Gillian Reynolds reviews The Archers
|10:57 AM, Tuesday, 6 March 2012
'...Brian, of course, has been in trouble with the rest of the family for weeks over his mega-dairy unit but Brian is always in trouble one way or the other. It's what he's there for...'
Veteran radio writer Gillian Reynolds reports on recent events in Ambridge.
Keri Davies is an Archers (and Ambridge Extra) scriptwriter and web producer.
- Read the article in The Telegraph
- Check up on Brian in our Who's Who section
- Picture shows Charles Collingwood (Brian Aldridge)
Comment number 1.
At 08:30 9th Mar 2012, barwick_green wrote:My comments have not been published- sent them twice.
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Comment number 2.
At 11:48 9th Mar 2012, Dragonfly wrote:In the interests of balance, how about plugging Nancy Banks-Smith in The Guardian? Consistently brilliant.
https://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2012/mar/06/a-month-in-ambridge-garlic-parnsip
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Comment number 3.
At 10:10 10th Mar 2012, I_never_write wrote:"The Archers: an antidote to your winter electricity bill..."
What are the chances of the the sense of Gillian Reynolds' review being used over the headline? She goes on to say ".... If the antidote to your own gloom is to consider the plight of others worse off last week’s Archers had it...."
On another, possibly unrelated, matter the link to the blog post 'Archers editor to receive honorary doctorate' has been throwing up an 'Error 404 - page not found' message for some days now. Has the post been removed?
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At 12:31 14th Mar 2012, Keri Davies wrote:>In the interests of balance, how about plugging Nancy Banks-Smith in The Guardian? Consistently brilliant.
I agree, and indeed we have:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thearchers/2012/03/a_month_in_ambridge_-_torn_bet.html
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Comment number 5.
At 12:35 14th Mar 2012, Keri Davies wrote:>the link to the blog post 'Archers editor to receive honorary doctorate' has been throwing up an 'Error 404 - page not found' message for some days now. Has the post been removed?
Yes it has. I'll quote from a reply to another post to explain why:
'...which I removed because of the hurtful personal comments. And I shut the one about the arrival of our acting editor to prevent a recurrence.
I really reget having to do this. But until users show that they are willing to (in footballing terms) play the ball rather than the (wo)man, then I'm afraid I'll be considering that course of action more frequently in the future...'
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At 15:12 15th Aug 2012, 1zia wrote:This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.
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