🤐 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.

I hope so!
Is Fred the Shred guilty?

I don't think so: he always breaks down when Elizabeth comes all over Spanish Inquisition, and owns up to whatever it is she has decided he did wrong.

Nah, if it had been Fred we'd have heard him banging on about how the painting shouldn't be allowed to exist. My money's on George, maybe he somehow dropped his bench-mending tools onto it.

Didn't Brad turn up unexpectedly? I can't believe it was him but he keeps getting blamed for things that weren't his fault so it was probably George. I can't imagine why though.

while the BBC bombards us with Eurovision-related stuff.
Even I'm starting to get sick of it now, although I did enjoy the Steve Rosenberg bit on Today this morning.

I find myself switching off more and more often these days.

I see Chelsea as looking like a young Whiney off EE, and Tracy brunette, but I am wrong.

I'm watching an old film from 1985, and Leonard is in it! Bonus points if you can name the film.

Barchester Chronicles?

Think of one of the dogs in Ambridge. That's a clue. Barchester Chronicles was an excellent guess.

A very good clue, if I'm right. And for the author think of one of the humans?

Two of the humans?

Tess (of the d’Ubervilles)?

(Of course Ben’s dog is Bess and I can’t think of any other dogs except the late Scruff)

No Hardy in TA, but there's Tom and there was Charlie Thomas,and Natasha's maiden name was Thomas

Of course! Fool that I am, I was thinking of the surname (minus an "L"), but the first name too.

. You've got it, Gonners. Well done!

The dogs are Bess, Monty and Weaver.
I'm glad Jazzer's ok other than his ankle. I was worried he'd been dedded.

I don't think they'd dare to dedd Jazzer.

@WhoppingBigBackside - I think very few people would get what is, effectively, the subtitle. I remember it from O-level, and it's taking up space in my brain which would be better used remembering something useful - like who am I? And where did I leave my glasses?

They made us read it as preparation for O-level. If we'd had it as an actual O-level text I would probably have found out sooner than I did about the joys of reading what I was interested in from the available booklists for the exam, and ignoring the teachers and what I was meant to be studying.

@AskingQuestionsAllTheTime , you had better English teachers than I did.
We were taught at the pace of the slowest in the class and we weren't streamed.
There was no encouragement to read anything other than what we covered in the lessons. English lit was 2 years, one covered by supply teachers.

@AskingQuestionsAllTheTime I would probably have found out sooner than I did about the joys of reading what I was interested in from the available booklists for the exam, and ignoring the teachers and what I was meant to be studying.

Ii was never made clear, was it? At some point I * realised that there was a choice of exam questions and we didn't have to write about all* the set texts. This stood me in good stead at A-level: I still have a copy of Ben Jonson's The Alchemist, with the school stamp and my name in it. I'm sure it's a cracking good read, and I'm full of good intentions, but somehow I can't get beyond about page 10. 😆

Adil & Kirsty signpost?

Has Adil done anything so bad as to deserve that?

Was on my own at bellowing Noooooooooo when Adil said "triggered"?

He has a lovely voice, sounding young, though that's not why why I like it. It bears a strong resemblance to Edward Bluemel's, the repugnant MI6 sex pest form Killing Eve.

Was on my own at bellowing Noooooooooo when Adil said "triggered"?
Oh no you weren't @echt
I almost hurled the 🔮at the radio!

The trouble is, as often happens when new vocabulary arrives, it kind of makes it hard to think what the old term would have been. I guess he would previously have said something like "it reminded me of the accident" or "it made me feel sad and angry all over again". Or even "it triggered the memories of that time".

I think people might have said "it (just) brought it all back" before "triggered" became the go-to buzz-word. (The three people listening here screamed when the word was uttered by Adil.)