Archers thread #196: Run, Rex, run! Discuss The Archers here.

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Thank you, @PseudoBadger, for kicking off this long, long series of Archers threads.

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So now we know who bonked George on the head. Will the stunning revelation lead to anything interesting or credible happening? Answers on a postcard, please!

Will Alice and Rex become an item? Will Amber come to her senses? Has Adam's constant languor and fatigue now removed his ability to speak on air?

Over to you!

okay, Ambridge reshuffle, can we celebrate the 75th anniversary with a few more potential Brookfield claimants.

Ruth to marry Stella, probably a dead end.
David to marry Esme who promptly produces an heir.
Meriel visits her dad, marries Ruairi (not a blood relation) and has twins.
Ben gets back with Beth and Bess and fathers triplets (Bella, Betty and Bert).
Lizzie goes ballistic at the thought of not getting 'her' share and enlists Lily.
Dan and his private army invade and occupy the Stables, and produce a mysterious trunk full of documents.

Carol Tregorran, backed up by Anna, refuses to move out of the cottage she has spent a lot of money keeping well maintained and furnished, un-noticed by a younger generation oblivious to anything not from Ikea.

Dan and his private army

Bring it on!

Vacancy klaxon - a manager for Josh’s egg business.

Candidates?

Akram
George
erm…

Ok, happy with all those proposals @DeanElderberrybut can we add a ‘finally kill off Jill’. It feels like a vital admin task that’s been overlooked for too long.

The archers have a real problem at the moment with far too many elderly characters

if they had got rid earlier they would perhaps have stood a chance of the younger characters being more mature etc. when you think what Brian was up to at Alice’s’ age!

Finally killing off Jill is long overdue. She was always one of my favourite characters, but it would have been kinder all round.

Jill will eventually become an Ambridge wraith, unaccounted for, waiting to be released from their scriptless wanderings, along with Lewis, Cathy and Jamie, Johnny….

Willyum
Leonard
Keirerr
Jake
Khalil
Zainab

Forgot about him!

I struggle to differentiate between Pip and Alice. To my ears their voices are very similar

@Bruisername what kind of mass accident could take place that would painlessly remove the lingering oldies collectively?

He's easily forgotten 😆

a bus trip to see the lights at Blackpool is the obvious one but they’ve missed that opportunity for a year

I approve of your eager tone @LightningMode 👍

I don't think they will dead Jill until her actress dies. Maybe even then they won't get round to it for a few years as they'll have a busy schedule introducing new characters with ludicrous accents.
Have we ever had a centenarian Archer?

I can see it would make sense to the creative team to delay Jill’s death until this 75th anniversary year. It’ll be an enormous event - probably at least three standalone programmes, a completely revised website, a month of compulsory podcasts, a street festival, every TA listener being visited at home by at least one of the cast, a campaign to get Barwick Green to Number 1 in the charts, a speech from the King … (Or not …)

They can't do that just now! When she dies her will goes into effect, and Shula and Elizabeth inherit Glebe Cottage.

Is it possible in England to bequeath to others things which do not belong to you? Because if it is, I think I might leave my brother's house to my daughter. I'm sure he won't mind....

Peggy, very briefly.

I think they ought to give Jill the respect such a long-running character deserves and let her go off in an off-stage burst of glory. Baking one last lemon drizzle cake sets Brookfield on fire? Like a WI version of a Viking funeral.

Ah yes, just shows what a damp squib her 100th was as I completely forgot!

It was shameful. It should have been a huge village event!

Zach is more like a caricature than a real character.

I can't believe I heard Pip telling Josh that Carol has the tenancy for Glebe cottage. There is absolutely no way that Josh wouldn't have already known that. Such lazy scriptwriting. They could easily have orchestrated a conversation between a couple of other characters at the party (or elsewhere) if they needed the audience to be reminded.

It will be an eulogy from Queen Camilla.

You’re so right!

I usually am.
It will be to show just how in touch with ordinary people she is.
It will be on the front page of the Radio Times, and will be featured in the Times, Telegraph, the Daily Liar and the Daily Emxpress.
QC will be hailed as having single-handedly saved the monarchy.
Barwick Green will be renamed Barwick Queen.

Somewhere they might mention that Jill Archery/Gill Archie has passed away. They will have missed the typos in the name because they rely on AI or spellcheckers.