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I, like many of you, love Radio 4. It is the greatest civilizing influence in the land; everyone should be forced to listen to at least 2 hours a day. It would, quite frankly, do them good.
But those 2 hours should not span 19:05-19:15 every weekday. That's right The Archers. I just don't get it. A load of old people with funny accents stood in a radio studio trying to read their lines while sound-fx people close doors and make sounds like supermarket tills. It just doesn't work. You can see the set wobbling even on radio. And before you tell me that that is the charm of it...don't be silly. Are we really expected to think that these people exist. No, no, no.
Yes I can suspend disbelief, but only if scriptwriters and actors take me there.
And as for Agricultural Story Editor! Anyone could do that job. Cows eat grass. Vets sort them out when they go wrong. End of.
And then there's that music. So bloody jolly after 15 minutes of Altzheimer's.
No, no, no...it must go.
But those 2 hours should not span 19:05-19:15 every weekday. That's right The Archers. I just don't get it. A load of old people with funny accents stood in a radio studio trying to read their lines while sound-fx people close doors and make sounds like supermarket tills. It just doesn't work. You can see the set wobbling even on radio. And before you tell me that that is the charm of it...don't be silly. Are we really expected to think that these people exist. No, no, no.
Yes I can suspend disbelief, but only if scriptwriters and actors take me there.
And as for Agricultural Story Editor! Anyone could do that job. Cows eat grass. Vets sort them out when they go wrong. End of.
And then there's that music. So bloody jolly after 15 minutes of Altzheimer's.
No, no, no...it must go.
Sizzling sausages. Living over the brush. Nigel sells his car in a concern for the environment. 
Lillian gives up booze for Lent......
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