This week’s monologues related to the Aldridge family – Brian, Alice, Debbie, Adam, plus Chris Carter.  As remarked on Twitter, probably by Keri Warbis, baby Xander had the best lines all week.   The worst Aldridge was not heard this week – Kate must be the worst member of the family under any circumstances.  But the voting between our hosts decides it is Chris who has not noticed that Alice is slightly alcoholic and out of work.  Keri’s continuing dislike of Adam just about convinces the others to change their minds.   The monologues this week did a lot of […]

DTD: 337 - Who is the worst Aldridge? Play Now | Download

Burning question of the week – “Is Emma a qualified tractor driver?”.  Well once upon a time a farmer told his son to get in the seat, showed him the controls and explained how the clutch and gears and steering wheel worked and I drove off slowly into the far distance on the farm but not on the roads.  Learning to back a trailer into a tight corner makes parallel parking a doddle!   These days the ‘Elf and Safety organisations would not look kindly on such arrangements but as they rarely make unannounced visits on overcrowded and underpaid factories […]

DTD: 336 - Mono"logs" and moan-a-lots Play Now | Download

The Ghost of Lower Loxley returns to the airwaves, well a podcast, as Graham Seed, probably best known as either Mr Trevitt with the Durrells in Corfu or Dick Thornton in Brookside joins Keri and Roifield to discuss his new outing in The Pargetter Triptych and his long time alter ego, Nigel Pargetter.  And Graham Seed did do an interview for Jen Carr back in 2011 – so I think this might explain his slight confusion!   Hot news is that Keri is now permanent and you can all fall in love with her.  And the cruising book was for Keri Davies […]

DTD: 334 Graham Seed joins Dumteedum to discuss the week in Ambridge and The Pargetter Triptych. Play Now | Download

DTD number 333, that means we are halfway to the devil number.  So we are all half devils!   I was musing about The Archers and “Just a Minute” and realised our favourite docu-drama had become a complete failure as a contestant.  Hesitation – it completely ran out of new episodes.  Repetition then set in as old episodes were raided to fill the gap.  Finally it became deviation central as all pretence at being a continuing docu-drama since 1951 was abandoned in favour of this modern thought-leadership nonsense in place of being a proper drama involving two or more people.  […]

DTD: 333 The Bridge Farm monologues Play Now | Download

We have had Lucy’s week in Ambridge start the podcast and Roifield delivers his thanks for six years of Lucy, her comic brilliance and her insight into the human race with an incredible ability to articulate aspects of human behaviour and psyche which might otherwise be overlooked.  Roifield also admits that Lucy has improved his professionalism and also perhaps to improve him as a human being.  Her contribution to the DumTeeDum community has made it what it has become and the achievements of the community – meetups, public meetings and so on are due to Lucy V Freeman – who […]

DTD: 332 - The lockdown in Ambridge 2 weeks in and we say goodbye to Lucy Play Now | Download

A new co-host this week – the regular Tweeter of the Week – Keri Warbis – sits in for Lucy this week.  Keri has never called in and she actually makes it straight into the hot seat where Roifield extends his customary grilling and flirting – and Keri does better in responding than Dominic Cummings who probably won’t be on next week.  Keri does not fall for it even though she admits to being single unlike last week’s visitor!   Witherspoon is looking ahead to the new episodes which are about to be delivered from Birmingham and the impact of […]

DTD: 330 - Twitter's Archer's super Fan Keri Warbis sorts out Ambridge Play Now | Download

With The Archers in lockdown and taking us on a journey through some of the recent archives, Dumteedum also takes a walk on the wild side and becomes the Dennis the Menace fan club  as the Beano character takes centre stage in the podcast with both Roifield and our returning special guest presenter Angela Barnes finding that they both had “Gnasher” badges and much else in common.   Congratulations to Angela on her engagement.   New callers often recall an early story from when they commenced listening and this enables Roifield to recall Mike’s inability to select a tie for […]

DTD: 328 - The BBC repeats The Archers and Angela Barnes joins the fun. Play Now | Download