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.

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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.