DumTeeDum - A show about BBC Radio's 'The Archers'

Barwick Green rang out across the swimming pool in Thailand, courtesy of the Mid Sussex Brass Band, including the Doom section! Lucy noted that Ruth is keen on cows and life again (on the other side of the world) whilst David is on the point of selling them and then she quoted an entire "Round the Horne" script. Elizabeth is about to inherit a second of Shula's exes in the form of DDD - the Deadly...

Lucy has reached the point where she has disassociated herself from the entire Rob and Helen storyline. It has been dragged out for far too long in atrocious detail and consequently like the flood has completely unbalanced the entire docudrama and the remaining village inhabitants are not getting a fair share of the microphones. As a result the Fairbrethern end up being treated like Pinky and Perk...

Roifield returns but awesome Andrew Horn has become the Terminator and he WILL BE BACK. Dumteedummer of the week is Aunty Jean repeating herself from last week. Lucy translated the Archers into Peanuts characters this week. Discussion revealed an Archers event in Bristol which indicated that Rob and Helen may well continue into 2016 despite earlier thoughts it would finish at Christmas. The writin...

Sponsorship this week from UrbanSprawl.org.uk and Barwick Green by Aunty Jean plus William the parrot who was upset at not being included last week. Andrew Horn was sitting in for Roifield, providing he did not do it as well as the man himself. Lucy nailed Ruth's stroppiness - pointing out that she has just dropped over 30 years and turned into a teenager. And Jenny's old kitchen has finally found...

DumTeeDum opened with a recording from the DTD get together at the weekend where many podcast listeners gathered and both Lucy and Roifield recalled various encounters and non-encounters during the evening. Apparently even some lurkers were outed - and must now call in. Ruth's constant moaning is getting everyone down - especially the way that Jill is being used by the family - at 85! Lucy attribu...

Lucy revealed she will be coming to the DTD “dinner” in a blouse and nothing else apparently. Reports awaited. There may still be opportunities to join the party. Lucy has abandoned double entendres in favour of single ones – dumbing down for the masses! Kate Unwin is a new listener and first time callerinerer who phoned in because Roifield had told her to do so – the power...

This week Peter Stirk sponsored the podcast on behalf of WaterAid – please support them. During Lucy’s monologue I think she implied that Miranda is not funny – so I am not the only one. Ed needs luck and some financial collateral. Lucy has forgotten that Helen saw Ian a few weeks ago when the coven were meeting at Gay Grables, although he has vanished since. The South Kensington...

A multi-national Dum Tee Dum opened the show which this week was sponsored by Water Aid. Speakpipe might be playing up – so calls were limited this week. As a result Roifield was desperately filling – linking tv zombies to botulism and salmonella in chicken where with some surprise he could reveal that the incidence of salmonella in US chickens is decreasing. Sounded like a ramble in t...

On this week’s episode we have calls from: Claire from Scotland via Canada who understands Chris Andrew Horn an ex Bullingdon club member defends Oxford types. Julie a first time callerinerer to had various things to mull over Glyn Fullelove who wonders how Rob sees himself? Witherspoon who is mourning the cattle Maurice Snell who knows who does Jennifer’s ladygarden Jacqueline Bertho who wants a...

“Don’t cry for me” said the plants as Jane Perrone the horticultural editor of the Guardian joined our hosts this week; so it is a highly organic and very educational podcast with mentions of the restorative powers of dettol and sugar solutions, mince pies (team Roifield on this one), stollen, urine and compost heaps. Roifield has decking in his back garden whilst Lucy admitted t...

Lucy had good reason for not being her usual organised self so emulated an impala leaping around between subjects which made the podcast even more entertaining than usual. The monologue did major on teeth and geese, and she accurately replayed the worst successful job interview in history. Lots of predictions this week – the Sterlings do not return but the Grundies move to Grange Farm as car...

Nigel’s voice returned to our ears as Graham Seed joined our DTD hosts. Lucy’s monologue concentrated on the mystic powers of ginger biscuits which had circulated among the Ambridge residents this week. Lucy beautifully questioned Graham who commented that Nigel was a rounded character that involved a lot of his own personality and then replayed his own death scene and murder at the ha...

DTD opens with a royalty free rendition of Happy Birthday for Joe Grundy. It concludes with Lucy awarding Roifield “Tweet of the Week”. Squeezed in between are new callers and emailers. Common sentiments include a belief that Helen will get sectioned, Pip is unfairly hated (mainly because she is not the real Pip) and that Christine’s historic contributions are not recognised. Nex...

Who knew? The world’s problems can be solved, according to Lucy courtesy of Pip, with a tuna pasta bake! Rob knows how to turn a local organic farm shop into a world dominating chain of supermarkets, by dropping the local, organic and farm products. It was a quiet week as the new scriptwriter bedded herself in with Joe’s tomato plants. And it was equally boring, according to Larkin, in...

Parakeets rule – listen to DTD for an explanation! Lucy and Roifield are joined by Kat Brown of the Telegraph and her cat. Their discussions gave proper consideration to the ill treatment accorded to the Lilian / Matt relationship which was peremptorily ended rather than handled with a decently treated story. This chat also brought to mind that perhaps Paul was a proto-Rob creation (similarl...

Long BH edition this week to address some more difficult issues which have appeared in The Archers this week and consequently the humour content is well down on the norm. Kenton first – the belief is that he is in need of counselling for a mental illness which will take a long time to repair but quite possibly a wave of a magic wand will right matters in days – which would undermine th...

Welcome to the weekly roundup on Archerdom. Lucy was depressed by an unremitting prozac driven week when the village hall fell down alongside the flooding, the loneliness, the blackmailing, the lying, the sobbing from Jill, the ranting from Kenton, the domestic abuse, alcoholism, depression and bankruptcy all of which made this week the week you wanted to stick your head in a gas oven (only that d...

Early recording this week again whilst at least one of us was stuck in traffic on the M6. Lucy seemed most concerned about Helen’s dowry and Kenton’s decline into a shop doorway-sleeping bum but was upset over the lack of entertainment at the party at the Stables as there was no family present. Roifield pointed out that Kenton has finally started to realise he is the architect of his o...

Evening from Edinburgh Roifield and Lucy were joined by Sarah Douglas “Duggers” this week. Kenton’s damp nether regions were re-examined and they also made it into tweet of the week. Duggers loves the Rob storylines and regards him as her favourite character, although no-one (especially Blithe Spirit) understands the current lack of calves or Jazzer. (Roifield – “Les...

An opening Dum Tee Dum from the excellent meetup at Cocodelic as the podcast barged on line. Lucy completed the monologue without interruption and then both hosts praised Brian’s awful offer to Adam over the farm share. It is right that Adam should share the risk, the structure, removing Adam’s salary, was frankly wrong and not the way partnership transitions work elsewhere as Andrew H...

Podcast 68 hit the streets although Lucy was predicting locks of trouble ahead as she barged away in Cheshire.  Debbie was central to the action this week as she was sorting out everyone’s problems at Home Farm with consummate skill, except Lilian who seems to have vanished.  Ro.i.field listened to the very good monologue this week so heard the end of it.  Lucy admitted embarrassment by feeling so...

Podcast Summary – Episode 67 In less than an hour DTD covered 75 minutes of The Archers with Roifield admitting that he cannot now imagine the programme without a fucked up Kate in the village and later took to explaining mortgages which is Kosmo’s job!  Roifield also guided children on how to discuss sex with their parents whilst there was extensive acclamation for the dysfunctional family...

Funny woman Angela Barnes joins the team to talk CPR, The Archers  and Edingburgh This weeks callerinnerers Mary Le Tiss who’s been shouting Dusty Substances who’s opening old wounds for Yokelbear, Mrs Bentos who is having a flounce Yokelbear who wants to know what Ian thinks Witherspoon who thinks Kenton’s a bit of a Dickens E-mail Twitter The post Dum Tee Dum Episode 66 – Angela Barnes appeared...

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