How are we going to cope without The Archers?

Thank goodness, Philip has been found out, I just want Blake, Jordan and the others to be found now. I am looking forward to Tuesdays programme.

Listening right now. Think you are right - Philip's a bounder!!!

Am I the only person who has never listened to them?

GrammarGrandma That is what i did. Stopped when Nigel fell off the roof and we were expected to believe that neither Helen and her mother (I have forgotten her name) had ever been told about pre-eclampsia.

I listened to the Archers for over forty years, until Elizabeth slept with Roy and then I stopped - cold turkey (how apposite for Boxing Day!). I should have stopped when Nigel fell off the roof.

Well, I think I need a drink to calm down

Hurrah for Eddie?

Go for it Kirsty!

Have you all seen that “With great pleasure” on Christmas Day at 7.00 is The Archers (repeated New Year’s Day at 12.18) then The Archers Anniversary Quiz on New Year’s Day straight after a life-changing crisis on The Archers at 7.00. No roof climbing I hope!

Yes poor Kirsty, she doesn’t deserve this.

Finally! Come on Kirsty! Come on six days a week!

Come on Gavin! Come back! Tell Kirsty everything please!

eGJ I'm shouting with you.
And I can't stand Alice.
My OH has lost interest. ..

Think I will turn it back on end if January, when this current misery finishes.

I have managed incredibly well without the Archers since the anniversary when they killed Nigel Pargiter.

It wasn't the plot line per se, but throughout the previous month there had been trailers suggesting something really different and game changing was going to happen. Would Helen's baby be profoundly fisabled, would a gay character whose name I forget be so besotted by the baby he might change sides, but, no just the same old, same old, kill a popular character.

I was so disillusioned I stopped listening, cold turkey and I haven't listened since, not once. Life without being hooked on the Archers is wonderfully freeing.

We were bewildered last night at the first exchange between Blake, Jordan and whatever the other modern slave is called. We genuinely couldn’t understand a word of what they were saying apart from the fact that they were out and about somewhere and spotted someone with ‘two dustbins’. By the time of their second appearance in the episode, however, the director had evidently told them to tone it down (or up?) a bit and they were intelligible.
The Kirsty/Gavin/Philip bubble will burst in early January, I believe, but meanwhile, the dramatic irony is getting too obvious. Get on with it!
Meanwhile, still no announcement about returning to normal transmission despite the fact that cast members are busy giving interviews about the show’s 70th anniversary. It’s the first question I’d have asked Ruth Archer on BBC TV this morning!

I am fed up with the on going story of Chris and Alice, I just don’t like Alice and Chris is such a drip. The storyline about the slaves is just too traumatic. Things are bad enough with COVID and isolation without this constant drip feed of misery. I have listened to this programme all my life but never known it so bad. Just a chink of good news please. Let Kirsty and the law find out just what’s been going on, I feel like driving there to free the poor souls. Let them have their first good Christmas. Meanwhile Saint Jill continues her charmed existence.

Poor Kirsty, what will happen now?. I hoped Gavin may have said something. Can only end in tears.

eGJ

Am I the only one shouting don’t do it Kirsty!

Definitely not, I was shouting too!

I thought that's what Gavin was going to shout.

Am I the only one shouting don’t do it Kirsty!

Roy! We haven’t heard from him for a long time !

Are you amused by the reassertion that this was recorded before the present restrictions applied? I'm sure we are picturing them all wearing face coverings................and Alice "visiting" Fallon in her house.
Do hope Kirsty sees the light before the end of the year, but we have to wait until January 5th for Roy to have some advice for her!!

I am now beginning to suspect that the BBC will never return The Archers to its normal six days a week format. Every other TV and radio programme has managed something so what’s going on if it isn’t a clumsy cost-cutting exercise?
If Strictly and I’m a Celebrity can do it..........

I wonder how far this will go. On Tuesday I listened to ‘D is for Dexter’, the moving story of Skye, a teenager struggling to cope with her inadequate mother and mentally disabled younger brother. The mother referred to him as ‘autistic’ and Skye angrily corrected her that he actually suffered from foetal alcohol syndrome.