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DTD: 299 – Meet ups, CBT and bottles of Brown sauce.

Our favourite slice of countryside reportage often repays careful listening.  At the moment I am deeply distressed that there is no good reason why Beechwood Joy should exist – village incomers have to have a reason for being in that location and for the writers not to bother to explain why “Beechwood” has landed from outer space just makes her an alien.  Normal people would tell their neighbours (Kirsty and Phil) why their Tardis has materialised and the absence of this information is distorting our view and enjoyment of “Beechwood”‘s tittle tattle as Margaret Woolley described it.   However I […]

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DTD: 298 – Joe Grundy passes

Angela Barnes (who recently hosted an excellent Radio 4 Extra retrospective of the Python team including the first ever Cambridge Circus – still on BBC Sounds) has joined Naked Fingers for our podcast this week.  There were some excellent jokes in Ms Barnes’ week in Ambridge and she tells us she is already looking forward to the invasion of the Teutonic winter markets which appear to have taken over town centres for the month of December, not to mention the mulled WKD!   Anyway it appears that cider alcohol is the road to horniness having put Basil to rights – […]

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DTD: 297 – The glittery Grout that holds it all together

Lucy is a little better than last week – and that is just the jokes which as usual take her “Week in Ambridge” to places the writers would never even consider – mentioning both Brexit and Plovdiv, the second largest city of Bulgaria!  I hope that I do not need to explain the dual meaning of “poppers”.    I was confused over discussions of “Basil” and “sex” as I misheard it as “Boris” and thought Prime Ministers were too busy to indulge in such matters but apparently the “Basil” is not the one of the busses but is in fact […]

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DTD: 296 – The Chesticovs welcome little Xander to Ambridge

Roifield is looking for a new Lucy as she is off to the USA & Jersey if she survives that long as her chest needs rubbing again.  Applications on a postcard please says Roifield, do they even make postcards any more?     Near the end of the podcast I am summoned like a genius in a bottle to explain the economics of the Conservation Trust and Re-Wilding.  My view is that the cost of bringing Oscar Wilde back to life is unlikely to be covered by any plays he might write about his experiences in whichever location he has been […]

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Character Count – September 2019

APPEARANCES THIS MONTH Which characters were heard during September 2019? 44 characters were heard during September 2019. CONSECUTIVE EPISODES Which characters appeared in the most consecutive episodes during September 2019? Unusually, no character appeared in more than two consecutive episodes. NEWCOMERS, RETURNERS, DEPARTERS THE LAST WORD Who had the final word in the most episodes during September 2019? RIGHT YOU ARE / HELLO YOU TWO GENDER RATIO ABSENT CHARACTERS Which characters, heard during 2018, have yet to be heard during 2019? WRITERS This month’s conversations in Ambridge were overheard by KERI DAVIES (12), NICK WARBURTON (6), DANIEL THURMAN (6), LIZ […]

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DTD: 295 – David Archer’s leather jacket and 80s fashion

DumTeeDum goes a little highbrow this week and neither Andrew Horn or Robert Wilson utter a word.  Opera is above my plebian status (although I will admit to liking the now highly unfashionable world of Gilbert and Sullivan) but Roifield has recently attended an opera and in the absence of callers we are given his opinion.  I bet Lucy was hoping that more of the community would call in – next week even Witherspoon will be missing as he is bound for Italy, lucky boy!   Our resident fashion maven does call on the subject of David’s leather jacket which […]

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DTD: 294 – The spacious extension that is Jimus’s kind gesture

I was going to write about my weekend away in Aberystwyth this week but apparently I have been rumbled and I should be writing about Lucy and her week in Ambridge and the discussion between Lucy and Roifield which follows once he has pointed out that this week’s monologue is so much better than last week. The first discussion is Roifield admitting that as nothing happened he had to read the summaries on the BBC pages (which are often poorly written).  Lucy points out to Roifield that means it was a good week on The Archers because we do not […]

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DTD: 293 This week in the Archers was a Zlota fun!

Ruth attracts Lucy’s ire this week with her full on sulk over Pip’s success in the grandma money stakes, as Lucy points out it is simply not good parenting to be so jealous of a daughter’s good fortune!  Reminder Home Farm is about 1500 acres, Brookfield is 469 acres, Bridge Farm is 172 acres, whilst there are 50 acres attached to Grange Farm and Berrow Estate is 1020 acres.  Does Brookfield really have a few unproductive acres which could be re-wilded?  Or the other farms – to find 240 acres let alone 400?  For any farm to hand over a significant […]

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DTD: 292 – Will Grundy contemplates ending it and the listeners held their collective breaths

Following the discharge of a firearm it is a busy week on the podcast as numerous callers call in to make observations on Will, Kate, Jakob, half a million quid and the wonderful ghost story involving Tracy Horrobin and her sister Susan.  All condemn Emma for her telling Ed of earlier events.  There was no need and she would not have done it! This little corner of the DumTeeDum universe (it is like a Marvel universe with fewer super-powers) is often at odds with received wisdom elsewhere so I would like to record my absolute incredulity at the management coming […]

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Character Count – August 2019

APPEARANCES THIS MONTH Which characters were heard during August 2019? 46 different characters were heard during August 2019. CONSECUTIVE EPISODES Which characters appeared in the most consecutive episodes during August 2019? NEWCOMERS, RETURNERS, DEPARTERS THE LAST WORD Who had the final word in the most episodes during August 2019? RIGHT YOU ARE / HELLO YOU TWO GENDER RATIO ABSENT CHARACTERS Which characters, heard during 2018, have yet to be heard during 2019? WRITERS This month’s episodes were written by LIZ JOHN (8), NICK WARBURTON (6), GURPREET KAUR BHATTI (6) and TIM STIMPSON (6).