Archers thread #183: The Scorekeeper's Apprentice. 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, and of course we are always delighted to welcome back former or occasional listeners/posters. We don't all agree on all points, although we do mostly try to be civil about it. Most of us are posting tongue in cheek a lot of the time, so don't worry about revealing that you'd like to share a hot tub with Mucky Mick, 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 https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/radio_addicts/4636789-the-archers-spoilers-thread-7-cant-wait-for-702pm-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.)

Credit for the title goes to @TottersBlankly who suggested it and @BeatriceBatchelor who coined this lovely phrase. (It's led me to take a look at the Wikipedia page for The Sorcerer's Apprentice. I had not known before that the animation in Fantasia that goes with the Dukas symphonic tone poem is more or less unadulterated Goethe, and the story goes back to ancient times. You learn something every day.)

At the end of the last thread, there was an apocalyptic tone as we were all bemoaning the lack of continuity and farming storylines (especially lambing, which used to be a big theme at this time of year). Are there any reasons to be cheerful? (Not just Part 3 - another reference for the older listeners here. ) Over to you!

I've been on holiday for a week and, thanks to this thread, feel no need to catch up on Sounds. I know all I need to know.

To be fair, they're between a rock and a hard place with accents and voices.

I dimly remember that when Adam returned from Africa people complained to Feedback that he was difficult to distinguish from several other male characters (Kenton and Alistair, I think). It was after that that he became the pre-eminent Man Who Sounds Tired All The Time, to quote the magnificent John Finnemore. Now everybody complains about that instead!

Jazzer has the accent of someone who's only recently moved south of the border but I'm not sure he's ever lived in God's Own Country at all. We never get him mixed up with anyone else, though.

New thread time: https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/radio_addicts/5314732-archers-thread-184-its-a-shambles-and-we-dont-mean-casey-meats-discuss-the-archers-here

Fergal Sharkey ... At least he's a passionate expert 💩

That gave me a flashback to 1967. Specifically, to David Watts by The Kinks.

I could only find a remaster.

Well I never knew the Kinks did David Watts! Always associate it with The Jam.

The Jam did a cover of The Kinks' song, certainly. But Ray Davies wrote it five years or so before The Jam was (were?) formed.

Isn’t that what I said?

Not quite. I was pointing out that it can reasonably be associated with the people who recorded it ten years earlier, one of whom wrote it, was all.

This has taken me back into my Kinks memories, specifically Dave Davies's wonderful Living on a Thin Line.

Well, it's one way to fill up a now defunct thread!