Here's what I have collected for the coming week:
BBC one-liners
10 May Brookfield in Lockdown (21st March 2001)
11 May Brian confesses to Jennifer (15th December 2002)
12 May The Grundys’ eviction from Grange Farm (26th April 2000)
13 May Floods Hit Ambridge (3rd March 2015)
14 May Helen wins custody of her boys (16th September 2016)
Credits
Sun 10/5/2020 (Repeat from 21st March 2001)
Written By: Simon Frith.
Director: Julie Beckett
Editor: Vanessa Whitburn.
David Archer: Timothy Bentinck
Bert Fry: Eric Allan
Jill Archer: Patricia Greene
Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett
Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch
Mon 11/5/2020 (Repeat from 15th December 2002)
Written By: Mary Cutler
Director: Alison Graham?
Editor: Vanessa Whitburn
Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood
Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper
Debbie Aldridge: Tamsin Greig
Siobhan Hathaway: Caroline Lennon
Tue 12/5/2020 (Repeat from 26th April 2000)
Written By: Joanna Toye.
Director: Sean O'Connor
Editor: Vanessa Whitburn.
Tony Archer: Colin Skipp
Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore
Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey
Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison
Clarrie Grundy: Rosalind Adams
William Grundy: Philip Molloy
Wed 13/5/2020 (Repeat from 3rd March 2015)
Writer: Tim Stimpson
Director: Sean O'Connor
Editor: Sean O'Connor
David Archer: Timothy Bentinck
Jill Archer: Patricia Greene
Christine Barford: Lesley Saweard
Harrison Burns: James Cartwright
Alan Franks: John Telfer
Clarrie Grundy: Heather Bell
Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett
Alistair Lloyd: Michael Lumsden
Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd
Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson
Carol Tregorran: Eleanor Bron
Thu 14/5/2020 (Repeat from 16th September 2016)
Writer: Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti
Director: Julie Beckett
Editor: Sean O'Connor
Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore
Tom Archer: William Troughton
Tony Archer: David Troughton
Kirsty Miller: Annabelle Dowler
Helen Titchener: Louiza Patikas
Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson
Ursula Titchener: Carolyn Jones
Anna Tregorran: Isobel Middleton
Radio Times Ambridge Diary May 10-14
The theme for this week’s archive repeats is the importance of homes and farms, and the episodes don’t come timelier than the one which is being rebroadcast on Sunday, which finds Brookfield in lockdown. Back in 2001, though, the cause wasn’t coronavirus but an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease.
Wednesday’s drama also feels fitting, as it has echoes of this year’s other big news story: the floods. In Ambridge, of course, the banks of the Am burst in 2015 - and there were early signs that Rob Titchener was up to no good. And tears were shed on Tuesday when, in a poignant highlight from 2000, the Grundys were evicted from Grange Farm.
Daily Mail Weekend Magazine Archers Update April May 10-14
Back in 2001, Ambridge had its very own lockdown when foot-and-mouth disease came to the village. Brookfield suffered badly from the 1956 epidemic, so to stop history repeating itself, David Archer put Brookfield in lockdown, sealing the farm off from the outside world.
Those days are relived in a week’s worth of archive episodes, all on the theme of ‘There’s no place like home’. You can take that title ironically.
We hear Brian Aldridge being confronted about his philandering, the Grundys being evicted from their beloved Grange Farm, and the time when the Am burst its banks, leaving villagers trapped in their homes.
(The only villagers trapped in their homes seem to have been Shula and Alistair, to be fair; everyone else was either trapped outside their home, like David and the Grundys, or trapped in someone else's, like Christine Barford.)