The Archers

[mangaman]

Carrying on from a different thread word has reached me they are trying to sex up the Archers

People have been freely mentioning the Nigel Pargitter Death Scream episode and the "infamous shower scene"

Bearing in mind I thought "The Nigel Pargitter Death Scream" was a thrash metal band from the mid 80s (I'm sure I saw them once at CCAT) could someone enlighten me as to what I've been missing.

I have caught a few episodes randomly - but only heard the standard fare of pigs and cakes for the village fete.

There must be some Archers fans out there, so am I missing something or is Radio 4 dumbing down?

EDIT - and what happened in the infamous shower scene (remembering this is a family forum)

 

[Beebo]

is Radio 4 dumbing down?

You want dumbing down,

Everyone - hum after me,

dumb di dumb di dumb di dummb, dumb di dumb di dumb dummb

 

[mangaman]

Don't - it'll get stuck in my head now.

Someone just told me there's an Archers spin off as well for the yoof on 4 Extra

What next - The Archers in Space?

 

[swansonj]

Sid and Jolene in the shower. Put it this way, on radio you can suggest by sound effects things that you would not be allowed to put on TV pre-watershed and possibly not even post-watershed.

He did subsequently marry her (his third) but then died on her on holiday somewhere the other side of the world. Kenton then picked her up having by then ditched Sid's second wife whom he had also shacked up with. Kenton's first wife still lives in Oz; Sid's first wife died in a road accident. Sid's second had previously lived with the village copper who famously had a spat with the extragantly French chef of the local country house hotel when he described Caroline as the "bicycle of Ambridge". the extragantly French chef was replaced by the current Irish chef who is gay and lives with Adam, the eldest of what would turn out to be Jennifer's four children by three different fathers, and who recently had a one-night-stand with the no-at-all-stereotyped eastern European lad Pbl (I'm sure they're must be some vowels in there but I've never worked out where). Jennifer is now bringing up her husband's love child by the late Siobhan, a child by the name of Rory only being Oirish the proper spelling is another one with more vowels than I care to get my head round. The Irish chef is the one who famously said that Duchy Originals shortbreads were really very good.

But I wouldn't want you to think The Archers bears any relation to a soap opera.

 

[mangaman]

Sid and Jolene in the shower. Put it this way, on radio you can suggest by sound effects things that you would not be allowed to put on TV pre-watershed and possibly not even post-watershed.

He did subsequently marry her (his third) but then died on her on holiday somewhere the other side of the world. Kenton then picked her up having by then ditched Sid's second wife whom he had also shacked up with. Kenton's first wife still lives in Oz; Sid's first wife died in a road accident. Sid's second had previously lived with the village copper who famously had a spat with the extragantly French chef of the local country house hotel when he described Caroline as the "bicycle of Ambridge". the extragantly French chef was replaced by the current Irish chef who is gay and lives with Adam, the eldest of what would turn out to be Jennifer's four children by three different fathers, and who recently had a one-night-stand with the no-at-all-stereotyped eastern European lad Pbl (I'm sure they're must be some vowels in there but I've never worked out where). Jennifer is now bringing up her husband's love child by the late Siobhan, a child by the name of Rory only the proper spelling is another one with more vowels than I care to get my head round. The Irish chef is the one who famously said that Duchy Originals shortbreads were really very good.

But I wouldn't want you to think The Archers bears any relation to a soap opera.

 

[Andrew_Culture]

Hang on, who had a fling with Pebble boy? Adam?

 

[Andrew_Culture]

I have a confession, I'm a member of http://www.archersanarchists.com/

 

[mangaman]

Hang on, who had a fling with Pebble boy? Adam?

 

[swansonj]

Hang on, who had a fling with Pebble boy? Adam?

Adam did, Ian didn't, Pabl/Pavl/Pebble/whatever the heck his name is tried them both.

There's never been an explicit lesbian in TA, though some of us had high hopes for Helen (aka the Hellqueen) who was having a relationship she was keeping secret - only it turned out to be with the much older gamekeeper, who was subsequently found by Willyam having blown his brains out, Willyam who had his son paternity tested to find out if Emma had had the baby with him or his brother Ed (who had previously nearly killed Emma in a car crash and subsequently went off for a bit to become a drug addict but is now miraculously reformed and running the same farm his wastrel father had taken off him by the evil landlord Simon, who was violent in relationships with both Shula, who in real life is married to Brian Jennifer's husband, and with Debbie, one of Jennifer's other children)(but Simon wasn't as evil as the previous evil landlord Cameron, we still don't mention what he did to Lizzie, the widow of the aforementioned Nigel, he of the death scream) as even Emma didn't know. But if she couldn't be a lesbian, Helen made up for it by having a relationship with a turkey Baster and becoming a single mother (but only thanks to the intervention of the Amy the mixed race vicar's daughter who, being fortuitously a midwife, was able to diagnose pre-eclampsia in the same episode just before those two mature, responsible, experienced, safety conscious gentlemen David and Nigel went up on a steep roof in a howling gale to untie a large, flapping banner in the middle of the night, only one of them to return by the conventional route....

 

[Andrew_Culture]

Yup, I'm up to date with that bit. I'm a bit surprised about Adam cheating on Ian.

Did those wronguns who harassed Deevid and Rooof get their just desserts?

 

[swansonj]

Yup, I'm up to date with that bit. I'm a bit surprised about Adam cheating on Ian.

He was emotionally vulnerable at the time which was all Brian's fault. That Brian, he comes over so nice and cuddly on Just a Minute, you wouldn't think he could be so nasty in real life, would you....

 

[mangaman]

Adam did, Ian didn't, Pabl/Pavl/Pebble/whatever the heck his name is tried them both.

There's never been an explicit lesbian in TA, though some of us had high hopes for Helen (aka the Hellqueen) who was having a relationship she was keeping secret - only it turned out to be with the much older gamekeeper, who was subsequently found by Willyam having blown his brains out, Willyam who had his son paternity tested to find out if Emma had had the baby with him or his brother Ed (who had previously nearly killed Emma in a car crash and subsequently went off for a bit to become a drug addict but is now miraculously reformed and running the same farm his wastrel father had taken off him by the evil landlord Simon, who was violent in relationships with both Shula, who in real life is married to Brian Jennifer's husband, and with Debbie, one of Jennifer's other children)(but Simon wasn't as evil as the previous evil landlord Cameron, we still don't mention what he did to Lizzie, the widow of the aforementioned Nigel, he of the death scream) as even Emma didn't know. But if she couldn't be a lesbian, Helen made up for it by having a relationship with a turkey Baster and becoming a single mother (but only thanks to the intervention of the Amy the mixed race vicar's daughter who, being fortuitously a midwife, was able to diagnose pre-eclampsia in the same episode just before those two mature, responsible, experienced, safety conscious gentlemen David and Nigel went up on a steep roof in a howling gale to untie a large, flapping banner in the middle of the night, only one of them to return by the conventional route....

 

[mangaman]

(but Simon wasn't as evil as the previous evil landlord Cameron

I thought he'd be involved in all these shenanigans somewhere

 

[Maz]

Adam did, Ian didn't, Pabl/Pavl/Pebble/whatever the heck his name is tried them both...

Pavel - his name is Pavel. P-A-V-E-L.
Stop getting The Archers wrong! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaagh!

 

[theclaud]

Adam did, Ian didn't, Pabl/Pavl/Pebble/whatever the heck his name is tried them both.

There's never been an explicit lesbian in TA, though some of us had high hopes for Helen (aka the Hellqueen) who was having a relationship she was keeping secret - only it turned out to be with the much older gamekeeper, who was subsequently found by Willyam having blown his brains out, Willyam who had his son paternity tested to find out if Emma had had the baby with him or his brother Ed (who had previously nearly killed Emma in a car crash and subsequently went off for a bit to become a drug addict but is now miraculously reformed and running the same farm his wastrel father had taken off him by the evil landlord Simon, who was violent in relationships with both Shula, who in real life is married to Brian Jennifer's husband, and with Debbie, one of Jennifer's other children)(but Simon wasn't as evil as the previous evil landlord Cameron, we still don't mention what he did to Lizzie, the widow of the aforementioned Nigel, he of the death scream) as even Emma didn't know. But if she couldn't be a lesbian, Helen made up for it by having a relationship with a turkey Baster and becoming a single mother (but only thanks to the intervention of the Amy the mixed race vicar's daughter who, being fortuitously a midwife, was able to diagnose pre-eclampsia in the same episode just before those two mature, responsible, experienced, safety conscious gentlemen David and Nigel went up on a steep roof in a howling gale to untie a large, flapping banner in the middle of the night, only one of them to return by the conventional route....

Your summaries are much better than the actual programme. Can we tune in here regularly?