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Dum Tee Dum Episode 47 – Back with a bang!
Dum Tee Dum Episode 47 – Back with a bang!
Back with a bang!
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- Duration:
- 1h 15m
- Broadcast on:
- 24 Feb 2015
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This is Dum T-dum, the show about the archers and the goings-on of Ambridge. I'm Philippa Hall, low maintenance simple and no fuss, so Vince at least would approve. Alongside me putting his soul into the podcast, we have our handsome fit guy, but without the dimples. I'm working on those Philippa high, it's Quentin Rayner. And just like Russ, there's you, our exquisite listeners, unblocked and flying again, but maybe needing a tad more red. Unfortunately, Rose is a bit under the weather this week, so we wish her well and hope she sorts out her clanking pipe soon. This week's Dum T-dum is from our Sue Yin, and on this week's episode we hear from Catherine, Nikki, Witherspoon, Helen, Glen, Sue, Richard and Jeff. Plus, we have another anonymous email. Brilliant, thank you all so much. Quentin, I understand you're on the road again. I am indeed Philippa, I have been on manoeuvres this week, I'm once again podcasting from North Cornwall, not from a label outside padstow where I was last time and sweating buckets inside a car. But in the so-called leisure home, indeed, static caravan to you and me, Philippa. But now I've sought out a fragment of Wi-Fi, which we're desperately clinging on to, aren't we? You may hear the odd sea girl. I've had a massive win on the Premium Bonds again this week, absolutely rolling in it, 25 quid. Wow. Bit of an odd thing when I arrived at the caravan yesterday evening, I've had a random golf ball on the walkway around the caravan, just sitting there. There's no golf course anywhere around here, not nearby anyway. No golf was as far as I can see, so how on earth is a random golf ball sitting there? I have only one suggestion. I think actually it's been dropped by a sea girl. That probably picked it up up a golf ball. I thought it was a piece of food. Do you think that's plausible? I think that's... At least it's not through your car window. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, from an angry archer's listener. Anyway, all theory is gratefully received, please. I'm baffled. Very good. Well, I've had a day where the school combined both sports day and speech day. It was sort of right. We're going to get all this done in one day because of all the Covid regulations. And a lot of the parents weren't able to go just because our children's year are leaving, so we were allowed to be part of that. But I could have burst into tears at times. It's very moving. I never thought I'd say that about a sports day, but I'm just very glad they don't do parents' races anymore. Did your bosom swell then with pride? No comment, thanks very much, on that very personal question. Outrageous. You're into Rust mode already, aren't you? We've got a lot. No, we've got a lot of this. What did you think? What did you think of the week? Well, I've already made you blush, Philip Hersey. You better cover your ears because... As one of the new characters puts it, it's been a rampant sexathon at Lower Locksley. I mean, what was meant to be a staycation ended up more like a vacation. First up, of course, we had Lily. She discovers that she's the life and soul of the party by waking up next to her colleague Solomon. After his entry, she makes an awkward exit, but later admits to Rex that she really fancies him. Who'd have thought, hey, someone her own age is funny, energetic and attractive. Becca's believed in it. Anyway, back at Lower Locksley, Vince knackers his knackers by Mountian old knacker, more banging ensues as clanking pipes prompt Freddy to suggest Vince and Lizzie move too sweet to the bridal sweet, and mince the wince readily agrees despite his equine twinges. I didn't plan on sleeping anyway, he whispers suggestibly to Lizzie. Russ's decree absolute comes through, thereby unblocking his urge to paint again. Yuck, starting with a portrait of Lily, although we reckon the theme for his new show will be divorced from reality. Then, out of the blue, Iris turns up. Iris rattling Thor handles and discovering her son Vince and Lizzie together, and mocking Meatman by telling him he can't get away with a towel that's small at his age. He's never sounded so scared, but Iris later admits she's really there to scope out Lizzie, isn't she? And she highlights her son's selflessness for his family and urges the Lady of Lower Locksley not to dump him. And unlike the rest of us, she actually manages to find something to admire about Russ, namely his portrait of Lily that suggests a touch more red. Now, the drive-in movie Lily bumps into dimply gorgeous soul, who proves he's a good soul by not presenting the fact that she's in a long-term relationship, and gets free parking thrown in for his chivalry. In a nauseating deluge of slime, Russ unveils his portrait to Lily, who exclaims, "Oh, it's exquisite!" He then whips out his decree absolute, prompting Lily to suggest marriage, which Russ, thankfully and condescendingly, laughs off, but they do confirm their apparent love for one another. And then it's Vince's turn to mention the L-word, which Lizzie requires to his utter astonishment. And even you, Philippa, with your love of football must be aware that England scored big last week, and so did the projectors, didn't they? I mean, who'd have thought love actually was being screened at Lower Locksley? I mean, you can't even make it up, can you? It's brilliant. What a great summary of. Yeah, I felt nauseous, not from eating cherries, but from listening to the archers this week. It was just quite unseem. I was just endless, wouldn't it? Yes, absolutely. Absolutely. It was insatiable. We have a lot to cover this week. We have a lot of calls, which is fabulous. So, let's get to the important bit. We need to hear your views every week. We need to hear your views. And if somebody wants to get in contact, how can they do that? If you'd like to comment on the archers, because that's the bread and butter of this podcast, isn't it, Philippa? Or indeed, leave us a plot prediction. Then leave us a message on, I think, called Speakpipe, which you can find on our website, dumptydum.com, by clicking on the contact tab at the top of the web page. Or you can send a voice note or text message by WhatsApp to 07957167696. You didn't have a pen and paper ready to do. It's 07957167696, which has a plus 4/4 at the start, if you're calling from outside the UK. Now, if you prefer to email, we're very happy to accept emails as well, and also head to dumptydum.com and click that contact us tab. Hello, average 3962. And first off, we have Kind Hearted, Catherine. Hi everyone, I'm dumptydum. My name's Catherine. I'm on Twitter at @icod. It's been a brilliant week, hasn't it? With all my favourite men on the archers, all of them who I love and then Adam, he wasn't around too much, so thank God for that. Firstly, Vince Casey. How can we not love Vince? I loved it when he got his meat and two virgin, some disarray getting on the horse. That was actually funny, not like the shuler and nail thing, which was the most unfunny thing ever loved about. Endlessly, shuler, shut up. Vince, I just love him. I love his accent. I love his rather cool demeanor. He can have his way with my carcass any day. However, the one thing I do find out about the Vince thing is the existence of his mum. It's really strange. Say he's 60, she must be, I don't know, 82, and the way she just walks around the house and everyone puts up with it, very strange. Ross, though, oh my God, we love Ross, don't we? We love hating Ross. We love his painting, his poncerie about his coffee, but you know what? He's just a pito for me. He's just weird. When he had an affair with Lily, why didn't he get investigated or anything? He just got sacked. I can't believe that this would actually happen like this. And also, when he was getting divorced, we hoped that some great denouement was going to happen with his wife, but nothing, he just got divorced and that was it. It seems to exist of bread and butter and not really bring anything to the party at Lower Loxley. Anyway, it's been fantastic and I really enjoyed this week and not just endless misery about alcoholism, which has its place, but blimey, it's gone on a bit too long. Well, that was fab. Thank you, Catherine. I'm delighted that Catherine has called in for the first time. As she mentioned, she's known as @icard on Twitter. And I have to say hers is one of my favourite accounts that I follow with tweets, which puncture, pretension, make you laugh and give you an entertaining insight into life in the classroom from her long experience as a teacher. Since Catherine's also an archer's fan, I've been nagging her for ages to call in and it was well worth the wait. I feel I agree with you, Catherine. It has been a brilliant week. It's been absolutely balmy and all over the place, but she's had her favourite men on, which can't be a bad thing, I suppose, except Brian. I know she's a big Brian fan, but don't mention a Brian this week. And thankfully, no mention of Adam, as she pointed out. The meeting to veg scene was very funny and well acted. You could just imagine Freddie and Vince having one of them wincing and the other laughing. But she's obviously a big fan of Vince coming up on the inside perhaps to take her affection for Brian over from Brian, which you'll see. She said she likes his cool demeanor. You can have my carcass any day. She said, "Oh, lucky old Vince." Mind you, I do have to know that Catherine has lived for a number of years in Birmingham, so she's a sucker for the Brian accent. And in thinking in one of her recent tweets, she suggests Vince is in fact a taxi driver 6'7 in the 1979 hit from driver 6'7. Remember that song? Can you remember that 1979? It's a good record. Talky Vince. I mean, either way, I think what can't be disputed is that Tony Turner, who plays Vince, is an excellent actor. I think he's very, very natural and nicely understated. And as a character, he really is growing on us all, I feel. And then we had Arish. Didn't we feel about that? She just pops up raffling with door handles. I mean, why? Where did she come from? Just wandering around low and oxley. I don't think we've heard the last from her either. I think she's going to be around for a bit as the feeling I get. As Catherine said, we all love to hate Ross. And she's not alone, Catherine. Many of us feel very uncomfortable, don't we, with that whole relationship? With Lillian, how he wasn't seemingly investigated. He just got the boot. But it was actually Elizabeth's apparent tolerance and acceptance of it, which surprised me the most. I really thought she would resist that and persuade Lillian not to go with this, but she seems to sort of, she's quite reasonable about it, wasn't she? I mean, at least Freddie made ghastly rust squirmed, didn't he? And still does. So Catherine quite rightly, I think, says it was a fantastic week. In that it was different, wasn't it? It was a change from, as she said, the misery about alcoholism, which has gone on for too long. I'm afraid bad news, Catherine, on that front, because this Wednesday, I'll be looking ahead to the trails. We're told that Alice faces her fears and Brian sinks to a new load. Because Wednesday, of course, is respite day when she goes, hopefully, into rehab. Anyway, so yeah, great cool loads in there and do call in again. Yes, Catherine, that was a great call. Thank you so much. I'm sorry. It does seem like Quentin is a bit of a stalker, so I do apologise for that. But never mind now. I've got to say something about this, because there is something wrong with the men of Ambridge. We've got Russ, Vince, Lee, all being so sweet and nice, Russ, sickly sweet, you know, lily sweetheart. That's the last thing we need to do. And then Vince saying, whatever you say, Elizabeth, I should say it in the accent, whatever you say, Elizabeth, whatever you say, right, they can't all be good. And okay, Russ probably has some commitment issues, which I'm sure we'll discuss more of. But I'm going to stick my neck out. I'm calling Vince. He's too good. He's too nice. I think he and his mum are on the long con. Mrs Casey was asking about Elizabeth and if she was up to date on the payments, if her cheques bounced. I think Vince needs some money and he sees Elizabeth as the target. I've been listening back to September, October 2019, when he was trying to get in with Lillian to find out information about what Justin was planning to do with the building. And he was very skillful at trying to manipulate Lillian sucking her up, just being everything that a nice admirer would be. He can turn it on at the click of a switch at the click of a light switch. And I think he plans to move in eventually when she lets him marry her and then try and push her off the roof. I do not think he is the man that we're presented with because as well. When we had Philip Moss, it was a surprise to all the characters in Ambridge, who the real Philip Moss was. When we had Rob, we only had a few people that really knew what he was like. So I think Vince is going to be a different one. There are so many people now, but Elizabeth sort of digs her heels in and refuses to move. I know I'm calling it Vince is bad news. Right, well I didn't know you had it in for Vince like this, Philip, are we? Yes, I did. It's quite a big Vince fan club. I didn't until this week. You're calling out Vince like Royfield called out Philip, months in advance, which he never stops crying about. But a couple of weeks ago, I was calling out Joy was nice. It would be interesting to see which of these apparently benign characters turn out to be wrong. But you, whether it's Joy, I think there's a lot of backstory there. We've yet to hear Rochelle does not exist, take my word for it. Or whether Vince is a con man with his mum. Interesting. You can't have characters in the archers, residents of Ambridge that are all nice people. It just doesn't happen like that. They've got some traits and yet the Vince we're being presented with now is so different to that almost two years ago. He was horrible to David, wasn't he, two years ago with a bomb? Yes, absolutely. We saw a flash of it, didn't we, when he was very unwilling to give his manager Karen any extra time off and didn't want to listen to Liz's advice. And the minute he thought he could get something from Lillian, he was in there like a rat upper drain pipe, really trying, saying all the right things, getting a bit tipsy, trying to get the information out. He, he's a businessman and there's more to this. It can't be that simple. We can't have Lee being, you know, Mr. Perfect. Well, he's not perfect, but you know, he's Mr. Nice. Yes. We will talk about Russ later on, but no, Vince is not, you know, laughing at the silly video with him and it's too much. They need some dramatic fodder. So one of us is going to be right, Philippa. We shall wait to see. Yes. Well enough from that. Thank you so much, Catherine, for that call. Now let's go to nimble-minded Nikki. Hi there. This is Nikki calling from the Costa del Sol, and I date back to when Shuler and journalist Simon were having what I suppose now is called Matt Hancock Gina shuffle in the car outside the farm. Anyway, knowing nothing about Harry Potter, I decided to maybe look at Alice in Wonderland instead as characters in the arches. I mean, obviously we've got Alice as Alice who drinks anything put in front of her. And then I thought maybe the Duchess Jenny and the Cheshire Cat, obviously Brian and the White Rabbit as Neil. The March here, for very obvious reasons, Kate, and Emma as the Queen of Hearts, with Edward being the name of Hearts. Jazza, I thought would be the caterpillar, Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee would be Rex and Toby. And I thought because of the mock turtle soup connection, I thought Pat. So, anyway, that is my thoughts on that. Incidentally, I do agree. I think that joy is on a witness prevention program. I thought other people might be trying to try to find other characters in Alice that may represent those in the arches. I'm sure there are plenty of others. Oh, Nikki, thank you so much for your call. And yes, thank you for agreeing with me about joy being in witness protection. There's something going on there. Anyway, yes, this Harry Potter analogy that I used last week has been used quite a bit. It's been some wonderful comments on the lovely Facebook group for Dundee Dum. And I really enjoyed your Alice in Wonderland version, White Rabbit, Neil, Cheshire Cat, Brian, and of course Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee being Rex and Toby. Alice in Wonderland sometimes is quite a confusing story, I think. And it was a father like some of the scenes we had this week, the scene with Lily and Solomon that we had on Monday. She was absolutely fine, enjoying her time. But only when he said that he was moving jobs and he was going to be a manager and didn't she think he could manage a team. At that point, she sort of jumped up and started panicking. I don't understand how managing a team relates to Ross. That was quite strange. Yeah, I thought I agree. Very strange exit. Yes. And then the other strange thing I found is how quickly did Russ do her portrait? So Monday he gets the divorce papers, Thursday the portrait's done. Is it like some colour by numbers or something that he's felt it pens out? And when Russ had to say to Lily, it's you. Was it that bad that Lily couldn't recognise from this squiggle with a bit of red thrown in as well? But Iris got it straight away, didn't she? Well, yes. But again, you see, that's why she's just manipulating people. Yes. She's charming. Recently went to a lovely exhibition in Kensington Gardens. It's an immersive Van Gogh exhibition where you stand in front of all these huge projectors and they essentially tell his life through his paintings. It's really good with music. They've recreated his famous bedroom in Arl as well. He can sit in a chair. It's lovely. But before you go in, there's a Van Gogh that's been painted by a robot. They've programmed this robotic arm to paint a Van Gogh, which it did in 49 hours. And you get up really close and it's not that good. I mean, look for a distance. It's good. But all the brushwork isn't there. So maybe Russ has got a robotic arm. Just think you got his felt tip pens out in his pencil case and suddenly. Yeah, I mean, Nicola from the Costa del Sol, lucky old thing, she actually sent me a photo. It looks very nice indeed. Well, she's pretty much gone through every character, but I did have some thoughts about this. Alice, it can't be oldridge Alice, of course, because she'd smashed the looking glass, wouldn't she? Because she is so smashed. So I reckon Martha in a few years time will be Alice. I quite like that idea. The Cheshire Cat constantly grins and was able to disappear and reappear at will and leave its grin behind. So I reckon this could apply to all those characters who disappeared, become silenced. So, you know, the Ushas and Cathas, Leonard's and Hannah's of this world. It could be Cheshire Cats. He's also a good listener, the Cheshire Cat. So Harrison, he's been a good listener for Chris and Alice. Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee, or should that be Tweedle Dumpty Dum? Obvious twin candidates of Freddie and Lily, but they're not brothers when I last checked anyway. So I thought, well, maybe Will and Ed, possibly. Yeah, that's true. Queen of Hearts was, according to my research, ruled over Wonderland and is a tyrant. So I thought it's got to be Peggy Woodley. Is she the Queen of Hearts? Yeah. Mad Hatter, I really struggle with this. In fact, Nicholas said, you know, email, she sent me afterwards. She said it would have been Nigel, but for his slide into oblivion. And I started looking into what the Mad Hatter was. And in fact, he was never called the Mad Hatter. It was called the Hatter, but they got called Mad because Hatter's used Mercury in the preparation of hats and with poisons. That's how the nickname "Mad Hatter" came out. Oh, there we go. There you go. So I can't think of a Mad Hatter. So it stumped me that one, but I'm sure we'll get some suggestions. But thank you very much, Nick, and a lovely call. Yes, and from one lovely call to another, to the Upper Lower East West Side. It's the wonderful with the spoon. Hey, baby, I hear the blues are calling to salads and scrambled eggs. Mercy. Greetings, everyone in DMT them towers and all DMT themers around the world. It's with the spoon and Angus Haggis here, 15, or maybe one or two more. That's my answer to the question that was parried between Philip and Royfield last week. Yes, that's a lot of boyfriends, but it was over a 20-year period from when I started dating until I met my husband today. I can truly say with and over heart, there have been zero since then. And that brings us to the last week in Ambrage. I agree with many. It was a great relief to have been free of the Aldrages and Carters for a bit and to be ensconced in the faded grander of Lower Locksley. Relationships with the topic of the week. First, Lily and Russ. I think that Lily's stallions made it clear that she's just too young to settle down yet, especially with someone 20 or so years her senior. And is generally so dislikeable. It made the mistake of expressing a bit of sympathy for Russ on Facebook earlier in the week. And the response from our members was swift and clear. Two thumbs down. I don't think Lily's offer to get married was heartfelt, but one fueled by guilt. Despite Lily and Russ's utterances of love, I don't think their relationship is built for the long term. And at some time, Lily will be thinking better call Saul. On the other hand, Elizabeth and Vince's relationship seems to be maturing like a lesser known fine Midlands wine. From the beginning, I've never been a big fan of Vince. They didn't like how he treated David and he seemed to be a bit full of himself. But we saw a more human side of him this week as he dealt with his amusingly intrusive mother and was genuinely touched at Liz's expression of love. However, warning signals, we also saw bits of the cold businessman when dealing with his loyal employee that we saw early on with him. You've been warned and talked to you soon. Well, thanks as ever with us being for another wonderful call. You've got lots of mutterings of agreement in the background from both me and Philippa to virtually everything you were saying. It's been lovely being free from that alcohol storyline for at least a week. We all know it's coming back. But yeah, an Aldridge and Carter Free Zone for a week will be very bizarre and bewildering as a week. Yeah, I'm not convinced by Lily and Russ at all. She was motivated out of guilt because she's on the verge of telling him about Saul. So I think she's headed either into the arms of Rex or Saul and I love that line "Better Call Saul" because that's a great... Have you ever seen that series, Philippa? Brilliant series. I saw a first few episodes. Yeah, I love the analogy there. Very clever. Yeah, it's a spinoff from Breaking Bad. It's so, so good. I hope they have another series of that. So yeah, she better call him or Rex. I reckon. He's more convinced by Vincent Lizzie. You're not at all. I know Philippa. And he picked up on that ruthlessness with Karen. Yeah. I'm going to be out of mind about this, Philippa. I think there are grounds for your theory. I think there are. I hope I'm proved wrong. But yeah. With a spoon, clearly enjoying a week away from the treadmill of Alice. Yes, well, okay. First of all, I was too hard on Shuler last week and about her number of boyfriends. Sorry, Shuler. Sorry everyone. My mother was appalled with me. So apologies for that. That's a result then, isn't it? Well done. Finn, well, I know when to say sorry more about that later. Finn, I've already said. Lizzie didn't impress me this week either. She said to Freddie these words. You say that like it's a prison sentence with Freddie having gone to prison. And then to Freddie and Vince. She said Nigel was an accomplished horseman, unlike Finns. I mean, she's not being very nice, I don't think, out. And when Freddie said, why don't you move rooms? He said to where? I'm sorry, Lizzie. You're living in a place where there are approximately 10,000 bedrooms. I think there might be others to choose from. So yes, I wasn't impressed with Lizzie either, but I don't know. This Lillian Russ, I'm going to call something else now as well. Probably wrong, probably wrong about everything, but I'm getting carried away. Is Lily pregnant? Oh my word. Not with Russ, with one night of passage. I'm going to say it from Russ, from somebody else. From Saul. From Saul. How did you, you're throwing a loss in this week? I know, I know. I've not had a conflict yet. So clearly that's something to do with Italy. Make sure it's decaf, for goodness sake. Yes, I just wonder. The pieces are being set up for us in a particular way. Now, either we're going to be glad that Russ doesn't stay with her because we've seen that she can meet somebody that makes her laugh and has good conversation and all of that. And if Russ has been in that-- And has dimples. Yes. And if Russ has been in a foul mood for this whole time, I don't know, well over a year, a couple of years, that's a long time to be dealing with someone who's in a bad mood. Now, if someone's going through something really difficult, a depression, something like that, that's one thing. But I don't know. She's been very patient with them. And we haven't heard about that issue before, even though we've heard Russ talking. So I-- That scene between them was, oh, gosh, I just wanted to throw the radio out the window, you know, when she offered marriage and he patronised and said, "Oh, no, you little thing. Don't worry about it. That's so sweet of you." But no. Thank goodness in a way. I mean, those are the warning signs, aren't they? Because I thought he was going to propose. I really did. I mean, I was desperate relieved he didn't. And I thought she would cave and say, "Oh, yes, okay." But, you know, that's-- He revealed another horrible slimy layer to his sliminess. So the sooner she's out of that, the better. So part of me wants her to be pregnant by a soul, and she's forced to leave him. But I don't think souls are quite ready for that. Is he? Because, you know, he's applying for a new job for goodness. Yes, hopefully not. Hopefully they were sensible. And that's not an issue. But it certainly would change the story somewhat. But-- I get the feeling they weren't sensible. I think it was a bit spontaneous to me. Yes, but we've had enough of those stories, you know, with Pip as well. Yeah, I don't know. I could have dug myself into a hole there. But anyway, let something happen that she doesn't have to stay with us. But I love to hear his voice because he's so awful. I love him as a character. But if I was stuck in a lift with him, I would have to beat him about the head with a newspaper. Yes, but his constant sort of painting and sighing is very odd, isn't it? But you've got to have character and everything is panted out and everything's drawn. You just make it a cup of tea, Russell, and we're all moving up the field. I don't know anything about the actor. Do you think he has to go into the bathroom before they record the arches and just practice his voice like that? Or does that-- is that him? I don't know. Maybe he has to become constipated to do them. I don't know. Oh, do it well with the boom. It's a very strange way of talking to people. Very strange. As I always say, it gives me a chance to flood twisty with my picture of that slimy slug I photographed a few years ago. So I just want him around for that, really. It could have been that the first day he was there to record. They said to him, right, you do realise you need a different voice. So people recognise you straight away because we've had this problem where people get confused with who's speaking. So you've got to do something different. And he has delivered for that. We certainly know when it's rough. Yeah, there's quite a strong hint of Adam in there as well, isn't there? I think. Yeah, so I know what you mean, but it's just-- Salty, huffy, puffy, boar. It's so self-indulged, but yeah, it's never mind. Anyway, with the spoon, that wonderful call. Thank you so much. And now we go on to another very interesting call. This is honourable Helen. Hello. My name is Big Sister Helen from London, and I'm the first time caller in Aurora. The first count I really enjoyed listening to was Marjorie Antubas, though I'd been listening to my mother's womb, as had my little brother Richard, who gives him crap off of Poland. I hope these details will satisfy you, I felt. The catalyst for this call is to defend my brother and call out rightfield who had failed to leave Richard's email about our mashup of the archer's thin tomb once only whistled in the kazoo, and had therefore failed to mention my name. I hadn't been at all bothered by not being credited, but Richard has a seen sense of justice for which I, of course, take credit, so he had contacted you to set the record straight. What I really want to do is to give you a word of advice for I feel that if you've made a mistake, then admit it, apologise, and move on. Yes. Don't affect the blame onto someone else, make a number of unconvincing excuses, and generally use denial as a strategy. It just makes you look even worse, and possibly like some of the best engaging characters in the archers. I'll do a shulah now, and suggest you don't respond to my observations right now, but you reflect on both what I've said and on how you handled your ever, and then maybe wonder if you owe someone an apology. But, obviously, the podcast is about the archers rather than about how to manage wrongful accusations, and evidence-based conjectures about sibling relationships, and like, proficiently inside by poor judgement. So, here's my television for the next few days, weeks, months, years, and decades. They're all doomed. I mean, thanks for all of you. Bye. Helen, that is such a great call. Thank you so much for calling in and delivering that. Yes, Roy Field needs to apologise. As I said last week, I thought he had jumped to conclusions. I thought he hadn't read the email, and this would seem to imply that that was very much the case, despite what he said, and I love your plot prediction as well. They're all doomed. I did contact Roy Field because he's not on this week. He'll be on next week, and gave him the chance to record a message, apologiseing, profusely, and explaining his actions. And his response was, "It's all a lovely big joke." Which, I don't think it is. I think this is very serious. So, Roy Field, read your emails. Is there anything else we need to roast Roy Field about next week? Let me know. Please email me. Or contact me on Twitter and tell me, because we need to continue the roasting, I think. So, thank you for your call. Quentin, were you disappointed with Roy Field? Well, I'm just thinking we could have a new feature. Couldn't we roasting Roy Field? That could be a weekly. Please. A little weekly number. Yeah. I never knew recording a dumped dump with a swanning whistle in a kazoo could cause so much controversy. Frankly, Begg is belief. That's just humble instruments, which is not what you think don't cause any consternation, but clearly this family is driven with resentment about Roy Field. So, I'm deeply worried for them. No, no, they're not. Let me jump in. They're not driven with resentment. They are just stating the fact, because I made it very clear last week that I thought that some apology needed to be made. And that's all. As we teach our children, you just say sorry, and then you move on, and Roy Field refused. Well, he's stubborn, isn't he? He's stubborn. No, I was saying "Riven with resentment" with a tongue-in firmly in my cheek there. I have a huge bump there, I promise. Because when I first heard this call, I thought, she's really upset. I haven't heard it now a second time. I think she's being extremely dry and dry. It's very clever. And very funny with it. And so I have chuckles throughout that call. And I think that I've tried to work out what Helen's profession is likely to be. I think she'd probably an outstanding lawyer that went the way she completed. Yeah, I thought Barrista. Or Judas. Yeah. The way she completely picked apart. Roy Field's defence. So, yeah, nice one, Helen. And I think we are hearing from your brother later on, aren't we? Yes, we are. This goes on and on. It's glorious. Fantastic. Yes. What are we doomed? Helen, please call again because your calls are a gold dust to me. So, please, please do call again. So, anyway, that was Helen. Thank you very much. And now we go on to Glorious Glenn. Hello, Dr. Dom. It's Glenn here. Location this week in front of my computer screen. And that's going to be my location for most of the next week, as I've been pinned to buy the NHS app. At least I should have an episode of Tom Tiddham to keep me company at some point. On the archer as well, this was Love Actually Week. And, to be honest, I've not got a lot to say about that. I think it was one of those seasonal or summer seasonal distractions that we get. We get in the archers from time to time. Vince's mother made an appearance. And coupled with Quentin's comment a couple of weeks ago about whether Neil was getting dementia, did strike me that, or remind me again, that elderly characters in the archers are in remarkably good health. And apart from the really rather half-hearted storyline around Ruth's mother where she sort of declined rather rapidly. But we didn't really hear very much from her or very much in the way of the problems that Ruth had with that situation, to be honest. We've never had a storyline dealing with how children have to cope with the decline of their parents, which must be a very common thing for much of the archers demographic. I know we had the Jack storyline about 10 years ago, but that was done from a somewhat different angle. I know it's about time the archers got on and tackled this issue. Anyway, that's enough from me. Thank you for the podcast, especially this week, while I'm isolating. And to everyone else, stay safe and thank you very much. Thank you, Glenn, as ever. Sorry to hear that you're in self-isolation, but you're in a nice part of the world to be. To be self-isolating in the Matlock area. Hope you got a nice view out of your window. And I hope this edition of "Dumpty Dum" makes you feel better, Glenn, and not worse. There's always that risk, isn't there? It's substantive point, isn't it, that we've never had a storyline where children are looking after their ailing parents. I was, during the call, I was racking my brains. I was thinking, I was going to mention the Jack storyline, but he's right. That's a spouse, Peggy, looking after him, with some help. As we all know, a growing theme within society. So, Glenn, I think you've given the producers and editor and script writers an idea for the future. And I think they'll probably put it in their back pocket for later. But so, yes, good one. Yeah, I'm sorry you got to ice later. So I hope you stay safe and healthy. Love, actually. Yeah, I thought it was more actually than love, but never mind. And with this issue about aging parents, you're right. The Ambridge solution seems to be just to cut them off to the laurels, which actually sounds quite nice at the laurels, apart from Lee making you do chair aerobics all the time. But yeah, so it'd be interesting to see them change that sort of story. And Russ, no love for anyone except himself. And how he crowed, "I'm a single man." No, actually, I'm not a single man. You're in a long-term relationship. Or you have been up to now with poor Lily. I don't know. It's Russ going to say that he wants to go back and teach. And it would be interesting to see Lily's response. He's not been near anyone under the age of 60 for some time. So... Would he be allowed to? Well, let's hope not. But in Ambridge land... As... Yeah, as I pointed out earlier, he wasn't investigated, was it? He was just sacked. But presumably the reasons for sacking must be on his record. Yes, exactly. So I don't know. I just think the rules of the land don't seem to quite apply in Ambridge. Like Covid, for example. So who knows? They may have to use it as a plot device. I know Catherine did mention that earlier on, as you say, Quentin. But I would just like to see Lily's response when Russ is doing something different and maybe seeing younger girls. That's what my next point was to be. When will he start getting bored with Lily? Yes. Yes. It's not going to be pretty. But we all like soul, don't we? We'd like some more soul. He seemed a nice lad. He sounded quite like Calvin. I didn't know if Calvin was trying to get back into Ambridge, but... He did sound quite... I hope it's the same actor. Actually, I don't think it was. Somebody spotted that the actor who plays Rex also played soul. Really? So I think that actor was doubling up as soul. Yeah. Apparently. Yeah. Is that actual fact, fact? Or... It was on Twitter, so it's got to be right, isn't it? So it's bound to be true. It came from a reliable source. Quite sure. I seem to remember the tweet was from a pretty solid source who know their stuff. Is that because they can only have six people in at any time, so they're all having to use different voices? Possibly. Well, we know who play Vince's mum, but I was just wondering if it was played by Peggy as well. Or Hilda. Sorry. I'm off at a tangent, and it's not a good tangent. I think you need that coffee, don't you? Yes, I think I do. So on to Supersu and Jubilant Jesse, the guide dog. Hi. It's Sue Hanrahan here, second-time caller Inuna from Manchester with Jesse the guide dog or an retriever. I was a bit concerned last week. I thought that you were going to come to blows during the programme. I do trust that he sorted out the differences. With regard to the episodes, I think we need some more episodes on because I can't believe that most of last week stemmed around Lower Locksley. Ross, well, I don't know what he thinks he wants because I think that possibly Lily will turn away from him now because she wants him to marry her and he doesn't want that. I don't know what he wants. And as for the other two, well, Elizabeth doesn't really want to. She's already admitted she doesn't want to live with a partner anyway. So I don't know what's going to happen with those two. So I don't know. Let's hope things move on a bit next week. It's been a bit more, I think, Ross and Lily are going to come to a sticky end anyway. Bye for now. So thank you so much for your call. That's wonderful. I'm really sorry you thought we were coming to blows. We are a bit like squabbling siblings, I'm afraid, that we always fall out when we're talking. But if either of one of us needed the other one, they'd be there in a shot. So sorry for that. I do try not to get wound up. But Royfield does like to wind me up a lot. So maybe we need to have a poll on the Facebook group as to whether this is palatable or not, because I think it's probably a bit too much. It's just gone a little bit further. Yes, honestly. Yes. I do try my best not to. He winds you up, doesn't he? He don't presses your buttons and off he goes. Yes. He does, I'm afraid. So I do apologize for that. But yes, you've got some really good points there. We wish there were more episodes. It would have just diluted the whole lower-lockly experience for us. Russ, dreadful man. Lily needs to have some fun. Vince, no, we don't trust him. And Lizzy, what is going on? Has everyone inhaled too much anti-back gel in Ambridge? Some things going on this week. I want to read out a tweet that summed up the week brilliantly, I thought. So this isn't tweet of the week, but it caught my eye anyway. I just thought, you know, this person has really got this week summed up. And it's from Jen D. Oh God, what now? And her handle is @asteroychick. And she tweeted, "Just caught up. Don't know where to start. Who let Iris into lower-lockly? Why wasn't Lizzy angry about her invading her bridal suite of bedroom? How could Iris wander around unchallenged? Why did Fred and Rex speak freely about Lily to her? Why did Russ open his heart to her? I think she could have gone on anyway. She stopped there. But to me, it summed up the bewilderment of the week. And it was all blockly, wasn't it? And I think the script writers are sort of essentially softening us up for another mega-week of Alice next week. And so they decided, yeah, Alice going to rehab, they would give us sort of some rehab and respite by giving us a week entirely away from all that. 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Was that going to work? Yeah, does she really love him, maybe? Did she just think, "Well, I'm going to have to say it now, because he keeps throwing that word in?" And, "Well, I love you, but we're not living together." So I'd like to never mention this ever again. We're not referring to it. I love you so much that I can't live with you. Yeah. Exactly. After a week of living with you, I never want to ever again. And I've seen you in that town. That's it. That's I'm off. Ah, I did. No, that was a wonderful call, Sue. So thank you very much. And now we come on to remarkable Richard. Good morning, everyone. Richard and Cracker Poland here. When I called in, I'm a businessman, when I called in last time, I didn't give my proper background and start date. I remember the arches from the 1970s when I was a boy in Oxford. I remember being disappointed as I dimly began to understand that there were no arches as in medieval soldiers involved. And somewhat lost interest for about the next 45 years. The swanny whistle kazoo issue, whether or not I gave enough information to make it clear it wasn't just me. My sister was not only involved, but the key instigator of that build of music. Well, all I can say is I think up to draw a line on dread. It would be wonderful if you could play some of Humphrey little and at the end of one of your shows just in recognition that I was right and right here was wrong, but I really can. Two issues to do with the plot are three. And one is that I wonder if Russ's lack of interest in marriage and his celebration of the dissolution of his first one suggests some kind of issue with commitment that might be an issue for the lead later. I wonder what happens to characters who don't appear for weeks and weeks and weeks. So somewhat fancifully wondered if Dave and Ruth have been abducted and no one had noticed. And I thought that was a bit of an issue. And my final kind of bugbear as an immigrant myself is the total lack of immigrants in Ambridge with positive role models. I wonder if the script writers could do something about that. Thank you very much. Richard, thank you so much for that call. Yes, I will ask Roy Field to play the music next week as a way of an apology. Yes, we need that apology one way or another, but then we will firmly put it behind us and move on. Yeah, I agree about the lack of positive role models that are needed for immigrants. Come on script writers, hear this and take some action and missing characters. Yes, David and Ruth. We've not heard from them for so long. Normally we hear from each of the farms very regularly. And I wonder as the restrictions and more people can come together if they will have more people in the studio and record those. They have said, actually following on from your comment just earlier, Quentin, that it will be in summer, late summer. When the five episodes a week, come on. We haven't got that. We've only got a few more months or so. We'll see. I suppose it depends what you define in the summer. But anyway, we'll forget that. It's going to be soon where we get at least five a week. But then will we have the Friday one where we have the big build up and the big cliffhanger at the end? Or will it be the Sunday one which is Jill making her flap jacks, Leonard doing his painting, and just all the sort of nice, but no movement of script happening. I don't know. What do you think, Quentin? I think because we get the omnibus on Sunday, they'll probably give us the Friday one back first. So there's a cliffhanger. Good. Good. So I think that's my guess. So at least you get six days of archers that way, don't you? That means more work for us of course, Philippa. We've got to listen to more episodes. That's fine by me. That's fine by me. More than Maria. My wife will tear her hair out even more as I spend even longer listening to the ashes. That is true. Richard, you're drawing a line under this swanny whistle, Kazoo, scandal, and delighted you are because I think we've got to park this for everyone's sake. So delighted to hear that. So he started listening back in the centers as a boy in Oxford. I was in Oxford actually the other day. Nice place to be brought up in. Yeah, I think you're right. His response to Lily's offer of marriage, that's patronizing condescending dismissal. Spoke volumes. I mentioned this earlier and I think he's gotten a version to everything and everybody apart from himself has knee and commitments in there as well. So marriage is a long way off. Thank goodness. Because we don't want Lily to marry him. Ruth and David abducted. That's interesting theory. The Tim Benton, who plays David. The other day, then in fact, his son has just got married in a lovely simple ceremony on a beach in Scotland. So I suspect that's where David is at the moment. He's got other things in his life. Glenn earlier was saying there's never been a storyline about children looking after their ailing parents and you picked up on lack of immigrants in Ambridge. The only reason why I can think of is Lexi, isn't it? She came over and had a big storyline. But she's gone back, isn't she? We'd all like her back to cheer up Roy. Yeah. We do. So thank you very much for that call. Wonderful. And now we go to Joyful. Jeff. Hello, this is Jeff here. Very infrequent call or inner of this is only my second or third time. But I really couldn't resist after listening to the program this week. I always listened to the omnibus and tuned in this week as normal to find out what was happening in Ambridge. Instead, the BBC seemed to have replaced it with an adaptation of some long lost Jane Austen novel. Lots of well to do people in a country of state having problems with their love life, falling out, few lighthearted misunderstandings. By the end, everything was back to normal. They were all happy. It had been sorted out. And they were all going to live happily ever after. There was one odd character. It seemed to be some sort of angel who'd stepped out of it's a wonderful life or a Christmas carol. A woman with a Birmingham accent who turned up, pushed everybody in the right direction, gave some advice, and then disappeared as mysteriously as she arrived, apart from that, very odd. And I hope we get back to the archers as normal next week. Jeff's not happy. He's not happy. He's not happy. He's not happy, man. He's right. There was something sort of Jane Austen. He wasn't there about the last week in Ambridge. It was all very neatly tied up, wasn't it? And life ain't like that. So I think Jeff's onto a good theme there. But again, it's four episodes, concentrates all that. And if they were looking to tidy all that up before they hit us with more Alice next week, that probably might be what was behind their thinking, but it didn't sit right. And it was all too happily living happily ever after, as Jeff said, but well, will they? We get to see. He's concerned about Iris. There's been a lot of concern about Iris. But you think she's a common woman anyway that you feel like her, so. I could be wrong. Yes. Who knows? But it's not the normal archers. So I couldn't agree more, Jeff. So I've just had a drink. It doesn't need to be choked on it. But my voice will come back to normal soon. Don't worry. It feels like it's Bridgeton Cross with pride and prejudice. It just seems quite strange. And like Glenn said, maybe it's just a summer special, but I never thought I would miss hearing Adam and Alice. So I will appreciate them much more from now on. I really do. Just needed sold sort of just emerging from a lake, didn't it? Does donate with his wet white shirt clamped to his muscular chest with his dimples glinting in the moonlight? That's all it needed, really. And for Lily to swoon and fall into his arms. I think I need to swoon after that description. But nevermind. So, Jeff, thank you very much for your call. And thank you, everyone. We value them so much. They are what make this podcast. So please keep them coming. And yes, we have an email. Oh my word. Let me read it to you, Quentin. Are you ready for this? I don't know. This is from, again, a non-vambridge. Dear Rosie Philippa and Quentin. I hope you can help me this week as I'm concerned that people are falling in and out of love too quickly. And I can't keep up with the changes. Who is loyal in this place? And who do I trust from this week? Please help me. I'm feeling overwhelmed with uncertainty. Thanks, Anon. Well, I'm very sorry that you're feeling this way. Anon, an average overwhelmed with uncertainty. It's a terrible affliction. But I think that's what comes from years of listening to this wretched program. So that's probably, we can't queue of that. But I think I kind of lay some of your fears on non-vambridge. Who do we trust? Big question. Big question. Obviously not that sleaze bag rust, even though there's a lot of trust in trust, isn't there? Can we trust Iris? What's she up to? We've already had a lot of speculation. Outrageous slander suggested by Philippa that she invents are trying to scam our Lizzy out of Lower Locksley. I was minded to say I don't buy it. But having listened to Philippa's quite a convincing argument, I now have an open mind to this. So anyway, I wouldn't trust Vince, Vince and Iris and all the shenanigans down in Lower Locksley. But clearly, I mean, for pure unadulterated trust and loyalty and non-vambridge, you can't go wrong with the 24 carats who are Jim, Jazza, Alistair, Nigel and Oliver. Wouldn't you agree Philippa? Well, yes. You don't feel overwhelmed and non-vambridge. If you need support, get professional help. If you need pals, there's the Dumb Did On Facebook group, funnily enough. Who can you trust this week? I think the only character you could trust, who we heard from this week, is Cranford Crystal, the horse. Because I think as it sensed Vince luring himself on, he widened up his spine and made things as uncomfortable as possible, as horses can do. So yeah, the one to trust is Cranford Crystal and on. But please keep emailing us with your questions. So in other words, any characters you can trust in the arches are the silent ones, right? Just this week. He asked which characters to trust this week. So I went through the list of characters that we'd heard from this week. And well, I suppose Solomon seems trustworthy. Actually, yes. We like Solomon, didn't we? We did, yes. But again, we've learned our lesson from jumping to conclusion. So, yeah, Cranford Crystal is the one I'd go for. But there we are, wonderful. And now let's sit back for some socials with our sensational Steven. Hi, this is Steven, bringing you your social media roundup at the end of a peaceful staycation at Lower Locksley. We started the week in bed with Lily Pargeter and somebody called Sol. Caroline Green captured the Dumpty Dum reaction to this best. Did I miss something? Who's Solomon? Apart from clearly an infinitely more appealing option than Russ, I mean. Luckily, John McGee had an explanation. There was a works party that Lily went to and she hooked up with Solomon there. It all happened in Sunday's episode. Unfortunately, it was one of the Sunday episodes. We don't get to hear yet. Once we had got over the surprise, Dumpty Dum has offered their opinions. Karen Matthews said anyone at all would be better than Russ. Well, maybe not Rob, Philip. But Lily so needs to move on and Jettison the hauling self-serving leech that is Russ and Julian Holmes added. Meanwhile, she has every right to have other adventures and encounters at the same time, although I suspect the dinosaurs Russ wouldn't agree in spite of his own history. And John Beasley asked, "Solomon, wasn't he the one Linda invoked last week when she tried to mediate between Eddie and Rex over car wars? If so, this Solomon must be quite a guy." I see what you did there, John. On Wednesday, we had a surprise visitor, Vince's mother, Iris. She certainly divided opinion among Dumpty Dummers. Claire the Mortimer thought she was utterly unbelievable. Brian Holding thought she was great. I want to hear more of her. Took me by surprise as I never liked new characters. But Phil Parks and Alexa Bose both thought she was bad news. Fiona Crawford said, "No boundaries equals not good." She wants the best for her son, but she needs to take a step back now. So what was Iris doing at Lower Locksley? Darcy Jogensen cut straight to the chase. "What will happen when?" she asked. Vince and his mum find out the house is entailed. Laura Jackson had a theory. I've heard it suggested that Vince is short of money. Counselification stayed in for dinner and after Lizzie's. And now Vince's mum wants to make sure Lizzie isn't after Vince's money to maintain the crumbling pile. Caroline Wright was less concerned. I honestly don't think they're bothered about the money. I think they're curious about the whole stately home business. But I don't think he's a social climber. And his mum just wants the best for him. Margaret Yu steered the middle course. Iris may be wary of Elizabeth and think that Vince's money could be sunk into Lower Locksley. However, it was Vince who made a beeline to Elizabeth after he found out her connection with the stately home. Elizabeth Llewellyn sort of agreed that added, "It's this action that makes me suspicious of Vince." We ended the week at the drive-in. Lower Locksley was showing love actually. And Elizabeth and Vince expressed their love for each other while watching it and nibbling on mint-flavored popcorn. Meanwhile, over in the Art Gallery, Lillian Russ also said they loved each other. It was all very Richard Curtis rom-com. In a poll, 86 Dumpty Dum has approved of Vince and Lizzie, while only four of you felt the same about Lillian Russ. Fiona Crawford was one of the latter. It seemed rather icky at the start, but Russ and Lillie do seem to love each other, so I hope they keep their renewed happiness. Among those supporting Vince and Lizzie, Logan said of Vince, "I think he may be perfect for Lizz, not Nigel, but different enough." Anna Fry said, "I like the Vince and Elizabeth pairing partly, because I'd like to see Vince as a permanent character on the archers." But many of you didn't like the idea of either pairing. Jan Mitchell said, "Don't like Russ, but the paintings often be slightly, don't trust Vince." And Julie Wiig said, "I know Vince has had a character transformation, but I still find him difficult to like." As for Lillie, I think she feels trapped in a relationship with Russ, because she thinks he's left his wife for her, and he is so well ensconced at lowloxie that she likely feels that she'd be taking away everything that he has if she were to split with him, at least he rejected her proposal. But I'm going to finish with Sandra Jenkinson's reaction for the week as a whole. There's a bottle in the fridge, I'm going to open it. Cheers. Now, I'll hand you back to the studio. I love that back to the studio. That was great. Thank you, Stephen. And everyone who's posted their thoughts on the Dundee Dum Facebook page. We love the community there. And now it's time to crown our tweeters of the week. Quentin over to you. Funny enough has got a lot to do with Russ this week. I don't understand why. He seems to feature quite a lot. And I'm just looking through them now, just to make sure I've got all my ducks in the right order. Yep, so as ever, I am charged with this in all responsibility trawling through the thousands of tweets that pour out every week about the arches and picking out three gems. And I've gone for these three. So on the bronze plinth, yeah, we have Steve Brooks. And his Twitter handle is @stevebrooksta. And he posted the arches. Russ is painting again. I suspect he's about to enter his blue period. I thought it was very good. Nice one, Steve. So your blue tweet earns you a bronze medal, Steve. In silver position, and one of my favorite tweeters, she's often Queen of the bagel, you know, the most prolific tweeters. But yeah, she often comes up with the goods. And it is Miranda at Apple Android app. And she simply says this. Nobody wants to know how long you've been blocked, Russ. Nobody. Very good. It was a guttly image, that was a truly awful image. So well done, Miranda. You have got yourself a silver gong around your neck. But in gold position, and she's well known on the tweet long as well. And it's our lovely Jane Bramley. And her handle is @Jane Bramley. And she declares Russ is old news. There are five temperature kettles now. I have one. So there you go. Three temperature kettles are out. Russ is old news. We knew that anyway. She was challenged onto it and said, come on, Jane. Possible. Prove it. And she did. She did a picture of her five temperature kettle, which has five different colors to tell you which temperature. I mean, by the time you've, it's like a microwave, you can't understand. By the time you've worked out the temperature, you don't want your cup of tea, do you? But Jane wins because she has, she has out-ponsified Russ with her five temperature kettle. So congratulations to the three of you, Jane, Miranda and Steve. To keep this podcast on the air requires some funding to cover essential costs. 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I've obviously just named our three tweeters of the week because Twitter is very important to Dumb Ddum and all that goes on here. And we have a wonderful at Dumb Ddum team who are doing a great job. But if you do tweet about the archers, always please use the hashtag #TheArchers, but with a capital T and a capital A because then it means the visually impaired can read all your wonderful tweets. We're all on Twitter as well, shamelessly, prostituting ourselves for every like and retweet we can lay our grubby hands on. Well, speak for yourself, Greta, not me anyway. Greta, where can people find you? Well, I'm a complete Twitter tart, so that's why I was suggesting that. Correct. I'm such a Twitter whore that I have two accounts. One is at Quentin Rainer, but actually all my archers, pontifications now are on another account, which has been open for a while. It's called @13minuteman13minuteman, so there you will find my Twitter rantings there. How about you? Well, I can be found at Quick Book Reviews, but instead of a W-It's a Three. Just look for the orange picture of me reading a book. And before we go, of course, as ever, we must thank our social media supremeos. Cosmo for his podcast roundups, Shambridge for her wonderful voices, Mike Hatton for his character accounts. And of course, Lucy V. Freeman. And once more, I'd like to thank everyone who contributed today. So, Sue Yen for the dum-dum, Katherine, Nikki with a spoon, Helen, Glen, Sue, Richard and Jeff for their calls. And of course, Anon of Ambridge for their email. Rosie, we do hope that you feel better very soon. And look forward to talking to you next time. So, it comes to the time where we look at next week. Will it be less love, actually, and more Jurassic Park? Will Alice go happily to rehab, making the process simple and easy? Hmm. No, no, no. Will Adam and Brian tell their other halves that their working relationship is doomed? And will Joy turn the Fate Committee into a battleground where no one makes it out alive? All will be revealed. Dada. So, there we go. Another episode done dusted. We'd leave you with the wonderful music from the academic archers on Zoom. on zoom and all I need to say now is it's a bye bye from me and it's a goodbye from me. [Music] [Music] [BLANK_AUDIO]
Dum Tee Dum Episode 47 – Back with a bang!
Back with a bang!
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