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

DTD - Episode 92 - The best week ever in Ambridge and Andrew Horn returns

Andrew Horn returns as Roifield has headed off to Canada.Andrew Horn caused a heart attack as he repeated comments I had made in another forum about the anaerobic digester and the rest of Berrow Farm - I covered all of this in umra and I agree it was important. Andrew also raised the paternity test - I went back to the recording to prove that Dr Locke had indeed taken the DNA sample. What the programme needs is an archivist who knows what is going on and checks the continuity. There was no "DNA Tester" as credited it WAS Dr Locke.Allan Carr, sorry R Brown, did a first time call in. He liked last week's Archers with three heartwarming couples interacting. The Brian / Jenny conversation was particularly liked. Andrew found David annoying this week for being sulky. For Andrew and / or Lucy's benefit historically Jennifer was a trained teacher well before she became pregnant with Adam - she went to West Midlands Training College in Walsall. It is now part of Birmingham University.Lucy reveals that during the transmission of the programme she constantly tells Rob to "shut up" and also sings the dumteedum when she thinks the final line has been spoken. She did not reveal how often she is right.Marjorie Antrobus was much later than either Doughy or Lester - after Laura Archer had died. She was Ruth's landlady of course, arriving at Nightingale Farm as late as 1985 - 34 years after it all started. The brief was for something much earlier. So how about Lauras?Strong feeling that the week was back on form. Paul Brodrick, who wrote the week, has been on the team for some time and his feeling for the characters shone through.Millie Belle wants answers to questions on Facebook to get to know the new community members a little better. And Harriet Carmichael has contributed some wonderful new adverts to the podcast.KosmoOn this week’s episode we have calls from Roifield Brown whoever he isKosmo who thinks we should all be Doughie Aunty Jean who’s bridling at Shula Witherspoon who wonders if Ian was being overly harsh Kat Brown who’s stunned Sarah Hides who thinks she was missed last time Scott Matthewman who loved this week Mary Not Contrary who knows what Jenny’s new project will be Jacqueline who gives us her week in strange noises And Jan from Can who wishes us all a happy new year

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Duration:: 1h 7m
Broadcast on:: 13 Jan 2016
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That's why you rack. This podcast is a Royfield Brown production. Find others on iTunes. All right, yeah, I know. Hi, I'm Sarah Smith. If you're the type of person that goes to Liberty as other people would go on safari and the fact that John Lewis doesn't have a funeral service makes you fret, Sarah Smith Cleaning Cloths are for you. Sarah Smith, available from Sainsbury's for the poshia washer. Proud sponsors of Dumpty Dum. Dumpty Dumpty Dumpty Dum. Dumpty Dumpty Dum. Dumpty Dumpty Dumpty Dum. Dumpty Dumpty Dum. Dumpty Dumpty Dumpty Dum. Dumpty Dumpty Dum. Dumpty Dumpty Dumpty Dumpty Dum. This is Dumpty Dum, the show about the reality docudrama that is centered on Ambridge in the heart of the Midlands. I am the Oxford College that is Andrew Horn and with me I have the crumbling red brick that is Lucy Freeman and the last part of our archers uni offer is you. Today's Dumpty Dum will be a surprise from our editor-in-chief but I feel no idea what that is going to be. Could be Royfield himself, couldn't it? He's never done one. He's never done one. Yeah. We'll enjoy that. Lucy, can you remind our listeners how they can win the accolade of Dumpty Dummer of the week? Yes, if you would like to sing us a Dumpty Dum, give us a plot prediction or have a reunion of a show that only ended a week ago, then ring us on 0-2-0-3-1-3-1-0-5 or leave us a message on Speakpipe. Thanks to lovely Shambridges for her amazing voices to Cosmo for his podcast roundups. And too Sarah Smith for sponsoring us. Thanks also to Derek, who's very upset about the sad news today as he was a big fan as Derek said. Another musical giant gone, R.I.P. Ed Stupont Stewart. Yes, two, well, one rung real great and one significant influence on many childhoods. If only Bowie had had the same influence on childhoods that Ed Stupont Stewart had. Yes, I think with a spoon and any of our listeners overseas may need to find a local to explain who Ed Stupont Stewart was because we haven't got time here. How could anyone not know the man's a national hero? But is he an international hero? Of course he is, he's very big in the Himalayas. Before we talk about this week's episode, if you hear any banging in the background, it's not some, no, it's not Roy Field. I haven't put him in Derek's wardrobe where he's left me for the last few months. He's struggling to get out. It's the builders next door who are installing wardrobes. Oh, I heard them. There they are. I know they did promise they would stop during this time when we were recording, but builders timing has never been good and there's- I love the idea that it's Roy Field struggling to get out of a truck. Anyway, on this episode, we have calls from Roy Field Brown, whoever he is. Cosmo, who thinks she would all be Doey, Auntie Jean, who's bridling at Shuler, with a spoon who wonders if Ian was being overly harsh, Kat Brown, who's stunned, Sarah Hides, who thinks she was missed last time, Scott Mathewman, who loved this week, Mary Knott Contreary, who knows what Jenny's new project will be, Jacqueline, who gives us her week in strange noises. That's a good one, that is. And Jan from Cannes, who wishes us all a happy new year. But first, before we get into that and unpack the week, let's hear your view, Lucy, of the week in Ambridge. Just in consulted Brian on the Barrow farm plans, I do wish Justin would clear his throat properly. Suck a lozenge, man, this is lovely coffee, Brian, you're so clever and Jenny hears some roses for you, you're so clever and beautiful I love you, Brian and Jennifer, I think he's after a threesome. Brian helpfully told Jenny Darling all about the plans for Barrow farm, then reminded her about them again when he told her she had to forget them. "Who are you?" said Jenny Darling, then she had a whiff of cooking sherry and posted it all on the Ambridge website. Anyway, Justin squeaked and croaked away at Charlie, like an ancient harmonica, saying that he was going to give the contract for growing lots and lots of lovely herbal lays to Adam. Charlie said, "Yes, right, well, that's fine, isn't it, splendid. I shall be in the arse end of nowhere anyway, so who cares?" And route B has gone for a Burton. "Kel sur please," as Linda would say, "so that six months will never get back." Looking of Linda, she wants a reunion of the calendar girls cast. "A?" It was 11 days ago, and she moaned all the way through it. I moaned all the way through Christmas, so I might have a reunion with the Christmas tree decorations and some crackers. All Tom's pigs have run away, keen to move into Grange Farm and enjoy the underfloor heating and the jacuzzi. But poor Clary, who is actually living in Grange Farm, is frightened of it. She doesn't understand the taps, she can't work the oven, and she can't get used to the American-style fridge and not having to remove Joe's undercrackers from the salad drawer. So Eddy built Clary a pig ark in the yard, and she's very happy in it. It don't do for me to have nice things. Ruth has transformed into the cheeriest person on the planet. Forget Prozac and antidepressants, what we all need apparently is a herd of cows we can shove about, and we'll all feel a lot happier. Little Miss Sunshine, she is now. David has done exactly what we said he was going to do last week, and has started saying, "I don't want to talk about it, leave me alone." Who would be developing a Geordie accent and talking about me more than next? Eddy is back to his old shifty ways, sidling slightly round the village, only gone other days when he'd actually be conning people out of money, and I was just spending all his time organising surprises for people. He's become the village fairy godmother, bestowing well-stresses and piglets left right and centre. Shula galloped into the shop and announced that after her traumatic days hunting she needed something rich, thick and sweet. Sadly, Oliver Sterling is in Italy, so she had to settle for a bounty. Pip went AWOL, but Jill said she was in Rickyard with Matthew, discussing spring carving. Never heard it called that before. The fair brethren did a fairly appalling presentation to Brookfield, which went down a cup of cold sick, as they didn't seem to have a clear grasp of the facts and Toby kept referring to Ruth as sugar tits. It's looking like the most successful thing V-Vat Rex could do for his business would be to actually push Toby in the bloody am. Anyway, they then ran into Piggy and Artie cardboard, doing a chuckle-brothers to me to you routine with the Christmas tree. Ruth and David meanwhile were doing a Kate Bush-modern dance routine running up that hill with Ruth flinging herself around in a grey leotard and too much red lipstick. Phoebs got into Oxford. She will be attending Bellamy College, studying the role of the yearton capitalist society. This shook ambridge to its core. Piggy and Jenny Darling made it all about them. Jenny Darling had a crisis about being thicky thicky thick thick, but she isn't. Anyone who can remember the names of all those children, most of whom aren't hers, can produce venison pie out of thin air whenever anyone smacks their lips a bit thoughtfully and can out snob Linda is clearly not daft, hugely irritating but not daft. I smell an OU course coming along, a BA in feminist literature hopefully, so she can tell Brian where to stick his hot water tap. The end! Brilliant as always. You're supposed to go, "I was alright that week, I thought you were used to that, I don't know where I am when people are genuinely nice." But it has been a cracking week, I think it's been, I've loved it and I know lots of the cool ones. But you aren't quite a soppy old sod aren't you, you like all the jolly, see I'm a bit nasty are you like all the jolliness and the happiness and everybody being delightful and happy endings? Yes, but I also think it was well, it was good pace. We had, it was a filler episode, Wednesday focused on the whole Phoebe Jennifer thing which I liked. It was quite reminiscent of the archers about two years ago, wasn't it, it was a real old school week. Yeah, absolutely, absolutely and then Friday with the three couples, which lots to check out. I have a couple of things, can I talk about a couple of things? You may. I have a caller in her as don't, yes. So one thing that's been annoying me about Barrow Farm closing it and Cosmo didn't pick up on this site, I thought he might, it's far more- My god, you'll cause a riot if you tell Cosmo he's missed something, he's having a coronary as we speak now, he's clutching his chest. Oh dear, well I don't want that, I don't want to upset Cosmo but Barrow Farm is more than a cow factory. If you stop the cows and their output, and I'm not talking about the white output, I'm talking about the brown output, what are they going to stick into the anaerobic digester? That makes all that electric. I'd forgotten all of the anaerobic digester. It's not just the anaerobic digester, there's also all the solar arrays, unless that was just planning permission and not executed, but I thought they were going to put loads of solar arrays in to capitalise on the same entry point into the grid of the anaerobic digester. But the solar panels wouldn't be affected by the cows going, would they? Unless the cows are blocking out the sun in some way, they're that big boat. No, no, no, but you've got, as I say, it's Barrow Farm is- You mean there's more to dismantle than just, right, we just shut it down. It's about is electricity production, as well as milk production, it's the point I'm sort of trying to grapple towards, unless that's been affected by the tail-off in oil prices, but anyway, so the fact they're not even mentioning that, I think it was annoying me. And the thing about Rob and Doc Locke, now I noticed on the cast list for the appearances over the year, I think was it given a name, he was anonymous, I think, but I believe the voice was Doc Locke. I can help you out a bit on this because I had dinner with lovely Kerry last night. Oh, yes. And lovely Kerry, who was very lovely, thank you for my dinner. He was the one who was pouring Muscat Daniel Stroke, was he? Fools in you, sir. Yes, he was a struggle, I struggled, but he prevailed, yes. Yes, lovely Kerry said, Uncle God Kerry said that, that was actually a continuity cock-up, something that Kerry had forgotten that Rob and Docy Locky had actually already met before because it was Docy Locky that did the scrape for the Swab cheek-swab for the paternity thing. So, when they got into studio, the two actors said, "Hang on, we have met before." And they said, "Oh hell," so they had to put in a line about, "Oh yes, I do remember you, no you don't, because Rob's trying to pretend, no I don't remember anything about that." So, you know, it's Rob's kind of, "I don't want to know about it, therefore it never happened," sort of thing. I was wondering whether he'd actually paid, I've discounted it, but first I wonder whether he'd tried to pay Docy Lock off and that it was a false paternity test. Yeah. No, apparently. But then I don't think Docy Lock could be so easy. No. But if that was possible, three-quarters of the people on Jeremy Carl would be doing that, wouldn't they? Really? Well, they might not have the brains, though. Well, with all the teeth, let's face it. With apologies to all our dear listeners who have appeared in Jeremy Carl. I don't think our demographic matches, to be honest, but anyway, yeah, he said they're fantastically difficult to fake and all the second that bit went out, the internet blew up in a huge firework display of conspiracy theory. And in one hilarious, at one hilarious point, Kerry actually chipped in on someone's discussion and said, "No, it wasn't, you know, there really isn't any conspiracy going on here." And whoever it was emailed him and said, "I think you'll find we know better than you, when he'd written the damn thing." So, yes. I have one more little one, which I wondered whether they were going to do something with Phoebe about swapping her college around. So she applied, the only college we've heard them talking about was Christchurch. We don't know that she definitely applied for Christchurch as the lead, but it is not unknown for an offer to come from another college. And indeed, this is what, if I can bore you, this is what happened to me. I went to interviews at Maudlin, and whilst I was there, they had a little, being also a little Sherry party, it's in the middle and mid-80s, in the evening. And you're sort of under assessment the whole time, so you're on your best behaviour. And one of the music fellows there came up to me and said, "Do I have a range for you to go and have an interview tomorrow at St. Peter's?" I had never heard of St. Peter's, and I said, "Ooh, who's in charge of the music there?" And he just looked at me with a twinkle in his eye and said, "I am." But I had to go and see, because he wasn't a fellow there, I had to go and have an interview with a sort of, the pastoralist, a medic fellow who was in charge of the musicians. So I then sort of got a place there, and I wondered whether they were going to swap her to St. Peter's, because the current master of St. Peter's is Mark Damiser, who was previously in charge of Radio 4, and I thought it might be a nice little in-joke if they, there's all sorts of radio and BBC people popping up to give speeches, Andrew Miles there again this week. So I just wondered if they might do that, but obviously not, or maybe they will, who know? That's a bit circle jerkies, even for Radio 4, isn't it though? It's a bit of an in-joke. Yes, that's a polite way of saying a circle jerk. Enough of this, shall we have some callers? Yes, let's. Oh, now before we have the callers, I just want to say that I apologise if anybody on the Duntey Dun thread has been trolled, we have collected a little troll, everybody, aren't we lucky? He's very, very small, and very, very shy, and he only feels confident hiding behind a made-up name and a made-up picture, but what makes him feel like a big, important man is to say stupid things to people, and to leave messages on our speak pipe. And if you think, you silly little man, that we are going to be playing anything or sharing anything that you have written or said, you are even more deluded than I think you probably are already. So, do us all a favour, clear off, and also learn to punctuate, thanking you all, right? That's so Radio 4, one of these is the upset you most is the lack of punctuation. I know, the posture is all over the shot. Anyway, carry on, I do it all week, yep, thank you. Hello, Ambridge 3962. First up, we have Auntie Jean, who wants to talk horse. Hello, Auntie Jean here, I'm not going to mention Robin had in this week because, frankly, everybody else will, it's been awful, I am instead going to mention Shula, who has been left in charge of all the horses in the village, and I feel, frankly, that she should not be. During the incident where Rob apparently saved her and her horse some catastrophic fate, she referred to her horse as wearing harness. If she was out hunting and she was riding the horse, it would be wearing a saddle and bridle, possibly a breastplate, or tack, it most certainly would not be wearing harness. Harnesses are used by horses who pull carts and so on, so you see, I find this all very worrying. Should she really be in charge of all those horses? I don't think so, anyway. Now, here, annoyingly, Rob saved Shula from Mad Horse that was stamping about and not behaving itself in the hunting and Auntie Jean has pointed out that he talked about the horse wearing a harness, if the horse was, was only wearing a harness if it was pulling something, it should be wearing a bridle, and also I thought that horses were supposed to be sort of good judges of character, I thought animals, if you're not a very nice person, animals tend not to like you, sort of thing. Is that my James Herriot, romanticism? I don't know, I'm not a tool, an expert on horses, tend to steer clear of them, having seen someone get kicked by a horse, which is not pleasant, which is the owner's fault, not the person who got kicked, maybe Shula needed help because it's not the sort of thing you could do from on the horse, so he was in sort of next riding next to her. Oh yeah, it definitely was, but the fact that he managed to calm the horse down and be soothing enough to do that, you actually need to have empathy. But he's got everyone else convinced, he's got Pat, I know, but indeed, Auntie Jean is very clear that Shula needs to resign, she's not fit to look after the horses of Ambridge. It's when she said she's looking after all the horses in the village, so it's likely laughs like it's sort of a refuge centre for horses. Greetings Lucy, Andrew, and all dumb tea demers around the world, including Royfield and O Canada, which would have spun an Angus haggis here as we watched the 1870s version of the archers far from the maddin crowd, it just covered Angus' eyes at the upsetting bit in the beginning of the film. Speaking of feeling upset, it was a very rough week for Helen. First was Ian being unnecessarily mean to her, I'm not sure what the right thing would have been for Helen to do last New Year's Eve. Should Helen have told Ian and risk ruining his relationship with Adam, or would it have been the better thing to have done so that Ian was truly informed at that time? And is telling your husband even if it is Rob gossiping as Ian accused Helen of doing, or is it sharing something with your spouse that is bothering you? All we do know is that it was calculated and cruel for Rob to have told Ian on the night before his wedding. As I wrote on Facebook, Rob is wielding his temper like a club, and Helen is becoming emotionally and physically sicker and sicker. When are people going to notice that she's not eating? She is headed for a medical crisis in short order. On to happier news, Phoebe getting into Oxford. Having gone through the American version of the process some 40 years ago, I was as surprised as Jennifer that Phoebe was so stoic the morning she received the letter. We then found that it was an act, and there was a very touching scene between her and Jennifer, which was lovely. Though I didn't like the cliffhanger, the episode should have ended with Phoebe reading aloud that she had gotten in. It would have been made for such a nice moment. And by the way, note to the script writers, university acceptances are delivered by email and even text these days, not snail mail. Ok, now David and Ruth, based on my years of listening to women and men in my office, it's definitely realistic that men as a whole have a difficult time in communicating negative feelings to their spouses. It was frustrating to hear David beginning to repeat his same mistakes again, so are you pleased when Ruth broke through to him. Happy times on Lakey Hill. I'll leave David and Ruth frolicking there. Until next week, it's with a spoon and Angus Haggis signing off. Hey baby, I hear the blues are calling, toss salads and scrambled eggs. Massive. With a spoon. What do you think Andrew? Was Ian being unnecessarily harsh? It is a tough one. I can see. Have you ever been in that position? Knowing of knowing of no, and I haven't, of being torn between between two friends. Because Adam is also a relative. So I'm right. Yes. Yes. You've got a relative and you've got a friend. I can understand how Ian is so, so hurt. I'm disappointed we've not actually heard Ian talk to Adam about it. Maybe he's just so, you know, still trying to process it, that he can't even bring himself to raise it. So he's taking it. I think. Lucky, he made that cake, didn't he, for Jennifer and said, "Oh, you're the best mother in law." Well, you could wish for and all that. He doesn't know that it was Jenny who, who let slip. Yeah. To Rob, yeah. To Rob. Because Helen hasn't asked Ian how he knows, has she? No, but she did, she did tell Rob and, and, and with a spoon's point about it, is it gossiping if you're, you know, just trying to, to, to, to bounce something. Share something that's bothering you. Yes, with your, uh, nearest and ditched. Um, yes, I think, I think Helen's getting some of, Ian, some of the backlash that should be going to Adam. So I do agree, yeah, I do agree with that. But then, yes, it wasn't, uh, it's just another, I think the, the other part of it there from a plot point of view is it's adding to, it's cutting off another avenue of escape. Yeah. Yeah. So all Helen's avenues have been cut off by one. The hat's been, been, uh, schmoozed by Rob. Uh, Ian is now, uh, unavailable. We are left really with, well, there's Emmerr, uh, but she's so busy, um, or not busy if they're, they're a bit quiet at the moment, but has been so busy and tied up with, with Fallon. She's been sort of bit dumped there. So that does leave us with a crusty, right, to the rescue. Yeah. And I think it will be crusty and that does not anything that hasn't been said before. Um, one thing that I, I know, um, with a spoon also talks about snail mail and, uh, universities not sent out that way, but I think, again, for, for, from, that was maybe for the benefit of the listeners and listeners, a bit older, who, who do, uh, do remember, sort of thumping on the doormat with a crest, who would dearly remember when we had post. Yeah. Um, but I, I've never, I've never, you know, in and revenue, whatever comes to the doorbox, I, I normally just open it and read it, but I do remember putting that on one side and, and waiting what felt like ages, maybe five before, before opening my, my, because it is, it's the one letter that can change your life, where, yeah, you know, certainly at that stage, when you've not lived so long. So, um, I enjoyed it from that point of view, but, uh, yes, not, not with the times. And now we have, uh, a Mr. Roy Field Brown, and we're going to sandwich Mr. Roy Fields with Miss Cat. It doesn't he sound like Alan Carr, but he did obey his own rules. He did. And he'll be very happy sandwiched with Cat, I'm sure, yes, yes, they get on terribly well. So that could be fine. Hello. My name is Roy Field. I'm a first time caller in a row. I'm a podcaster and a digital strategist, and I live between London and San Francisco. I just want to comment on last week's archers. I really liked it. And for me, the overwhelming theme was Jenny and Brian, the Grundy's, and of course David and Ruth. What was heartwarming in the extreme was seeing three established couples and the interplay between them. Yes, I thought that Ruth and David were a little saccharin, but maybe that's what was needed. And the touch with the fair brothers, again, maybe a little heavy-handed, but a very funny episode, all the same. What really warmed my heart was the conversation between Brian and Jenny. There is a couple that have gone through a lot together, but remain incredibly strong. There you go. That's what I thought of the last week in Ambridge. Thanks for all your work. See you all soon. Hello, dum-dum-dum. It's Kat here, one-time podcast guest and long-time lurker, but finally compelled to call into the show because of how amazing this week has been. I was absolutely stunned. I was standing in my kitchen on Tuesday listening to Rob finally be just the absolute everything of awfulness to poor old Helen, and going, "Now, now it's finally happening. Now the writing is really amping up a gear. It's just absolutely fantastic." And Wednesday as well, that amazing confrontation with Ian, just poor old Helen, basically. But again, I've always hated Helen, so at the same time it feels a bit weird for me to be sympathizing with her, but how can you not? It's been brilliant writing this week, and I'm just absolutely overcome. It's marvellous. Anyway, lots and lots of love to everybody. I've so enjoyed listening to all the caller-inners this year, last year, and the year before, and really looking forward to another fabulous year. Not just for dum-dum-dum, but for the archers as well. If the writing this week is anything to go by, really, really looking forward to when this bloody awful Robin Helen storyline finally comes to head. Anyway, lots of love from me and my other cat, who is Ambridge, and speaks soon. Cheerio. And I was delighted that Kat called in as well. We'd actually had an exchange on Twitter about Tuesday's episode, and she was saying how delighted and stunned she was by it, and the writing moving the story on, which is picked up elsewhere as well. The rope had kind of come out, had kind of, yeah, the veil had slipped, haven't it, a bit? Yes, yes. And the story might be moving forward. Oh! Yes, the least moving. Not like it is. Yes, at least moving! That would be good. Stasis. Yes. Hello dum-dum-dum, there's Sarah Hyde's here. I'm not sure if I'm a first-time caller-in-er-er or not. Roy Field announced that I had come out of hiding, but I failed to hear my call, perhaps like Auntie Jean at our meet-up. When we did our dum-dum-dums, I was elsewhere. Or, maybe Roy Foote has decided to black-bore me because I said he sounded like Alan Carr. Anyway, to recap, I love the Helen and Rob storyline. I feel in the end, Tichy Knob will get his just desserts. I also said that we need more of Jasmine 2016. He only made seven appearances in 2015, and that was not enough. Well, that's enough from me for now. Keep up the good work, Lucy and Roy Field love the show. Bye! Oh, yes, now Sarah Hyde's. You weren't missed off, midoc. You weren't there the first iteration of the podcast, and then we realised that we'd missed you. So we popped you in again. So... Yes. You are there. You are there. You're in the version that I heard. Yes, so you'd have to listen to it all over again, you poor thing, and listen out for yourself because you are there. But anyway, here you are again, this week. Yes, running up the hill to declare their love for each other. Wow. David and Rob... I like that. Did you do? You were such a soppy soldier. I've to say, I got really annoyed with David this week. I've always got more Team David than Team Ruth. As I've said on one of my previous calls, just simply because the windiness of her voice, not for any other reason, really. But David has just been... He's been so sort of... Salke. Yes. Salke. And he should realise and remember this, after all we had the whole reason that they didn't move out to the farm was Dan's diaries and how things used to be done and it's in their blood. And all Ruth is doing is sort of picking back up on that theme. And he was just... well, A, I started being annoyed before Ruth came back because he was going around talking to everyone that they were coming out of cows. That sounds wrong, doesn't it? Yeah. Pulling out of cows. That would be terrible. That sounds even worse. Yes. Leaving milk production. But I think the... who was it? I was with a spoon again who said about men struggling to communicate negative messages. Ruth did turn it all around. The first time she tried David, he was making the right noise and then he said, "Oh, no, I've got to go and deliver some hot chocolate to pick." Yeah. Just thought, "You stupid man." Let's go cut my toenails. Shut up. Yeah. There's an olive branch here. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But they'd get there in the end. But yeah, he did definitely seem to come around and... but I mean, she... the transformation in her has been bloody... she never had a mother, never mind a mother that died. She's just, "Hello, hello, hello, hello, hello, hello, hello, hello, hello, guys." And she's leaping around very happy. So good. She's still terrible. Oh, no. Oh, that's true. Maybe the pills haven't worn off yet. Erm, Mary, not contrary. Hello, Duntersdum. It's Mary, not contrary, in Toronto. It's been quite a while since I last called you and I did promise Roy Field I would try to call more often, so here I am. I wanted to talk about Friday's episode, which I really enjoyed, particularly because of its focus on three important couples in Ambridge, David and Ruth, Eddie and Clary, and Brian and Jennifer, they're all in different decades of life and they're all facing new challenges. David's in his late 50s, Ruth's in her late 40s, and they're working together on the business plan, the new business plan, which they both seem on board with now, and that's fantastic to hear that unity and commitment, and I'm team Ruth all the way. Eddie and Clary are in their early 60s and it was lovely to hear them dare to dream about being proper livestock farmers again with some pigs and maybe one day some cows, and then Brian and Jennifer in the early 70s, having to come to terms with the young generation growing up, moving on and thinking of past regrets, but I enjoyed hearing Brian's passion for Jennifer and her sort of resolve at the end of that conversation to put on a brave face and find her new purpose, and I had some thoughts on Jennie's next challenge. Now she's got Phoebe all lined up for Oxford, Roorie's the obvious next candidate for a touch of Jennie's magic, possibly even Kate's children, Nolly and Sipo, and I hope to speak to you soon. Bye. Now we need a new task for Jennie, my personal thought, she thinks that she's going to start investing in Roorie, Nolly and Sipo, my personal thought was that she was going to get herself educated and was going to apply for university or something, and then we were going to have a whole boring thing about the University of the Third Age and all that stuff, which I'm not saying that's boring, I just think the way they might do it as a possibility it might be a bit silly. We could do it in parallel with Phoebe, oh god, that'd be awful. Oh no. There's a danger with Jennifer that she cannot leave anyone else's stuff alone. There is a slight love of theatre there, a slight love of drama, and she's always very happy to kind of, you can tell people often say, oh, that's just like me, and you think, no, it's not just like you, because I'm talking about me, and you're not just like me. But you often see it with mothers and daughters, you know, oh, that's just like me. You get that off me and sort of wanting to get in on their act. And there is a little bit of Jennifer that is slightly like that. But partly because she's had huge potential, she's daily very bright, and she spent her life pissing around with venison for crying out loud. Yes, but she's, she also, she's the other things, it's only just occurred to me. She's her mother's daughter, and if you think that's one of the things that Peggy mentioned this week was that she wasn't even allowed to go to go to school. That kind of explained a lot as Peggy's bitterness sometimes, didn't it? Yes, yes, so, so Peggy's not even allowed to go to school. Jennifer has a good school education, but she doesn't go to university, but that's, you know, she was, I don't, I wasn't listening at the time, and I wasn't around, but, you know, when she had her first, she presumably didn't go to university because she got knocked up. Yeah, at least I've forgotten that. I'll just say a couple of other things about Mary, not contrary, so I know a lot of calls talk about the Friday's episode and three different couples, but the one Mary pointing out that, of course, they're all at, they're all at different stages, you know, the 50s and 60s and the 70s, and coming, you know, with their different relationship stresses, stresses on them. But on the Grundy's one, and the Grundy's this week, there's not much focus on the calls from them. You've got, you picked it up in your, in your round-up, poor Clarie's feeling the stress of it not being, of being Guardian. Have you been in a nice house? Yes, being Guardian of, of, I've never had a nice house before, I don't know how to do it. But also, but it's not my house. I know. And I've got to keep it pristine for without, so she's picking up all that, all that stress and she's the only one who's, who's not just saying, "We're back," and it's, you're not back. They've gone completely into denial, haven't they? Yes, we're back to our house. Yeah. Yeah. Let's fill it with pigs and, you know, stop gutting ferrets in the sink and everything else. Yeah. You know, it's sort of, like, I did like it when he said, "Would you like me to take my socks off?" And she said, "Well, I would imagine that they are only slightly cleaner than your feet." Or something like that. That was very good. I like Clarie. I'm glad, I'm so glad that we didn't have the grundies stealing the pigs. And that's where it was all, it was supposed to think that, but, you know, Eddie has grown up a bit. Yes. Yeah. He will take a shortcut, but as he said, yeah, there are neighbours and our friends. Yeah. Really think I'd steal. I know. That quite staggered me that she would even think that, because she knows that- I was thinking it. I mean, really? But he would have been completely barking to have done that. I know. And that's why I say I'm so glad that they didn't do that, but it was a possibility. Yeah. Well, we were, as you said, we were definitely heading in that direction, weren't we? And the Eddie of 20 years ago, Midas said, "Oh, are these your pigs?" I felt like drinking the bone and I sort of thought, "Well, they are obviously fine as keepers." Yeah. But, so, well done. Hang on. My daughter is in here because she's looking for some glue. Tilly. Tilly. Tilly won't be in there. Have a look in Williams room. What? Cut that out. All right, I'll cut that out. Hi, Jacqueline Berta from Sanghuan in France here. Happy New Year, everyone, and thank you for all the Christmas wishes you sent. I had a really busy Christmas and a lovely New Year Road trip to Savelle and back. I listened to quite a bit of the arches and podcasts and dumped it on what's on the road, and my other half, Mr Berta, he said that I made a lot of noise when I was listening to what everyone was listening to, so I thought I'd sort of make, express my opinions of what's happened in the last two weeks in a series of one or two word things. So, here it goes. Scruff. Aww. Linder and calendar girls. Bravo. Eddy and the future pigs. Oh, Eddy. Ruth. Oh, shut up. David. Oh, get a grip. Pippin' Matthew. The fair brethren. Ha, ha. She's going out with somebody else. Titching up. Boo. His. Helen. Sorry. Sorry. Jill. Fruitcake, anyone? Jenny? Oh, darling. Well, finally, last little thing, I have a prediction. Basically, it's better to watch out for Dr. Lock. That could be Rob. Could be Elizabeth. That could be Sheila. Have a good week. Keep up the good work in 2016. Bye. Jacqueline, but I did like Jacqueline Bertot's noises. I did too. When she was listening to the archers. Oh, Eddy. What? I think I mostly go, oh, for God's sake, but oh no, also I try and guess without looking at the clock, which line is going to be the end line? Yes. So when you get to the, oh, there's something I haven't told you. So I start singing. When I think that it's the most likely, you know, the cliffhanger line. My favourite cliffhanger of all time, which I never guessed and nobody could ever have guessed, was looks like I have got time for that other cup of coffee. Not only in the archers, but you have that as a cliffhanger. Yes. I can't think, yes, I do a lot of, oh, when Rob's talking, I just go, shut up, shut up all the way through it. I have to be careful because I'm generally listening at about between 10 to 7, 7 o'clock as I'm walking to the station. Right. Yes, you don't want to look like some crazy old man on a, like you've got a bag, carry a bag full of ten new extra shouting, shut up, yes, that wouldn't go down well in commutaville. No. No. No. Um, yes. Scott, Matthew, man. Hello, everyone. It's Scott, Scott, M on the Twitters, uh, I just wanted to say that I really loved these week's episodes, uh, from Sunday's conversation between Jill and Peggy, which just made me smile, uh, Christine's inability to tell Rex and Toby apart, which I thought was just such a delicious and very meta joke, uh, sign maybe that the writers are aware of the show's recent shortcomings and taking any criticisms that we might give them on the chin with good humor. I really liked, liked that lighter side to this week. And then the heavier elements, for example, the argument between Helen and Ian, not only articulated both their opinions very well, uh, that helps feed into Helen's isolation. After all, if Ian and Helen were still, was in buddies, uh, he'd be the first to spot the warning signs. And when the Helen and Rob's situation hits the fan, as we know it must, it needs to be messy or it won't be good drama. Um, and the other thing is I liked that their storyline actually got a sense of progression this week that felt so satisfying after so many weeks of them being at the forefront without any sense of their story going somewhere. Now that may be true to life. I don't know, I can't speak for people who've been in that sort of horrendous situation. I've been lucky enough not to be ever in that sort of relationship, but I can only speak as someone who appreciates drama, and Helen and Rob's storyline hasn't been good drama for the length of period that it's been going on for. And I can just say, if only we'd had periods where we only saw them through the eyes of others, so they became supporting characters to some of the other storylines, I thought Gillian Richmond, who's written this week's scripts, done a really fantastic job of reaffirming everything I love about the archers. And for me, this week has been the true 65th anniversary celebration because it's pure classic archers. Um, yes, I was, I loved the, the, uh, auntie cardboard and Peggy's bits about, they're like the odd couple. They're great. They're like a sort of a Jerry Monty cardboard, and they were with the Christmas tree. And then bizarrely, we had this strange interlude where Auntie cardboard said, would you like to come in for a cup of tea? They said, yes, all right, then. And then we never heard anything else. What's actually happened? I think that was in an orgy. What? They just sort of disappeared. But they might still be there for all we know, who knows. And Scott is our, he's our Tristrum Hawkshaw, isn't he? Yes. Ah, yes. I loved it when, when, when, when Auntie cardboard couldn't tell them apart. And then when he said, no, I'm Rex and, and Peggy went smugly. I knew that. I'm not batty. You're bat. I'm not batty. It's the sixth. No, it's not. It's the seventh. It's 12th night. No, it's not. We're putting our Christmas, Christmas decorations out of the wrong day. They could take in the Christmas tree down on the wrong day. They reminded me actually, I was, um, uh, talking about this earlier, uh, I went to, um, the supermarket and, um, sounds like that game, doesn't it? And I bought, no, I went to the supermarket and there was, uh, an elderly couple going around, uh, and he was, uh, in charge of the trolley and she was marching ahead with the list and she was wearing one of those, um, Mrs. overall bearies that was sort of yanked down just above her eyebrows. And she turned round to him as I was going past. And she said to him very clearly, as if she was talking to like a toddler that had been playing up, she said, get the carrots, wait by the butter and don't move. She said. And he sort of shot off sideways, like, and I thought, he wouldn't speak to a dog like that. Really you wouldn't. And I, oh, dear. I felt like bundling him under me coat and running away with him, but yes, that's what it reminded me of, that, that kind of the, the sort of, um, the informat, just the, the casual rudeness of, of people that live together, you know, don't put that there. You eat it. And, you know, that sort of snappiness that only comes out of sharing your space with somebody for a long time and also someone who isn't, you're, you're not, you're not emotionally involved with, as, you know, a partnership. So we had it, so we had some of those lovely exchanges with Jim and Jazza and I hope Jim moves back into his cottage and we get Jazza back as well because that was a, a good partnership and they, they both brought different things out of each other and then, and then you've got this. So all we're left with at the moment in that sort of sphere is, is picking an anti cardboard. Yes. Right. Right. That's the end. I don't know. Cosmo. Cosmo. Good evening to all at Dumpty Dum. Come. Smow here. Not commenting on the program this week, but following up on my podcast summary, which I hope you've all read, to say that long term, or as we are usually known, old listeners, should be known either as doys after doy hood the village baker. This would be a great tribute to the well-known actor Arthur Ridley. An alternative would be the Leicester's after the Canadian pilot, Lester Nicholson, whom everyone will recall as Lillian's first husband. Really ancient listeners might be graces who died for the night ITV launched, but this would be before my time and I could not qualify, even though I think I was listening then. I suppose Toby and Rex will be around for the next two years. Will we ever salt them out? I will not miss Charlie, but feel sad that it seems Justin will not be around. We need a nasty capitalist to hate. Anyway, I must go. It's about eight weeks to my next holiday. I'm off to Millie Bell land. That's all for now. Be in touch soon. Bye. Cosmo. I already upset him today. I'm sorry. Cosmo. Cosmo. Deep breaths. You can't put your brown paper bag out, breathe in. We were talking about how different listeners could be categorised as different things and he suggests calling them doeys after doe hood, the village baker. Now, I think that's great because I'm absolutely excited about being called a doe, but I'll go with it. I don't think I'm a doe anyway, am I? He has been a character that's been referred to, I think, on some of our on Dumpty Dum, but certainly certain is an iconic character and another one from an era who might have joined in somewhere between sort of then and the more recent ones. My favourite was a race. Yeah. My favourite was Sammy Whipple. I'd like to be a Whipple. Did you say I don't remember Sammy Whipple? But he never said anything. He was a farm hand. And he's all right, I'll get Sammy onto it. Well, I've just seen Sammy Whipple driving through the village, you know, and he never said anything. And he knows that I think he worked for Brian, Sammy Whipple, but then you'd be Mr Whipple, which would make you sound like an ice cream van, so that's no good. Or you can be a Lester, after Lester Nicholson, the Canadian pilot and Lily's first husband, and ancient listeners could be graces. I quite like, I think people would quite like being graces. A lot of people, though, cos they want to be Antribuses, and I am an Antribus, or I'm not sure the plural should be Antribi, possibly, I don't know. But you could be an Antribi, you could be one of the Antribi or an Antribus. I remember her arriving, I can't have been listening to it longer than you. Surely we must have started about the same. You remember, I remember her arriving, the dog woman. Jo just used to call her that dog woman. Yes. Jo is the essence of reductivism, isn't it? He's just like one characteristic, that will do, that don't. Or you are. You are defined. And we've had a he-mail from Ms. Bubbles, who wants to comment on Tristan Hawkeshore, AKA Scott, she disagrees with his comments. She doesn't think that the Andram should be portrayed in, you know, with the Ambridge characters playing their own roles, while they're playing the role of whatever they are in the play. She says, "If they play the part of Amateurs, we'll end up with an amateur production rather than a professional one." And she loved hearing the actors in different roles, so she said that Susan was a really good Helen Mirren character. So she sort of really enjoys the aspect of it. She just loves hearing the actors themselves, kind of hearing their range. It's funny, because I was listening to it, but thinking of them as their Ambridge characters. Right. And therefore, some did accents better than others. Yeah. Elizabeth, in particular, I thought, fantastic accent, but a lot of the other, the casting was really quite, well, typecast. Right. You know, the sort of the Lillian character, Jenny playing Lady Watson. Yeah. Yeah, there was a fair bit of sort of type casting in there to there. I think the idea of someone said of actually having the Panto recorded in front of a live audience. Yeah. And then played. I quite liked that. Yeah. So we are now over to Ambridge. Yeah. And you could have all the settling, the audience settling down noises that, and all that, an equality street rustling away, which completely drives me nuts, but a lot of people do it. Yes. Yes, that is the end of the calls on the Himalayan rinderers. And my doorbell is about to ring a... A little self-care can go a long way, especially amidst the hustle and bustle of the holidays. That's where Vegamor comes in. Trusted by millions, Vegamor is all about giving your hair the love and care it deserves. With their vegan and cruelty-free formulas, you can nourish and revitalize your strands while indulging in some much-needed pampering. 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What a fantastic week we've had on the arches, and as usual we've had lots to discuss on our page. We asked you whether Helen is starting to see what we, the audience, have been seeing for some time, and this does have a very robust debate. Catherine Cavanaugh said, "I think the real cleverness of the writing lies in the fact that a new listener or a more emotionally obtuseful might have heard that episode and thought Helen a spineless selfish bitch for the way she was groveling both to rob and buy a phone to Ian. And for the way she ducked out of eating the meal, he specifically told her he would prepare. Not least the failure to tackle him about the money he is recklessly spending. £10,000 doesn't last long these days. The earlier listener who is wise to the entire storyline would have shuttered. Good girl indeed. I never felt more like punching somebody in the face. And as for the pathetic arch sanctimonious shula, can't she be killed off by Jim by the horse? Jim by the horse, don't remember the horse, but absolutely the writing is brilliant because often you can listen to it and feel the menace of rob, and then you can also listen to it and feel as though, well, you know, this could be a reasonable person, I guess that's the cleverness. Liz Eddon says, "She knows deep down, but she is pregnant and escaping emotional abuse is difficult at the best of times. Just want the storyline to end and rob to get beaten up or some other horrid end. I'm sure the writers can come up with something suitably grisly." With a spoon, P. McCosh Wilson the 35th, says, "Her vision is always very quickly diverted. Whenever Helen begins to confronting, Rob turns the tables and wills his temple like a club. Key lines, I want to treat you like a queen. And I'm sorry, I'm sorry. And then this, continuing with food restriction, travel ahead. And I agree with you with the spoon. I think that this food issue is going to become bigger and bigger as it were." And Deedabeching also said, "Yes, she's going to get cross about the money, has some cross rob for a while, but did challenge him this evening. I think she will call Ian for help, becoming increasingly desperate and eventually he will come and rescue her." And I think that was written before Ian and Helen caught up. So it'd be interesting to see how that relationship plays out. Nancy Dickey said, "I notice how we've managed to keep her away from Henry again, was it opening his presence that she missed before, yet more isolation. Nancy, I thoroughly agree with you and I do think it's very slightly odd that Helen accepts that. I don't think I would ever have missed the opportunity to talk to my kids in. It's just a natural thing to go and do. It does possibly slightly, I must say." Rachel Louise says, "I think part of her has seen it since the rape. She's been more distant and frequently scared since then and the anorexia is not good. Charlotte Billby said, 'When is the pampering day with cursed yet grey gables? Fingers crossed for the end of her conversation that they started months ago. Absolutely, Charlotte. And I think we're all hanging on for that, aren't we? Sorry everyone, there's a big track to drive and pass in my house and I have to have the winners open because it's so hot in here." Kate Newey said, "I think she's known for some time. In one part of her brain, but it's just too much to process. Too hard for her to admit she made a mistake, although she shouldn't be blamed for Rob's abusive character and I think that's absolutely spot on. I can't remember if it was Lucy or Royfield, but someone was discussing the fact that for Helen, things have to be perfect and I think it's going to be hard for her to admit that her marriage isn't perfect because to be fair to her, she thought it was and now it's not. And so she's going to go back to what she knows, which is how to control how she feels which is through depriving herself of food. It's all pretty horrible but we can see how it's going to play out. Next week, everyone, I thought it would be nice. We've got so many new listeners. I noticed we're up to 899 likes on our page. I think we might do another little spade of just getting to know our choloring errors. So please respond to the questions on Facebook page because we really do want to get to know you better. And thank you for playing and participating this week, it's always a pleasure to interact with you all. And I'll speak to you soon. Hurrah. And back. So that, by the way, I am loving the new adverts. This year's, this latest crop, absolutely. Harriet is a bloody genius, I keep saying it, but she really is. And I do every time she puts up an episode as well. Brilliant. And Millie, that's great, I am, it isn't lovely now that we've almost got enough activity on our own page to fill that slot. That's brilliant. And heading for our huge next number. Yes. Very good. Lucy. Yeah. What are your top five #TheArchers Tweets of the Week? Millie Hart, who said, "Hoping that at some point in the future, Lakey Hill will collapse due to fracking, then no more Ruth and David conversations." Yes, they do. All the momentous things happen up up Lakey Hill, don't they? I, lengthy Rosa, said, "If asking, is it legal is something you routinely have to ask your husband? You might reconsider being married to him," which is pretty much what we said earlier, wasn't it? Gwyneth Relful. I said, "But it's been a while since David took her up Lakey Hill, nudge, nudge." I don't think we'll go there. Gwyneth Hinge Zandal, said, "Phoebe, I don't understand. This letter says that you're the father of Jesse's baby." And Tweet of the Week was nicked, basically, from Father Ted, but it did make me laugh, especially because David does, on occasion, sound fairly dopey and Father Douglass. David. And she, spare Maussie, who had David saying, "I'm not sure I understand Ruth. Will the herd be smaller or just farther away?" Gwyneth Relent. What is next? Oh, yes, we need to talk about the shop. We do. I haven't looked recently, actually. I really ought to have another look and a buy. I have been better, though, at looking at the articles on our site. So go to the Dumdum site and have a look there and a forum. And if you want to comment in more depth and explore a thought and share it, you're generally safer from trolls there, so that's good. And if you want to keep the show on the road, there are two ways that this can be done. Go to patreon.com/dumptydum and find us to support the show for $2, or if you want to simply donate, you can go to dumptydum.com and hit the donate button on the site. And remember to get in contact, you can send us a voice- messages are back. Sorry. The messages are back. Royfield still struggling to get out is using semi-season Morse code now, tap-tap. Yes, they are. So they started late, and they finished late, and they started early again, no one. Remember you can get in contact. So they're English, then? They're not Polish. No, definitely not Polish builders. Remember to get in contact, you can send us a voice message via speak- pipe on the site or call 0203 0313105 to leave a message, or you can find us at dumptydum on Twitter, tweet me @andrewhornuk or Royfield @royfield, or me @loosiefefremen or Sarah Smith @ Sarah_Smith. Jolly good? Well, I think that's us. Just about done. Yes. I've very much enjoyed it again. Good. And I hope Royfield will let me, let me at you another time. Well, you'd have to let him out that trunk first. Well, he's kept me at the cupboard for a few months, so you can stay there a little bit longer. No, Royfield, thank you for letting me have another go. And I hope to come back soon. Thank you very much, Andrew. All right. Take care, everyone. See you. Bye-bye. Bye. So, Royfield, Lucy, and all dumptydummers everywhere. This is Jan from Cannes Calling, Jan from Vancouver, Canada, Mitch Muse on the Twitters. And I'm just phoning in to say Happy New Year to everybody, and to say thank you to everyone who has contributed so much to make the dumptydum podcast such a success. Every call in and the many, many insights that have been given really keep me entertained and not wanting to miss a single show. I wish I could call in more. I don't have a lot of free time to do that. I'm going to try and maybe make that my New Year's resolution to call in a little more this year. But I wanted to say thank you to Lucy for her fabulous editorials and comments and her hilariously wonderful laugh. You have no idea how many times I have laughed hysterically along with you. 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