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Damn; meant to quote for that reference. It was all ever-so-ironic.

Synopsis for Tuesday 27th October, 2020
Susan is complaining that Tracy left Bert on her doorstep at eight in the morning so she could go out for the day with Roman. Bert's been a great nuisance, carping at Keira as he did at Susan and Tracy when they were little; Mum wouldn't have stood for all his nonsense. Always firm but never hard, that was Ivy. Nobody liked disappointing Mum, who had a way of making you want to please her. Stewart was always Bert's favourite, and Alice suggests Bert should visit him next time, but Susan tells her they don't know where he is; probably passed out in the gutter.
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Susan is still sounding off: Bert thought Stewart drinking was funny, and encouraged him because he wanted someone to go to the pub with. Nowadays they call it 'alcoholic' and say it's an illness, but really Stewart's just a little grabby boy nobody ever said 'no' to. He rings sometimes claiming to be off the booze and asking for money for some new business or other. And is he? asks Alice. For about five minutes, says Susan with resignation. He's a lost cause, and he broke Ivy's heart. She then tells Alice that 'people like you and me' would have the sense to see they are hurting themselves and all around them.

That threw me. I am sorely tempted to stop listening after tonight's bilge

To think we used to believe that Keri Davies wrote good scripts! This week has been shockingly bad, or so I feel.

Well, next week is almost upon us. I'm reposting one-liners and cast so they are all in the same place for the same week, and I have given up on the Mail.

BBC One-Liners
12 Jun Susan shares a bit of wisdom, and Ed has high hopes.
13 Jun Has Brian come to a decision? Kathy’s old cottage is getting a makeover.
14 Jun Justin is ready to step up, and Tony gets to the bottom of things.
15 Jun Tom and Natasha have somewhere to be. Beth and Ben have their patience tested.
16 Jun Hannah has a dinner date. What has tickled Pat and Tony?
17 Jun Jazzer feels tense. And is Jakob getting warmer?

Credits
Sun 12/6/22, Mon 13/6/22, Tue 14/6/22, Wed 15/6/22, Thu 16/6/22, Fri 17/6/22
Writer: Adrian Flynn
Director: Rosemary Watts
Editor: Jeremy Howe
Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood
Ben Archer: Ben Norris
David Archer: Timothy Bentinck
Natasha Archer: Mali Harries
Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch
Tom Archer: William Troughton
Tony Archer: David Troughton
Neil Carter: Brian Hewlett
Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin
Beth Casey: Rebecca Fuller
Denise: Clare Perkins
Justin Elliott: Simon Williams
Martyn Gibson: Jon Glover
Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond
Jakob Hakansson: Paul Venables
Alistair Lloyd: Michael Lumsden
Jazzer McCreary: Ryan Kelly
Sonya: Dru Stephenson
Hannah Riley: Helen Longworth

Radio Times Ambridge Diary 12th - 17th June 2022
There's a busy week ahead, with expectations high for some residents. At the Borchester Show, Ed has hopes for one of his sheep. And at the vets' practice, Alistair is pleased that colleague Denise has been nominated for an award - but will Jakob hit the right note if he's called upon to provide a reference?
Various parties are poring over the Berrow Farm pig operation, making Jazzer worry about losing his beloved animals, as well as the parlous state of Tracy's finances. Plus, there are new developments at Brookfield, with the Caseys invested in more ways than one. But Ben and Beth are about to have their domestic bliss interrupted....

Thanks, Asking! I am clinging to the fact that Steph isn't in that cast list, althought the bit about Ben and Beth and domestic bliss suggests she's still around. It was a dire week. My annoyance about Steph has totally overshadowed my appreciation of the Jim/Jazzer scenes. Chelsea has the potential to be a good character but the LL waitressing nonsense is dire. Ho hum. A 40-year addiction is being tested ...

Thanks, Asking! I am clinging to the fact that Steph isn't in that cast list, althought the bit about Ben and Beth and domestic bliss suggests she's still around. It was a dire week. My annoyance about Steph has totally overshadowed my appreciation of the Jim/Jazzer scenes. Chelsea has the potential to be a good character but the LL waitressing nonsense is dire. Ho hum. A 40-year addiction is being tested ...

Thanks Asking. Who is Sonya? According to the actor she's been in TA in 2020, but I can only think of Greg's daughter (Sonia and Annette).

Another member of staff at the vet’s? Receptionist maybe? (I feel I’ve heard her name mentioned before; by Jakob or Alistair? Maybe because her name strikes me as coming from the same scriptwriterly toolbox as ‘Denise’ - generic slightly out of date, surname-less office worker.)

(Or, not exactly office worker as Denise isn’t that - but indoor staff. It’s not the right fictional name for a farm labourer or dairy maid.)

On 17th November, 2020, Dru Stephenson played the sonographer at Alice's emergency scan, the time sh started bleeding.

On 4th January, 2022, Dru Stephenson played Lorraine, the woman who came to see whether Bridge Farm could make ice-cream for a health-food chain and assumed Adam was Susan's boss.

Thanks Asking. I might listen but only because it is unlikely to feature the ghastly Stiph

Thanks, Asking! Jobbing bit part actor, then.

Well, maybe; they do tend to try out actors before giving them more permanent parts. The person who now plays Lily was a rather useless midwife called Ellie first. And I'm fairly sure Andrew Wincott played someone unmemorable before he started to play Adam. Not to mention Charles Collingwood having been Dave Escott before he was Brian. (Who? I hear people ask. The interior decorator who bounced a cheque on Peggy for his stay at The Bull in 1974, about four months before Brain first appeared in Ambridge.)

Thanks Asking. Wonder if Sonya is Hannah's dinner date?

Better late than never, I suppose.

Daily Mail Weekend Magazine Archers Update 12th - 17th June 2022
With her fancy new hairstyle (is that Fabrice of Felpersham's work?) and triumph treating Barry's ferret, Denise is having a bit of an Ambridge moment. On top of that, it seems that the coveted Borsetshire Veterinary Nurse of the Year Award might be within her grasp. Will this take her mind off her husband's frequent and mysterious disappearances on his bike? Or perhaps, what with one thing and another, she's glad to see the Lycra-clad back of him?
Meanwhile, Tom and Natasha nest-build, the Caseys make themselves too much at home and Ed has high hopes at the Borchester Show.
Then, as the rest of us learn to deal with the volcanic side of Neil, the future of the once mild Pig Man becomes uncertain.

Denise treated Barry's rat, Dexter, not his ferret.

Maybe Sonya is Denise’s husband’s fancy piece - the cause of all his MAMIL excursions!

There has to be some way to get Denise under the Greenacre roof and freshly under Shula’s jealous gaze.

I was tempted to post on the main thread, but it is a tiny spoiler.

I coaxed DH off to the theatre last night to see Rob Titchener and Fallon pretend to be actors in "Murder on the Orient Express"! The theatre was keen to have "bums on seats" so we were up front in the stalls.

Despite the American accent, Timothy was very much the simmering rage/angry outbursts character (who was deaded). I wouldn't have liked to have been in the room when he was Rob. His facial expressions were so good.

Joanna Van K was a Scandi missionary, prone to histrionics (Swedish maybe, hard to tell). All a bit OTT, but I suppose it might explain why Fallon has been so weird over the past few months (if she was also rehearsing for this play, which opened in Chichester in mid-May).

Anyway, my point is that we probably won't hear much from Fallon for a few months.

Sounds good, Madcats! The 1974 film of MOTOE is a great favourite of mine, not least because of the evocative score from Richard Rodney Bennett. Marvellous cast. IIRC the equivalent actors to Rob and Fallon were Richard Widmark and Ingrid Bergman.

Happy Birthday to June Spencer.
I love Peggy Woolley

I'm guessing that the play will transfer to the West End after Bath (very impressive staging which had to cope with Chichester's theatre in the round and then a Georgian provincial theatre).

Seconding the 📣Happy Birthday❗️🎂to June Spencer.

I wonder if she has now retired. I guess there could still be scripts to come, involving her. It would be lovely if we could hear her on the phone to Debbie while Jenny and Brian are visiting. Would be even lovelier to have the whole Aldridge clan, including Peggy, gathered together as an official send off - whenever that may be.

So that's who Sonya was

I wonder whether she was also Sonya when sh did Alice's scan.

Oh … Hannah’s dinner date will be with Gibson, won’t it?

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It's broosketta, Susan