Archers spoilers

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OK, this was posted on another site on January 1st 2014

'Based upon a letter in the DM from a reader who alleged they had overheard "an obnoxiously loud member of TA production team" in a Birmingham restaurant. Believe it at your peril.

Rob is revealed to be homophobic.
Jill will move into Brookfield.
The Grundy's to move back to Grange Farm.
Tom will take over the running of Bridge Farm after Tony has an accident.
Lower Loxley may burn down, but that has yet to be decided upon.
Lynda is to stage Blithe Spirit next Christmas.

Or not, as the case may be...'

How much more will come to pass, I wonder?

And a new Grundy baby announced on Christmas Day?!?

I was thinking more of joy at being in their own home, Zero.

Doesn't "Christmas joy" always mean a baby in BBC-speak?

Yes - if em announces a pregnancy at Christmas that will mean she's due just at the end of the 6 month tenancy and will wont be able to get them to leave then!!

I was kind of hoping they would be announcing an engagement

Oh that would be good too.

AllMimsy eek. New Tom is New Tony's son?

Yes! Which makes him Dr Who's grandson and Dudley Dursley's first cousin, I believe.

Please not Kate. And especially not a New Kate. I'm not warming to New Tom or New Pip (although to be fair didn't warm to the old versions either)

Phoebe will be moving to SA (I'm like a stuck record).

That would be a shame; almost total extinction of Tuckers... One would hope they'd bring her back at some stage as she is an Archer.

Anyway it looks as if Susan will be raising the question of Neil's continuing Bridge Farm management rôle quite soon. I wouldn't enjoy seeing him cast out or demoted.

So - we know Carol will be the spy.

Wonder if Alice's radical decision will be something influenced by Home Farm's straitened circumstances. (Of course it could be to declare on air that her DH has gone away and undergone a full body swap ...)

Is Jill going to have a heart attack ?
Indigestion ?

Christmas Radio Times has the Blithe Spirit cast list. It's showing Louisa Patzikas for Ruth, so I don't know what was going on last night when Helen said she couldn't do it.

Might be a bluff though Mimsy?

The cast list for the 2nd Jan would indicate a new Kate?

whispering, thanks for reminding me to look at that - can't believe I'd forgotten to look! Another new voice to get used to! Oh dear oh dear oh dear.

Oh and re- whose playing Ruth (Blythe Spirit), I think something will happen to Lillian, so Helen will have to step in at the last minute as "the only one who could possibly do it".

Nothing bad to Lillian I hope.

Ah.

The presenter of Feedback has just said that he hopes that by the time the prog is back on in February David and Ruth will have worked out why they've been offered so much money for their farm ...

Now that is a clue if ever there was one.

Is this fracking?

Hmmm. I'd be surprised if Roger Bolton had advance knowledge of the plotlines. I've always had him pegged as a keen listener who likes to speculate a bit.

It will be linked to whatever made the water trough run dry and the road subside (and did the water turn brown).

More online:

4 January: Phoebe is embarrassed
5 January: There is a problem at Hadley Haugh
6 January: Emma soothes Ed's fears
7 January: Jill is escaping
9 January: Pat has plenty to celebrate
11 January: Rob has a lot on his mind
12 January: Tom visits Roy
13 January: Susan wants the best for Emma
14 January: Kate is high maintenance
15 January: Kenton is full of plans
16 January: It is double trouble for Rob and Lynda

I'm hoping that "double trouble" and Rob having a lot on his mind has something to do with babies. And looking forward to the 5th.

Thanks, Dipan!

Kate is high maintenance - this, of course, is just a statement of fact, not a spoiler! Unless it's a pun and the maintenance hints at a divorce suit. Has to be likely given she's arrived back without Lucas or the children.

Problems at hadleigh haugh - a sinkhole?

Bumping back onto my list ...