The Archers #93: The Flower and Produce show - who's going to get their just desserts. Freddie? Ellis? Russ? Pass judgement here.

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No, that's not a jokey exaggeration, this is really the 93rd thread in a series started by PseudoBadger five years ago! In fact, post number 90,000 in the "official" count will be made on this thread.

Lovers of The Archers welcome (along with the rest of us who have a more complicated relationship with the "TA" ).

One rule we try to stick to: No mentioning of future episode plotlines published in the Radio Times etc. However, once an episode has aired, say what you like!

What is going to happen to Freddie? And are we ever going to hear from Lily again?
I also am wondering what it will take for Kenton to apologise to Fallon...

Unless they put a charge on LL

That would have to go to the trustees surely? Elizabeth doesn't own LL.

NWNF - Is this meant to be showing a desperate Elizabeth or just the LSWs talking rubbish? Plus Freddie would need to consent and I'd be surprised if he did.

I'm surprised its taken this long to filter back to Brian and Jenny. I'd assumed the story had gone around the younger generation long since.

No solicitor is going to take on a criminal case on a no win no fee basis, not least because they have to pay the rent. NWNF can only work on the basis that if they win their fees can be recovered either from the other side or as a percentage of the damages won. Freddie obviously isn't claiming damages, and in circumstances where he has pleaded guilty there is absolutely no chance of anyone else being ordered to pay costs.

I especially liked the silent Ben and Ruaaaaridh being alive and well on social media. Me too. I also loved Alistair and Jim bonding (though obviously Jim would never allow that word) over Ottolenghi. And the crossword clue - Fellowship got around sleep inducer near monsters realm - 12 letters. TOG-ETHER-NESS. Just brilliant Keri Davies.

It would have been interesting to hear the scene between Kate and her parents. They drove straight round to Elizabeth to take it out on her, I wonder what they thought of Kate concealing it for so long. Apparently not a problem!

What's the recipe called?

Oh my! Was that the answer? I’m utterly brainless where crosswords are concerned - doomed never to know the solution.

I consulted a crossword-loving chum.

That makes me feel a lot better!

It would have been interesting to hear the scene between Kate and her parents ...

I’m more fascinated to hear that Kate is still living in the house. This, more than almost anything, tells me they’re not going anywhere. If the intention truly was to have Brian and Jenny move out the atmosphere between them and Kate would poisonous right now. The SWs would have to show that. They’re not. So - they’re not.

It’s this one, Bert.

It struck me how like Kate that Elizabeth sounded - self righteous and irrational!

Witch that recipe post must put you in competition with DDD (for his transcript) for most dedicated poster of the week. I love the fact that everyone is so invested at the moment - and interesting that what we are most invested in are the character led sub-plots rather than central drama which almost feels a bit flimsy by comparison (how is Kate still at home? why would a NWNF lawyer be interested in Freddie’s case? etc).

Thank you so much, witch-that was above and beyond! I'm going to make it tonight- I'll report back.

If you do that Bert, that would probably edge you into first place for over-infestation

Witch that recipe post must put you in competition with DDD (for his transcript) for most dedicated poster of the week.

Huh, I hardly think taking a photo of a page in a book and posting it compares to the huge effort of carefully transcribing dialogue.
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I think NWNF was pure desperation!

Elizabeth needs some therapy. She is keeping so much in.

At least it's not a Shula-like martyrish sulk D^3.

Elizabeth needed therapy long ago. This reaction is similar to her lashing out in fury after Nigel died.

If not therapy, Elizabeth needs to at least go up Lakey Hill and let forth a primal scream!

Oh, you’re welcome! As DDD has pointed out, not sounding at all like Shula, it wasn’t a huge amount of effort

DDD I can lend you the book if you want and then you can hand carve figures of Alistair and Jim and reenact them cooking the recipe, sort of like a nativity scene, with a loop of the recording playing over the top.

PS Bert, what time should we all come round?

Do report back, I’ve not cooked that one so far.

DDD Thanks for the transcript, I loved that scene. Joe's "Any road, he said no" particularly made me giggle.

Ottolenghi is not my fave chef: there are always far too many ingredients in his recipes with tons of effing peppers and chillis!

I hate the cryptic crosswords, Quater don't mind the easy Radio Times one though!

Thanks, Dresses - yes there are two lines that make me chuckle every time I read them, and that's one of them - it's even better when you hear it, something about the deadening way the actor says the way "no". The other line is the "got it in one. I said he was quick" one.

Yes Lilian Good to hear Jim feeling guilty about sending Al to boarding school too, it bought a tear to my eye.

Good acting from David trying hard to be supportive to Lizzie's daft scheme.

I hate the cryptic crosswords but they're much easier! They have both a definition and a "recipe" for the answer, so you're quite sure that you've got the right answer. A "quick" crossword with a clue like "Fruit (5)" and you don't know whether it's "lemon" or "melon".

Although sometimes the definition and the "recipe" get merged as in that lovely "Drop the Dead Donkey" one: "gegs (9,4)".