Roifield opens proceedings with a message from Andrew Horn who is promising a get together in London in April.  However by the time this summary went to press it had been cancelled as by the proposed date Central London will be a no-go zone over-run by zombies and other exotic creations from the computer gaming universe which have survived the coronavirus.  Obviously they will be drinking Corona beer and Corona lemonade.   The utterly lazy writing where an individual does not have the opportunity to respond (as with Lynda being silenced by Freddie this week) has happened too frequently recently […]

DTD: 319 Its the calm before the storm in Ambridge and St Lucia & Jamaica go to war Play Now | Download

Those of us who reside in the UK receive DumTeeDum with added advertising.  However for some curious reason whoever is adding the adverts is playing around with my aural nerves, a couple of weeks ago it was definitively Kirsty (gathers no Moss) Miller giving me earache during the ads and this week (again) if it was Sgt (I cannot possibly get dressed up now in a kilt) Carpet Burns lecturing me about box sets and Game of Thrones (a modest drama compared with The Archers).  Stop it Roifield, we might actually want to buy some of their offerings!   Neil […]

DTD: 314 - Coming out in Ambridge Play Now | Download

Roifield has not only started using a new and hopefully better platform for the podcast but he has also tempted Lucy out of her office and in front of a camera so that this week if you go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRSvdygGvLM&fbclid=IwAR2SG5xmUjSmWo47Ax0L6ZcjbYjTblcr6LlRD580EPkZMV34-5R5QuJzzds you can actually see the star of the show and her weekly (and as Roifield pointed out later high speed) discourse on events in Ambridge.  Go there and you will find DumTeeDum TV and of course in future we will all be saying “Hello You Tubers”, which is not an unpleasant root vegetable.   Callers have two main subjects this week.  Philip […]

DTD: 313 - is Josh Archer a wrong 'un and more chat about Jim and Jazzer Play Now | Download

Roifield postulates a DumTeeDum team building session during this podcast and this gave me food for thought, the first one being to ask myself how quickly I can resign to prevent being dragged on such a day.  I have never experienced a “team building day” and I feel such monstrosities have long outlived their usefulness.  Remember if you are part of a team you owe allegiance to your boss until you can stab him/her in the back and take his job.  If you are the boss keep your back to the wall at all times.     Anyway Lucy knows how […]

DTD: 312 Philip Moss is given a going over by Dumteedumers Play Now | Download

During this week’s podcast a ruffled Roifield expresses concern that my little summaries are being unfair about him.  I won’t mount a defence – but there remain unanswered questions about Philip, Gavin & money or like the mysterious spy (Mike Daly who in real life left for South Africa with the original Christine) will nothing ever be said?   The tail biting pigs were central to Ambridge events as Neil had to off the perpetrator with his bolt gun.  Neil’s softer side was demonstrated in his later discussion with Rex on proper pig welfare.  Long standing village observers realised that […]

DTD: 311 - This episode is long and penetrates deep into the Archers Play Now | Download

Lucy gives us the best “Week in Ambridge” of the decade as Roifield notes and it certainly has him rolling in the aisles (I assume as we have not yet progressed to online videocasts of our hosts).    The extreme number of oddities is mentioned by non-Earthling Andrew Horn and the concept of odd stories is expanded by our hosts as there seems no reason for: a) Jim being ill b) Kirsty preferring Helen’s advice over Roy’s sound and well founded guidance c) Phoebles taking advice and guidance from the evil Justin who was frankly doing a Trump (telling lies) […]

DTD: 310 - New Year musings on the Archers with Roifield and Lucy Play Now | Download

The presenter seats revolve once again so that Angela Barnes and Yokel Bear can bring us the last DumTeeDum of the decade as they discuss Christmas week in The Archers.   Disquiet and unease appears rampant in the village this week as Tom decides that his father is using his huge sexual allure to lead Beechwood Joy into bad ways; which as the vicar appears to have abandoned the village to its deviant ways and does not even make a seasonal appearance means that devil is in the ascendant.  Amusing was the absence of any interest by Pat in Tom’s […]

DTD: 309 - How entitled is Gavin, Yokel Bear and Angela Barnes wade in Play Now | Download

Showing true dedication to DumTeeDum, Roifield spends Christmas Day editing together what eventually becomes a delightful collection of pieces from our callerinerers, Andrew Horn bringing us a week in Ambridge, Yokel Bear impersonating Roifield etc as the original, no doubt award winning recording, got snafued by the technical elves who were done for speeding in Ambridge by Sgt (not good enough to be Santa) Carpet Burns.  Whatever our hosts are paying for technical backup is far too much, should we blame Derek and is the back bedroom leaking?   The week before Christmas seemed to be dominated by the Ambridge […]

DTD: 308 - Festive Ambridge news with Yokel Bear and Andrew Horn Play Now | Download