OT Spoiler alert for The Archers fans

[ARW]

Life will never be the same in Ambridge.

[Brian Gaff (Bed)]

Actually, this may be the only way to do it, since it would be truly unfortunate if all the cast ended up in intensive care. I'd imagine there will be at least one fatality, it will help the bbc in their drive to save money, and of course the recordings could all be done in their own homes on mobile phones until they can all get together again. Brian

[Dave Plowman (News)]

The everyday story of people isolating might be a dad boring.

[harry]

Did they have a mad cow one too?

[ARW]

It never bothered the writers of The Archers.

[alan_m]

They could save even more money by keeping their proposed recording method or even by scrapping that program. The everyday story of millionaire farmers, their down trodden labourers and their wayward children all living in a chocolate box village.

[alan_m]

Which member of the cast was that?

[jgh]

They've already blown up Grey Gables and put have the cast in hospital, it must be contract renegotiation time again. Shades of The Bowmans.

[newshound]

The man himself

[alan_m]

The program "jumped the shark" the day Doris Archer died in the fire.

[michael adams]

That was Grace Archer. And she didn't actually die in the fire she died subsequently from her injuries in her husband Phil's, arms, Doris died, peacefully so its assumed, at home in Glebe Cottage

michael adams

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[alan_m]

And this soap opera should have died at the same time.

[charles]

Let's home Peggy doesn't get ill. She (in real life) lives just down the road from here,

[Martin Brown]

ROFL. About time. They were still going out clubbing long after the rest of the UK had locked down. It seemed *VERY* incongruous and out of step.

I wonder how long they can keep the dialogue up if they have to arrest folk who meet up more than three at a time.

[michael adams]

A long old trek up to Birminhgham then (at least formerly) and 101 years old in June as well.

The thing is their distinctive voices don't really change that much over the years. I've not listened to it for around ten years now - it used to be a background when working or travelling, same as with Test Match Special but a quick Wiki revealed

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Her total of 61 years in the role by 2020 make her the third longest-serving actor in a soap opera worldwide in any medium, surpassed only by her fellow stars of The Archers: Lesley Saweard as Christine Barford (67 years) and Patricia Greene as Jill Archer) (63 years).

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But if I listened today I'd probably recognise Peggy, Christine, and Jill straight away. A big shock was realising that the comedy actress Tamsin Greig ("Black Books", "Green Wing" etc) had been playing Debbie Aldridge since 1991

michael adams

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[charles]

The show doesn't go out live.

[newshound]

It always feels a bit like a parallel universe, so perhaps COVID won't happen there. (Although of course they have reduced the number of episodes per week).

[charles]

Indeed, but they send a car for her.

She was in episode 1, as a different character, but missed a few years for materity.

[Martin Brown]

No but they could have made an effort to bodge in what was probably

*THE* most talked about government announcement in living memory.

[harry]

Is Walter Gabriel still on the go?