The Archers

Gin

I read today that these are just rumours and she is fit and well, living in Suffolk but after acting for so long she wanted to retire and who can blame her?

If that’s the case I wonder why they waited a year before killing her off.

I read today that these are just rumours and she is fit and well, living in Suffolk but after acting for so long she wanted to retire and who can blame her?

She had a stroke apparently.

franbern I don't think she's dead, but I also read not well. She was technically retiring I think.

Iam64 where did you see information about the demise of Angela Piper. I thought she had just decided to retire from acting.

silver lining, the actor who has played Jennifer so long, has been too I’ll to record. That’s why she’s been silent and has now died.

pieinthesky I didn't hear it like that.
I thought she didn't want to tell them about her condition given that she didn't want surgery.

I wonder whether the actress playing Jennifer (Angela) is ill herself or just retiring after being Jennifer since 1963. I started work that year but retired some years ago.
Its all been quiet about the reason, if there is one. None of our business of course. Just curious.

What will happen to all those cashmere jumpers she loved buying in Underwoods? Will Lillian inherit them or will Kate use them to make something creative out of them for Spiritual Home?

I'd just imagined it was one of those situations where treatment can brutally affect quality of life with ?? uncertain outcome or only a little longer as a result of treatment..

Can’t imagine that Jennifer would refuse a possible life saving operation as it might upset everyone and make them think of it whenever they were with her. What effect did she think her dying would have on them. Sorry but think this is a cop out by the scriptwriters to explain why she hadn’t been treated apart from some medication. Could she not have been on an NHS waiting list? That would have been believable!

A happier episode to end this dramatic week! And well done Neil!

In the real world Stella wouldn’t be able to order the seed drill without the go ahead from the board of directors. Brian could vote against it but it wouldn’t be his decision alone.

She should inform the suppliers of the death of one the directors and hold out for a better deal.

David turning up so we could all hear Brian's thoughts.
I struggle to feel sorry for him.

Missed today so will catch up on Sunday’s omnibus.

Yes. Grim tonight. And unlikely.

What a sad episode

Why is Rauri being so secretive about his relationship? Is he still going to college - or has he just become a 'kept' man

He is indeed a paid “escort” with “benefits” and I seem to have missed how this developed, not paying attention.

But I do remember a particularly acrimonious exchange with Alice during her recovery as an alcoholic which revealed some deep resentment.

Debbie’s in Hungary ( or Hollywood!) and doesn’t appear in next week’s cast list in the Radio Times. Perhaps the funeral is the week after next!

OOps, I had forgotten Debbie. Surely, they will have to have her back for the funeral. Isn't she in Rumania? And, of coutse, Kate!!! Really cannot stand that character. She just annoys me at every level. So, four of her own children from three different fathers and stepmother to her hubbies 'love child'.

I think it is great that The Archers employs the oldest actor in the world. But the character of Peggy really does need to be killed off.

However, my admiration for this programme having managed to pull off, something which is very rare these days - of killing off a major character in a Soap, without ANY advance information leaking out - not even that someone was going to be killed off.

Why is Rauri being so secretive about his relationship? Is he still going to college - or has he just become a 'kept' man? Hope they got back safely to Ambridge - seems to be a lot of driving for Chris - to London and back after a full days work.

I’ve listened off and on since I was a child, so have followed most of the past events and caught up with a few of the more recent ones.
I didn’t realise that the character was 78 years old, she always seemed younger to me.
I expect Tony will develop a more curmudgeonly role, he’s half way there already.

Sounds like EastEnders Wyllow3. I was never a devotee of EastEnders, more a Corrie sort of lass myself, but I did watch a lot of 1980s episodes when I was doing my Masters. God, wasn't it/isn't it depressing!

EastEnders (and Brookside) were a new kind of soap in the 1980s that deliberately set out to confront social issues. More recently The Archers has been aspiring to that condition, but it really doesn't fit the format. For me, TA was always what somebody called dropping in on old friends for a cup of tea and a gossip, with drama limited to a cow with mastitis and topicality was about the rights and wrongs of grubbing up hedgerows. It should have stayed that way.

Well.... you'll find a new "youf" raft of characters like Chelsea who had an abortion and the Beth saga leaving Ben suicidal, and there have been objections from some older devotees to these developments, but there is a lot of mileage in the Chris/Alice saga, but getting more SL's from the 40 something generation which I expect will expand (the dreaded Kate, Pip, Rex, et al.)
One change I welcome is that way back in the day more working class characters were "humour" as in Grundys but thats changed.

I think the producers have pulled quite a coup there. The Archers was getting dull of late with a lot of new characters I can't relate to and a whole raft of very elderly characters whose final visit to St Stephen's churchyard has been anticipated for some time.

Maybe I'll make an effort to listen again, something I haven't done for some time now. I used to be a devotee.

Fran bern, the actor who has been wonderful as Jenny Dahling has been very ill.
Not wanting to start a war but I find your wish that Peggy do the decent thing and die very unpleasant. The actor who plays Peggy is still alive - she was born on 14.06.19 and was still playing Peggy until recently