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Sadly, the wine bottle is in the Brookfield dairy. Lurking, ready to make its first kill. #TheArchers

Any day now, David is going to be woken up by a knock on the door as Akram comes to collect the cake that Jill has made. He’s going to half remember a weird dream about someone called Esme, and a bread delivery in the church.
Then he’ll clear his head and go fetch the cake. Sorted. #TheArchers

Because she is in fact imaginary. A collective hallucination by the Archers, caused by a rogue batch of mushrooms on the rewilding land. #TheArchers

What fresh hell is this? Esme Mulligan, fresh out of the BBC costume-drama 17thC accent cupboard is to be inflicted upon us more? Please god let Stella/Josh/Rex/Justin buy these recently-imagined hills with their stone/brick cottage and murderous milking parlour and make this be over. #TheArchers

Dead. Dead Mulligan is his name. I think his middle names may have been Facedown in Muck. #TheArchers

“I want to tell you about my dad. He didn’t exist until three weeks ago, and then he was made up just to create an emotional picture of a hard-working farmer. Though we don’t know why that was needed, because #TheArchers has been going for about 75 years“.

6 November #TRIP Question Time has Rory Stewart at his absolute finest in those first ten minutes. Passionate calling out of media and individuals hypocrisy. @rory-stewart.bsky.social

I spent seven years living in a Shropshire farming village and I can swear that there is NO farm across half the county in Borsetshire-world whose family, history, business and deepest secrets, are not known by Ev-er-ee-one. #TheArchers

There is a mass delusion in the village of Ambridge this week.

No one has ever heard or, or met Esme until now. Despite the fact that she allegedly grew up there.
And not one person in Ambridge has said…..

“that’s really weird…. It’s as though she didn’t exist until two weeks ago”

#TheArchers

17th Century Dartmoor #TheArchers

I think it’s a swift attempt to give EsSmee, character, substance, and a backstory. So we can empathise with her. This has not yet worked on me. #TheArchers

Are our scriptwriters secret Great Expectations fans? Pip falling head over heels for Estella. But shall it be Esme or Stella that breaks her heart? Or (in a devious #TheArchers out-wickeds Miss Havisham plot twist), both of them?

Esme and Pip grew up on neighbouring farms, but appear to have never met. Pip is maintaining a fairly neutral accent with shades of public school, while Esme sounds like she has floated out of a BBC costume drama about 17th century smugglers, set on Dartmoor. #TheArchers

Pumpkin picking and costumes are perfectly lovely childhood activities. Popular in many countries, these are Halloween traditions that families can do without screens, drugs or weapons. And your problem with them is? #TheArchers

Me neither

That would explain a lot. Makes bio security a lot easier when you hens are imaginary. #TheArchers

Borsetshire: where young rapscallions find jobs through connections and nepotism. Not through the tedious process of applying for them…. #TheArchers

Absolutely. His parents could tell him to get on his pushbike or use the infrequent rural bus service and get off his entitled miseryme-arse and go volunteer. Or they could tiptoe around him commiserating with him about people being mean. #TheArchers

A combined Poetry Reading and watercolour painting evening. It’ll be a hoot. #TheArchers

Or, more likely, something that will mirror the Radio 4 Christmas Eve schedule of delights.

Aren’t DeadMulligan’s cows Jerseys? Browny red and cute. #TheArchers

Are Josh’s hens the only Avian-flu immune flock in the country? Does he run a purely undercover operation, or has he had to halve the size of his flock and face potential financial ruin? #TheArchers

A B&W cow on a particular corner is going to belong not to “some other farmer”, but to the farmer whose field is RIGHT NEXT TO that corner. And Pip would know. As would Joy. Unless said cow literally fell out of the back of a lorry. #TheArchers

Someone needs to tell George to stop whining, and Get On His Bike and go and find some work. As Oliver’s foster children have been mentioned, I wonder if Oliver is the man for the job. #TheArchers

Esme found the will in the big folder labelled “plot-device DeadMulligan Will” presumably. But she hasn’t yet thought to look at his emails. Someone who apparently stores their will in their computer probably has an email account. #TheArchers

So, let me get this straight. Dead Mulligan, who evidentially had no friends, siblings, cousins, local doctor, solicitor, regular vet, farm worker, relief milker, or even fellow Jersey-Cow club members, that Mulligan; he keep his will on his computer? Signed, and witnessed? #TheArchers

Ohhh darn it of course you are right! The BBC is totally obsessed with promotional multi-format crossovers this year! Castle in Scotland with fun games, suspicion and intrigue ahead. Based around who inherit’s King Lear - sorry, I mean Brian’s kingdom - oops, business. #TheArchers

This gives an excuse for Helen and her boys not coming. Her descent into perpetual silence continues. Praise be. #TheArchers

Signed wills don’t hide inside computers.
Landlords of tenant farms are the best body to resolve this situation, not random kind hearted neighbours.
Is Esme being deliberately portrayed as blindingly stupid, or is she just a poorly researched sorry line? #TheArchers

I’ve said it before; Regan, Goneril and Cordelia have got nothing on the Aldridge massed (and grasping) offspring. #TheArchers

Lilian talking sense.
Tracey talking sense.
Amber talking sense.
What an episode! Bravo to the scriptwriters. Now can one of these sense-talkers get themselves over to Esme and talk some sense in to her too?
#TheArchers