Listening to the omnibus and seeing the tweets hating Hannah amde me think: I actually feel like the Neil and Hannah stoyline is perhaps the first time I’ve seen a workplace represented on The Archers that is anything like mine.
To be clear, I work in an office, not on a pig farm, but the sort of issues they’re having, and conversations back home, strike me as quite realistic. There’s the relatively insecure boss with a ‘thrusting’ young deputy; what you can and can’t authorise while the boss is away; the ambitious junior playing up to the boss’s boss; while telling your other half about what happened and getting their support or questions about your stance. It all rings true to me, in a way that all the ‘farm meetings’ and family fallouts at Brookfield, Home Farm and Bridge Farm just don’t.
That doesn’t mean I like Hannah though!