🧚‍♀️ Archers thread #120: Magic time. Dialogue! Good Fairy Lilian made Lynda’s wish come true. Will Phil vanish in a puff of smoke? Join the Magic Circle in Alice’s shed, where time is never called!

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Thank you, @PseudoBadger, for kicking off this long, long series of Archers threads.

All views on The Archers welcome here! New blood welcomed. We don't all agree on all points and most of us are posting tongue in cheek a lot of the time, so don't worry about revealing that you think we should hear more about the Naughty Milkman, or other unusual views.

Spoilers: not on this thread, please. We don't wait for the omnibus to discuss the weeknight episodes, but we do try our best to avoid cross-contamination from www.mumsnet.com/Talk/radio_addicts/3853783--The-Archers-spoilers-thread-5-Cant-wait-for-7-02pm-Join-us-here, where spoilers are positively welcomed!

For newer listeners, lurkers or those who just have no idea what we're talking about, @DadDadDad has created this useful thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/radio_addicts/3557323-For-Archers-fans-a-guide-to-acronyms-on-the-long-running-discussion-threads-and-any-other-meta-thread-questions-you-may-have - BOOP point for him! (See thread for explanation.)

Thanks to @Roysnewshirt for the excellent title suggestion, which I tweaked a bit.

I wonder how much dialogue we're going to get in the coming weeks. They're back to normal recording, I believe, albeit socially distanced. Also, when will we get our Friday and Sunday episodes back? I know I'm not the only regular to miss TA a lot more on Friday than on Sunday. The Sunday episode is still an incomer, of course, having only been introduced some 20 years ago, of course.

(My parents retired to a village and some features of Ambridge life are very familiar from their experience, the 'incomer' label being one.)

Might it perhaps refer to a peal of church bells? The idea being that after church the men go to the pub while the wives go back to finish cooking the Sunday dinner? (Am guessing here.)

A peal of bells seems very plausible MikeUniformMike TheSilveryPussycat. Mind you, my entire knowledge of campanology comes from Dorothy Sayers' The Nine Tailors, although I think there are only 6 bells in that book.

Neil and Shula and even Freddie I think used to ring the bells at St Stephens but that doesn't seem to be mentioned these days - perhaps because it might involve giving Alan a few words. There is quite a funny Twitter parody account RevAlanFranks who tweets about how Keri Davies has got it in for him.

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Asking, for 10 points wink, at what point did the message stop when Em played it to Susan?
AIso, I have a vague idea that I heard Emma say something recently that referred to a latter part of the message (?)

She cut off playing it to Susan at "I'm not the one wh".

And yes, I think Emma did refer to the message in a way which made me think she had heard the rest as well; that was why I began to revise my first thought, that the battery really had cut out and what a cop-out that was.

I was driving down a local main road today and passed the Coach & Horses and thought of this thread.

There's a very old pub near where I used to work, and the name is a corruption of quite a different word (The Hospice). Another pub with the same name was previously The Oyster Reach.

It would be extremely unusual for any peal of church bells to involve seven bells. They're virtually always put up in even numbers, presumably to accommodate the various established ringing methods.

Perhaps the church had lost a bell from its peal and this was so unusual that the pub was named for it?

Or perhaps it's just the name of a pub near where the scriptwriter or editor lives.

This is brilliant

Oh Lillian!

And on that note, time for the new thread, I think. www.mumsnet.com/Talk/radio_addicts/4053190--Archers-thread-121-Brookfield-digs-for-treasure-Alice-Philip-try-to-bury-the-truth-Dish-the-dirt-here-if-you-dig-The-Archers-PS-Send-nudes?watched=1

I want to hear Adam and the other farmers talking about no deal Brexit and food standards and what it’s going to do to them.