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

DTD Ep93 - We need more Ian

The headline gives it all this week - we all want to know how and why Ian is going to work his way out of his current impasse with his life partner and his best friend in the village. Lucy believes that Ian would normally talk through his problem with Adam using his normally calm approach to resolving difficulties. Ian obviously cannot think about matters clearly or see a way forward and bringing a reconciliation of all three parties over (hopefully) the near future will prove instructive for listeners.Andrew White from Portland, Maine was making his first call and he has a Jean Harvey fan club which Lucy is glad to know exists. He did not disclose his occupation. Vicky from Cambridge was also a first time caller and she likes Charlie Thomas and she thinks he will stay as well as asking why all the new men are wrong 'uns (Rob, Alex, Toby and/or Rex et al). She buys toilet rolls.I was not the only one who spotted the frisson between Hayley and Roy - thank you Vicky Cole. Lucy does not believe she could be so relaxed over her parenting as demonstrated by Hayley to Phoebe. Luckily Kate did not have the opportunity to get it wrong. Not enough lions roaring in Kenya.Kosmo reminder paragraph: Jennifer did NOT have an affair with John Tregorran - he wouldn't! She did however later have an assignation with her ex-husband Roger as we heard the bedsprings squeaking in a hotel room and she later admitted it to Brian. Does bedding an ex count as a real affair? Subsequently the other side of this is discussed with people being friends after a relationship ends. For Lucy's benefit Caroline took in a lot of men!"Well there was the meltdown over the botulism" demonstrated to Lucy why she loves doing the podcast.Kosmo reminder paragraph: Have the listeners forgotten the Archers two-hander when Kathy and Sid had an entire episode in the Bull to themselves as she had just found out about Jolene? Now that was original.Millie Belle has had a busy week on the Facebook page - go and check out all of updates.KosmoOn this week’s episode we have calls from Andrew White who says we’re a gateway drugVicky Cole who’s pleased Hayley’s backMichele who’s loving the feminist agendaWitherspoon who’s frustrated with PhoebeBlithe Spirit who’s annoyed with CharlieVicky from Cambridge who loves him.

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Duration:: 1h 19m
Broadcast on:: 19 Jan 2016
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I don't like being the governor of Alabama. No, George Wallace a bit of shit. It was terrible. Yeah Don't be funny. I'm being a burning shed, but apparently Or a burning cross maybe but the last part of our Martin Luther King day is you now I know Lucy we've broken with convention here. Normally we talk about the archers, don't we in this little section here about what's happened in the last week? But it's Martin Luther King day, and I'm in America, so I'm celebrating that. Okay, right. So now we were jettisoning the archers completely and we just weren't going to mention them at all in this podcast. Oh Do you reckon we could do that? Not really now. I mean we do we do Skate fairly close to the edge, but I'm not sure. I think we're gonna have to mention it at some point Okay, there's got to be some kind of overlap between the civil rights movement and Ambridge Kate Madicarnay she is is anything that's got the word rights on it is is associated with Kate Madicarnay. I like that. I like that though That's a different kind of emancipation movement because you went off to South Africa Though I kind of get you that emotionally ethically politically She's gonna line up squarely with that civil rights movement in the 60s, wouldn't she? Then again Jennifer back in the 60s was a proper radical. So she would have been right behind the freedom riders, wouldn't she? She would and that was in the good old days when Jennifer was about more than Kitchens and bringing up other people's children when she you know she was kind of Yeah, she would have been she would have been Politically active, wouldn't she? Hmm. I think it's a little bit harsh. So that's all that Jennifer's about she's all the opportunity she gets really Well There's the village website. So she's about the village and Argus she promotes Architecture since isn't she? Yeah, she's nothing. She doesn't help the downtrodden in any way does she? She kind of just celebrates. What's already there? Who isn't this nice? Let's keep it like that. Thank you That's true that's true now This week's Dundee done is from Little Horn yet again, and it's from Little Horn number one because it's awesome Number two because I have no time to change it and number three because we've got no new ones. So Lucy Can you remind our listeners how that when the accolade of dumb d-dumber of the week because we need some fresh ones for 2016. Thank you very much, please Yes, if you would like to sing us a dumb to dumb give us a plot prediction or Accidentally burn a shed down then ring us on 020 3 1 3 1 3 1 0 5 or leave us a message on speak pipe Thanks to lovely cham, which is for her amazing voices to cosmo for his podcast round-ups and to Sarah Smith for sponsoring us Thanks also to Derek who is slightly perturbed today as his horoscope said be on your guard as something unexpected could happen to Uranus That that that that Brit is all spacewalking in stuff, isn't it? I know Tim peak mmm You're full of kind of national pride No, I had to write about it for radio for so I finished up watching it and it's actually quite compelling it's it's Kind of um, it was quite hypnotic really and you tended to forget as you're watching him It was very restful watching him fiddling around with some, you know Twiddling screwing things onto other things and and plodding along around the space and then you suddenly have to get rid of yourself He's in space. This isn't just like watching someone change a light bulb. He's in Space and every now and again that would sort of come back to me Yes, no, it's very good Well, I must admit I haven't seen him in space though I've seen all the tweets and everything but if you want to see a spacewalk, which is which is not gonna be restful You want to watch that old Matt Damon in the Martian for that? That's awesome. Have you seen that? No, I've heard about it. I've heard a lot about it. No very good film With Sandra Bullock where she gravity gravity Go and breathe into a brown paper bag All that whirling around it's Mm-hmm Watch that that David Attenborough thing about the sea without feeling a bit queasy Yeah, I get really badly seasick and it doesn't really take a lot to yeah Scott embarrassing really well, it's a good job then that we basically comment on a rural soap Which is far away from the sea we were doing Howard's way. It would be a disaster. Gosh, wouldn't it just for many reasons? not least because I'd be being sick and Because we wouldn't really be reporting on any new show. So that stopped about 30 years ago Yes, but the memories linger More's the pity on this week's show we have calls from Andrew White who says we're a gateway drug Vicky Cole. I love me some Vicky Cole Vicky Cole who's pleased hail is back Michelle Who's loving the feminist agenda with the spoon who's frustrated with Phoebe blind spirit who's annoyed with Charlie? Vicky from Cambridge who loves him and Michelle from Rhode Island who says the show is a feminist utopia But first before all of that, let's hear about Lucy B Freeman's week in Ambridge We began the week with a very old little scene in which poor old age was hauled out like the village idiot in front of the vicar And had to say I'm a farmer and it's really hard even though there is Jesus or something Then Alan made a very moving speech about I can't tell you I'm what it means to me to see people like David and Ruth and Shula Making a go of things with only vast amounts of family money and land. I bet we're going to appreciate that Question one why do Robin Helen find it so difficult to believe that Ian might be a teensy bit upset with them and not Be gagging to be Godfather and continue his association with the world's most dysfunctional family I mean, I understand Rob's refusal to engage with anyone else's point of view, but Helen is not emotionally retarded Matthew and Tom had a chat in the pub. I think or possibly it was one man chatting animatedly to himself I'm not sure then thankfully jazz had turned up and started chasing the pigs around the village shouting Which was a lovely as we all adored jazza and being hit I knew who at least one person speaking was The pigs went on the run desperate to make it to Grange farm and the delights of the underfloor heating The keystone cops cornered the meeting a load of pellets belonging to they terrace case Which for some reason caused Tom to laugh hysterically. He spent this whole week laughing Maybe he's taking that nitrous oxide stuff. He couldn't get through anything without giggling Rob unchanged Helen from the cottage and re-chained her to the poolside at the health club She opted for a foot of leg and scalp massage. What a bizarre combination. I don't go for the elbow in step an earlobe Ben nearly forgot his packed lunch more news on that as we get it, but Tom thought it was funny Matthew chased Ruth around brookers wanting to show her a catalog of Welsh mules So that's a particular type of Welsh shoe. She's going for now. Well, it's better to specialize. I suppose Jennifer inspired by Shula throwing a party for doki-loki which consists of a load of people who were utterly unknown to him Decided to rush about officially organizing Charlie's leaving do Tom laughed the first people she invited with Robin Helen when even Helen realized that Rob might not be top of Charlie's list Jennifer said, but he's going so far away. How on earth does that work? Well, I think he murdered my mother But he is going to the Isle of Wight. So I've decided I like him Toby decided to give Rex a talking to about women. There are plenty more fish in the sea Rex. You just need the right bait Yes, a very small Slightly waterlogged worm in your case tubes Talking of worms phoebe has been dumped by Alex and quite right tool has he sounded like a fair brethren in the making if you ask me Anyway, the village was delighted that they'd got shot from another outsider and celebrated by pushing phoebe into a tree throwing toast at her and then setting all of a shed on fire It's like the bloody wicker man Question two if Mike was looking for a job at Barrow and that's closing down. What excuse are we going to have for Mike hanging around now then? Please say he's going to continue Please say he's going to continue to grace us with his one-eyed milky presence with hindsight. I should face that [laughs] Ian led Adam have a lie in he said Adam was sleeping like a baby waking up screaming every hour and then pulling himself Then Adam trolled off to Charlie's leaving party and Adam and Charlie had their usual bewildering conversation that started off with so how are you? And within two seconds had gone to Defcon six with their usual clenched teeth You know I know you know and then a massive snug while poor Ian sat in the kitchen at gay gribbles crying into the vichy swas Not even laughing boy would find that funny as hooty-jill fluted love makes fools of us all the end That was good this week Lucy What did you think about Charlie and Adam thing well I'm going to back up a step here because I've said many many many times before that Ian is the wise budder he is the you know whatever comes out of his mouth is always reasoned and just you know throws light on the situation not so much now Number one that was understandable that you ripped into Helen That was Kind of an Ian like incredibly understandable and I'm not saying it was against character But it wasn't you know the Ian of old you thought the Ian of old would have said to a Helen um, you know you You knew that this thing had gone on you didn't tell me why etc etc, but he reacted in a very human way then He hasn't confronted Adam Well, that's it that's where the frustration with Helen comes from isn't it? Mm. Yeah, no, he's so furious with Adam. Yeah, so he's just waving Listen, absolutely And he had he's had Numerous opportunities now and of course the invitation to Charlie's leaving do he could it says well look, you know I know something has gone on here etc, but I'm kind of loving Ian not being that the perfect being that we always said that he was you know that he's actually Uh showed himself up to be human. He doesn't know how to deal with this situation I just want to hear more of him I want to hear more of this frustration or to feel more of his anguish As opposed to it just being tapped on to the the main plot point, which is Adam and Charlie's Frustrated Romance, you know poor Ian always ends up being a sort of an adjunct to someone else's story line. That's me Absolutely. Absolutely. You know when when he was at Grey Gables, you know in the kitchen He always things were always happening then it was how it affected Ian Tanton gently wasn't it, you know, I'm kind of on the side stories are never really ever about him No, you know, and I think he should be up front and center with this one. Yeah, it does feel as if he's been I don't understand because we don't know him in any other Context other than him and Adam and him and Helen I don't know why I don't know him well enough if you see, you know, that sounds really stupid But I don't know him well enough to know why he isn't talking to Adam about it Because he doesn't strike me as somebody who would shy away from stuff. No, no, no exactly exactly He has always been the go-to person if you had a problem and he would sort it out in a very kind of calm way Which was because when I first started listening to to to the arches it was Jean Paul remember him in the crazy Frenchman in in the kitchen and And then he was Jean Paul was like Anatole in PG Woodhouse. He was in that kind of vein of always threatening to hand in his resignation Exactly. Oh, I cannot work under these conditions and living and everything is it was all very exciting Whereas he Ian came in and he was the bipolar opposite, you know reasonable calm There were all those problems in the kitchen because it always sorted out, you know with an extra tray of Bolivans or whatever There was never never really a problem, you know, so um But we've seen Ian become human and and I must admit I love it But I just want more Ian because yeah I always thought that he was too good a true a character to good a character actually to be true Being some someone who sometimes calls themselves a buddhist and whatever I always kind of aspire to be as calm and as rational as Ian But you know, we are human and he's gone through with a wedding He's now married to somebody who he knows is being unfaithful Um just before and has kept that from him and that must be absolutely terrible You know, and he can't confront Ian. So why why can't he why why why why? He can't confront Adam. I mean, yeah, exactly And I want that hence I want him to be up and centering this much more than he is You know when you said there's nothing that can't be fixed with a tray of Bolivans He sounded like Mrs. Overs nothing like a tray of my home made back of women Oh, you're sorry to hear mr. Clifford's been murdered with anyone like Yes, should we do the calls because everyone's saying the same thing. Mm. Are they? Yeah, well, no, I don't mean everyone saying the same thing But a lot of people are saying the same sort of thing about um Adam and Charlie. All right, there's no Ian Ian and so I'm going to let's do this in um Lucy Shouldn't go to the phone lines now. All right then smash in Hello ambridge 3962. This is a truly momentous occasion This is Andrew White from Portland, Maine, New England United States north america It was one of my new year's resolutions to call in to dumpty dump. We've been arches fans for probably the better part Of a year and a half now so complete newbies, but I have managed to convince the husband that The archers is a wonderful thing in our lives and he is now addicted to them. Although he did Become addicted to dumped you down first So you were the the gateway truck Well, we now have to take long drives on sunday so that we can listen to the omnibus Uh via the podcast Did want to let you know that we have started up the Portland, Maine branch of the jean harvey fan club and we are solidly uh on team in uh vis-a-vis his um uh tiff with Helen We will endeavor to have more pithy comments at a later point, but I wanted to to thank you so much for all you do Uh, we laugh and we cry and uh, we love being part of this community Happy january, andrew white from portland very nice to hear you first time call of inera um He says it had to do well. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa back up back the truck up now You know, I mean, you know, I know about the truck You know, I'm in the good old us of a at the moment. Yes, right now I had um a rather lovely saturday in tenoma county uh northern california with one robin winning and a husband jeff And her parents Or was it a grandparent must be a grandparents came from and I forget where um in east in europe But they were jewish emigres back in the early 20th century And they're only uh came into the united states in through portland, mane. Oh, that's what i'm just saying So thank you for a lovely day wine tasting Robin and jeff jeff makes a lovely pea and ham soup. It's stunning lucy Stunning, but anyway portland main that was my link to that go andrew white Yeah Um he has set up the auntie jean harvey fan club Uh not auntie jean harvey not our auntie jean. I mean jean harvey the diva the diva of amateur dramatics um And uh, they're taking long drives in order to listen to the i did have you done the sitting in the supermarket car park Waiting for the arches to finish before you go in um No, because I get a cardo deliveries, but I have pulled over what whilst driving Um, I think I you know when uh hailey the whole hailey down's baby Uh storyline I did have to pull over on chamberland road in kensel rise and just gather myself while i was listening to that That was one of the most moving bits of radio. Yeah, seriously my eyes moistened and I was like oh crumbs. This is good Do me vicky not hailey you know that that's exactly what I mean. It's not what I said, but it's what I meant I was thinking my god. I've missed an entire Yes, it's very nice to hear you andrew welcome to the team Um, I will not be joining your jean harvey fan club, but i'm very glad there is a jean harvey fan club um Yes, next is vicky cold in kenya. Hmm. Oh, and he's the first time caller in a row. So did you did you? Yeah, sorry. We don't know what he does Um, yes, we don't So so we if we didn't even get the chance to salute him to unsolute No But anyway came out from someone later who wants their salute back. Yes. Okay. That's possible Uh, it's getting very confusing this what with the order of the johns and the people calling back salute. So don't know where i am vicky cold in kenya Hello, this is vicky cold in kenya Uh, my first call of the year. So happy new year to lucy royfield and vu and everybody Um, I'm sure i'm not alone being absolutely on the edge of my seat leaning forward physically urging kirsty on now Um, I think we're gonna have a race against time between kirsty Putting two and two together talking to more people about it Um and getting more and more concerned and rob who will maybe realize what's going on try and limit helen's access to kirsty And try and turn helen against kirsty and I think we're in for some really chilling drama Um, it's it's going to be hard listening, but it's brilliantly written and it's brilliantly acted And you know huge congratulations to the archers The only other thing I picked up on this week. I wanted to mention was at the war cell when there was a um A little tiny moment a little freesaw maybe between roy and haly Um, how lovely to hear haly back When they were saying you can be apart from the person you love and it doesn't matter Um, it would just be so great if haly and roy got back together. It'd be great for abby and phoebe And uh, I love haly. I think she's a great character and it would be really nice to have her back Um, vicky, that was very nice call, but we need lions roaring in the background Of uh, steve back shall david atembra type the net natural drama Um Yes, it was so nice to hear roy and haly and they did it so beautifully talking to phoebe together I have to say if that was me talking to phoebe Hello. I'm with you with what you're about to say. I don't even know what you're about to say But you're going to come out of some bloody common sense. So here was there was no way I would have been as relaxed and as calm and as where you know Other men will come ever boys will come along phoebe It's a big decision to I'd have got her by the throat and said if you think for one second I'm letting you not go to arse but because of that tit you've got That's what makes me the dictatorial hideous No, no, no, it makes you a calm rational human being. You can be angry and still be calm You know and I'm sorry But honestly that what asked well, no, but I do not believe That if your offspring is about to go to one of the premier most prestigious August education establishments on planet earth And some fly by night boy says they don't want you to go that you would actually say I'm sure you'll come to the right decision. You will say This is the right decision. This there is only one decision to make and I will frog march Thank you. You wouldn't have you would not have said what they said Right you wouldn't and whilst we're at it Don't you think okay would have something to say about a daughter going off to she wasn't answering her phone Was she that's what and what for the whole duration of the so we've gone from a week of the envelope To the was sailing nonsense and then also what a mum has an answer to phone for a week Well, she's obviously got a part of something else had disappeared again. She or they've run out of money again So we're back to a five car starchers Ah till I get the tax rebate then everyone could come back again But yes, no, I did I think That I yeah, I didn't think that was I thought that I thought Haley was Unbelieved the kind of parent that you read about and think oh god when you're feeling a bit inadequate And then when you're feeling normal, you just think oh please as if Um, and I think Roy. I don't I think Roy would have reacted more strongly than he did as well Because I think it especially for a a father watching their daughter being you know Corted by some little oik. I think you would I think he'd come the heavy father much more than he did Um, but I just liked hearing Roy and Haley back again. No me too. Me too And there was that nice little bit where they said I think other people mentioned it the calls, you know Oh, when you love someone it doesn't matter how far away you are and I was thinking get back together Please it's not too late, but then where would custody live? That's another worry. But anyway for a second You know he says when you love some bond I thought he's gonna say he should set them free No, no the opposite. Why do you love someone become obsessed and never let them leave the house? That's good. That's real. You got that wrong. I had that song lyric just in my brain just for a second I thought oh my god. It was like completely opposite thing, but anyway Where are we? Oh, we're in Kenya. We're in Kenya. That's moving to road island smashing Which is not a island at all. It's road island, obviously All right, so that's a small estate in the union is it? Titchy knob. Hi lucy and Roy field. It's Michelle from red island loving the archers this year Um loved how it started with the three women talking. I loved how peggy ash jill if she's so happy because she has a new man And josephs know it's better than a man because women and ambridge get really excited about business So there's so much going on about co-dependent relationships. It's just Fantastic adam trying to get Ian to go to this party. It was just sort of like is adam just trying to get Ian to save him from Loving charlie, which he obviously does phoebe and alice story line I mean, there's so many examples of this kind of immature needy kind of love and then we have some great examples of love builds on mutual respect for one another so The ravenhound story line is easier to listen to when you look at the overall picture of What a feminist program This is right now with all the female business owners With so many relationships that are going well that they're just really highlighted They just sort of seem normal before this robin hillin thing um Started and now we see how Really extraordinary they are of course. This is me listening just for the past few years So I don't really know the history of all of brian and jennifer's situation But now at the beginning of this year brian was making jennifer tea and serving her anyway Thanks. Bye is Adam trying to force Ian to be his safety barrier. Yes, he is What adam was doing I think was the the equivalent of asking someone to be your security It's like saying can you please take my If I have more than three glasses of wine, can you please remove my keys and my Um, well, not your keys anymore because nobody drinks and drives because we're all sensible Um, but can you please remove my mobile phone? So I can't ring, you know my ex or whatever um Uh, so and and he was basically adam was trying to force Ian to do that And I think that's why Ian was saying no. I'm not going to you know you've you've you've got I don't believe that He want sorry someone tilly. What's the matter? Hello pizza Uh, he said hmm Sorry What piece are you having? Um, I don't know. It's um auntie margee who looks after them on a monday doesn't like cooking So we just they just have pizza on a monday. Oh Pizza and carrot sticks and hummus Nice, which kind of makes it slightly better, but probably not very much I'm lost now. What was I driveling on about? Some to do with someone taking your keys of your car and not drinking and driving and your phone drunk dialing Drunk texting something like that Passing you a fluorescent jacket and a hard hat and saying right you are now security for me for the rest of the evening because I can't trust myself And if you're sensible, you say well actually if you want to make an ask of yourself, that's up to you And i'm not going to protect you and that's kind of what Ian did. I think if he'd really wanted to go to Uh charlie's party. He would have done he could have done um but And you could hear it in his voice when he said why would I be worried about charlie? um And he wants he wants adam to you know stop writing Chex's dick can't cash basically and and either you know do do it That's it Yes, and it was nice with all the different examples of the different sort of relationships as phoebe and alix And then there's the more mature love Um of the that you know the older characters and all that um And that was thinking about brian and jenny, you know, they've been together for years. They get up very well now But thinking actually what he's put her through he completely humiliated her I mean he was shacking caroline for ages, wasn't he? And you know and just completely humiliated because everybody knew and uh jenny was a friend of carolines um He shagged chanade. He didn't seem particularly astonished when jenny said she'd look after his child It was just sort of Thanks so much jenny you're a good good sort sort of thing and then he was old after old annabelle shrivel face wasn't he for a while so it's sort of yeah uh Because brian has become sort of jolly old man brian It's quite easy to forget what an evil old shit it used to be really Yes You were seriously hello. No, no, i'm here. I'm here. I'm here. I'm here I'm here. I think it kind of just shows you with their relationship that um it isn't just uh the All of his infidelities though jenny fur we and we always forget this jenny fur went off and had an affair didn't she We always forget the yes she did and cosmo will remind me is exactly remind us next week is exactly who she had it with She had an affair in the 90s and i'd forgotten about this and i knew you said you Oh that historian chap. There you go. There you go. There you go. Good. I'm glad she did. Good for her. Next with a spoon. We'll see you now Greetings Lucy Royfield and all dumpty dummers around the world It's with her spoon and Angus haggis here getting ready not to host a going way due for one closeted farmer in a village in the heart of the middle ends of britain but to host a party for 75 gay doctors in Greenwich Village New York i think it will be a more festive occasion than jennifer suari So guess what? Today i'm not going to talk about dreary old robin hellen nor about david and root midweek i sent a message to Royfield and Andrew saying that i was infuriated at young phoebe when she was waffling on oxford and professing her undying love for Alex whatever his last name is Now here's a bit about myself. I grew up in brooklyn and queens in a working class family and neither of my parents attended university or college as we say in the vernacular here Now my dad was a very smart man but when he returned from the war he never got his educational act together and always regretted not continuing his studies I worked very very very hard during school and was blessed with good genes and was one of two in many a year from my high school to get into one of the big three of the ip league equivalent to oxbridge. Princeton much like oxford is a special place where i received an excellent education met the finest people from every walk of life and still it still continues to open doors for me some 35 plus years later i also maintain many great friendships and make new ones through our alumni network anyway i digress phoebe has the same opportunity and for her to have thrown it away for some boy who probably is still applying acne medicine on his face at night was just infuriating i laughed on thursday when ten minutes after she was still waxing poetically about their love they were dumping each other and she was hell bent on oxford again if it were my kid or grandkid i probably would have been a tad more assertive than jennifer royan haley were in expressing my opinion that phoebe would have been throwing away the golden ticket if she stayed with alix but i thought that royan haley were sweet and made a good team poor tens poor tens did you take note of haley's comment that true love can withstand a separation of distance nice to have haley back speaking of true love love was a lack thereof i really had to laugh at adam and charlie how cheesy was that final scene of the week what's their supposed love based on anyway you're a great farmer no you're a great farmer i love you no i love you kissy kissy kissy you know how i have felt about the writers breaking up the one gay relationship on the show but gee maybe Ian should dump his newlywed husband who can't seem to keep his eye and mouth from wandering but then again Ian's mother-in-law took her philandering husband back and now they're among the bedrock couples of the village so we'll see gotta go change my outfit now until the next party i mean next time it's witherspoon and angus haggis signing off witherspoon is going out with 75 gay doctors in Greenwich Village i don't mean he's going out really spending the evening with them he's not going out with all of them at once which sounds very exciting and i wish i was there um yes yes did they all go to Princeton as well i don't know no he didn't say um he said he was frustrated with phoebe um and then he couldn't he didn't know Alex's last name git is Alex's last name i was thinking something witherspoon said made me think that i reckon possibly Ian will confide in jennifer and say that he's thinking of leaving adam something will happen and and and Ian will talk to jennifer about it and jennifer will say kind of well it's if something's worth saving you have to put up with it in the way that she did with brian and Ian will say no get stuffed that is an ill-formed thought that you know no no i think that's a fairly valid plot prediction because we've kind of had that that lead up to it when he said to you're the best mother in law rapper yeah which was kind of their relationship had never been really mentioned before so and jennifer is such a wallie about her children she's kind of so you know you said that their relationships never really been mentioned before that's not really true because remember when adam came out as being gay it was jennifer that smoothed things over massively with brian and remember brian for a long time couldn't quite get his head around the fact that adam was gay remember yeah but that was for adam though not for Ian and i true but it was but then again jennie was the facilitator that you know that says no you've got to come around and have dinner etc so jennie and Ian have you know had um a relationship of sauce it's just that we've never really been explored it was very much in the context of um their son coming back from africa forget where adam was in africa it's somewhere in east africa probably kenny wasn't it anyway somewhere in east africa and he comes back and uh and then he comes out as being gay and brian just going oh crumbs you know and it was and it was jennie that said no we've got to invite adam and Ian ran for sunday dinner etc etc yeah but that was just because jennie can't bear any uh upset in the family around the children can she i doubt it had anything to do with with Ian it wouldn't have mattered whether she liked Ian or not it would have just been about anyway do hope you're not going to be cross with adam brian hmm i i don't know i don't know i don't know i think we just uh you know uh doubling down on the point that Ian as a character seems to be massively underserved he's underwritten definitely yeah absolutely absolutely absolutely should you blind spirit oh yes please hello dunty dun blind spirit calling well since it's the first call of 2016 i just wanted to wish everyone a very belated but very happy new year and i hope you all have had a wonderful holiday um many thanks and queued us to andrew horn for co-presenting the podcast last week proper job fantastic really enjoyed it very wonderful listening as for the week in ambridge well firstly phoebe and alix honestly isn't alix a complete knob i'm really really pleased that she shot of him because setting aside my own very particular views of oxbridge if she has the brains and the talent to go there then she definitely should so she's well shot as for the storyline that shall not be mentioned very interesting developments and you can tell in helen's voice no she's really starting to get naffed off with rob isn't she and her physical condition isn't great i personally think that the only reason that rob now he's displaying his temper not taking it any further is because helen is carrying his child otherwise the listening could be really really unpleasant but now that kirsty has cottoned onto this hopefully it will give the storyline the forward momentum that it desperately needs you know kirsty's a smart cookie she's not going to let this go and hopefully she is going to offer helen the escape route that she does she really desperately needs now at this point loved the waszel storyline really loved it it was old archers wasn't it cozy and nostalgic and everyone having a wonderful time that is until oh the editor couldn't resist could he sticking a drama on the end with a flippin fire honestly things like this just need to be you know just let them be everyone's having a nice time they're all drinking cider they're all running around trees and touching bits of toast to it and just enjoying themselves don't stick a drama on the end just leave it alone finally adam and charlie charlie go to pirth leave him alone the man has a civil partnership with a man who is desperately in love with him and their established couple he now has a ring on his finger let it go leave him alone i found myself shouting at the radio when they started snogging at the end it just drove me nuts it's like oh for goodness sake yes i well well blad spirit was shouting at charlie leave it um which i can see but i think adam has to at least take half the responsibility and of course i think i think adam is living in cloud cuckoo land but a lot of people do out of convenience because they liked us everybody has this we can still be friends bollocks and you can't if it is seer if it was serious enough for you to have to be together and then split up and you have to make a very horrible decision which which necessitates that then you've taken that mature decision now continue the being the grown up and appreciate that to keep seeing the person is just going to be either torture for you or for them and acknowledge that you are only doing that because you think there is a slight off chance of it happening again that's absolutely in my view anyway that's completely why people you know and it was defined you know we were just going along being really just friends you know and it was really really nice we were just friends and nothing abstract and then one night blah blah blah and you think oh as if you didn't know that that one night was never going to happen of course you know the whole thing has been set up around that the whole thing the whole let's just be friends thing is posited around the fact that I can't actually let you go I still just want to be able to it's like having an unemotional oyster card I just want to be able to just touch back in again whenever I want to really I just I just I still need a key and that's what Charlie was doing to that sorry that's what Adam was doing to Charlie and it's not on Adam you know Charlie said will you will you leave Ian for me Adam said no and then Adam should have completely avoided Charlie for until he left that's it you know what Lucy you're going to tell me a long time ago no no you've made such a powerful argument there for saying that if you've had anything to do with somebody you then need to break off all channels of communication because there's no such thing as just being friends and if I hadn't lived the life that I've lived I would you that I'll be totally swayed by what you just said but you can be you absolutely can be but that wouldn't make for great drama in this situation you know that we need the tension and the will they won't they but you know Brian and Caroline after their affair have been friends cool friends but they have been so there are numerous examples in ambridge alone of people having a leg over and then being able to put it behind them beside them yeah well maybe a leg over is one thing but when it's when you think that you might be in love with somebody and again maybe we need Cosmo here but I can't remember the exact dynamic of Caroline and it was a leg over it was just it was a bit of fun okay let me think on gone to the next call and I'm gonna think of a relationship where I was only I was only little when that happened and I remember hearing them sniggering about Jennifer and thinking that's so mean that's just really really mean and feeling disappointed because I really liked God knows why as a small girl I thought Carol I was I admired Caroline but I did and um and feeling really disappointed in there and thinking oh you've been taken in by a man oh I don't like you so much now you know it kind of all it was it was a bit of a bit a bit depressing really I remember just that that sort of um feet of clay thing and thinking ooh anyway yes Vicki from Cambridge the lurkers are coming out right they're all popping out of the woodwork led by Sarah Hartides she led the charge out of out of the woodwork and now they're all following hello don't you don't it's Vicki from Cambridge here I just tried to leave the messages the first time Cora Inera but apparently somebody who was listening said thought I was speaking about the speed of an express train and I was gambling a bit like my first driving test when I was so desperate to get it over with it I would end up calling on two wheels and in the end I could hardly take a breath and right so trying this one again hello don't you don't Vicki from Cambridge here first time Cora Inera I've been lurking for absolutely ages but this week something made me think I've got to call in I've got to call in because it's been such a long time that I've been listening before I actually plucked up the courage to uh to call in I thought it better be something deep and profound so here goes ready for the deep and profound comment oh that was it deep the admin Charlie thing I would oh he can't go can he I've actually got to really like Charlie I went from really disliking him and he was the bad guy and he was just an Elliot's henchman um to now we've got so the guy he's actually he's a really good character apart from the fact that the the whole Adam and Charlie intrigue has been a really good plot line I don't think he can go so my plot prediction is that Charlie stays um the other thing that I wanted to mention was Alex hideous Alex and well done CB but why is it that all the men who come along who have a new squeeze for an arches woman are all horrible they're all did dastardly if you look at look back at all of the ones that have come along recently you know all any about anything that was attached to Helen but all of them you know there's sort of something deep and sinister and not right and they've always turned out to be a wrong one that's all I wanted to say apart from thank you for a fabulous podcast I really enjoyed every week you keep me sane in the in in Cambridge's horrible traffic jams the other thing is do you remember when you were a kid and you really used to actually enjoy the adverts um in between the main program well it I'm a bit like that with the Sarah Smith adverts I think they're fabulous so keep them coming please I'm really really enjoying them and yes I agree John Lewis ought to branch out into funeral care finally finally just to say what I do for a living because otherwise I'll be in the naughty on the naughty step um I I used to be a facilities manager for years and I now am now in purchasing and working in a facilities department so that's a glory glorified way of saying I'll buy the toilet roll um but let's face it somebody has to and the whole place would be on its knees without I've just realized what I said there oh one more thing well then to Andrew for sitting in and babysitting the show last week you did a fabulous job and I hope that there's a nice comfy comfy cushion in the wardrobe if Roy says put you back yeah she says that she really doesn't want Charlie to go because she really likes him and a lot of people he's been on a journey Charlie Annie yes yeah top-eyed with people he um he has warmed a lot of people's hearts and I think it's because some people you know they kind of resist they they hide their vulnerability Charlie wears his pin to his forehead doesn't he really? He doesn't take very long because Roy Charlie is telling anyone that will listen I'm actually not very good at my job oh you know whatever he just kind of he's gone from being the world's cockiest man who who's entrance into the village consisted of blocking patting in the village shop by parking across the back of her car so she couldn't get out so now trotting around the village going I'm sorry I've missed everything up I'm you know I'm representing Charlie I'm sorry and I think that sort of vulnerability that he displays is uh quite endearing from the posture ones that I don't think it's anything to do with that because he's only he's only just start he's only just in the last week turn around and said actually I think I've been cheated my job he's only just said no ages because he was like oh no you're not Charlie you're okay no he had his big meltdown with the botulism didn't he when he was sleeping on the floor and whatever and that that's when it really I'll give you that I'll give you that but other things unrequited love that people we all of us at some point have been in love with somebody and not had our feelings returned back to us and that's the reason why people have kind of warmed him it's not because he's incompetent you know it's you know and and he's questionable as to whether he really is it's because he's in love with somebody and he hasn't made a total art of himself with the whole Ian thing now he's been dignified but you know he said well this is my last chance god damn it I'm gonna have a snog and whatever else happens great and I think that's fair enough in love and warm himself and I think it's that that he's been dignified with his chasing of Adam and he and then as a character he has uh been fleshed out from this Charlie Barbus spreadsheet I've got a clipboard I can find my way around an excel spreadsheet into somebody who admitted that he's never actually been in love he slightly swings both ways slightly I think he swung to be honest as he swung back yes he swung he swung about like a flag in the high wind yes you could well be right he is chest of the cat hello chest of the cat yeah he's just jumped on the bed he's looking around and saying what the hell is going on who are you talking into a computer on my bed right uh who's next well uh there's an email but before we go I just have to point out that you've just said I know yes I put Michelle in twice no what have I just said no you you've just used the best single best sentence I've ever heard on Dumty Dum and it just makes me realize how much I love doing this podcast shift to the cat he's on he's on the no that someone can get away with going well of course there was that meltdown over the botulism what kind of a show are we listening to where people are having melt sounds over botulism yes anyway I just thought I'd point that out um we have had a email from these bubbles she has a plot prediction oh good being a leap year yes oh god whenever there's any calendar-ish anomaly that always provokes some kind of hackneyed story landscape I think there will be a proposal on to a tangent of February it could be Pip proposing to Matthew but I'm hoping not the other alternative is Fallon proposing to carpet burns which I think is more likely and better on so many levels than at the wedding the story of their meeting that is carpet burns arresting Fallon will become an amusing anecdote told by the best man I think you are spot on I could absolutely see that happening that sounds all quite reasonable yes and you'll be very upset well you know god also now no no no I still burn so much of a candle for her but she's hardly in it anymore is she you know it's just tiny little bits of oh we're just decorating our little bit of the farm shop and yeah yeah yeah um Sue Howarth talked about the anniversary episode she's wondering I was wondering whether it was described in advance as groundbreaking because it was entirely based at Brookfield and the only people who spoke with David Ruth Gillen Pip mm-hmm I'm not sure if this has been done before on the show and maybe the script writers thought it was equivalent of one of the famous EastEnders two-hander episodes like one with Ethel and Dot do you remember that one I do it's lovely yeah and all talking about the war weren't they yeah it's lovely yeah so yes that could well be but I still don't and I think the I think the problem was the shake average to its cool thing I think that to such a to such an extent that we were not going to be happy until someone had died a horrible death and to get just for mains day fairly dull characters chatting on wasn't really what people were expecting with the words groundbreaking so if they'd said you know um I don't know agricultural practices might change I just described it as alternative or unusual or something but I think groundbreaking may just think well hey so one dies no one dies um Mark Wilson would like his salute back please he said I am sorry for inadvertently breaking the first time caller in or a rules but if you were an IT consultant from just outside Milton Keynes you probably keep quiet about it too I think for that he deserves a salute um I don't know I've got a bit you know I really admire the fact that you know he's trying to stand up for himself here but if there's two places on Planet Earth I've got an issue with it's Swindon and actually Milton Keynes and this is serious it's a serious point here now right because um I think I mentioned that I'm did I say that I was doing this podcast with a new statesman yes right so and it's all about cities so ergo is about town planning yeah now if ever you want an example of town planning gone wrong it's Milton Keynes I'm not saying right that the people of Milton Keynes aren't industrious and uh you know and incredibly smart right but in terms of an urban place which is of a human scale which has landmarks which are easily identifiable in terms of a city and you would actually want to go and visit again being a tourist Milton Keynes kind of bottom of the list that's number one right then number two as a football fan you should never say you have a second favorite football team but I do because I've moved around the UK way too much not to have allegiances for the football teams one of the football teams that I do follow after being a Birmingham city fan is Wimbledon FC so if you are a Wimbledon FC fan the fact that the team went off and was sold as a franchise to Milton Keynes some 15 years ago I cannot and I do not I have two massive black marks against that place so Kevin oh Mark Mark sorry Mark I don't know Mark I'm so desoluting you so so stridently that your eyes will just water oh I'm sorry but Lucy I can't I just can't I salute him instead you can do whatever you want ergo I'm doing a Benny Hill salute with my tongue out and both eyes no no jokes aside yes you you've been saluted and welcome on board you first i'm called Arunara who was righted your inadvertent role well done and and he also said that about the calendar girls thing he said archers actors acting parts in a play not playing the parts we used to hearing them in and that's why it was hard to get into what talking about calendar girls right I've had a little email as you would say a email from goddess diva and I know that miss a Bertot on the old forum on wdom.com basically said come on let's get this calendar done and it's all for a great course now this is the update on the calendar we have enough photos for the calendar I have been a little bit busy rushing hither and dither and I have to because the way that the pictures were actually captured some some of them are in higher quality than than than others but I figured out a way so that if we print them all up they will look kind of consistent it's going to take me some time to get this done so I will get it done the calendar will come out and everyone will look spiffing and smashing and it looks great so just bear with me the calendar is going to happen everybody that's sent in pictures you will get your month in the sun so to speak and a special thank you to goddess diva who rallied the troops somewhat and I think through her efforts there were at least five months of being covered by people that she's gently cajoled into dropping their kegs and getting on on this calendar so it will happen but it could well be february by the time this thing happens because I'm gonna well no one does anything in january anyway exactly exactly the dates in january just look out the window and the whole thing looks like a wet flannel so why would you want to go out there talking of cannon doesn't date some things it's annie brown's birthday happy birthday annie hope you have a lovely day happy birthday annie happy birthday annie that was very dynamic no no happy birthday millie button yes no she was tilly button tilly button i said millie what's up with me today i don't know everything else about 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you want to show off your figure a little bit Nick can carry one off of course but I can good day everyone I've had one of the busiest and most fun weeks ever on our Facebook page it's been really lots of dynamic conversations and lots of interaction between people which I really enjoyed a couple of days ago got a lovely message from Tracy Shevin I hope I've said your name correctly who sent some photographs of her in her Dumte Dum fashion wear thoroughly impressed me because I said oh can I put that on the page please and she said yes no worries I'm currently in Bulgaria skiing seems incredibly exotic from where I am especially as it's stupid hot again but anyway she looks fantastic go and have a look at her on our Facebook page and perhaps you will choose to look as good as her in some of our fashion wear but the main discussion this week has been when I asked you well what were your expertise and the letters the post started coming so far so that I actually put together a document which I think could be useful to Royfield and Lucy because I realized we have so many experts out there and we do have things that happen from time to time with on the arches where we go oh this doesn't feel quite right but I'm not an expert in that and the people the occult and safety people turning up to do the food safety health was a really good example where I thought really but actually I don't know so I just thought I'd read out some of our wonderful cholera inerism what they what they what their expertise areas are and you're a very eclectic group the what's just before I read some of those out though the one thing that we really stood out was the number of people who said I haven't actually called in yet but I intend to I implore you please do as Royfield and Lucy say every week without you we actually don't have a show and we want to show so without further ado here are some of your responses there was a lovely one from Kate Swift who said not sure knitting is an expertise unless learning is passing off other people's matinee jackets as her own creations again but I spent 16 years working as a pharmacy technician if that's any use Robin Winnings says contracts contracts contracts in waiting a year now for its non-disclosure agreement with Barrow Farm to come up as an issue but nothing yet also by my daughter I could provide expertise on horses and regime change oh the other lovely thing was lots of people gave us their twitter handle so I have put all these into a document in case we need to use them in the future Denise Tomlinson said dusty substances here I hope I got the chirpy sound that you always have weight loss consultant in case amperage fat club comes back to haunt us I've forgotten that Denise that was a brilliant story thread wasn't it and Jennifer Preston said don't do the twitters is being on here any good absolutely Jennifer being on here is very very good Fiona she born power says I'm not a caller in her car although I might get around to it eventually please do I'm a radio producer on air host with my own daily arts and classical music show on an NPR affiliate in northeastern Pennsylvania Paula brass says I'm a leader in a brownie unit so if any girl guiding questions pop up I'm your woman she also said she was far too nervous to call in and that she said she wasn't sure anyone would understand her northeast accent I don't I honestly don't think anyone cares or no in fact it's part of what makes it such a wonderful mix on our program that we have so many accents please call in Pam crook shank says that she organizes a snowdrop festival and she also sells trunks to youngsters going off to boarding school university and she works in the library look when I was reading these now I'm rereading them what an interesting bunch we are due to Florence is a trustee of the Cornish culture association charity which runs traditional festivals you can see how all these expertise could be really useful for our podcast Alice Thomas is a teacher and specializes in teaching adults with learning disabilities and mental health difficulties and she's still hopeful that Bethany might make a reappearance and she says it would be great if there was an actor who had a regular actor who would learn difficulties and I have to say I do find that slightly odd because we all know people in our lives who have learned difficulties they're part of our lives and they're a normal part of our lives it seems very odd that there isn't someone in the arches thank you Millie Bell I conflated Annie with Millie when I said millie button that's what I did right now hashtag the arches tweets of the last seven days oh by the way not that I'm taking everybody back to my weekend in Sonoma County but I kind of am last Robin said I was tweeting the week last week it made my week she went off and told all all in sundry about it so it's a real accolade it's a real accolade this is Lucy well done no no seriously jokes aside you know people like you know people aren't there are people around the globe that you know a by that I was gonna say by their radios by the week class week not me Robin winning was oh I told you what seem where do you sat round her kitchen table having peeing peeing and soup and she said I was tweeting the week and it really made her week oh good so yeah there's people all around the globe who've tweeted about the arches and they listen to dummy jump they're like oh god it might be me it might be me it's like the lottery it's like the nine seven million squillion quid yeah but your chances of being tweaked the week are somewhat higher than actually the rewards are somewhat less swings are round about um right so we do tweet at the week then oh yes Helen Ruth child said the heart wants what the heart wants and a man who really appreciates your plaring proficiency yes uh mary h trussle said this was I love that piece about when jim and um jim and jazza were talking and she said shula is not a fan of pork pies in the sitting room is it because they're pagan I wonder hashtag no pagan pork pies um rainbow warrior said brian is that his happiest curled up in front of the fire with a nice bottle of red and somebody else's wife uh cat brown lovely cat brown said for for for the charlie tell someone about rob messing up the dairy you came in like a wrecking ball and you're leaving like a paper bag very true yes and um this is tweet of the week I don't know if this is this is this is a bit of an odd one because it's a conversation between two people so technically they're both tweets tweet of the week but anyway yes this is a conversation between uh sera scalding and mrs trellis and sera scalding said I have little love for matthew but given matthew rex and tobes and a pistol with two shells then my choice is clear and mrs trellis answered you would shoot toby twice just to be sure yes very good yes um all right well done body was an all female shortlist again can i just say presuming rainbow warrior is uh a woman I think it is not a green piece ship that was sunk by the french uh secret service worry not warrior warrior oh uh warrior okay good I love it when you clear these things up I know um just before we uh close up shop for another week there is going to be a dump you don't meet up next sunday at pie the bar pie which is at 1432 Valencia Street in san francisco uh get your arse down there for 3 30 p.m and uh there should be a nice little gag of us and guess who's coming dog salty old c dog point will be there along with robin the two genifers we've got somebody coming from oakland oh it's just i can't wait it's going to be most awesome and so there's going to be lots of pictures of that which we'll put on our book of facepay but also on our website so um just repeat that if you are in the bay area and if you love the archers and if you can then put up with dumbly dumb because if you're in love of the archers get yourself down to pie on Valencia which is in the mission district next sunday at 3 30 so that's that and just whilst i'm here because i've been doing my little trotting i have to say i have to say mary not contrary thank you uh for a lovely evening out in uh southern ontario in burlington um she she's she's most lovely and we talked about lots of nerdy things uh as well as the archers and we had a lovely pizza together so mary not contrary and it's a real shame that a hobby didn't come because he's a real kind of american history political geek and we're going to talk to about ten american presidents but ashok he sent he did a lovely uh tweet and a lovely review and um they're a lovely couple and that was really nice good there you go right shall we do shop news yes right sharp news war right sharp news get your stuff no we can't read out all these things that people have bought but okay let's just do the names then and then we'll just alternate the names go chasey chevin stuffer missy's janice winch from kumbria jonathan kenpin sirry mr acrom from Worcestershire paula democratic party pajamas how long have you been selling democratic party pajamas i thought you were i thought we weren't doing this sorry i just not just kind of sprang out of me um paula brass in cleveland k-gill from tine and wear doug font who sent a lovely pic on our book face bed i still know that has him on the high scene he was definitely on the high seas with his flask of coffee with his dumbly dumb sticker that was most excellent i've never seen man less who looks like he drinks coffee that was rum or yeah there was some molasses based drinking there was something that you say yo ho ho before you drink it yo ho in a nice cup of coffee that's not them definitely do i have to say refuse news news if we refuse from the united kingdom we have mimsey who says dumbed dumb is a high spot of every week limey mimsey you do not work on your weeks over in neutral switzerland wasted my dasha pines that we are wonderful stuff and the untonty still cordial in france we're clear aka quilteran 24 on the twitter says we are brilliant yay but we did have a somewhat we had we had it was very funny this was um if we had any hams other half came in and said oh are you listening to that show dumb and dumb and then said where's why i filmed this week so having pretended having other half pretended that they didn't that they didn't listen and they didn't they didn't like us and they went to breath but they noticed that you weren't there ah i i i got all offended for a second i i thought i thought that i was dumber i'd prefer to be dumb i'll be dumber i don't mind okay great um where are we now so remember folks we have a website our website is wgm.com and you can go there and add articles to it and you can comment on the shows but what i definitely need you to do is to go on to the forum the forum considering it's such a place of such reason debate um it's it's a little bit of tumbleweed in the last week i don't know if it's because everybody's kind 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it's not one does something it's going to be momentous no just get into that figure in and of itself is momentous oh i see yes it is considering we thought we'd do about three before we disappeared into a pile of dust who thought you and i will still be talking to each other i know after 90 odd episodes just help that you're on the other side of the world that probably makes things easier somewhere i don't know what you're saying i'm difficult to work with i feel the diva no you're not at all difficult to work with i think you're more diva like than me oh i am yeah i'm active diva yeah but it has to be said see diva i have to be said though that you are a consummate professional and you are ridiculously ridiculously consistent in you know your your monologues are great every week and your turn you turn up and you're present and i'm somewhat variable so for that freeman i it sounds like the long long-range forecast royfield brown variable well i am you know i was south of seer and north of seer that's me you know you don't know what you're going to get you know chromity oh bloody hell chromity yeah no no no loose fair play fair play to you you know you you're bang these things out every week and you're on point well done missus thank you very much don't go away quite all that came from but anyway yes what were we so do we really i should have saved that for the hundredth show shouldn't i shot me bolt too soon too soon yeah exactly on god thank god for the editing process i'll let it that bit out then save it then put it back in again yeah all right then good bye dear listener goodbye bye the agora podcast network agora is a marketplace of the mind with intelligent independent podcasts made curious and discerning listeners our network of shows includes american biography so we'll hit the compound guest how do you make a conquer the world the history of the papacy the history of england the history of alchemy podcast mid-a-landy when diplomacy fails thousand one 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