Category: The Archers

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Character Count – September 2020

A CARTER FAMILY TOP THREE THIS MONTH WITH ALICE, SUSAN AND CHRIS ALL OCCUPYING THE TOP THREE PLACES. The month began with a two-character episode featuring just Philip Moss and Gavin Moss, but then things began to return to normal with more and more dialogue episodes with four or five characters per episode. We even had a couple of six-character episodes on the 16th and 29th September. (I wonder if, during the monologue episodes, there has been a rule for the scriptwriters similar to the RULE OF 39.) A new character appeared, although not one that is likely to become […]

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DTD: 348 – Alice gets close to Gavin

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 […]

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DTD: 347 – Bloody Nora, the Archers is back!

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 […]

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DTD: 346 – Characters who we love in The Archers but would hate to have in our lives

Our hosts this week do not actually discuss the week in Ambridge as the chosen topic is the characters they like / dislike – Brian divides opinions with Keri not being keen on the old roué whilst Roifield takes a slightly different view (admittedly having met the wonderful Charles Collingwood in a lift).  Halfway through the discussion Pete does a complete reverse ferret changing his  position completely whilst Keri says she would go to a dinner party with Brian for the all round entertainment but feels, rather like Amber Rudd, who referred some years ago to Boris Johnson as “not […]

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DTD: 345 – Emma gives it to Alice and Chris but she is no Henry Kissinger!

A new occupant in the female host’s seat this week as Roifield is joined for the first time by Rosie Porty whilst Pete Fickling is present in his seat.  Keri is sunning herself in Spain when it is not raining.     Our hosts this week seem quite concerned by the River Nile and President Trump.  Philip Moss and Alice Carter have been swimming in de Nile which is also where President Trump seems to spend a lot of time.  Are we ever going to resolve the problems of the drunks and the horses?   Pete’s grasp on geography seems a […]

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DTD: 344 – Alice rips into Ed and will we miss the monologues?

It is a disappointing commencement to this week’s podcast when two of our hosts seem to temporarily lose their minds in wanting long term continuation of the internal monologues as an aspect of village life.  The monologues were pants when used in Amex of less than blessed memory; they have been a complete dis-service to the inbuilt history of the continuing fly on the wall documentary over the last few months and I am immensely hopeful that no-one who is responsible for bringing village activities to our ears will ever again contemplate such invasion of my aural space in the […]

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Character Count – August 2020

Monologues Month 3 A clear leader this month with Alice Carter featuring in eleven episodes followed by Emma Grundy and Lynda Snell in six. We started to get some dialogue scenes in some episodes in August. Some face-to-face, some telephone calls and some via video conferencing. Even with these dialogue scenes, there was still not a “Right You Are” to be heard. Two characters appeared across a week in all four episodes: Alice Carter from Monday 10th to Thursday 13th August followed by Emma Grundy from Monday 17th to Thursday 20th August. POSITION CHARACTER EPISODES 1 Alice Carter 11 2 […]

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DTD: 343 – Sunny Ormonde aka Lillian Bellamy joins us on the show

This week I have to prostrate myself on the ground in awe as we hear from Sunny Ormonde who relates her return to the Mailbox as The Archers recommence proper recording in the studio.  She tells us about the new arrangements for recording as they all stand 2m apart and the director has to be on the recording floor as the booth where he would normally be is not large enough for three people.  Some remote recording will continue – but the most that can be achieved at the moment is two-handers and there will still be a lot of […]

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DTD: 342 – Why we love the Snells and Adam less so.

Our podcast was a little late this week but it still covers a lot of the Am.  Our hosts have not quite got to grips with the reality that Adam is a boring middle aged man, a time of life I have experienced.  At a relatively advanced age he is having to cope with a baby, a partner returning to work, an unappreciative boss (and whatever happened to the boring uninteresting Home Farm partnership meetings? , ahhh, think I just answered that question) and has been usurped by the golden child (he was lucky Ruaridh is still at school or […]

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DTD: 341 – Why does the universe hate the Grundys?

General Stores is only listening to the monologuic Archers so that he can enjoy DumTeeDum, otherwise another listener would be lost!   Roifield not only does the editing but also has to espouse unusual views to provide overall balance (anyone would think he had spent too long listening to the BBC).  Pete explains alcoholism for the rest of us as he finds Alice’s portrayal as unusual.  Both Roifield and Keri dispute this, saying that it chimes with some of their (non-personal) experiences.  Are alcoholics that common is my question?  Peggy’s first Jack was and I assume that Alice’s problem is a […]

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