👩‍🌾 The Archers spoilers thread #5: Can't wait for 7.02pm? Join us here!

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Yes our dil's sister is a consultant in London, Covid is a bizzarre disease, she's been on the front line but has just been tested and has no antibodies, she hasn't had it.

Thanks @AskingQuestionsAllTheTime.

And more:

Daily Mail Weekend Magazine Archers Update June 29-July 2
Stand we’ll back! Observe all social distancing, and then add a couple of metres! The Horrobin sisters, Susan and Tracy, will be going at it hammer and tongs this week, and you don’t want to get pulled in.
The relationship between these two has always been volatile, but now - with Susan feeling herself to be a media star, and Tracy voted into power - things will get mighty heated.
Ed is also caught up in a row as he finds himself in between two quiz teams.
There’s a spot of bother up at Lower Loxley, where Freddie does what he can to calm things down while dealing with his own troubled past.
For Lizzie, however, an unexpected invitation - if she has the courage to accept it - offers a new path.

Thanks AQATT

Yes thanks AQTT Why would they decide to make Ifti into a boor?

Next week:

BBC one-liners
06 July Debbie Aldridge reveals some shocking news and Brian is left holding the baby.
07 July Alice has a crisis on her hands while Chris is left reeling by a surprising decision.
08 July Debbie has concerns over a family member while Brian’s plan gathers momentum.
09 July Adam makes a big decision and Debbie considers her situation.

Credits
Mon 6/7/2020, Tue 7/7/2020, Wed 8/7/2020, Thu 9/7/2020
Writers: Keri Davies & Gillian Richmond
Director: Kim Greengrass
Editor: Jeremy Howe
Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood
Debbie Aldridge: Tamsin Greig
Alice Carter: Hollie Chapman
Chris Carter: Wilf Scolding
Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott

Radio Times Ambridge Diary 6th - 9th July
Relations between the Aldridges are fairly combustible at the best of times, so you’d be forgiven for thinking that they might have all killed each other during lockdown. The cherry harvest has certainly proved to be problematic. Various members of the family are now desperately trying to sort the problems out - but will any of them succeed?
There’s also an update from Hungary, where Debbie is finding restrictions difficult. And when she gets in touch with Adam, the news she imparts leaves him with a tough decision to make. Finally, Alice struggles to keep all her eggs in one basket and reaches a decision that leaves Chris reeling.

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I don't actually believe them any more when they say anyone makes a big decision. It's usually something as earth-shatteringly important as whether to have marmalade on toast for breakfast or not.

Also, I thought putting all your eggs in one basket generally meant being stupid and not leaving yourself any options, rather than being something you struggled to do?

Drat! My apologies to anyone who saw the opening of my last post and didn't want to: I had forgotten that you need to woffle a bit, because the first few words show up even if you don't open the thread.

Only if it's one of your TIOs, surely?

Whoop! Whoop!

Thank you!

Thanks for the reassurance: of course, I was being stupid and anyone who sees it already wants to. Phew.

More:

Daily Mail Weekend Magazine Archers Update 6-9 July 2020
Debbie, a class act who’s rarely seen in Ambridge, makes her voice heard this week. She’s been in lockdown in Hungary and, what with one thing and another, found it all a lot trickier than she thought it would be. Now, out of the blue, she contacts the Aldridges, and delivers a bombshell that leaves Adam with a very nasty problem.
It’s not the only problem the Aldridges have to cope with this week. The cherry harvest proves to be anything but a bowl of cherries, Alice makes an odd decision, Chris is left reeling, and Brian’s left holding the baby.
That’s not the end of their woes, either. Debbie has worries about one of the Aldridge clan - but will anyone take her concerns seriously?

First guess (entirely made up because I've forgotten the relevant agreements) is that she wants to be bought out of her share of the Home Farm partnership so she can set up an independent outfit (personal or professional) in Hungary. I'm thinking this is more likely (actor availability-wise) than that she's coming home and wants a top job on the farm.

Alice pregnant.

Peggy's the obvious person to worry about - but everyone would take that seriously, so I'll say Jenny. (Unless Ruairi?)

Exciting! (Finally.)

Exciting! (Finally.) I won't hold my breath. I got excited when I thought they were getting somewhere with the slavery story but that was a damp squib.

They were very unlucky with that ...

Thanks Asking Ref. The slaves, do we know if they're kept together in some sort of hostel? How many are there? etc..... It would only take one (or even kirstie) to somehow contact the police and the whole lot would fall down around Philgav's ears.

I think either Philip or Gavin mentioned they were in a flat. And it doesn't sound as if they're the sort of young men who have any idea of their own rights - they're dominated through fear of being returned to their former lives.

Unless one of them is driven to desperation through starvation or some sudden serious illness or injury. Or a fire in the flat ...

I wonder how they actually managed during the stricter lockdown - when the slave masters would have had no good reason to be visiting them regularly to take food. Perhaps Philip set up a regular Iceland delivery.

Yes exactly Perdita This S.L. has far too many holes in it. I reckon TA will lose a lot of listeners through it (and the ridiculous "monologues" ) .

Thanks, Asking! Be still, my beating heart - Debbie to be heard in TA again, a glimpse into Brian's private thoughts, Keri Davies writing some of it. This may be a better week. Fingers crossed.

"I reckon TA will lose a lot of listeners through it (and the ridiculous "monologues" ) .

Apparently there has been a Times poll about that, and 88% of the people who've responded have given up listening -- though I don't know whether that means for now or forever. I can't go and look because it is behind a paywall.

Keri Davies wrote some of the first week, and that was seriously bad, so I am not going to have any high expectations of him.

You can read a small number of Times articles free of charge (two a week?) if you give them an email address, Asking. I do that and am not deluged with spam. I did pay for a while but couldn't justify going on with it in lockdown conditions.

I am not going to give him my email address either; I dislike spam....

Asking It does seem that Gillian Richmond is adding a little more emotional intelligence to it. I liked the letter from Lynda to Freddie actually explaining her state of mind when she spoke to him in the hospital.
Ed and Jazzer shearing in Wales?? (they're only allowed to drive 5 miles there !) Unless it was supposed to have been done without anyone official noticing Or it was right by the border!

And yet Gillian Richmond's own weeks before lockdown haven't been particularly outstanding, I don't think.

She didn't write the letter from Freddie; that was last week, so either Katie Hims or Nick Warburton. It was Katie Hims' first week of scripts last week, and Nick Warburton has done eight, one of which was another lockdown shared week.

Oh, it's Katie Him's writing I liked then. No I agree pre lockdown scripts were nothing special.

I wonder whose idea it was not have any duologues? it could work with the couple acting from their respective homes. Oh and the completely unnatural idea to NEVER mention Covid duh.

You cannot yet have judged or liked Katie Him's scripts for TA, because we have not yet heard one. The first will be broadcast next week, and even then we won't know which of next week's output she wrote because she and Nick Warburton have joint billing as writers next week.