The Cider Shed - Ploughing through BBC's 'The Archers'

Shameless plug straight off the bat: You can vote for us in the Listeners' Choice section of The British Podcast awards below. https://www.britishpodcastawards.com/voting Done it? Great! Join Keri and Matthew this week as we discuss Latino radio soap operas, enjoy TWO new Ambridge business sponsors and grasp the following greased donkeys of Ambridge: Storm in a Tea Room : Helen and George turn the...

Join Keri and Matthew this week as they reveal their top picks for Grey Gables' new owners, Keri demonstrates her full range of regional Irish accents and Matthew wonders desperately if it's only him who remembers the late 1970s cartoon series 'Godzilla'. In between Mock-Mocktails, we stage dived into: On The Rink : Stella runs rings around an Archer girl who's on thin ice. Ewe Must Be Joking : Th...

This week Keri and Matthew want to know: How did Craig David influence Marvin's trousery break? Why is George suddenly the most employable teen in the village? What exactly happened to Lulu Duxford in that bizarre gardening accident? Luckily we have an exclusive eye-witness account for the last one. We also sat down by the campfire with: Kiss from a Rosé (Drinker) : Pip licks gelatin and corn syru...

Join Keri and Matthew this week as they discuss 'Heads of Food', whether Rob could infiltrate Ambridge in a cunning new disguise and *Brian Blessed pays an emotional tribute to dearly departed Weaver. There's a sexy new Erik jingle plus a Science and Nature question from the original Trivial Pursuit for you. In between bad lasagne and non-toxically doing our nails, we pondered: Harvester of Sorrow...

Hey all. KERI DEFENDS ADAM. The latest shed is up. Join us for a bunch of jingle bellend fun this week. We do Rob, we do George, we even do Pip. Oh, we missed a couple of bleeps this week so sorry about that. Love you loads! TCS xxx Starman Liam Rayner has kindly set up The Cider Shed Podcast Fantasy Football League for the 2023/2024 season. Simply pick a team, give them a name and join our league...

This week, Keri and Matthew negotiate the rugged country path of ex-Southampton based conspiracy theorists, that laughing guy from 80s sketch show 'Absolutely', Martyn Gibson on Play School, brief 90's pop sensation Haddaway, Uri Geller and X-rated Rainbow.  Now. Sit down. We need to talk to you about: Not George's day : The Grundy son gets slapped down.  No sense of tumour : Tony f...

"Ferret fete. Open gate. Blame Kate. Adam hate. IT'S STILL SAUSAGE ROLL TO ME-EE!!!" This week Keri and Matthew triumph over multiple tech errors and come out welly banging and spile troshing. All rise as Keri QC puts the case for the defence of her gorgeous blue-eyed George and also how she fancies a nibble on Sykesy. Sausagegate : George gets binned off like an empty Greggs wrapper. Fetegate : W...

Hey all, Are you going to The Cider Shed Fayre? Craig David, Jim's Riley and (Question) Time. This week Keri and Matthew get their honey-dripped singing voices on and warble about Hula Hoops for wedding rings, Black Sabbath as a lullaby and Johnny Mercer looking a bit of a tit. Once you got us out of the bathroom, we hung the following up on the wall: Blubber Oh Riley : Jim's tearful vehicular ges...

Hello you, Firstly, are you ok? We hope not. Join us this week in the shed as we discuss Craig David, those weird blokes on motorbikes at funfairs in the 1970s and who would run Ambridge's Gulag. Between shots of rum and Pinot Grigio we stumbled upon: Driller Queen: Stella's new toy is guaranteed to blow Brian's mind. Twist of Fete: The Grundy Group advance their ferret tank convoy on Ambridge Hal...

This week Matthew (Jesus) and Keri (Helen) juggle festivals to discuss Death in Paradise, Black Mirror, whether Henry VIII shaped Ambridge and how The Cider Shed is moving to Clacton-on-Sea. We shouted the following from the unsafe euro-rooftops: Let's (not) Get Physio: Lee's world falls apart as he yearns for Sykesy. No Whey She Met Rob! Bridge Farm finds no cure for the Borsetshire Blues. A Fete...

This week a delirious Keri and Matthew discuss The Barron Knights, Keri gluing herself to a fridge in protest at The Archers and the sex lives of Great Western Railway passengers circa 1997. In between paying homage to Ocotal's most famous twin city, we poured Pat's cold soup all over the following: Avengers Bellendgame : Tom keeps the sausage wagon running as Lee delivers a five-finger death-tick...

Yo yo yo!  Keri 'KFC' Warbis, The Ficklingator and MC Matty W are in the shed y'all and if you like teats, you're in for a treat.  Hear us bust a rhyme through this week in Ambridge.  First up to the mic: 99 problems and the Titch is one: Tom-e Fresh and the Bridge Fresh Crew assemble to fight the power of Rob.  Swill communication: Pig master Neil shows Georgie G the swine lis...

It was an episode they said would never happen. And by they. we mean us. We couldn't possibly leave you to handle that week in Ambridge by yourselves. As a result we banged this out against all odds. It's got cheese-related suicide. it's got Kenny G, it's got the side-effects of eating Borchester Blue on Sourdough. Hope you like it. Fusion ferret food hits the late May fest with mind-bending resul...

They're making their notes, they're listening twice but the there's no f'ing way they're listening thrice.  Keri and Peter faced a brutal onslaught of tedium from the Script Editors alone and tried their very best to be positive. Spoiler alert; they failed like a Tory in a crisis. In between gripes they discussed: • Home Farm is where the shart is. Adam eyes a return. • Dairy Lee caught in a...

Hey everyone, join Keri, Peter and an Ikea-dismantling procrastinating Matthew as they get knee-deep in the indoor unit pigsh1t that was on offer this week. Our first duties on the unit are: • Sister Act? Adam logs in as Erin checks out.  • Where there's a swill, there's a Hannah. George signs up for a pig of a job.  • The Schaeffe of things to come? Bridge Farm on the Eve(sham) of war.&...

With Matthew away it is up to Keri and Peter to make sense of this week’s dollop of #TheArchers. In between stories of Peter’s physical decline and Keri’s ever growing list of chunky crushes they discussed:
 • Smilin for Rylan - Good actor on Radio 4 shocker. • Road kilt - Jazzer gets knocked down and get’s back up again. • Fail and Disgrace - Eddie and Leonard are THE new ‘comedy’ act. • Rob til...

Oi Oi, Join Keri, Peter and Matthew this week as they open Pandora's portaloo only to discover chicken wrestling, Telly Savalas and Justice. Because your Gorgias: Greece is the word for our lovely Jim. The Hills are Dead with the sound of Brookfield. Could Rylan be a baddie slayer? Telly Savalas https://youtu.be/EoHVO1eSMFc Justice https: //youtu.be/L0TvnWRSyr4 To help us out with a lovely worded...

Let Peter, Keri and Matthew illuminate that dark, weird week in Ambridge. You will not be able cop out, turn off or tune out because, The Cider Revolution WILL be podcast. • Where's the Beef Will-ington? The ghoulish Archers kids circle round Brian's assets. • That's a Wrap! Cheeky Den takes the kids for a Cheeky Dando's. • Let them eat Eurovision cake: The Ambridge folk rub each other out. • Feud...

Join a returning Keri, Peter and Matthew as they discuss Tony's junk, Pat's Chaffinch and just why Ambridge WAS The Village of The Damned this week. "Oh, you've just missed him!" Yeah right! : Erin fields Paddy questions from Adam. Tony discovers souper powers and tells Pat to "shut it!" Titching powder : Rob gets under Bridge Farm's skin. Cancelled Crystal : Freddie plans the PC future of Lower L...

Ladies and Gentlemen. This is Podcastracy Manifest! What's the charge? Enjoying a succulent rural radionovela?!? Are YOU ready to receive our limp Archers analysis? Ah yes, we see you know your Ambridge well.... You get the idea, and if you don't, allow us to explain everything: • Oliver bench-warms to George after losing his cherry tree. • Prime Number Suspect: The maths boy's story doesn't add u...

Join Keri (from a land down under), Peter and Matthew as they endorse a new brand of nappies, clash over their cities, go deep diving into a succulent Chinese meal and finally, gift you a new Patchat jingle just in time for Easter. To you all, we leave the following: Helen's gunning for Tom. Rob's gunning for Helen. Pat's gunning for... er... pigeons? Where there's a will, there's dismay: Jenny di...

Join the two virtue helmets Peter and Matthew as they try and shoehorn multiple Rolling Stones titles into this week's podcast. (yes I've since remembered the Toxic Twins were in Aerosmith but I've started writing it now). Please allow us to introduce the following: • Sympathy for The Devil: The argument for finding George relatable. • Start Me Up: Jim and David plan the charge of the sh1te brigad...

Join Keri, Peter and Matthew this week as they try their hand at the pioneering quiz show 'Play your Curds Right'. Elsewhere, they pay homage to Liz Truss, they discover the real reason the dinosaurs became extinct, Peter does his best Cannibal Lectern impression (not quite up to Michael Sheen's) and they also discuss big cat sightings, cricket vs frisbee, who's the biggest fan of eurovision and w...

This week Keri, Peter and Matthew discuss Facebook check-ins, drinking in train stations at Easter and the utter weirdness of producing massive pieces of material. Under starter's orders: • Who do you fancy in the 3.30 at Cheltenham? Brian of course. • Are we going to Westbury Fayre? No thanks. • Clarrie gets that sinking feeling. Eddie commits pergolary. • Jakob crackers the code. Paul cock-block...

This week's episode is dedicated to the memory of the lovely Owen Kyffin (aka Pipsqueak on twitter) whose passing we only discovered shortly before recording.  A longtime supporter of the podcast and he will be missed by all of us. Our sincerest thoughts go out to his family. Rest in power you funny, cheeky fella. Keri, Peter and Matthew. xxx We did pull ourselves together to smash this lot:...