# This woman is worth a read **URL:** \ **Category:** The Archers\ **Created:** [2 February 2021 19:50 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/this-woman-is-worth-a-read/3149 "2021-02-02T19:50:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Fanta](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/fanta/32/98_2.png) [@Fanta](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/Fanta)\ **Post date:** [2 February 2021 19:50 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/this-woman-is-worth-a-read/3149/1 "2021-02-02T19:50:47Z")
> **[Charlotte Higgins on The Archers: slavery, sex but no pandemic](https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/feb/02/charlotte-higgins-the-archers-month-in-ambridge)** > > Coronavirus is strangely absent. However, the scandal of modern slaver Philip Moss has galvanised the village “All are duly convulsed by guilt, horror, anger and self-righteousness” ---
**Author:** ![JustJanie](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/justjanie/32/42_2.png) [@JustJanie](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/JustJanie)\ **Post date:** [2 February 2021 20:23 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/this-woman-is-worth-a-read/3149/2 "2021-02-02T20:23:03Z")
Loved it. She’s got a real touch of Nancy, hasn’t she? Which is fine by me, though I dare say she will develop her own style as time goes on. ---
**Author:** ![Gus](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/gus/32/11_2.png) [@Gus](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/Gus)\ **Post date:** [2 February 2021 22:36 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/this-woman-is-worth-a-read/3149/3 "2021-02-02T22:36:51Z")
_the villagers quarantined themselves from the outside world. Over the next year, more than half of them died_ We can but dream. > [@JustJanie](#): > > got a real touch of Nancy I have always thought something of the kind about Tom… ---
**Author:** ![joe](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/joe/32/126_2.png) [@joe](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/joe)\ **Post date:** [3 February 2021 06:54 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/this-woman-is-worth-a-read/3149/4 "2021-02-03T06:54:04Z")
A very promising start. ---
**Author:** ![3Wells](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/3wells/32/1521_2.png) [@3Wells](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/3Wells)\ **Post date:** [3 February 2021 12:04 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/this-woman-is-worth-a-read/3149/5 "2021-02-03T12:04:03Z")
Now now Gus Who would you hate if all the characters died off? ---
**Author:** ![HedgeSparrow](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/hedgesparrow/32/124_2.png) [@HedgeSparrow](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/HedgeSparrow)\ **Post date:** [3 February 2021 12:30 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/this-woman-is-worth-a-read/3149/6 "2021-02-03T12:30:57Z")
Hate is not the objective. Hate is the consequence. ---
**Author:** ![3Wells](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/3wells/32/1521_2.png) [@3Wells](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/3Wells)\ **Post date:** [3 February 2021 12:42 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/this-woman-is-worth-a-read/3149/7 "2021-02-03T12:42:48Z")
Perhaps but Gus would not be Gus without her jaundiced view of the characters! And I aspire to be like Gus if I grow up! ---
**Author:** ![joe](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/joe/32/126_2.png) [@joe](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/joe)\ **Post date:** [3 February 2021 16:39 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/this-woman-is-worth-a-read/3149/8 "2021-02-03T16:39:14Z")
For “jaundiced” read “rational”. (If you think you disagree, try to name _one_ character you’d be happy to live with…) ---
**Author:** ![Fanta](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/fanta/32/98_2.png) [@Fanta](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/Fanta)\ **Post date:** [3 February 2021 16:40 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/this-woman-is-worth-a-read/3149/9 "2021-02-03T16:40:49Z")
In the same house, or in the same village? ---
**Author:** ![joe](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/joe/32/126_2.png) [@joe](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/joe)\ **Post date:** [3 February 2021 16:45 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/this-woman-is-worth-a-read/3149/10 "2021-02-03T16:45:06Z")
I was thinking house, but in many cases village would also apply. As would country. Or planet.\* \*Safe enough there - I’ve long wondered what planet most of them are on… ---
**Author:** ![3Wells](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/3wells/32/1521_2.png) [@3Wells](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/3Wells)\ **Post date:** [3 February 2021 16:48 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/this-woman-is-worth-a-read/3149/11 "2021-02-03T16:48:27Z")
I think I would happily live next door to Lillian and keep her company on the gin… ---
**Author:** ![joe](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/joe/32/126_2.png) [@joe](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/joe)\ **Post date:** [3 February 2021 16:52 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/this-woman-is-worth-a-read/3149/12 "2021-02-03T16:52:12Z")
Granted, she’s not the worst. (Not a particularly high bar, in a population that includes Lynda) ---
**Author:** ![Fanta](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/fanta/32/98_2.png) [@Fanta](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/Fanta)\ **Post date:** [3 February 2021 17:14 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/this-woman-is-worth-a-read/3149/13 "2021-02-03T17:14:45Z")
If it were a large house so that we were not in each other’s hair the entire time, Oliver. Ditto Jim, once I’d taught him the hard way to stop showing off his Latin tags. And funnily enough, David, because his bombast would make me laugh. Caroline would have been fine, with a similar large house proviso. ---
**Author:** ![HedgeSparrow](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/hedgesparrow/32/124_2.png) [@HedgeSparrow](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/HedgeSparrow)\ **Post date:** [12 February 2021 09:55 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/this-woman-is-worth-a-read/3149/14 "2021-02-12T09:55:12Z")
> Friday sees the launch of the sixth annual [academic Archers](http://www.academicarchers.net/) conference, an event devoted to love for, and scrutiny of, the world’s longest-running soap opera. > **[Borsetshire via Zoom: academic Archers conference returns virtually](https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/feb/12/borsetshire-via-zoom-academic-archers-conference-returns-virtually)** > > Sixth annual event moves online and will see scholarly fans of Radio 4 drama debate ‘flapjacks and feudalism’ ---
**Author:** ![HedgeSparrow](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/hedgesparrow/32/124_2.png) [@HedgeSparrow](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/HedgeSparrow)\ **Post date:** [2 March 2021 11:34 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/this-woman-is-worth-a-read/3149/15 "2021-03-02T11:34:56Z")
> Ambridge, which is starting to resemble a religious cult so deeply sequestered from the rest of the country that government regulations have no chance of penetrating therein. > **[Charlotte Higgins on The Archers: St Shula has her doubts](https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/mar/02/charlotte-higgins-month-ambridge-the-archers-st-shula)** > > It’s time Tracy Horrobin was furloughed, and will Freddie go for a sexual offering? Shula, meanwhile, has moral scruples ---
**Author:** ![3Wells](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/3wells/32/1521_2.png) [@3Wells](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/3Wells)\ **Post date:** [2 March 2021 20:24 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/this-woman-is-worth-a-read/3149/16 "2021-03-02T20:24:24Z")
I have a wonderful picture of the Ambridge men dressed as hand boys now It’s making me giggle ---
**Author:** ![Gus](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/gus/32/11_2.png) [@Gus](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/Gus)\ **Post date:** [2 March 2021 20:30 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/this-woman-is-worth-a-read/3149/17 "2021-03-02T20:30:02Z")
They keep saying 'in an episode written before lockdown '. I find that increasingly difficult to believe. ---
**Author:** ![HedgeSparrow](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/hedgesparrow/32/124_2.png) [@HedgeSparrow](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/HedgeSparrow)\ **Post date:** [30 March 2021 16:11 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/this-woman-is-worth-a-read/3149/18 "2021-03-30T16:11:34Z")
> **[Charlotte Higgins on The Archers: is Darrington an evil parallel realm?](https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/mar/30/charlotte-higgins-on-the-archers-is-darrington-an-evil-parallel-realm)** > > Alice is brought low by post-natal depression and alcoholism – while Ambridge’s neighbours put on a rival play production “Mark my words, she would have been better off taking that job in aeronautical engineering in Canada, the one she got in 2013, instead of remaining trapped inside Ambridge’s malign invisible forcefield.” ---
**Author:** ![Fanta](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/fanta/32/98_2.png) [@Fanta](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/Fanta)\ **Post date:** [30 March 2021 17:13 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/this-woman-is-worth-a-read/3149/19 "2021-03-30T17:13:14Z")
Too many minor errors. Ambridge’s play isn’t next weekend, Toys’r’Us went bust in 2018 and closed, Susan didn’t fancy herself as Jesus as far as we know… ---
**Author:** ![Gus](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/user_avatar/discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/gus/32/11_2.png) [@Gus](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/u/Gus)\ **Post date:** [30 March 2021 17:16 UTC](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/this-woman-is-worth-a-read/3149/20 "2021-03-30T17:16:50Z")
> [@Fanta](#): > > Too many minor errors It’s a journalist writing for the feckin’ Guardian! [Next page](https://discussion.ambridgereporter.org.uk/t/this-woman-is-worth-a-read/3149.md?page=2)