Jane's Kintbury

What have the BBC done for us?

This BBC kids tv advert from 1998 is still very impressive and very lovely

Yes but there are several actors who have played different roles over the years. It would be good to see Alison Steadman return. #thearchets

I’m finding it difficult to see Amber’s dad with an up-market car dealership. #thearchers

Also being driven round Piccadily Circus when ALL the lights were off such that the tops of all the buildings were sillhouetted against the night sky. It was strangely eerie.

As a student drama teacher, reading a call sheet for rehearsals which concluded: Bring your own candle

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For a start I’ve never known a vestry with a fridge and anyway if there was one surely it wouldn’t be very big??? #thearchers

Yes I thought that at the time

True. But I had been expecting a S/L about a fee paying school. But no.

Yes, I think so too. It's easy to make unfair assumptions about people based on how they speak.

I remember mobile shops back-in-the-day in rural areas. But they were properly converted vans. #thearchers

Anyone remember the S/L where Ruth got a sloppy Valentine's card and it turned out to be from her Dad and that they always exchanged Valentines cards? #thearchers

But as listeners to a radio drama, it is as if we are encouraged to make assumptions based on accents whether we would do in TRW or not. #thearchers

So, if Amber's dad sounds as if he could be auditioning for EastEnders and Amber herself attended Bochester Green with all the local kids, where did she aquire her beautifully neutral RP? (Not that I have a problem with anyone's accent, it's just that Amber's doesn't "fit".) #thearchers

I was expecting him to be a Brummie. It's a very long time since we've heard a London accent in #thearchers.

Who's the actor playing Amber's Dad??? #thearchers

Yes I think so.

Absolutely

I’m getting close to not being able to listen to Esme. She’s almost worse than Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins #thearchers
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Absolutely

👍

Thankyou

Lack of imagination

No, the other one.

Who actually IS Veronica Chambers? #thearchers

True

Is Kemi Badenoch making a statement by deliberately wearing a shade of Reform blue?

Yes I think you could be right

They could have been singing “ Lead me O thou Great Redeemer….“ #thearchers