*The Archers thread

[belboid]

So can anyone give me a rough run-down of how anyone - even Pat - came to recognise that there might be a motive other than purely hormonal that drove Helen to stab her doting husband? Was it all down to Kirsty? Did anyone start, painfully, to piece things together? And was it excruciating to listen to?

Eh? Is that a serious question? Have you forgotten how Pat hated Rob for ages, or the whole thing about parents generally being quite soft and supportive to their children?

 

[davesgcr]

You'll all be following Cwmderi's finest in Pobol Y Cwm next...

Is that still going ?

 

[belboid]

Does anybody watch Machair by the way? It's a Gaelic sort of tv version of the Archers - equally bad and equally compelling.

Did you ever here Westway, the World Service soap? Absolutely abysmal, makes the Archers sound like Beckett

 

[Plumdaff]

Is that still going ?

Five episodes a week

 

[two sheds]

Did you ever here Westway, the World Service soap? Absolutely abysmal, makes the Archers sound like Beckett

I'm sure I did but it was so good that I remember nothing at all about it.

 

[friendofdorothy]

Gideon ffs GIDEON. Wanting to call your baby that should be grounds for withdrawing parental access alone.

 

[a_chap]

Gideon ffs GIDEON. Wanting to call your baby that should be grounds for withdrawing parental access alone.

Having stopped listening, I'm guessing Gideon is Rob Twatchener's choice of name for the baby Damian.

 

[Greebo]

Having stopped listening, I'm guessing Gideon is Rob Twatchener's choice of name for the baby Damian.

Gideon Robert, to be precise. Helen has already registered the child as John "Jack" Anthony.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Gideon Robert, to be precise. Helen has already registered the child as John "Jack" Anthony.

And boy did Rob lose it, when he heard she'd done that!

 

[Greebo]

Possibility of a plot twist here: The way to add legally recognised first names (in the UK) after the birth has been registered is to get them added during a C of E christening. And yes, it has to be C of E.

 

[weltweit]

I am glad the Rob Helen plot is continuing, I am not so sure I would listen so regularly were it over - I don't know if the rest of Ambridge is enough to keep me interested ..

 

[belboid]

Where else would we get such brilliant political insight? That bloody three crop rule, eh...

 

[Mogden]

Did anyone else sick up a bit at the kissing or is that just my misophonia.

 

[friendofdorothy]

Did anyone else sick up a bit at the kissing or is that just my misophonia.

what kissing? must have missed that.

 

[Mogden]

That bit. You know.

Spoiler

When Justin and Lilian were in the hotel room discussing the sudden escape and how they'd not seen outside since arriving

 

[friendofdorothy]

That bit. You know.

Spoiler

When Justin and Lilian were in the hotel room discussing the sudden escape and how they'd not seen outside since arriving

No missed it - must have been making tea during that bit.

 

[Mogden]

No missed it - must have been making tea during that bit.

You didn't miss much! In fact tea seems infinitely preferable.

 

[bluescreen]

Eh? Is that a serious question? Have you forgotten how Pat hated Rob for ages, or the whole thing about parents generally being quite soft and supportive to their children?

Given how Pat had been sucking up to Rob for ages and seemed to have had a total encephalectomy, yes, it was a serious question - about the radio soap, not about real life. Inasmuch as it's even possible to have a serious question about The Archers, that is.

I notice Graham Harvey was earning his keep on the Brexit debate last night, btw. Riveting stuff. I really must stop listening... though I'm waiting now for the Miranda nemesis.

ETA: I realise it will be a long wait. They will keep teasing us.

 

[belboid]

there are other inmates

 

[wiskey]

and staff!

I was starting to wonder.

 

[lizzieloo]

Did anyone else notice the flood and Rob's part in it has started to be mentioned, the chap that went back to Poland too.

It's all about to come out about what a twat he is.

 

[two sheds]

I still think he was the one who put the dead something in the grain to poison it. I was wrong about scruff admittedly but he did it you mark my words.

 

[belboid]

Did anyone else notice the flood and Rob's part in it has started to be mentioned, the chap that went back to Poland too.

It's all about to come out about what a twat he is.

Caroline back shortly, too. She'll dither over whether to come clean about his behaviour toward the hunt sab - she did lie to the police about it, iirr

 

[weltweit]

The most unforgivable is that Rob cheated at cricket ..

 

[bluescreen]

Caroline back shortly, too. She'll dither over whether to come clean about his behaviour toward the hunt sab - she did lie to the police about it, iirr

Was it Caroline or Shula who lied?

 

[Pickman's model]

Did anyone else notice the flood and Rob's part in it has started to be mentioned, the chap that went back to Poland too.

It's all about to come out about what a twat he is.

Wait til Charlie puts the boot in over the blackmail

 

[belboid]

Was it Caroline or Shula who lied?

I think it was Caroline, cos I half recall thinking that she'd still tell Oliver about it, for the sake of the hunt, don't you know.

 

[bluescreen]

I think it was Caroline, cos I half recall thinking that she'd still tell Oliver about it, for the sake of the hunt, don't you know.

This is what I was thinking of: The Ambridge Socialist: Shula lies to the police

 

[belboid]

This is what I was thinking of: The Ambridge Socialist: Shula lies to the police

Right you are! She did finally tell Caroline n Oliver, who seem to have done nothing about it. A Day in Ambridge

Where has Shula got to lately?

 

[bluescreen]

She did finally tell Caroline n Oliver, who seem to have done nothing about it. A Day in Ambridge

I'd forgotten that! Interesting...

Where has Shula got to lately?

Checking up on Alistair's cellphone and expense account, I should think.