The Archers

The world's longest running soap and the first one to have an omnibus. I will admit, apart from the theme tune, I wouldn't know anything about The Archers. However, it does have a very loyal following.

I have listened to The Archers for years, my Mum used to listen ever since it started! I have been regularly listening since the early 80s; sometimes I give it a miss when I feel each storyline is becoming more unbelievable.
Helen/Rob storyline was excellent, and educated many people on coercive control. Both excellent actors, along with the actors playing Rob's parents.
I miss still Nigel, and I stopped listening for several months because of that storyline. Lizzie and Vince bring a smile to my face, and I enjoy Lillian's story, along with Brian and Miranda's effect on Justin.

George is trouble, and it worries me very much, he is 18 going on 19 and a young man. He does have positive male characters in his life, so I just don't understand him.
Alice's storyline is beyond me, and it will end horribly. I tend to catch up on Sunday mornings rather than listen every evening.

Very dramatic at the moment! Must be a special for bank holiday.
My father was a fan so been listening on and off since the 50's

Is Will going to cover for George the same way he covered for Nic when she ran over Matt Crawford?

Is George letting Alice take the blame for driving???

Certainly looks that way!

But didn’t he leave a phone message to (?) to say he was driving her home?

I think he left a message on Will’s phone to say he was going to drive Alice home.

Anyone remember the Radio 2 soap Waggoner's Walk that used to be on twice a day? I can remember it being cancelled in 1980 and there being plenty of complaints.

Well it all seems very predictable again now in my opinion.

That silly episode a few weeks ago with Harrison, Fallon and the Robin Hood costumes was always going to have consequences....

Alice is an over-priveleged, entitled idiot and I don't really care if she drinks herself to death but I wouldn't want to see her lumbered with a dangerous driving conviction she doesn't deserve while George basks in heroic glory.

Yes, the suitcase saga
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Omnibus for me too, charley68, but I did notice it was ‘trending’ on the Twitters, so I’ve avoided reading the posts there.

You’re in for a tempestuous listen with the omnibus Daddima!

And yet more saga with Mr Plodding - he is becoming really unpleasant in my opinion.

Do you mean Harrison NotSpaghetti? I rather like him. Denise, Alistair’s love interest annoys me.

Yes, I do.
I find him ridiculous I'm afraid.

What Harrison wants, Harrison likes to get but ‘getting religion’ doesn’t seem to have improved any levels of compassion he may have had.

He’s already treading on thin ice with his career and a public display of anger towards a vulnerable woman won’t help.

Exactly Merlot.
He is really unstable.

I’ve only just heard this episode. I hope Harrison’s outburst does not push Alice over the edge, which is possible in the state she is in. However I think his behaviour can be understood in the context of his belief that Alice is responsible for his wife almost dying, and losing a child which he very much wanted. I think he exhibited the behaviour that any bereaved father may, and miscarriage IS a bereavement.

This does not mean that I am not concerned for Alice’s precarious mental health and urgent need for help.

The real baddie is George, not Harrison.

I dislike Harrison quite intensely. I thought his behaviour towards Fallon was awful as well.

He knows that she never wanted a baby and did not have the right to shout about a miscarriage.

He should control himself.
Nasty and selfish outbursts.

Also as soon as she was pregnant, he made no attempt to talk about the elephant in the room, and then went and blurted it out to Alan.

And she'd told him she didn't want her family (or his parents) to know!

I am now waiting for Fallon to learn he's already been chatting about it with Alan.

I'm so pleased to learn that I am not the only one who dislikes Harrison!