...every year the same.
Someone unwilling gets roped in, someone starstruck for the lead gets to play a sheep or similar.
...there are arguments about who is the head of the horse or the jacksy of the cow.
...and Linda Snell gets hugely overwrought about it all.
I believe it is supposed to be an endearing and amusing annual staple.
However I for one am neither endeared nor amused....
...it is lazy scriptwriting, it is boring, it is f*ing irritating beyond words.
...and whilst one of the things I like about The Archers (and indeed the Home Service as a whole) is the sense of tradition and continuity, please can we have something else. Anything else. Please.
...and if a non-speaking, peripheral character gets the lead role, is anyone at all surprised when she pisses off to France skiing instead?
Only Linda, it would seem....