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...of the closet. OK I've tried to fight it, but I've had this yearning since the early 70s, time to man up and confess. I'm an er....Archers fan. Any others willing to come out ?
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Dip in and out. Sometimes go years between listenings but it's remarkably easy to catch up.
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Phew, that's a relief!
I had my back to the forum wall when I opened this thread.
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>>I had my back to the forum wall when I opened this thread.>>
Lucky then that the archers missed their target....:-)
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Wife listens to Sunday 75 min prog, I give her my mp3 player/radio (sansa fuze) so I can't hear it :)
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Oh, chaps, honestly...
I remember hearing it in the nineteenth century before television or even the cinema. 'Ere you arre me old pal me old beauty...' Walter Gabriel he was called, a village character. Dead before any of you were born of course.
Mind you when rifling the mental files for his name just now I came up with Albert Tatlock. But he was from some other branch of deadhead prole art that I have buried myself in at one time or another to distract myself from serious matters.
Heigh ho. But I always turn the wireless off now when that jaunty bit of music comes on, and listen to the steering pump which is getting a bit noisy. More intellectually stimulating somehow in a worrying, boring sort of way.
Last edited by: Armel Coussine on Sun 22 May 11 at 22:01
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Not sure fan is the right word. Sort of an addict really and have been for years. I know its bad, really bad and should have the will power to leave it alone but I hear that tune and I think I'll just find out the latest going on down the Bull and I'm listening to the damned thing again . Sunday mornings is bad - a whole week of junk in one go. And then there's the podcast so you can get the stuff whenever you want. Is there any hope for me?
Last edited by: CGNorwich on Sun 22 May 11 at 21:55
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Yup.
I dip out for a while sometimes if there's a tedious storyline running. I was brought up with it, abandoned it as a youth, then resumed when we were married in 1977 and we didn't have a TV for 4 years - we consumed a lot of Radio 4 and library books.
I haven't forgiven them for chucking Nigel off the roof, nor likely to.
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Madame Ted devours the programme every Sunday at a massive volume. I go somewhere else, all it seems to be is imitation people shoutig and moaning...and dying !
I remember some bird being killed in a barn fire trying to rescue a horse...1955 I think.
I think the actor who played Walter was Chris Gittings ? Albert Tatlock was acted by Jack Howarth. The only other part I saw him play was a bootmaker in Hobson's Choice with Charles Laughton, Johnny Mills, Brenda De Banzie, Pru Scales and Richard Wattis...Great fun, I have it on tape. Filmed around 1960ish.
Ted
Edit...Was it a horse, or was it Mrs Freeman's cat, Captain ?
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>>Albert Tatlock was acted by Jack Howarth>>
Albert was a Coronation Street character...:-)
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That's right....just refreshing AC's memory........he does get a bit confused, you know :-)
Ted
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>> >>Albert Tatlock was acted by Jack Howarth>>
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>> Albert was a Coronation Street character...:-)
He was acted by Jack Howarth though ;)
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>>He was acted by Jack Howarth though ;)>>
Yes, never said he wasn't. Actors play characters...:-)
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But Ted was mentioning him for AC's benefit. Ted is a fan of Corrie I think.
:-)
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Never listened to the Archers.
If this is an open confession thread though, I liked one of Bros's songs once. Think I may have even bought the CD single!
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>> If this is an open confession thread though, I liked one of Bros's songs once.
Oh dear this was about either the Archers or being homosexual I guess....
For other members info a relative is gay so no jokes/comments or after the injunction you will be in trouble.
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>> If this is an open confession thread though, I liked one of Bros's songs once.
>> Think I may have even bought the CD single!
Oh dear, thats the very worse thing that anyone has ever fessed up to on here.
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Sometimes driving home west on a Friday night the Archers would come on ...
... it was potentially lethal ...
... it would work like a mild anesthetic and even a can of Red Bull would not help ...
... I just had to turn over after a few bars of the theme tune.
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Well I was born while Walter Gabriel was around. And I remember Ned Larkin, Dan Archer's labourer, not to mention Tom Forrest. How about John Tregorran, the antique dealer in Borchester?
Haven't listened to The Archers in decades (I used to trip over the lunchtime update when I worked odd hours because it followed The World At One in the great days of Bill Hardcastle). But more recently I used to have a smile at the update published in The Week. I used to give SWMBO a laugh by reading out the increasingly unlikely goings-on in Ambridge and finishing with the sentence 'and meanwhile, cows mooed in the far distance...'
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Never listened to the Archers but I do fondly remember Tony Hancocks take off called 'the Bowmen' where he was the elderly actor playing the old village character who was going to be killed off ...... but the public raised an outcry and he was saved whereupon he demanded script approval ...
All the other characters were killed off by him ....
'Oh look - everyone from the whole village is walking across the field with the old mine shaft and they've all fallen down it , no chance of rescuing them so we might as well concrete the shaft over.....
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There was a movie made "The Cobblers of Umbridge" which was a send up of the radio programme. Can't seem to be able to find a DVD or VHS of it !
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I went through a period of regularly happening to be in the car when it was on. I probably listen a handful of times a year - it doesn't seem to matter.
However, I have not listened since poor old Nigel's death. A nasty, vindicitive class-war killing.
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3ks4qtAx-A
I'd forgotten the Bowmens - an every day story of simple folk
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I have heard it by accident.
The thing that always impresses me with soaps is the institutionalised incredibly bad acting.
You would never ever hear a snatch from the archers and imagine that it was a real bit of recorded rural dialogue, or that a scene in Coronation Street was a real web cam in a real pub.
Why do they put on funny voices and ham it up? Eisenstein made propaganda films using actors that even today are mistaken for real bits of live documentary.
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It's actually the only thing on Radio 4 I can't listen to. :-(
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It's actually the only thing on Radio 4 I can't listen to.
What? While they're still making Quote, Unquote?
Nigel was the victim of Vanessa Whitburn's feminist master plan. Being a mere feckless, useless man, he went and died, leaving Elizabeth to run Lower Loxley alone; David, meanwhile, suffers a guilt-induced breakdown, leaving Brookfield to Ruth and Pip; and Helen doesn't even need a man to father her baby. Believe me, Ambridge is real, and it's a bad, bad place to be male.
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"What? While they're still making Quote, Unquote?"
No, the worse by a mile thing on R4 is "Thought for the Day" This morning's was particularly cringeworthy.
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I was moaning only this lunch-time that they should have let Counterpoint die with Ned Sherrin.....It's had a new lease of life with Paul Gambuchinni now :-( Quote Unquote must have the most irritating host on the planet - wonder if he might want to go and check the slates out at Lower Loxley ?
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>>Quote Unquote must>> have the most irritating host on the planet - wonder if he might want to>> go and check the slates out at Lower Loxley ?
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Shirley not!
What about the egomaniac that hosts 'Just A Minute'.
I would cheerfully swing for him!
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That irritating Gambuchinni (I'll trust PU's spelling). Had a spell on Radio 3 years ago in another attempt to "popularise" the show; cannot stand the man.
And another thing. Why do Radios 3 and 4 have to attract young/black/working class/insert patronised minority here/etc. audiences. I assure you that Kiss FM and Radio 1 have never tried to attract my sort. Why the difference?
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"And another thing. Why do Radios 3 and 4 have to attract young/black/working class/insert patronised minority here/etc. audiences"
Perhaps because otherwise they become a ghetto for ageing listeners fixed in their ways who will eventually die leaving them with no audience . They also provide an interesting diversity of views.
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>> Gambuchinni (I'll trust PU's spelling)
Gambaccini. Sorry PU.
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>> No, the worse by a mile thing on R4 is "Thought for the Day" This
>> morning's was particularly cringeworthy.
At least it's short though. I can tolerate it.
Rabbi Lionel Blue is the best of a fairly dull bunch.
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The Rabbi is a OK but he has become a sort of self parody. I tolerate them all really but its a strange little episode tucked away in the middle of a news program. Its the twisting of any news story to find a parallel in the Bible/Koran etc that I find so amusingly cringe inducing.
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Brilliant....!
Of course (he muttered darkly) everyone knows that the Archers are real, there is no cast....
www.archersanarchists.com/
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i've got mangel wurzels in me garden, I've got mangel wurzels in me shed, I've got mangel wurzels in me bathroom and a mangel wurzel for a ed ........................
Oo ar oo ar .........
They don't write them like that any more....
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