Keep it to yourself. The Archers Spoilers Thread 4

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Spoiler thread for The Archers. Please keep all discussion in this thread and do not share spoilers on the main Archers Thread.

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Spoiling The Archers one week at a time. Thread 3 www.mumsnet.com/Talk/radio_addicts/2958254-spoiling-the-archers-one-week-at-a-time-thread-3

Yes, sepsis/major organ failure. She could hang on for weeks/months before succumbing

Although, this is Ambridge, so who knows.

I started the very first spoiler thread but I don't want to do any more. I can't cope with the responsibilty.

I'm happy to do it if others would be OK with that. Might be 15 months before it's next needed, based on this one. Just don't want to seem to be taking over all Archers-related threadstarting activity.

Very happy to submit to your benign dictatorship of Archers-related threads Gasp0de!

Go for it Gasp0!

Thank you for entrusting me with this huge responsibility. I will do my best not to let this great community of Archers spoilers addicts down.

Some are born great
Some achieve greatness
And some have greatness thrust upon them

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What a cheery little ditty SurpriseSparDay! It seems strangely applicable to a number of our politicians.

I might start humming the chorus to aid correct hand-washing (doubtless that would freak out DD)

Go for it Gasp0

Somewhere else I read a comment that the Editors have form for being economical with the cast list if they want to keep people guessing (apparently it happened when Darrell was suicidal).

I think they have once or twice failed to include someone who might have given the game away by his or her presence: for instance I think they didn't have Tom in the week he reappeared from Canada, until after he had done so and then they changed the cast-list on the website.

By the way, should I wait for the new thread to post the spoilers, or should they go here? It being Thursday and all.

Please could you do it here? I'm hoping to make full use of this thread. Waste not, want not!

OK. Sorry for the delay: I was out panic-buying vast quantities of cans of energy-drink (Red Alert: it contains exactly what Red Bull does and costs far less, if anyone wants to know) for a convention OH is going to this weekend. And then I forgot.

BBC one-liners 15th - 20th March 2020
15 Mar Lilian offers support and Ben’s 18th birthday present causes debate.
16 Mar Philip questions his future and Ed has concerns.
17 Mar Kirsty needs some reassurance and Adam finds himself overworked.
18 Mar Harrison makes a worrying discovery and Lilian has a brainwave.
19 Mar There’s a near miss for Ed and Lilian delivers some good news.
20 Mar The stress rises for Philip and Brian makes an intervention.

Credits
Sun 15/3/2020, Mon 16/3/2020, Tue 17/3/2020, Wed 18/3/2020, Thu 19/3/2020, Fri 20/3/2020
Writer: Adrian Flynn
Director: Jessica Bunch
Editor: Jeremy Howe
Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood
Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper
Phoebe Aldridge: Lucy Morris
Ben Archer: Ben Norris
Jill Archer: Patricia Greene
Jolene Archer: Buffy Davis
Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee
Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde
Harrison Burns … James Cartwright
Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond
Emma Grundy: Emerald O’Hanrahan
Alistair Lloyd: Michael Lumsden
Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott
Kirsty Miller: Annabelle Dowler
Gavin Moss: Gareth Pierce
Philip Moss: Andy Hockley
Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling
Freddie Pargetter: Toby Laurence
Robert Snell: Graham Blockey
Oliver Sterling: Michael Cochrane
Roy Tucker: Ian Pepperell
Doctor: Jessica Turner

Radio Times Ambridge Diary 15th-20th Mar
The fallout from last week means that Ben’s 18th birthday party proves to be something of a damp squib, though an unexpected gift from Jill and Leonard provokes a debate.
Elsewhere, Alistair attempts to interest Ed in a sheep healthcare plan. But Ed is distracted by his concern for a loved one.
In a different corner of the village, Harrison is determined to help out when a neighbour reports a crime. But when he investigates the situation, he makes a worrying discovery.
Over at Home Farm, Adam’s running on little sleep thanks to lambing and a restless Xander. Will Brian’s suggestion as to how to ease his burden meet with approval?

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I really hope Jill and Leonard have bought him a car -- at which point Josh ought to pipe up about how it's unfair, all he got for his eighteenth was a measly laptop. (They have retrospectively invented both Pip and Josh getting cars: Josh didn't. Ruth didn't even bother to be there for his birthday, she was too busy clearing Heather's house while Heather wasn't there to stop her.)

Thanks, Asking! I hardly dare ask why the energy drink is necessary ...

I wonder if Harrison's discovery might have to do with Roman. I had forgotten until somebody mentioned recently that many weeks ago he went off to investigate a skip or similar at Home Farm and it sounded a bit odd. I think he's a wrong 'un. However, I see he and Tracy are not in the cast list, so maybe that's less likely. Still no Lynda, I see.

Thanks, Asking!

Not a spoiler as such but there’s a whole suite of photos of Lynda (+ Robert) doing the rounds of the press. (Have glimpsed Telegraph, Express, Mirror - not necessarily voluntarily. Haven’t noticed any in the papers I actually read, but I may not have been concentrating.)) Looking cosy on a sofa, or outside, though the house and furniture don’t quite meet my expectations of Ambridge Hall.

Dunno what to conclude ...

Probably that she will die, I suppose.

Oh, and that the editor is getting lots of lovely publicity.

I hadn't thought about newspapers.

Daily Mail Weekend Magazine Archers Update March 15-20
On top of everything else, another crime is reported in Ambridge. Harrison investigates, and finds yet more trouble in Borsetshire’s answer to Sodom and Gomorrah. Will we ever be out of the mire and back to the days when early lambing was Ambridge’s only problem?
Cheer is thin on the ground at the moment, with Ben’s damp squib of a birthday doing little to lift spirits - until Jill and Leonard give the moaning teenager an unexpected present.
Philip and Kirsty do their best to keep calm and carry on, and the stress is building up, and Philip is so desperate he even reaches out to Gavin for help.
Meanwhile, Jolene and Kenton are impressed by an unexpected admission, and Lilian makes one of her suggestions.

Thanks, Asking! I assume by 'crime' we're talking about something more serious than missing bunting? I do miss the scenes in the lambing shed. I used to like those.

BBC teasers for the two weeks after Asking's post above. We can only guess at how much re-writing and re-recording they might have to contemplate given the COVID 19 situation, but FWIW here they are:

22 Mar Philip attempts to keep control and Justin ruffles feathers.
23 Mar Adam puts his foot down and Phoebe is in the mood to celebrate.
24 Mar Kirsty offers her support and the Brookfield youngsters make plans.
25 Mar Robert makes an emotional gesture and there are complications on Ben’s night out.
26 Mar There's an embarrassing encounter for Peggy and Josh is forced to cover.
27 Mar One resident makes a devastating confession and Brian is impressed.

Writer, Daniel Thurman
Director, Marina Caldarone
Editor, Jeremy Howe

Jill Archer..... Patricia Greene
Ruth Archer .... Felicity Finch
Pip Archer.... Daisy Badger
Josh Archer .... Angus Imrie
Ben Archer..... Ben Norris
Brian Aldridge.... Charles Collingwood
Phoebe Aldridge.... Lucy Morris
Justin Elliott .... Simon Williams
Rex Fairbrother .... Nick Barber
Adam Macy .... Andrew Wincott
Kirsty Miller ….. Annabelle Dowler
Freddie Pargetter ….. Toby Laurence
Robert Snell ….. Graham Blockey
Peggy Woolley .... June Spencer
Joy Horville .... Jackie Lye
Philip Moss ….. Andy Hockley
Gavin Moss ..... Gareth Pierce
Blake ….. Luke MacGregor

Blake speaks. A significant omission, though.

29 Mar Roy faces an uncomfortable request and there’s a surprise for Ben.
30 Mar Justin finds himself challenged and Kirsty tries to do the right thing.
31 Mar Elizabeth uses the benefit of her experience and Fallon has a bright idea.
01 Apr Johnny attempts to support a friend and Kate puts her foot in it.
02 Apr Robert’s plan backfires and there’s a near miss at Home Farm.
03 Apr There’s an awkward encounter for Roy and Emma makes her feelings known.

Cast list for this week:
Writer, Keri Davies
Director, Rosemary Watts
Editor, Jeremy Howe

Pip Archer.... Daisy Badger
Josh Archer .... Angus Imrie
Ben Archer..... Ben Norris
Brian Aldridge.... Charles Collingwood
Jennifer Aldridge .... Angela Piper
Phoebe Aldridge.... Lucy Morris
Justin Elliott .... Simon Williams
Rex Fairbrother .... Nick Barber
Emma Grundy .... Emerald O'Hanrahan
Ed Grundy .... Barry Farrimond
Shula Hebden Lloyd .... Judy Bennett
Alistair Lloyd .... Michael Lumsden
Adam Macy .... Andrew Wincott
Kirsty Miller ….. Annabelle Dowler
Elizabeth Pargetter .... Alison Dowling
Freddie Pargetter ….. Toby Laurence
Johnny Philips .... Tom Gibbons
Fallon Rogers .... Joanna Van Kampen
Robert Snell ….. Graham Blockey
Roy Tucker .... Ian Pepperell
Lee Bryce ... Ryan Early
Gavin Moss ..... Gareth Pierce
Chloe .... Eva Feiler

Who's Chloe? Still no Lynda ... But no mention of a funeral either. 🤞

And who is Lee Bryce?

Helen's Lee, I suppose.

Oh, of course! I'd forgotten about him, and don't remember any reference to his surname.

No mention of Helen in the cast list. I wonder if that's a mistake. If it isn't, could it turn out he's the criminal Harrison is going to confront? Or is it perhaps that Lee is going to work with Lynda as a physio? Hoping against hope it's the latter.

Dr Locke's daughter is called Chloe, but she might be Lee's daughter.
What is Russ's wife's first name?

Oh - for some reason I thought Chloe was one amongst the group of teenage girls whose names are so often mentioned by Ben.

Unfortunately I suspect Doc Locke’s daughter might be just a bit too young to be one of them. Could be wrong ... Would be clever if they had incorporated her like that, without direct reference, so far, to her dad.