25th July 2010

The Archers: The Village Fete … The Strange Affair at Ambridge Towers

• Colin Dexter seems a nice chap
• One last gravestone name?
• Well, that was fun!
• Josh likes his older women
• Vicky really is an oaf

Colin Dexter seems a nice chap

And I think also has a voice very suited to Ambridge life.

There you have it.


One last gravestone name?

Mot sure if I misheard whether they were taking the mick out of David’s The Strange Affair at Ambridge Towers character, or whether it was a final gravestone name, but:

Dick Barton – either of Dick Barton ‘Special Agent’ fame, or Dick Raymond (Borchester Echo reporter, and onetime fancy of Christine Archer – though I doubt he was buried in St. Stephen’s) and Mr or Mrs Barton, who had a son called Dick.

Seemingly The Archers killed off Dick Barton way back in 1951, even though it was also partly the inspiration for The Archers beginning in the first place (seemingly a farmer told a farmer advisory committee that non-ne listened to the BBC farming programmes, but what they needed was a ‘farming Dick Barton).


Well, that was fun!

I’ll fully admit that I really enjoyed The Strange Affair at Ambridge Towers.

Lovely stuff.


Josh likes his older women

Josh better watch out if he’s intending on setting his sights on Emma.

I don’t quite think he’d fit her ‘ideal man’ standards, but he’s moved on from helping fix her washing machine to flirting with her in public.

Then again, affairs between young chaps and older women aren’t unheard of.

Can Emma read?


Vicky really is an oaf

“We won! We won!”

It’s almost as if Vicky wasn’t brought up in Britain!

Such a display of vitriolic behaviour is hardly fitting for a village fete.

Still. What would one expect of ‘that woman’?