Archers thread #194: Bottled on the Bridle Path! Discuss 75 years of 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 wishthat we'd heard the Reverend Shula preach over the festive period, or other unusual views.

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I am all Archered out after the excitement of the 75th anniversary yesterday, the special drama (Truth and Lies), the podcast, you name it. Now it looks as if George is going to pull through, the hype seems a bit overdone. So it's over to you!

Thanks, Gasp0de.

Thanks for the new thread.

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Repeat after me: ‘subdural haematoma, hitherto undiagnosed idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, sudden failure of right ventricle’.
Well, a sociopath girl crabbit auld bat can dream.

Thanks all.

Thanks Gasp0de
Happy New Thread, everyone.

RegSturg, what would we do without you?

I feel I am owed a dead body. That was the big 75th Anniversary SL?!

I think I was more intrigued by who Leonard was meeting up with behind Jill’s back.

Brilliant - 75 years in 75 seconds - sonny ormonde!

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Thanks @Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g

Am I the only one who doesn't want a murder case?! a) it will all just descend into radio Midsomer Murders and,
b) George is the Ambridge lore of the future! He's got decades ahead of him, swinging back and forth between good and bad.

I enjoyed Truth and Lies. I don't think it was an all in George's head idea. It felt more like we were the in the heads of each of the characters being "interviewed". All their deepest feelings, regrets, heartbreak and secrets. I felt really sorry for Hannah. And, emotional affair ay, Harrison?

I didn’t want him to die either, firstly because he’s a good actor, but secondly, because we’d have to listen to weeks of grief episodes with Emma wailing. I’m sure a version of those are coming when we find out who actually did it.

Rewinding a bit, it was before my time, but what was the mention of Nic hitting George?

When they were quite small children, Nic smacked George because he hit Mia or hurt her in some way.

Will and Nic split up over it temporarily didn’t they?

I haven't relistened to the episode where Neil etc found George but am I remembering correctly that the dispatcher told Neil that an ambulance had already been sent as in someone else had called for one ? If so it makes me think more likely Harrison as I can't imagine Markey would have regret ?

Truth and Lies was entirely following An Inspector Calls, which means it only makes any sense if you know the play.

Which is another thing that’s annoyed me!

With the other literary ‘tributes’ they’ve done (Lark Rise, A Christmas Carol (any more?) it’s either been scheduled as such and or very obviously a tribute to a very generally known work.

This year’s was just blinking confusing at a time of trauma for the characters and for the audience!

*if you knew the play and, even if you did, once you’d made the painful realisation….

Happy New Thread! Thank you @Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g- fabulous title, encompassing all the delights of rural life.

I too am all Archered out. Though I agree it seems likely that after Bacongate (hell unleashed at House Horrobin) and Jazzer walking in to hear Brad roaring hatred towards George, Jazzer probably does think that Brad dunnit, and acted accordingly to protect him.

Regarding the ambulance already being on its way, that's what the call handler says if you aren't going to be waiting three hours. The CH has assessed that there is an immediate risk to life. The CH stays on the line till the ambulance arrives. It doesn't mean that George's assailant rang before Neil. It's been said to me six times in the last three years, unfortunately.

Thank you for the New Thread for the New Year; here’s hoping 2026 has some decent storylines.

Have Joy and/or Akram not solved the crime yet?

I’m not sure that we’ll find out who thwacked George any time soon.

Came and found these threads again for the sole purpose of hearing other views on the panto NYE episode of look behind you George. Who’s done a very good job of being a martyred male but was getting rather tiresome and the I’ll show them trailer sounding all a bit Eastenders to me.

Jazzer probably does think that Brad dunnit, and acted accordingly to protect him.

Ah that explains his shifty manner in the woods. I thought Jazzer had dunnit because of him apparently not wanting to look 👀 in the woods in the first place. Like he didn’t want Neil to find George. Then acting odd when they found George eg how he wasn’t putting his coat over George.

We’re going to have weeks of this and I’m not sure it’s a SL that’s going to hold me. Ah well.

Thanks for the new thread.
It's so annoying that, now George has been bonked on the head, that he will once again be forgiven by all the Grundys and perhaps Lord it over them more than he has ever done before.
I think it must have been one of Markies gang who was in that car that nearly hit George when he was with Alice. They drove past on the off chance and clocked George, parked up and followed him and bash bang wallop on the head leaving him for dead.
No one of those Ambridge dwellers,(except Mucky Mick), would hurt a fly.

I have a hunch that this will be like Nic’s car accident; nobody will confess until they are on their deathbed.

That said, a few years ago Robert Snell was busy trying to persuade villagers to get Ring doorbells. I wonder if there is any footage of somebody going to a phone box? A mobile phone must be quite easy to trace (or have I watched far too many episodes of Hunted?).

Could it be Amber's car dealer father who thumped George? He would presumably have "nice wheels". It's possible Amber rang him to come and take her home after her scene with George at the Horrobins.

That would be a possibility.

Was Jazzer just panicked?
Did he know something in advance?
Did he see something at the scene that distracted him from acting?