BS: The Archers UK Soap

Subject: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 15 Aug 03 - 02:31 PM

As a means of giving my age away, I will admit to having listened to The Archers almost from the beginning. However at this moment in time I am totally pissed off with this programme. Why are nearly all the male characters wimps and/or pratts? Or jokes!! Why does nothing good ever happen to the Grundys? Why do they drag obvious storylines out for months? What does it have to do with its' tag line "An everyday story of country folk"? It is almost totally irrelevant to todays farming and farmers. Insofar as it reflects any part of a farmers existance, that existance is relevant only to English farmers, and bears little or no relation to the life of a farmer in Scotland, or the north of England. I know that time moves on etc., but this programme is so far outside its' remit that it is in danger of becoming totalty irrelevant.
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: harvey andrews
Date: 15 Aug 03 - 07:17 PM

All good things come to an end....... maybe it's time.

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: greg stephens
Date: 15 Aug 03 - 07:21 PM

i'm just worrried about Edward Grundy

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Noreen
Date: 15 Aug 03 - 08:21 PM

He wouldn't do that to the horses would he??

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Shelley C
Date: 16 Aug 03 - 11:12 AM

No, its the new vicar's daughter who's been abusing with the horses. It's all to do with the fact that she hasn't got a mother. Or something.

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Gervase
Date: 17 Aug 03 - 07:05 AM

Nah, it's wee Damien, St Shula's dysfunctional son. He's out there in the moonlight. slashing the horses.

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Larkin
Date: 17 Aug 03 - 03:17 PM

I reckon it's the coke addict ex partner of Alaister although I like the Amy idea! We should know by Christmas




2004!

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Skipjack K8
Date: 17 Aug 03 - 06:53 PM

It was Colin Thompson

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Aug 03 - 06:57 PM

Dang, I thought this was about something used in the UK to clean bows.

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Zany Mouse
Date: 18 Aug 03 - 03:35 PM

Who's Colin Thompson? I reckon it was Theo - the coke vet.

Incidentally I don't think they use the "Everyday story of country folk" tag line anymore.

ZM

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Skipjack K8
Date: 18 Aug 03 - 04:35 PM

Oaklet, help me out here. You started it.

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Oaklet
Date: 18 Aug 03 - 07:21 PM

Colin Thompson is the reason for everything and the route of everything that happens to all of us. Forget Judith Chalmers, it was Colin Thompson.

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 18 Aug 03 - 08:54 PM

who id this colin tomson bloke? 9i neber heard of him!
he is sounds very dangerous, 9he did loads of bad stuff,
somebody should sort him out.johh

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 18 Aug 03 - 09:04 PM

ps- was it colin tohmsom waht killed that badger as well?
woodent suprise me!, he did loads of bad stuff.johhn

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Strupag
Date: 19 Aug 03 - 08:42 AM

Preferred the Dales, myself!

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 19 Aug 03 - 10:44 AM

Yes Andy, and I'm still worried about Jim!
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Noreen
Date: 04 Sep 03 - 02:27 PM

Well it can't be Daniel, can it? He was at home with his mum...

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Noreen
Date: 04 Sep 03 - 02:35 PM

Try this quiz to find which is your Archers alter-ego

I got:

Well heeled and charming, you enjoy the finer things in life, particularly members of the opposite sex. Your Archers alter ego is Brian Aldridge.

:0)

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 04 Sep 03 - 03:43 PM

Eddie Grundy me, pass me my guitar and my hat with the cow horns attached. Sorry Clarrie, but I'm leaving you for Jolene.
Ye Haaa
[Anybody want a juvenile delinquent son?]
Giok [Grundy]

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: MBSLynne
Date: 04 Sep 03 - 04:40 PM

Well I'm Brian Aldridge too. Perhaps because we're both Scorpios! Damn, I got hooked on the quizzes for ages. Giok, we all go through these phases of denial aboute the Archers. I was off it for a good couple of years, but I drifted back. Now I can't wait until tomorrow evening when we will hear the horrible ----- revealed! I found out who it is by mistake!

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: GUEST,Peter from Essex
Date: 04 Sep 03 - 04:43 PM

"Its You!" and we get the pain old tum-ti-tum music. What happened to the dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-DUM for the dramatic endings?

I think the slasher is Foursquare

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: sian, west wales
Date: 04 Sep 03 - 04:58 PM

Oh lordy. I'm Eddie Grundy too.

sian

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: ard mhacha
Date: 04 Sep 03 - 05:07 PM

How`s oul Walter Gabriel,?. Ard Mhacha.

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: John Routledge
Date: 04 Sep 03 - 08:18 PM

I'm Brian Aldridge too. Who is he? :0)

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Keith A of Hertford
Date: 05 Sep 03 - 03:01 AM

Walter can't be the slasher, he's been dead too long.
Greg's brat has gone home so not her.
If it's Robert Snell, who could blame him?

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Steve Parkes
Date: 05 Sep 03 - 04:01 AM

I reckon Matt Crawford and his cronies have been holding Black Magic rites, summoning the Powers of Darkness to drive the Good Fol of Ambridge out of the village so Borchester Land can redevelop it all. I think they've raised the 19th century Wyrley Slasher of Stffordshire from the dead to walk among the beasts of the village, hamstringing them. Just when you thoght itwas safe to go back in the stable!

Steve

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: GUEST,Skipjack K8
Date: 05 Sep 03 - 05:26 AM

What odds are William Hill giving on the slasher being Marjorie Antrobus??

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: mooman
Date: 05 Sep 03 - 05:37 AM

Must've been Brian's illegitimate son....

moo

(I miss Siobhan)

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Ralphie
Date: 05 Sep 03 - 05:42 AM

I just think it's amazing that they all turn up every evening, and every luchtime, to tell us about their lives, and then, get up on a Sunday morning, to do it all again.....in case we missed a bit....

Am I missing something here?

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Ralphie
Date: 05 Sep 03 - 05:43 AM

....You mean....It's not real???

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Steve Parkes
Date: 05 Sep 03 - 08:19 AM

Of course it's real, Ralphie! Only Countryfile is made-up.

Steve

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: sian, west wales
Date: 05 Sep 03 - 08:49 AM

OK - so the closing line is, "Oh my God. It's YOU!"

Who, then? I'm fairly new to The Archers but I thought Ed's ratty friend whassisname said that it was Ed what waz doin' the slashin'.

Last call for bets ...

sian

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Noreen
Date: 05 Sep 03 - 10:19 AM

Glad to see you have a heart, Ralphie...

:0)

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: GUEST,Skipjack
Date: 05 Sep 03 - 11:18 AM

So you're odds-on for Jazzer, then, Sian. Interesting!

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: GUEST,Skipjack
Date: 05 Sep 03 - 11:30 AM

It's the old Ketamine getting to him, taking revenge on the closest thing to nasty Leo for ruining his life?

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: GUEST,JTT
Date: 05 Sep 03 - 01:09 PM

Ar, I'm Eddie Grundy, and I've a bone to pick with you scriptwroiters.

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 06 Sep 03 - 07:05 AM

It wasn't Clive wot dun it!
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: MBSLynne
Date: 06 Sep 03 - 11:52 AM

What other reason is there for wandering around the countryside at night carrying a knife and with your clothes all covered in blood!!! If Clive didn't do it, what had he been doing??

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Keith A of Hertford
Date: 07 Sep 03 - 06:42 AM

It's just circumstantial.

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Skipjack K8
Date: 07 Sep 03 - 09:02 AM

Ah well, Clive met up with Leo in chokey, and Leo has promised Clive a ficticious fortune if Clive can ruin nasty Alistair, who, after all, ran off with their business after Leo had been caught doing a line or two of poets Persil.

Personally, I never forgave Alistair for executing Doctor Richard, who was the only one who really made Saint Shula wriggle.

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: sian, west wales
Date: 07 Sep 03 - 10:21 AM

Yeh - but Clive obviously didn't know that the farm had changed hands since he's been 'inside' so ...

(Don't even really know who Clive is, except for what my neighbour's now told me. He was packed off before I started listening ...)

sian

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Steve Parkes
Date: 08 Sep 03 - 08:43 AM

Clive Horabin (should that ebe "Horrorbin"?) is Susan Carter's ne'er-do-well brother, who disappeared into the murky underworld kens of the Big Smoke (London to the innocent and ignorant). Last time he was around she got six months for sheltering him. This time she should murder hiom and bury his body under the patio. I think The Archers is the only Soap where nobody's done this yet. (They did it for real in Walsall, where I came from!)

I still think mytheory is in with a chance; Clive was probably sacrificing chickens or goats (or horses) to Mammon.

Steve

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 08 Sep 03 - 12:26 PM

Perhaps Clive likes fresh horsemeat steaks ...or perhaps he's a vampire !

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: vectis
Date: 08 Sep 03 - 06:37 PM

OHMEGOD I got Eddie too.
It's the cider and song questions wat did it.


Clive is covering up for the highly disturbed Amy. He's obviously besotted with her.

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: GUEST,Phil Archer
Date: 09 Sep 03 - 04:30 AM

I think it't Linda Snell's Llamas

They're having kinky sex & S&M with the horses

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Mr Red
Date: 09 Sep 03 - 05:02 PM

Sorry to introduce a note of FOLK into all this but they are talking of another Barn Dance - as if they actually know the difference between E-ceilidh (English Ceildh) C&W.
Not that I listen of course but the on/off switch is too far away while I am happytapping. FWIW I did listen to Charles Collingwood 2night at 6=30. Didn't everyone?

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Steve Parkes
Date: 10 Sep 03 - 04:02 AM

The next to come in is Charles Collingwood,
He's a dirty old man and they bay for his blood ...

Not Charles himself, of course, but his character. No, I missed him. What was it about?

Steve

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 10 Sep 03 - 04:08 AM

A little programme called With great Pleasure, on Radio4, in which an old or favoured actor is allowed to reminisce about his or her life and loves. Sometimes a boring programme, sometimes an uproarious romp. Charles fell somewhere between the two.
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Steve Parkes
Date: 10 Sep 03 - 05:13 AM

Ah yes, I've heard some good ones. Saw him on This is your life though, and actually saw him act on a tv drama a while back. Not to mention Noel's House Party ... in fact, I wish I hadn't.

Steve

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Keith A of Hertford
Date: 29 Sep 05 - 06:36 AM

Eddy's 21st already.
I know its not real, but I remember him being born.
Andnow poor Clarie, who has already suffered more hardships than anyone should, will see her family torn appart.
Will there be a fight to the death by the bridge tonight?
Oh no!