🎭 Archers thread 125: Ambridge Mysteries! The Case Of The Missing Pandemic. Where Is Pat? What Is Lynda Snell's Kompromat? Follow the clues and discuss The Archers here.

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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’d love to be in the Mysteries, 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 for thread title ideas to @Roysnewshirt and @Witchwife. Apologies if I’ve forgotten anyone else.

Do we think the Mysteries replace the usual fun storylines around giving things up for Lent? Light relief while we wait to see if the SWs go for realism and tragedy when Alice’s baby is born, or bottle out (as it were) and go for everything being fine? Will Jazzer and Tracy get back together again? (No bookie in the land would take money for that, of course they will.)

Over to you!

and Lynda Snell! How could I forget her?

Phoebe Aldridge

Qarol Tregorran
Qenton Archer

Rob Titchener

Rosie Ruth Grace Archer

Ruth Archer

Susan Carter

Tom Archer

Ursula Titchener

Vince Casey

Wayne Tucson

Xander Craig-Macy

Yvette Crawford

I'm sure a Zoe's been mentioned

I think there was a character called Zebedee Tring decades ago.

Listened to the minibus after only following this thread for a while. Who the f*ck is writing this stuff? A doctor on SCBU telling Alice she 'deserves' to take Martha home? Doe that mean that if someone's baby dies they didn't 'deserve' the baby enough? Phoebe sounding like a sixth former rather than a supposedly intelligent young woman with a PPE degree from Oxford. And Chris being outraged that Alice told him she wanted a drink. Of course she does, you numpty! She'll struggle with alcoholism for the rest of her life.

I'll be taking my parcels to Ambridge. Postage for a small parcel is £3.20 here, but Susan charged Lee £3.10.

Phroebie's degree was from Moxford.

Might I have found my new username

@ILoveShula

I'm sure a Zoe's been mentioned

Zoe was the cook at the Bull in 2016.

And there was a Zoe who was an inseperable friend of Pip's for about two months in 2010.

Any characters starting with Q @AskingQuestionsAllTheTime ?

There was a cat called Queenie at one point.

I have a feeling one of Tim Beecham's friends was called Quentin, but I can't find any proof.

Queen'sNewYearHonoursListWinnerLyndaSnell

New thread title:
The Archers: it's a Mystery why we are still listening

Sterling efforts, all.