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Dum Tee Dum Episode 64 – Fairbrethren, Pip and Kenton

Duration:
1h 7m
Broadcast on:
06 Jul 2015
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It's done to be done with this show about the reality of Dr. Drummer, that set at an ambridge in the heart of the Midlands, on the salute to the son that is Royal Brown, and with me I have the downward-facing dog that is Lucy Freeman. And the last part of our yoga retreat, folks, is you. Now today's Dum T Dum was sent in by Jeff McQueen, back in the day. Lucy. Yep. Can you remind our listeners that love us dearly? How then when the accolade of Dum D Dummer of the week? Yes. If you would like to sing us a Dum T Dum, give us a plop prediction. Or blow the dust off your third eye. Ring us on 0203031 3105, or leave us a message on Speakpipe, thanks to lovely chambridges for her amazing voices, to Sarah Smith for sponsoring us, and to Derek for the loan of the back bedroom. He's still getting on very well with Milena, for those of you that have asked, they've been skyping and all that sort of stuff. He did feel a bit inadequate when she showed him her PhD and all her diplomas and stuff. So he showed her his nectar card, and he said she went silent, so he thinks she was quietly impressed. On this week's truncated show, we have Andrew Horn, who thinks that Kate's her father's daughter, with a spoon from Manhattan, who has psychoanalyzed us, Cosmo, who is in despair, Yokel Bear, who still hates Phil Smith, Jacqueline Burdall, who's had a laugh, Eggstones. He has an idea about Articard board and Isaac Q, who wants to talk about what's gone right. It's really nice, I love it when people are positive, but first, before we get to the corner owners, let's speak to Auntie Lucy, where she's going to tell us about the last week in Ambridge. This week on The Archers was sponsored by Magic Wands, Inc. Carol wanted a magic wand to perk Burt up, if Evac Drex wanted someone to wave a magic wand to get him some land, but only one of those things happened. Henry gave Wob a father's day card, which sent chills through the listening public, then he got sent out to play with his balls. Helen had Titchinob's whites laid out for him on his bed, and then she got all girly and tearful about the good news, i.e. Titchinob is now completely free to ruin her life as well, the lucky girl. Johnny came back for a bit to be patronised into the ground by sausage boy about father's day. Adam told Neil to use the heavy roller before the cricket match. He's right, the heavy roller gives a much better wave and the curl stays in for longer if you use lots of L net. Charlie hobbled up to Adam and asked anxiously if Ian would be at the cricket match, gave him a birthday card and fight him to have a look at his executive cricket box, and generally said everything except "I love you, Adam, do you love me, Adam, do you?" Adam said Kate was hatching something or other cramps, probably. In another ludicrous personality shift, Lillian actually listened to unbearable Kate and did yoga with her, as a preamble to unbearable's plan to open alternative health centre. Where? There's not even room for a bloody poultry farm and they're in the middle of a farming community. While Lillian had one leg hooked behind her ear and I couldn't lean in the air, unbearable Kate wouldn't untie her until she'd agreed that it was a lovely business plan for all the pretty pictures and that she would help her write it out properly and colouring up to the lines. Kate then immediately said, "As did Lillian, and I don't know why this even surprised me." "Well when you show it to Brian it'll have to look good," or words to that effect, "Why on earth would she not go to a bank and get a proper business loan? Why this automatic default to daddy when becoming indebted to daddy always goes wrong?" Anyway, Lillian knows all about debt. "I can't go round paying everyone that asks, darling," she said, making it all sound entirely reasonable. "You know, you kind of can go round paying everyone that you owe money to, Lillian. It's called honesty instead of sitting on your Max Mara bottom, boozing and advising others on their business concerns from your lofty position as an alcoholic bankrupt." Pat and Tony tried to put a brave face on Helen's engagement to titching up, then had a heartfelt discussion as they looked out across the reedbed straining all their poo away about what they'd achieved in their time at Bridge Farm. They've lost to Welsh accent and changed character twice for a start. Heather Pette hates any mention of the word care, apparently, particularly when it's preceded with the words "I don't" from David. Pip and Viva Rex went out for a drink. Pip sipped her WKD and Rex had his head in his bowl dripping water everywhere. "All they need is a few acres," said Rex, "and we are so dedicated to the idea. So dedicated that we are planning on giving up completely after at least a fortnight of trying to go, no. So dedicated that we are planning on giving up completely after at least a fortnight of trying to go and be one of those irritating middle-class Gits in Hackett tops spying on teenage girls fishing the sound out of their wetsuits in Nukey. "It's such a great idea with so much potential selling C's little poultry," said Pip. "What? The grundies have been doing it for bloody decades, and they've never made a penny." Pip then tried to manipulate the entire village into letting the Fair Brethren operate a poultry farm from their homes. "Come on, arty Peggy, you could fit at least three geese under your bed and a couple of turkeys in your air uncovered, but no, David was sunken into it in the end, so now he'll have the two sheepdogs panting round Pip all summer, pouring at her and shoving their noses up her crotch." "The good folk at the ball have gone completely mad and decided to turn the area outside the ball into a merriment and give people hampers to eat on it and make them sit under a piece of beanbag stretched over a deck chair. Kenton then got turned down like a bedspread by the fate worse than death committee, who unanimously refused his generous offer of a pile of loose chippings by the car park." Brian and Adam had the sort of conversation where everyone gets cross and I don't understand what it all means. All I hear is "lammy, lammy, lamb costs fiend, lamb." Then Brian cheered up with a wine-tasting at grey gables which consisted of a selection of wines to surprise you, he said. "That'll be blue nun, a bucket of sangria, and Carole Toboggan's vintage cow parsley in history." "Carole Toboggan teased us all by saying she was a little bit witchy. With half the village of crutches you'd think she'd be anointing diseased limbs ref-right and centre." "The bees love Carole's achilia, apparently. Maybe she should stop smearing honey on it. Jill and Carole got a bit pissy boots, and Carole announced she was trying to work out how to get burnt going again. Maybe she could use her magic wand as a sort of splint. Otherwise, I reckon it's jump leads and a couple of bottles of dainless. Brian said Jill seemed a bit exuberant, you betcha, she was exuberant as a noot. Jill and Pip both came home drunk and fought over the cold water tap. Did you have a nice time? Jill has now stopped hooting and started answering very faintly as if she's actually fading away. "Yes, I was out, yes, thank you, I did." Jenny Darling got all excited about the environmental report on the plants for the roadscape. "It is really exciting, it will shake amperage to the core. I don't understand what on earth it is, but it is very, very good and it will change everything. Hoorah, the end." "Oh, that was a bit of a sudden end." "I know." "I was busy texting." "You call you?" "I love the fact that not only should we go into why Lucy's in a bit of a bad mood today. It's because it's too hot for you, we're suffering from a heat wave and you're an English rose and you can't deal with heat." "Or the alternative explanation." "Why don't we keep things onto the arches, onto the arches?" "Okay." "Alright, now I must admit I was a little bit surprised that the fair bread ring we're going to give up so quickly." "Yeah, it was literally a fortnight and it was only one of them because the other one was too busy turning swimming pools purple and leaping around, wasn't it, chasing women." "If you're looking for a couple of young people to invest in, they're not really so much fortitude or staying power, have they?" "Absolutely none." "There are lots of questions about this, A, why is Revat Rex going into business with Toby because he clearly loads him and Toby has shown himself even at this stage to be a bit reliable." "I don't know about loads of him, but they're very different characters aren't they?" "He's extremely realistic about his shortcomings isn't he?" "Well, you know, it's siblings, you know, you can, you're thrown together by a quirk of genetic fate doesn't mean that you agree, understand." "It also doesn't mean you go into business together, you can co-exist perfectly peacefully without, but we don't know what happened in Brighton, it may be Brighton, it holds the key, and we'll never know because the lady in the rang-in won't tell us." "Of course." "I reckon she was slightly pulling our chain about knowing what went on in Brighton, she's got no idea, but however, I will pull you up about one slight thing in your monologue in between me sending texts to my friends while she was chatting away. You said something about why does Kate have to go to the bank of mom and dad, and we did many moons ago kind of touch on this, or the least thing, you know." "Oh, you need capital and collateral and all that and she hasn't got any, was that it?" "There you go, there you go, there you go, and it doesn't even, if I was her, I suppose she can't, I mean normally everyone goes to the bank of Peggy don't they, but they can't because Peggy's not best pleased with Kate, and she'll be even less pleased when she finds out she's left her course, but, and her marriage has gone down the plug-all. But, if I was Kate, I would be moving heaven and earth to avoid having to approach Brian for money." "No, you don't understand Kate then, you don't understand Kate, Kate has got such a sense of entitlement." "Yeah, alright if I was me then." "Yeah, exactly." "Yeah." "Exactly." "And I am me, so that's good." "Are you not Kate, because have you seen her picture? I know, yeah, it kind of, it changes things a bit, don't it?" "She's wasted on radio, he's had actresses playing Kate, yeah, she's-" "Maybe you could make a special request to BBC at the archers and ask them to post pictures of Kate in the swimming pool, as appeared in what you're just a record, and did you understand this, this baloney at the end about the environmental report?" "Um, I think I did." "What? What, what, have they found out? I listened and I listened twice." "I listened to the, the water table makes root B not viable because it's going to flood all the time. Worse of that effect." "Oh, you know, all I heard was water table there, flood too much, it was, you know, I think I just about discerned what was going on." "Oh, so it's nobody's fault, they haven't discovered that anybody did anything, it's just-" "Maybe I need to go back and actually completely listen to that episode, if it's anyone's fault, if it's-" "So what you're saying sounds completely right." "No, no, no, I think that's right, but whether the, the survey of the, of the, the area was done incorrectly, because then that could then be someone's fault, but it's no one's fault in terms of-" "It's nothing to do with the cold water or anything like that." "No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Shall we do the emailer in the risk first, and then the only because I've got an exciting one, I want to read out." "Oh, you know what I love Lucy?" "What?" "An exciting email." [laughter] "Sarkey, sod." "This isn't it, but this is very nice too. Scarlett Sprero, who said, 'There's a vacancy for the tree warden, Kate knows the yoga tree posture, unemployment problem solved, yes, she can be a tree, she can be employed as a tree.' "Kosmo has, in his inimitable fashion, cleared up about 57 loose ends for us all in one email. I think Cosmo has a photographic, not photographic, whatever the all-equivalent photographic is. He says, 'One, it was William Grundy who was locked in the attic of Blossom Hill Cottage when it was owned by Peggy Woolley, he was locked in by Kate and Helen, Helen freed Will and then she was banned from seeing Kate. Number two, Kate had an earlier disappearing event for some hours, she blamed her parents for never showing her any affection and sending her to boarding school. If I was Brian Jennifer, I would never show Kate any affection either." "Well, that's rubbish Lucy, but go on." "Three." "And we've established that you're you." "Yeah, we have, yes, I am not Kate. Betty! Brian fancied her, but no affair with Cid, it was simply her wanting to get away from Mike when he was in the depth of despair. It might have developed with Cid as he was on his own at the time, but Betty loved Moik. Oh, three. Oh, he's put three twice. Their attention to detail Cosmo, do pay attention. "Oh, and he's an accountant." "I know. Should we, we'd better take him off our tax return, haven't we, our dumb, dumb to dumb budgets will go down this morning. Mike Tucker's accident was when he was working for the estate and a hydraulic pipe hit him in the eye. "Christmas Day 1991 reconciliation with Betty when Mike was found sobbing." "Poor Mike." "Um, which was really the turning point when he started being nice and not a get." "Now, this is our, an amazing, caller-in-a-ra. Have you read this from M?" "No, I'm going to say no." "But I had to read the Cosmo one there." "Okay. I have to say, I love your weekly podcast. Just the way it is." She says. "Oh, I, I, I have read, read, read this again." "Okay. I save about a month's worth of the archers and dumb to dumb to listen to in one go when I'm driving my truck around Europe. I've listened to the archers for about 12 years and my mum has listened off and on since it began and each week we discuss the happenings. Well, that's all for now. I'll look forward to hearing my emails read out in a month's time, best wishes M. And I was intrigued by this about her trucking around Europe, so I said, uh, trucking about around Europe. I said, what are you doing? What is that?" And he said, she said, "I am what's called a tramper, which is a lorry term for a driver that sleeps, well, actually lives in their lorry when working. Nice description for a female, isn't it? I drive loads out to Europe and bring back loads for the UK. That's as exciting as it gets, but I like it. I love the idea of her driving across, you know, the south of France listening to Dumpty Dum and listening to us as she's going to bed in her cab thing. Isn't that amazing?" Yes. Am I the only one that's excited by this? No, no, no, no, it did excite me too, but I've just forgotten how excited I was by it. That's it. And they've reminded me I'm thoroughly excited, so thank you for reminding me how excited I was about that email, Lucy. And thank you, Em. We love that. And I'm glad that you love things the way they are. I want to see a picture of her and her truck to think she'll send one in. I'm sure she will. Send your picture, Em. Please do. It'll be lovely. Now what we're going to do? Cool. Great. Who's first? Hello, Ambridge 3962 Greetings, Dumpty Dummers everywhere. Andrew Horn here. Just a comment about Kate, where does she get to her behaviour from? This is sort of following up from the big discussion that the two of you had last week about why is she the way she is and her siblings aren't. Both Brian and Jenny can be quite forceful in their own ways. Jenny is very single-minded when it comes to things like her kitchen, and she absolutely will get Brian to give her what she wants, sort of unspoken for all the heartache he's put her through. And Brian also just goes ahead and does things his way. If you think about several of the farming decisions where he's just ignored Adam and just gone and done it, very, very forceful. So I think Kate's probably more like Brian than he probably care to admit, although this sort of lack of self-awareness is almost comical now. Anyway, not really much else to say. Have fun. Andrew Horn, he said, was she's like Brian? And I'm a moron because I hadn't sort of put that together. But Brian just bulldozes his way into getting things that he wants. He gets hugely frustrated when they don't work out. He has a gigantic sense of entitlement. The only difference is he actually works hard. Well, you do. It's like when he said, "Oh, do you think I should hang up my overalls, David?" David said, "When was the last time you were overalls?" I didn't think at the time. Yeah. I can't really see Brian wading through cow shit, you know, at any point. He's more about the kind of sitting in the office with a nice Glen Fiddick and a, you know, some nice Aida playing while he does his accountancy spreadsheets. He's hardly a hands-on farmer, is he? Well, he's hard in the first flush of youth either, is he? And he's farmed. I don't remember him ever doing that, though. Well, he, a couple of times, he has said, "Do I need to put on my overalls again?" So as far as he's concerned, there was a point when he did. But he always was somewhat kind of managerial, wasn't he? Yeah. Butch kind of, you know, belies the size of his farmed stroke estate, stroke holdings type of thing. Yeah. So he's not a David Archer, who's, you know, forever got his shovel and doing whatever the farmers do, and, you know, Brian's always been much more kind of managerial because he's always been a much bigger enterprise. So have we dealt with Andrew? We have. And now with a spoons corner. Hey, baby, I hear the blues are calling, toss salads and scrambled eggs, massive. Greetings, Lucy, Roy Field, and all dumpty-dummers around the world. With it's been an Angus Haggis here on this historic day. Let's get right down to it. A great show last week, despite the A musicality of it. It's like watching a film without a soundtrack. Occasionally it works, but the music is so essential in setting the mood. Think of a horror movie without the scary score. Perhaps the bathtub selections of two weeks ago would be an appropriate choice as background music for the podcasts. So what made the show so excellent? It reflected an important underlying ethos of dumpty-dum. Well, the first one is always, let's have a laugh. The next one is The Archers' Life, Life is the Archers. The themes of family, relationships, work, recreation, sex, illness and death are explored in the 13 minutes of Middle English farm life that we eavesdrop upon each day. Dumpty-dum gives us a chance to reflect upon this and consider our views on these issues. Let's take a look at Lucy and Roy Field's discussion last week of two of them. First, family. Our hosts seem to endorse two somewhat different styles of parenting. They assess the impact of parenting on children differently as well, thus touching upon the whole nature versus nurtured debate. While last week I congratulated Brian for stepping up to the plate in his confronting Kate, I didn't mean to absolve him and Jen's earlier parenting errors. Since I'm a relatively new listener, I'm not aware of the timeline of earlier family conflicts. Perhaps it was because of Brian's philandering and absence that Jennifer over-identified with and indulged Kate. Note that children in the same family are born with different temperaments and adjustments in parenting styles are often required to address the differing needs of siblings. So I sided with Lucy on this. If Kate was raised with more limits setting, her natural grandiosity, self-importance and nastiness may have been tamed. But then where's the drama and fun in that? Parentheses. If I were Roy, I would have slapped her after she put down his home and family this week and parenthesis period. On to romance, specifically Fallon and good old PC Harrison Burns. Once again our co-hosts had differing views, but perhaps not as divergent as it may appear. Roy Field is clearly the romantic, and I applaud him for that. Harrison's attempt to provide a romantic birthday touched an emotional memory for him. Lucy thought that Harrison's actions were controlling, perhaps akin to Rob's behavior. I disagree. In the end, Harrison read Fallon's emotional needs better than anyone else did. So is Lucy a secret romantic as well, seeking a roguish Prince Charming for Fallon? One who will accompany her on a life of great adventure? But in the long run is being kind and generous of spirit a better choice. My money is on Harrison, though again some conflict and drama will need to be stirred up in the future. So Angus, Handsome Husband and I are off to Baltimore this weekend for my big brother Kenton, I mean Jeff's surprise party, for his 60th. My brand new sister-in-law is throwing it, I do hope she's read his emotional needs correctly. I'll let you know next week. Till then, have a marriage equality day from the US of A. It's Witherspoon and Angus Haggis signing off. Hey baby, I hear the blues are calling, toss salads and scrambled eggs, massive. With the spoon has psychoanalyzed us and he is applauding you for being romantic. And he says I am a horrible bitter old cow. Not really what he said now, is it? Yes he did. And I am not seeking a roguish Prince Charming with a spoon, I am seeking a tall dark Handsome credit card, actually. Yes, we like with a spoon's calls, don't we? Always, always. Not just us but all the listeners. I know. Hello Lucy, Roy, Ifield and everyone else have done to dump. Cosmo here, I know I've been missing for a couple of weeks but I've been catching up with listening to the artist properly as I find I keep missing things. And quite often I find my thoughts have been well reported by other correspondents. This week however, the writer is Paul Broderick and once again he has penned a storyline which simply does not bear examination and undermines our belief in the village. The ecosystem and indeed requires such suspension, belief that it jars and his absence of knowledge of past history is shaming. In fact there are two such fractures. Many years ago a joint operation involving a number of sheep farmers inside and outside the village was formed to create the House of Hills Brown. This included Brian with Debbie at Home Farm and David and Ruth at Brookfield. The group agreed to share out the lambing pattern with Home Farm going for early lambing so that the premium House at Hills Brown could be marketed over a longer period increasing incomes overall to cover the marketing activities and by working together to reduce costs through bulk buying of feed. Consequently Adam cannot change the lambing dates for Home Farm without undermining his colleagues within the joint operation or co-operative as I think it was. And it was particularly surprising that David seems to have also forgotten about House at Hills. No doubt worrying about Hever. It was the first major exercise in the village to obtain proper branding and to build a business across more than one farm, sadly now for gold. Secondly, the fair brethren. Any farm business tenancy requires at least 12 months notice of termination. So if it is just for a few months the notice has to be given before it starts. And how come David can be so generous with land? He already rents some to the Grundy so that they can have the cider shed without planning permission. I am however looking forward to the geese duck sound effects and if it is geese for Christmas shouldn't he be worrying about turkeys? After all Linda is worrying about the Panto or heaven help us. By the way I think that Rex has a higher vocal pitch so I might be able to tell them apart but would prefer Toby to live in New Key to solve the problem. Finally can I comment on Friday's episode where I thought that I had stumbled into an episode from Doctor Who as waiting for somebody to talk about reversing the polarity. For a planning application a level 2 flood risk assessment is needed and this does not require a hydraulic model. poorly written using technobabble rather than the right in managing a proper explanation. I hope for better. It is over a month until my next holiday when I am going to Scotland. Enjoying the podcast and sometimes enjoying the arches. Cosmo has deserted us in favour of actually listening to the arches he says because he suddenly realised all he was doing was listening to them and he wasn't actually paying any attention to what was going on in the arches. Hello Dr. Dominic Shokobear here calling from a well-known town in North Wiltshire. We need to talk about Kenton. Kenton is probably one blow up away from being on the church tower with a rifle. It is all going a bit bowling for Columbine. Now see I kind of got in to start with because believe me I can hold a grudge with the best of them. When I was 14 years old Phil Smith at my school through my copy of Lord of the Rings, my prize possession, yeah I was a bit of a nerd, into the swimming pool and I tell you what, here we are decades later, never forgive, never forget and I will get my revenge with that one day. Even I am thinking for Christ's sake Kenton would you just give it up? So what David didn't give you the money. You shouldn't have spent all that bloody money before you had it in your bank account. You reckless swine, I wonder if the world economy is in such a bloody state with people like Kenton around. I don't really have much sympathy for him, in fact he is just bloody annoying me now and I am swearing quite a lot aren't I? That's what he is doing to me. Okay then that's me done. I agree. Kenton is the human equivalent of Greece. Now he's kind of gone completely berserk is throwing down impossible challenges to people and then when they are quite reasonably going I don't really think that's going to work declaring that they are somehow trying to ruin him, trying to deliberately jeopardise his business. Where is Jolene in all this? She is not a quiet woman is she? She is an opinionated in a good way, you know, fourth right woman, why is she not saying to him? Shut up, just calm the fuck down, excuse the language, but honestly it's getting a bit. To be fair to Jolene, she has on a couple of occasions said oh come on Kenton, she did try and engineer a rapprochement between Kenton and Ruth a few, like a month or so back. She was the conduit for that and that blow up in front of his mother wasn't in front of Jolene. No, that's true, that's true, yes in fact most of them haven't been in front of her have they? There you go, because she is actually a nice amount of her tempering kind of influence on him. She would have gone no. Yeah, she would have given him a slap behind doors for that carry on. So a slap behind doors sounds like a 70s sitcom. Yoko Bear says Kenton has gone postal and he wishes to, well I am going to, you know, we ask the dumpty dummers to sometimes find out things for us or those that have professional, you know, expertise in a certain area, could we sort of wrote them in? Well, what we need now is a hit man or woman, it doesn't matter, oh God, a steeper, perfect, yep. You find Phil Smith, who when he was 14, or when Yoko Bear was 14, through his copy of Lord of the Rings in the Cerebral, I presume Yoko Bear, you have gone down the obvious route of looking at LinkedIn, fanatically searching Google, finding out where he lives and then how much he earns and everything else. So you can feel, you know, happy that you have a happy life and he is hopefully having a shit life. And the danger with that is that obviously you then find out that he now, you know, is a multi-millionaire and, you know, is, you know, rolling in it and is extremely happy because that's intensely annoying. But I'm sure he's not. I'm sure he's awful. Anybody that throws books in water will, the foulest of foul beings. So he won't be, he won't be happy wherever he won't be happy. Can I just quickly say, if you want to listen to a story which is laugh out loud funny, download, I think it's now last week's This American Life. There's a story about a caretaker of a block of flats in Manhattan who actually was a hit man. I kid you not. It's just the most incredible but funny story. Wow. This American Life, you will piddle yourself laughing and then be slightly chilled as well. Wow. Let's talk about something that's not always top of mind but still really important. Life insurance. Why? 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But so I've just had a marathon catch up with dumped it on for two weeks and two omnibus courses. I'm a bit confused by lots of the storylines, but the one thing that made me laugh out loud when I was working in my greenhouse today was the fact that Charlie loves Adam's stroke. How sweet is that? Mmm. The story goes on. Lots of things I could say, but I'm not going to bore you with them for now. Too many things to do. See you soon. Bye. Jacqueline Beto said she laughed when Charlie said he liked Adam's stroke. The balance of power between those two just shifts completely, doesn't it? Has completely shifted. But I mean, I think he'll probably shift back, but there's something about Charlie being on crutch. Well, I suppose maybe having a near-death experience can do that to a fella, but you know, he's sort of hopping around on his crutches, sort of it's like he's kind of hurrying to try and catch up with, with Adam, who kind of hasn't got time for him, and he's sort of following a lot, hopping along behind going, Adam, Adam, wait, wait, wait, wait, you know, then he said, Willy and becoming, and you know, or will I have you all to myself kind of thing, and then, and then the bit I did like, and I had a little inward cheer, was the frostiness between him and Rob, when he said, well done, Rob, and, and he said, Charlie, and it was incorrect. You could tell these are two men that do not trust each other, further than they can grow each other. No, that, that, that, that. Which I thought, Bow did very well for the return of Stefan. So, so, it is, isn't it? Yes. Stefan, yes. Yeah. So, he's coming back. Is he? I don't know. I hope so. He's the only one that knows, isn't he? Oh no, because David knows too, doesn't he? Yes, but he's the first-hand one. He's the, he's the only one that could actually go to the police and say anything, because they promise that they won't say anything. Or the environmental authorities. Duh, duh, duh, duh. Environmental authorities don't sound like they have a lot of kicking power, though, do they really? I'm an environmental authority, or being in enormous trouble, I'll write you a stern letter. Well, Tony and Pat Archer seem to think that they do, make it very worried about them, don't they? Yes. But they get worried about everything, don't they? Well, they're very good reason to, because they need to poison half a paucier, haven't they? When they've passed those bears? Sure enough, yes. Most, that would, that would make you a little bit jumpy about letters that arrive in the brown envelope. Oh God! What have we done? Ugh. Erm, now first time call a rinderer, egg stones. Hi, my name is KJ, I'm also known as Egg Stones on Twitter. I'm calling to make another plot prediction, and hopefully this time it will be a better one than my last one about Rob and Adam. I suspect that the whole anti-cardboard wood-buying, clotted storyline has one purpose, and that is to finally give Alan the opportunity to open her T-room, plus killing two birds in one stone. That is getting anti-cardboard somewhere, if you can leave, and Alan the T-room, I'm rambling now. And before I stop rambling, I'm just going to say I wish that someone would knock on sense into Kate's head, and preferably use Rob as the weapon, loving the post-cocked, over and out. Bye. And then we'll open the T-room and anti-cardboard's house. You are, if you are not right, you'll be wrong, and so will I. I think that is an excellent idea, because as he says, it's like, it's like Monopoly, you kind of need to open up another house, don't you? Because when everybody's, they've got to have one empty house in Ambridge at all times. For plot reasons, if everyone's got houses, there's nowhere anyone else can move into once they break up with somebody. Nobody new can come, either someone's got to die, or, do you know what I mean? You've got to have, no, it's not Monopoly, it's like, you've got to have a spare one that you can leap over to get to. Do you know what I mean? Does that sound mental? It does a bit. It's mental, wouldn't be the word that I would use, but it's an interesting theory. I could be getting my weeks mixed up, but Roy Tucker was talking about the new neighbours that have moved in next door, and I thought to myself, what new neighbours? Yeah, exactly. Where have they come from then? Where is the estate agent in Ambridge? Because you have four Ambridge, I mean, you've got, oh, who's that awful, slimy man who I can't bear from the estate management company? Graham Ryder. But he does land management, doesn't he? I think you're right, but Rodways, it's Rodways, isn't it? Yeah, Rodway and Watson, or maybe just Rodways now. But there's no kind of, like, you know, right move, is there, or hearts or what? With some getting pointy, really shiny shoes, telling you that don't worry, that will come down really easily and all that. There's nobody like that. What have you got against pointy, shiny shoes? Are you wearing pointy, shiny shoes? You can't be, it's way too hot. No, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not. You are right that there is a certain lack of kind of basic, kind of, sociatorial amenities. There we go, there's me searching with a thought. So they've got a bloody, do you know, I remember going to a place in Cornwall once. Oh, yes. It's a beautiful little village, and I was thinking, oh, yes, I could live here, I could definitely live here. Just to see myself here. And then I tried to buy some milk, and it kind of put me right off because I could have bought a milk jug encrusted with seashells, and I could have bought artisanally made brie, and I could have bought some handwoven shawl, but I couldn't buy sodding milk anywhere. And it just sort of makes you, you know, when you get those places that are so geared to sort of arty-crafty things and looking gorgeous, and actually you can't live in them because you have to drive for 25 minutes to actually get to somewhere where there are basic things like milk and bread and, you know, I know they've got the farm shop, but. Yeah, well, that's not really the same thing. And really, what you've described there is the way that Ambrage is becoming, you know, with the farm shop with your... Yeah, we've got the tea service, the farm shop, you know, so you've got a box delivery scheme, but you can't buy milk anywhere. Absolutely. You can get it delivered, but that's going to pack up soon anyway, isn't it? While you're surrounded by cows, nuts, but then I guess that's the way the countryside is going. Not just the countryside, Central London, too. Really? Oh, come on. Yeah, you've read all these articles about the fact that the emptying out of Central London. I'm loath to go on into a two minute conversation about this, and I'm loath to start it by saying it's my podcast, so I will, but I'm going to try and pray see this. So I'm loath to have a massive diversion here, Lucy, and go on, go on, go on, go on. But this problem with lack of basic amenities in the countryside isn't just limited to the countryside, because the same phenomena is happening in certain bits of Central London, because of the fact that the properties there are second and third properties of rich magnets from overseas. So there's actually depopulation happening. So in Mayfair and in Belgravia, corner shops, which are very few and far between anyway, they're just not viable anymore. So I see. Yes. And the same phenomena has been happening in Venice for about 50 years. Venice is somewhere which is literally unlivable for Venetians, because so many properties are second, third-owned properties, because it's so beautiful that actually what you're left with is what's, it's almost like a Disneyland, and I think the UN has actually said it's going to be the first city, which will be absolutely empty of real residence. And the population of Venice, the population of Venice in the 1960s was about 160,000. It's now less than 40,000 each year. It goes down even more. So when you go to Venice, people walk around the canals and whatever, and it's incredibly beautiful. You actually go to the residential areas, and there's hardly any lights. And all you're seeing are all the other tourists. You've got a lot of these great gleaming London towers, and it's a similar thing. Wow. A lot of these great developments in London are only a third occupied, but they're held as investment opportunities for people that own them. They don't need to live there. They don't even necessarily need people even to rent them. It's quite scary. The same thing's happened in Venice. Well, it's sinking anyway, isn't it? So that's all right then. Yeah. Maybe there's less people. It might not sink so fast. It will bob up again. So the parallels with Ambridge, a band. Ambridge is the Venice of the Muslims. That would be Eddie's next thing. I'm going to be a gondelier. Oh, and another new cholera, Isaac Q from Winnipeg. Good morning, Lucy, and Roy, I feel. This is Isaac from Winnipeg, Isaac Q on Twitter, a long time listener, but this is my first time color rendering. I'm the sort of listener who loves to organize things into lists, so I thought I would call you guys with the top five today. But since so much of our time has spent complaining and nitpicking and believe me, I've got plenty to complain about with my beloved archers, I thought today that I would focus on the top five things that the archers has done right in the first half of 2015. Of course, this is all my opinion. And my opinions may be kind of controversial in some cases. So number five, I think, is Charlie being fleshed out as a more complex character. It really started shortly after New Year's, when he had that heart to heart with Adam about what he wants out of life and love. And he is still technically a baddie, you know, there's no doubt about that. But he also has it out for Rob, which instantly makes him likable to us as listeners. And so there's, you know, a complexity there that is missing from a lot of the male characters, as we've said. But I'm enjoying seeing that development. Number four for me was Vicki's conversation with Brenda, because a lot of the conversation, a lot of, sorry, the storyline about Mike and Vicki leaving has focused on Mike. And that's understandable since he's been on the archers for decades. But I really always loved Brenda. And so one of my favorite things on the archers was when Brenda slowly warmed up to Vicki. You may recall it that she hated her for the longest time. And so I really liked seeing that relationship develop back in the day. And so it was nice that Vicki's farewell conversation on the show was with Brenda. And it really, I found that touching. Number three has been every moment with Kate. So many quotables, she's just so despicable. And it's just radio dynamite every time she opens her mouth. Number two was Rob's phone conversation with Jess after the results came in from the paternity test. That was the climax of a very long, disturbing antagonism between those two and just a super chilling shutdown on his part. Just, I couldn't believe some of the things he was saying and that was, that was delicious. And number one has to be Brian's dialogue. I feel like the writers just cut loose when they write Brian. They say how they really feel about sensuous situations. So often he's the voice of the listener. I really hope this storyline with Adam right now doesn't kill the humor of Brian because I know that for a couple of years they're on and off we lost our lily into strife and heartache with Paul and Matt. Let's hope that Brian can remain upbeat. I hope you guys are doing well and take care, bye bye. And his favorite, or my favorite of the top five things that the artist got right is Charlie being fleshed out as a complex, fleshed out, fleshed out as a complex character. Yes. And I agree. And I won't, but I want something to happen with him now because it's kind of tiddled on for a bit, hasn't it, where we've kind of got used to him suddenly being, not the cocky little shite we thought he was, except he sort of is still a cocky little shite. But you know, less or there's reasons behind his cocky little shiteiness. But we don't know what, we don't know why, we don't know where that's going to go. I still think he's just an Elliot stepson. Well, I don't know about that and I generally don't know about that. But I think that Charlie Mellowing has been happening for quite some time and it hasn't just been vis-a-vis Adam, because remember, after him and Ed had that run in, he then did months afterwards turn around to Ed and say, do you need work? Yeah. Yeah. You know, and that was nothing at all to do with him, but Adam, you know, so it's like he does feel that he's part of the village community now and sees people's worth. And yeah, so I like me a bit of Charlie, I think you're all right, I really do. So like Linda, Linda likes her a little bit of Charlie as well, where does Charlie live? I don't know, it's never said is it? No. I'm sure it was once because he does, because... Cosmo will know. It was about a lot, doesn't it, so, but yeah. But I can't remember. It's one of those horrible, soulless bachelor things with all pine floorboards and leather furniture and enormous flat screen TV and no food in the fridge and anyway, that's what I... I was describing my flat there. Oh, sorry. Am I? You were around there last night, you know exactly what in the place is like. Shut your face. I'd been around there last night, you wouldn't have still been in bed this morning, but actually we'd better go down this route, haven't we, cos that was something a little bit dodgy. Next call. Hello, dumpty-dum, it's Mrs Bentos here. This week I've been traumatised by listening to Pip flirting outrageously with Toby Fairbrother yet again. I found it all very uncomfortable and frankly a little bit bizarre, a bit where Toby picked her up and welded her around and kissed her while Rex watched on and drooled in the background. Made me feel rather uncomfortable. I was just wondering also in what way they were practically family, that's what Pip said to David. I mean, fair enough he did tell her that was complete cobblers and rightly so and I just found it all a bit odd and she was asking David to rent a bit of his farm out to them so that she could basically get her dad to pay for having a boyfriend, it's all a bit grim. Also, I think she's maybe on heat. I think that's the only explanation for her really rather random behaviour. I also feel frankly quite appalled at her, her choice in. Mary, why does she really fancy a man whose party trick is to do a Gosling impression? I found this all very odd, what is a Gosling impression anyway? So I was imagining what sort of actions he might be doing while he was making that noise that sounded like a squeaky bicycle wheel and then I started wondering about how it varied in tone from any other young bird impression and maybe does he in fact do a goose impression too and then I started wondering about when Gosling stopped squeaking and started honking it all basically got rather confused and I wasn't really listening to the rest of the scene at that point. The main query for me is how on earth does that make him sexy because I can't say it did much for me but she seemed to like it and when the boys said see how can we ever repay you I think we all can imagine what pit might have in mind, give me a man that converts to bag of crisps any day. Proud sponsors of Dumpty Dum. 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Did anyone else think the cricket stuff was all sexual innuendo asked Virginia Edwards in the artist's appreciation or is it just my inflamed imagination? If not it was deadly boring, Pam Radford said how galling was it on a scale of 0-10 that Rob rudely and arrogantly disregarded his captain's batting instructions and still came out the hero. Anyone else bitterly disappointed that he didn't come unstuck? Terry White in Ambridge Alex also wants to talk about the cricket, when did the Borgist or a district league switch from Saturday to Sunday play they certainly played on Saturdays in 1997 because Josh recalls September the 13th which was the Saturday and David had to rush from playing to hospital. In his absence Ambridge clinched the league title and David rejoined them in the ball to celebrate when wept to his head good and remembering Terry White. Nikki Smith in the artist's appreciation is a bit of a hurt, she keeps saying her her latest silent characters are and on Tuesday she said the people who have put the offer in on the shop are my new favourite characters. Jane Briggs in artist's appreciation, have you got something from Rob Henry? Yes, a smack in the mouth of the massive frying pan you smug twonk. Oh if only. Leslie Foley in Ambridge Alex said David you're rude, you can't do everything, she wants to know how come Helen can do everything. Nikki Smith again says the magic opera singers are her new favourite characters you can tell they're all trained at the Guildhall. Ben Shulk in artist's appreciation group says Kenton is taking place in Lower Lopsley. It's a fate, a complete, I'm glad Ben said that because somebody had to. Oh gosh, I absolutely agree with Alexandra Maris in upstairs at the ball here. She says Kate Roy caught Kettle, VB doesn't need you to embarrass her Roy, curlies, I must admit I nearly crashed the car at that moment. Brian Entwistle in Ambridge Alex said it was interesting last night to hear Tony saying how he could not have survived without Pat all these years when it was a script writer's intention that he was going to marry Mary Weston who did some farm work for him. The character of Mary Weston was allowed to go as the actress was not available to make it a permanent part. I wonder what have happened if Tony had married Mary Weston. Oh gosh, there's some great memories on here. Rachel Tollhurst to our page said she was very pleased that there is a hairdresser in the Minions movie called Bad Roots. Nikki Smith again says her efforts in the orchard are her new favourite characters. Albert Frune in Archers' Appreciation said has there ever been a character in the Archers with a bone through their nose? To which David Milia responded, "I believe that Chris Archer, Racket's Fairbrother was actually called Gary and was originally from Borneo. She he used to entertain regulars in the plowments by passing the five bones of farm-based mammals through her nose. It was a regular feature of the show in the 1950s." And on our page we said, and this was actually me, I just said look I've just had an idea, I don't have them often and I wanted to share them with you, why don't the Fairbrothers buy an established business such as Mike's Milk Round make their contacts and establish their business skills before jumping into a business which has a sees nor income. There were a lot of responses. Most people were saying well basis because they haven't thought it through. Laura Jo Eltinger says "Pactotobes isn't a morning person." Penelope Machesy said, "What about the fact that the milk round no longer has a local real reliable source of Guernsey milk?" Good bye. Guy Labrad because A) yuppies don't do milk rounds, B) there is no milk round, and C) that storyline would give maximum grief in misery to the grumbiest and drippy day. And plus D) said, "Let's not go ahead of ourselves, I'm not convinced those two have the sense God meant for geese." To which end I fully expect to hear about the lovely flock of geese working full time to make the fair brother suitable in time for Christmas. Alison Jones says she didn't understand the business plan 100g, say 70 pounds each, left the feed expenses and the rent doesn't leave very much for two people to live on for six months. Good point. Now just before I go, I just want to say, I'd really love some input from you all on what we can do to make our page more dynamic. I do worry sometimes that I'm just asking questions and getting responses to things I'm interested in. So if you have any ideas, please jump onto the page and let us know. Hooray. Thank you Miss Bell, and thank you our sponsor Sarah Smith, who we stand up and salute every time that advert comes on. And as well as saluting, you know, I do lose see. What? I'll wipe something clean. Sarah is sending some cloths to Sam Mary Dee and to who else was it? Glen full of love who both sent pictures of themselves being posher washers. So they're getting some some cloths from her brilliant, just has a little thing that's very lovely. Quite a few of the listeners actually already were using this product, weren't they? I know, they're good. Funny how I wasn't though, I'm obviously not a posher, washer. But anyway, let's let's not digress this because this is all about the archers. So why don't you tell us about the best hashtag the archers tweets of the last seven dates. There's loads of these because I couldn't choose so I've just put them on it. There's five because then this this section isn't fit for purpose Lucy, because I say it's your top five hashtag the archers tweet to you saying that there's loads of them. Sorry. It's going to get me quite upset. We're trying to get keep the show ship shape and tight. Five, six, there's seven, seven, sorry, eight, there's eight, I'm sorry, there's eight. But I couldn't choose. Anyway, just let me do them and I'll do them quickly, all right, stop moaning. If we had any ham said, I don't know about you, but there's nothing I find more compelling than someone reading from a risk assessment, Sharon Evans. This made me pee myself laughing. I was talking about Pat's holiday, you know, she said, who still does that, who still shows people the holiday photos for crying out. I did think that. I absolutely love that. I thought they gave a bloody slideshow in a minute. God. Anyway. We'll separate Cinefield. Yeah, exactly. Sharon Evans said, here's Tony moaning on the trip to the ruins, here's Tony moaning on the trip to the abdominal garden, here's Tony moaning about the azure skies, very funny. Steve, who is at N.B. Milley on the tritters, just put 10.58 a.m. and Kenton has come to the diary room. Mike dark blue box said, grubby little bar with a microwave, best trip advisor comment ever. Paul Douglas said, they're almost family and you want to shag them. It was very old, that wasn't it. She keeps talking about, and also she seems to fancy both of them equally, which is also, you know, a bit odd. It's, I mean, I don't know, it's just peculiar. And she keeps talking about, well, they're practically family, dad. And you think, well, you know, take your hands out the trousers then. Anyway, David Absalom said, we'll all mix rest. Oh, hello there. David Absalom said, we'll all miss Rex and Toby, particularly those of us who could work at which was which and which wasn't new Tom. Poppy Starkey said, I have found someone I hate more than old pip, new pip. And Ruth Arianne, who always makes me laugh, said, when Pip and Jill were having their, the heart's heart in the kitchen, you got it because you're a talented person in your own right. You're still pissed, don't you, Gran? I thought it was very funny, the end of the tweets of the week. Smashing. Now, loose, it's been a momentous week. Do you want to know why? Why? I guess that many reviews you've got on the UK iTunes store. Have we hit our total? Yee-haw! Really? We have. We have. We've hit it. So now we have to send out mugs and things, don't we? Yeah, we do. So they don't live in Alaska or Cairo or something, where do they live, whoever it was? What's wrong with if they lived in Alaska, which is part of the United States and Cafe Press delivers there? Do they? Yes. What's about Cairo? Well, that's not part of the United States. What about the Isle of Man? What about the Shetland Isles? Shetland Isles is a constituent part of the United Kingdom. The Isle of Man isn't, it's one of the crown dependences. You are such a geek. No, I just kind of know some stuff that you don't know. Thus, that is absolutely the definition of a geek, somebody who knows things about something you don't, thus a geek. So wherever they live, we'll get their mug and... Well, who was it then? Erm, no, you don't ask me because I didn't do it, it's like, oh, sorry. But next week we will unveil exactly who was the 200 reviewer and... Seamless, seamless that was, like a weird little machine. So right here and now, folks, there's no shop news. Hooray! Oh, sorry. That's not supposed to be a good thing, is it? No. You're supposed to be like, boom. You love shop news. There is no order of John Archer, we're going straight to the end of the show. Erm, oh no, not quite. So we're saying, oh yeah, if you want to donate, go donate, hit the donate button. 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I used to be really good about three years ago. I've gone rubbish recently. But if you want to do that and bolster up me, me, me, I'm out of followers, you can do that. And I'm actually, it feels like R-O-I-F-I-E-L-D. Or me, and I was always rubbish on the Twitter's at Lucy V. That's so not true, you're bloody funny. If it wasn't for your, your wit and cleverness on the Twitter's, you won't be doing this now. So please, please, please keep those reviews coming as you want to be talking about podcast charts before Pat finds out we've hidden her holiday photos. Ha ha. She should have put them on Facebook, silly ones, or maybe Instagram them. That's what the, that's what the young things are doing these days. But people take photographs endlessly. You don't need a special collection of flipping photographs, do you? They're so 70s, Pat and Tony. They have not moved on at all, are they? You refer into Pat's politics? Politics, I bet you, shaving arrangements, you know what I mean? I bet Tony wears a lot of beige, slacks. Yeah, I bet that, and there's just kind of a lot of florally kind of vaguely ethnicies type stuff in their house. Do you think you've got an, are you been served box set? The professionals, absolutely. That's Tony down to a tea. Tony down to a tea. Hmm. Alright, loose. Yeah. I'm going to skidaddle because I've got like parental duties to do, but as always, this has been fantastic, quite emotional. Sometimes it's been, you know, it's induced the odd smile and titter from me. So on that note, I'd like to say goodbye. And so would I. Goodbye. Goodbye. Goodbye. Good people, but listen to Dum dum dum and love the arches. Bye. 1-800-Flowers.com is more than your birthday, anniversary, or just because gift-giving destination. We put our hearts into everything we do to help you celebrate all life's special occasions with friends and family. 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