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Post by goodlookingone on May 28, 2020 21:57:31 GMT
I used to be in two minds, but Now I'm undecided.
The Current Production is a Very Different Programme, and if it were a new programme, I wouldn't be listening ...
BUT, Then again, I wouldn't have started to listen, either The Recent existing programmes. I think I'm only here it as a memory of when there was a proper programme, and Story's NOT being forgotten/abandoned/abdicated without being concluded .. What are the point in an unfinished book, BUT (yes another BUT) is this the opportunity of The loose ends being ..errr... tied, but I don't know if a refreshed proper team of writers/ed 'itters could make a propper sequence without the forced drama of Combined Blowing up GG, whilst Finding an idiot "Manager" who cant manage a ---ss-up in a brewery, A copper who could never have made school prefect finding himself a slavemaster to investigate, but instead ponces around playing cricket, and all of these things concurrently with the permanent spinster losing another wedding.
Bring Back Dick Barton.....
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Post by indigo on May 28, 2020 22:35:45 GMT
Good points, GLO.
I wouldn´t be overly fussed not to hear the conclusion of some storylines, such as Shula´s vicaring about, but others, like Kirsty & Philip´s doomed marriage to be for example, I do want to have resolved properly if only because we´ve come this far after all, and I feel that a tie-ing up of loose ends of the bigger stories is owed to we listeners.
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Post by goodlookingone on May 29, 2020 10:33:27 GMT
There was no Loose ends (by Friday) in Dick Barton: Special Agent. And The "Agent" had a task to do, not merely Changing the Name of the Pub, or distancing Ed and Em so that the Next Temp Rent-a-Hired-Hand Script Scrinener to change it back again, like a dememted Put-and-take game.
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Post by welshteddy on May 29, 2020 14:47:11 GMT
Listened to 4 now and I think that's it for me. The Josh/David mush has finished me off. Utter rubbish.
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Post by judithl on May 29, 2020 15:19:10 GMT
I'll carry on listening, but it's only in the hope that it will improve.
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Post by Demdike on May 29, 2020 20:37:11 GMT
I'll carry on listening, but it's only in the hope that it will improve. I feel like I have been saying that for about three years. |
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Post by Mermaid on Jun 3, 2020 8:15:09 GMT
I haven't heard any of the recent episodes. Just reading the summary on the website. Doesn't seem I've missed much.
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Post by Anna Key on Jun 5, 2020 16:27:26 GMT
I listened to the new version the other day and though it was a bit weird I did like that it was just normal stuff. Josh v David, sort of funny but I am sure a natural sort of thing we all do in our heads.
The Tracey being Cricket Captain made me laugh. I have no idea how or if this will come about but I do remember how reluctant Harrison was to get the job so hoping, in a hilarious way, that Tracey will come to regret it. Having thought this she will probably take the team to dizzy heights and be proclaimed a heroine
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Post by Mermaid on Jun 6, 2020 7:18:52 GMT
I can't say I like her very much. She's too much of a caricature. Haven't listened to the new episodes.
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Post by welshteddy on Jun 6, 2020 13:17:35 GMT
I felt they we ok if it was just for 3 or 4 episodes but boring for weeks on end
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Post by judithl on Jun 6, 2020 16:21:19 GMT
I agree. We seem to at least two more weeks of this.
Lord Blunkett is complaining about it in a letter to the Telegraph this morning.
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Post by indigo on Jun 8, 2020 11:44:32 GMT
I put on the omnibus the other day as I´d had a restless night and needed to catch up on my sleep. I have to say, after 10 minutes of listening to David awkwardly moaning about his son and his wife´s lasagne, I drifted off. So thank you, BBC for helping with my insomnia  |
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Post by judithl on Jun 8, 2020 12:33:55 GMT
Keri Davies is apparently appealing to listeners not to desert the programme. He says we should be listening on headphones for a better experience. Mr Davies, I don't have any headphones, and I wouldn't find it practical to wear headphones when eating my dinner, which is when I usually listen. Just accept the verdict of listeners: we are not enjoying this, and we want out Archers back!
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Post by goodlookingone on Jun 8, 2020 13:26:39 GMT
Oh .. I keep fallng asleep if I hear it ... At least: I think I must fall asleep as I never remember any of it - even in these otherwise boring days.. Any Idea when there will be a programme - They Have several months worth of unfinished "Stories", and current Drivil is extendingn the stories needing finishing. Dick Barton Never had this Problem ... or have I alreadsy told you that?
Bit early to have another early night. ... Can anybody lend me Dog to walk?
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Post by Orion on Jun 12, 2020 5:15:11 GMT
I haven't been listening - just reading the summaries on the BBC site. I suppose they're doing their best in unprecedented circumstances.
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