👩‍🌾 The Archers spoilers thread #5: Can't wait for 7.02pm? Join us here!

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Tamsin Greig has a wonderful voice and is a superb actor, but Debbie Aldridge has been consistently an unpleasant person ever since Adam came home from Africa and she found she was no longer Brian's only farmer-child. She has griped, whinged, back-bitten and sulked her way through this century, with occasional outbreaks of back-stabbing against both her father and her brother, and ranting ditto. I was sad when she was effectively written out because Greig is a very good actor and made the increasing nastiness of her character more believable than most of the other characters' actors have managed with the increasing nastiness of theirs, but I can't say that I really miss her all that much, even as a threat to be held over Adam's/Brian's head.

When has she ever made a good decision about anything? Apart from grabbing a one-third share of a farm for which she was doing absolutely nothing whatever, that is: that was good for her, not so good for the owner of the farm...

Thanks Asking!

I missed the Brine confession first time round so am looking forward to that one.

If the Grundy eviction includes the ferret scene I shall be undone. Made me cry, it did

You're safe: they had been at Meadow Rise for over a month before he did that.

They were actually living in Meadow Rise from 26th April, 2000, until 14th July, 2000, and the ferret-killing was on 9th June.

Phew!

Thanks Asking

Quick questions:
Will the omnibus edition on Sunday contain the same episodes as the precious week, ie as normal?

What happened to the Bull emoji?

Today's omnibus contained the previous week's episodes Wauden, i.e. the old recordings that were rebroadcast this week

I think the emoji is still there - it's 'archers'

Enough with JD emoting all over the place. It's difficult to take in one episode with no build up SL to listen to. Weddings and funerals are much better

Oh, I enjoyed the JD & Brine one ppeat

And tonight we can listen to Freda drowning

It's true they are somewhat diminished by being broadcast in isolation.

Oh I'll look forward to that thanks Bore

Oh hahaha Perdita In isolation ,lockdown,

Next we we get

BBC One-Liners
17 May New Year’s Eve: The Lower Loxley Ball. (31st December, 2001)
18 May The Flower and Produce Show. (7th September, 2008)
19 May The Hunt Ball. (29th October, 2017)
20 May Bonfire Night. (5th November, 2008)
21 May The Christmas Lights Switch On. (5th December, 2014)

Credits
Sun 17/5/2020 (Repeat from 31st December, 2001)
Written By: Carole Simpson Solazzo
Director: Peter Leslie
Editor: Vanessa Whitburn.
David Archer: Timothy Bentinck
Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch
Phil Archer: Norman Painting
Jill Archer: Patricia Greene
Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison
Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond
Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling
Tim Hathaway: Jay Villiers
Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd
Nigel Pargetter: Graham Seed
Jack Woolley: Arnold Peters
Peggy Woolley: June Spencer
Siobhan Hathaway: Caroline Lennon
Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood
Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper

Mon 18/5/2020 (Repeat from 7th September, 2008)
Written by: Caroline Harrington
Director: Jenny Stephens
Editor: Vanessa Whitburn
Clarrie Grundy: Rosalind Adams
Jill Archer: Patricia Greene
Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch
Neil Carter: Brian Hewlett
Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd
Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper
Alice Aldridge: Hollie Chapman

Tue 19/5/2020 (Repeat from 29th October, 2017)
Writer: Gillian Richmond
Director: Marina Caldarone
Series Editor: Huw Kennair-Jones
Justin, Lilian, Shula, Ian, Adam, Kenton, Nic, Matt
Justin Elliott: Simon Williams
Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde
Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett
Ian Craig: Stephen Kennedy
Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott
Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee
Nic Grundy: Becky Wright
Matt Crawford: Kim Durham

Wed 20/5/2020 (Repeat from 5th November, 2008)
Written by: Carole Simpson Solazzo
Director: Jenny Stephens
Editor: Vanessa Whitburn
Ian Craig: Stephen Kennedy
Peggy Woolley: June Spencer
David Archer: Timothy Bentinck
Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch
Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison
Jack Woolley: Arnold Peters
Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee

Thu 21/5/2020 (Repeat from 5th December, 2014)
Writer: Tim Stimpson
Director: Sean O'Connor
Editor: Sean O'Connor
Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott
Charlie Thomas: Felix Scott
Emma Grundy: Emerald O'Hanrahan
Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond
Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper
Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd
Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood

Radio Times Ambridge Diary May 17-21
Nostalgic though it is to listen to the current selection of archive instalments, they do leave you craving comebacks for much-loved characters. On Tuesday, for instance, Matt Crawford’s hit and run from 2017 gets another airing - an episode that sparked a “Who Splat Matt?” mystery. He was a complete rogue, yet I can’t help but wish Lilian’s “Tiger” would return to cause more trouble.
Ambridge’s seasonal events often prove to be the catalyst for big drama. Thankfully, there’s not always a violent outcome: the Christmas lights switch-on from 2014 resulted in Emma proposing to Ed. You can hear that touching moment on Thursday.

Thank you Asking. (I do hope you were able to C&P most of that rather than typing it all out!)

They're really going large on MeanEd, aren't they. They will have topped and tailed the archive broadcasts (in an entirely topsy turvy order). Will the new episodes open with them, too - or will their bumpy road to "for good, this time" wedded bliss simply be a piercing counterpoint to More Kirsty Catastrophe?

Oh dear. Answering my own question - that's what I'd do were I on the SW team; hark back to that dreadful week when Ed and Emma didn't move into their dream house, while Kirsty and Philip did. Now, just as the first pair move into their putative "forever home" Kirsty ... well, it's not looking good.

Yes thanks for that Asking (I reiterate *Perdita's hope for the welfare of your typing fingers) !!

I liked hearing Carol's voice in the flooding ep. I miss her and EB's dulcet tones.

With any luck the SW's will take the superb opportunity to finish Philip off with Covid . Thus allowing everyone to carry on without too much misery, because it'll be just as the shxx hits the fan about his 'Gang'.

For the old episodes I have had to go into the Genome Project to copy-and-paste the whole of the cast and crew for the week, then go into Lowfield to find out which members of the cast were in the particular episode. But I had done this anyway for the repeated episodes up to May 21st, because I keep the information for my own reference. Then it is just copy-and-paste from my files to here, no effort at all.

Eventually I shall have a file which contains every cast and production team which has been noted in the Genome for TA since it started, plus all the credits from 28/3/2010 onwards because those were all put up on the BBC archers website and I simply snabbled them each week.

(The Genome Project is rather obviously scanned in, because there are some strange spellings where "r n" is m, and "l l i" is ui, and so on. These are easy to spot, and if I am doing a year at a time from the Genome I just leave them and do a search--and-destroy I mean sorry a find-and-correct for the whole year. There are also whole chunks where they didn't give any surnames for the characters for a year at a time, and I put those in. And so on. It is something to do when we are in lockdown...)

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Are you Dad3 with a psuedonym? Asking ? Do you have a spreadshit??? Sorry !

No spreadsheet, I promise.

What would you do without tech?

Read a book?

Just passing by to confirm that while I may be asking questions I am not AskingQuestions.

Maybe when this is all over we should arrange to meet in a pub somewhere to spend a happy hour or two comparing most-hated old Archers storylines....

Excellent idea Asking!

Oh Dad which questions are you asking?

I was being light hearted btw! Asking

Yes to the meeting, if I'm not in quarantine!

We could think of it as a "hey, we're free again" event once we aren't having to social distance any more. Could be fun.

Only we're probably all over the country, so it wouldn't be fair to hold it in a Southern city like London; we'd need to find out where the people who might like to come live and then find somewhere in the middle by travel times.