Guilty... of being a radio hit!
DESPitE being credited at the end of every episode, it’s been a restful couple of weeks for the Archers’ farming consultant.
Lately all talk of fatstock prices, dairy management and pesticides have been suspended to make way for the trial of Helen titchener, accused of attempting to murder husband Rob.
While the rest of us, even Archers agnostics, have been sucked into the storyline, i imagine the farming consultant floating blissfully on a lilo in tenerife, trying not to look at the vegetable polytunnels on the hillsides beyond the pool.
Back at home, the showstopper on Sunday was the jury deliberations, when guest stars Nigel Havers, Catherine tate and Eileen Atkins seemed to have a script closely patterned after 12 Angry Men, with every juror revealing their own convenientlycompact set of prejudices.
How close was all this to real life? i’ve never done jury service but my other half seems to be called into court almost as often as Donald findlay.
‘Were you appointed foreman of your last jury because the other jurors thought a man who could organise his CD collection according to who was playing bass guitar, was capable of organising the facts of a case?’
‘No,’ he said, reaching to change the channel to Radio 6 Music. ‘i was voted foreman because i was the only one who could finish the Little Stinker crossword during our tea breaks.’