As soon as I logged off I realised I meant Alan Devereux, not Trevor "Eddie" Harrison. The fact that I can name both of the actors must mean that I'm not as free of the blooming programme as I thought! I too just got fed up with the stilted dialogue. And I go right back to when the incredibly annoying Tony Archer was called Anthony William Daniel.

Here's to Neil Kinnock who said the Archers should be renamed "The Grundys and Their Persecutors", and to Galton and Simpson who wrote the best Archers episode ever (starring Tony Hancock).