💰 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.

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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 long to hear Pip again, 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 @LillianGish and @PersephonePromotesEquanimity for the title suggestions.

Current events: as @Bailey0703 has astutely spotted, it's Anti-Slavery Day tomorrow - could this herald the beginning of the end of the horses storyline? I do hope so. Horrible stuff, but what a blow for Kirsty. They're laying on the dramatic irony with trowel at the moment.

What do we think will happen to Alice and Chris? I can't see this pregnancy going to term and ending well. I don't think the marriage will survive either, giving Brian a chance to revisit his classic line about having to treat this as Alice's starter marriage.

Will Elizabeth end up on a date with Vince Casey? That would put the cat among the pigeons at Lower Loxley.

Over to you ...

As if R4 hasn't scraped enough barrels recently I've just tuned in to hear CAS.

And tuned out again.

Not heard CAS for years. I always switch off. Him and Tweet of the Day.

I didn't mind the Eddie detector story, because it was in keeping with the komedy Grundy stories of old.

CAS?

CAS?

Sorry - Count Arthur Strong.

Currently invading the Friday 11.30am slot, used to be one of the very few 6.30pm slots which made me switch off, rather than simply ignore in the background.

Ah! I see your point.

At least Tweet of the Day is just boring unless it is Kweepy Kwiss urgh yuk yuk yuk

At least Tweet of the Day is just boring

And very short.

True. It's not always boring but it has been too many times for me to not use it as an excuse to get up.

I like Tweet of the Day. It's Thought for the Day that I have to switch off, usually. CAS - bleurgh. I heard about 30 seconds of it this morning and that was enough.

No TA today.

I like Thought for the Day. At least it breaks up the 3 hrs of Covid.

Ex liked CAS. Nuff said!

I sometimes listen to a Tweet for the Day on BBC Sounds. It's a good idea badly executed, IMHO. And can't stand to listen to David Attenborough who seems to narrate 90% of wildlife/environment progs which end by telling you how few animals/how little habitat is left.

I do my bit for the environment, I don't want to be preached to.
BBC is a bit preachy.
I sometimes switch off because it's yet another, usually repeated, programme on something that I've already been preached to about.

I've got one of my presets on Times Radio now, makes a reasonable alternative if I want something else to listen to.

I only very selectively listen to R4 these days. A bit of the Today Prog and all of PM and the World Tonight, TAs and that’s it. Everything else seems to have to make a point about climate change, race, women in business, trans people or Covid vaccines. Or it’s a rubbish clever-clever ‘comedy’ written by smug Oxbridge graduates. Can’t be doing with it - and if they are putting off liberals like me, God knows how they have retained any listeners at all. I prefer the phone-ins on R5 Live, which are much more fun- especially when the people dialling in get out of hand and the presenters have to gently sidestep their radical views. And I love the informative and slightly irreverent Newscast podcast.

I only very selectively listen to R4 these days. A bit of the Today Prog and all of PM and the World Tonight, TAs and that’s it.

I take it you didn't hear Mark Mardell on Feedback yesterday? What he had to say about the brutal defunding of BBC news programmes made very depressing hearing. And will surely prompt even the most loyal listeners to diversify their news sources if they aren't doing so already.

Yes - that Mark Mardell interview was excellent - well worth a listen.

I do my bit for the environment, I don't want to be preached to. BBC is a bit preachy.

Everything else seems to have to make a point about climate change, race, women in business, trans people or Covid vaccines.

Am I the only one who thinks these are really important issues, and actually I don't think we hear enough about them? Radio 4 is a serious channel with pretty good current affairs coverage. It ignored the issue of climate change for far too long.

I actually hate phone-ins. I can't bear Any Answers in particular, which is usually a platform for ill-informed bigots to share their views, and have to switch it off.

I'd much rather listen to proper analysis from academics and experts in their field. And real news, especially covering under-reported issues.

You can tell BBC News has had its funding cut - there so much tedious repetition. The Today programme news is often just a rerun of TV's News at Ten, without the pictures.

I can't stand phone-ins either for the same reason as UntamedWisteria. They make me want to shout at the radio (easier to turn it off). I'd rather listen to informed people even if I disagree with them.

Yes, me too.

I do like Gardeners Question Time, when I catch it. And More or Less, and some of the science programs. There are still some serendipitous gems, aren't there?
I got out of having the radio on all the time because DDs bedroom is above the kitchen and it disturbed her studying, so my random sampling is lower than it used to be.

Something some of you may enjoy is the Radio 1 podcast, Random men pay my bills. It’s simply extraordinary- about a woman called Jade (a Godess) who literally gets random men via Twitter to finance her life, without even meeting them. It’s a fetish - Jade is a financial dominatrix! It’s quite an eye-opener...made me feel I have led a v sheltered life...

Could be a new career twist for Emma or Kirsty? Or it might work for Alice so she can escape the job-share.

(Must apologise for going soo off-piste with this but am filling in time given the hiatus period between Thursday and Monday..)

I can't stand CAS either. I don't listen to R4 live very much these days (although turned it on at 14:02 the other day even though I was working). But I enjoy More or Less, Desert Island Discs, The Food programme and Women's hour occasionally. I started listening to the Grenfell tower enquiry podcast recently after it was mentioned on More or Less, but as it started 2 years ago, I've got a lot of catching up to do!
DS1 enjoys Dead ringers and the Long view as well.

Only just caught up as my Archers listening isn't as regular now I don't drive as much - blame working from home and no school run.

I always thought Philip was a wrong un. He was too smarmy and too involved in Shula and Alistair's marriage/divorce. And even Kirsty seemed to have doubts but was persuaded to move in by the latest likes of Helen.
I wonder if Natasha could overheat something as both she and Philip speak Welsh.
Although I do wonder if there are any honest builders in Borsetshire.

I think Freddie's is showing glimmers of maturity, in not rejecting Lily's idea just because it was hers. I wonder if longterm he'll turn LL into a real family business, encouraging Lily to get a business education and run that side of things. Whilst he is the Marquis of Bath kind of ideas man who draws in the punters (without wife let's please).

I think Freddie's is showing glimmers of maturity, in not rejecting Lily's idea just because it was hers. I wonder if longterm he'll turn LL into a real family business, encouraging Lily to get a business education and run that side of things. Whilst he is the Marquis of Bath kind of ideas man who draws in the punters (without wife let's please).

That would be good - I'm sure I wondered a couple of years ago why she wasn't doing a business type degree at Manchester rather than eng. lit.

Am I the only one who thinks these are really important issues, and actually I don't think we hear enough about them?
They are important issues but I don't want to be subjected to it relentlessly.

In the run up to the Brexit referendum, I felt I was being repeatedly told that I would be stupid to vote Leave.

It made me actually look into both options and consider which way to vote, whereas I'd probably blithely voted Remain.