Category Archives: The Archers
The Archers: I should be so lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky
SPOILER ALERT! Contains speculation about future plot twist that actually you have probably also guessed as it’s not exactly been foreshadowed in particularly subtle fashion. Continue reading
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The Archers: Show me the money
In these times of economic hardship, with stock-markets making regular wall-of-death plummets and unemployment levels making regular, uh, Eiffel Tower climbs, one can’t help but wonder: how do people in the Archers manage for money? Storylines that ring true in financial terms are rarer than hens’ teeth, which Hayley can tell you are pretty rare. Continue reading
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The Archers: Core-shaking four months on
Incredibly, it’s been more than four months since that fateful dark and stormy night when Ambridge was shaken to its core. Time to revisit; time to see where everyone’s at and what the devastating knock-on effects have been.
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The Archers: Pimp my Peggy
Those of us who’ve been puzzling over the purpose of Elona, the heavily-accented carer of poor witless Jack, let out a collective ‘eureka!’ this week. For like Archimedes in his bath, the solution landed on our heads like an apple. Continue reading
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The Archers: Teenage kicks
Assuming the Archers keeps going for the next sixty years – and short of international apocalypse, it will – I thought it would be timely to produce a brief who’s who to the Ambridge teenagers. They’re the next generation after all, and one day they will carry the major storylines, god help us. Continue reading
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The Archers: Why Matt’s plan for the Bull is bull
Ooh that sneaky Matt. Ignoring Lillian’s explicit instructions, he’s been leaning on the bar of the Bull pouring honeyed words (‘Poison!’ screeched Lillian) into Jolene’s unhappy ear. ‘Money,’ whispers Matt, who is wearing horns and a red cape. Continue reading
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The Archers: Keep the noise down Derek Fletcher
It doesn’t take long. A few months. Maybe a couple of years. Eventually, all regular Archers listeners become inured to the sheer bonkers-ness of the silent characters. The classic of this genre is of course Pru Forrest, now gone from this vale of tears but a marvel of absurd and long-term mutism. Continue reading
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The Archers: Things they haven’t said yet
Post SATTC there are quite a few conversations waiting to explode. I thought I’d jot down a handy list in case the script-writers need reminding. Continue reading
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