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🐷 Archers thread #127: Discuss the boars and sows of Ambridge here - or should that be bores and soused? You decide.

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Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 29/04/2021 10:53

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

Archers 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 live opposite Joy, or other unusual views. Grin

Archers 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/4197199--The-Archers-spoilers-thread-6-Cant-wait-for-7-02pm-Join-us-here, where spoilers are positively welcomed!

Archers 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.)

These threads normally last around a month. When I started the last one, we were bracing ourselves for the Mystery Play, but that storyline, which had never exactly set the airwaves on fire, fizzled out and has (I hope) gone away, never to return.

@LillianGish proposed a new thread title which I'll use instead as a scene-setter for this thread. What a carry on - Nurse (Ben), Sergeant (Harrison), Camping (Kate), Jack (either one of them), Regardless (all of us for continuing to tune tune in)

What a carry on, indeed! Other storylines sputtering away:

  • Alice, Chris, Martha - Have they split up, and if so where is Alice living? Will there be a christening and who will be godparents? When will the Aldridges and Carters find out about Alice's drinking? Too much to hope that Alice will get blind drunk at the christening party in full view of the entire village, I suppose. I'm still clinging to my hope that she lamps Alan after a suggestion that they pray together.
  • Will Rex find a new home for his pigs? If Elizabeth weakens, will the pigs escape and disrupt the Lower Loxley life drawing event on Monday? Might they stampede, knock Ross out and devour him?
  • Will Jazzer go to work for Neil? (This isn't exactly a cliffhanger. Of course he will.)
  • Will Justin bury Lilian under the patio? Not a jury in the land would convict him, I feel, if they were played a recording of that appalling cackle and her gloating about the daffodil photograph.
  • Will the life drawing event on Monday be a brilliantly amusing interlude, exemplifying how to write character-driven drama, with both comic and more serious moments? Answer: No, obviously. I may have to listen from behind a cushion.

There are more. I find myself struggling to care. Sad

Oh, and one final mention - I've proposed a webchat with the Archers editor. @MayIDestroyYou's idea. You'll find it here: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/site_stuff/4231475-Webchat-idea-The-Editor-of-The-Archers-Or-another-Archers-production-team-representative

Over to you!

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StillWeRise · 20/05/2021 19:08

go Jazzer

StillWeRise · 20/05/2021 19:09

the cheek of Brian!

MayIDestroyYou · 20/05/2021 19:10

Brian is not stupid enough to be doing this.

ThursdayWeld · 20/05/2021 19:11

Aw Jim!

StillWeRise · 20/05/2021 19:16

social services
about bloody time

Welshwabbit · 20/05/2021 19:16

Social services. Just the worst thing Jenny could possibly imagine.

Eastie77 · 20/05/2021 19:17

@StillWeRise

social services about bloody time
Exactly this!
Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 20/05/2021 19:18

@StillWeRise

social services about bloody time
Exactly what I said! Where have they been since Alice was found drunk in a ditch and several months pregnant?

Neil very decent again, also Jim, but I'm on Team Jazzer. FFS somebody send Alice off to a decent rehab facility and long-term therapy!

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LizziesTwin · 20/05/2021 19:19

Neil was brilliant - I was almost in tears listening to him speak to Alice. What a kind man.

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 20/05/2021 19:19

I hope the shop gets re-glazed with safety glass, btw. Doesn't bear thinking of what could happen if a huge sheet of glass like that breaks into shards on impact.

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DoctorTwo · 20/05/2021 19:21

Dammit! Bloody cliff hangers...

ILoveShula · 20/05/2021 19:26

Gulp. Just caught up as I rewound to hear what @MayIDestroyYou sounds like.

FreezerBird · 20/05/2021 19:29

I'm afraid I roared with laughter at the end. I'm imagining the conversation pre-recording:

Director: so, [actor who plays Jennifer], do you remember when the Aldridges found out about Alice marrying Chris?
Actor: yes, Jennifer was very shocked
Director: right, well, remember when she said "I'm related to a Horrobin"?
Actor: yes. It might have been a bit overdone.
Director: no no no it was PERFECT
Actor: okaaaay
Director: I want you to invest your line about social services in this episode with exactly the same horror.
Actor: right o

MayIDestroyYou · 20/05/2021 19:29
Grin
MayIDestroyYou · 20/05/2021 19:31

That was for ILoveShula, but equally suitable for your dialogue, FreezerBird!

AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 20/05/2021 19:33

Maybe I am naive, but why were the Social Services ringing Jennifer? Why would they even have her number?

CaptainMyCaptain · 20/05/2021 19:34

@StillWeRise

social services about bloody time
Quite!
FreezerBird · 20/05/2021 19:34

I assumed they were at Alice's house, but surely they would have wanted to speak to Alice.

CaptainMyCaptain · 20/05/2021 19:35

@AskingQuestionsAllTheTime

Maybe I am naive, but why were the Social Services ringing Jennifer? Why would they even have her number?
Were they, perhaps at Alice and Chris's house.
AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 20/05/2021 19:37

In which case why was Jennifer answering their phone? I had assumed Brian and Jennifer took her back to Willow Cottage after they got her back at the police station.

It doesn't seem very joined-up, somehow.

CaptainMyCaptain · 20/05/2021 19:41

Maybe she was trying to protect Alice from unwanted calls or maybe she's just the sort of person who would answer someone else's phone.

BoreOfWhabylon · 20/05/2021 19:43

It will be Jazzer who called SS. It was obvious that he has childhood memories of an alcoholic parent.

I thought it was the police whi decided whether to charge someone with ancrime though, so what was all that about Jim and Susan not pressing charges? Surely the SWs did their research?

JanFebAnyMonth · 20/05/2021 19:58

Jazzer looking like something out of Carry on Matron, ha ha Jim!

FreezerBird · 20/05/2021 20:14

Surely the SWs did their research?

Bless your heart.

MereDintofPandiculation · 20/05/2021 20:17

@CaptainMyCaptain

Maybe she was trying to protect Alice from unwanted calls or maybe she's just the sort of person who would answer someone else's phone.
If you’ve grown up, as Jenny did, with a single landline and no answerphone or any way of seeing who called, it’s second nature for whoever is nearest to grab the phone to ensure that it’s not missed. I have to remind myself just to ignore someone’s mobile ringing next to me when their owner is nowhere to be seen.