The Archers in Ambridge tonight.

Subject: Folklore: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: the lemonade lady
Date: 02 Jan 11 - 08:35 AM

Ok all you Archers fans, I've just spoken to The Old Bull in Inkberrow and they're up for having the radio on at 7.00. So who's coming with me?

Subject: RE: Folklore: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: Mr Red
Date: 02 Jan 11 - 10:01 AM

Not if that evil Nigel Horobin is going to be there.

His picture will be!

Subject: RE: Folklore: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 02 Jan 11 - 10:05 AM

Maybe the spectacular event we are promised for tonight will be Keith Horobin eloping with Jennifer Archer.

Subject: RE: Folklore: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: Boston Bass
Date: 02 Jan 11 - 10:14 AM

Please...I lurk on these and the Archers forums, but never let the twain meet!

One is sanity, one is escapism.

Choose which is which.

BB

Subject: RE: Folklore: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: GUEST,Ray
Date: 02 Jan 11 - 12:19 PM

Keith Horobin eloping with Jennifer Archer - Nah! - William is going to murder Ed (or Helen is going to elope with Ian.)

Subject: RE: Folklore: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 02 Jan 11 - 12:29 PM

Grace Archer didn't die in that fire! She comes back tonight having lived in Joe Grundy's attic, disfigured but aging well

L in C#
Theme tune played by The Yetties on the omnibus - I bet they new all along

Subject: RE: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 02 Jan 11 - 02:35 PM

Obit Nigel, I think?

Kitty

Subject: RE: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: Skipjack K8
Date: 02 Jan 11 - 02:50 PM

And Darevid

Subject: RE: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 02 Jan 11 - 04:28 PM

Maybe he will have landed on a ledge.

What I don't understand is why they were taking down the "Happy New Year" banner at New Year. Surely it would have made more sense to leave it up at least until the New Year bank holiday to encourage visitors to the gift shop and café.

Subject: RE: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 03 Jan 11 - 04:32 AM

Nigel learns to fly and saves David

L in C#

Subject: RE: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: fat B****rd
Date: 03 Jan 11 - 06:42 AM

Doughy Hood's brother comes back from the dead 50 odd years after Tom Forrest shot him!

Subject: RE: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: JHW
Date: 03 Jan 11 - 07:02 AM

Bartleby will be clopping by with a tumbrel load of David's stolen hay

Subject: RE: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 03 Jan 11 - 08:12 AM

Can they resist the 'When to switch off the life support' dilemma, and some propaganda for organ donation?

They say it will have repercussions in Ambridge for years to come, so maybe they'll decide not to switch it off, thus delaying the death duties. They could add to the anguish by coming up with someone (Helen?) waiting for a transplant.

Subject: RE: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: Penny S.
Date: 03 Jan 11 - 09:22 AM

Whitburn was on the news this morning defending her plot, and slipped, and revealed that there would be a birth and a death - then claimed she had said potential death. Thus gave away the state of Nigel, which she had been intending to keep in a Schrodinger state until tonight.

Who thought it a good idea to "celebrate" anniversaries with deaths?

Penny

Subject: RE: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 03 Jan 11 - 09:33 AM

There's a rumour going around that the death given away by Vanessa will not be that of Nige, but of the person he serendipitously landed on. Let's hope it was Shularrgh.

Subject: RE: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 03 Jan 11 - 09:36 AM

We still don't know what happpened to David - I've just heard the repeat and it definitely ended with a few more scrabbling/slipping noises. It could be Nigel landing in a well-placed yew tree (very springy) and David bowing out. After all, if we are celebrating 60 years of the 'Archers' it ought to be one of them who is sacrificed, surely.

Subject: RE: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 03 Jan 11 - 09:44 AM

If that's so let's hope that David was sensible enough to ditch the altruism and let go of the other end of the banner instead of clinging to the forlorn hope that he could save a dangling Nigel with no more than a bump to his upper-class-twit-of-the-year bonce. On the other hand, let's hope not.

Subject: RE: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 03 Jan 11 - 04:40 PM

Well, it was just a bloke falling off a roof after all. There simply has to be a twist. I reckon that one of the two Pargetter brats overheard David challenging Nige as to whether he was a man or a mouse, when the latter had been showing signs of demurring over the impending fateful roof adventure. This will be blurted out at the post-funereal weepie time, and a shocked and bitter Lizzie will make guilt-ridden Dave's life hell for years to come as a result. In fact, she may even try to kill him in about 2017. Tractors make effective lethal weapons, apparently. That will leave the way open for herdsman Sam to renew his bid for Ruth. God, why don't these people just employ me and have done with it.

Subject: RE: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 03 Jan 11 - 05:23 PM

I have been thinking the same as Penny S - it does seem very strange to celebrate a major anniversary by killing off a popular character and putting one of the regular actors out of work. (Or is this another of the financial cuts caused by the recession?)
I really don't fancy listening to people being miserable every evening for the next few weeks. Maybe I'll find something else to do at 7 o'clock from now on.

Subject: RE: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 03 Jan 11 - 07:28 PM

Yes, I agree in a way. Had it been the horrid Shula (or even smug Dave) instead of the bumbling but agreeable Nigel things would have looked far jollier. Still, I'll have to stick with it. My wife will permit no other route through the forthcoming gloom.

Subject: RE: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 04 Jan 11 - 05:14 AM

On Radio 4 this morning they interviewed the actor who played Nigel for 30 years.
He sounded quite upbeat and said he now has another job so I don't feel quite so bad about it. He seemed very proud of his scream - apparently people are downloading it to use as a ringtone.

Subject: RE: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: theleveller
Date: 04 Jan 11 - 07:19 AM

Nigel was so wet he wouldn't fall off the roof - just drip into the gutters.

Subject: RE: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: MBSLynne
Date: 04 Jan 11 - 07:48 AM

Ok, no twist, nothing waiting to surprise us. What a let down. Worthy of a tv soap. I am totally disappointed

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: GUEST,PeterC
Date: 04 Jan 11 - 09:48 AM

I just kept remembering the Hancock's Half Hour episode The Bowmans.

Subject: RE: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 04 Jan 11 - 06:58 PM

Lynne - I think you've missed the point. It's a slow burn which will affect the plot for at least a decade. And Nigel is the third longstanding character to have died in the last year.

Kitty
xx

Subject: RE: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: BanjoRay
Date: 04 Jan 11 - 07:11 PM

Nigel screamed for about 3 seconds on his way down. One of Newton's equations of motion says that s = 1/2 x a x t x t where s = the height of the house, a is the acceleration due to gravity (32 ft/sec/sec) and t is the length of the scream. This makes the height of the house about 145 feet. Ambridge must be quite a place to have houses that high.......
Ray

Subject: RE: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 04 Jan 11 - 07:52 PM

I assumed most of the scream was supposed to be happening as he slid down a sloping bit of roof towards the edge.

Subject: RE: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 04 Jan 11 - 07:56 PM

Yeah, and his final groundward crunch may have been slightly delayed by dint of David hanging on briefly to the other end of that banner. Until he let go to save himself. Bastard.

Subject: RE: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: BanjoRay
Date: 05 Jan 11 - 08:49 AM

dum de dum de dum de dum
dum de dum de dum dum......

Subject: RE: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 05 Jan 11 - 12:32 PM

....As long as it's not that despicable piano accordion version that opens the Sunday omnibus.

A letter in The Grauniad today points out that not only was David the only witness of Nigel's "accident", he was also the only witness of the "accidental death" of Clarrie's dad in 1987 at the hands of a mysterious falling tree-branch. I've long suspected that there is something of the dark side to this bloke.

Subject: RE: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 05 Jan 11 - 12:43 PM

I think he probably has an alibi for Sid though.

Subject: RE: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: Michael
Date: 05 Jan 11 - 04:35 PM

Ruth ought to be worried though:
Shula's husband - Dead
Lizzie's husband - Dead
Kenton - no partner - yet
David's wife - Living (at present)

Mike

Subject: RE: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 05 Jan 11 - 05:47 PM

And there was that badger . . .

Subject: RE: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 05 Jan 11 - 05:53 PM

That's right. The badger. We're looking at a very nasty piece of work here. I wouldn't feel safe with this bloke around, I tell you.

Subject: RE: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 05 Jan 11 - 05:59 PM

But I really don't think we can blame David for Kenton's not having a partner.

Subject: RE: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 05 Jan 11 - 06:01 PM

I feel you're trying to defend this man, topsie. Not a wise course I would have thought. Keep your distance, especially if there are any roofs or overhanging branches around. Or if you're a badger.

Subject: RE: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: Michael
Date: 06 Jan 11 - 05:06 AM

True topsie,I was just commenting on the fate of the sibling's partners, none of whom died a natural death.

Mike

Subject: RE: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: GUEST,Big Norman Voice
Date: 06 Jan 11 - 05:20 AM

I'm surprised Helen didn't call the baby Damien.

Subject: RE: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: theleveller
Date: 06 Jan 11 - 06:55 AM

I applaud the socialist symbolism that the scriptwriters have introduced with the representation of the downfall (in this case literally) of the upper classes who have positioned themselves above the proletariat. I mean, if he'd lived in a bungalow he'd probably have still been alive. ;-)

Subject: RE: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 06 Jan 11 - 08:18 AM

The esteemed Archers Anarchists have already renamed Shulugh's son Damien.

I applaud the socialist symbolism that the scriptwriters have introduced with the representation of the downfall (in this case literally) of the upper classes who have positioned themselves above the proletariat. I mean, if he'd lived in a bungalow he'd probably have still been alive.

Yes but had this symbolism been taken too far he'd have already fallen off the roof on a number of previous occasions and crushed Eddie, Clarrie, Joe, Susan, Neil, Titcombe...

I think the moral for the upper classes (can't think why it hasn't already been done) is that all stately homes should have very thick wisteria growing on all four sides, stcking out at least three feet from the walls.

Subject: RE: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler
Date: 06 Jan 11 - 08:23 AM

They have missed out on the chance to have a disabled character in the series though.
He could have been left paralysed and there would have been many more plot possibilities.

Subject: RE: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 06 Jan 11 - 08:42 AM

As for the siblings' partners, Shulagh still has one - David has been slacking, don't you think?

Subject: RE: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 06 Jan 11 - 09:31 AM

Yeah but Alistair's far too useful, being a vet, to David. But once he takes early retirement...

Subject: RE: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: theleveller
Date: 06 Jan 11 - 10:39 AM

And what REALLY happened to Pip's boyfriend?

Subject: RE: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 06 Jan 11 - 01:52 PM

And what about poor old Captain?

Subject: RE: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 06 Jan 11 - 05:23 PM

Topsie - Captain lived a long and happy life, and thankfully died before his owner became too demented to look after him.

Leveller - you haven't specified which boyfriend. The ghastly Jude has hopefully vanished into obscurity, but what has happened to Jonathan?

Steve Shaw - it's a bit late to be traducing one of the Yetties.

Kitty

Subject: RE: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: GUEST,Big Norman Voice
Date: 06 Jan 11 - 06:00 PM

Do you mean Mrs Dale's cat, Captain?

Subject: RE: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 06 Jan 11 - 06:03 PM

No, AAEFK, Jack Woolley's dog Captain

Kitty

Subject: RE: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: theleveller
Date: 07 Jan 11 - 04:20 AM

"The ghastly Jude has hopefully vanished into obscurity, but what has happened to Jonathan?"

Well I, for one, wouldn't eat Tom's sausages.

Subject: RE: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: Keith A of Hertford
Date: 07 Jan 11 - 04:25 AM

When Nigel did his bungie jump, he did not scream.
He shouted "I love you Lizzie" or similar.
He should never have been made to scream like that.

Subject: RE: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: Penny S.
Date: 07 Jan 11 - 04:44 AM

Peter, you beat me to it. Anyone know where I can get a copy of Hancock? I have posted on the Archers site that that is what I am going to listen to instead.

Penny

Subject: RE: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 07 Jan 11 - 06:11 AM

From the interview with the actor playing Nigel, it was his suggestion that he should scream. As it was to be his very last utterance after 30 years I think they were only being fair to go along with it.

Subject: RE: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 07 Jan 11 - 03:37 PM

Hmmm. Glaringly obvious from tonight's episode that David's "business interests", now that the killing's out of the way, must come first. Didn't want the funeral arrangements to get in his way, did he? As I said before - bastard...

Subject: Love Archers
From: GUEST,Mary
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 10:57 AM

Missed today's Archers :( Anyone tell me what happened to David?

Subject: RE: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 12:49 PM

I have it taped to listen to tonight just before the next one. Archersfest nite! :-)

Subject: RE: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 13 Jan 11 - 03:23 PM

Update: David refused to speak at Nige's funeral and has spent all week whining about how bad he feels about it it instead of changing his bloody mind, the spineless git. Kenton came up trumps with a nicely-pitched, sensitive and heartfelt speech. Shulugh's hovering like a useless camel on the sidelines. She and Kenton were caught by Helen The Horrible singing a gleeful folk song just outside the mourning Lizzie's kitchen (don't ask). Nige got carted (literally) to the gig in a wicker coffin. Every bout of hymn-singing was mercifully faded out. We've had classic lines like "She's SO brave" and "It's so [sob] WRONG!" I can't help feeling that the shit has yet to hit the fan.

Subject: RE: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 14 Jan 11 - 05:38 AM

I've missed so much lately but will make an effort to catch up with what has been happening. David has always sounded a bit dodgy to me with his too good to be true oversincere/insincere manner.

Subject: RE: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 14 Jan 11 - 06:41 AM

Shall we appoint Steve Shaw as official/unofficial Archers Summariser, then we could just check in here for the best bits and not bother listening to the rest?

Subject: RE: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 14 Jan 11 - 06:43 AM

Don't worry about catching up. The first half of each episode is dedicated to making sure that anyone who has accidentally failed to listen for up to at least five years will be fully up to speed in no time at all. They achieve this with improbable dialogue such as "Tony, don't forget you've got that meeting with the ministry man that you fixed up on the telephone yesterday after we'd had a chat about it, just before we went to the hospital to see that new baby, your gorgeous grandson Henry, that Helen had two weeks ago, remember?"

Subject: RE: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 14 Jan 11 - 06:45 AM

Topsie, I have a confession. It's my wife who's the addict. I'm merely an example of "Archers' bycatch." There are millions of us!

Subject: RE: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 14 Jan 11 - 06:52 AM

My son, who is also Archers bycatch, heard the omnibus last week (I had left the radio on in the bathroom and he was having a bath [note to Americans: in England the bathroom contains a bath - what you call a bathtub]).
His reaction was "Was that really the Archers? It sounded more like Eastenders."

Subject: RE: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 14 Jan 11 - 07:01 AM

My sister up north does the ironing whilst listening to the Sunday omnibus. I daren't ring her up whilst it's on for fear that she'd burn her ear. I'm afraid I have to avoid the omnibus one like the plague just in case I accidentally hear that terrible piano accordion version of the tune at the beginning. I'd never be the same again.

Subject: RE: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: theleveller
Date: 14 Jan 11 - 07:11 AM

It becomes more and more fascinatingly awful.Try to count how many different inflections and innuendoes Jill can get into the word "yes".

Subject: RE: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 14 Jan 11 - 08:48 AM

There was more on the height of Lower Loxley and the length of Nigel's scream on 'More or Less' just now, with another interview with the actor. It should be available on BBC 'Listen Again' before long.

Subject: RE: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 14 Jan 11 - 11:15 AM

Yes, I heard that. It's even worse than I thought: 20 storeys high required. And Nigel's scream was a smooth continuum. No articulation of sound to suggest a transition from sloping roof to freefall. I have a suspicion. He started screaming before he started falling. The only possible explanation is that he saw David starting to deliberately let go of that banner, most likely with an evil grin on his scheming face. So Nigel started to scream, first in wide-eyed terror as he saw what about to happen, and then carrying on with the scream in freefall. There is simply going to have to have been a witness to this who has yet to come forward. I was going to suggest Titcombe, but, as we know, he never speaks, and is about as real as Samantha on Sorry I Haven't A Clue. So either Freddie or Lily it will have to be...

Subject: RE: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 14 Jan 11 - 11:20 AM

Isn't there a Mrs Titcombe now?

Subject: RE: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: Morticia
Date: 14 Jan 11 - 11:59 AM

Samantha isn't real?

Subject: RE: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 14 Jan 11 - 12:17 PM

You can still be a witness even if you don't speak. And even normally silent characters have been known to express themselves at times. I'm not sure about Prue Forrest but I definitely heard Shane in Nelson's winebar speak once.

Subject: RE: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 14 Jan 11 - 01:06 PM

I wonder whether they pay an actor to play Titcombe. I wouldn't be at all surprised. I saw a video clip of Clue once and there was no Samantha. Colin Sell is a real bloke, though. I once went to a show with Barry Cryer reminiscing, and he had Colin with him. He's a lovely, self-effacing chap. Good pianist too. I don't know how he's put up with all that ribbing over the years!

Subject: RE: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 14 Jan 11 - 02:12 PM

Come to think of it, I don't recall any mention of faithful old Titcombe at any time throughout this dead-Nigel saga. I'm betting that Shulugh would have regarded him as far too lower-class even to stand at the back at the funeral service. He was probably put in charge of the horse's nosebag outside the church in the rain. My disdain for these people knows no bounds. As for what you said about silent witnesses, topsie, that got me thinking. In the series of that name, aren't all the witnesses in question dead? My God, can't you just see what might be going through David's mind? There's more carnage to come, I tell you!

Subject: RE: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: JHW
Date: 15 Jan 11 - 06:44 AM

Samantha Thwaite doubles on Haven't a Clue

Subject: RE: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 15 Jan 11 - 07:14 AM

Isn't it Sabrina Thwaite? Not sure if I've heard her speak but she did make a 'sound' during the panto rehearsals.

Subject: RE: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 15 Jan 11 - 04:36 PM

This is turning into a slow burner. I thought something was going to come out during Lizzie's walk in the grounds with Lily'n'Freddie (who were clearly truanting again with the connivance of Lizzie), but it turned instead into an angst-ridden debate as to whether the brats should go and mix with the hoi-polloi at the local comp (gosh, what a GHASTLY thought, mummy!) or go instead, as Nigel The Toff had always wanted, to the Cathedral School. Of course, there are entrance exams for that as well as future cost implications, but I suppose there's always the life insurance money. Nigel had clearly groomed his kids in that direction, if their remarks to mumsie are to be believed. Am I alone in dreading the tedium-to-come of this dreary, class-ridden sub-plot?

Subject: RE: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: JHW
Date: 16 Jan 11 - 02:58 PM

Yes Sabrina. Panto pussy.

Subject: RE: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: theleveller
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 03:25 AM

"Am I alone in dreading the tedium-to-come of this dreary, class-ridden sub-plot?"

No, I've been losing patience with it and the awful scriptwriting for some time.

Subject: RE: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 06:21 AM

I agree, but I still feel that something apocalyptic must be afoot. I mean, surely a toff falling off his own roof can't have been what what was meant by the stuff "to shake Ambridge to its core for years to come." There simply have to be angles.

Subject: RE: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 06:22 AM

"What what?" Toffness rubbing off? :-)

Subject: RE: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: theleveller
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 07:46 AM

My guess is that Matt will buy The Bull and covert it into executive residences. This will give Eddie and Joe the chance to extend the Cider Club.

Subject: RE: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: JHW
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 07:56 AM

'I've been losing patience with it and the awful scriptwriting for some time'
Fraid so. Can't bring myself to listen to funerals and such lamenting when what they SHOULD all be discussing is the effect the SCRIPT is having on Ambridge.
I've stopped listening.

Subject: RE: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 08:11 AM

I've just realised where I've come across Freddie 'n' Lilly's voices before - they're The Woodentops.

Subject: RE: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 08:32 AM

Let's hope they pass the entrance exam for the Cathedral School. At least we should hear a bit less from the insufferable little brats then.

I won't hear a word against The Woodentops - they were my favourites. Except for Bill 'n' Ben of course.

Subject: RE: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: theleveller
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 08:47 AM

I think the council should compulsorily purchase and big piece of Brarrrrn Aldridge's land and build a council estate next to his house.

Subject: RE: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 08:59 AM

Yep, Brarrrrn's had an easy ride in recent years. Getting the missus to bring up his love-child was quite a coup, coming on top of Siobhan's convenient death (just think how complicated his life would be now...). You do have to wonder whether David wasn't involved in that one as well in some tangential way. The worst Brarrrrn's had to put up with was to be forced to attend a gay wedding after putting up a load of homophobic resistance, but even that got Adam neatly out of the way. He really does seem to be able to sit back and let life sort itself tidily out around him. Of course, in real life it's gits like him who always have all the luck, so, as The Archers is allegedly not real life, maybe we can expect something deliciously vile to happen to him. I'm not sure that the council estate thing is quite bad enough. Get David on the case, I reckon.

Subject: RE: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: GUEST,Big Norman Voice
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 09:05 AM

Gosh, what a load of inverted bloody snobs you lot are.
Come on now, it's about time someone dragged Maggie Thatcher into this thread.
Where's Richard Bridge when you need him?
Not only is the Archers not real, it doesn't accurately represent real life either! Well it's about as real as a Socialist Society.

Subject: RE: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: Mr Red
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 09:11 AM

Nigels fall from graze

the BBC prog More or Less listen again (a numbers based prog) reckoned that the scream was long enought to qualify for (memory doesn't serve too well) a 10 storey building. Stately Home X 2 - I would think.

Subject: RE: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: theleveller
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 09:38 AM

"maybe we can expect something deliciously vile to happen to him"

He'll probably have a heart attack when Matt buys The Bull.Or maybe he'll discover that the appalling Jennifer is having a lesbian relationship with Sabrina.

Subject: RE: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 10:05 AM

Yes, "Brarrrrn Dahling" Jennifer tends to sail amorally through as well. A lesbian fling would be good (I seem to recall we've had a buttock-clenching gay kiss already, so perhaps something a little squelchier would be in order...), provided she's not too busy trying to remember which bloke is the father of which of her ghastly offspring.

Subject: RE: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 10:15 AM

I thought Jennifer was going to run off with Keith Horrorbin.
I still think Helen is the most likely to be a lesbian - but probably unrequited.

Subject: RE: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 10:17 AM

Understandably unrequited, I'd say.

Subject: RE: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: theleveller
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 10:54 AM

Actually, I think Lillian will persuade Jennifer to join her in a threesome with Matt who will film it and send videos to all the board members of Borsetshire Land.

Subject: RE: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 11:52 AM

or all the bored members

Subject: RE: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: Michael
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 05:17 PM

Well Brian's member never used to be bored.

Mike

Subject: RE: The Archers in Ambridge tonight.
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 19 Jan 11 - 02:22 PM

So Nigel's death now seems to be "all about Shula." She'll be telling us next that she feels guilty about not marrying him instead of Lizzie, as he wouldn't now be dead. If I hear any more of the woman's self-indulgent "grief" I'll probably have to vomit over the tranny.* Does this harridan's ghastliness know no bounds? As for the twins' upcoming interview at the snobby Cathedral School, to which they have to take a personal object to talk about (wha...???), Shula said to Lizzie how nice it was that Lily had chosen something "horsey." Aaargh!

*Transistor radio, yanks. Sheesh.