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Barry Farrimond as Ed and Felicity Jones as Emma in The Archers
  • Posted at 11:50am
  • 01 August 2008
  • by AlisonGraham-RT
  • 1 comment

I've never thought The Archers does love very well. Or rather, it tends to approach love in a kind of Henry James, Portrait of a Lady-type way: very delicately, with lacy hankies and barely a hint of ankle. It's never really been able to capture rip-roaring, wallpaper-stripping, bedhead-thumping, proper love.

It tried with Ruth and Sam, but I never, for one moment, believed all of that panting in the cowshed. No, that was never love, even though Ruth succumbed to the horrors of the A40 Oxford ring road to spend a mucky weekend with Sam.

But she turned back when she heard her dullard husband David cooking spag bol for her kids. And she's barely mentioned Sam, this man she was once supposed to love so passionately, since. Sam, for all of those declarations of mutual devotion, might never have existed.

Anyway, I take all of this back. Well, I take some of it back, because at last The Archers has a proper, believable bit of amour. No, not the painfully PC union of Alan the C of E Vicar and Usha the Only Hindu in the Village. But Ed and Emma (pictured). It's a corker. They split ages ago in terrible acrimony, forcing asunder the marriage of Emma and Will (Ed's brother).

This is one of those stories that can't come and go, because its roots are deep. It's going to be a long, hot summer in Ambridge.

Of course, the implications of this forbidden love are manifold. What of Will, who despises his brother, and what of George, the baby whose paternity precipitated the falling-out in the first place?

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  • Posted on 21 August 2008
  • at 7:16pm
  • by Meg

Good thing we're all different! To me David is loyal and dishy and Ruth is a raucous bore. But not in real life, when Ruth can speak English and David is very funny. Long live the lot of them ( well,perhaps Shula could fall under a combine and I could personally live without Nigel... Death in the Ha-ha?). The Alan/Usha story is daft - are there 2 script groups, one for the PC stuff and one for the bodice-ripping?

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