Blog posts by year and monthJune 2012
Posts (7)
I feel sorry for Amy. Help me!" - listener discussions to 20 June 2012
Amy's departure from the vicarage on Thursday raised a cheer and a "good riddance" from Usha's many supporters. There was some sympathy for her after she met with Carl on Tuesday, but most felt that "she deserved every mean-spirited, materialistic, cruel syllable that Carl spat at her." Over ...
"Open Farm Sunday is just another way of saying Armageddon, isn't it?" - listener discussions to 13 June 2012
Has David make a terrible mistake deciding to go ahead with Open Farm Sunday at Brookfield? After Ben's horrific discovery, many thought so. But surely that was nothing compared to Lynda and Susan's terrible discovery of Will and Nic getting "jiggy" in the woods. It's Team Usha all the way as...
New Archers scriptwriter - Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti
This week's scripts are written by a newcomer to the team, the award-winning drama writer Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti. She writes about joining this intimidating institution. Before I embarked on writing my trial script for The Archers last year, I studied the show as if it were a science, I took no...
"I had visions of an uneven, edible pavement..." - listener discussions to 6 June 2012
As the jubilee preparations got underway, listeners struggled with the enormous cake Clarrie was organising. Was this to be a gravity-defying "leaning tower of sponges?" Perhaps the WI should have stepped in to take control? Over at Brookfield, there's some anticipation about whether the chil...
"Time to launch Exocet Mabel at Amy" - listener discussions to 30 May 2012
As Usha gives it to "Blamey Amy" with both barrels, there's a resounding cheer (and some relief) from listeners. As one put it: "that was utterly, splendidly cathartic." We've had debates about Brookfield's mystery caller, Tony Archers' sandwiches and Adam and Ian's future. And as republi...
Vaccinating badgers against TB
Ed Grundy is learning how to vaccinate badgers against TB. Steve Peacock explains why. As early shifts go, this wasn't bad. Four o'clock on an August morning saw me driving from Birmingham to a village in the Cotswolds, to join a group from Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust as they set out to i...
Is The Archers going to get 'darker and bigger? No.
Has recent press coverage made you worried that The Archers is going to take a lurch into EastEnders territority? Well, worry not, because it isn't. Acting Archers editor John Yorke explains the truth about this story. A few months ago I was asked by a national newspaper if EastEnders would e...
