🤐 The Archers spoilers thread #7: Can't wait for 7.02pm? Join us here!

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Spoilers thread for The Archers. Please keep all spoiler-related discussion in this thread and do not spill the beans on the main Archers Thread (hence the zipped mouth on the emoji!). Last spoilers thread here: www.mumsnet.com/talk/radio_addicts/4197199--The-Archers-spoilers-thread-6-Cant-wait-for-7-02pm-Join-us-here

Current main Archers thread here: www.mumsnet.com/talk/radio_addicts/4632741-archers-thread-139-whos-the-daddy-no-ceremonial-required-to-join-us-discuss-the-archers-here The main thread tends to last a few weeks. The spoiler thread runs for well over a year, but I strongly suspect it gets read about as much as the main thread.

Of course! Duh!!!

Wonder if Denise will be back? I thought she was only going to another practice for a few weeks.

Not until we've heard more from Paul. There's the fallout from Ruairi's extra-curriculars to come first.
Maybe Paul will be the third housemate at the Stables.

Hello folks I'm back !!!!! no one has mentioned J.D's death how come?? How did it happen ? I listened to the funeral. Memorial one surely someone knows ?

Hello @ppeatfruit !
Jennydarling collapsed (off air);while on a spa weekend with Lilian, was rushed to hospital but died shortly after arrival. It then transpired she'd been diagnosed a few months earlier with a heart problem and had declined surgery, so knew she was on borrowed time but didn't think it would be so soon.

Brian knew, as did Tony (and Pat!) but all had been sworn to secrecy so there were lots of recriminations and resentments, which are gradually being worked through.

It's rumoured that Jenny actress has been unwell for some time, although there has been no official confirmation of this.

Maybe Sykesy will turn out to be Adam's father.

@ppeatfruit, as I live and breathe! Welcome back 😊. My sarcasm detector may be on the blink but there’s been a lot of discussion of Jenny’s death, more so on the previous thread perhaps.

Oh, I went to TIO and failed to clock that this was the spoilers thread 🙄. Lots of discussion on the main threads.

Yes @ppeatfruit , where have you been?

Come back to the thread and tell us all! You have been missed

I hope Susan has a top hat because she's planning to become a Drag King.

Hi Bore I've not been listening because of the "Eastenderisation" of TA, I don't care for soaps with miserable ridiculous plots. I started just now because I discovered that matriach Jenny has KTB and I wondered why, and what happened to her which I haven't worked out yet (unless of course it was a ploy to get us 'leavers' back)!

You're very sweet but some of the posters on this thread (not this one, the standard TA thread). Weren't pleasant. Could you give me the lowdown?

Welcome back, @ppeatfruit !

(Million name changes since you were last here. I barely remember this one, now.)

Actually there was a spate of unpleasantness on the main thread a few months back - it was hard to navigate around. Gone now - do come back to the main thread!

@ppeatfruit , JD was on a spa break with Lillian, and her heart gave up on 22nd January. Jennifer had known about her heart condition since November and had only told Brian, Tony (& Pat), and she's only had tests because of Brian's angina. Lillian has been furious about not knowing when Tony (& Pat) knew.

We haven't heard anything from Debbie, but she's been around briefly and silently.

Kate seems keen to stick her beak in Home Farm business, and Alice has been struggling to stay off the booze, but has. Susan has been there for her and Adam.

Aside from that, Ruairi has been dumped by his 'Sugar Mummy', and Alice and Justin know about it being a financial arrangement.
Noluthando came over from South Africe after JD's dedding, a surprise visit planned with/by Jakob, as Kate had been planning to go to SA.

Lee's XW/XP (?) has a new job in San Franciso, and their daughters are going, Lee hoped they would stay, but Helen selflessly
encouraged him to go it with them. He's not going.
Ben is running the B&B at Brookfield, having had advice from Lynda Snell.

Josh is looking for 2 housemates, and so far has found 1, Lily.

I'm finding the main thread very negative these days, and nearly left a few threads ago. I get the impression that some posters detest nearly every character and the way they are acted, but maybe that's because I like most of the characters and actors.

@ppeatfruit
whopping has given a thorough update there. Mustadmit I nearly threw in the towel because of outbreaks of unpleasantness but it seems to have subsided now.

You must come back to the main thread - Adam has discovered, in the pocket of one of JD's old coats, a note to her from Paddy Redmond. This has galvanised him from his usual state of chronic ennui to finally attempt to seek out his father (amidst much heavy sighing)

We're taking bets on which ageing Irish actor will play him

Thanks, Bore. That means a lot. I don't know what happened on one thread, but I had a suspicion at the time that someone had identified who I was in real life or something, and in the end they left, or namechanged, so I stayed.

My reply to MrsWembley on 02/03/2023 wasn't meant to be mean, but I wasn't sure if the 'heated' was inflammatory, so I thought I'd give it half an hour before giving the answer, by which time Asking had beaten me to it. I probably should have added a winky wotsit.

Anyway, back to TA, I think that many of the actors are also stage actors, and how they act their TA characters will be down to the director.

Don't radio actors have to do as they are told by the director as much as stage or film ones do?

Anyway, whatever; next week's spoilers have all arrived in my inbox, so here they are:

BBC One-Liners
12 Mar
A Grundy’s work is never done, and Brian makes a big decision.
13 Mar
Lambing is in full swing at Brookfield, and Clarrie’s concerned about Eddie.
14 Mar
Will Adam and Brian enjoy a day at the races? Susan and Clarrie are having a day off.
15 Mar
What are Eddie and Neil plotting? There’s something familiar about Sykesy.
16 Mar
Alice and Adam wonder what’s for the best, and why is Susan in need of a top hat?
17 Mar
Paul helps Alistair and Jakob escape from it all, and Usha has a visitor.

Credits
Sun 12/3/2023, Mon 13/3/2023, Tue 14/3/2023, Wed 15/3/2023, Thu 16/3/2023, Fri 17/3/2023
Writer, Naylah Ahmed
Director, Marina Caldarone
Editor, Jeremy Howe
Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood
Ben Archer: Ben Norris
Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas
Jill Archer: Patricia Greene
Josh Archer: Angus Imrie
Alice Carter: Hollie Chapman
Neil Carter: Brian Hewlett
Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin
Usha Franks: Souad Faress
Clarrie Grundy: Heather Bell
Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison
Jakob Hakansson: Paul Venables
Joy Horville: Jackie Lye
Alistair Lloyd: Michael Lumsden
Paul Mack: Joshua Riley
Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott
Sykesy: Jasper Carrott

Radio Times Ambridge Diary 12th – 17th March 2023
Paul the vet isn’t the first newcomer to feel the pull of Ambridge, but his future remains uncertain. It seems a “do” is on the cards, but will Jakob and Alistair feel like joining in the fun?
Helen’s new mission to publicise the dairy is going great guns. But Eddie’s unreliability could throw a spanner in the works of Clarrie’s plans for a day out. What exactly is he up to, anyway?
Meanwhile, Brian continues to move on from losing Jennifer, in his own unique way. Alice and Adam both wonder if he’s taking things too far, as Brian makes yet another big announcement.

Daily Mail Weekend Magazine Archers Update 12th – 17th March 2023
Has he been here before?
The tricky resident at The Laurels, who goes by the name of Sykesy, seems to know a lot about Brookfield during the war years, when Blossom and Boxer still pulled the threshing machine.
It all seems a bit odd.
Perhaps one of the older Archers will remember him - but will they want to?
While these old Brookfield memories fester away, young vet Paul makes himself centre stage at the farm when he comes to Josh's aid. Paul is also planning a 'bit of a do' for his ill-assorted colleagues.
What could possibly go wrong?
Meanwhile, widower Brian, who was so very much on the back foot over Jenny's funeral arrangements, throws himself into chucking out her stuff.
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If Sykesy remembers the War years, at Brookfield or anywhere else, he must be a fair bit over eighty. Blossom and Boxer were pensioned off in 1955 so remembering them wouldn't make him quite so elderly.

Not sure what happened to the formatting there.

Peggy can't talk to or about Syksey, in fact who is left from that age group who we actually hear from??

Thanks @AskingQuestionsAllTheTime !

Seems Noluthando has silently left Ambridge and won’t be moving into the Stables. Which ought to make it more likely that Paul would take the third room. But Josh and Lily don’t seem in a hurry to actually move someone else in now. So who knows?

Thanks, Asking. The previewers have been fed duff info this week and haven't checked it or noticed anything amiss - i.e. Paul isn't a vet, he's a veterinary nurse - so I will take with a huge pinch of salt the suggestion that Sykesy remembers the war years. Jasper Carrott is 78 in a few days' time, not that that proves anything.

My parents were 13 at the beginning of the war and would be 98 if they were alive today. They both left school at 14 so he could have been working on a farm at that time. Perhaps we will be celebrating Sykesey's 100th birthday with him.

Seems baffling to bring someone back who remembers the very early days of the Archers, unless it’s to SATTC by revealing that someone was illegitimate or similar?

Jasper Carrott will turn out to have known what was going on in Ambridge and Brookfield in 1966. He will turn out to be or know Adam's real father.

Maybe he's the father of Jennifer's earlier, even more secret son Cadam.