Good news – the extra ten minutes of the week outside Ambridge makes a return after the end credits as our hosts bring us up to date about their life events of the last week, largely dominated by Robert having a problem with a trumpet voluntary plus an involuntary tinkle whilst at a concert. And Lucy revealed that Mrs Mark Rylance (Claire van Kampen) is related to our Fallon (Joanna van Kampen, that surname is a bit of a giveaway of course). No map corner this week but Yokel Bear has started the Joe Grundy Country Customs corner which this […]

DTD: 249 A spookylicious horror show at Lower Loxley Play Now | Download

Lucy leads off by describing Newcastle disease for those of us with no knowledge of hens.  An endless supply of kebabs and the hens go out in the evenings with few feathers on.  Then we move on to board games on the wireless which was highly entertaining; it easily beats map corner (not this week as it Robert and not Roifield). Robert has stopped drinking coffee (never Camp) and in consequence appears to be suffering withdrawal symptoms!  Lucy tries to get him to fall off the wagon & then diagnoses that he might have a brain tumour. Answering last week’s […]

DTD: 248 - A bruised pubis and some stonking good calls and letters Play Now | Download

Lucy bemoans not knowing the Ambridge Panto subject for this year – only because it means she cannot moan about it by name! Meanwhile Lucy tells us that Kathy Perks has been found – incarcerated in the Laurels. And Irene is also there but pretending to be Carol Vorderman who gets a celebrity guest mention at the end of the Week in Ambridge. The current storylines are examined in detail. Lizzie is letting Lower Loxley go to rack and ruin whilst trying to find a phone number for Saul Goodman (505-842-5662). If she cannot believe Usha she won’t believe anyone […]

DTD - 247 Sausage pop and Hannah revisited Play Now | Download

There is a huge posse in New York, Lucy included, for this week’s DumTeeDum to open the podcast, which Roifield brands a mournful dirge as it is a little on the slow side.  Roifield has also found out about the wonders of Ryanair!  The bathroom foibles of the older generation featured large this week.  Really fascinating stuff. Predictions – Johnny gets lumbered with milking at Brookfield, Roifield and Lucy see different points concerning Hannah, Lucy thinks it is to show Tom growing up, Roifield thinks there will be a big fallout at some point. Roifield does a wonderful run down […]

DTD: 246 - Snotty noses, lost recordings, and days late its Dumteedum Play Now | Download

“Underneath the Arches” is the location for recording this week’s ‘DumTeeDum’ opener.  Looking back to the DumTeeDum weekend in Birmingham Roifield brings us “The Archers” as you have never heard them before with two photoshoots in the Grundy Cider club, plus a special guest appearance from Archibald. Listen and Enjoy And Roifield is going to do it all again next year. Kosmo.   Dumteedumers do radio drama The Mailbox BBC Birmingham.

DTD: 245 Dumteedumers do the Archers at The Mailbox BBC Birmingham Play Now | Download

Lucy is in fine form this week allegedly without a script.  No doubt being driven by pure adrenalin ahead of Sunday’s excursion to Birmingham and doing it live.  The laughable attempt at running a family business at Bridge Farm where the patriarch is too busy at Stratford-on-Avon to pop in and record his assent to the fruit and nutcase plans of his offspring are hard to believe.  It looks like the unpaid intern was told to sort out Bridge Farm headaches this week. We can all see that Hannah is merely a plot device to enable Tom to go crying […]

DTD: 243 - Everyone hates Hanna, I like mean everyone! Play Now | Download

Another stunning exposition from Lucy on the events in Ambridge this week including quotes from the biblical book of Ambridge. So I looked up Wikipedia and found this: “A Shulamite is a person from Shulem. It is the ascription given to the female protagonist in the Song of Songs in the Hebrew Bible. In the King James Version and other Bibles, it is the Song of Solomon or Canticle of Canticles.” Meanwhile the question of consent between the sexes is pretty obvious when a woman asks a man (as Roifield observes the man never says no). However only a couple […]

DTD: 242 - Listening to the Archers over the din of others Play Now | Download

This week in the Archers seemed a little uneven – absolutely stunning piece towards the end where it looked like Lizzie might get Lily to see something approaching sense and then used an inappropriate choice of words and Lily shut the door with an almighty bang! At the other extreme it was not immediately obvious why Tracy Horrobin turned up trying to con a viewing of Home Farm or posh drugs when all drug dealing is far from posh. The comedy storyline at the moment though is clearly the dunderheads at Bridge Farm who having sold the coos down the […]

DTD: 241 - Henry Archer guns, karate and community police officers Play Now | Download