Chris is away again tonight, (somewhere in South Wales) so it's a quiet evening in with the dogs. I don't mind that much as with him away I can relax and listen to the 7.00pm Archers without chatty interruptions. Chris and I have been together since the year 2000, I have been an avid fan of the Archers since the mid 1990's AND STILL, Chris insists on initiating conversations at the very moment Brian Aldridge is embarking on one of his affairs or Pat Archer is worrying about her organic cheese. !!!!!!
So tonight it was lovely to concentrate on a simply effective dialogue between two middle class, slightly world weary matrons of Ambridge. Jennifer Aldridge (Angela Piper ) and her ditsy sister Lilian Bellamy (Sunny Ormonde pic) were discussing Lillian's catastrophic love life with philanderer Matt "tiger" Crawford. The very ordinary conversation of fears,,hopes and regrets mixed together with the mundane (getting coffee,laughing about a family joke) reminds me of just why this soap has lasted since the 1950's. Performances, like the refreshing zip and depth Sunny Ormonde gives to her slightly tragic Lillian, make the show what it is.................classic
My you are a newbie - 'Only listened to the Archers since the 1990's'
ReplyDeleteI started as a schoolgirl in the Sixties, I can remember when 'Lilian' was one too! Had the odd years break or two in the late Seventies but since, been a faithful listener - how sad is that?
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