Peter Stewart

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@theAliceRoberts Hi Alice. Just wanted to tell you how much I’m enjoying your Bart’s series (I understand you are prod, writer and pres). Full of OMG facts and love the overall production/graphics too. Honestly, a highlight of my week. Many thanks!

@ClareEmmadunne hey. Watched Herself last night. Great original storytelling with twists. Great acting (those girls!!) and emotion throughout. Thanks for writing and being in it Clare!

@KateLeeComms @BBCTheArchers Hacked into the big screen at the shopping centre! Absolutely ludicrous. It’d be live on Insta, TikTok, YouTube (at no cost and no hacking required). Was this an attempt to avoid using those social media names?!

@TweeterStewart @BBCTheArchers I think the writers should interrogated publically!

@BBCTheArchers #thearchers congratulations for the last month of episodes. If you're wanting to lose your core listeners you're succeeding spectacularly. Who cares about anything? Character led stories out of the window. Nonsense unbelievable narrative/relationships.

@KateLeeComms @BBCTheArchers We are so often in agreement on this. Last night’s episode was dull. Some, I’m afraid, was almost impenetrable.

How sad. I had no connection with any story line in #TheArchers New characters taking over far too quickly. And I assume the agricultural advisor will be let go soon. @BBCTheArchers it's all a bit...

@KateLeeComms @BBCRadio4 @BBCSounds Absolutely. A number of times I’ve heard “they’re a really good newsreader, they’ve got such a lovely voice” - but they have no sense of tone, pitch, pace, pause, intonation etc. I have to turn off some stations for three mins at the top of the hour because they grate so much.

I'm listening to a book reading on @BBCRadio4 Not good. Jerky, too young sounding for content. Also listening to #book reading on @BBCSounds Riveting. Brilliantly read. The reader makes the difference. A nice #voice doesn't necessarily read well. #VoiceArtists underestimated.

@KateLeeComms @Odicean @BBCRadio4 @BBCTheArchers And so soon after scam week equally as awful.

@TweeterStewart @Odicean @BBCRadio4 @BBCTheArchers Possibly. No excuse for churning out dross for months tbh. #TheArchers

What is going on with #TheArchers? After another dreadful week of unreal absurdity, one gets a distinct sense that 'comedy' is believed to be the way to attract new listeners. If so, I fear for the future of the programme.

@KateLeeComms @Odicean @BBCRadio4 @BBCTheArchers Just a thought. This week’s episodes like the ‘scam’ week have been mostly self-contained (little link with prev storylines), so giving writers time to develop big lines - or rewrite existing ones, perhaps to inc ramifications of June Spencer’s death.

@Odicean Comedy has taken over @BBCRadio4 History, Science, Arts prog? Get a standup comic in. Memos to lighten up because under 40s can't hack regular discussion? @BBCTheArchers gone the same way. #TheArchers

@NickAhad @KateLeeComms @BBCRadio4 An odd reply from the host of what is itself a critical review show…

@TweeterStewart @KateLeeComms @BBCRadio4 Uh oh! Some folk need to remember Thumper's mum's lesson. And Kate, sorry, only Alan Partridge uses the phrase 'quelle surprise' these days. Do talk normally.

I'll calm down in a minute but now we have a manically fast talking shouting bloke on #FrontRow hurting my ears. Has there been a memo to all @BBCRadio4 voices to be crazy or something. Ah it's @NickAhad a comedian. Quelle surprise. Sorry Nick talk normally.

@KateLeeComms @BBCTheArchers When it’s great - and I have been listening for 50+ years - it is great. But some whole episodes stand out for being totally unnatural.

All I can say is I feel very sorry the actors having to regurgitate the garbage being written for #TheArchers it's at the lowest nonsense I have ever heard (40+ years) It's all about #Joy. Other characters are being twisted to make sense of her. Get rid please @BBCTheArchers

@KateLeeComms Agreed. For me, scenes are always better when Fallon Rogers/Joanna van Kampen is in them. Her intonation, timing and non-dialogue sounds are superb.

@TweeterStewart Yes. I worked in radio drama for many years. Some can do radio voice acting, tbh most actors not great. Bringing in TV actors isn't working. Casting by looks and who they know I think. With a few exceptions. Paul Copley is lovely as always. #TheArchers

Controversial I know but trying to work out why I can't connect with Joy and Mick #TheArchers I think the actor/actress don't sound real. Lines over-read in very Geordie/Northern voices not spoken naturally. #radio #voice #acting.

@KateLeeComms @traceylyno Agree. Tremendous story.

@traceylyno This is Us?

I need a new show! Seen: Sopranos The wire Breaking bad Better call Saul Barry Brassic Grimm Resident alien What we do in the shadows Mad men Shameless And so many others. Any sleepers I should know about?

@KateLeeComms This week’s scam shows have been awful in both script and I’m afraid, acting.

Have the rest of #TheArchers cast gone on strike? And does that include the scriptwriters? Someone thinks the archers needs a Big shake up. They'll learn.

@MarinaHyde @richardosman You need to see this Two Ronnies sketch on just this topic! facebook.com/share/v/MNwK7w…

@richardosman "I would like a book of around *this* size, please". "Would you like a book by, for instance, Charles Dickens?" "I don't know - how tall is it?" THIS IS OBVIOUS BULLSHIT, SIR - and you know it

Well the 'how do you arrange your bookshelves' question on #TheRestIsEntertainment has caused uproar. Thanks for all the photos, and I'm glad that my solution of sorting books by size seems to be more popular than @MarinaHyde's arcane system. Do keep sending us your photos! Including all you colour-coders. More next week I suspect.

@jamsstew Fancy that…

Small town. Lots of news.

@RadioMugs @airchecks Marking an unusual 40th local anniversary. To hear the clip, tap here and then tap ▶ tinyurl.com/prp58bday

Happy 40th birthday #RadioMercury #showusyourmugs - hear the launch @airchecks

@mojofestival 🤔

@RadioMerch I do recall a still posted years ago of Phil Mitchell in a hospital corridor standing beside a notice board with an Essex FM logo on it.

#radiomerch on the telly!! There’s also the famous Piccadilly Radio window stickers that can be seen in a Back to the Future scene. Anyone got any other examples of radio merch featuring in TV or film?