EastEnders. I don't believe I'm saying this...

[Anna]

Corrie beats Eastenders hands down. Even if Corrie is going through a poor spell atm. Ken Barlow is a Radio 3 listener, too. :)

Ken Barlow is also a Druid it seems.

[Pilchardman]

Ken Barlow is also a Druid it seems.

That's William Roach, the actor who plays Ken. Ken himself is an atheist. It is Ken who listens to Radio 3 (and reads the Guardian). I don't know what William Roach listens to.

[amateur51]

Yes, she's Roy's Mum (he's married to Hayley, a trans-sexual) She is very good, with withering put-downs. Someone told me sometime ago about a programme she was in with Graham Crowden (?) years back called Waiting for God, that was very good (it's on YouTube)

That was me, Anna! What told you

[scottycelt]

That's William Roach, the actor who plays Ken. Ken himself is an atheist. It is Ken who listens to Radio 3 (and reads the Guardian). I don't know what William Roach listens to.

William is a near and much-loved neighbour, and believes in reincarnation ... in fact, I bumped into him (almost literally) in Waitrose a fortnight ago ... wonder where he shopped in a previous life ... ?

[Anna]

That's William Roach, the actor who plays Ken. Ken himself is an atheist. It is Ken who listens to Radio 3 (and reads the Guardian). I don't know what William Roach listens to.

Aha! So the fictional character listens to R3 and reads the Guardian, and, that makes a fictional character come to life? And therefore believable? As a R3 listener and Guardian reader would he really be married to Dim Deirdre?

[Flay]

Oi !! I thought we were meant to be discussing EastEnders

[John Wright]

Yeah, too right! Out or order they are, out of order!

[Norfolk Born]

Oi !! I thought we were meant to be discussing EastEnders

Yeah - woss goin' on?
(Anna: You may recall that Roy's mum pinched Mary's caption competition entry and won a ticket for a cruise ...)

[Flosshilde]

I prefer Emmerdale.

[PatrickOD]

Is this the one you mean - Ros na Run, which means in English 'The Street of Eastern Dales'

http://www.rosnarun.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=section&id=13&Itemid=212

[scottycelt]

I prefer Emmerdale.

Nah ... Take the High Road ... at least they speak proper English.

http://player.stv.tv/programmes/take-the-high-road/

[Anna]

Oi !! I thought we were meant to be discussing EastEnders

Indeed we were. Good episode tonight. And, it'll all end in tears, Max will never stand by her, he's weak and feeble, which as it's coming up to Christmas seems about right don't it for some extra misery? EE always guarantees a death at Christmas as well, just to add to the festivities, plus two unmarried mums - although a bit early in their gestations to give birth under a market stall. Oh, and Yusef and Zainab, serious domestic violence issue coming up.

Not that I ever watch it of course! I do like the medical soaps though, Holby and Casuality. Gosh, I'd be so good in A&E, inserting cannulas and catheters (even thought I cannot spell them) and shouting "Shocking - 360!"

[Flay]

Don't get me started about Holby etc, Anna. They never take a proper history, they examine THROUGH the clothing, they never afford patients any privacy, and they order dozens of tests on the basis of a hand placed on a clothed abdomen. None of your "inspect, palpate, percuss, then auscultate" mullarkey.

[Anna]

Don't get me started about Holby etc, Anna. They never take a proper history, they examine THROUGH the clothing, they never afford patients any privacy, and they order dozens of tests on the basis of a hand placed on a clothed abdomen. None of your "inspect, palpate, percuss, then auscultate" mullarkey.

Well, I was going to say, of course I KNOW about inspect, palpate, percuss, then *auscultate, and removing clothing to get the whole picture. I do it all the time. I just didn't want to show off. And basically, one watches Holby etc., for the political (hospital management versus cute doctors) and the simmering love tensions, doesn't one? Is that not what soaps are all about?

Edit: * Auscultation is the term for listening to the internal sounds of the body, usually using a stethoscope

[Pilchardman]

Aha! So the fictional character listens to R3 and reads the Guardian, and, that makes a fictional character come to life? And therefore believable? As a R3 listener and Guardian reader would he really be married to Dim Deirdre?

No, it is the portrayal that makes a character come to life.

Why wouldn't a Radio 3 listener be married to Deirdre? She stuffs a mean marrow.

(I think they aren't actually married at the moment, mind you. They have been in the past, though).