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Jon Reed
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📚 Writer and digital content consultant. Former publisher and ex-Twit. Politics geek and podcast addict. Mostly here for #TheArchers.
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Miss Babs: “72 baps, Mrs O – you slice, I'll spread.”
Mrs Overall: “Ooh, I am pleased!” #AmbridgeAntiques #VictoriaWood #TheArchers
Mrs Overall, wearing a tabard as usual, carries a tray piled high with white bread rolls. “72 baps, Connie – you slice, I'll spread,” is a classic Victoria Wood line that sums up the British response to death and funerals.
November 9, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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Susan: “Tuck your coat behind that angel statue, George, and DON’T BLINK.” #TheArchers #DoctorWho
A weeping angel from Doctor Who, face in hands, is approached by someone wearing a hoodie.
November 9, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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Tom: “I told Jolene I know a man with a wooden leg named Smith. She said: Oh, really? What’s the name of his other leg?” #TheArchers #MaryPoppins
The scene from Mary Poppins (1964) in which Uncle Albert (Ed Wynn), Jane (Karen Dotrice) and Michael (Matthew Garbe) levitate towards the ceiling, propelled by hysterical laughter at terrible jokes. Bert and Mary Poppins also join them for a tea party in mid air, before switching on The Archers and crashing back down to Earth.
November 9, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Henry: “FFS, Mother. Go to bed. You’re drunk.” #TheArchers #AbsolutelyFabulous
A gif of a drunken return home. On a dark London street, outside Edina’s house, Patsy opens the back door of a taxi cab. Edina falls out, into the gutter. (Not pictured: Eddie’s daughter Saffron, who had been watching the shameful spectacle from the front door, is disgusted, and slams the door shut again.) From Absolutely Fabulous (1992–2012).
November 9, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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Carly: “Remember posh, rude, entitled, drunken Alice with the very dodgy taste in friends?”
Chris: “Well, she is no longer my friend…”
Carly: “Good thing too!”
Chris: “...she is now my ex-wife.” #TheArchers #FourWeddingsAndAFuneral
The scene from Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), which goes like this: Charles (Hugh Grant): How's your gorgeous girlfriend? John (Simon Kunz): She's no longer my girlfriend. Charles: Ah, dear. I wouldn't get too gloomy about it. Rumour has it she never stopped bonking Toby de Lisle in case you didn't work out. John: She is now my wife.
November 9, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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Continuity: “Well it’s 09:15, and if you’ve tuned in expecting #BroadcastingHouse, I have some rather upsetting news for you.” #AmbridgeAntiques #TheArchers
Susie Blake continuity announces this week’s Ambridge Antiques.
November 9, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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Miss Babs: “Mrs O, put the cauldron on and make some of your delicious pumpkin macaroons – it’s time for the #AmbridgeAntiques Halloween party!”
Mrs Overall: “Oh, I am pleased!” 🎃 #TheArchers
Mrs Overall, wearing a tabard as usual, and, unusually, a witch’s hat, carries a tea tray with a large, carved pumpkin on it. She looks very pleased.
November 2, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Freddie: “Did Pip tell you she’s been left to run #TheArchers single-handedly? The rest of her family have been kidnapped by a needy woman at Meadow Farm. She sounds a right *****!”
Pip: "Er… Freddie, this is Esme.”
Esme: “The needy woman from Meadow Farm?”
Freddie:
November 2, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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George: “Can I be let loose with a chainsaw now?”
Emma: “No, George. You can barely be let loose with a packet of Twiglets.” #TheArchers
A young man in jeans, white shirt and woollen hat saws through the branch of an oak tree with a manual saw. He is sawing off the branch he’s sitting on, and this is unlikely to end well.
November 2, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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Tracy: “This is some trophy!”
Lilian: “Isn’t it magnificent?” #TheArchers
A BBC Audio Drama Award. A rectangular glass trophy, held by a seated winner in their left hand, the jeans of their right knee visible through the glass. It has the face of a bearded man etched into the top left corner, looking downwards. The text on the trophy, in the middle, reads: ‘BBC Audio Drama Awards 2025’ in block capitals. The category is etched towards the bottom. It reads: ‘Best Pub Sound Effects’.
November 2, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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Continuity: “And now it’s time for this week’s visit to #AmbridgeAntiques. And after last week’s exciting cliffhanger, let’s see if they’re any further on with booking that caravan holiday in Dingwall.” #TheArchers
Susie Blake continuity announces this week’s Ambridge Antiques.
November 2, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Miss Babs: “Mrs O, I’ve just had a letter from Mr Brian. He’s named YOU as the new manager of #AmbridgeAntiques!”
Mrs Overall: “Oh, I am pleased!” #TheArchers
Miss Babs brandishes an official-looking envelope, with Mrs Overall in the background.
October 26, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Tracy: “Ready to order?”
Oliver: “Two soups, please!” #TheArchers #TwoSoups #VictoriaWood
Julie Walters plays a slow, elderly waitress in Victoria Wood's iconic 'Two Soups' sketch. She takes an order from Celia Imrie and Duncan Preston. It might take a while to arrive.
October 26, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Brian: “How are things on the farm?”
Adam / Ruiauaiuaridh: “FINE.” 🔥 #TheArchers
The “This is Fine” meme. A cartoon panel from a webcomic called ‘Gunshow’ by KC Green. It depicts a brown dog wearing a brown hat (a character called Question Hound) sitting on a red chair in front of a table with a mug of coffee on it, in an apartment. The apartment is engulfed in flames, with dark smoke hanging just below the ceiling. The dog sits there, wide-eyed, staring off into the distance, and utters the words “THIS IS FINE”.
October 26, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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Adam: “I’m the most qualified to run this f***ing farm!”
Alice: “F*** off! I’m f***ing perfect to run the f***ing farm!”
Ruiauaiuaridh: “F*** off! Dad said it’s my f***ing farm!”
Adam: “WTF is the f***ing **** playing at?” #TheArchers #MitchellAndWebb #SwearyAussieDrama
The characters from ‘Sweary Aussie Drama’, a regular slot on Channel 4 sketch show ‘Mitchell and Webb are Not Helping’ (2025).
October 26, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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Miss Babs: “Mrs O, Mr George has applied for a job selling antiques, as part of our socially aware ex-con rehab programme. Can you tell him where to go?”
Mrs Overall: “Oh, I am pleased!” #AmbridgeAntiques #TheArchers
Mrs Overall, wearing a tabard as usual, carries a tea tray with a mug and a ‘Sorry, No Vacancies’ sign on it. She looks very pleased.
October 19, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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Jolene: “I’ll tell George it’s a ‘No’. And we are unanimous in that.” #TheArchers #AreYouBeingFarmed
Mollie Sugden as Mrs Slocombe in ‘Are You Being Served?’ (1972-1985).
October 19, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Lilian: “The exterminator has been, and the shop is moving back into the church this week.” #TheArchers #DoctorWho #Exterminate
A Dalek, close-up of its head, with illuminated blue eye stalk and white head lights.
October 19, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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Continuity: “And now it’s time for this week’s visit to #AmbridgeAntiques. And after last week’s exciting cliffhanger, let’s see if they’re any further on with ordering that Pint of Shires.” #TheArchers #PintOfShires
Susie Blake continuity announces this week’s Ambridge Antiques.
October 19, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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Miss Babs: “Mrs O, pop the kettle on and fetch that antique teapot. We’re going to open… a Tea Factory!”
Mrs Overall: “Oh, I am pleased!” #AmbridgeAntiques #TheArchers
Mrs Overall, wearing a tabard as usual, carries a tea tray with a large teapot on it. She looks very pleased.
October 12, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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George: “What are these?”
Barbara Nice: “Prison-issue clothes, for release.”
George: “WTF? My fiance sent in clothes for me from home.”
Barbara Nice: “I prefer a nice mackintosh, in a shade of apple green. It’s me APPLE MAC! I’m livin la vida loca…” #TheArchers
Barbara Nice wearing a nice apple mac on Britain’s Got Talent.
October 12, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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Continuity: “Hello. Now it’s time for Birthday Parade. Again. Jill Archer is 95. Her live-in Leonard says, can she please have 95 wallaby hops from Wally Wallaby. No, she can have three. I’m an announcer, not Fatima Whitbread.” #AmbridgeAntiques #TheArchers
Susie Blake is thrilled to read out the birthdays in Birthday Parade, complete with wallaby hops from Wally Wallaby. (Within reason. She’s an announcer, not Fatima Whitbread.) From ‘Victoria Wood As Seen On TV’ (1985-1987).
October 12, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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Miss Babs: “Mrs O, fetch Barbara Nice a nice cup of tea and a Nice biscuit, and then we can all have a good laugh about planting that antique shank in Mr George’s cell!”
Mrs Overall: “Oh, I am pleased!” #AmbridgeAntiques #TheArchers
Mrs Overall, wearing a tabard as usual, carries a tea tray with a mug on it. She looks very pleased. In the background, Stockport housewife Barbara Nice laughs and looks thrilled. (Barbara Nice is the comic creation of Janice Connolly, who played the prison officer in this week’s omnibus.)
October 5, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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Brad: “Who’s that playing chess with Mrs Mellor?”
Ed: “That’ll be Mr Death, the knackerman.” #TheArchers #TheSeventhSeal
A medieval knight (Max von Sydow) plays a game of chess on a beach with the personification of Death (Bengt Ekerot), in an iconic scene from the Ingmar Bergman film ‘The Seventh Seal’ (1957).
October 5, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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Brian: “Buy your stake in Derwent Enterprises? Dammit, Justin, I don’t have anything like that sort of money!” 🥃
Justin: “Yes, but Marjorie does – you could put together a consortium?” 🥃
Brian: “Marjorie?? Dammit all to Ambridge and back!” 🥃 #TheArchers #FryAndLaurie
Shouty, whisky-drinking businessmen Peter and John (Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry) have a heated discussion about something trivial. They face each other, Hugh Laurie grimacing, their whisky glasses almost clinking. From ‘A Bit of Fry & Laurie’ (1989-1995).
October 5, 2025 at 10:37 AM