Helen and Rob’s gripping domestic abuse storyline leaves fans with a smug feeling that everyone else has been missing out
Even whether you wouldn’t normally touch it with a cattle prod,The Archers (Radio 4) has dished up a week of episodes to whet the appetite for a binge of its backcatalogue.
One tuna bake and one plot twist sees the nation hit peak opinion-giving over whether Helen should have stabbed Rob or not. Accusations that it brings Ambridge into Walford territory are flying around, but they are wrong. The understated acting of Louiza Patikas and Timothy Watson, and plus the fact that the format forces the intellect to fill in the blanks,makes for a unique 15 minutes of radio.
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Source: theguardian.com