Archers thread #154: Cider with Fat Rosie, Meadow Rise to Candleford or The Darling Horrobins of September? Get your rural saga fix – Discuss The Archers here!

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

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Thanks for the thread title suggestions. @HumanWetWipe came up with Cider with Fat Rosie and @BeardieWeirdie thought up Meadow Rise to Candleford. I wish I could have put in the Line of Duty mashups from the end of the last thread. Another time.

Heading for a ferry shortly, so nothing more from me for now. Over to you!

It’s irritated me too @BrightYellowDaffodil , and as if an MFH and owner of a riding school would have been so utterly clueless in that situation. And then (and this ratcheted up the irritation) in telling Susan how wonderful Rob had saved her, to refer to her bridle as harness. It is etched in my memory.

I am fervently hoping that the words Lark Rise to Candleford will never be mentioned again on the Archers - what a piece of nonsense that thread has been. Yawn.

Or it'll be put in terms of "So I can rest in peace feeling that I can still watch over My Son and he can still come to see me" or something equally nauseous.

It would be nice to think that the new-found love of literature will now extend to passing on other book recommendations. But I suspect it will die the death within a week or two, never to be heard of again.

Oh I don't know, we've got Halloween, Guy Fawkes, Christmas coming up and each could be a great opportunity to plug a Sunday afternoon play by having the cast of TA voicing the stories..

How about

True father of Jack
”Wherever you are, i’ll always be there”

@Passepartoute - they had better keep up with the reading. I’m still determined that Chelsea will eventually become a Booker prize winning novelist - so she needs plenty of SW directed access to literature.

"every breath you take, every move you make, I'll be watching you"

😂

TBF, if it’s a song title, it really has to be “You know I’m no good “ as that was playing “the night I gave you Jack” and the night of the stabbing.

Thanks for the detailed explanation as why/how Alan could avoid baptising Knob @Fink Reading that, it does seem vanishingly unlikely that it would happen in RL. Perhaps it will be Alan's refusal to do so that leads to some kind of flashpoint at the vicarage (Usha seems to have suddenly becoming much more vocal - despite years of silence and her recent demotion from being Ruth's best friend). It definitely feels as though the SWs are determined to ensure Knob is lucid to the end - despite his diagnosis - and it's hard to work out whether this is for dramatic effect or because he is faking it.

I thought Helen was at the hospital when he was told?

When I was around 11 or so, which was back in the early '80s, my parents (who had quite a few parties) held a couple of reading nights. I didn't pay much attention (a load of adults getting drunk is mostly very dull,) but I do remember for one I got to wear a pink sprigged Laura Ashley dress, which makes me wonder if it was the Go-Between or something Edwardian. Anyway, there were only two of those particular parties, AFAICR, which suggests they weren't the most popular.

Having sat through people reading stuff out in language classes, it can be deadly- stumbling over the pronunciation of unfamiliar foreign words is to be expected, but some people are very monotone or have weird intonation. An evening's reading in a place like Ambridge would probably be excruciating, were it not for Lynda having trained them all through years of village pantos and mystery plays and so on, as you wouldn't usually come across many good readers all together, as if they were all experienced performers...

I haven't listened yet, but still might.
In the episodes, the readings were done in by the characters we know and love.
In this, from the one bit I've heard, the readings are done by the actors who play the characters we know and love, but the only thing that remains in character is the voice, not the delivery. So bang goes my suspension of disbelief.
OTOH an authentic rendition is not something I want to listen to for that long. To make it listenable, it's got to be the actors reading them in the correct accent, but Like Proper Actors Would Read Them.

I think I will give it a go. @TottersBlanklyIntoBimboCore you didn't really expect it to push radio drama into a new era, did you? You can't believe everything the Beeb say

IRL, Book Clubs are well known for sprouting up, then fading out again very quickly The ones I knew of were for women friends, and were really about getting togethere with some wine and having a moan about their menfolk.

I would love it if someone suggests another book, but OTOH we've only got six lots of 12 minutes a week to fit everything in.

Yes, because the consultant phoned her as she was listed as NoK. Although she initially started saying it was nothing to do with her, after about a minute of the consultant talking, she agreed to go to the hospital in Hampshire, as if she had no choice.

So unless this was an elaborate ruse there is no way he’s faking

When they did Blithe Spirit a few years ago I enjoyed that. Susan was the maid who turned out to be psychic, and IIRC Brian played the part that Rex Harrison did in the original. Can't remember which other characters were played, but it was rather good.
Not sure about a reading though.

I quite enjoyed LRTC (I know, I was surprised too!)
There was some lovely singing at the end - Neil has a very good voice.
Part 2 is next weekend.

I haven't read all the posts but, as a long time Christian who had an abusive ex who did similar to this, I absolutely agree with Fink!

There was a huge hole in what Rob said, absolutely no mention of God/ Jesus.

I wasn't v impressed with the Alan part of the original storyline and am not impressed so far either.

To be fair, sometimes I think they write Alan well, but not in this case.

Abusers claiming to have converted or redound faith and wanting to very publicly display this is, sadly, par for the course.

*refound. On app so no Edit button. 😞

Does the right to be buried in the parish where you live extend to demanding a place in the graveyard of a specific church which isn't your nearest? I'm wondering if Alan can say fine, you'll be buried in Pennyhassett.

Though I'd really like him to tell Knob that he blatantly doesn't want to make amends for past sins, otherwise he wouldn't insist on something that he knows will compound them for his victims, so he can FTFO.

(Just thinking about how a minister could rephrase that @Passepartoute .....)

Any reason for this or were you just making a point about little Jack.....

Not a horsey person, so stand to be corrected. But would Lillian have been encouraging all that shouting from the sidelines from Emmur? Didn't seem like a very calm and professional environment for a lesson

Oh my goodness isn't Timothy Watson a good actor ?
That creepy little laugh he gave....

@faffadoodledo indeed. I am a riding instructor would have told her to be quiet or sent her away for a cup of tea.