BS: The Archers UK Soap

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: MBSLynne
Date: 24 Nov 06 - 02:06 PM

I bet Matt can do a good turn as well. How about "Champagne Charlie"?

Any suggestions for appropriate songs from toher Ambridge folk?

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: IWTATBM
Date: 24 Nov 06 - 02:44 PM

So shall we start off with a monthly guest then and see how it goes? Demo CDs/tapes* for those interested in a gig to LBSLynne or IWTATBM c/o The Bull, Ambridge.

* Demo CDs/tapes are non-returnable and may be sold for profit at a later date.

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: IWTATBM
Date: 24 Nov 06 - 02:45 PM

MBS - SORRY!

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Bernard
Date: 24 Nov 06 - 02:53 PM

MBS - Farmer's Boy... what else?!

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 24 Nov 06 - 03:12 PM

'Sing if you're glad to be Gay' by Tom Robinson for Brian?
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: GUEST,Ancient Briton
Date: 25 Nov 06 - 03:41 AM

A few suggestions - assuming that some cast members are competent instrumentalists

"Man of constant sorrow" for David or Tony?
"D-i-v-o-r-c-e" for Ruth?
"Hate to the Wedding" for Adam
"Speed the plough" for Bert
"The disappointed coquette" for Emma
"The unfortunate rake" for Ed
"The maid behind the bar" for Jolene or "the drunken landlady"

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: GUEST, Topsie
Date: 25 Nov 06 - 04:43 AM

And there's Buttercup Joe, of course.

And 'The Cow' could sing Hey Diddle Diddle.

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: MBSLynne
Date: 25 Nov 06 - 06:24 AM

Lol! Keep it going. I like Giok's best so far.

How about "Forget-me-not" for Jack Woolley?

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: GUEST, Topsie
Date: 25 Nov 06 - 10:04 AM

Maybe the vicar would do Richard Thompson's '1952 Vincent Black Lightning'?

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: GUEST
Date: 25 Nov 06 - 03:16 PM

Mr Pullen - 'Skip to ma Loo'?

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: MBSLynne
Date: 26 Nov 06 - 06:08 AM

LOL!!!

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: GUEST, Topsie
Date: 26 Nov 06 - 06:15 AM

Debbie singing 'I've Got a Brand New Combine Harvester' could sound really sexy.

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 26 Nov 06 - 06:19 AM

Linda Snell.    'Oh Lord but it's hard to be Humble'?

G.

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: GUEST,Ancient Briton
Date: 26 Nov 06 - 08:23 AM

a few more tune suggestions

Matt Crawford: "Jack's the lad"
Paddy Macey (Adam's natural father) "The Connacht Man's Rambles"
Chris Carter "the merry blacksmith"
Fallon "the wise maid"
Ruth Archer "dusty windowsills"
Clive Horobin "the 9 points of roguery"
the vicar "the musical priest" or "the holy land"
Mrs Wooley "pretty peggy morrisey"

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: MBSLynne
Date: 28 Nov 06 - 03:28 AM

Sorry to be pedantic Ancient Briton...Adam's natural father was Paddy Redmond. The Macey comes from Roger Travers-Macey, Jennifer's first husband and Debbie's father.

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Gervase
Date: 28 Nov 06 - 06:09 AM

*swoon* Debbie singing anything would be sexy!

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 28 Nov 06 - 06:27 AM

Yup, tasty lady in real life, not such a nice character on T'Archers.
G.

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: MBSLynne
Date: 28 Nov 06 - 09:21 AM

I've never seen Fallon, but if I were a fella I'd fancy her voice. She sounds like that rabbit on the Cadbury's caramel ads

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 28 Nov 06 - 09:28 AM

Fallon looks good to me Lynne.
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Keith A of Hertford
Date: 28 Nov 06 - 10:15 AM

The False Bride...Emma.

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: GUEST,Ancient Briton
Date: 28 Nov 06 - 01:25 PM

Well I was serving my thatching apprenticeship over in Loxley Barratt when Paddy was around so I didn't catch every nuance of the affair.

More tunes?

Mike Tucker - Boil the Breakfast Early
(the late) Marjorie Antrobus - The Dogs among the bushes

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Emma B
Date: 28 Nov 06 - 01:28 PM

The "real" Cadbury's bunny

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: MBSLynne
Date: 28 Nov 06 - 02:07 PM

Good heavens! I didn't realise it was her.

Fallon looks like her voice sounds...I should think you guys would prefer her to Debbie. Personally I like the sound of Jazzer

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Emma B
Date: 28 Nov 06 - 02:34 PM

"Debbie" and friends

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 28 Nov 06 - 11:08 PM

Where/how can I listen to The Archers over here?????

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: GUEST,Ancient Briton
Date: 29 Nov 06 - 03:32 AM

I think Sophie sounds interesting - she's obviously been around a bit and might have a few sophisticated novelties to offer.

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: MBSLynne
Date: 29 Nov 06 - 03:42 AM

The BBC has a listen again thingy so you can listen on line. Someone with more techy knowledge than me would have to tell you how to do it.

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Keith A of Hertford
Date: 29 Nov 06 - 04:09 AM

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/archers/

enjoy

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 29 Nov 06 - 08:58 PM

Thank you - now I can wallow in the affairs of the Grundy's again....

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: GUEST,Elfcall
Date: 30 Nov 06 - 06:59 AM

Any one seen the cartoon in this week's Private Eye .. The Archer's new theme is 'Rumpy Pumpy Rumpy Pum Rumpy Pumpy Rum Pum'.

Elf

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Folkiedave
Date: 30 Nov 06 - 11:27 AM

And there was a cartoon in the previous edition with the sounds of love-making coming from the cowshed.

"Moo! Ahhhh! Moo! Ahhhh! Mooo Ahhhh........."

However the sounds of rumpty tumpty in the Archers are not new.......Given a couple of days and a few reference books I could probably list them all.

We used to mek us own fun in them days.

Dave

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: MBSLynne
Date: 30 Nov 06 - 02:23 PM

Remember Nigel's "Cuckoo" as he searched the house for Shula and ended up in Phil and Jill's room? Remember Shula and Simon whatsisname? John and Sharon? Jennifer and Roger (on his reappearance in the area, not when they were married) etc etc

Btw, what do we think the solution is to the current Brookfield impasse? I think Ruth should up sticks and take the kids to her mother's for Christmas telling David she's had enough and if that's how he wants it....He'd soon climb down off his high horse.

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 30 Nov 06 - 02:27 PM

He's not the one who cuddled in the cowshed, or even considered adultery, he's the one who turned it down when it was offered to him on a plate!
Giok

Stay in the saddle David!

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: GUEST, Topsie
Date: 30 Nov 06 - 02:31 PM

Whereupon David would get particularly friendly with 'Mrs Whoeveritwas' that he was arranging to deliver two boxes of who knows what to the other day on the telephone.

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Folkiedave
Date: 30 Nov 06 - 02:33 PM

he's the one who turned it down when it was offered to him on a plate!

Well, he was having intimate conversations with Sophie, glamorous get-togethers to which Ruth was invited as an afterthought. And let us not forget the trigger that finally sent her into the arms of Sam....or not as it happens.

And I know her type, that Sophie, she would carry on trying to seduce David until he finally succmbed, lucky sod.......

We used to mek us own fun in them days.

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 30 Nov 06 - 03:12 PM

This just typical, a man is inconsiderate, and by way of revenge it is all right for a woman to do absolutely anything !

Yes let's have sexual equality, let's stop women dominating men, and while we're at it, annexing the moral high ground even when they're in the wrong!
Giok

I'll get me coat!

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Noreen
Date: 30 Nov 06 - 08:51 PM

Just say what you feel, Giok, don't hold back...

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: MBSLynne
Date: 01 Dec 06 - 03:00 AM

But in the end she didn't actually go through with it, so she hasn't really done much more than David. Like him, she turned it down when it was offered on a plate


Love Lynne

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: GUEST,Ancient Briton
Date: 01 Dec 06 - 03:32 AM

David flirted mildly and when confronted with the prospect of physical action, stepped back. Ruth made a profound and repeated emotional committment with a certain prospect of bedroom action before drawing back. David enjoyed a single stolen kiss, whilst Sam's grubby prints are goodness knows where. No real equivalence there I'm afraid.

The subtext of the plotline seems to be that the envelope for "moral" behaviour for men is much smaller than that for women.

It doesn't seem fair.

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: GUEST
Date: 01 Dec 06 - 03:33 AM

David should kick Ruth out, the only questions that arrise are haw hard and how far!!!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: GUEST, Topsie
Date: 01 Dec 06 - 05:01 AM

Where Ruth went wrong was in wallowing in self-pity instead of getting on with the life she chose - not so promising for future storylines though.

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Michael
Date: 01 Dec 06 - 07:21 AM

On the Helen and Ross story; Helen isn't like that, She wouldn't have been that stupid, I sometimes wonder if the the current script writers (at any given time) ever listend to the programme.

Mike

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: Folkiedave
Date: 01 Dec 06 - 07:57 AM

She would have been that stupid, IMHO it is just like her!!

Scriptwriters? What do you mean scriptwriters?

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: MBSLynne
Date: 01 Dec 06 - 08:21 AM

I agree, it's just like Helen. She's a pain in the bum who wallows in self pity if anything doesn't go her way.

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 01 Dec 06 - 09:01 AM

Lots of pity for Ruth then, who kissed and cuddled in the cowshed with a man not her husband, and none for Helen who is free agent, and has been taken advantage of by a known lothario!
I smell female double standards!
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: MBSLynne
Date: 01 Dec 06 - 02:04 PM

I sympathise with her being taken advantage of but I still think she's a humouless, self-pitying bitch. :-)

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: GUEST, ...
Date: 01 Dec 06 - 03:50 PM

which one, Lynne, Helen or Ruth (or both)?

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: GUEST,Ancient Briton
Date: 02 Dec 06 - 03:23 AM

My tractor's on your lawn, Guest. Leave Lynne alone or I'll harrow your turnips. (this is how rural feuds really start)

Come to Ambridge and we'll sort it out man to man outside the Bull (although as this is an Archer's thread you're probably a girl anyway).

People like you just can't see that it's a waste of time trashing imaginary characters. Stick to picking on Helen or Ruth.....

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 02 Dec 06 - 04:25 AM

It looks to me like feuds start with misread or badly punctuated posts AB, as "Guest,..." is so obviously fond of commas, he/she appears to have put an extraneous one in after the word one in their post. However he/she goes on to say both which can only mean that he/she meant 2 people i.e. Helen and Ruth.
So put your tractor away like a good boy, and go and hoe yer turmits!
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: The Archers UK Soap
From: GUEST, ...
Date: 02 Dec 06 - 04:38 AM

Thanks Giok.
I/me did in fact put in too many commas.
But no one (apart from Ancient Briton, apparently) could possibly think I was applying that description to Lynne.