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.

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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!

Wow @AskingQuestionsAllTheTime ! All those celebrations have clearly gone right over my head!

Pah! Don't believe a word of it George!

They were just another "fleece the pun'ers" thing at The Bull, I suppose; not all that memorable.

Like my mother, I thank the Lord, daily, that I don't have to live in Ambridge.

Nobody in that village is bright enough to notice that Joy has an expensive house and no visible means of support, so they never ask how come.

So William wished his father would choke on his mother's shepherd's pie. No wonder George feels saying such things is acceptable. The apple hasn't fallen far from the tree. Poor Clarrie.

Yes true, and now Joy wants to make every event on the calendar into a full village participation event. Where does she think people find the time, or the money?

How I wish I could believe George, that it was all over!

"It's over" uttered last thing on a Friday night... always ominous!

Maybe it will turn out to mean it is over for George.

Fingers crossed here ....

Trouble is (and I think now the week is over it is no longer a spoiler so I can mention it on this thread) George has not been in the cast lists this week or last, and he has definitely been in the cast. So the cast-lists are now as unreliable as a fictitious set of interviews with a non-existent inspector, or a fictitious back-story for Neil, or a fictitious tale about someone with no motive for doing so and who would never leave someone perhaps dying by the road having been guilty of a hit-and-run.

This makes the programme less interesting, for me. Part of the enjoyment comes in trying to guess what may be coming, and you cannot really do that if the editorial team decide to cheat. I lose interest; I no longer care who bottled George, just feel vaguely irritated that they didn't do a proper job of it.

@AskingQuestionsAllTheTime .... I no longer care who bottled George, just feel vaguely irritated that they didn't do a proper job of it.

I was mildly interested, but the claim that it was one of Markie's lot is absurd. Ah! But the "nice wheels" = stolen car, people will say! That would be the car that went past at speed, not even slowing down for the purpose of bashing George on the head? Did they just happen to be passing, recognise him in the dark, go into reverse and then botch the job?

Next time I hope whoever it was gets both George and Wiwyum.

Absolutely Asking - as I posted a week or so ago, the editors have not broken the fourth wall they’ve kind of decided to dismantle all the walls and replace them with Borcetshire Blue. (Or something that I know how to spell)

I invariably listen to TA on my laptop, and during the whodunnit spinoffs discussions on this thread, got consistent ads for study guides for "An Inspector Calls". I felt quite nostalgic for the years I taught it in the UK. Now I think of it, I still have the SoW I wrote back in the day.

I only lurk on this thread, I've never posted before, but I think it would be lovely if Jazzer sang 'Auld Lang Syne' on Burns night. He sang it on the edition of 'With Great Pleasure' on Radio 4 that he did a few years ago. I'm afraid I don't know how to do a link, but you can hear it on BBC sounds. I found it very touching!

If a single woman around my age moved into an "executive" new build, I woildn't wonder how she could afford it. If pressed, I'd say she'd benefitted from the rise in value of her marital home, had savings and investments and pensions to support her. Possibly an inheritance too.

PSA For us Jacob fans! Paul Venables is narrating a serial - The Wedding Guest - penned by his real life wife, Rachel Joyce - available on Sounds.

If the poly tunnel had a big spilt in it surely you would have to replace it instead of trying to fix it with vinegar and brown paper. I should think you could get a replacement sheet quite easily. Would there be stuff growing in there yet, is it an all year round thing like hydroponics.? You could tell Tony had the right hump about it.
Why didn't they get Joy in to fix it has she can do anything.
I felt sorry for Carrie she did a lovely shepherds pie with extra peas and noone ate it, and the way her son spoke to her. He needs a good kick up the bum.

DH was sceptical when I popped this in iPlayer, but thank you for alerting us to this.

I had no idea that ‘Justin’ is so tall

I said a few posts ago that I didn't care who walloped George but wished they had done it harder. Now I include William in that. Both are noxious scrotes.

Is George lying about Marky being arrested. Surely hardened criminals wouldn't be texting each other their plans on their own phones. They'd be using burner phones. Or something.

And hardened criminals would have made a better job of it. I presume.

The whole Marky thing is tedious as is the ongoing behaviour of the Grundy men. What could have been exciting is now just boring and/or unbelievable.Added to which we have Highland Games with Joy to look forward to.

I started imagining a big explosion at Ambridge and who I would want to live or die. There were more on the second list than the first 😀

Yes I think George is making it up about the police call and what he said about the gangs phones etc. For some reason he wants everyone to believe it's all over and done with.

Just watched the Archers addition of Bargin Hunt, and I must say that if Justin was like Simon In real life what a lovely life Lilian would have.