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since Nigels death its got a bit maudlin'. Do you think David will die too,Ruth be left with a new baby and Grey Gables go bankrupt? and why doesnt Shula go on about the price of hay and other relevant stuff?
 
Because Shula is intensley irritating, and the less air time the better. What a miserable character.

They've herded themselves into a corner with Nigel's death so clearly just stringing out at much as possible. It really is a load of old rubbish these days, I haven't listen for months but caught it twice this week - same old!
 
It is about time there was a really messy divorce. I thought Ruth was going to provide one and run away with the cowman, but regrettably she didn't. Boring.

I miss Nigel, he was an angel to be so nice to Lizzy.
 
Bit more about the troubles and trials of farming would improve it no end,and a whole lot less about daft relationships too.
 
I haven't listened since the night Nigel was bumped off, having been an avid listener for abotu 30 years. I don't miss it a bit, it had got so stupid and soapy. I just miss the chill-out time, though. Glad to hear I'm not alone with thinking it's gone downhill!
 
farriersmum said:
Way-hay, just had nearly a whole episode about the puppy show. Bringing hunting into ordinary peoples' lives. Tally-ho!
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Good grief! THAT wouldn't have happened prior to the ban! :rolleyes: Hell, we struggled to get a mention for the first Countryside Rally; and they didn't exactly go overboard with coverage for the first big March! (FAR too politically correct to be seen promoting hunting!)
 
Been listening to Ambridge extras which is quite good - you don't have DaaaaVid being miserable and Shula trying to be the Virgin Mary. But unfortunately I haven't heard the lovely Jazza there yet.
 
JanetGeorge said:
Good grief! THAT wouldn't have happened prior to the ban! :rolleyes: Hell, we struggled to get a mention for the first Countryside Rally; and they didn't exactly go overboard with coverage for the first big March! (FAR too politically correct to be seen promoting hunting!)
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Oh yes it would! As a listener of some fifty years - I remember Dan Archer ploughing with Blossom and Boxer - I can also remember many Hunt threads going through the script - in particular Shula whiddling her subscription out of her dad Phil and waxing lyical about hearing the hounds make music from Lakey Hill.

I don't listen very much these days as it has become a typical output of the Politically Correct Waffen BBC - (ve haf vays of making you polyunsaturated and gay! ) but pop in now and then for a laugh to hear how much farming they get wrong.

Don't forget the original remit was to inform farmers in an entertaining manner - a farming Dick Barton ( who the hell is he?)
 
Dick Barton . special agent, it was a radio series in the 1940 to 50's I think, I did have phases of listening in to the Archers, especially when I worked for the Min of Ag and Fish (ooooo real Ministries), but nowadays it is as much about farming and countryside people as Emmerdale, and I stopped watching that when the plane crashed (Seth was my favourite love / hate character in that).
The Archers....... well that Shula is an imposter, a totally different accent form the child I remember, but then I might be getting to an age when I can't remember very much
 
Must admit I've lost heart since Nigel went, as sundays Im left to muck out in peace 10am-11.15am, couldn't they have gotten ride of Linda Snell(please), must admit it's no longer about the farming side which I found useful, and as for Will Grundy, cann't Nikkie kick him in the whats its.
 
monikirk said:
Been listening to Ambridge extras which is quite good - you don't have DaaaaVid being miserable and Shula trying to be the Virgin Mary. But unfortunately I haven't heard the lovely Jazza there yet.
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I should think he's far too busy in bed with the Romanian strawberry pickers!

If I'm particularly lucky I get to hear the same episode 3 times - evening, lunchtime repeat and Sunday omnibus. It drives me crackers!

I love the way Daaaavid and Ruth call every disease/injection etc. by its proper name. How many farmers do you know who do that? Can't wait for a mad gunman to break up a bookclub meeting either... :rolleyes: Oh, and if they could get shot of goody-two-shoes Pip in the same episode I'd definitely tune in!
 
I think Pip should be a teen mum and get a spin off show on MTV where she ends up shacking up with the local cannabis dealer in a Meadow Rise council flat. I would tune in for that.

Also, why are Shula's horses all so damned well behaved and snorty and clippy cloppy all the time? Why don't they get into daft situations like mine? Why doesn't she seem to have a single ex racer?
 
\and why does nobody seem to go riding or hunting. Why doesnt Pip ride and go to Pony CLub? Why does no-one go out lamping or shooting foxes or badgers, like in the real country side?
 
Horsesforever1 said:
\and why does nobody seem to go riding or hunting. Why doesnt Pip ride and go to Pony CLub? Why does no-one go out lamping or shooting foxes or badgers, like in the real country side?
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Brian Aldridge has shot a fox before now - it was supposedly plaguing his sheep for a week with him staking out the frozen fields, then one episode BANG! We heard it from inside the BULL! There was a very punctillious young policeman in the village during that period so the script made a point of Sid Perks not being able to serve Brian a brandy after hours.

David shot a badger and was prosecuted under the Waffen Wildlife Act, convicted and sentenced to life with Rooooth with additional hardships of having to speak lines such as "not with my daughter he's not!!!" when 17 year old Pip was "seeing" a 30 year old bloke- who of course turned out to be the exact image of the utter cad he was painted.

Ah the memories!!!
 
I can't see Oliver shooting badgers, but obviously he is a dark horse waiitng in the wings, I suspect he will turn out to be the seventh son of a seventh son, and as such will have a dark secret in his past.
His alter ego is Dorian Gray.
 
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