DumTeeDum - A show about BBC Radio's 'The Archers'

DTD Episode 101 - Helen's beat down!

G' day from Uluru. Bit late on parade this week as our perambulations continue.Aunty Jean wants your spit for good reason and Roifield says a bong never hurt anyone.Lucy makes an Easter prediction which I doubt will happen as I do not think Helen can do anything without Henry - she could not leave her son with Rob. Listen to the podcast to find out what happens, according to Lucy, whilst the village hall opening is in progress (not Lower Loxley).Glyn Fullelove started talking about belly buttons for some reason - my hearing was distorted by plane noises - but he was going on about inners & outers!Roifield & Lucy disagree over the women in The Archers. I have to side with Roifield as it is the men who are poorly written. I bet Lucy would like to spend time in the lingerie dept at Underwoods - simple jealousy.The missing village shop gossip was also identified - the failing of this Editor has been laid bare for all to see. Bring back the Real Ambridge.Millie Belle provides her usual wonderful social media update from Australia which I can report is a country with a lot of rain.KosmoOn this week’s episode we have calls from Not Contrary who says nice thingsMaeve who’s pining for cowsGlyn who thinks Brian is an inner Yokelbear who’s putting up the buntingWitherspoon who discusses forbidden topicsMiss Mid City is impressed with Eddie’s learningand Tracey Chevin who says the Archers is upsetting her dog.

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Duration:: 1h 15m
Broadcast on:: 14 Mar 2016
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She's written an autobiography called "My Struggle" and that which made me laugh like a drain in a rather bitchy way at the time. But yes. Very good. Very good. Very good. And on this week's show we have Corrin. Roy, can I ask you something quickly, quickly, a technical thing? When I am recording this, my email keeps bonging. I don't know how to turn it off. Even when I quit email, it keeps bonging. Don't worry about it, it's fine. The odd bong is fine. Don't worry. Is that rules for life, the odd bong is fine. Exactly. It will tuck every now and then. Never did anyone any harm Lucy. On this week's show we have calls from, not contrary, up there in Canada Land, who says nice things, may have, down there in West London, from Northern Ireland, who's pining for cows. Glyn, who's from kind of Derbyshire where's our scene to remember, who thinks that Brian is an inner yoke or bear, who's from somewhere shite, who's pushing up the bunting. We're spooning his revenge, why say me old mugger who discusses forbidden topics and miss mid-cities from Derbyshire, definitely, who is impressed with Eddie's learning. Oh, there's another round, and Tracy Chevin, who I've no idea where she's from, who says is an ambush upsetting her dog, but first, before we get to the juicy call as it's loose with a week in Ambridge. We started the week with Mother's Day. Robin, his wife Ursula, took Henry out for a Mother's Day feast at the ball, lovingly cooked by Wayne. It was a bread roll with the bread stuffing on a bed of bread. David with his eyes had to deflate, but he didn't think that possibly Ruth might find the first Mother's Day after her mother's death a little tricky, so he spent the whole time checking his own mother was enjoying herself. Anyone else think that Matthew has dumped Pip and is using the lack of mobile signal as an excuse not to tell her? I think he's doing a Norman Collier every time he speaks to her. Cuck! Cuck! Yeah! Pip! Moo! Crackle! This will send her hurtling into the arms of a fair buttock. In the meantime, she is taking her sexual frustration out on multi-millionaire egg magnet Josh, who is fairly irritated admittedly, but she's even claiming that she's trying to rip off the fair buttocks, but surely ripping off the fair buttocks should be encouraged by one at all. One of the long-held tropes of Ambridge is that if a family occasion is in the offing and it looks like it might be going to occur with a minimum of disruption and stress, a family member immediately has to step in and either introduce an entirely unnecessary element of secrecy or resurrect a trouble-making family member. Clary has decided to do both by getting the entire village involved in Eddie's birthday, making it a secret special party, and also bringing back jailbird Alf from the Costa Robber or wherever he's been. Eddie would be entirely happy with a couple of pints of the bull and the quick rummage under Clary's apron, but no, we have to go through a whole parlour. Talking of Clary's apron, I bet you anything she's got one of those ones of a lady in a corset with her boobs out. Ooh, Elizabeth, stop trying to pretend that bonnet, competitions and falconry are stressful. You are basically living in Northanger Abbey, so shut up. Anyway, Lillian is now nominating you as for such a businesswoman of the year for your services under canvas, but Lillian says you have to keep it quiet as she doesn't want Elizabeth getting wind. Well, no, that could ruin her acceptance speech for one thing. Jenny Darling is still going on about her knackered old work tops. How long can this wretched story line go on for? Are the work tops going to get their own spin-off series? Are they going to enter into an abusive relationship with the Albion and will have to have a warning if you have been affected by issues around kitchen work tops, and please call the For Micah Help Plan. Dr. Lock's daughter, Sasha, appeared, who said she didn't realise that Ambridge was like so boring, and that where there were like so few like buses, she was hanging around the shop, browsing the display of deck chairs, bathroom suites and climbing frames. Susan cross questioned her about who she was until Elizabeth fought her off and said, "Would you like a lift? I have my car, just outside, or shall we just skip the middleman and I'll become your new mummy now?" Susan sketched it a game of ask me where anything is in the shop, but no one was playing. Paul Susan, no one ever plays that game because the cards are rather stacked on Susan's side, especially since she's rearranged the wallpapers. Then there was a fascinating little interlude where we discussed sandwiches, which ones we liked, which were our favourite fillings, what bread we liked best, then we all coloured in pictures of sandwiches and got a gold sticker. The Risser Gam Garden, which has been designed to allow Linda to say words like, "Austra barrier". Also, apparently, after years of coughing, sniffing and hypoallergenic gardens and homeopathic remedies, she suddenly decided that being allergic to the outsiders, her cross to bear, and not only is she going to shut up about it, she's going to plant a pollen fest right outside her city row window, which means she's going to spend every summer evening festooned with snots like a mucus maple. The end. Oh, I quite like that this week. That was good. Well, this end on a mucus maple when I'm looking at it. Mmm. And you're going to hit that with gusto as well this week. You're not messing around this week, are you? It's like, "Come on! Let's get this gun going, Royfield. Chop, chop! Don't be dumb away!" Now, where do we start? Do we start with Friday first? Yeah. Shall we get it out of the way now? Go on then. What? Talky talky or cally cally? Let's do a little bit of talky talky because otherwise this podcast is going to be over in about 20 minutes flat. Let's do a little bit of talky talky then we'll do the caller in. Well, I texted you, didn't I, at the time, and I said to you, "I hate this man for making me feel relieved that a man has just hit his wife." Because I did. I thought, "This is the beginning of the end now." And I felt appalled with myself that I felt relieved that he'd hit her. And I didn't like feeling that. I felt I feel as if I dislike as we have talked at length about, and I will not go through it again, but I dislike the feeling that I am being manipulated. And I know good drama manipulates, but this is making me dislike myself. And I don't like it, and I don't like that level of, I think it's Maeve that calls it gratuitous manipulation. I was struck by the scene afterwards where Rob was in the room crying, and Helen comes to find him, because, and please nobody, do not misconstrue what I'm about to say here, but it was then absolutely apparent to me in every which way, but that this man isn't only incredibly damaged, which he knew he had to have been. But actually, everything, no, no, not quite everything, because the planning of potentially attending Henry after school is planning, is kind of full planning. But a lot of actually what he does is completely, not really on the hoof. And he is just an utter mess, and he isn't the arch manipulator the way that we have sometimes actually said that he is this, for whatever reason, and the reason, and the writers are writing it that he has this dysfunctional relationship with his mother, and his mother is actually overbearing, that is the reason why he's the way that he is. And I know that a lot of listeners do not like that, because they say this man is damaged because of a woman, but whatever, that is the way it's been written, full stop. But that he is, as I said, not the master manipulator, the way that we have sometimes thought though, he has planned many things, like blocking up the culvert, you know, potentially sending Henry after school, et cetera, et cetera. But a lot of actually what he does is to react in the moment, and he isn't in control of his rage, and his rage is built on fundamentally impotence of which he tries to cover up by being overbearing and controlling, because he is not actually in control of his world. That's the way that he feels, so to compensate for that, he tries to micromanage absolutely everything, because actually he's somebody who feels isolated and alone, and then he dresses that up with this kind of nastistic look at me, so in public he has to be the perfect person, because actually he's alone, and he's incredibly angry all the time. I completely, completely agree, and I thought that was so beautifully done as well. I wish it wasn't, but it was when he manipulates it so that she ends up apologizing to him for him hitting her, and saying, "I'm sorry, I irritated you." And now, judging by kind of the way these things go, she will now, for the next sort of day or so afterwards, she will over commit to him. She will find something, she will say, "No, of course your mum can stay as long as she likes, of course, you know, why doesn't she sleep in the bed with you and I'll go somewhere else?" or whatever, you know, that they will be, she will capitulate to him even further, because, you know, that's just how it goes, but can I give you my plot prediction? Go on. Which did make myself slightly, well, I don't know, I mean it might be, because if I'm wrong then clearly it's bonkers, but I hate now, bloody hell. I've forgotten what it is, but there's something coming up over Easter weekend. Good Friday? No, I know that comes up on Easter weekend, you banana. I mean, Rob was talking about going to something over Easter weekend and taking Henry, and Helen said she wasn't going to go, and I think she is going to run away. I think that him and Ursula and Henry are going to be out of the house, they're going to visit somewhere, or was it the Lower Locksley thing, maybe? You know, that makes a whole load of sense, because a couple of people, John Reed said on the Twitter's, you know, when Rob says, you know, "How can we bring a baby into this mess?" and he joked, and I'm going to absolutely, you know, misquote this spectacularly, but he said yes, when we get a new editor in, and the scriptwriter sorted this all out, worse of that effect, but it said in a much more punchy and funny way than me. But it does occur to me that surely this will all start to be cleared up when Mr Sea walks out the door at Easter, so it makes sense, actually, completely what you're saying. Though I know there's a- I didn't realise he was going at Easter, but yeah. And I know there's a bit of a three month lag with this stuff, but you know, it kind of makes sense that this is his great storyline, which is bequeathed to the archers, and he's brought this tremendous character in. And as a sign off, we have the unraveling and, you know, the sorting out of it. However, it is to be sorted out in terms of Helen and Rob's relationship, so it would be neat. It would be neat. Yeah. I think she's going to turn up, she's going to wait till they're all out of the house. She's going to leg it, and she's going to appear at Kirsty's, and she's going to go "Kirsty, help me." And on that note, now we've done our little bit of a feeling about we thought about last week's show. We have some cornering-er-ers. Yes. Smashing. Hello. Ambridge 3962. Who's first, then Lucy? Not contrary. Ooh, Canada, Canada. Hello, Dunge-Dum. It's Mary, not contrary, in Toronto. I'm very sorry that I wasn't organised enough to call in on time for the 100th episode. So firstly, let me congratulate you on both reaching that milestone and putting together a cracking live show. I really enjoyed that. What I would have said, if I'd called in on time, I will still say today, because it's still relevant in light of what Roy Field said about Dunge-Dum and Lucy being anchors and rocks in his life over the past couple of years, because I discovered Dunge-Dum around about the third episode when I was back in England while my father was dying, and I made my first call to the show on the morning of his funeral. It was such a light relief to have some fun, silliness and innuendo to just give me a break from all the sadness around me, and I know you've supported lots of other people through tough times and given them a laugh when they've really needed it. So thank you for all the work you do, and congratulations again. Not contrary. Are you sure you didn't miss here when you said that Roy Field said I was an anchor? I'm very sorry about your father, and I'm glad that we could help, and thank you very much, and thank you to everybody who said such lovely things about the 100th episode, and talking of that, we had a very funny email, which I tried to find, from somebody called 'Feek', who said he sounds a bit like that character from Game of Thrones, 'Reek'. It's horrible that story, I'm a long time listed to the arches of something between 25 and 30 years under my belt. This morning in my Facebook feed, there was a link to your podcast, so he listened, or she listened, I don't know if he said she or she, it happened to be your 100th episode, I found it amusing, interesting, and perhaps a little too self-congratulation, yes it absolutely was, because it was our 100th, and it was an orgy of self-congratulation, wasn't it, Roy? I wouldn't use the word 'orgy'. I would. I wouldn't use the word 'orgy' to describe what happened at the BBC club last Monday at all. But he said that, we were talking about what other shows do we watch because they've got members of the cast, he said, 'When the new cast was strictly come dancing was announced, I saw Kelly Bright was taking part, I immediately placed a small bit of £1 for her to win the show, simply because she used to be Kate Aldridge, while watching the show, my wife got grumpy with me because I used to shout, 'Kate, every time she appeared on the screen, she didn't win but she did make it through to the final, with hindsight I should have placed the bet each way, and then at least I've got something back'. I despise most of the recent cast changes in the archers, but recently I mean over the last 10 years, I still don't like the new Bert Fry, and I think it was only 20 years ago that Roger Hume died, so that's enough for me, now we're good work, and I'm looking forward to future episodes. Fique, Fique, welcome to the tribe, if you are still moaning about a character that changed a decade ago, you are definitely with the right people here. Exactly. It's definitely Archer's fan material. I used to talk about new Clary, it's new Clary old Clary, isn't it? Yeah, new old old Clary, very confusing. Maeve and Witherspoon, can we put them together? Oh we can. Hello Lucy, hello Royfield, hello everybody, it's Maeve here in the big press. Oh my gosh, I'm sorry that I missed the live show, looked fun, looked great fun actually. So I've been putting some comments and Twitter this week about the storyline and not listening anymore, and I just really wanted to say that I can't really listen. It's not because I'm being all, because I just because I don't like the storyline there from kind of flouncing out, I just find it really hard to listen to, and I think as I've touched on in one of the tweets, it's not so much the storyline itself which is hugely important, and all the money that was raised, and actually the raised profile of this kind of domestic abuse is hugely important. What I'm really struggling with is the almost pantomime villain type approach now. It's kind of slipped into, as I said, a bit gratuitous and a bit kind of east injury in my day job, and I come across a lot of moms and children who have been very damaged by domestic abuse, et cetera, et cetera, as you well know, and what struck me was just kind of the sheer lack of hope really, that really it just seems terrible for Helen, and also it's not really very realistic, even though I know it's sorry Royfield, it's a drama. But really, you know, the midwives would be picking up on this now, there would have been a follow-up from the hospital, you know, it kind of just doesn't ring true, maybe because I'm in that world, therefore I'm kind of hypercritical, but you know, I do admire, and I am old for putting the storylines out there, but you know what, can we trees try not to sensationalise it, and I didn't ever think I would hear myself say this, but I was slightly pining for root and some cows, and when I'm getting to that stage and I'm pining for root and some cows, that really is for me, time to switch off. Hey baby, I hear the blues are calling, toss salads and scrambled eggs, mercy. Greetings Lucy, Royfield, Millie Bell, and all demty dimmers around the world. It's with the spoon and Angus Haggis here, while I'm here and Angus is off in the corner trying to recover from Friday's episode. First off, well done on Monday's 100th. You all appear to be having a rockin' good time, as was I listening to the podcast. Today, I was planning to ignore the story that dare not be named, and would are on about Linda's garden and the sibling rivalry between Pip and Josh that we will be talking about for the next 30 years. I was still going to ignore the goings on at Blossom Hill Cottage, even though on Tuesday I tweeted, "I've joined the torch-wielding, pitchfork-carrying masses, Tichinab must die, and his little mother, too." I was even going to ignore it after Thursday's episode when Helen had a meltdown in front of her mother. As I had Facebook posted, Pat is not enough of an abstract thinker or strong enough person to have recognized that Helen was displacing her rage onto someone with whom she felt safe. She also didn't recognize the true object of Helen's rage. Instead Pat went straight to Rob to provide him with more ammunition instead of trying to further talk with Helen. But after Friday's episode, we can't ignore it. After the show, I went to the archer's website and read what I assume is an unprecedented letter from Sean O'Connor to us, explaining the origin and development of the storyline. At this moment, within six hours of the broadcast, there have already been 92 mostly thoughtful and mostly negative responses to the story. I won't review the details of Friday's realistic depiction of the escalation of abuse in its aftermath. I'm sure Lucy Royfield and others have done so. Did we hope, sadly, that there would be bruises left on Helen so that others would finally see? Yes. But no, that was not the case, and again, realistically, the abuser projected his blame onto the abused, and the victim blamed herself for provoking the assault. This is to be expected, and upsettingly for us, resolution will still take a while. But I hope not at the pace that Mr. O'Connor has so far deemed appropriate for a radio drama. He has underestimated the effect of this story on the community of archer's listeners. We deserve a resolution. We'll stop here, take a deep breath, and wish everyone a good week. Angus Haggis and I look forward to talking again next time. "Hey baby, I hear the blues are calling, toss salads and scrambled eggs, massive." Yes, both. They're talking about Robin Helen. Maeve, I can see an end in sight, so you'll be back with us soon, I do hope. I know people are finding it really hard, and it must be awful if you work in that sort of field and you, you know, it's bad enough for the rest of us, but when you work in that sort of field and you're confronted with it on a day-to-day basis, you don't want to come home. It's like, I know, I'll have a cup of tea and listen to that, oh no, and then there you're backing it again, that must be horrible. And yes, with a spoon, I couldn't agree more, and it's very difficult to get away from, isn't it? Anyway, hold hard people, we will soon be out the other side, please God. And now, clean, full enough. Hello, Dhamton Dham, it's Glenn here. First of all, let's say congratulations on your 100th podcast. Sorry, I couldn't be there, but it was a really great show, and it sounded like you were having a really great time. Turning to the archers, well, developments, more dark developments in the Helen and Rob story, but since I think I'm as fed up with it as probably everyone else's, I'll just go and have a rant on the forum instead of travelling the podcast and turn to a less controversial subject, being the EU referendum. I think a couple of weeks ago, Lucy, I think was talking to Yoko Bear when he did the podcast about Brian being an altar in the referendum. I've been thinking about that, and I think with all of the subsidies Home Farm must have had over the years from the EU and their reliance on migrant workers from Eastern Europe for the fruit picking. I can't imagine Brian would really be an outer, surely he'd be leading the ambridge in the EU campaign. I think in the rest of the village, similar reasons that David and Ruth have also got to be in us, but I've definitely got Peggy and Susan Carter down as outers, Jim Lloyd, I think must be an outer. Well, I'm sure other listeners can have a go at who they think are in as an outers. So I'll also keep up the good work and sign off there. What do you think is the full of love I have to say for himself, Lucy? He was talking about, what do you reckon about in Europe and out of Europe? And he says, Peggy and Susan are out. Absolutely. I agree. He says he would say Jim was an out, I'd say Jim was an in culturally, but he's being told by what to do by Europe, though. He'd hate that because he hates Pointless Admin, doesn't he? He hates it when Linda starts going, we have to have a steering group or whatever. And he goes, tell you another reason why Jim should be an inner. Jim is a big classic classicist, isn't he? And the European Union was founded in Rome, and it's actually called The Treaty of Rome, and he's a big fan of all things Roman. So I think unemotional level. But he'd like that, he'd like the origins of it, but he would hate the Pointless bureaucracy. He's not a bureaucratic man. True, because at the height, at its height, the Roman Empire, which spanned what, from Scotland, Hadrian's Wall all the way to Syria, you know, comps in Egypt and Morocco and Spain, was run by, the civil service of the Roman Empire was 500 people. Lymie. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So... It's that many people trying to sort out the luncheon vouchers, isn't it? And in Brussels, yeah, so you could actually completely see that he would be pro-it, but then rail completely, your community, against the bureaucracy, so we can slim this all the way down. What do you reckon about David and Ruth? Well, you've got to think any farm has got to be an inner, because of all the subsidies. Yeah, I was going to say, but they've all benefited from the EU, they'd be a bit hypocritical, not to it, wouldn't they? Yeah. Right, none of them said, "No, no, we don't agree with it, so we won't be taking the money, thank God." But, you know, it's one of those things where we people who are kind of, you know, non-farming stock can say, "Oh, God, these people had their beds feathered. Ooh, I'm struggling this morning." But up until the Second World War, famines were a frequent occurrence, not necessarily in Western Europe, but throughout Europe. And that issue hasn't darkened our shores since the Second World War, and that is because, underpinning every society, every industrial and post-industrial society is a guaranteed food supply. So I say more for farming subsidies, you know, because the fact that we don't have to think about a starping anymore. No. So, yeah. Yes. Anyway. Yes, there we are. There we go. And Brian has got to be an inner. And when you did say that a few weeks back, I'd go, "Hmm, right. That didn't really sit well with me." I think culturally away from farming, I think, yes, Brian would be a bit of a soft outer. But no, but he is a farmer, and he would have benefited massively from Brussels, and it's largest. Brian's exactly the sort of book that would end up being an MEP, isn't he? Is he? You can't imagine. You know, because when you are a great star, you are right. You are right. Every now and again, and I'm just going out for lots of agreeable chaps, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. True that, true that. Who else can we kind of speculate on there? I think you're right, you know, that Peggy, and you got to say that somebody like, I tell he's a farmer who I think would be definitely an outer, Joe Grundy, because he would, because his farm has always been inefficient when he actually had one, so he wouldn't have benefited, and he would have been completely for the days of kind of a vampire emotionally, and he's got to be a little Englander, though he's never railed against the foreign pickers or anything like that, but you've got to think, you know, on balance, Joe's got to be an outer. Mike would be an outer. Well, after asking, he's on soon, isn't he? We will. It'd be only three weeks' time. Yeah. So if you've got questions for Tara Malloy, AKA Mike Tucker, store them up, and in three weeks' time, you'll be able to buy them too. But in the meantime, start having to think about what you'd like to ask. Lovely Tim Bentink, who is coming on next week. You're going to put your lip yarn again. I know, I really like that. Oh, God. What an idiot I am. We like having Tim on once a year, don't we? Yes. Yeah. Who's next, Lucy? Uh, Yokele Bear. Ooh. Yokele Bear. Hello, dumb stomachs. Yokele Bear here. Ambassador from Yokeleshire. First of all, a happy belated 100th anniversary. That's a great episode. I wish you could have been there, but, you know, I just couldn't close it. It's up in London, and, you know, getting up from the West Country is a bit of a pain. What with all the geese on the line and everything. So I'm phoning up in quite a good mood, because despite the fact that I said I was never going to speak about the storyline that should not be mentioned, I am going to mention the storyline that should not be mentioned. It's at the end in sight, isn't it? It's all coming together, perhaps beginning to realize that maybe something isn't quite right. Kirsty, well, Kirsty has been on the case from day one. Tom's beginning to realize things. And Johnny as well, Johnny's kind of, that was an interesting little bit, wasn't it? Where Johnny was, you know, not taking the advice of Rob. I think the downfall of Titchinob is imminent. And to be honest, as we know, it's not for time. And to be honest with you, I have bunting ready. There's going to be bunting all around Yoko Shire when this storyline finally ends. But yeah, I think it's quite good. Also, Ursula, what do you do with a woman like Ursula? Well, personally, I'll bundle her into a car and drop her on the outskirts of town and tell her not to come back. It's awful, isn't it? It's less of a, you know, what's that old film to the devil or daughter? This one's like, to the devil or mother. And you can just see it's all moving on. I was really pleased when the new cows arrived, you know, because that's part of what being an artist fans about, isn't it? It's about the farming. So when the new cows arrived, they started to head about, they're all in different colors. But yeah, it's been quite nice. Aside from the aforementioned storyline that should not be named, it's been quite nice. There's been lovely little bits that I've just loved. He is in good spirits. He's having his own private resurgam. He is in agreement that the end is in sight. We are always in agreement. Me and Yoko there. We are separated. We were separated at birth. He's happy with Linda's garden. He's happy that Lillian's got her mojo back. He is quite perky, Lillian at the moment, isn't she? She is. She goes off to have her face mask to have a think about who should be business with her. I just wish, as always, you know, I don't know what it is that I might... I did quite like that scene, you know. Yeah. It was quite sweet. None of any of the women that don't do, it's like the only thing that women are allowed to do properly on the archers is farming. No, it's not true. They're matriarchs. No, it's not true, Lucy, because Jolene is running the pub and has done for quite some time. Yeah. Come on. Yeah. Right. Fallon is making an extremely good fist at running her business. Well, she's just a moustache until she gives everything away for nothing. That's not true. That's not true. So, considering there's little and no marketing, which is done, it's all business by referral. If you remember back to that scene where it was Kirsty and Emma, you know, they talked about, you know, new warders coming through, et cetera, no, no, no, come up. Fallon's running a small but successful business. Jolene is successfully running the pub and I tell you, one person who's completely sorted out their finances and their affairs since actually before Jack died, is actually Peggy. Considering where Peggy's actually come from, yes, you might have got her money from a first hubby from the first Jack, but absolutely she is being careful and prudent with her money. Jenny, though, you know, Jenny's the silent power behind the Audrey's throne, I could go on. And Lillian, even in front of the Audrey's throne. Well, okay, they have somewhat more of a, no, they, but they don't all, you started this off by saying all the women and I disagree and I disagree. And Lillian, it's not at all too bad herself, but admittedly, Jennifer, Jennifer plays much more of a traditional old-fashioned role. I will give you that. I will give you that. You're working out how she should be, David and Ruth, is a partnership. There is absolutely no to, I think it's Lillian, she, she should be working out how she should be winning for such a businesswoman of the year, not helping, you know, helping a bloke get, you sponsor it to make himself look good. No, come on, I don't understand at all what you're saying here. You don't like them reaching their potential? Well, again, then, again, I respectfully, absolutely, categorically, fundamentally disagree with you. Well, you think with all Lillian's business experience, no, no, you said all, but your point is, and you're getting, you're getting the right, being your bonnet, right? And I don't agree with the premise, no, no, this has got nothing to do with you being a little girly, I'm just saying to you that Jolene is a good businesswoman. She is, she's calm, she's sober, and actually, she knows that you're on that business. Ditto, in Fallon, Emma, Emma is emerging into being somebody quite competent as well, is having the odd little twist and turn and a little petty jealousies come out to the fore, right? I do not, and that's just off the top of my head, I do not agree that all the women in Ambridge are little women in inverted commas, which is your premise, and I'm sure if I sat down and thought about it, hey, it's all bloody woolly for God's sake. You know, she's like Donald Trump, JR, you win, but she is a successful businesswoman is my point. And surely, isn't that the point of good writing that not all the women have painted out to be saints? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm just disappointed. You know, I can take you to peace. You can't take your argument to peace. Yes, all right. Do you have? Well done. Well done, Royphill. My irritation is fundamentally with Lillian, because she's lazy and she'd rather piss around in the lingerie department at Underwood's than actually do any sodding work and just wait for a bloke to come along, and that's depressing. That's a little bit overly harsh, because when she was running crumbs, what do they call their enterprise? I don't remember now. Oh, I don't know. It was a terrible housing company. Yeah. With Anthea there, right? Yes, Lillian was having a lot of lunches. Yeah. She was. Downstairs. No, that was Matt. Yeah, that was completely Matt. But Lillian was actually present, and you know, she is a cognizant of the housing market in Borsett's church. You know, she said so. And she said that, you know, she needs to kind of get back to that, doesn't she? You know, why is it that when all the flashy panthers now come into town, he's telling her about which bits of the county, you know, a rightful development, except she said, well, she used to know all that. Yeah. She's not intellectually lazy, though, she's taken a bit of a kick in when Matt's done a runner. Yeah. Yeah. All right, then. You win. Yeah. One nil to Royfield. I think you're fine. That's probably about like five nil, really. Who's next? Miss Midsity. Hi. It's Miss Midsity here with my thoughts on this week's episodes of The Arches and a few things that I thought were odd. First thing being Dr. Locke's daughter being introduced, why? And I haven't worked out why Dr. Locke is around either. And then Alf Grindy, why is he coming into the story? Why? Alf Grindy's before my time and shows that I don't know anything about this rift that develops between him and Eddy on the subject of Eddy. The conversation he was having with his family after he'd been speaking with Linda about the, this hunch thing he's building for her. You're a fit Linda as Marianne to win it. It took me a while to work out why, and it's about the model farm she had up at Versailles. I was thinking of something to do with letting people eat cake or having a head cut off. Yeah, because those, those are the obvious Marianne to win it references. The model farm thing, I only learned of quite recently, I don't know if I say quite recently, what do I know about Fred Revolutionary history? Very little. So my ignorance made me assume that the other grondies were also ignorant. Clearly, they're far better educated than I am. They didn't bat an eye later, question why he was going on about it. The other thing that was odd was Pip, why would you be so rude to your younger brother in front of strangers? It's really disloyal. You wouldn't diss your little brother in a business deal like that, good for Josh, he studied his ground. Yeah, I just thought those things were odd. Like, is Dr. Locke's daughter being introduced? Because Elizabeth is going to marry Dr. Locke, piss off Shuler, and then they'll be a big story line thing about Elizabeth having to cope with Lily and a stepdaughter who will not like her and bloody, bloody, and probably, what's his name? What's her idiot? Fweddi, Fweddi will fall in love with Sashar, and then they'll be a, they can't be, because they're step siblings, bloody, bloody, bloody plants, that's what we want. Tell you what this reminded me of, completely reminded me of Greg's daughter when she turned up in Ambridge, because she turned up from France, didn't she, to see Helen, those all of that silly carry on for a time, and it just felt like Deja will be all over again. Yeah, yes, and I also agree that Eddie wouldn't get a Versailles reference, he'd just say that blooming woman. Blum a neck, he'd say. The palace of Versailles and everything, he'd three on on, all that stuff. Yes, no. Oh, next we have a new cholera. Ooh, I love a new cholera. Hi Lucy, Rofield, and all the Donkeys on this out there. I'm a first-time cholera nurse, my name's Tracy Chirvie, I don't go by any other name on the book of face or Twitter, I'm just plain old-born and Tracy Chirvie, I'm a local government officer, I act for specialising housing benefits and council tax support, so I've had enough to doubt that anybody in Umbridge will believe in any of my expertise. The first main storyline that I recall was the Bridge Farm Clary E. Coli story, so I don't know which area of period that makes me but I'm sure you'll be able to tell me, right? And well, I just thought it was necessary to call in, to congratulate you all on the 100th episode, and obviously the 99, I've been listening for approximately five months, but I've been really lucky enough to go back and listen to every one of your podcasts, so yes, absolutely fabulous work, all of them, and I just feel a part of a community, and I don't know anybody out there, but I just feel like there's much love within the arches world out there, it's fabulous. Right, getting onto the main bit, the storyline that won't be named, now also won't be listened to by me, I just can't cope with it anymore. Oh, God, I caught up with Tuesday's episode, I was so bloody angry, I was actually on a dog walk at the time, my poor, dumpy dog, no, see, I don't absolutely, terrible walk, the poor thing, I was chucking the ball that many times, she came back and she's absolutely exhausted, obviously thought I was chucking Rob, but yeah, that would have been good. So I've made a decision, I'm definitely not listening now, I'll read up to see if they appear on the day, and if they do, then I'll show them the listening, the bloody storyline just needs to end now, I've had enough. Keep up the sub work, guys, thanks ever so much for all the time that you take on dumpy dump, love it, and love you all, bye now. Tracy Shevin, who is not Tracy Shevin, she is Jane Horrocks, I listened to her call, she's Jane Horrocks who for some reason is pretending to be called Tracy Shevin. She's been listening since the Clary E. coli storyline, so what does that make her? Which major character has come in since then? I don't know, because I can't remember, was that new Clary or old, was that new old Clary or? No, that was old Clary, that was old Clary, that was old Clary, yes, old Clary not old old Clary, because old old Clary's new Clary, yeah, maybe that's, maybe we need to set up a Clary as a unit of time, so you can just over-comprecate this grading system even further. It'd be a Clary, a Clary Clary or a Clary Clary Clary, so you're a Clary Clary. Tracy, I mean, I bet you'll be glad to hear that. Her poor dog is being hauled around the park because she's cross at the robin hellister. What are people doing, ring and tell us what you're doing while you listen to it, because when I hear, when we go over to Blossom Hill Gaslight Cottage, I find myself going, "Oh, it's kind of, oh no, it's like bracing myself," I sort of have to hang on to, I usually lean on the worktop, sort of, yeah, it's braced myself, lean up, again, it's like an earthquake or something, and you get those in California, I'm just letting you know. Okay, thanks. I'm going there. I know. I braced myself, shut up, and I kind of lean slightly away from the radio to give myself a bit of distance between... Do you really, are you just saying this for dramatic effect? No, I do. And I can't listen to it on headphones because it comes into my head. Too personal. Yeah. Rob is in my head on top there. Too intimate. Does that make, does that, is that, I thought that would be quite normal, is that not then? But Lucy, we know that you're obsessed with the artist, is it anything but normal? They said, "Man, who devised an archer's podcast?" Yeah. So how do you listen then? Do you, I mean, do you, do you not affected by this story at all now? You're just kind of... I wasn't well out of it. No, no, just... Really? Yeah. I thought I was, but it's like... I was on Fridays every Sunday, I'm trying to remember where I was on Friday when I listened to it. Was I, I was on the train or something or another. I think I was coming back up to Birmingham from London. And I said to myself, "Who were there some killer acting gone on there with, um, Ultimaty Watson?" And he was boo-hoo in, in, in that room. And I thought, uh, just to concur what you said earlier, that very realistic, then the way that's going to be spun, that Helen is going to be full of, full of massive remorse. But also what I thought was very clever. And this is, you know, considering I'm out of this story, I'm out of the wider thing, because it's just too convoluted. Now it's too convoluted. But also what I did think was very realistic was that Helen goes to swing the first, uh, the first punch first. Um, so yet again, you know, Rob could turn around and say, "Well, actually, you know, the, you know, the fault was on, you know, at least the fault is equally apportioned." You know, she, she, she, you know, she had violence first, which I thought was very brave by the script writers, but it's just so well acted. But, you know, I, I, I hate to say, I, I just, I, I, I, it was terribly acted and then it would be nice and kind of, um, uh, you know, it, it would be easier to listen to. In and of itself, it's incredibly believable, but it's all the construct around it. And we have, uh, many people on the twitters, on the forum, et cetera, said, "Look, this is a village. This man is an arch villain." Okay. Yes, he hides his tracks, it was certainly great, but still, they, then pair would be gossiped about, ad nauseam, and I know I'm slightly jumping forward, but on Sunday's episode, we got, you know, evidence of people gossiping about them and saying, "Ooh, you don't quite feel right." But this would have been happening. This would have been happening months and months ago. Yeah. Yeah. But anyway, and actually one of the things which we've really, really missed in the arches in the last, I don't know, quite some time is actually Susan Carter actually being an arch bitchy gossip. She's really toned it down. You know, the whole point of her being in, in the village shop was to be a bitch, you know, to comment on everyone, to make you, to remind you that you lived in this almost come, it hemetically sealed, tiny village, which only had what, about a hundred residents. Yeah. You know, and really truthfully, you know, the fact that Helen collapsed and all sorts, you know, she'd be talking about that ad nauseam. Yeah. Yes. Yeah, I agree. I agree. And it, well, is this, like we said before, you know, why didn't Kirstie tell Tom that Robert Droner out? Why isn't Tom talking to Pat about his worries about his, his suspicions about Rob? Rob, Rob. You know, and also, as with a spoon said in his call, she has just been abandoned by the, not abandoned, but she, Helen has been, she's not in any form of regimented care programme at all. And it just wouldn't happen. They were, if they had suspicions like that about eating disorders and if, you know, she hasn't even had a therapy appointment, well, if she has, we haven't heard what happened or whatever. It is. Yeah. It is getting silly, but I do know that and I try and keep that in mind, but I do. I do find that having braising yourself, having, yeah, braising myself helps. But also, and I said it before and I do appreciate it's sounds nuts, but it helped me was to, I looked, I went on the Archers website and Q and I looked at pictures of Rob Timothy Watson, the actor, and I saw him in the Bose stratagem, prancing around in a frilly waistcoat and tights, and I thought he is an actor, he is an actor, he is an actor, this is not real, do not let it get to you too much. And it really helped. So that was nice. So if anyone's kind of in need, I could recommend that as a solution, because it, you know, the trouble is with switching it off and not listening to that, but is that you'd miss all the other stuff and the other stuff is quite good at the minute. It's a shame. Yes, right, I think we've done the calls. Oh, we need to do, we're going to do you a little financial reports, because as we're aware, Cosmo gets increasingly irritated by the total lack of financial unbelievableness. So we, he's sending us, he's doing little updates that we have to submit to the Inland revenue every so often, so before it goes off to wait to MRC, we thought we'd just tell you what, what his, his director's report is for Gay Grapels, this is from Cosmo, room occupancy has been very good as a number of rooms were occupied by many local residents displaced by the floods in spring 2015, the insurers were keen to show willing and this income made for such a good year that our owners have departed on a lengthy sodgeon in Italy and have now almost been forgotten. There was a rat or similar infestation, but reports of this did not reach TripAdvisor and was rapidly resolved. Barrow estates have been a remarkably good customer in recent times, staff costs have been kept low by recruiting an inexpensive and completely inexperienced manager for the health club and spa and she's even workshifts to save on using staff. 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I've just had a look at the Dumte-Dum shop, they've got no track suits, but they do do t-shirts which are very flattering, nice if you want to show off your figure a little bit. I couldn't carry one off of course but I can. Good day everyone, there's so much to talk about so I'm going to get straight into it. On the Dumte-Dum forum page at dumte-dum.com we had a number of really interesting topics if you'd like to get involved in any of these please dive in. One was started by Blind Spirit, Evil Usher as well, calm on, Miss Bubbles was asking about the most irritating character. Landless gentry started a conversation about the slap, Miss Mid City's got some message for Doug, where Sarah Smith cleaning cloths and Royfield thanked everyone for an awesome 100th and Jacqueline Berto has more information about the town twinning Easter weekend. I hope some people do go to that because it sounds fabulous and I'm really, really jealous. We had a message on our Dumte-Dum Facebook page from Peter Stirk, who said, "Hi, Lucy and Royfield, firstly can I say that I really enjoyed the 100th podcast and all the previous 99 come to that? Secondly, you mentioned other soap people watch, well I remember that well-known Brummy soap crossroads and those long-time listeners to TA will remember that William Smithus produced crossroads in the 80s and that Graham Seed and Alexson Dowling aka Nigel and Elizabeth of Pargeter appeared in it. Well, who knew, I certainly didn't. Thank you for that. We asked whether Pat would start seeing something wrong and that was before the slap and we started to get desperate by then. Alicia Wallace is for good mistake. I really listened to the last bit hoping Helen had said something clearly not about Pat but no luck. Again, though, I have to applaud the psychological and emotional authenticity of Helen's outbursts. She has to lash out at Pat because if she's angry at Ursula and Rob, she has to truly see her situation and that is just too much for her. Lots of other answers in the same sort of tenor as that, Sue Gedge, unfortunately Pat might not. Helen has formed the throwing a stop when things don't go her way or anyone else tries to wreath and with her, such as the time she moved in with Rob Yelling happy now at her parents. Or worse still, the time she had rang to Tony in the street when she was pregnant with Henry and later to my annoyance Tony was the one who was forced to apologize. Actually, Sue, you make a really good point, they do tip toe around her because of her behaviour, so they may well not pick up on the signs now. Quentin Bennett said, Sean Herkon has put some of the programme's thoughts online, sparking a fair debate on the BBC, the Arches page and that is true so if you would like to get involved in that, please scoot across to there too. I was a little puzzled in the episode where Toby and Josh were negotiating and Pat just seemed to be siding with Toby, which I thought was really odd and I could understand a bit of sibling rivalry, but why was she even bothered? Anyway, Pam Crookshank says Josh has capitalised on his expertise, Pat gave the Fair Brothers all her help for free what happened to the cattle Adam's storyline, perhaps she's just feeling foolish and also mean. Maureen Fryburger says, Gad Pip is annoying, but Josh the chicken tycoon passes her there, and it will make for interesting future storylines. Witherspoon says, script writers are forming Josh's personality and creating a dynamic conflict between him and Pip that's going to last a lifetime, actually you're probably right there sadly. And then we also asked, I just got really confused by the total in the whole scene, I thought that was very odd, even though it gets Holy Australia, I still like my total in the whole and I'd have to take the cook mind for a lot longer than 45 minutes to burn it. So I was very puzzled for us as to how this could have happened and Fiona Chavon Powell said it's as daft as the burning Henry in the bath scene, I'm so beyond the cannot be asked with this anymore stage that I can no longer find the words for the stage I'm at and I used to be a supporter of this story arc, a lot more in the same tenor and if you would like to see those messages, then please jump onto our Facebook page. Thank you Millie Bell, Lucy, now is your time to tell a switch, tweets have shined with your tweets of the last seven days, thank you very much please. Okay, we have the alternate archer, says Ursula, Ursula scratches out the eyes of all female magazine models with a sharpie, Rob, Helen's been at the radio times again, the starchers said David agrees, Kenton can repay the loan by not charging him for his beer and another pint from the slop tree for David. Now this one was a mishearing by Rosie Taylor and also me, I thought, I thought he said this too, when Eddy and Linda were in the shepherd's hut and she said she wanted a wood-burning stove in the shepherd's hut, didn't she? Which is an accident, absolutely waiting to happen, but anyway, Rosie Taylor and I both heard and she said, did Eddy say, wouldn't a fanny eater do, I thought it is fanny eater as well, I thought, a fanny what, fan heater, that's what it was, anyway, and tweet of the week is Laura HT, plot prediction, to make sure she does not get proper help, Helen's psychiatrist will be Ursula in a Wigan glasses, hey, very good, it's been a good, you know what Lucy, I love our caller in her as I really do, but it's nice that we can have a show with a few less of them, don't get me wrong everybody, but it makes for much longer on the edit process, this show is going to be out by three o'clock at this rate, it's smashing, means I have a cup of tea in a scone in the afternoon, let's go, oh let's not get into that, Lucy, I would like to advise our listeners to go to www.derm.com to visit our shop Antipar Take in the Forum where currently the debate is on about who is the most irritating character in Ambridge, but Lucy, yep, the most important bit of the show, oh, Lucy's news of reviews, sing it for me sister, no, I'm refusing, I'll go on, people love it when you sing it, news, news of reviews, from Australia we have, Robin even if you don't like the archers, this podcast is entertaining and just a lot of fun, from Blighty It's, Bingley Baggy, La la Lee who said she's flipping loves this podcast, Jewel Bright, Captain Kev, Baldy Fat Dad, aww, who apologised, sorry it has taken me so long to discover you, that's alright, Drift 51 and Sarah Serri, from the colony, oh, and then from the colony that got away, which is now to be named Trump Country, we have Lexi from DC and, Gadfly Ord who penned, I was longing for thoughtful discussion and analysis of the archers, especially a certain storyland screw darker, but sadly, I don't know, he did say that, and this podcast has provided a lot of fun, it is, if you would like to help keep our little show on the road, there are two ways this can be done, you can donate by hitting the donate button on the site or, you can go to patreon.com search for Dumpty Dum and you can donate $2 a show, which is about £1.30, remember, you can get in contact with us by sending us a voice message via speakpipe on our website, or you can call us on 0203013105 to leave us a telephonic message, on social media you can find us specifically on Twitter, we're @dumptydum or you can find me on @royfield, me @luciepfreaman, Sarah Smith @ Sarah_Smith or Harriet @shambrages, there's a lovely picture of you and Harriet, it's sweet isn't it, you look lovely and she looks lovely and it was the picture of last week's show, it was just, oh I just thought the paper just looked like a little pair of lovely people, and also we are on the book of base, where we are quite simply Dumpty Dum, so go on to the book of base up in Dumpty Dum and then you'll see the 1000+ people that are like a lurk in us and you can join them and see what they're chatting about. And this morning, my son was sitting with me and they talked, we were listening, before he went to school, and Pip was going on about Skyping Matthew, she said don't we might as well, I use a percary picture more, and William went Skype, and I said yes, and he said is this set in modern days then, and I said yeah, and he said I thought it was, oh he said oh I didn't realise, and I said when did you think it was, and he said in the olden days, in the 1980s, which was offensive on two levels really, the 1980s is the olden days, but I thought how interesting that he would think this was set 30 years ago, that it wouldn't be now, isn't that odd? Well the amount of costume dramas on the BBC, you know, it's not surprising that the boy thought it was set in like the Dickensian 1980s. What I mean he knew it wasn't down to now, and he knew it was sort of fairly contemporary, but he didn't think that it was now. I suppose, because it's a rural drama, it's by its very nature, it's a little bit slower, and in some ways quaint, and you do have a lady of the manner, you know, let's be honest about it. He doesn't listen closely enough to know that, he just likes listening to what he calls the pirates, which are the grandis. But everything that you can't, you're into, you know, all your map and new cheer and whatever, it's always set in a bike on here, isn't it? Yeah, yeah, maybe that's it, maybe he thinks it's- Yeah, you know, if it was his dad listening to the archers, and he wasn't really tuning in, he'd probably think it was set in New York, and the people had capes, and aliens were about to invade from space. Yes, well there are aliens, new characters, people cloned as other people. Yes. When is it Easter, 28, does it? Don't ask me, I never know this stuff. Two weeks. I never know this stuff, aren't we? Come on, but we can do it. Well, we've sold it on for so long. You know this storyline has been going on for two years, two years. Basically, since we started doing Dummy Dum, because he moved in, and in episode one of Dummy Dum, and he said, none of that fancy muck, I want like a pie and mash, which is the first hint of his kind of misogyny. He was telling Helen actually what to cook, and none of this brag, or not brag, or couscous. It was something like, she was going to have couscous, and he said, forget that. Two years, Lucy. Naimi. Shall we have a yoga person yesterday who was going to celebrate when it's over? What should we do? We ought to do something. You've got to be careful. We need to be fine over. Over. Because I bet leaving this show any time soon. That will do. Somebody kicks him in the nuts, that means it's over. Yeah. No. I just want the exposure, that's what I want. I want him to be exposed. Yes, I want him to be exposed as a git. But even that is going to rumble and run on for some time, isn't it? Because for whatever Helen says, he's going to counter it by saying, he's going to say he hit me, and then he's going to say she warms in mental distress. She actually swung for me first, factually correct, factually correct. But also, if he's hit her once, he'll hit her again. It won't, that won't be the only time. Well, you know, I don't know. I think she's going to run away with Henry. The thing I can't work out is how she's going to get Henry away from Rob and Ursula, because at the moment, they won't let Henry out of their sight. And if they keep feeding him, chocolate is going to be so fatty, won't be able to run anyway. And your bloody toad in the hole, actually toad in the hole with them, olive oil is horrible. Is it? Yeah. Because it catches, olive oil catches too, too sort of quick, it sort of burns and gets a funny taste. You do need something like dripping, but God knows how much she was using. Are you a decent cook, then? I never put you down as a decent cook. No offence, man. Take the curry book. There you go, because I don't see you as a decent cook, Lucy. Erm, I'm alright. Really? Yeah. Old-fashioned, yeah. I don't do modern stuff. I probably might have more of a sort of a... And yet again, you wonder why your little boy, you know, asked whether the arches was set in the... Mummy looks in the past. Yeah. You teach Mummy. And on that note... To remind you that 60% of sales on Amazon come from independent sellers, Farmer Bob of Princeton Popcorn, Howdy, will read 60% of this ad, Fireaway Bob, Small Business Owners like myself, are growing their businesses faster on Amazon, by getting help with things like shipping, Shop Small Business on Amazon, especially Princeton Popcorn, Amazon. Every day better. Forging ahead together drives Colorado's pioneering spirit at Chevron, we donate funding and volunteer thousands of hours in support of the community's We Call Home. 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