Yes, I know what you were all saying. “Why didn’t you let go of the lead?”. Two reasons, firstly it is illegal to kill a Swan, secondly the previous day, Paudie and I had been in an enclosed field. When it was time to go he looked at the lead, looked at me and then started running a circle round me until I fell over completely dizzy. Brain of a Border Collie, power of a Bernese Mountain dog. Thirdly the dog does not belong to me and I cannot afford to lose him.
This week was marked by there being zero Archers in The Archers. Come on BBC, this is really taking the proverbial. First off you cannot even get a proper production running and then you carve out the beating heart, the raison d’etre of the last 70 years. You profess to want character driven stories but keep ramming issue based codswallop in our ears as if it was some TV melodrama not a considered responsible mature ongoing series using heart warming (maybe with odd unpleasant moments interspersed) stories. Three totally new voices imposed on us without a proper introduction, arguing about their own names so making the point of incompetent writing and plot construction – how poor are you going to get at programme making as such marked inadequacies merely drive your audience away. The balance is wrong, the construction is wrong, the tone is wrong, the direction is wrong; the great talents which I have to assume are being harnessed and resources are being wasted. Not least in the way that Tracy has been ill-treated
Succinctly, listening to the programme is not worth the time or effort.
Kosmo
On this week’s episode, we hear views from Cheryl, Brian, Quentin Rayner, Jonah, Fiona, Clare from Clapham and Glyn.
