Tuned To 'The Archers' For The First Time In Months.

We listened regularly for a few years but haven't a clue about it now. It's probably eight or nine years since we listened to it. We don't miss it either.

I still listen to the omnibus but it is ridiculous at the moment!

Used to enjoy it. Haven’t bothered for years now. The odd occasion I have the story lines are just too bizarre.

I stopped listening years ago when it became nonsensical. I feel sorry for the writers though as how can they keep dreaming up new storylines.

I listened every Sunday morning, as I had since a child, until all the hoo-ha with Ed and Will and Emma and baby George. At that point I felt it had fallen into soap opera storylines and I stopped listening.

mae13

I wish I hadn't.

Ruth is going semi-hysterical (again) about yet another health problem either real or manufactured by her paranoia, and the rest are at each others throats. Very noisily.

Time to kill it, BBC.

She is upset because her daughter has had a breast cancer scare.
Now the health professionals advise her to have the BRCR2 gene test as carrying this gene would affect her other children.
So not hysterical over nothing.

I listen every night without fail, a habit formed in childhood. It gets a bit far fetched at times but I think it has been going about 70 years so plot lines are not going to be easy without constant repetition.

You have missed the point with Ruth. Writers are making people aware that the gene causing breast cancer can be hereditary to both males and females. The programme often tries to be informative on issues.

I stopped listening on their 60th(?) anniversary when 2 femnist woman - mother and pregnant daughter knew nothing abut pre-eclampsia. The BBC had also trailered that something really dramatic never done before incident was going to happen - and then just killed a character off.

It has been down hill ever since.

I rarely hear it now, sometimes I catch it by accident and never make it to the end of the episode.

I gave up about a year ago. Couldn't be bothered with all the George saga, his stupid mother and Grandmother.

Shame as I followed it, since I got married. As a Serviceman's wife it was nice having that evening routine especially as I spent so much time on my own.

I started listening to The Archers in lockdown, I purchased some headband type headphones, I find it helps me relax, as soon the theme tune comes on, my brain says ‘sleep’

Anyway fast forward 😂 and I always listen every night before I go to sleep, I’m normally asleep with 10 minutes, so I listen to the previous day and the current day, as I miss half of it. I do really enjoy listening to The Archers, and this year they celebrate 75 years! There is an Archers ‘live’ Tour! I might go….but i don’t know another Archers Fan! 😉

I've been listening to it for about 40 years. I love it. And I love Gardener's question time and I have been going back for years listening to some of the old episodes.

It's one of those programmes that is evergreen and has as many listeners as Eastenders has viewers. Never bothered with The Archers except for the theme tune, that is a masterpiece, but I undetstand it's a well loved show.

I have listened to the archers first more than 40 of their 75 year run. They must be doing something right.
Their story line about dementia as well as coercion in marriage were both able to progress over real time and both woukd have educated many listeners, especially the coercive one.

mae13 No-one is forcing you to listen to it.

I've listened since it started in the Midland region. When I met my husband I found out that he also listened and we still both do.Yes sometimes it gets stupid, boring, or ridiculous but we keep listening. We have got tickets for the live show.

Moth62

I listened every Sunday morning, as I had since a child, until all the hoo-ha with Ed and Will and Emma and baby George. At that point I felt it had fallen into soap opera storylines and I stopped listening.

It is a soap opera though, isn’t it?

I used to have my supper listening to the Archers as a child, still listening now!

I still love The Archers, so does DH. Some very relevant and well-told storylines, IMO.
(Not least currently, regarding what different people may do, when their beloved son commits a crime.)

I listen in bed at night just before I go to sleep. I love it and it helps me to unwind from the day

We do listen although there are some weeks when we wonder why! It’s a bit of an acquired taste unless you have been listening since childhood, as I have.

I listened for over 40 years from about 1970. The Helen/Bob story was so brilliantly done and somehow I lost interest after that.
Perhaps I should give it another go.

I recall when Rob Titchener got together with Helen and he managed to insinuate himself with the local hunt.

It was cringeable when they went to their first meet and Rob insisted on Mansplaining about it all. Talk about Hunting-By-Numbers-Made-Easy-For-Peasants!

Noooooooo!

Can’t find a character likeable now. Time to give up.