🤐 The Archers spoilers thread #6: Can't wait for 7.02pm? Join us here!

[Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g]

Spoiler thread for The Archers. Please keep all spoiler-related discussion in this thread and do not spill the beans on the main Archers Thread (hence the zipped mouth on the emoji!). Last thread here: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/radio_addicts/3853783--The-Archers-spoilers-thread-5-Cant-wait-for-7-02pm-Join-us-here

[BoreOfWhabylon]

Thanks Gasp0de

[ILoveShula]

Thanks Gasp0de

[CaptainMyCaptain]

Thanks.

[AskingQuestionsAllTheTime]

Starting as I mean to go on, here's what I have for next week:

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BBC One-Liners
22 Mar Jim fears for the future of the Parish council while Susan has a mountain to climb.
23 Mar There’s surprising news for the Carters and the storm clouds gather for Rex.
24 Mar Susan hatches a plan and Kate is determined to help.
25 Mar Reality bites for Alice and Chris, while Susan’s behaviour causes concern.

Credits
Mon 22/3/2021, Tue 23/3/2021, Wed 24/3/2021, Thu 25/3/2021
Writers: Adrian Flynn and Tim Stimpson
Director: Marina Caldarone
Editor: Jeremy Howe
Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood
Phoebe Aldridge: Lucy Morris
Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas
Lee Bryce: Ryan Early
Alice Carter: Hollie Chapman
Chris Carter: Wilf Scolding
Neil Carter: Brian Hewlett
Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin
Doctor: Youssef Kerkour
Rex Fairbrother: Nick Barber
Clarrie Grundy: Heather Bell
Emma Grundy: Emerald O’Hanrahan
Shula Hebden-Lloyd: Judy Bennett
Jim Lloyd: John Rowe
Kate Madikane: Perdita Avery

Radio Times Ambridge Diary 22nd - 25th March 2021
Susan has been on the back foot ever since that damaging interview with her and husband Neil was published, so it’s no wonder that she’s now determined to prove herself to Lynda. But expect comical results as a quest for perfection finds Susan enlisting the help of Shula.
Speaking of the Carter clan, we also get Neil taking the lead for his final outing as chair of the parish council. But as the members debate the candidates who could replace him, Jim is left with a problem on his hands.
Meanwhile, some unexpected news leaves Alice fearful as regards the future, but despite Chris’s efforts to stay optimistic, reality soon sets in …

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We get the doctor again, and reality biting for Alice and Chris, but also surprising news for them; I suspect Martha is going home on Wednesday.

[AskingQuestionsAllTheTime]

And my thanks to Gasp0de for somewhere to put it!

[Madcats]

Thank you for the lovely new spoiler thread, GaspOde and thank you Asking for the spoilers. The threat of "comical results" is sufficient to persuade me to listen on catch-up so I can fast forward if necessary.

I am in a "once every 4-5 years" council election city, but can anybody remember when Emma was elected to the Parish Council? Surely the party with the most votes/seats choses the leader?

Apart from Neil, are they all standing for (re)election on 6 May?

It's about time Martha was back home with Alice & Chris. I've been puzzling why she has been in an incubator for so long given the size of her lungs and ability to feed independently.

[ppeatfruit]

Thanks Gaspode for the new thread and Asking for furnishing the spoilers .

Maybe the hospital is waiting for results of Martha's more detailed tests.

[MollyButton]

Parish councils/town councils are often apolitical. So the chair is chosen by a vote of all councillors.
And I'm not sure which cycle they are on for elections, although with last years being postponed there is a 50:50 chance it should be this year. But they are often not actually held as the councillors stand unopposed.

[ppeatfruit]

How sensible to be apolitical it's about time our ridiculous national govt. was run like that.

The scene with Ben and his brother taking the pee out of him was not well written or acted, the forced laughter seemed to be asking too much of the young actor.

[PursuingProxemicExactitude]

Aha! Thank you, Gasp0de, for this new thread, and AQATT for the spoilers!

What I really want to know is whether they think we've forgotten about the missing Friday and Sunday evenings ...

[AskingQuestionsAllTheTime]

And more has come in:

Daily Mail Weekend Magazine Archers Update 22nd - 25th March 2021
It’s never a good moment when Kate, with her enormous feet, decides to step in. During lockdown, Kate has had her own rewilding project on the go and, what with the straggly locks, mono-eyebrow, and weird clothes, presents a fearsome prospect. She’s also, alarmingly, boiling over with big ideas, and offers to pitch in with Phoebe on the Ambridge rewilding project.
Susan roams free through Ambridge in her quest to win Lynda’s approval, while her husband is released from the yoke of chairing the parish council. Meanwhile, Alice and Chris come under a shadow of fear cast by unexpected news, things go awry at the dairy, and a situation gets way out of hand for another Ambridger.

[ILoveShula]

Thanks @AskingQuestionsAllTheTime.

[ppeatfruit]

Oooh goodie! Thanks Asking

Poor Phoebe faced with earth mother Kate and her wacky ideas, she'll need all her imperfect people skills to cope.

[ppeatfruit]

Silly me I'd forgotten that Kate IS Feeb's errant mother, well it has been a long time since they were on TA in the same scene.

The misery with Alice and Chris and sprog is getting too much now IMO There's enough of it in RL thanks.

[Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g]

About two nights, Peat! Are you not up to date this week?

[Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g]

Oh, and thanks to Asking for the latest spoilers.

[AskingQuestionsAllTheTime]

No sooner has one week ended than another week starts.... Or to put it another way, the next lot of spoilers comes due.

BBC One-Liners
29 Mar The stakes are raised at the Parish Council meeting and Tracy lends a helping hand.
30 Mar Lynda is on the warpath and Harrison offers his support.
31 Mar Ben has romance in mind and Lynda goes into battle.
1 Apr It’s judgement day for Kirsty, and Emma faces a dilemma.

Credits
Mon 29/3/2021, Tue 30/3/2021, Wed 31/3/2021, Thu 1/4/2021
Writers: Sarah Hehir and Keri Davies
Director: Marina Caldarone
Editor: Jeremy Howe
Ben Archer: Ben Norris
Harrison Burns: James Cartwright
Alice Carter: Hollie Chapman
Chris Carter: Wilf Scolding
Ruairi Donovan: Arthur Hughes
Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison
Emma Grundy: Emerald O'Hanrahan
Evangeline Loweminster: Sylvestra La Touzel
Tracy Horrobin: Susie Riddell
Jim Lloyd: John Rowe
Jazzer McCreary: Ryan Kelly
Kirsty Miller: Annabelle Dowler
Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd
Roy Tucker: Ian Pepperell

Radio Times Ambridge Diary 29th March - 1st April 2021
The modern slavery storyline comes to a head as Philip and Gavin stand up in court to face the consequences of their actions. Equal focus will be given, of course, to Kirsty, waiting anxiously at home and getting support from Roy, who reveals a secret of his own. But what will the outcome be for the Mosses when the verdict is passed?
Alice finds life as a new mum challenging but is bolstered by wise words from Harrison. Lynda compromises with Eddie, but the talks take an unexpected turn when the truth about the Darrington Mystery Plays emerges. The stage is set for a showdown between Lynda and her nemesis, Evangeline.

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Silly hyperbole: Evangeline is not Lynda's nemesis. They may be about to disagree about something, but the idea that someone in the next-village-but-one on the Felpersham road has been hunting Lynda down all her life to force Lynda to expiate some mortal sin is absurd.

So is the speed with which the Moss case has come to court, but if that means the end of that dreary and overdone guilt-trip for the listeners I can't say I am sorry.

[ILoveShula]

Thanks AskingQuestionsAllTheTime. No Gav in the cast list
Someone pour Alish a stiff drink please.

Rival would be a better word than nemesis.

[BoreOfWhabylon]

Thanks AQATT.

Evangeline played by Sylvestra La Touzel - quite looking forward to hearing her and Lynda battling it out.

[ILoveShula]

Missed that. She was Ping for a while, wasn't she.

[AskingQuestionsAllTheTime]

And a late addition:

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Daily Mail Weekend Magazine Archers Update 29th March - 1st April 2021
Jim and Jazzer struggle to buy birthday presents for Jade. Tracy, rather nobly, comes to the rescue, but Tracy’s taste, as we know, can be on the bold side.
Meanwhile, Emma tries to bond with Alice by suggesting a shopping trip. Where can these hopeful shoppers possibly go? They could browse the biscuit selection at The Village Shop, wander round the cheese display at Bridge Farm, or see if the Grundys are flogging off dodgy gear from a shed - or does Borsetshire continue to enjoy the Covid-light conditions denied the rest of us?
Meanwhile, Lynda discovers a shocking truth about the Darrington Mystery Plays, while Philip,Gavin and Kirsty appear in court to face the consequences of Mr Moss’s dark deeds.

[ILoveShula]

Thanks @AskingQuestionsAllTheTime.

I'm looking forward to Emmur'n'Alish wandering round the shops given that only supermarkets and essential shops are open. Wonder what they might plonk in the trolley...

It won't be the water in Majorca to be sure.

[ppeatfruit]

You're right Gasp I listen in the afternoon and am actually going out sometimes !! I'll catch up this morning (Sunday omni.)

[Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g]

@ILoveShula

Missed that. She was Ping for a while, wasn't she.

No, Ping was Sally Hawkins at first and then Barunka O'Shaughnessy.

I always feel a little connection with ST for the totally ridiculous reason that her father and my FIL were colleagues, decades before I ever met FIL.

Thanks for the extra spoilers, Asking!

[ppeatfruit]

Yes thanks Asking

What is it with TA script writers and "Secrets". ??? So annoying [hmmm]