*The Archers thread
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pseudonarcissus
fluttering and dancing
I'm hoping it's the start European population re-balancing. With Debbie in Hungary, Matt and Brenda in Russia we can get rid of a few other annoying characters in the months to come. Does Romania realize by joining the EU they may be flooded with everyday country folk from Borsetshire?
edit to correct names, thanks wayward
edit to correct names, thanks wayward
wayward bob
i ate all your bees
debbie. who i will forgive anything tbh just for black books 
weltweit
Well-Known Member
I didn't realise she was in the Archers, and yes loved her in Green Wing.
In fact loved Green Wing full stop. It could have carried on.
wiskey
Albatross Admirer
Yes it is on Amex but I've come to the conclusion it's not a side story, I found the Archers wasn;t making sense if I didn't know about it. Which pisses me off!
Manter
Lunch Mob
I thought you meant in the Archers and was briefly baffled
Frankly I think a spot of surrealism is what the Archers is currently missing. I'm also pissed off that they are using Amex to run major story lines. It's an obvious ploy to drive people onto Extra and to justify Amex, which will probably end in The Archers being moved over lock, stock and barrels. II refuse to listen to it on principle, plus I can't be arsed to listen on the computer. I put the radio on in the kitchen, it's tuned to R4, it stays on R4 and thats the way I like it.
Manter
Lunch Mob
Yup, do exactly the same. And I listen to almost anything on R4 (any answers and quote unquote are my only limits) I don't make a note of what to turn on them go and check timings in the radio times and shush everyone because I want to listen to x- it's on a lot and I listen to what happens to be on there. No way I am going to start changing my behaviour because of Amex
story
Changing the facts
You'll even listen to You and Yours, Manter? and what about Counterpoint with Paul Gambacini (who is only marginally less odious than robertrobertson).
I don't listen to Ambridge Extra despite having a DAB radio right here beside me. I don't want to listen to yet another radio station. I listen to 6 and 4. I already have quite enough technological interfaces, I don't want another one. The only time I listen to Extra is when I'm tired of the World Service in the middle of the night. And I'll just as soon tune into the strange ones who phone 5 in the wee small hours.
But I'll admit that I was driven to Ambridge Extra out of curiosity and the gentle persuasions of the continuity announcer during the recent shenanigans. Ridiculous stuff. Not really Ambridge or Archers at all. And I still didn't hear anything crucial. Do they think we have nothing better to do then chase media stuff around cyberspace like a bunch of teenagers?
Oh! But I may have to start listening to the football results now that La Green is doing that....
I don't listen to Ambridge Extra despite having a DAB radio right here beside me. I don't want to listen to yet another radio station. I listen to 6 and 4. I already have quite enough technological interfaces, I don't want another one. The only time I listen to Extra is when I'm tired of the World Service in the middle of the night. And I'll just as soon tune into the strange ones who phone 5 in the wee small hours.
But I'll admit that I was driven to Ambridge Extra out of curiosity and the gentle persuasions of the continuity announcer during the recent shenanigans. Ridiculous stuff. Not really Ambridge or Archers at all. And I still didn't hear anything crucial. Do they think we have nothing better to do then chase media stuff around cyberspace like a bunch of teenagers?
Oh! But I may have to start listening to the football results now that La Green is doing that....
Manter
Lunch Mob
You and yours I can just about stomach until they have phone-ins (who *are* those people? Do they keep them licked in a basement and only let them out to contact call in shows?). But good reminder about counterpoint, that also gets turned off. And that dreadful poetry please- not because of the poetry, like poetry, but that bloke who presents it has the most annoying voice and phraseology. Roger Mcgough?
You and Yours - moaning buggers
Woman's Hour - ditto
Money Box - smug moaning buggers
Face the Facts - no I'd rather not thanks
The Moral Maze - rude smug moaning buggers
and so on...
But I do listen to Ambridge Extra because I like Matt, even though most of it in Russian
Woman's Hour - ditto
Money Box - smug moaning buggers
Face the Facts - no I'd rather not thanks
The Moral Maze - rude smug moaning buggers
and so on...
But I do listen to Ambridge Extra because I like Matt, even though most of it in Russian
wiskey
Albatross Admirer
how?I get both weekly podcast sent to my phone every monday, no hassle or convoluted knob twiddling.
pseudonarcissus
fluttering and dancing
No, you are just using the Home Service in the correct way. It's there to provide nice comforting, familiar voices, while you do other things. How EXACTLY do you download a podcast to an old Roberts dial wireless?I don't want a podcast! I want to be pottering round the kitchen, hear the tumpty tumpty tum and know it's 7o'clock.
(Oh god, I sound like a daily mail reader)
wiskey
Albatross Admirer
I don't want a podcast! I want to be pottering round the kitchen, hear the tumpty tumpty tum and know it's 7o'clock.
(Oh god, I sound like a daily mail reader)
You might find that actually you like listening to it at 2am in a few weeks
RedDragon
"I am not one of your fans!"
Manter
Lunch Mob
I am one of those people who love the shipping forecast too
wiskey
Albatross Admirer
Doesn't everyone?I am one of those people who love the shipping forecast too
I draw the line at Down The Line... Utter rubbish. But then I hate phoneins full stop.
Quite like the philosophers arms.
When I had a small baby I d/l a barrage of R4 comedy series to listen to. All of Old Harrys Game lasted a night or two.
Manter
Lunch Mob
I don't think I've ever heard Down the line. But yes, with you- hate all phone ins.
pseudonarcissus
fluttering and dancing
phone-ins, and a lot of the comedy in the 6:30 slot. We were spoiled with generation of comic geniuses on Just a Minute, I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, Who's Line is it Anyway etc. A lot of the current lot is very weak. R4 is something I missed while I was away from the UK (15 years) and it's so nice to have it there with a simple switch of the kitchen radio....
