Archers thread #188: New Order, please! 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 love to spend time with Martyn Gibson, 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!

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In some haste as we are going out for the day. I was asked weeks ago to put I've Killed the Vicar in as the new title but I agree with more recent comments that Peggy's funeral feels like old news now. Great line, though. Sorry not to have used Markie Malarkey, though. I've settled on something that will only make sense to people who were also youngish in the late 1970s or early 1980s. Here's a clue. If a certain person appears in tomorrow's episode the title will be relevant.

Over to you!

🔮 It’s a little too earth shattering to contemplate, but I fell asleep imagining how things might be if, after years of harmoniously running Brookfield together, the mature Pip and Stella split up. Cease to be a couple, but still have to manage the farm as a team …

But the BBC will have killed the show long before then.

I'm not quite sure what triggered the BBC to do this article

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c987l0d38xxo.amp

how the archers reflects real farming

O rlly

@Trivium4all The Liz Truss Dead Ringers is my current earworm.

It means that within the storylines the characters are going through, there are also discussions about wider farming issues: Till or no-till? Farming for food production or purely environmental gain? How to diversify and make a success of it?

From the BBC article.

Odd way round; surely it’s the wider farming issues that should shape characters’ personal storylines?

Do we really hear much of that anymore?

if this whole Justin sl is supposed to be a ‘discussion’ it’s a very heavy handed and poorly developed one

Radio 1 Newsbeat has just aired a few minutes on the pressures of farming, and the effect on mental health.

So maybe that’s the direction Ben is headed in?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx2q7wyrnk5t#player
Live combine harvester camera 😁

it's a pity they didn't formulate that as a question, so we could all apply Bettridge's Law and answer with an emphatic "NO!"

Well, let's hope Lily is actually stuck there, then, and can keep mysteriously filling up each and every free slot that appears.

Is it too bleugh for Stella to have an affair with Ruth? They are far better suited than Stella and stupid Pip. I really don’t think Stella should be doing the harvest without Brian’s agreement though. His land, his call I’m afraid.

Is it his land or is it BL’s land?

Which land? The tract with the wheat? BL's land.

i don't think Brian has any (or much?) land now does he?

How d’you mean, @Brefugee? He owns an entire farm. BL hasn’t taken over Home Farm’s land.

Only about 1,500 acres. More than BL owns in Ambridge, I think.

1500 acres is quite a lot of land.

Yes, it is, isn't it.

MAKES GOOD HOUSING DEVELOPMENTS UNDER KIER STALIN !

So that’s how the wedding will be delayed - a disaster with Amber’s planned Turkey teeth, or duck pout?!

I'm looking forward to a dental disaster, I hope they don't let us down.

I'm hoping she'll have her head sawn off.

Taking the morning off work to wish someone happy birthday? I bet Amber has birthday weeks and had the day off school too.

Please make Amber go away.

Does anyone really trill in that annoying voice in real life? And what a pass agg gift for Emma. She’d going to have the DIL from hell.

i hope she annoys Oliver and he chucks her out.

I wondered if Amber had been given the voucher free in her influencer capacity and just passed it on. I didn’t like how she called Emma, her future mother-in-law ‘silly’. That really grated. Her sing-song delivery is very strange- surprised the producers think that’s ok.

I loved Susan’s analysis of magazine delivery mix-ups, however, and the plan in place to safeguard future deliveries using Jim’s bureau is glorious. What could possibly go wrong? More of this and less of stupid SLs like Markey please.

I'm hoping that Amber finds out that Rochelle is a semi-criminal, and the two of them ride off, on matching beavers, into the sunset to annoy each other for eternity with their infuriating voices.