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DumTeeDum - A show about BBC Radio's 'The Archers'

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Bbc, Ambridge, Radio4, Tv & Film, Archers, The Archers, Drama, After Shows, Tv Reviews

4.8 • 875 Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

This week’s podcast is presented by Stephen and Michelle.

We hear from:

· Michelle from Dorset, who is looking forward to George's homecoming;

· Richard, Biffo Prop, with thoughts on the last Sunday's readings in Church;

· Globe-Trotting Richard, who wonders why Brian doesn't sell his shares in BL

· Witherspoon and Angus Haggis, who has special personal links between The Archers and his mother

· And finally Globe-Trotting Richard, again, this time thinking about the Home Farm Succession

And we have emails from Laura, from Chris, currently in Arizona, from Natan in Portland and from Gillian in London.

As usual we'll hear a roundup of the Dumteedum Facebook group, this week from Vicky, and the Tweets of the Week from Theo, plus the Week in Ambridge, from Suey.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	This is a Dumpty Dum production.
0:05.1	Donty Dumpty Dum, Dum. Donty Dumpty Dum. Donty Dumpty Dum. Donty Dumpty Dum. Donty Dum.
0:13.1	Dumpty Dummy Dumpty Dum. Donty dilly. Dum. Donty dilly. Dum. Donty Dummy Dum. Donpty Dumpty Dumme, Dumpty Dum.
0:28.6	This is Dumpty Dum, the podcast that lets you talk to the world about the Archers and the past week in Ambridge.
0:32.6	I'm Stephen Bowden, at least a three, probably a 3.5.
0:37.3	Sadly, Jacqueline had to deal with a family emergency and is unable to join us this week.
0:37.5	But not to worry, we have an excellent substitute coming in at short notice.
0:41.2	I am Michelle Wright, and I was not impressed with Nathan Booth's limp cucumber.
0:46.9	And then there's you, our lovely Dumpty Dummers, building root biomass,
0:50.7	maintaining moisture balance and preventing leaching.
0:53.5	Welcome to Dumpty Dum, the perfect place to reflect on the last seven days in our favourite Borsetshire village.
0:58.6	This week's scripts were written by Tim Stimson, whose play about the early days of the Archers is still on at the Barn Theatre in Syrencester and it is very good.
1:06.2	Coming up, we have calls from Michelle from Dorset, who is looking forward to George's homecoming.
1:11.3	Richard, before prop, with thoughts on the last Sunday's readings in church.
1:15.7	Globetrotting Richard, who wonders why Brian doesn't sell his shares in BL.
1:19.6	Witherspoon and Angus Haggis, who has special personal links between the Archers and his mother.
1:25.4	And finally, globetrotting Richard again, this time thinking about the home farm succession. And we have emails from Laura, from Chris, currently in Arizona, from Natarn in Portland, and from Gillian in London. As usual, we'll hear a roundup of the Dumpty Dumf Facebook group, this week from Vicky, and the tweets of the week from Theo. But let's start off with the Too Long Didn't Listen Roundup of the Week in Ambridge from Suey.
1:50.4	Hello, lovely people.
1:51.7	It's Sue, Queen Hot-Up.
1:53.1	Time for another.
1:54.2	Well, really quite an odd week in Ambridge.
1:56.5	Too long didn't listen for you this week.
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