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Archers listeners react with tuts and tweets to anniversary episode

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Nigel Pargetter's rooftop plunge prompts high emotion, shrugs and speculation on Twitter

Nigel Pargiter! No!! No no no.! Anyone but Nigel. *palms to cheeks in Munch like scream StephenFry

1950 meets 2011. We're all sitting around our radios, tweeting karamina

Totally emotionally drained by 60th anniversary episode of #The Archers. Nigel Pargiter dear sweet love. 'Er Indoors and I screamed! swinmill

Think they had to axe him because they were told to cut back and Nigel was in the upper income bracket canuckuck

Congratulations to the#BBC spin doctors – so much hype, so little real drama, so what! Gavin Drake

If falling off a roof in the archers is a 60 year celebration ... Imagine 40 years time! Falling off a space ladder? Joshadonlove

Relax. The grounds at Lower Loxley are made from Indian rubber. Eddie Grundy nicked its age old turf long ago WayneJGrandin

BBC may have broken Trade Descriptions Act over Archers. Safe baby delivery & minor character falling off roof is not cataclysmic! PeterHellyer

Me thinks there's another twist to The Archers. Ian's the father of the baby.Nigel survives but has serious injuries BritishPlants

I don't think enough people are dead. Not after Christmas Corrie. That set the bar EmmaK67Let us hope Lower Loxley tragedy reminds listed building owners of folly of evading advert planning controls through "temporary" banners langrabbie

Nope, Sid and Jolene in the shower still the closest thing to shaking Ambridge to the core... jessbrammar

Tutting about the cultural credentials of the archers on Twitter is like complaining about the dress code of a golf club. *insert wink* worldhood

Ambridge Socialist special issue: Archers in disarray; Grundy's gain upper hand in class struggle kmflett

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