Rosie Porty and Quentin Rayner are back and so was Willum as Eddie and Will morphed back into Del Boy and “Dave” Trotter replaying times past as the metal detector also re-appeared for a treasure hunt on Brookfield, which led to Eddie turning into a Brookfield security guard.    Quentin expresses the view that Philip and Gavin had set up the non-attendance at the GA meeting but I do not buy this as Philip could not see a way out of the village without convincing Kirsty (who is very easily duped which I don’t buy) that Gavin is safe to […]

DTD: 355 - Hunting for action in Ambridge, its slim pickings this week Play Now | Download

A new host joins Roifield this week – Phillipa Hall is in the co-host chair – the podcast spends a fortune moving that chair around the country each week to enable us to hear so many different voices.  Phillipa hugely enjoyed former co-host Jackie Smith’s appearance on Strictly Come Dancing at the weekend and we all hope that an Archers listener can reach the final.   Amber arrives to do That Was the Ambridge week That Was (almost TWAT Week) as Vince commences his pursuit of Lizzie (not difficult given that Roy succeeded), the writers avoided the pass the ipad […]

DTD: 353 - Lizzy and Vince, will they be a thing? Roifield is joined by Phillipa Hall of the Quick Books Review Podcast Play Now | Download

Every so often Roifield goes “Help us out Kosmo?” and this week it is the wonderful “Jenny dahling” and her background.  I would love Jenny D to be invited on DumTeeDum please.  Angela Piper sounds from comments of other cast members to be a wonderful individual and she deserves being recognised on DumTeeDum.    Turning to the question raised some years ago she was accused of being Oxbridge educated on account of her accent and she simply made reference to a Teacher training college.  I think that Walsall should be proud of producing such an accent.  For some reason which I […]

DTD: 351 - Hidden coins and hidden pregnancy problems! Play Now | Download

This week’s podcast is a slight departure from normal as Sunny Ormonde (Lillian Bellamy) returns for a Friday evening Zoom with Roifield, Rosie Porty and Quentin Raynor with the last of those undertaking some probing and yet delightful questioning of Sunny on the way that the actors can maintain physical distancing yet kiss other village residents.    Sunny also brings us up to date on current recording arrangements in the Mailbox in Birmingham and the new studio arrangements.   She is fairly confident that there will be no reversion to complete monologues as skills of recording at least two party conversations […]

DTD: 350 - Sunny Ormonde aka Lilian Bellamy -Quentin Raynor and Rosie Portie Play Now | Download

Food.  Clearly the need to fill time despite there being only four episodes a week means that our hosts fall to discussing the favourite sandwiches of the characters in the village and why coronation chicken might be the food of taste for a slaver whilst Roifield reports that getting a simple cheese and pickle sandwich is hard in foreign countries.   Julie is recalled by an emailer who indicated that they thought Julie was black.  However this was not quite true.  The actual report was that the programme had been criticised for not having people of colour until Kate acquired […]

DTD: 349 - Kirsty has fallen and hit her head. THEY ARE UP TO SOMETHING YOU DAFT COW Play Now | Download

This is a little late as I have been taking a holiday in the Lake District.  Many thanks for all of the kind comments and although I was not feeling ill at the time of my little episode I was suffering from breathlessness and it is noticeable that I am not suffering anywhere near as badly.  Thank you to Roifield for making my thanks to the NHS reach an even wider public.  They may not always get it right – but when they do it can be wonderful   Anyway nose to the grindstone (that Roifield drives us all very […]

DTD: 348 - Alice gets close to Gavin Play Now | Download

This week The Archers reported that Alice is a drunk and pregnant, that Gavin likes horse racing per Radio Susan and no doubt our hosts will examine the fine detail of events with their usual forensic attention.   Roifield reports that I sometimes ignore the podcast and this is one of those weeks.  I have encountered some medical problems over recent months and no diagnoses had been made.  I have been overdue an operation – I had the first one 21 months ago and in January this year I was put back on the waiting list for the other half […]

DTD: 347 - Bloody Nora, the Archers is back! Play Now | Download