Gardeners' Question Time in Ambridge - photo gallery

I find this blurring of fact and fiction bizarre. Have the SWs lost their grip on reality or is the cross referencing of factual and fictional programmes what all the smart young scriptwriters do these days? I suppose this multi genre approach is evidence of out of the box blue sky thinking (I use the cliches intentionally)! What an utter bore!!!!

Now that it is established that the Radio 4 signal reaches Ambridge, can some body tell me what resident of the village hear at 7.02 on a weekday evening...

Please, Please...



When are you lot going back to your core values?



This disjointed guff is NOT listenable to.



Grundy japes

TAX

Celebs

Royals

Cross promotion

Cross programming

Unbelievable plots

Unbelievable charcter transitions



Or at least say that your are trying to ditch your loyal, educated, 40-70 year old demographic to "move on"



A car crash awaits....

Well, what a miserable lot! I really enjoyed the GQT being at Ambridge, The Archers is fantasy, that's the beauty of it and to put it into Gardeners Question Time is a stroke of real genius. I loved it! Take no notice of them.

We enjoyed the crossover, although parts of it were cringe worthy as we sorta knew what was coming from the main show. I actually had no idea the event was "real" until I saw it on iPlayer. Still, a treat all the more sweet with rarity -- best not do too many of these too often to retain their edge.

Kathie eaton@4



I thought it was lovely... I just can't help wondering about the metaphysical dimension, that's all. What is canon, and what isn't?



Another angle on it: Has "The Archers" (the programme) ever been referred to on air on GCT? That would make another interesting fold in reality...

A 'stroke of genius'....I think not. 'The metaphysical dimension' ...trying to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. I wish that the SWs would focus on constructing decent plotlines rather than seeking to divert attention from the fact that TA is going down the pan by pulling stunts such as Ambridge Extra and the fiasco of GQT.

It wasn't a fiasco. It was an interesting 45 minutes - as an irregular GQT listener I enjoyed the practical and informative answers, and there was an added dimension in knowing where the questioners were coming from.



I'm less sold on Amex. The SLs are a bit too nasty for my liking, but there you go. Actually it has made me appreciate the main programme a bit more - to a degree Amex is maybe the programme some of the Cassandras are always claiming the main prog has become, but the contrast shows that just isn't so.

Vicarshusband, maybe you should try to see things from the perspective of a regular GQT listener who does not wish to be saddled with all of this fictional TA nonsense. I agree that AmEx is appalling nonsense but I also think that TA is pretty dire these days. The 'Cassandra' argument doesn't hold up to much scrutiny......maybe the SWs should write an even worse series to make TA seem even better!!!!

Clarrie looks as if she ought to be writing biographies of Rhoda Broughton and Charlotte M. Yonge.

They asked the same sort of questions that the GQT team answer in the potting shed. It was just a bit of fun, for goodness sake!

Well, Highlybemused, I think we'll have to agree to differ on GCT and TA. I am rather enjoying TA at the moment. Can't decide whether as you say Amex is nonsense or it's just that I am way out of sympathy with the storylines. I'm on the point of giving up with it, but a little voice keeps telling me to hang in there, in the hope they'll background Alice and Jamie and focus instead on someone who has an interesting life, or indeed a life at all.

Henry Fielding produced "Shamela" as his response to, in his mind, the objectionable "Pamela." "Pamela" is generally considered the first English language novel. Fielding despised both the content and the format and, reportedly, had no idea that Samuel Richardson (who was highly respected by Fielding, was the pen behind the work. I always think of this tit bit of history whenever audiences bellyache about innovation. Bravo to all of you for thinking three dimensionally, for dissolving walls, for being clever, for being creative.

Sorry after a lifetime as a TA listener I just can't take any more. Its been a steady downhill slope since January, if I want this kind of programme, I can watch Eastenders, or something similar! Wake up before you lose all your loyal listeners. We all have to move with the times, but this rubbish is dire!