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Poor, Tom

This week’s podcast is presented by Stephen and Love Jazzer’s Singing.

We hear from:

Anna, a first time caller-innerer who is loving The Archers at the moment, but isn’t overly impressed by Tom;
Alan from Ramsgate who is wondering whether Emma and Will might end up serving some time;
Witherspoon, who is applying his cardiological expertise to Brian’s situation;
Claire from Clapham, who is delighting in the misfortunes at Bridge Farm;
Ambridge Olwen, who has spotted someone at the Tea Room;
Globe-trotting Richard, also reaching for the popcorn as things unravel for Tom, Natasha et al.
The other Richard - Biffo Prop - yet another observer of Bridge Farm’s woes;
Ros, who is utterly gripped by the show at the moment;
Our very own Jacqueline, keeping an eye on us from the top of a hill in Scotland;
and finally Gennie with a G who is simply furious with Eddie Grundy right now.

Plus: we have the Week in Ambridge from Suey, a roundup of the Dumteedum Facebook group from Michelle, and the Tweets of the Week from Theo.

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This is Dumty Dum, a weekly podcast about the arches and the goings on of Ambridge. I'm Stephen Bowden, who puts cheese in the crust and inside the pie on top of the apples. And I love jazz as singing, who's keeping Jacqueline's microphone warm this week and very happy to be doing so. And then there's you, our lovely Dumty Dumbers with your bizarre sausage roll confections. Welcome to Dumty Dum, a place to talk about the things that are happening in our favourite borsicher village. This week's scripts are written by Liz John, who also wrote last week's set that she delivered yet another thrilling Thursday episode. Coming up, we have calls from Anna, a first time caller in or a hurrah, who is loving the arches at the moment, but isn't overly impressed by Tom. Alan from Ramsgate, who's wondering whether Emma and Will might end up serving some time with a spoon, who's applying his cardiological expertise to Brian's situation. Claire from Clapham, who's delighting in the misfortunes at Bridge Farm. Ambridge Olwin, who has spotted someone at the T-room, globe trotting Richard, also reaching for the popcorn as things unravel for Tom and Natasha et al. The other Richard, before prop, yet another observer of Bridge Farms woes. Ross, who's utterly gripped by the show at the moment, me too, Ross. Our very own Jacqueline, keeping an eye on us from the top of the hill in Scotland, and Jenny with a G, who is simply furious with Eddie Grundy right now. Plus, we have the Week in Ambridge from Sui, a round up of the Dumpty Dum Facebook group from Michelle, and Tweets of the Week from Theo. So let's start by reminding ourselves what happened over the last seven days with the Week in Ambridge from Sui. Hello, lovely people for his Sui Queen on top and a round up for this week in Ambridge. Sir, what a week of destruction and mayhem. We didn't get to hear Will and Emma being interrogated by the Rossers. Apparently, they weren't very nice at all. Since George was up in court, everyone decided that Poppy and Keira must be told, and predictably Keira always knew they live in a small village. Emma and Chris are really still not talking, and George's hero tankard got dumped by Kenton, which was very satisfying. Jazza found out that Rosie was set to enter the sunflower growing on Brookfield land in the Flower and produce show, so he's sunflower rustled. I do hope Ruth and David had its security tags so they can find him out. Kenton and Jolene are going to enter apple and cheese pies, but only once they've had advice from everyone in the village with any culinary knowledge, then they'll be aboard winning and they can make a killing. Hmm, we'll see. Tom demonstrated his total lack of people management skills as the downside of employing four members of the same family came home to roost. Clary love has wisely pushed off to Norfolk to her sisters. George has been sacked. Emma resigned, leaving sausage boys clustering with indignation. There was an actual cheese making emergency when Susan lost the plot, while demonstrating through the observation window and Pat had to take over. Susan was sent home by Pat for a cup of tea and a nice sit down. What she really needed was a good biscuit or a bit of cake, but Fallon couldn't oblige as she was wearing the tea room single-handed after Emma quit following the breakdown of talks due to Tom's total ineptitude. The sooner Fallon gets the EV station and opens the vegan cafe, the better. Eddie was a monumental arse over the calling of the police on George, and I hope Clary love finds out what he's done and gives him what for. Ian has jumped into the PTA with both feet, volunteered to do everything he suggested, despite Helen warning him not to do anything without her say so. But then she didn't get to the meeting, and that's what happens. He was reassured by Young Zander's teacher in the same way that Young Zander's teacher reassured every other parent. So clearly he's doing all right. Then Emma and Ed very nearly fulfilled the hopes and dreams of half the listeners when they had an instant with Ed going into the drop zone at a tree appointment. Sadly, she didn't actually brain him with a branch. Everyone walked away unscathed, but pretty frightened. Will got a letter saying he's not being prosecuted. The assumption is that neither is Emma. I almost hope she comes home to a completely different letter and is found guilty and then given a suspended sentence. We'll just have to wait and see what happens next week then. I'll talk to you then. Thank you for that Sui and welcome back and welcome to the studio. Love Jezero singing. Would you like to tell us a bit about yourself and your history with the arches? Thank you, Stephen. Thank you for having me. Well, Sui didn't hold back that issue. Of course, that made me laugh. So I've been a daily listener for probably about 25 years. I listen at bedtime. I know everyone has different habits. Never the omnibus, never the omnibus, always at bedtime. And whatever kind of a day I've had, the arches, it's always there. My favourite stories include Rob Tichner blocking the drain. Was it with a dead pheasant or a badge? I can't remember. Hips, sulky romance with Jude was really, I really remember that. And I loved that and slightly identified with Pip. And of course, Elizabeth and Roy and their campsite coupling. I love anything to do with the Pharyn Podge show and the shenanigans that always go with that. And anything, obviously, with turkeys or ferrets. I want to seriously know, I do admire the writing and love it when the programme rewards devoted listeners. Like when Rory listened to his mum's voice, the recording that she'd made a decade earlier. And of course, always when the writers find an excuse for Jazza to sing. And you get to hear his beautiful folk baritone, which I really love, hence my name. That's probably enough about you and everybody knows already about me. So let's get on to the important bit, which is you, our lovely choralourinerers. And first up, we're going to have a first time choralourinar, which is always great. And that is going to be Anna. Hello, tiger. Hello, Stephen, Jacqueline and fellow dumpedy dumplings. This is my first time calling. So I think I'm a first time choralourinar up, something along those lines. I've been listening to the pod for about a month and I am really loving the arches right now. It's my quality pleasure. It was the show that I used to listen to with my mum when I was a kid. I think, Oh, my God, this is so boring. Little die now, I got back into it a few years ago. And honestly, as soon as an episode is released, I have to listen to it. I'm not as good as you, Jacqueline. I can't wait till later on in my day. I have to get to it straight away. I'm calling about Tuesday, Monday 16th or September's episode where I'm really enraged by how Tom and his treatment of Emma is just really winding me up. What boss goes round uninvited? I understand it's a village, you know, I live in the UK. So I'm not entirely on the way of what happens to villages. But go around to someone's house. It's like, Oh, you're not sick. Are you really? Are you really sick? I'm sure there's some kind of law against that. And then to shove cupcakes down, I'm almost like, Oh, these are cupcakes. And Emma's like, I know. I know they found them's cupcakes, like I work in the tea room. And then to say, I'm going to all quite straight or mediate this meeting between you two because we need you back at work. So he really doesn't care about her, her mental state at all. It's all about keeping the flipping tea room running. Sorry if I saw them or allowed to be on it, keeping the tea room running. And I just think, if outrageous, Tom calm down, stop thinking that your alleged sugar, who the hell does he think he is? Honestly, I can't bear him. And his so-called mother as well, what she up to? Why does she keep asking people questions and then empathizing with them? And then being all, I don't know what to do. Oh, what a sad situation. Oh, can't you tell me what's going on? Oh, Susan, it's like she's really annoying me as well. That family, I can't tolerate them that well. They just, they raised me so much that I had to call in. Just to complain. So thank you for listening to my small rant. And I love the arches. I love the pod, keep doing what you do, all amazing. And let's hope that Tom changes his ways pretty soon, because otherwise, he's going on my naughty list. Thank you, Anna. First time caller, Inra. Well, that sounded, sounded very well thought out. And it was lovely to hear your thought. It made me laugh, Alan, should you? You're fired, Tom. Well, sausage boy, a sui, rather naughtily, cause him. And yes, I'm afraid I was nodding all the way through that. Quite exasperating. I am particularly identified with the part about a whole bridge farm a lot when something goes wrong with their, when their staff, how they sigh, don't they? They're also saying, oh, oh, dear. I suppose I'll have to wipe the yoga machine myself. Oh, I suppose I'll have to melt the cows then. That's sort of attitude, which we had a bit of. Sweet. Do call again, do call again, Anna. Yes, Anna, thank you very much for that call. And I agree with everything you say about the bridge farm lot, except the last thing I want is for Tom to change his ways, because as I have said in previous occasions, where would be the fun in that? That's true. He's not going to it's fine, Stephen. I don't think there's any reason. (laughing) So thank you very much for that call, Anna, helping kick us off this week. And next up, we have a few times called Orenora, and that's Alan from Ramsgate. Hi, Alan from Ramsgate, third of fourth time call Orena. And our George has been charged along with Emma and Will for keeping it secret. George still trying to waggle his way out of being charged by blaming everyone else but himself. And now Emma and Will are worried that they might also now have some jail time. I'll see it happening, but it is the archers. Thanks again, be again soon. Thank you for that call, Alan. And yes, you're right not to think that it's very likely that Emma and Will would go to jail. As it seems, they're not even going to get prosecuted if the letters that Will at least has received for anything to go by, I think it was pretty unlikely that even if they had been prosecuted and found guilty, they'd have ended up in prison. We know that there's no real room in prison for non-violent offenders. And both they've got clean records in this front. So I think that the worst they might have got would be a suspended sentence or probation rather than anything actually involving them than going to prison. I guess it was all about the panic and so forth. It was more about bringing out how they're feeling rather than a realistic assessment of what they're likely to do. Yes, I agree. I was calling Alan. I was recently in Ramsky looking at the lovely Gourmet Man who stares out along the horizon. And yes, I agree with the talk of prison was probably to reflect how worrying and serious this incident with Georgia sort of snowballed into for everyone. And my heart really goes out to Emma with this storyline at the moment. And yes, Steven, I think you're right. I think I would if the script writers' fear of prison plot lines has been slightly undermined here in the UK with the new government having released a couple of thousand inmates early with plans to release more. So I don't expect incarceration is on the horizon for Emma. Who's been in prison in Georgia? We've had Helen six months, didn't she? Helen did six months. Helen was on remand, wasn't she? That was before she was convicted. And then Susan obviously went to prison for sheltering Clive back in the 1990s. Remand though it's actually in the prison, isn't it? She was held, yes, she hadn't been convicted. She was basically being held ahead of her trial because at that point, because I guess it was a violent offence. Yeah, and the crime that she was accused of was really serious, so that's fine. So Susan, and then Freddie. It's been, oh yeah, of course, and Clive the wrong end. Clive and his brother Keith. It seems like when I hear the characters now, Helen and Susan, I don't hear any, it's like that's sort of put behind them, isn't it? Although, I wonder if it's had any long-term effects. Well, it has had the long-term effect on Emma and Chris, the imprisonment of Susan. So I think Susan has managed to at least give every impression on her and put it behind her. But when they were talking about it, it was clear that it had had this impact on Emma, which is part of the thing that was making her so nervous about the idea of going to prison, not because of what it would do to her, but because of what it was intended to cure her. And that scene when the Susan and Neil confronted her recently, that for me, that was a sort of stop what you're doing in the mean-in moment. I thought it was brilliantly acted. Emma's such a lively character, and she can really be one of those ones that can become a bit of a sort of a Dickens character. And then suddenly with that, she was every mother. Yes, let's move on to our next call, and this one is from a very familiar voice. ♪ You'll know how this goes ♪ ♪ Hey baby, I hear the blues ♪ ♪ They call into salads and scrambled eggs ♪ Greetings, Steven, love jazzers singing at all DMT Dimmers around the world. It's with the Spoon and Angus Hagus here, call her entering prior to Wednesday's episode. Wow, there really does seem to be a labor shortage in Anchorage. You remember when there were lots of Eastern Europeans who were fruit pickers, farm hands, and other laborers in the village. Seems that the initial ripples of Brexit several years ago have turned into a tsunami of problems for the employers of the village. It's time to bring Johnny back from his world travels. Where aren't there short-term employment agencies that can be utilized? I'd love for an American or two to appear in the village, but I'm no expert in the labor economics field, so I'll let Stephen and globetrotting Richard talk more about the topic. One topic I am more knowledgeable about from a patient and physician point of view, as I noted last week, is that of myocardial infarctions, in other words, heart attacks. I must say that it seems like Brian's evaluation and treatment is stuck squarely in the 20th century. He's a nearly 81-year-old man who probably doesn't have the best diet in the world, but has had multiple angina attacks. Going to see his GP is very inadequate. The GP would have done an EKG. Okay, that would have told us that he didn't have a heart attack or any other permanent damage to the heart. Then she told him to take some nitroglycerin or something similar. The extent of the blockage of his arteries need to be evaluated by a cardiologist via CT coronary angiogram and an echo cardiogram. If Brian needs a stent or two, it's an easy fix, but waiting can be fatal. No excuses about long-weight list in the NHS to see a specialist. The script writers have an opportunity to spread an important message about health, and are dropping the ball on this one. Talk to you soon. Hello, Witherspoon. Oh, yes, Brexit, what a disaster. And yes, perhaps Kate should get involved in Brian's diet and get him drinking psyllium husks and balance his chakras a little bit. I often wondered what happened to Johnny. Where did he get to? He seemed to be an integral part of the plot like he was really going to be in the middle of things and then off he went sailing into the sunset. I particularly loved that plot line a long time ago and didn't Johnny save Tony Archer from getting squashed by the bull. I can't remember. Where's Johnny, Stephen? Oh, Johnny is still sailing as far as I'm aware. He's just extended. He originally won to cross Atlantic and then he decided to stay on and I think he may be gone for good. You guys are YA level one and then just went for Cape Horn. Something like that. And have we had any North American characters? Yes, no, we have, but not for a very long time. There are two Americans and one Canadian. I can think of. In chronological order, in 1991, Simon Gerard turned up in Ambridge. He was a lecturer in something or other and he ended up marrying Debbie and then was courting and affair and that all ended pretty horribly. But he was thoroughly sleazy all the way through. Very much not a typical Canadian. And then 1992, Kate and Helen, I think, and a couple of others maybe, were playing around in their den which was the then empty blossom hill cottage, subsequently the stabby cottage and now where Brian lives. And they found some old letters which were between Peggy and an American GI called Pawn Kortschmark and they were in exchange of network. I guess these were Pawn's letters to Peggy from back in during the war. And Kate decided to pretend to be Peggy wrote to Conn saying Helen what she missed. He turned up in the village. Now, at this point, Peggy was not yet married to Jack Woolley but Jack Woolley clearly had his eye on her. And so he was somewhat put out by Conn coming in and squaring her around places and tried to relive and recapture their wartime youth. So that was the second North American in the '90s and the third was about four years later in 1996, Linda Snell decided to do a house swap and Ambridge Hall was led to a couple of Americans called Al and Mary Beth Clancy who stayed in Ambridge Hall while Robert and Linda were staying at their place in the States. I can't remember which state they were from but those are the only North Maritzers. I can't remember anybody more recently from North America though if there are any, I am sure Dumpty Dumas will call in to tell us. - Stephen, I can't miss the opportunity when I want this side of the radio box to listen to those nuggets from your encyclopedic knowledge of the archers and just say, I'll be half of all choloringers. That's what we're here for. Oh my goodness, how do you remember it all? - Well, I remember it and then I checked the details in my various books but I definitely remembered both Al and Mary Beth Clancy and Conn Courtch Mar in particular. That was a story that really, it was quite big at the time. - Shall we move on to our next call and this one is from Clare in Clapham? - Hi, Dumpty Dum, it's Clare from Clapham here. I'm calling in on Wednesday evening and I just wanted to reflect on how I clearly really dislike the bridge farm lot because I'm so enjoying all of their business being massively at risk because of the staffing issues that they've got and it's their fault because they've just really taken people for granted over the years, to be honest, especially people from family to they look down on, if I'm perfectly honest. And that's right, but Tom's attempt at diplomacy, so for a moment he was actually doing something sensible and then of course because Tom's a twank, I expected it all fall apart and it caused her to fall so far apart because she really wasn't interested in either Fallon nor Emma, he was just clearing about getting some stuff back in his tea room. - Oh my goodness, me, what idiot. - And also, I can't believe that Natasha let him manage that situation. You must be doing that underneath her radar because there's no way she'll let him have a go at that. - Yeah, and now they're all hand-ringing and wondering what to do for the best and there's not enough staff. Well, you know, that just shows how the ripples of these things play out, isn't it? Because they're not especially close family to anyone but of course they're all brought into the drama. And yeah, let's see how this goes but yes, just wanted to reflect on how much I was enjoying Bridge Farm having a bad time and couldn't happen to a more smug bunch of people. Bitches soon. - Thank you for that cool player and I'm really glad to hear that you're reveling in shard and Freuder there, yes. And I'm sure that an awful lot of people were thinking of Tom and wondering how that session with Fallon and Emma was going to go wrong and it went wrong because he just didn't think about it from their perspective and the whole purpose of trying to bring them together would be to help them and to look at it from their perspective but all he could think of was what this meant for the staffing at Bridge Farm and the T-room in particular and he was utterly hopeless. He must have been reading some books on this subject. I think you're not the only person also to call in on it. We've got a run of calls of people who see this as an absolute epitome of the way that Bridge Farm runs things. Did you enjoy it? I'll share some singing. - Claire from Clapram. - When I hear that name on the show, I was hear the opening beats of "I'm up the junction." Your call Claire was, as young people say, "A bit of me, a really, really chined with me." I'm getting increasingly interested I noticed in how privilege and class shows up in the arches. And this was just, yeah, it was a brilliant example. Enjoying Bridge Farm's misfortunes, the shard and Freud as Stephen mentioned, that's most furtive of human emotions when we look on and feel like our life's better 'cause their life is falling apart. I wonder if the arches gives us a safe way to exercise that sometimes unwelcome human emotion and so that we can keep it at bay in real life. I wonder what witherspoon would have to say about that. And I loved your comment about, I can't believe that Natasha let Tom manage that situation. Ah, Natasha's the sort of ambridge mega-markle at the moment and it really makes me laugh. Next up, we have Ambridge Olwood. - Hello, down to Tom. Ambridge Olwin from Blue Sky here. It's Wednesday evening and we've just listened to the quest for pipe affection, a claggy bottom and a long queue at the tea room where overworked dough is less likely than dough being retained in the wallets of disgruntled customers, I would think. Anyway, my query is regarding the mysterious Mr. Cartride, whom my close forensic analysis has identified as Ian, putting on a deep voice and a fake Yorkshire accent. I'd like to know what Ian is doing in disguise at the tea room when surely he's supposed to be taking Zander to school or doing stuff for the PTA. It must have been a good disguise for Fallon not to recognise him even though she was busy. And why hasn't Adam spotted the disguise in the wardrobe? I think we should be told, bye. - The quest for pipe affection, that's surely someone's autobiography. Maybe Mary Berry's at one point. Claggy, or claggy or soggy bottom. That's the phrase, isn't it, on the TV program. - On the bank office, soggy bottom. - Yeah, and on the artist's version is the claggy bottom. Part of that call that I really love is not sure about if it's the same person, Stephen, you can feel me in, but the end part of your call, Ambridge Olwood, was Ian, I love the fact that in your mind, he's been stood down from his pizza making, semi-retirement and redeployed as head of the Parent Teachers Association of Zander, all Zanders, it's Zander Zander, tomato tomato. After Zander has been enrolled at nursery for about a week, that whole thing. And it reminds me what PTA life can be like. Be careful of that, everyone. - Yeah, so it's thankfully a long way behind me now. - Yeah, Mr. Cartwright, he had, I think, three words to say. He said, just your spews love to Fallon. And I listened several times to try to work out whether I could recognize a voice, but there's no prejudice in the cast list for Mr. Cartwright, so it would have been somebody else playing that role. - I'm gonna, I reckon, always, right. - I think it was certainly plausible. And he was around that episode. I know this is lifting the curtain and that the archer's anarchists among Dante dummies will be screaming at us saying, "No, these are real people." But it's just the way things are. - I'm laughing because this stuff takes up so much space in art. I own our minds. I love the idea. I love the idea of always listening back the scrutiny that we apply to every detail and its love. - But I think that you were right, Love Jazz is singing, about the idea that the archer's gives us the opportunity to think things about people and to so on, that we don't really want to do with completely real people that we know. But we can be as judgmental as we like, we can be as rude as we like, we can be, we can feel whatever we want to feel, unrestrained for the characters and the archers in a way that we just don't really want to. We can let sides of our personalities out that we'd rather not let out under normal circumstances, but it just gives us that life's do that. And that's one of the reasons I think why, why we love it so much and why it's lasted so long. - Series introduction this week was a brilliant example about the drop zone. She was like hoping a log had dropped on Ed's head and this sort of sewer, no diverge rack ending. Pow, is it only a matter of time? I'm not sure. - One did drop on his grandfather, Ed's grandfather. Yes, Jethro Larkin was killed when he was working with David on a tree at Brookfield and a branch fell from the tree. I think David was in the tree and Jethro was underneath the branch fell down a kilten. - Court. - So runs in the family. Next up, we have globe trotting Richard. Now, as is often the case with Richard, this was recorded in an airport. So there may be a bit of that noise, but I think we can understand what he's saying. - Oh, hello, Richard, calling in from Heathrow. I'm calling you the first day evening. - While I've been showing the first this little bridge from pulling a pint because none of their stuff will work with each other. I think it's like 10 years of sympathy for Haptony, Toller and Natasha because in this fortune, they're trying to deal with already their pull. Stephen called me a business consultant. I'm not a business consultant. I'm not terrible enough to do that. I just do business and the fact that the criminal behavior of worry employees means that none of your other employees will work with each other anymore is some kind of never had to deal with. It's quite common, I think, that both Richard's school of business should make a case study. It is to come. But clearly, Adam, Will, Emma, Susan, et cetera, Satra, Fallon, they all should have job descriptions. And I thought Tom's attempt to get Emma and Hallard and so work together was to go into the how not to do the full-time school of business, how not to do things. Anyway, I do wonder how it's all going to unfold in the idea of a, I think that you could probably close the team room. I can't remember what Natasha was doing. We're talking about identical things, so you'll never see us because of what they're already called. Anyway, no, just sort of reflecting on the way there's business things unfolding and thinking, but Adam should be getting a talking tip. I'll see you all soon, bye. - Thank you for that, Cole, Richard. I can see why you're saying that none of this is the fault of the British farm archers. And obviously, they weren't responsible for what George did. But they're the ones who've been running this business, and they are the ones who have diversified and have clearly come to rely far too much on other people. The sort that, as Claire said, they will tend to look down on. So I think that they have made themselves vulnerable to this sort of thing. Now, it's a double whammy in a way that you've not just got what George got up to, but Larry's sister Rosie going down ill just at the critical moment doesn't help. But I think that a well-run business would have plans to deal with all of that and would be able to get people in in an emergency. And David decides to go for a contract milker, but I agree with you, Richard, that closing one of the things that they're doing might be a sensible thing to do. Oh, yes, they've decided not to do any more dairy demonstrations. But that was probably a fairly minor thing in terms of the impact on what they're doing. It's the shop, the deliveries, the tea room, all of that on top of the actual farming that has got them stretched too thin. And I think that's their responsibility to not have got too stretched before all this happened. What do you think about Tesla singing? Well, first of all, I love the idea of setting a board such a school of business. And it's definitely good to hear some sympathy for a bridge farm to balance out our other cause. I actually do work in startup business, and I have a sort of long, long career analyzing small businesses. And I am inclined to agree with you, Stephen, that it's all very well saying, oh, you know, they were a small business where his family run. But when you employ someone, you do take on a certain set of responsibilities. And the behavior that Tom's demonstrating, this kind of sort of thing where we say, oh, we're all a family here. You know, we're all just, you know, we're all just one big happy family in the bridge farm set of businesses. It's all very well, but he's the one who's having value added to assets that he owns by the workers. And he's offering, he's offering the cupcake, which maybe she made. All right. Here have a cake that you made in return for being lured back to a job. You're not psychologically ready so that you can continue to prop up my empire. I don't know. Maybe I'm a bit of a Trotskyite at heart. But yeah, I don't like the look of that. And if you extrapolate it onto a sort of mega world stage, you can see a sort of saturated version of what Tom's doing in the fate of the WeWork company, which was fascinating. The founder of WeWork also, singing and dancing at the front of this huge body of employees saying, we're one big family. If you look at how that story ends, it's not good. So we'll see what happens with Tom. And I just hope that there's a little bit of reflection in this situation and thinking, wow, this has happened. We're here, we're supposed to be in charge. How can we do things differently? Simple Tom, one question. How can we do things differently? But of course, as Steven says, we like the fact that all this stuff kicks off because it gives us something to chew over. - Yes, absolutely. So those are the first few calls and there are some more to come. If you would like to join in by calling us yourself or dropping us a line by message or email, love jazz or singing is here to tell you how and all the details are also in the show notes. - The first option is to record a message or a plot prediction even by going to www.speakby.com. Speakpipe.com/dum/tdum. The issues that were occurring with Speakpipe have been resolved. So you can leave a message of up to two minutes or you can send a voice note or written message on WhatsApp and the number is 07810 012 881. If you're calling from outside the UK, start with plus 4 4 and drop the first zero. 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This week's business lessons from Bridge Farm Video has been brought to you by the law of unintended consequence. The decision earlier in the year to move management of the tea room from Falunema to members of the family appears to have backfired in the most spectacular fashion possible. The week begins with Facking George in anticipation of his trial. Bear in mind, he hasn't been convicted of anything yet. And without the thought that it might put his mother a long-term employee in an invidious position where she felt she couldn't carry on. Tom then had the brilliant idea that bringing him together would mean they'd sought things out and everything would go back to how it was. Very good idea in principle. Tom, however, it's usually good to turn up to a staff negotiation with, a plan, a desired outcome, something to offer both participants among your staff, the ability to give, as well as take, rather than sit down with coffee and open the meeting with, well, I thought you guys had the ideas. It can be no surprise to anyone that Emma has quit. Bear in mind also, the cost to the business may be well in excess of the relief milker that Tom was catching about in Thursday's episode should Bridge Farm have to employ a pair of new qualified hospitality staff, one of whom is a leader. And I bet Tom didn't pay for his coffee. There we go, another video in the famed Bridge Farm collection of how not to lead a business. Hope you're all well. Fond love to all, especially Philippa's dad. Tickity Tom. - Hello, Richard Biffo-Proff. Thanks for your call. Relief Milker, what a great job description. And yes, more analysis of Tom's HR procedures. It reminded me though, how in that conversation, Emma and Fallon's conversation with Tom, how the women I thought in a very difficult situation were quite boundary and respectful of each other. The way they spoke, I think we saw Fallon at her her best in a way in that conversation, being able to be really clear about how she had been affected without getting nasty. - I liked that. - Yes, I thought that both Emma and Fallon were being very open and honest with each other. And Tom was sitting there and just didn't seem to appreciate what was going on. Yeah, he was just totally focused on his objective for the meeting. And every time they talked a bit, he would try and steer them back towards the little local issue, as far as they were concerned, of running the various bits of Bridge Farm. And he wasn't taking into account anything. He wasn't really understanding what was going on. He'd invited them in. He hadn't, as Richard said, he hasn't got a plan for the meeting. - It was a bit David Drent, wasn't it? It was a bit like watching the office or something. That's just really, it was quite uncomfortable to listen to, I thought. - Yes, cringe-inducing. - Yeah, cringe-inducing. - I think it was supposed to be. - I think it was. I think that's one of the great skills of the writers. And I think Liz John is particularly good at getting that cringe. I think we had some of that last week as well. I think different writers have different strengths. And that's one of hers. Next call comes from Rose. - Hello all, that's done. Stephen, it was from South Wales. I just wanted to say, I've just listened to Thursday nights episode. And I'm absolutely gripped with the way it's beginning to have an impact on so many people. I'm also utterly impressed by the way the script writers have worked out that they can take Larry off to Norfolk, which effectively creates more for rooms. I just like the whole jigsaw effect of the way it's ramifying and having an impact on so many people. It's clipping, it's sad. The acting is absolutely brilliant. I really think it's fantastic. But I've got one comment, well, two Oscars. One is, is the lack of staff at places like the Tea Room, a reflection on the difficulty of getting people in the rural countryside to do those sorts of jobs? Because I know where we are, that practically everywhere you go, the college kids are doing those sort of jobs, fitting it in around their studies, and even some of the six forms and people like that. So I wonder, is that why Chelsea and Emma appeared to be the only people who worked with Fallon at the Tea Room? I just wonder, or is it just that it makes it more complicated if there aren't enough people to do the jobs? That's one thing. And the other thing, which is slightly light relief, the problem that Bridge Farmer got is that they haven't got anybody to do the milking now that George has been exiled. I was always a big puzzle writer who was doing the milking anyway, because I thought people who did milking had to be really empathetic with cows, and he doesn't strike me as being the empathetic sword at all. But the other thing that struck me, and then perhaps nobody else remembers this, but when Adam first came back into the village as an adult, he'd been out in Africa, and the thing he'd been doing out in Africa was some sort of NGO, and it was still with goats, and you have to milk goats. So my theory is that they ought to ask Adam to do the milking, which would mean that he wasn't anywhere near Will, who was doing the veg boxes and things like that. I don't suppose they will, but it's just my idea of what could happen. I'm sorry if this was a bit disjointed. Yeah, but anyway, just to say how much I'm enjoying it all. And I think we all are, aren't we? Thanks a lot, bye. - Thank you for that, Paul Rose. And it wasn't disjointed at all. I think he made a lot of interesting points. I'm gonna disagree with you slightly and shockingly, I'm going to say something positive about George, which is that he's been pretty good with animals. Now, I know that with Bartleby's a suggestion that it was all about his social media profile, and that he didn't really care for Bartleby. But I think he did, I think that there were times that he was talking to Bartleby about his problems. So I think that he does relate to animals quite well. And even when Poppy turned up the guinea pigs, yes, he was thinking that the guinea pigs were aware of getting him closer to Tilly Button, who wanted to come round and perhaps adopt a guinea pig for one of the smaller buttons. But again, I think George does like animals. And I think that he probably gets on better with animals than with people. So in that respect, I think that the milking might be something where he could have found a certain amount of keys. You mentioned Adam, and yes, you're absolutely right. When he was in Africa, before he came back as an adult, about 25 years ago, he was working on goats, and he had come up with a way of cross-breeding, R.D. African goats with productive British goats to produce an offspring that had both the hardness and the productivity, which was a bit miraculous. I always felt that that whole storyline was a bit white saviour, though, I thought that. Presenting Adam as this person who comes from Borsicher and goes out to Africa and tells people who have been keeping goats for generations of how to do it was a bit patronising, but there you are. I'm kind of agrees, Steven, and it was good to hear that context about George and his animals. I think we all know people who are good with animals, not humans, and maybe that's the key to his downfall. The Bartleby storyline confounded me a bit. I wonder if it's going to be one of those slow burners and the woman who adopted Bartleby will reappear because we were certainly given the chance to get to know her before she went off. Rose, I loved hearing your enjoyment of the show. Isn't that what's so great about the "Dumbly Dumb" podcast? So just hear your enthusiasm and enjoyment and your theory that empathetic people only work with cows. I hope you're right. I fear with words like "megadairy" and in parlance that that might not be the truth. And also, I love your extrapolated, inter-species lactation theory crossing over to goats. It just makes me laugh because I want to wander round in my day as well, relaxing and unwinding with sort of extrapolating scripts in my mind like you've done and plots as well. They go round and round in circles. It's lovely to imagine the story as we've written by Rose. Next up is a very familiar voice. Hi, Stephen, loves just as singing and all "Dumbly Dumbers." It's Jacqueline here. I thought I'd interfere in today's podcast because I'm so glad that we organized for somebody else to stand in for me, which I'm very grateful for. Thank you very much loves just as singing because I have now just had to climb up a hill. So excuse me, I'm a bit puffed out to make sure that I could get enough 4G network. There is no Wi-Fi working in the house. And I'm in the house with 12 Mad York to people. What can you do? But this week, I haven't listened to all of this week and I certainly haven't listened to tonight's, which is probably just still on air now. But I have been impressed with Fallon's resilience. I think she's lived up to and stood up to all the people that's have tried to interfere with her. Tom, yeah, Tom was a twat. I'm sorry, he doesn't change. So there we go, it's my mild opinion. And please, please, everybody, enjoy having somebody else's voice instead of mine. But I'll be back next week, you know, where is there? You're mild opinion, Jacqueline. In my house, according to my nine of ours, that word would be swell. (laughing) Tom is getting in the net this week. And are you up Lakey Hill? That's where I imagine you, my mind. It's an absolute privilege to keep your seat warm. Safe journey home, do come and reclaim it soon. Before I get carried away, Fallon's been wonderful this week. I'm so much in agreement with that. I felt quite maternal towards her about how clear and boundary she was. Now, she hasn't lost her head with all this stuff going on. I wonder if she's been letting off steam at the disco again. God, I love that scene. Didn't you love that when the image of hers just handing her mesmerized by the glitter ball, handing Paul her coat and heading for the dance floor to get her life in perspective? Yes, I'm all for Fallon at the moment. Have a good trip, Jacqueline. Thanks for calling. Yes, I think Fallon is a very well-rounded character. And we do see a lot of her, of different aspects of her life, her marriage and the problems that she's going through with Harrison at the moment, her relationship with Jolene at the ball, her relationship with Bridge Farm. And recently, some of the things she has been saying, all those mutters aside about it's not her business anymore. Yeah, when Jolene came in to roll her sleeves up, Jolene at her best, wasn't she? She was just like, "Oh, come on, it's all right. "We can get this done in a trice like this." And Fallon's like, "There's no point, Mum. "There's no, what's the point?" And yeah, we were all rooting for her to go off and do her own thing at that point, weren't we? Yes, I think she will. She'll end up at the recharging center and I think she'll make a success of that despite having took up with regards to just an Elliot as major stakeholder in the venture. But I think that yeah, her vegan, was it dairy-free, gluten-free, everything-free place? We'll do well. I think I'm not a huge fan of gluten-free cooking because most things, if you try to make a bread or cake without gluten, you end up with something which has got a very odd texture. But actually, there are things that you can make which didn't have any gluten in the first place and by focusing on the flavors and so forth, free ons or things with almonds in that sort of stuff or the polenta cake and be absolutely fantastic. Stephen, you're giving Fallon cooking lessons, baking lessons. But I'm not telling her how to make them. I'm telling her what the customer wants. Okay, is that right? So we're giving her a business advice. I think she would do a terrific job and I should apologise for the snippet of Fallon impersonation then, which came out because when you ask at the beginning of the programme, my history of watching me arches. For 25 years, I've been watching it. And for 25 years, I've been summarising the plot to my dad over the phone with terrible impersonations where the accent veered all over the place. I don't know if anyone else does that. Anybody else does, summarise the arches to their far? And does he use it really badly? Or to the self? Do call in and let us know. And indeed, call in and give us your arches impersonations. That would be great fun. And now for our final call. And this is from Jenny with a G. - Hello, it's Jenny with a G from Coventry here. I just wanted to leave a message just to say how angry I am with Eddy at the moment. He's just be so unreasonable. How dare you talk to Susan like that? - Susan absolutely did the right thing. And to tell her that talks to her like that is unbelievable. And I'm just worried that Will is going to be taken in by what he's saying about family loyalty and all that kind of rubbish. Oh, he's just got a huge sense of morality. And it's that gratitude that's actually got George to where he is at the moment, lying to save himself. And as for the enormous chip that he's got on his shoulder about Brian and on of us, does he forget who's else he is living in? And how generous Oliver has been to that family. Unnecessarily generous, if you ask me. Oh, at the moment, Eddy is just beyond contempt, if you ask me. I think I'm just going to go and have a blast of wanting to calm down. Thank you. - Hello, sorry, it's Jenny with a G again. I've realized it was actually just in Eliot that Eddy was whinging on about not all of us. But anyway, my point still stands. He's got absolutely no leg to stand on and George should be punished what he did and not get off the hook. Thank you. - Thank you for that call, Jenny. And yes, Eddy has been utterly hideous. His treatment of Susan was completely unjustified. I think that both of them got black sheep in their families with Eddy's brother, Altho, who's been up to no good in the past and was part of the bad influence on George and obviously Susan with Clive and Keith, among other things, burning various bits of average town. So I think that it's all very well for Eddy to sound off about justice is different for different people. But I don't think that Justin has actually burnt anything down. I don't think Justin has bought into a car and driven around without permission and ended up pausing a crash. And if he did, then he should be, bang to rights. But I don't seem to remember that happening to Nick. I think when Nick knocked Matt Crawford down, that was all covered up. So I think that Brandy has probably had that free pass. And George does, as you say, Jenny, need to be punished for what he did, which was serious. I'm not convinced he's going to go to prison. As we were saying earlier, there isn't much room in prisons. He's the first time offended that. But I think he does need the conviction and he does need to face up consequences of his generally hideous behaviour. Community service, maybe. That will be good. I think he should be doing milking for communities of unpaid milking. Yes, relief milking, relief for the dairy herd. I did find Eddy's outburst a bit jarring, Jenny. But then I thought I also really appreciate the Brandy's being given really serious. It was dramatic as a serious plot line. And I feel like in the past, I've been, as a listener, guilty of seeing the Brandy's as the sort of mechanicals, that sort of light relief. And so I think it's better to see this serious side of the culture in their family. Because of course, we tend to mix and socialise with people who very much share our own values and our own culture. And there's a great suede of the population who hold fast to a code which includes the points that Eddy raised. And they're around, we're just not. We don't want, we don't want to hear that. Snitches get stitches. It's not a joke, it's really real in a great sections of the community and being reminded of that. It was a bit brutal, but I also felt that it was realistic. Yes, if we go back quite a while to a forgotten plot line, Eddy and Clary were looking into arms houses as a possibility for. I remember that. When they can no longer say a range farm. That was, I think, when Oliver was selling a bit of range farm off to support Greg Abels. Now, to get an arms house, you have to be a person of good moral character. Eddy is definitely not showing that at the moment. But as an excuse, the thing that gives Eddy his moral character Clary is aware at the moment, she's going to come back. And I think when she does come back, she should be able to really sort him out because he needs sorting out. And he needs to be put straight about family and that family isn't just George not being punished for stuff that he did. It's about everybody. It's about Emma and Susan and the whole village. And I think that Eddy just needs to be explained to and Clary is one person who can really put him right. Yes, and bring out the best in him. I remember that plot line about the arms houses. How do they decide if we've got a good moral character or not? I don't know, maybe you get a reference from somebody. I've done some shady things in my life and then I changed. And I feel like I may product a useful member of society now. I wonder how I would be judged on the moral character ometer. I'm not sure. It was, yeah, I remember that plot line. And I felt at the time, it was really good to show the vulnerability of their housing situation as they approached the latter part of their lives. In the arches we have often people, "Oh, I'm moving with you, I'll get a place." Will Alistair move out of gyms and all that stuff? On the basis that most of them have a reasonable amount of choice or options like I'm privileged to have. Within reason, someone might give you a spare room for a few months for nothing if you need to get back on your feet and seeing how precarious their life was after a lifetime of, yeah, work, although Clary obviously working harder. Yeah, I thought that plot was good when they were thinking about what was going to happen to them. It was sad. Yes, and as Jenny says, they owe everything to Oliver at the moment and so they need to be careful. They need to suck up a bit. So those are all the calls. Thank you so much for calling in. We always say this show is about what you the listeners think. So please do tell us how the week was for you in Ambridge and call in next week. Now, did we have any emails or text messages this week? I don't think we did none at all. Not her. I can't resist it. Sausage, an organic one. OK, as we have mentioned a few times now, Patreon backers of Dumpty Dum now get an ad-free early release version of the podcast around six o'clock on a Saturday. 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Let's move on to Facebook and give a warm, Dumpty Dum welcome to the following 21 people who have joined our Facebook group in the past week. 21? That's a lot. It is. In Robox. I think they're all real people. One. And they are. Fern Ember, Slathering Joe, Louisa Flack, Anna Worley, Matt Hollis. Tracy Hinton, Claire Bowe, Nicola Porter, Maria Roche, Joe Haslam. And Tressa, Lizzie Philip Sorensen, Barbara Schiff, Lorna Swinney, The Edwards. So you think Claire, Dave Shauler, Joe Ami, Anna Chappelle, Helen Brady, and Linsky, welcome to you all. Don't be shy about taking the plunge. Start a new conversation. That's what we're here for. And we actively encourage you to go full immersion, start posting, call in, and emailing in. Do it all in the same week. And don't be shy. It doesn't have to be perfect. So let's hear what's been going on in the Dumpty Dum Facebook group this week from Michelle. How are you, Dumpty Dummers? Michelle here, with this week's roundup of the Facebook page. The storylines continue to ride the shockwave from the crash across Enbridge. It's some surprised responses from some of our favorites. All favorite characters to love to hate. Jonah Tichmash commented, who are you? And what have you done with the real Tom? Chris Gibson reflected on today's enchanted episode. Adam turns into a real life boy, and Tom becomes helpful. What was Tom really being helpful, or just trying to pretend to be helpful, whilst making things much, much worse? Kate Lyle assumed the latter. Tom's been reading management for dummies again, and boy oh boy did that backfire. The Facebook group, helpful as ever, were thinking of the different ways that Bridge Farm could handle things slightly better than they had done thus far, from swapped rotors, reasonable adjustments, and so on. What are there for they have done so far? It's not been great. Lorraine Mihan summed it all up perfectly, and showed how this disaster was seemingly always looming. As usual, the Bridge Farm crowd are running around like the proverbial headless chickens. They need a family conference to discuss the catastrophic effect, a mass imprisonment walk out of the Grundy Horrobin clan would have on their businesses. In fact, they should have called it as soon as they heard the news. Then, they should agree collectively the action they need to take. Also, they should remember. Even in Ambridge, one is innocent until proven guilty, and there is such a thing as employment law. They're behaving like many family businesses do, and taking action based on emotion. And as if the law does not apply to them, a good business would have already carried out a threat assessment, and relying on the same family for so much is definitely a threat to their business. Plus, they don't know they are on the verge of losing famine, but should have thought about it. As ever, employment rules and regulations, contracts and jobs remain as flaky as they come in Ambridge, and employment lawyer would have a field day. After two weeks of almost non-stop drama, this week has been a little light on action with Catherine Humphrey's bemoaning, apple pie and kitty cat, bring back George, all is forgiven. It really has been an up and down week, but what's safe to say is that we're all pretty hooked at the moment, and the drama is getting us through Sunflower scenes and PTA pilavas. We had a lovely post from new member Helen Brady. Welcome on board, Helen. Thank Joy for adding me. Love the archers have been listening for 20 plus years, used to listen to the omnibus, but now listen next morning on the way to work. This George Alice story has me even more gripped and shouting at the radio. Perfectly put Helen, we really are all hooked in now. Despite the despair of Thursday night's episode, there are requests for group hubs, as we heard one of the most cheer-laden episodes in ages, but there's always light at the end of the tunnel. And from the looks of the super tea-brown artivist poll, hope comes in the form of clarry grandi to come back and sort it all out. Take care all and to our abits. - Thank you, Michelle, and thank you so much to everyone on the jump to jump Facebook group. And if you'd like to join them, please do. But don't forget to answer all the membership questions so that we know that you're a real person. And can I just add, at the moment, we have a vacancy for a Facebook round-or-upper-er for the first week of each month. So if there's anybody out there who would like to join the team of round-or-upper-ers, please do get in touch. And also if anybody out there would like to write us a review, please do. There's a link to instructions on how to do this in the show notes. If you can't leave a review, or if you already have, the other thing you could do is to tell three of your friends about us. Even if they're not currently archers listeners, who knows? It might be the start of a long obsession. Now to Twitter. But you will find us @dumptydum. Make sure you include the archers hashtag using a capital T and A. So the visually impaired who use screen readers can enjoy any archers-based tweets. And as well as @dumptydum, I can occasionally be found at When Lock House. Jacqueline and Steve and can both be also found with the archers friends on Blue Sky. Where Jacqueline is @jeweto.besky.social. And I am @wenlock.besky.social. Now let's find out who has won the Twitter medals this week with CO. (bell dings) - tweet, tweet, pushcat. Or should that be XX these days? - Hello, Jacqueline, Steve and dumptydum is everywhere. It's purple pumpkin here with tweets and skits of the week, my one contribution to the show this time. This week in Twitter and Blue Sky, there was quite a lot of debate about who is the worst. I offer you Harrison, who someone somewhere seems to think is a good policeman. As Fint and the Wrong @fint and t wrong.beascide@social asked, what are they smoking? But Harrison was soon knocked off the top spot by Tom Archer, who seems to have been on a Management 101 course and believes he can be a mediator. Jackie Crofti @jackiecrofti.beascide.social and many other commented. There was some really positive dialogue between Emma and Fallon and far more understanding between them than they were allowed to express thanks to Tom. But both Tom and Harrison were knocked into a cocked hat by the universally abhorred Eddie Grundy. Simon Oliver at Simon Oliver 1958 was not alone in saying his opinion of Eddie Grundy could not go any lower than it is at the moment. As River Cavy @rivercavy.beascide.social put it. So what you're saying is Eddie, Susan should have screwed over the innocent half of her family to protect the guilty half that you're also related to. And the Bridge Farm Archers also came in for a dose of a program. Who holds an emergency meeting about staff shortages during the working day? And at a time, as Ian at Kernout 27 pointed out, when two-fifths of the team can't make it. And did Tom and Natasha realize that as Bruce the Bunny at Brucethebunny.beascide.social said, if they hadn't pushed Fallon out, the staffing of the tea room wouldn't be their problem. And why or why has no one asked Ian to help there? As Wendy Jane at WendyJane.beascide.social said, he seems at a loose end. Meanwhile, mention of a new contract Milka had the tweeters in an uproar. Would Ruth's former Bo Sam be back to calls havoc? As Rainbow Warrior @Rainbow_Warya said, ask Ruth, Pat, she used to know someone. This led regular tweeters Angela Dob at LMS Bossy and NINZY @NINZY to compile the antidote to the slap list. People they'd like to bring back to calls havoc. Charlie Thomas to disrupt Adam and Ian. Tiger and Hazel Wooley of course, but how about boring Trevor or Brenda Tucker? The list is long. And in response to another of the storylines, Angela was also busy. Julia Lee @Julia Lee author said, not only is it a cheese demo, it's a last-minute emergency cheese demo. Who hasn't been with a group of friends or colleagues when some bright spot, Identive Housewives lacking gets on Google for the nearest cheese demo right now. Angela Dob at LMS Bossy replied, "It's what passes for fun round here. "Once a week, a group of us rebels and reprobates pounce "with 30 minutes notice on local producers "of artisanal goodies, "and we stress them out by waving cash at them "and demanding tours with sampling thrown in. "We also always buy loads after orbs." And on that note, over to this week's medals for blue sky skates and expos, all of which we continue to consider as Tweets of the Week. In bronze position, it's newcomer Al Southern at Daydream 2323. It's an emergency. We don't have enough staff. What on earth can we do? I know, hearts are more staff. Brilliant idea. You're a genius. The silver medalist is Matt at Matt_Mark II. Dandelion scones, cheese and apple pie, jazz are stealing sunflowers from a child. Are the script writers high? And the gold medal goes to Barry Meetsy Trubshaw at Elsie Trubshaw. I hate the grundies. I hate the orgages and I hate the archers. What a way to spend 13 minutes a day. And on that familiar boat, that's it for this week. I hope to see you all on #TheArchers on Twitter or Blue Sky next week. Thank you, Abaptheo, and congratulations to all who are mentioned in this week's roundup. And don't forget, we're on Instagram @DumptyDum. Please send any of the archers or podcast relevant photos to the Dumpty Dum email, and we'll publish them with credit to you. And that's dumptydum@mail.com. The irreplaceable Jacqueline will be back next week, and she and Stephen will be recording at their normal time, which is the crack of dawn. And Saturday morning, please get your calls in by midnight on Friday, UK time, as usual. As we come to the end of this episode, we need to say thank you to all the wonderful contributors and to the team of Dumpty Dum with behind the scenes. And we need to say a great big thank you to all of you who are listening to us too. Everyone loves making this podcast and sharing love of the archers all around the world. And we must say thank you to Kim Daram and Sonny Ormond for their voices and pay our respects to the creators of this podcast. Thank you so much for listening. Now, Stephen and I are off to organise the end of term disco. So it's goodbye from me. And it's goodbye from me. 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