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DTD: 419 – Ruairi, Alice and the flashing reindeer in Ambridge.

We have special news! In this episode we announce our incredible guest for next week.  We also have the ‘New Year Quiz’ with Kate Crichton and Philippa receives an unexpected visitor during ‘tweet of the week’. We discuss Ruairi v Alice, the cryptocurrency issue, Alan’s vicar skills and the storage of eggs. With fabulous contributions from: Stephen (for his amazing DumTeeDum tune) Rob, God Squad Mia, Katherine, Formerly Cycling Christine, Bernadette, Witherspoon, Claire from Clapham, Emily from Canada, Charles, and author Frances Quinn. Please call in to the show using this link: https://www.speakpipe.com/dumteedum  Do keep your call to a maximum of […]

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DTD: 418 – We are mystified about the mysteries in Ambridge.

A missed opportunity Dumteedummers – I am sure we all want to see Philippa in her Christmas pjs – a sight which has been denied to the assembled masses – or in the case of her family unassembled as the obviously older children were not up early on Christmas Day.   There were only two adults in Kosmo towers on Christmas Day – the other adult was at work – so let us all thank those who were working on that day.  A third Christmas lunch was prepared for said worker and thankfully consumed when she returned home.   Not […]

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DTD: 417 – Is love in the air this week in The Archers?

Our callerinnerers often astound by both the breadth of subjects covered, this week ranging from theology to a podcast (“My dad wrote a porno”) alongside debating the ins and outs of Tony’s counselling to Tom (I am on Quentin’s side this week – he has the time line dead right).   As ever they can also be accused of over-promoting possible relationships when Stella, knowing no-one in the village, apart from Ruth, decides to ask Ruth advice on being a ‘Mysteries’ extra after admitting to Mia that she has not yet moved to the village (you have to hope the […]

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DTD: 416 – Hazel, Natasha & Tom fight it out in Ambridge.

Quentin is particularly exercised this week by the mundane – the absence of cars needing servicing or repairs as they merely exist to run over peacocks, Mike Tucker and Tiger, most of whom largely survived!   Evictions have come round again but our resident property expert extols the extensive safeguards for tenants and Claire recommends that Tom & Nocasha should stay put and wait for Hazel to get the required court orders.   We also hear from a landlord who reports equal difficulties in extracting tenants.   By and large Hazel reverted to type whilst Nocasha still seems not to understand […]

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DTD: 415 – Hazel v Ambridge, Mia v Chelsea & Linda v the donkey

Corpsing – laughing so much you cannot continue with the performance – reached the people’s podcast this week when Philippa collapsed with the giggles as they discussed the week in Ambridge.  Central to this week was the materialisation of the Slitheen as Hazel Woolley re-appeared.  She found Hilda Ogden a wonderfully friendly cat and was able to discuss at length how it was her dear daddy’s money had effectively funded the rewilding experiment and how sad it was that he was not mentioned and his contribution properly recognised.   I am hopeful that now that we have heard from Blake […]

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DTD: 414 – Slur Up Sunday, Oliver loses the plot and Shula spikes Alan?

Our hosts report first on their own week which included a Patreon extra recording amongst much else.  This is rapidly followed by a salute to the weird and wonderful Ambridge accents where it can be alleged that anything sounding potentially rural gets a look in with Welsh represented by Pat (originally very Welsh until she came back after a break at acting school with full RP) and Natasha with Jazzer providing a Scottish lilt.    The callers are in no doubt that the turkey of the week was Oliver and Ed chasing birds around a field closely followed by Alkie […]

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DTD: 413 – Is Natasha the Queen of Evil or the Princess of Perfection?

Boredom  is sometimes hard to define.  Given their mutual interest in trains you might have thought that Tony and Trevor would bond at first sight and there would have been no need for a “Badger”.  Adam’s voice tends to mean that listeners consider him boring and have forgotten that he took Ian up the polytunnels and seduced him as well as descending to theft of petty cash in the Home Farm till (sorry I know the policy is no-till – one which Adam should have followed).  So for Tony and Adam to club together to regard poor old Maurice (Horton) […]

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DTD: 412 – Burns gets carpeted, Natasha niggles & a Jakob surprise!

I assume that the press, bottling plant and store are co-located with or near the orchard.  How can any of the Bridge Farm farming experts think that trundling the raw fruit umpteen miles prior to processing is either good for the fruit or good for the environment?  I can understand that Natasha dislikes not being in the same bed as Tom every night but whilst the practical processing and labelling happens in one place surely Natasha does not do it herself, so the order processing, marketing and accounting activity can take place almost anywhere these days!  And don’t tell me […]

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DTD: 411 – Pâté, Pip & Pushy Pat.

There is great concern in the DTD community.  For many years the corner chair in the Bull has been occupied by one of the village’s old codgers.  “Me Old Pal, Me Old Beauty” Walter Gabriel held high office for many years and in rapid succession we have lost both Joe Grundy and the young upstart Bert Fry.  It would appear that the well of village codgers is now sadly dry as there is no obvious successor – apart perhaps from Eddie who is allegedly still working at the age of 70; I have it on good authority that William knows […]

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DTD: 410 – The dearly departed

For once this cannot be a place for levity or digression.  I have felt the strength and support of our wonderful Dumteedum community in the past and we have sadly lost one of our own with the death of Millie Belle.  Roifield and Yokel Bear pay their tributes to Julie Riley and I would point you at https://www.justgiving.com/fundrai…/milliebelle-julieriley where Roifield has put a page so that her memory may be honoured.   Turning to Ambridge it was a gentle character centred week of the sort to be held in high regard by those amongst who believe this is the true strength […]

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