Archers thread #190: Carry on, Cleo! Best new character for ages. Discuss The Archers here.

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Charlotte Smith must have been delighted to get back to Countryfile and Farming Today. What a pile of piffle tonight. Ah well.

When is George expected back? It can't be long now, surely. It occurs to me that I can't recall whether he's ever spoken on air to Ruairi. As their actors are currently the best (IMO) amongst the younger members of the cast, I hope they will cross swords in some way.

And finally, I can't mention Carry on Cleo without squeezing in one of the best lines ever written (Denis Norden and Frank Muir have the credit): Infamy, infamy! They've all got it in for me! Currently, Lily probably feels this way.

https://youtube.com/shorts/eRnd48yTC5A?si=N05njp3uLfpSjAmI

Over to you!

My God, Amber’s What’s in My Bag thing was unutterably dull. Do people honestly watch this sort of thing?

It was only dull because she was interrupted.

Mine: Laptop, pencils and pencil sharpener, daybook, phone, phone charger. Concealer, eyeliner, tinted lip balm, boiled sweets, small pack of tissues.

Yes, they do.

Just like people listen to The Archers, which some people would find unutterably dull.

If you think What's In My Bag is dull you've not had Get Ready With Me and skincare routines pop up on your social media algorithms

https://youtube.com/shorts/oOoUkB0UpUk?si=iJOmPTgD0oP9lZ6s

I have to assume that something will befall George before he is released but, if he does get out, can you imagine how embarrassed you would feel at sharing a room for the first time just a few feet away from other people?

Is she barred from the flat she was living in before?

Ugh! That was too squelchy.
Food and drink in the bathroom is disgusting.

George and Anber will have evicted Will and Poppy before you know it.

I think she was living 'in a flat' at her parents' house.

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Did she [Amber] visit him in prison? If so it must have been off air.

She did. Her confrontation with Emma in the prison car-park was the first time we heard her. She then lied to George about what had happened, and told him that she forgave his mother for having attacked her.

So they’ll take the master suite and Will will be relegated to the single bed in George’s old room?

She's redecorated his room - surely they'll stay in whichever one that is? Or am I thinking too much like a logical person?

Oh well at least the privacy angle has been cleared up.

Ah hunh. Setting up a bizarre Dead Pony induced love triangle

Amber and Brad , it’s on the cards isn’t it?

Well a lot of that was unnecessary to hear. And a load of all crap. Can’t bear love triangles tbh

talk about foreboding. And she still sounds middle aged

as for mick. Could have done without

haven’t listened for ages so this episode may have been a mistake for the first back

Mick the trained security operative.

😆

The problem is that they’ve done nothing to really show us why Brad would be interested in Amber

When did that happen? He was a roadie.

Sound bit of advice there to Brad though.

I'm still rather hoping (certainly in vain) that George will be overheard the night before his release, bragging that he managed to convince the screws that the shiv in his cell wasn't his.

MysticBore™️ and her trusty 🔮 predict that there's going to be a shanking.
(but not, we don't think, an actual dedding)

How disappointing (that it won't be a deading)

Possible castration?

Are they allowed to castrate people on Radio 4 before the kiddies are in bed?

Really cringing at Amber going on about the bonkathon she and George are going to have - "Bubble bath and massage oil tee hee hee".
It's too reminiscent of the Monty Python "Nudge nudge, wink wink, say no more" sketch, which ended with a desperate "What's it like?"

Oh God.
I hate Susan.
I hate Paul.
I hate Lily.

I normally hate Mick but he redeemed himself tonight warning Brad about George.