Isn’t it strange that we can become so fond of invisible characters made of vibrations in the air? As Ambridge loses one of its patron saints, I mourn deeply – and I cannot be alone
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Charlotte Higgins on The Archers: deliver us from model railways
Tony Archer practised male bonding over his train set, while Alice has walked out on husband and baby, hopefully to dry out
The scriptwriters ‘kill us for their sport’. Photograph: Jeff Dalton/Alamy
The scriptwriters ‘kill us for their sport’. Photograph: Jeff Dalton/Alamy
Fri 30 Apr 2021 07.13 EDT
There have been times these past weeks when The Archers has been almost too traumatic to hear. I refer, of course, to the upsetting scenes in which Tony Archer, Ambridge’s dreariest man, practised male bonding over his model railway with Helen’s boyfriend, Lee, causing the latter to confess to a weakness for superhero figurines.