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Dum Tee Dum Episode 48 59 mins 59 seconds for Robin Winning!

Dum Tee Dum Episode 48 – 59 minutes 59 seconds for Robin Winning

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Duration:: 1h 6m
Broadcast on:: 03 Mar 2015
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Well, with the name your price tool from Progressive, you can find options that fit your budget and potentially lower your bills. Try it at progressive.com. Progressive Casualty Insurance Company and Affiliates. Price and coverage match limited by state law, not available in all states. Forging ahead together drives Colorado's pioneering spirit at Chevron, we donate funding and volunteer thousands of hours in support of the community's week-all home. We also employ our neighbors to deliver the energy needed as the state's largest oil and natural gas producer, all to help improve lives in our shared backyard. That's Energy in Progress. Visit Colorado.chefron.com [MUSIC] This podcast is a Royfield Brown production. Find others on iTunes. All right. This is Dometitom, sponsored by Honey Juice. [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] This is Dometitom, the show about the archers and the goings on the Vambridge. I'm Philippa Hall, ready to snip any sniping with my secateurs. Manhandled alongside me dragged a kicking and screaming to check in from his holiday we have... Quentin Rayner. And lining up to be our saucy scarecrows, we have you, our listeners in all your various shapes and sizes. Now, despite the billing, we have no bickering brown this week, hence my secateurs. The media man that is Royfield has been called away at the last minute, hence the greenish style substitution by Quentin. Now, this week's Dometitom is from our very own Isabelle. And on this week's podcast, we hear from dusty substances with a spoon. Young Keith, Isabelle, and a last minute first time caller in order that Quentin doesn't know about. And we also have a text from Chris. So, Quentin, thank you so much for stepping in and for keeping going with all the Wi-Fi problems. Clearly, you're still in Cornwall country. I am, because our dear list now won't realise we've spent the last hour or so trying to get a smidgen of Wi-Fi connection in this glorious county of Cornwall to bring you this podcast. So, I was going to make some greenish reference to my Alice band, but all my hair has fallen out, so I don't need that. Yeah, Cornwall, yes, lovely. Having a super time, checked it down with Rayne yesterday, having said that. But, yeah, some lovely walks. I've plunged into the sea, bodyboarding, to the gasps of the assembled crowd on the rocks, thinking my word was magnificent. Natural surfer, he isn't. Had a lovely meal as well, a bit of a restaurant named dropping here at Rick Stein's Place in Padstow, which I know it's a decent restaurant. But it had to say it was reasonably priced, it was, sensibly priced. Not cheap, but, you know, affordable. Lovely fish, seafood, grata, topped off by raspberry souffle. What's there not to like as well, and great service as well. I have reached the peak of static caravan life by ordering a rotary washing line. I think there's no coming back from that, is there? I have a knife, and I'm getting a rotary washing line. Thanks to our listeners for their suggestions about that random golf ball that was on our walkway when we arrived. Most people seem to agree with me that it was probably a greedy seagull that had picked it up and dropped it on the walkway. Others thought perhaps a naughty child, but I'm going for greedy seagull, so a genuine birdie there. How was your week anyway? Oh, busy as always, usual chaos and calamities, but this week I decided I was going to cut my son's hair. He's been refusing to go to the barbers. My husband was refusing to cut his hair because it had grown so much. I was like, right, I'm going to do this, got some clippers. My first question was, do I clip it going up or going down? So I think that sets the scene that I had no clue what I was doing. Oh, dear. And the result was, yes, awful. It's fair to say, I detect all the family and say, do say you love the hairstyle when you next see it. So at this moment, as we speak, my husband is now with the clippers trying to rectify the damage. You'll never forgive you. You realise that we brought up for decades on end. Are you sure you use clippers, not secateurs? I think if I do secateurs, it would have made a better job to be fair. Well, shall we move on from that hairy moment? And because how would you sum up the four episodes of high drama in Ambridge, then? Well, Quentin, using your A to Z of activities in Ambridge, this week it's S. S for sorry. On Monday, Peggy was really really sorry for getting involved with Alice's alcoholism and warning Chris to protect Martha. And Alice was sorry for accusing Peggy that she, Alice, is the one to blame and that she's frightened. On Tuesday, Linda was sorry for pretending the fate idea for a scarecrow competition was hers, not joys. And Jakob was sorry Kate didn't want to live with Peggy anymore, but there was no way he and Kate were moving in together. On Wednesday, Brian said sorry to various people in a pub, as he tried to get an inebriated Alice back into his car. And Alice was sorry she trusted that Brian was joining her with a strong G&T in the pub. On Thursday, Brian said sorry to Eddie for pretending Alice had skipped happily into rehab and tuna was sorry. Well, we hope she was sorry for interrupting Neil and Susan with the dreaded secateurs. Now, I wrote this when I thought I was co-hosting with Roy Field and I thought the theme of saying sorry was somehow appropriate, but he couldn't make it and Quentin, you have nothing to apologize for. I thank you for that. Yes, it would have been interesting to hear. Mr Brown eating humble pie on this podcast. Pinks might fly, I'm telling you that will never happen. But I think he's ducked out of this because he couldn't bear to say sorry. It's been the S-word this week, including secateurs, isn't it? Yes, you're right. You're absolutely right. What a week it's been and how different to last week, but anyway, let's get on to the important bit. In fact, I have a very important announcement, very special announcement. Get ready for this Quentin, 30th of July, get the date in your diary. Everybody, this is a Zoom alert. We've got a Zoom with Buffy Davis, who of course is a wonderful, Jolene, 30th of July. Oh, lovely. We haven't heard from Jolene for ages. No, it's been great. Well, she's seeing one of her songs, do you think? Let's hope. I'm really looking forward to that. It's been a while since we had a Zoom, so yes, that'll be good. But anyway, I've forgotten her name was Buffy as well. A great name, Buffy Davis, lovely. Yes, so we need to hear your views, and if someone wants to get in contact, how can they do that? Yes, your calls, your emails, your texts are the lifeblood of this podcast without it. Without them, we can't do this, can we, Philippa? So if you'd like to comment on the arches or leave us a plot prediction, then you can leave us a message on Speakpipe, which you can discover on our website on dumtydum.com. You just click on the contact tab at the top. It's very simple to use, and you can record it as many times as you like before you submit it, so don't worry. Maximum of two minutes. Or you can send a voice note or text message by WhatsApp to this number, 07957-167-6966, that's 07957-167-6966, which if you're calling from abroad, and a lot of our listeners are listening from abroad, you have to tag on a plus 4/4 at the start. If you'd rather not submit a voice note or voice mail or whatever, or Speakpipe, then email, tap the old keyboard, and to do that, also head to dumtydum.com and click that Contact Us tab. So what did you our lovely, lovely, dumtydum community think of the week? Hello, average 3962. Hello, it's Dusty Substances here, the wrong sort of listener. I haven't called him for a while, but it's lovely to have, oh, my cook o'clock. Hey ho, on was an upwards. I haven't called him for a while, so it was because I was very behind with the archers, but I've just caught up now, which is good. Yesterday, I was very grateful to the archers, because after a very old couple of weeks domestically, and then the anxiety of Boris's press conference, I then listened to the archers, and lovely joy and her idea about the scarecrows really cheered me up, because Sheila was right. Oh, God, I've said that. Sheila was right. People don't want to be bogged down in all the things that are worrying us about the pandemic. We want something really, really silly and inconsequential and a bit daft, and if that isn't finding scarecrows around the village and winning a jar of pickle. Wow. Oh, that's a little really, doesn't it? I thought that was glorious. I cannot wait until all the scarecrows are made and the rude are the better, and I'm really looking forward to it. So thank you for the archers for cheering me up on a day that actually really needed it. Oh, I hope everyone is well, and I look forward to calling in again soon. Hopefully on the subject of rude scarecrows. There we go. Bye. Goodbye, Dusty. Lovely to hear from you. Again, you're not the wrong sort of listener. You're the ideal sort of listener, and are esteemed Prime Minister causing people anxiety. Who would have guessed? Who would have guessed? But I'm glad anyway, Dusty, that the scarecrow storyline laid your anxiety, and we needed that little bit of levity, didn't we, in quite a tough week, and the scarecrow seemed to have gone down very well, apart from with Linda, but even she's swallowing her pride and accepting it's a good idea. Yes, I think rude are the better, definitely. I did see one suggestion on social media of Nat Hancock, stroke Gina, scarecrow in a clinch, I think. That'll be fun to see. So, yeah, a little bit of silly, in sequential darkness, you can't go wrong with that, Dusty, and to win a jar of pickle, I mean, better than the Euros, I'd say, for example. Yes, oh, Dusty, I'm so sorry you've had a difficult few weeks. Hope you're okay, and yeah, there must have been difficult to find yourself agreeing with Shuler, but yes, we do need some cheering up. I think I spend far too much time looking at all the stats. It's quite scary, so scarecrows. If we did scarecrows to represent the archers' characters, what would it be? Okay, Neil would have the secateurs, Lee would be there with his drum kit, Adam with the missing money, Helen with a knife, Russ with his coloring book. I don't know, what scarecrow would you have? Which person would you have as a scarecrow, Quentin? Linda is a bit of a witch. Oh, Quentin, I think there's a real problem with your Wi-Fi, because you seem to be saying some very unpalatable things. Um, Lillian with a great big bottle of gin. Yes. I'd have leave as a super, super hero to it, you know. He'd have to be posing with something like that, wouldn't he? Um, I'd tell... Obviously Adam just... I've had Adam lying flat on the ground, because he's so boring, isn't he? Because that's how he... He's a rose, isn't it? Oh, my God. Yeah, that's how he leaves us for you. I'd have Russ as a slug, obviously, so I mean, I could go on and on, really. Just have Eddie as a scarecrow. I mean, what's the difference? Oh, my goodness. So we do need to discuss Shula, as Dusty has raised the issue of Shula, we need to discuss it. So Susan said, "Maybe Shula can help you resolve the problem, since you're obviously been so helpful to her." And Neil then said, "SUSON." And then Shula said, "I didn't mean to cause any trouble. I'm sorry, you go to somebody's house, there's no answer at the door." So you go round the back, uninvited, you hear arguing, and you go in. I mean... That's the arches summed up, isn't it? I mean, how many conversations that are reaching a fever picture interrupt just the wrong moment? Because somebody goes, "Hello, just bobbing by, I'll bugger off." This is more interesting. I find that one of the most infuriating aspects of these script writing, actually. So it's so often key conversations are interrupted at just the wrong moment. And that was a classic one, wasn't it? But it did spawn the best line of the week. I thought all that went. Susan was really, really wild. And Shula turns up thanking Neil for sorting out her shrubbery. That is a euphemism. And Susan fires off her exit line was, "We were already in trouble, Shula, before you turned up with your secateurs." I thought that was the use of the word secateurs. It's never me. Yes. Take a moment. You're using a better way than that. Yes. Crying. Yeah. So it... I mean, who would have thought the humble secateur could cause so much trouble? Yes. Actually, having said that, I did do myself a terrible personal injury once with a pair of secateurs. Yeah. Painful. Do I ask? In the groin area. In the groin area. You drew blood. Yeah. Oh, my goodness. I winced like Vince at the mention of secateurs. It brings back a painful memory, literally. Yes. Oh, my goodness. No. I mean, I couldn't live in Ambridge because I couldn't have people calling around uninvited. My great-grandfather used to have a sign on the gate saying, "No visitors whatsoever." That's sort of a sign. I love people coming around, but I need to know about it. So I can do the last minute, shoving things in cupboard. I think most people are like that. Really? Yes. I just think people are just dropping in high, but that's the arches, isn't it? That is the arches. Hi. Heard you arguing. Can I interfere? Yeah. I do exercise my pastoral training and come in and interfere. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. As well as make you feel very suspicious, Susan. Anyway, I hope you will have a lovely day. Bye. Yeah. Yes. Let's hope she doesn't ask Susan for a reference because I might not be what she wants. And that's the Linda's idea for the fate committee of having a piece of art or sculpture on the lockdown theme. I was trying to think if I did that, what would mine be? And the only sculpture I could think is of the scales, my scales, all the way I put on and locked down with chunky kick cats. I would do a sculpture of my scales. Would that win me the prize, do you think, Quentin? No, because it would be so unrealistic of real life. Is that Smarmy Charming enough for you? Yeah. Thanks. It was so Smarmy. Yes. Never mind. No, that was great, Dusty. Thank you so much for your call. Brilliant, as always. And now we go on to the wonderful Witherspoon. Hey, baby, I hear the blues are calling to salads and scrambled eggs. Messy. Greetings, everyone, in Dumpty Dum Towers and all Dumpty Demers around the world. It's with a spin and Angus Haggis here. And some husband is dealing with some significant medical problems and then fell off a bicycle earlier this weekend, fractured the head of his right humerus. So I've been a bit distracted. And we'll be helping him out with daily needs over the next two months. So I may not be as focused on the archers for a while, but we'll do my best, especially with the weekly snap post. I just wanted to know two things. First, I was not surprised when Alice did a runner. As I've noted before, sometimes alcoholics have to be dragged to the front door of rehab because of their ambivalence. But as long as they finally sign themselves in, they have a chance at recovery. Second point, regarding Susan and Neil, people have been worried that Neil's alleged forgetfulness may be an early sign of more serious cognitive problems. However, the only evidence of Neil's memory slips have involved unheard conversations with Susan and her claims that he forgot something. I'd say it's just as likely that the forgetfulness is Susan's problem, especially combined with her irritability and suspiciousness. Look, it's still all may be related to their stress, but I'm beginning to think not. As I always say, we'll see and I'll talk to you soon. Oh, with the spoon, thank you so much for your call. And we're so sorry to hear about Alan. We are sending you both our thoughts, our hugs and our love. We hope things improve soon. Yes, really hope that rehab helps. In the meantime, Brian seems to have replaced Adam with Eddie. I don't understand how Eddie is now working with Brian, but anyway, never mind. Oh, wouldn't you? I would. Yeah. I suppose so. They had a more interesting conversation, which we'll get on to later. But yes, this dementia, I agree with the spoon. I certainly don't think Neil's got dementia. I think either they are completely knackered with looking after Martha or there is something with Susan, and when Neil suggested getting Jennifer to help, which didn't seem unreasonable to me, and he said, you know, we've all got limits, Susan said, I haven't got limits. I mean, where is Chris? Is Chris doing any parenting in this? I haven't heard him take Martha for even half an hour. It seems really strange and quite worrying. What do you think, Quentin? Yeah, he has disappeared off the scene, hasn't he? Very much become silent. Not even hearing the clanging of him as a blacksmith, are we? Yeah. Yeah, this whole Susan, Neil. I mean, I postulated about Neil. I picked up very quickly his forgetfulness, and I was putting the old tweet out, as is my way, saying, all dear, is he showing the first signs, and quite a few people shared my anxiety. He seems to have renewed focus certainly in the area of Schuller's garden anyway, so maybe he isn't going to lose his mind, certainly hope not, because he's one of my favourites, and I don't think we could quite go through anything like that at the moment. And everybody's saying, oh, there weren't anything between Schuller and Neil. I don't think they will be. I think there's quite a flirting going on there, particularly for Neil. And he admitted it's a nice break to go to the garden, sort out Schuller's bushes and so forth, to get a wave, frankly, from the stresses at home. Yeah. But it's clearly pricked Susan's suspicion, and heightened her stress, and perhaps made her their forgetful one. So I think we're the spoons on to something there. Do we think Susan and Neil are in trouble, as Susan was suggesting? I think they're too solid. They are, but they're obviously having a big dip at the moment. But we need them together, don't we? They're very much part of the bedrock of the arches. Yes. It was horrible listening to their argument, really, if you can call it an argument, heated discussion. And I think I felt that Susan was just warming up and sort of coming round to the idea that everything was okay, particularly when Neil referred to her lovingly as a daft apeth. Yes, certainly. But then Schuller came in, and that just switched it in a whole other direction. And I am a bit concerned about them now. Well, I've never heard them. They've had these ups and downs before. I've heard them argue. Remember, Neil really sawed in my estimation, and during the monologues, he really put Susan in her place. She was storming off to tick somebody off about something, and he said, "You're not." True. You're coming home. Don't do it. And I thought, "Neil, I like you." And he's never disappointed since. So they have had big bust ups, and she whips herself up to a friend and gets worse and worse, and he's trying to calm her down. And as you say, she tells her she's being a daft apeth and all that. So I think they'll get through it. It's one of those blips. But they're certainly under stress, aren't they? They are. I mean, something needs to happen with Martha, in terms of Chris sharing the load or them letting other people look after her. Maybe that will be the change to allow Brian and Jennifer more time with Martha, but it just, it just felt uncomfortable to me, and there was no immediate resolution. If they have a bit of an argument and then everything sorted and cleared, that's fine. But it just sort of ended, and we didn't have that at all. It's those bloody secateurs, aren't they? Of course, no sorts of trouble. I rename them "sexateurs" actually, because that's what they should be called in terms of the arches. Just don't understand why he's spending so much time in the garden. If he's, you know, if I was exhausted... To get away from Susan! Yeah, but if I was exhausted, I would just want to get some sleep or read a book, or I wouldn't want to be doing some gardening if you're that tired, that I'd just be, yes, in the shed, door locked. There is the allure of shoe, look, clearly. Oh no, please don't let it be, Quentin. We have to hope not. But now we need to move on to the knowledgeable Keith, young Keith. Good morning, young Keith here. Just a very quick message, not leaping to the defence, but lurching to the defence, stumbling to the defence of Royfield. And I'll tell you why. Now we'll be fully honest here, brutally honest, I might say, but it's all said with love. Because when I first started listening to Dump to Dump, it was probably about approximately four years ago when I was living in a little country called Chile, longest coastline in the world. That's not true, longest country in the world. Anyway, and I don't really care for Royfield. I very much like Lucy, and just the general setup, which of course, with mostly down to Royfield and all his hard work and et cetera. But I found Royfield to be very much the straight man. And when he would do his monologues, et cetera, I might be prone to flicking the fast forward thirty second button a few times till we got back to Archer's stuff. But over time, and particularly recently, I've liked the way that Royfield, I like the way you've adjusted and you've become sort of mischievous. You are very much the mantle hander, the godfather, almost, of the show. And I like your bit like, well, almost like some kind of dictator who's always in the background, always watching, but not always in view. And I like that. And I like that you're a wind up merchant. So please don't start. Please continue with your button pushing, because it's what I'm enjoying the most now about the new. I went to a new and improved, the new Dumpty Dum. Anyway, lots of love, peace and love to everyone. He almost committed to say improved Dumpty Dum, didn't he? But he just held back. Nice one there, Keith, because he is clearly a big fan. A big fan of Royfield. Bigging up brownies. So, yes, I love this idea. He's some kind of dictator behind the scenes. I think that's pretty accurate, isn't it, Philippa? No comment. He's there, lingering in the background, shooting off his orders and then slinking into those shadows again. Yes, yes. You've summed up our executive producer. You like the fact he's a wind up merchant, because you are as well. Ooh, yeah. He doesn't half wind you up, Philippa, doesn't he? I mean, you come with a full set of buttons and he presses every single wind. Which drives some of our listeners up the wall and others, obviously, Keith enjoys it. So, who knows? As I said last week, I thought it went a bit too far last time and I think you agreed as well. But you like two bickering siblings and you just, like, it's got to grow up really, haven't you? But Keith is enjoying it. Keith is enjoying it. Oh, yes, it's good to have a defence, Royfield. I did say, Royfield, you need to listen to Young Keith's message and which he did. And he came back and said, "I like that, man." So there you go, Young Keith. If you have the official seal of approval. And if Royfield is a dictator, then we have to do what he said. And he told me I have to ask for more dumb, dumb tunes to play at the beginning. We're on our last one with Isabelle. So, please send in whatever version or rendition you would like to. Yeah, I think Royfield, I mean, a bit like maybe Kate and Yakko by flounce and he ponders. I don't know. Speaking about Yakko, actually, hasn't he learnt to read Kate just beautifully? I thought he was brilliant in that scene. And when Kate said, "Am I a thoroughbred Yakko, do I need to make an appointment?" I just thought that was just a lovely see. But then I didn't like it when we had Fallon diagnosing Linda with social anxiety from lockdown. Yes, OK, that's probably me. I've probably got that. But what lockdown has there been in Ambridge? The only COVID issues we've had Leonard getting his vaccine. And Peggy had to sit outside once under a heater at the tea rooms. I haven't seen or heard a lot more that's been going on. I'm still totally in lockdown, locked in. But Quentin, you're not. Tell me, what is your secret to being brave and going out into that world? Oh, you haven't moved from structure at all. Have you stayed put throughout? Yes, we haven't been out of the county, definitely. I have been for a few meals out, but only outside. I haven't been inside. I haven't been to the theatre, the cinema, nothing. Yeah, I'm one of the scaredy cats. I never thought of it in those terms. We have broken out, I suppose, within the laws and regulations. Oh, yes, of course. Yeah, yeah, but I suppose we've just been very sensible. We feel more secure, I suppose, having been double jab. That's a big thing that makes you feel more confident about going out. But I still, you know, mask up quite a lot and constantly washing my hands. I've got no skin on my fingers anymore. So I suppose a good dollop of being sensible, but outdoors as well. I feel much happier outdoors. I thought those scenes at Wembley last night, 65,000 people. Oh, I mean, you're telling me that ain't going to, we're not going to see a spike in infections. So, yeah, I keep away from crowds and try and do as much outdoors as possible. Is my motto? Yeah, no, you're much braver than me. I need to step foot outdoors and not let Fallon's diagnosis hold me back. Why did you think they put that in there, though, Quentin? Well, do you think the government or the NHS had said, look, you need to mention this condition? Because it seemed a bit out of the blue. Remind me what she diagnosed her with social work. Yeah, so Linda was struggling and talking about whether she should step down from the fate. And Fallon was doing her motivational, inspirational talk and said she'd had a gentleman. I remember all that. A young gentleman, mid-40s, she was surprised how young that is, thanks, Fallon. And he'd been reading a newspaper and had been talking about lockdown, anxiety and how this gentleman thought he was suffering from that as well, that he was finding it hard to actually go out and try and return to some normality. As you said, though, Quentin, within the law, and so Fallon said maybe Linda was suffering from that as well. Well, she tied it in also to her trauma from the explosion, didn't she? True, yes. Which Linda concurred with. I didn't have the same reaction to you, actually. I'm glad we're getting the old Fallon back, who is empathetic and is a good listener and gives good advice. So that was my take on it. And, you know, I thought she was just giving a boost to somebody who dipped a bit. That was what I took away from it, and Linda seemed to have a spring in her step when she left. Yes, that's very true. Maybe I'm just being bitter and twisted. It just seems to come out of nowhere talking about this when they haven't really admitted that there's COVID in Ambridge. Yes, I mean, it's, they've, um, COVID has brushed balls at you, isn't it, really? You get the odd reference to it. I think most listeners are grateful. Yes, true. I'll be because, you know, it's a little escape and they're thought of being bogged down with COVID. And we're out right in the middle of a pandemic. I think it was too much for people, especially during those monologues. Yeah, that's true. So I think, yes, light brushstrokes has been the editor's main motivation, I think. Mention it occasionally, then pretend it's not there. That's fine, run and hide, fingers and ears, not happening. Well, young Keith, that call was brilliant. Thank you so much. We really appreciate it. And now, Quentin, are you ready for this? Are you, are you sitting comfortably? I am. Yes, I am. Right. This is our mystery call, is that right? Yes, this is a mystery call. Um, they're a first time caller-in-ra. Are you ready? Yeah. Here we go. Hello, first time caller-in-ra. Um, I am a broadcaster. Um, started listening to the archers in the mid 90s, about 1984 or 1985. Uh, one or the other. Um, I just wanted to call up just to say that, um, Wednesday is episode where Brian took Alice to the clinic was just utterly fantastic. Um, the interplay between the two and the penny finally dropping. But Brian is the how serious, how addicted his daughter is. It was just magnificent. Holly Chapman, uh, needs to, uh, win a whole load of awards for her performance as Alice, uh, go through alcoholism. It has been a performance for the ages. She really knows how to go through the gears and, uh, display. Um, the different stages of drunkenness and it was just an utterly fantastic and gripping episode. Uh, well done to more concerned. And, um, yes. Uh, also made a first time caller-in-ra, uh, key for the good work. Bye-bye. And there we have it. Roy Phil Brown. First time caller-in-ra, Roy Phil, congratulations on your, on your first call in. Please, please do call in again. Although I would have to say, because you do like to keep people on their toes. If you're a first time caller-in-ra, you've broken all the rules. Yeah. Well, he gave the year, but he didn't say what his sort of pedigree is. So I went to the dumptydum.com website on your behalf to see. And so 1984 is either Ed Grundy or Emma Carter. And 1985, that's when they were both born. And 1985 is when Marjorie Antribus arrived. So Roy Phil, you're a cross between Ed, Emma and Marjorie. But, uh, yes. He always, he always cites Marjorie, doesn't he? I think. Yes, he does. So shall we, shall we label him the Antribus? Maybe. I don't know. Yeah, Roy Phil, a great call, and thanks for calling in. It was splendid. He sounds very serious, though. Roy Phil. Well, I thought he was, I thought it was a parody. I thought he was pretending to be somebody. And then I, then he started dropping in Roy Phil's words. I thought, oh, it's Roy Phil. I didn't recognize his, his voice initially. Um, anyway, we should be calling the dictator anyway, not Roy Phil's. That was a call from the dictator, right? Well, no, because he's a, in this, in this, he's a, he couldn't make it for this episode, but he could send us a corner in a, so yes, uh, very good. And you're right, Roy Phil, on your first call in, it was an interesting episode. And it's amazing that it was just Brian and Alice in that whole episode, as far as I'm aware, there was nobody else in it handled it so well. So I have to say those were the most echoey toilets I have ever come across. It was like there were, you know, 2000 toilets and he was shouting right down to the end. I've never heard of such things before. And when he found Alice eventually in the pub, I didn't know, I didn't know what his plan was going to be. I thought, how on earth is he going to get her out of the pub and to rehab? What's going to happen? Also, they didn't reveal what Alice's favorite type of crisps were. She asked for her favorite crisps. So that's a question for next time. I was surprised that nobody stopped Brian man handling Alice into the car. I know he made this very passionate play. You know, this is my daughter. She's an alcoholic, which, as Roy Phil's mentioned, was just sort of stunning to hear him say that and admit that. But nobody stopped them unless they all heard him and he was so convinced they all actually helped him get Alice in the car because at one moment he was sort of facing the crowds and shouting that his daughter was an alcoholic. And the next moment they'd arrived at rehab and I thought, gosh, how did that last part of the journey? Yeah, I think it's a suspension of disbelief and all that, but also compression of getting everything into 13 minutes, I suppose. But fundamentally, I agree with Roy Phil. I tweeted about it on the day. I thought that Wednesday's episode was outstanding. I think one of the best bits of radio drama are genuinely heard for a very long time. I thought the acting and the writing and the direction was superb throughout and the performances by Holly Chapman and Charles Collingwood were outstanding. They, I was genuinely gripped by it. And I wanted more, which is always a good sign of a very good drama. And both, particularly Holly Chapman, have, and I've noticed this, she's really come on as an actor, I think, mainly because she's been given such a juicy storyline, but her ability to subtly change her tone and you suddenly, something switches and you think, oh, blimey, it's all going to go horribly wrong. I'm sure enough she gets angry and nasty and really lets off. She's all cuckettish and girly and got her daddy around a little finger and flattering him and so forth. And then she turns and she just indicates that with the tiniest tone or changes. And then there's a big gear change. And I thought Brian, Charles Collingwood really played brilliantly opposite her and he obviously decided on this tactic, okay, we'll just get a drunk and I'll get her there somehow. But I think, I agree, I did think, wouldn't people stop him, apparently kidnapping a young woman? And again, apart from the compression side of it, I think it shows how convincing Brian is as a character. He speaks with authorities. He's a sort of chap who you believe when he talks and that would have carried him through. But I think the very fact he stood up publicly and said, she's my daughter, she's an alcoholic, I think that was the first time we've heard Brian publicly proclaim that was also very significant. And then the next day, the other scene I thought between him and Eddie was superb as well. The great radio drama, great use of the microphone, the timbre of Brian's voice, how close he got to the microphone, you could hear the sorrow in his voice and the exhaustion as well. And he just capitulated and told everything to Eddie and I thought Eddie's response was lovely tying in with William's mental health issues and attempted suicide and the fact that he reminded Brian and us that he, Brian was the only one outside the family who knew about William's troubles, which linked and explained why Brian felt at ease to confess to Eddie. So those two, that entire episode was brilliant on Wednesday and I thought the scene between the scenes between Eddie and Brian were very moving and very convincing. So yes, feathers in lots of caps. Yes, I agree. They really were great scenes between Eddie and Brian. I was quite shocked when Eddie was talking about going through similar problems and just mentioned William, because yes, Brian was aware of what William had gone through, so there was the connection there. But of course, Edward had his major problems as well and I was just surprised that there was no mention of that as well, that there wasn't the acknowledgement. But yes. I think you would have got two cluttered, wouldn't it? I think the William thing was more clear cut as a comparison to Alice. But I take your point. But again, in this conversation, I loved the name Terry Two Phones. What a note. It just sums up the character of a person straight away. I just thought that's wonderful. But Eddie's going to get in trouble with using his limo for Terry Two Phones, isn't it? Of course, it's going to be complete disaster, isn't it? Honey, you're licensed and he's going to be on the take. And Terry Two Phones will want to take a percentage. And then everybody will puke up inside it and then, "Oh, God." And they're going to have another run in with Rex. No, it's going to be complete, absolute disaster. But hey, that's Eddie for you, isn't it? He'll bounce back. He will. He absolutely will. Well, Roy Fields, thank you so much for that call. And do call in again. Yeah. Roy Fields, love to hear from you. Do call in again. Yes. Don't be shy, Roy Fields. Don't be shy. We're very, very sweet helmets on this program. We'll treat you with kid gloves. So Roy Fields, do feel free to phone in again whenever you like. Yeah. You're likely to hear your first call. And now we go on to inspirational Isabelle. Hi. So this is like more like last week's call, really, because I can't call in last week because I had a busy weekend. I'm going to do it in day one, day two, day three, day four. Day one. Lily. Well, at first I was like, no way. She cheated on Ruth like that. I mean, I mean, I thought with like the being an episode on Sunday. But anyway, it looks like she had a one night stand with this soul. I don't know what to think. I mean, I'm not really sure if I like Russ or not. Vince. Well, at first, I wondered why. I mean, like it got on top of Cranford Crystal. And, you know, when, you know, started like looking like it was in pain. I wonder why that happened. I mean, he said on Tuesday that the dismount was fine. But it seems to have started when he mounted, not dismounted. Tuesday. It was funny when Lizzy found out about Vince and his little mishap with Cranford Crystal. Yeah. Yes. So anyway, day three. That was funny. You know, the sudden you hear this woman start to come in. You know, you know, it's suddenly coming on. Vince. Yeah. Terrible accent. Sorry. Thursday. I'm glad that Russ and Lily didn't have a massive falling out. And I'm glad that Russ, I didn't know Russ was a painter. I thought he was just like sketching sort of thing. So anyway, looks like Lily likes the portrait. I like that Lizzy and Vince have finally admitted the feelings for one another. Yeah. So anyway, next week I'll give him a views on this week and next week. Two weeks in one. Sorry, this car's been a bit longer than usual. Bye. Well, thank you Isabel. It's funny to be thinking about last week when we're concentrating on this week Isabel. So if you can phone in about the current week, that would really help us out. I'm trying to brush off the rust from my memory from last week. But we did go into it last week in quite a lot of detail. So there's not much point as recapping all that again. We always welcome you call Isabel, but if you can try and get it to make it the current week, that really helps us out. You can't believe that Lily cheated on Russ like that. I think most of us cheered from the rooftops like that because most of us can't abide Russ and he's just a freeloader and he deserves everything that's coming his way. But part of us quite enjoy him being around because he makes us skin creep and we can just moan about him, me included. So yeah, Lily likes her portrait. It's exquisite. She said it didn't she her remember. You like the fact that Lizzie and Vince have proclaimed their love for one another, even though Lizzie doesn't want to live with him. Yeah, work that one out. So thanks a lot Isabel, but yeah, just focus on the current week next week if you can because there's limited time as you appreciate. Yes, thanks Isabel for your call as always. And for your dumb, dumb tune. We can't wait to hear what you think of next week coming up. Yes, and all the various things. My question that I haven't mentioned yet, Quentin, is all this faff about the committee meeting, the fate of the fate. If you like that, I've been working on that, the fate of the fate. And Linda arranging meetings for 3 p.m. or 4 p.m. or both. What was that about? You've really been listening attentively, haven't you this week? Went straight over my head that one. No, didn't clock that. Why are you suspicious of that? I don't know. I do seem to be a bit anti-Linda this week. I'm not at all. But it just seemed strange that there was this, oh, some people arrive at 3 o'clock and then at 4 o'clock. But maybe it allowed to have the discussion about the scarecrows and then tell the others at 4 o'clock and then Fallon think it was Linda's idea. So I can see the conceit of all of that. But yeah, it just seemed a bit strange. Do you think she's trying to water down the influence of joy somehow? She sees her as that threat. Yes, and when she tells joy just to sit down and observe the committee meeting. We just knew that there was no way that was going to happen. That was brilliant. That did make me chuckle. And you could hear, you could see Linda sucking on a lemon. Couldn't you? The scarecrow idea went down. So we're like, "Oh!" Even the pips went down. But we've done one about fairy tales 10 years ago. It's quite a long time ago. But I did worry because joy said, "Oh, we can give out prizes for the nicest and the ugliest." I thought, "Oh my goodness, if they start doing fellow residents of Ambridge." And then they vote on who's the ugliest. That's a car crash waiting to happen. That's a Facebook poll, I think. Yes, absolutely. Well, Isabel, thank you very much. Now we have a text. I love the text. And this one covers a lot of issues, but is very to the point. So this is a text from Chris. Hello, a few predictions. Neil has dementia. Alice will complete rehabilitation and cope thereafter. Joy sadly has a deceased daughter. Adam and Brian have heads knocked together by Ian and Jennifer. Phoebe and Rex romance. England one. Denmark, Neil. Cheers, Chris. Great. I love all the-- He got the Denmark score wrong, didn't he? More predictions, Chris. Keep them coming. Yes, I hope. I do hope rehab works for Alice. Although, again, this week, we heard so many people saying they were proud of her. And I just wonder, actually, if that was too much pressure. I understand why people said it. Brian said it, Peggy said it a number of times. Kate, I think, mentioned it as well. So it's a nice thing to say. And there are often a time when you would love to hear that from somebody. But I don't know when you're in Alice's position, if it just puts on more pressure and makes the thought of going to rehab even more difficult. But as with us being said, if you can get them there, it can work. And she also, in her exchange with Brian, said how guilty she felt about how much it was costing them. I mean, she used that as an excuse to justify more going. But I think she is concerned about that. Thank God she's there. Actually, the one thing I did mention when she got to rehab. And throughout that Wednesday scene, the only other character, of course, was Sandra, wasn't it? Yes. The woman at the rehab center on the phone. Yes, of course. She was a bit odd. I thought she reminded me of the continuity announcer who used to pop up on Victoria Wood on TV. Remember that? She used to sit behind a desk. You remember her? Yeah. She sounded just like her. And I thought, why are you sounding like a Victoria Wood continuity announcer? This is ridiculous. And then when they got there, she said, well, welcome to you both. And we'll just get you processed. Yeah. Which isn't the best of words, isn't it? Why do you just say, well, just get you settled in. Yeah. It was like in a superb episode. It was really well written. Her dialogue wasn't. So that did surprise me. Anyway, we're back to his predictions, aren't we? Yes. Yes. Yes, absolutely. I'd like to know actually what Chris would predict about Peggy, because I don't know. It seems like there's a new symptom of COVID, a complete change of character. And Peggy would be the first one because she was so apologetic. And a few weeks ago, we heard good reasons why she had had the view that she had, however wrong it was. It's almost as if the script writers have forgotten her explanation. It just didn't make sense to me that she would change some art and not explain her position to Alice and say, I've gone through it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It was uncharacteristic of a Jakob referred to her being a proud woman and for her to apologize is quite something. But I tweeted about the fact I didn't see why Peggy felt the need to apologize, because I am of the opinion that she was right. I know she's right. And she's also a woman of great years who has been through the experience and knows what she's talking about and was putting Martha first. And even when Alice confronted her, she eventually ended up agreeing with Peggy and saying, no, you're right. You were right to do what you did. And she started beating herself up about saying that neither Martha nor Chris deserved her as wife and mother. But fundamentally, she saw Peggy's point, but Peggy must have used the S word, sorry word, at least three times during that exchange. And I don't think she has anything to apologize for. Unless she was... I think a lot of people were perturbed by that. Sorry. Unless she was being just very clever, very canny actually, and taking that stance to just take the wind out of Alice's sails straight away and just get Alice calm and able to process it and see things properly. I didn't sense that calculation. I sense genuine contrition and remorse from Peggy, which was misplaced because she was doing it for all the right reasons and with a great deal of experience. So it puzzled a lot of people that it didn't sit right. Maybe Peggy's just recorded a video message for Alice to play once she's in rehab saying, I didn't mean any of it. I wasn't sorry. You have to be there and I did the right thing. You never know. And I'm not paying for it. Go away. Exactly. She's... Chris reckons that Joy sadly has a deceased daughter. This is Rochelle and I've long been banging on that I don't think Rochelle exists for all sorts of different reasons. So I'm with you on that, Chris. Adam and Brian have their heads knocked together. I think that's going to be the case. I can't see Adam leaving Ambridge, even though I'd love to see the back of him, but say Adam is around. So I don't think Brian can put Jennifer through that. So Adam will still be around and also Justin has told him, look, your cunning plan ain't going to work with Brian around because he'll cause too much trouble if you try and swing that one. And he reckons Phoebe and Rex will have a romance, doesn't he, Phoebe and Rex? Oh God, if you want a boring life Rex, yeah, go for it. But no, we reckon Rex and Lily don't we? That could be a possibility. Although of course she's had her head turned by my soul. Yes. Dimply soul. Yeah. And now let's sit back for some socials with our sensational Sue. Hello, my lovelies. It's Sue. We're going to talk here with another week of drama on the socials. And the big questions this week as, well, we'll start off with one that Isabel asked, what's going to happen to Susan and Neil and their relationship? Second, why is Shuler such a complete twank? Well, actually Joanna Smith said that, but didn't use those exact words, they were mine. Three, why is Brian lying? And they're admitting to it as asked by Richard Lucas all in the same episode. Four, why is Peggy apologizing for being the rightist person in Ambridge and Kate Lyle asked that? Five, how out of joint is Linda's nose over the scarecrow, asked Richard Lucas? Well, that sums up the episodes really. Do we need to go on? I suppose we should go into a little bit more detail. Let's work backward. Linda did seem rather disjuffed, and Gillian Holmes thinks that Joy may be a worthy successor to Linda. And just let me give a shout out to Carol Boyd, who apparently has been very poorly over the last few months. I am sure that we all hope for her sound recovery. In the meantime, Gillian and Joan seem very positive for Joy, taking some of the reins. In the meantime, Kate. Oh, Kate. She got a lot of stick, not unreasonably. Darcy, in particular, was unimpressed. Kate, you just don't know when to leave one alone, do you? Lillian, in the meantime, shared some lovely pictures of the archer studio from the before times, and said that they gave her a braille script to read. The archers is nothing if not inclusive. Oh, Quentin. Stephen pointed out that Rex played Paul the Plumber, and a lovely joke from Susie Sullivan. Saul leads to the road to Damascus, leads to Paul. Schuller would have really enjoyed that. Oh, Schuller. Schuller, Schuller. You get a couple of points off for supporting Joy over the scarecrows, but then you lost all of them, and an awful lot more. Tommy Croson said that she took a grenade into Andbridgeview, and left awake in her naivety to read the situation, and many people agreed. Anne Van Villett thinks she'll make a great vicar. Joanne says she'll make a crackerjack vicar, crackerjack. Real comfort to her parishioners. David Egan gave her null points. I've lost count now. I really don't know how many she's got at this point, but she's down. Let's be clear. Joanne said if she moves to the country, she'll make sure that she locks the doors. To ensure a bit of balance, I shall point out that Colin thinks she comes across as caring and sensitive, and Richard came out to say the character is well created. I'm just going to say second to hers. Lots of support for Neil and Susan from David Claire, and lots of people saying Susan should accept help from Brian, Jenny Darling, including Christie Claire, Peter Fox, and Margaret Blake thinks Susan is a horrible woman. So that sums that up really, doesn't it? I hope with Lillian that their marriage is too rock solid, and as Shirley says, it will just get the gossip mongers going. I just want to say thanks to Guy for a great post, asking what people really do. It was really lovely to see so much more about the listeners, and have a read if you haven't read that yet. I thought that was really charming. I couldn't really listen to Brian taking Alice. It was so terribly sad, and sounds like many other people felt similarly. Martin van Heuvel, I think van den Heuvel, I'm hoping I've got that right. Darcy and David agreed on the quality of the writing and acting. Anna and Amy felt for Brian. Thank goodness for Eddie, and it's not every week you get to say that. And finally, Peggy is so utterly ruthless and manipulative and so very, very smart. See you all again. Well, I talked to you all again in a few weeks time. Take care, everybody. Bye. Thank you, Sue, and everyone who's posted their thoughts on the Dumpty Dum Facebook page. We love the community there. And now it's time to crown our tweeters of the week. Over to you, Quentin. Yes, always a big moment in my week. And I have trawled through and I have picked out three gems, I hope. And I think we have two who are on the podium for the first time. So I'm looking forward to crowning them. So in bronze position, yes. Rich cuts whose Twitter handle is at cutsrich. Tweeted this straight after the Sunday tweet along. He said, lovely tweet along. Enjoy your Sunday. Right. I'm off to hand my neighbors, secateurs back. She left it by in the other day. I can hear them in the garden arguing. So seems as good a time as any. Yes, exactly. Spot on. Very good. Harks back to what we were saying before. So Rich, you get a bronze medal for that effort. Well done. In a silver position, we have Eliza Bennett, whose Twitter handle is at Eliza Bennett 3. And she has tweeted this. Maxively impressed by Alice's ability to find a nice pub within walking distance of a service station. Yes. Very good. Very good. When is there ever a pub? It's for all Brian to get an hour to find her. How far have you gone? Anyway, Eliza, that wins you a silver medal. Well done. And she's been on the podium before. It took Brian an hour to find her, because he was stuck in that extra long toilet. Echoing toilet. Trying every cubicle. Yes. No, that was a very good tweet. Well done. So, and that brings us to gold position this week, which we are going to crown John Porter, whose Twitter handle is @tryandapite. And John has won the gold gone for this. And this is a proclamation from Alice. I don't think I'm an alcoholic. Which, John says, Alice, talking through the talking arse. Oh, yes. Yes. Excellent. Three very good tweets there. Yes. So, John, well done. So, congratulations to John, Eliza and Rich. And we've mentioned already the Facebook group, and we should just welcome all the new people that are joining us on that group. So, please do go on to Facebook, type in "dumb tea dumb", and you will find us then you will be most welcome. Now, to keep this podcast on the air, it requires some funding to cover essential costs. So, if you'd like to support "Dumb D Dumb", you can join the "Dumb D Dumb" Patreon community for $2 a show. 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If you want to tweet about the archers and join in any tweet alongs during the week, or mainly on a Sunday, then make sure that you use the hashtag #TheArchers, but make sure you use a capital T and a capital A when you use that hashtag #TheArchers, because it then means our visually impaired friends can read all your fantastic tweets. And, as we said, we're all on Twitter. Well, you see, Quentin, you've said I should tell everyone that we're shamelessly prostituting ourselves for every like and retweet. We can lay our heavy hands on. I'm not going to associate myself with that, but obviously I love being in contact with people. And, of course, Rosie, poor Rosie, do still get better. We hope you can join us next time. Anyway, Quentin, where can people find you as you shamelessly prostitute yourself on Twitter? Well, I am, again, associate myself with those words, because I wrote them, didn't I? So there you go, yes. I do describe myself as a Twitter tart. I have two accounts at Quentin Rayner, but for all my archers, ramblings, and pontifications, you need to visit my dedicated archers Twitter feed, which is at 13 minute man, which is 13 the numbers minute man. And yes, you can find me at Quickbook reviews, look for an orange photo of me reading a book. This podcast is also supported by a fantastic behind-the-scenes team, so we would like to thank our wonderful social media, Supremas, who pulled together all the other bits and pieces on social media. Cosmo for his podcast roundups, "Shambridge" for her voices, Mike Hatton for his character counts, and, of course, Lucy V. Freeman. And thanks again to Isabelle for her dumb, dumb, dumb tune, and for calls from dusty substances with a spoon, young Keith, Roy Field, and Isabelle. And for Chris, for his text, and so for her social media roundup. Don't forget, again, the VIP announcement 30th of July is the Zoom alert. Buffy Davis will be joining us, Jolene. Fantastic. Yes, can't wait for that. Now, what will be the predictions for next week? So, will David and Ruth make a surprise reappearance? Will the rewilding campsite have fixed their lighting and actually have some more guests? Will Terry Two Phones turn out to be Terry Two Wives and the wedding get cancelled? And will the ACOP star in a new TV series, "The Life of an Ambridge Vet", which Kate, we know, would be very keen to be involved with. She is, after all, a thoroughbred. Or will be revealed. So, it's bye-bye from me. And it's a very good bye from me. Goodbye. [Music] - Yay! [LAUGHTER] [BLANK_AUDIO]

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