The Archers

I listen but it's just a habit.
Not always very well written and the plots are too obvious they always seem to set them up a few weeks before.

I totally gave up when it was monologues.

The story with Rex and getting muddled up with Fallon and Emma was a tad ridiculous. As for Tracey and Jazzer’s on off proposal…..

Not any more. I used to tune in every day but gave up when Shulagh (sp?)'s husband Mark died.
Just occasionally I hear an episode but haven't got hooked again. Shulagh is too much of a goodie-goodie for me!

Yep.. Guilty as Charged.. I'm a listener.
Agree , the Monologue rubbish.

I like the Archers.
It can be a bit silly in plot line but I find it a relaxing distraction

The storylines are ridiculous at the moment especially the Brookfield B&B which was daft from the start. They’re all too busy, David and Ruth can’t cook, Jill’s gone on strike (about time) and they don’t even have a cleaner. Haven’t they watched Four in a Bed?

Ben wants to enter Bess for sheepdog trials but they’ve got rid of their sheep! 😂

I listen on catch up in bed each night with headphones on. I find it relaxing. I agree some story lines are a bit ridiculous but I enjoy the longevity of the programme.

Like Sally45, I’ve been listening forever, and remember Grace Archer dying in the fire.
I usually listen to the Sunday morning omnibus edition.

Listening on and off forever. Off for the Helen Abuse story, off in Covid as it got tedious. It was always on in the background as a child and, unusually, started listening properly at uni, something familiar in anew place maybe.

Exactly the same mumofmadboys! A hundred years ago I ‘worried about Jim’ with Mrs Dale, anyone remember her?

Mrs.Doyle's Dairy,as Jimmy Young used to call it.

I gave up on the 60th anniversary of the programme, having, like Wyllow3 listened on and off since it started (my parents listened).

In the run up to the 60th anniversary there were trailes and teases suggesting ssomething really dramatic was going to happen, really life changing and what happened? They killed off a popular character, while still running the story of previous sudden death.

Then we were asked to believe that two female characters, both active feminists hadn't hear of pre-eclampsia. Not recognising it I could understand, but not knowing about it? I spoke to various friends and DDiL, and all of us said it was covered in pre-natalclasses and we knew about it. Several had had it.

I was so disillusioned by all the hype - and then the bathos of what was delivered, that I haven't listened since.

I remember being very upset as a child when, at 7.45 pm on weekdays Dick Barton, Special Agent was replaced by the Archers., However the Archers have evolved which Dick, Jock and Snowy would not have been able to do!

My family listened to it religiously, and I remember the episode where Grace died, though I confess to being more concerned about the well-being of the horses rather than Grace herself. The episode was thought to be the BBC’s cunning plan to distract from the fact that ITV began that evening.

For years as an adult, I used to listen to the omnibus edition, but stopped also during/after Covid when I thought it became a bit tedious.

I do recall that Jennifer and Lillian had very whiney voices as children, and Tony was always given his full name of Antony William Daniel. These were the glorious days of Walter Gabriel with his catch phrase “Hello me old pals me old beauties” and Peggy’s mother, the irascible Mrs. P. Lately we have watched on tv, repeats of many programmes which we once enjoyed, and have been disappointed, so maybe if I heard the “old” Archers, I wouldn’t think it was better than the present version.

In the pandemic the episodes were re-arranged into individual monologues and dreary they were too.

I've never been able to get back into it - the younger characters all sound so similar it's tricky telling them apart.

I’ve listened since 1968, with occasional breaks. I like the way story lines develop in real time. The best recent example being the Helen-Rob story.
I remain very cross about Nigel being thrown off the roof. His character is much missed.
I’m in a not listening much space in recent months. Tedious, badly written story lines, often with established characters acting out of character.
I’m fed up with the focus on younger people.

Yes I’ve listened for years, usually the Omnibus.

Although I get irritated occasionally I don’t think I could give it up, I’d feel disloyal.

I listened religiously for about 30years. My earliest memories were Shula's sheepshearing mate from NZ, David and Shula's 21st birthday party and (not sure about this one) Eddie's mum dying during the party.
I stopped listening about 2005 when I realised that Archers, Corrie and Eastenders were dominating every weekday evening. So I went cold turkey and never looked back.

I used to like Uncke Tom's intro to the omnibus edition.

I remain very cross about Nigel being thrown off the roof. His character is much missed.

I'm certainly with you here Iam64. I can hear that episode in my head, no need to repeats. Such a waste of a good character.

Its good timing, I cook my evening meal when its on.
The only TV soap I ever watched was Neighbours back in the day me and DS used to sit down after school and watch it together.

I'm OK with the younger characters. Pretty realistic. At first Chelsea annoyed me at first but she's developing and its been a poignant Story line with Ben getting ill. and Jazza getting married, who'd have thought it possible going back to the days of ketamine...

My grandad used to listen to it soon after it started. I have listened to it on and off, with breaks of years and because it’s an ongoing family and village saga it’s easy to do.

It’s obviously changed in nature since it started as an agricultural information prog. and now features younger more dramatic story lines., in an effort to keep it relevant I suppose
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The longevity of the programme is quite amazing, and there is still an active fan club.
I sporadically listen, I suppose mostly for nostalgic reasons these days.

I have also listened since it replaced Dick Barton. These days often turn it off as the story lines are so ridiculous. There seems to be a lot less content about farming issues than there used to be and many characters just fade away. Very strangely the newish residents in Jennifer and Brian’s house have rarely been mentioned, don’t even have names yet the cottages must be very near.f

I have been on-and-off wondering about Jennifer and Brian's old house, Gin.
Thought it was going to become a party-house airbnb originally and cause lots of problems but maybe it's just been quietly demolished!