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

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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. Last thread here: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/radio_addicts/3439443-keep-it-to-yourself-the-archers-spoilers-thread-4

Thanks @AskingQuestionsAllTheTime! Listening avidly again from now on.

This is what you can expect next week:

BBC one-liners
27 July Fallon finds herself under pressure and Harrison unveils his grand plan.
28 July Tony makes a nostalgic discovery and things are looking up for Joy.
29 July Johnny begins a frantic search and Fallon makes a friend.
30 July Harrison faces a race against time.

Credits
Mon 27/7/2020, Tue 28/7/2020, Wed 29/7/2020, Thu 30/7/2020
Writers: Naylah Ahmed & Daniel Thurman
Director: Marina Caldarone
Editor: Jeremy Howe
Tony Archer: David Troughton
Harrison Burns: James Cartwright
Joy Horville: Jackie Lye
Johnny Phillips: Tom Gibbons
Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen

Radio Times Ambridge Diary 27th-30th July
Like many others who’ve recently had more time on their hands, Tony has been sorting through belongings in the attic. But the discovery of an old train set of John’s brings back some emotional memories that leave Tony convinced the nostalgic treasure should be bequeathed to the right family member. But he’s soon left torn over who should have it.
Harrison unveils his grand scheme to make Fallon feel more appreciated, but when she’s asked for a favour she can’t refuse, those plans look set to be derailed. Joy emerges from a lonely lockdown -- but then finds herself in a potentially dangerous situation. And Johnny realises he’s made a costly error.

Thanks AskingQuestionsAllTheTime. Surely, the train set could live at Fridge Barm, and Henwee and Jack could both share it, unless it's one that Johnneh might like.

It doesn't sound promising, but I like Johnneh.

Joyless I can do without and am not bothered about Felon and PC Plod.

I don't think this is any help, but here it is for what it's worth:

Daily Mail Weekend Magazine Archers Update 27th-30th July 2020
Did you ever think there was a chance that romance would blossom between Joy and Tony? Thought not. The nosy newcomer and the organic carrot man seemed an ill-matched duo, and lockdown - which has kept Joy behind closed doors - put a blight on her dreams of bucolic bliss.
Now, after a long period of loneliness, she is ready to mingle - but all does not go well.
Meanwhile, Tony, her unlikely swain, with more time on his hands than usual, clears out the the Bridge Farm attic, and finds something that brings a tear to his eye.
The flame-haired upholder of the law, Harrison Burns, comes up with a wheeze to make Fallon feel appreciated, but fate and an uninvited houseguest nip his plan in the bud.

Good lord, next week already! Doesn't time fly when you're having fun. Or something, probably something.

BBC one-liners
03 Aug There’s an emergency at Home Farm and Fallon has the rug pulled from under her.
04 Aug Alice finds herself in demand and Natasha makes her presence felt.
05 Aug Fallon faces an impossible choice and Emma’s plans gather pace.
06 Aug Brian delivers good news and Chris plans a surprise.

Credits
Mon 3/8/2020, Tue 4/8/2020, Wed 5/8/2020, Thu 6/8/2020
Writers: Julie Beckett & Nick Warburton
Director: Peter Leslie Wild
Editor: Jeremy Howe
Brian Aldridge : Charles Collingwood
Alice Carter : Hollie Chapman
Chris Carter : Wilf Scolding
Emma Grundy : Emerald O’Hanrahan
Fallon Rogers : Joanna Van Kampen

Radio Times Ambridge Diary 3rd-6th August 2020
Ambridge appears to be slowly getting back on its feet. Emma’s plans for the Flower and Produce Show gather pace, and there’s a heated debate at the Tea Room on the subject of building the business up again. Expect Fallon to be left with an impossible decision to make behind the counter after Natasha sticks her oar in and Helen makes a controversial decision about the finances.
Brian puts pressure on Alice to step up to the plate, but will she have the confidence to do so? She’s at loggerheads with Chris thanks to a late-night bust-up.
And there’s panic at Home Farm as the emergency services arrive - but who is in the line of fire?

Daily Mail Weekend Magazine Archers Update 3rd-6th August 2020 What with one thing and another, you would have thought that Ambridge would skip the Flower and Produce Show for this year. The village is a tinderbox of pent up emotions, and this annual show can take a turn for the nasty. Common sense, however, has not prevailed, and Emma is steaming ahead for plans for the show. Helen has plans for the Tea Room, which are made more complicated when Natasha, a bit of a loose cannon, starts meddling. Meanwhile, Brian puts pressure on Alice, who ends up arguing hammer and tongs with her blacksmith husband, leaving Brian to cool things down.

So Sunny Ormonde's cheerful "maybe the scenes I have recorded will be next week" (said not Friday just past but the one before) has receded another week -- and in fact won't be happening before 23rd at the earliest, because she isn't in the cast before then according to the BBC website.

Thanks, Asking! Puzzled by the arrival of the emergency services at Home Farm. Alice's cottage, or will we finally hear something about the mysterious Gills, or both?

Tearoom - IIRC, Fallon said something the other day about what a lifesaver it had been to have a rent reduction from Bridge Farm. Presumably Helen is about to announce that's got to stop now.

twitter.com/keridavies

"I’m pleased to say that dialogue returns this month.
"I’m writing scripts (for the following month) which are very nearly like #TheArchers as before - technically simpler, and with fewer characters per episode, but they’ll be a very recognisable listen"

And they were unable to manage this in April why exactly?

OK, next lot:

BBC One-Liners
10 Aug Lynda makes plans for the future and Chris hides a guilty secret.
11 Aug Lynda finds herself in trouble and there’s a costly error at Home Farm.
12 Aug Ed receives a surprising offer and it’s a momentous day for Adam.
13 Aug The pressure mounts for Alice and Robert finds himself challenged.

Credits
Mon 10/8/2020, Tue 11/8/2020, Wed 12/8/2020, Thu 13/8/2020
Writers: Tim Stimpson & Sarah Hehir
Director: Kim Greengrass
Editor: Jeremy Howe
Alice Carter: Hollie Chapman
Chris Carter: Wilf Scolding
Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond
Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd
Robert Snell: Graham Blockey
Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott

Radio Times Ambridge Diary 10th-13th August 2020
Lynda’s making plans to return to the Ambridge scene. Her first move? To offer her insights into the new concept for the Flower and Produce Show. But will her new-found determination to air her views prove to be short-lived? And what of husband Robert, who’s facing his own challenge as he struggles to shake off an unwanted gate-crasher?
Sibling frustrations are bubbling up at Home Farm, where Adam is fearing for the future and Alice is feeling as though she’s been thrown in at the deep end. Chris, meanwhile, is trying to cover his tracks after breaking his pact with his other half - but he’s not the only one keeping secrets …
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If Chris is trying to conceal from Alice that he has had a little drink, I shall spit.

Thanks, Asking! I bet that is what's going to happen. It will be lovely to hear Lynda and Robert again.

And there is more!

Daily Mail Weekend Magazine Archers Update 10th-13th August 2020
Ambridgers, like the rest of us, haven’t been able to mingle in society as much as they would have liked over the past months. This has, in some ways, been a bit of a relief to Chris, as a night out with Alice who’s given to mopping up the sauce often ended up with him having to give her a fireman’s lift home. A pact to clean up their act appears to have put Alice on an even keel but Chris, like Alice, has been keeping secrets.
While the couple hide things from each other, Lynda makes the decision to come out into the open with plans to return to village life. This includes unveiling her own ideas for the new-format but still fiercely competitive Flower and Produce show.

Thanks!

Must admit my attention has wandered from Ambridge, slightly.

That's because their attention has wandered from the listeners, I should think. I go on listening in case something actually happens, but mostly it doesn't -- and if it does, we have for instance someone in agonising pain with a serious leg injury, and his father standing over him talking about it while he doesn't so much as moan a bit. Which really isn't convincing. You'd think they'd have some "standard moans" sound effect tape at the Beeb.

Thanks Asking, I miss TA. Sunday and Friday are just wrong without it.

Thanks Asking.

Yes, Sundays and Fridays are now completely wrong - even though I'm only half listening to the monologues.

Cabin Pressure is way better than the moanologues.
I only half listen to TA these days.

Thursday again, and here are what I have in the way of spoilers for next week:

BBC One-Liners
17 Aug The pressure piles on Fallon
18 Aug Lynda plans a special evening and Emma realises what is important.
19 Aug Robert struggles to find the right words and Emma tries to prove a point.
20 Aug Fallon finds herself bombarded and Natasha questions her own judgement.
(the BBC "available now" board has the week's cast and writers at the moment on 17th, and only half the spoiler)

Credits
Mon 17/8/2020, Tue 18/8/2020, Wed 19/8/2020, Thu 20/8/2020
Writers: Daniel Thurman & Sarah McDonald Hughes
Director: Kim Greengrass
Editor: Jeremy Howe
Natasha Archer: Mali Harries
Emma Grundy: Emerald O’Hanrahan
Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen
Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd
Robert Snell: Graham Blockey

Radio Times Ambridge Diary 17th-20th August
I think we’d all be reassured if Lynda started to rally, so keep your fingers crossed as she prepares an intimate evening at the B&B to get her and Robert back to normal. But with Robert distracted by a fraudulent birdwatcher, as well as his concerns over Lynda’s health, will the plan be successful?
Thankfully, Lynda’s help is much appreciated elsewhere. Her wise words put things into perspective for Emma, who forges ahead with the Flower and Produce Show. But maybe Em ought to mind where she stands - is that a rug being pulled from under her?
Natasha fears she’s misjudged a situation and frets that it’s too late to put things right.

@AskingQuestionsAllTheTime, Thanks!

Also today's bulletin, some of which looks very much as if it were meant for last week:

Daily Mail Weekend Magazine Archers Update 17th-20th August 2020
How low can you stoop? Over the years we have all had to hear about some pretty frightful behaviour from the residents of Ambridge. There have been homicides, GBH, drug-dealing, blackmail and armed-robberies, as well as stabbings, adulteries, betrayals and a host of minor and major sins, not all of which can be laid at the doors of the Horrobins or Lilian.
This week, however, things go just that bit too far. Brace yourselves - it seems that a fraudulent bird-watcher is in operation. Robert spots the dodgy spotter and so, what with his worries about Lynda’s health and other burdens, he will be having a busy week of it - as will Natasha,who has much to put right.

Next week.

BBC One-Liners
24 Aug Ed demands answers at Home Farm and Chris has regrets.
25 Aug Alice is forced to come clean and Lynda wants an honest opinion.
26 Aug There’s more than one surprise for Ed and Chris attempts to make amends for his actions.
27 Aug Disaster strikes for Robert and Lynda issues an apology.

The full spoiler for 17th was "The pressure piles on Fallon and Emma makes an alarming discovery."

Credits
Mon 24/8/2020, Tue 25/8/2020, Wed 26/8/2020, Thu 27/8/2020
Writers: Katie Hims & Naylah Ahmed
Director: Marina Caldarone
Editor: Jeremy Howe
Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde
Alice Carter: Hollie Chapman
Chris Carter: Wilf Scolding
Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond
Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd
Robert Snell: Graham Blockey

Radio Times Ambridge Diary 24th-27th August
Luckless Ed Grundy finds himself in the firing line when he’s blamed for something which wasn’t his fault. But as chaos ensues at Home Farm, will the guilty party admit their mistake before the consequences become too severe? And later in the week, a conversation with Brian results in Ed discovering the shocking truth about another villager …
Chris, meanwhile, is hiding a guilty secret of his own. And over at the B&B, Lynda confides in Lilian about the state of her relationship with Robert. A well-meaning Lilian leaps into action to help, but will her efforts to reunite the couple work? Or will she make everything a million times worse?

Daily Mail Weekend Magazine Archers Update 24th-27th August 2020
Gone are the days when Lynda and Robert used to meet for trysts in her shepherd’s hut, testing Eddie Grundy’s sloppy workmanship to its limits. Still traumatised and bearing the scars of the Grey Gables disaster, Lynda has struggled to find her old joie de vivre. Who in Ambridge can she turn to in her hour of despair? Why, fruity old Lilian, of course, who sets herself the task of helping Lynda to get her groove back. Will it work, or will Lilian make matters a million times worse?
Meanwhile, chaos breaks out at Home Farm, where Ed finds himself in the firing line and Chris has a guilty secret. If this all sounds a bit too lively for you, just wait till next week.

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If that last sentence means more geriatric sexual angst, I may bow out of the episode it happens in; I don't see why two people who have been married for over forty years are supposed to be unable to talk to each other like normal human beings instead of behaving like seventeen-year-olds with a crush.

And if they go on telling us over and over again that Chris has a guilty secret which apparently amounts to "I had not quite half a tin of lager and didn't enjoy it" while his wife is knocking back litres of vodka in the potting shed, I may end up screaming.

Thanks Asking

Scream away, but please don't stop posting the updates

Thanks @AskingQuestionsAllTheTime.
Doesn't sound like the best week, does it.

Thanks, Asking!

Well, looks like we are spared any more about Lynda and Robert's (lack of) sex life this week:

BBC One-Liners
31 Aug Alice gets the wrong end of the stick and Susan is taught a lesson.
01 Sep Philip reveals his plans for the future and Gavin is keen to made amends for the past.
02 Sep Ed finds himself in hot water and there’s a nasty shock for Philip.
03 Sep Emma goes on the attack and Tracy proves a point.

Credits
Mon 31/8/2020, Tue 1/9/2020, Wed 2/9/2020, Thu 3//9/2020, Fri
Writers: Katie Hims & Sarah McDonald-Hughes
Director: Peter Leslie Wild
Editor: Jeremy Howe
Alice Carter: Hollie Chapman
Chris Carter: Wilf Scolding
Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin
Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond
Emma Grundy: Emerald O’Hanrahan
Tracy Horrobin: Susie Riddell
Gavin Moss: Gareth Pierce
Philip Moss: Andy Hockley

Radio Times Ambridge Diary 31st August-3rd September 2020
Gavin returns with promises to make amends for all that happened earlier this year. He may have spent lockdown taking care of the slave labourers, but are we really ready to believe him? Dad, Philip, meanwhile, has plans of his own, only for a shock to pull the rug out from both father and son.
There’s chaos at Home Farm as Ed tries to talk to Alice about her drinking, but it backfires spectacularly. With Ed now in a tricky position, he ends up confiding in Emma. But will this only end up making the situation worse?
And Tracy teaches Susan a lesson by using her own radio show against her. How she’s managed to remain on air is a mystery.

If I get sent the Mail synopsis I'll add it later.

Daily Mail Weekend Magazine Archers Update 31st August-3rd September 2020
You know you are in trouble if a Grundy takes it upon himself to tell you to mend your ways. Perhaps that’s why Alice - who has, as we know, been mopping up the sauce lately - gets the wrong end of the stick when Ed tries to tell her to ease up on her drinking.
Ed’s good intentions go horribly wrong,and his decision to confide in Emma might make matters a million times worse.
Meanwhile, Gavin, who has spent lockdown looking after his dubious dealings, returns to Ambridge, desperate to make amends for the damage he’s done. His duplicitous dad has his own plans for cleaning up his act, but a letter is heading their way which will scupper their desperate image-improving attempts.

Ooh, thanks!

I bet ... Alice is going to try to snog Ed. Poor man. Imagine his befuddlement and horror. And Emma on the warpath when he tells her. Oh please let it be so!