Archers thread #191: Mulligan: stew made from odds and ends; second chance after poor shot. Both fit the bill. Discuss The Archers here.

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Mulligan mostly makes me think of John Finnemore's Souvenir Show. This is good, and tenuously connected to a recent TA storyline

Over to you!

Hmm. Reading others ' comments I may be wrong about Alan Carr. It could be Julian Clary if no one else has heard AC on JAM. Same remarks about innuendo apply though. No wonderful subtlety as, for example, Kenneth Williams managed. Apologies to AC! Or even the innuendo on ISIHAC. That is generally not explicit and is extremely funny.

I think it must be Julian Clary you are thinking of although I like him myself. Alan Carr is very funny and his autobiographical drama is brilliant https://www.itv.com/watch/changing-ends/10a3919. He also presents Interior Design Challenge. I don't think he's ever crude and as said above he's playing a blinder in Celebrity Traitors.

I grew up with The Home Service/ Radio 4 on all the time and The Navy Lark and Round the Horne were pure filth. I didn't know why it was filth I just knew it was.

I grew up with The Home Service/ Radio 4 on all the time and The Navy Lark and Round the Horne were pure filth. I didn't know why it was filth I just knew it was

Having listened to an episode of 'Round the Horne' just yesterday on R4 Extra which came on while I was pottering in the kitchen, I can confirm the filthiness. It was hilarious, still. And also brilliantly done in a way that so many current 6:30 'comedies' aren’t.

i grew up listening to the radio because we a) didn't have a TV until i was about 6 and b) we were often based in Germany or places with no English TV and we listened to British Forces Network (later BFBS) which broadcast a lot of R4 content.

So i grew up listening to Round the Horne etc alongside The Archers and 2 Way Family favourites.

Back to the Archers: why are Tom & Natasha so absent? this storyline with Rauari being such an arse about the holiday cries out for Helen, too. We at least need to hear someone say "Helen's lads can't just ditch school at this short notice. Can't wait for thee next ep after Alice's outburst.

I was nearly 10 before we got a TV, so reared on The Archers and the 12.30 shows, repeated in the evening slot two days later.

Yes, they are really missing the point about how people listen. Mostly one doesn’t think “ah, it’s x programme, I shall go and turn my radio on for it’s 25 min duration”. The radio is just on in the background in the kitchen or car, unless something dire comes on. Radio 4 as an incidental aural backdrop to meal prep in childhood is why I listen now (and why I have a mile wide, inch deep knowledge of a strangely wide range of topics )

@Bruisername , Yes, but he'll be presenting Strictly with Amol Rajan.

I don’t know why they have to use the same very small number of presenters/comedians for everything Because they get paid £££££££.

@Buxusmortus , Thanks. I'll have a listen.

@DeanElderberry , what's wrong with Fuchsia? Fuchs is German for fox.

Yes, but he'll be presenting Strictly with Amol Rajan.

🤣 so true!

Try telling the old, puritanical BBC board that. The first three letters were all it took . . .

most annoying, one was tempted to tell them to fox off, but that might have led to a lifetime ban.

Anyhow, trip down the same memory lane, I was attempting to get to the back of the cupboard under the stairs, and after an interval of 'what's that?' bafflement have decided to take the Remoska to the electrical waste recycling centre.

I grew up with The Home Service/ Radio 4 on all the time and The Navy Lark and Round the Horne were pure filth. I didn't know why it was filth I just knew it was.
Yes. ISIHAC had moments of filth too.

I remember having to pull in and stop when driving because ISIHAC was so funny. I don't listen these days.

@DeanElderberry , I loved the BBC TA message board.
I need to take things to the tip, but never got a Remoska.

I'm having a clock change day. Woke up at the 'BST' time. I'd reset my watch yesterday but neither my phone nor the radio-controlled clock showed GMT.

And why would she want to buy a house in the same village as her ex husband? Justin has always been an unsatisfactory character - flip-flopping between ruthless businessman to affable country gent depending on the requirements of the plot. Miranda is worse - sounds like a cross between Hazel Woolley and Annabel Shrivener and really has no personality beyond being Justin’s ex wife. Like her ex she has a seemingly endless supply of cash. It feels like Home Farm was sold for dramatic purpose, but to no realistic end and is now being bought back for similar reasons - I’d find it easier to accept if it hadn’t vanished off the map in the intervening years.

My friend bought an unused Remoska in a charity shop and uses it in her caravan. If it still works don't take it to the tip it could be used.

Yes but. With anything stew-like it used to trip out the electrics, which meant trudging the length of the house in the darkness and rain to the shed with the water pump.

Okay, sometimes the trudge would be in daylight, but still a nuisance. The Remoska was useful in its day but the air fryer is better.

The charity shop will PAT test it.

@LillianGish , to spite Justanidiot.

Charity shops in Ireland don't usually take electrical stuff.

The recycling centre should have an electrical section.

It does.

My mum has a Remoska, as i understand it works just like an air fryer? I keep forgetting about it when i visit, it would be perfect for the days we have birds eye chicken pie...

The whole Home Farm story is utter piffle. Why would Miranda buy it? Why? we need better motivation (some motivation, any motivation). It makes zero sense.

DeanElderberry
When we were told Ruairi was going to a Catholic school I decided it was either Downside or the Oratory.

Why not Ampleforth? It's probably closer than Downside, and I think it has a preparatory school still even though both Gilling and St Martin's have closed. Ruairi went to boarding school in Autumn 2011; he was just going to be nine that term.

I think they are both a bit nearer to Ambridge that either Ampleforth or Stonyhurst, and Downside is in the same neck of the woods as Sherbourne. Also at that time an Irish granny would have heard a lot more gossip about bad stuff at the others, possibly simply because being northern they had a slightly higher proportion if next-generation Irish pupils.

Which also made me a little surprised Bridget didn't specify an Irish school.

It wouldn't be the Oratory. I believe that's a day school in London. Our builder's sons went there years ago. Sounded very strict.

That's the London Oratory. There's a similar one in Birmingham, but the boarding school is near Reading. The person I know who went there is a lot more 'normal' that people I know who went to Ampleforth or Stonyhurst - though I think all public schools, religious or not, damage their pupils in many ways.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oratory_School

The same stuff (if not worse) happened in Irish schools.