Which one was that? The one on their website to which I linked upthread doesn’t have LLH just outside Ambridge; the 1975 one at http://jeremymcneill.tripod.com/ambridgemap.html was quite different but that doesn’t show Lower Loxley at all.
I don’t know where it is supposed to be. And beyond a certain (reasonably accessible) point, I also don’t care. The goegraphy of Ambridge and surrounding areas no longer matters, neither does the accommodation provided by specific houses. Why put in the work?
Elizabeth lives somewhere proximate and ‘posh’ and getting posher by the year, seemingly. LL has sprouted forth all kinds of glories. Oh, hang on, that is because Elizabeth is a supremely talented Archer and thus making the most of the crumbling pile (more Lilian’s style or taste, that, I would have thought) and not at all because the prod team shot and stuffed the archivist and also lost the plot.
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[quote=“Used2B, post:17, topic:266, full:true”]I’m surprised the Beeb have never brought out a board game based on the wandering houses of Ambridge. 
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The field of Archers-related board games is depressingly thin, actually.
There was one from Chad Valley in the 1960s some time, which looks like a kind of simplified Monopoly: roll and move with random effects, then when you reach the market square there’s an auction of randomly-drawn animals. Then start again. Get a complete set of animals and a tractor, and you win.
The other one is from 1990 and sounds as though it was inspired by Trivial Pursuit.
I’m sure a modern designer could do much better, but would there be a market?
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Ah, the timelessness of rural England…
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There was a computer game of TA in the mid 80’s
I have a copy here, but no longer have the right model computer to play it.
ISTR getting it at a car-boot sale.
That can still be found.
Played too, with an emulator.
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One of the interactive maps. On the Beeb website until about 5-6 years ago.
Have you seen this one? depicted from a West of village height.
This one is amusing too. Both show BF.
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The first of those is the Archers Addicts Official Map of Ambridge, ISBN 1-873590-08-3, and I have it.
I didn’t think there was anything new to me in the Pinterest page, but since I am not signed up to Pinterest, I am only allowed to look at the top for about half-a-minute before it puts up a complete page-cover requiring me to sign in. Having joined them briefly as a 197-year-old vampire, with an email address which doesn’t exist, I now know it was a BBC board post, http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/pjQFvD1N056b8sjWpK9zjV/the-rob-titchener-exclusion-zone and a specific iteration of their map which I don’t recognise: thank you for it.
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Ah, I know what they’re using for that “exclusion zone” map - it’s from about 2011, and the BBC had it on their web site as a set of 16 tiles and a javascript interface. There were also some pop-up place names.
I have it downloaded, and I composited it together into a single large image. I don’t feel comfortable about putting it up anywhere, though; it’s clearly all rights reserved by the BBC.
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I thought I’d seen it somewhere before, Dunnock. That would explain it. Thank you…
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The link to d/l the computer game of TA is: http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0005957
If nothing else the instructions and notes for the game are worth a glance
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They are indeed! Very useful. For instance I had forgotten ELizabeth’s crush on Tim Beecham, and that he first christened her The Lizard, and that can go into her entry in my Who’s Who.
Thank you.
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You’re more than welcome. Reading those character notes. I remembered why I used to feel sorry for David. 
See Sophie Barlow entry.
Considering they’re 30 years old and one assumes might have been (at the time) approved by the Beeb. They are surprisingly un-politically correct.
(For those interested, the game plays well - if a tad boringly - on a speccy emulator.)
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Some of it can be quite entertaining:
- MEMO FROM CR4, BROADCASTING HOUSE, LONDON. Audience research shows the Archers reaching 2,100,000 listeners. I’m getting complaints about realism. Some of the Archers are behaving most oddly. Pull your socks up.
Plus ça change…
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You’d need the Community Chest (and I don’t mean Tracey Horrorbint) to provide something decent to cover you once your daughter had lost your shirt giving the prevailing lurgy to your cattle and those on nearby farms, busting the tractor (so as to speak), and donating her own funds to Flash Harry.
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Could we think about this differently? Perhaps there needs to be a large slurry pool or a poor house for hapless characters to be cast into?
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We know* that there are already two bodies in the Poo Lagoons.
- for values of “know” equal to “hold it as a theory in spite of a lack of suppporting evidence”.
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I don’t. Feel excluded now, and possibly bullied as well.
Whose bodies, o feathered one?
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Me neither. Were they placed there off air, but later written about on FB?
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Well, Annette vanished suddenly, and Helen later claimed to have had a communication from her but showed it to nobody.
Who was the other?
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Darryl? (Hopefully)
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