pilgrims and references to cathedrals and Beckett. It must be Waiting for Godot!

What a great episode, boops all round

We found out what Lynda's mystery play is.
We heard proper first hand legal advice rather than Elizabeth's reporting of it.
We know what Elizabeth's going to do next.
David was surprisingly funny with his 'I can't think of any excuses, maybe Ruth can' bit.

Couldn't really be bothered with the Brian and Adam stuff, but at least there was no Pip, Toby, Josh or Kate.

We really need a few more good episodes to tie up some loose ends: when is the news going to break about Christine's care home fees, what's happened to Alice's budding alcoholism, where's that bloody bunting?! etc

Oh darn, that only fits the Beckett bit. What on earth is Lynda planning?

Omnibus listener here but impatient, what happened with the legal stuff?

Oh darn, that only fits the Beckett bit. What on earth is Lynda planning?

I think she said it was by Chaucer, so it must be The Legend of Good Women I suppose. I don't recall that he wrote much else of note ...

I think t's the Canterbury Tales; makes sense of pilgrims and cathedral as well as Lynda's claims to have her audience see into their own souls.

I wonder if she'll put on the Miller's Tale? :o

In the EU (still including the UK for now), hens may be locked up at night and still be labelled as free range (eggs). Free range is quite a specific label and doesn't mean what the name would imply, i.e. that the hens can wander around wherever they want

Even the freest of free range, non commercial poultry are locked in at night for their own safety.

Even the freest of free range, non commercial poultry are locked in at night for their own safety.

Not always. They roost if you leave them to their own devices and there are trees, rafters etc available. Apart from the broody ones obviously, but even they seem to find safe enough places to nest. At least that how all the hens I knew growing up were kept. It was just accepted you’d lose a few now and again.

I thought it was the Canterbury Tales - she specifically mentioned pilgrims on their way to Canterbury. The reference was Becket rather than Beckett- they were on their way to the shrine of St Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral.

Waiting for Godot would be easier to cast though, she’s missed a trick there.

Presumably chickens are also locked up to prevent poaching from humans.

I’m sure Jill got some Silkies for Pip when Pip was a wee girl.

Our free range hens gravitated towards their hen house in the evening. They were shut in- wouldn't have prevented theft but protected them from foxes.

In fact, they seem pretty shit at couples in general Most of their couples are more interesting on their own. I was thinking that was maybe because of the general principle of story-telling, that happy people are pretty boring, so people having less than ideal relationships with others is more interesting than the same people having a happy life with their partner. And then I started thinking of the couples that are interesting, and they're the happy ones - Lynda and Robert, and Clarrie and Eddy.

I liked Hayley and Roy until it all went pear shaped.

I thought it was the Canterbury Tales - she specifically mentioned pilgrims on their way to Canterbury. The reference was Becket rather than Beckett- they were on their way to the shrine of St Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral.

Yes. I was joking and I'm fairly sure Dad3 was too. It was obviously the Canterbury Tales, we were pretending to misread the ever so cryptic clues that Lynda was dropping.

Hugely disappointed that the Christmas show won't be Not I - with Peggy, Jill, Christine and Carol relaying the role between them ...

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