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The Archers spoilers thread #8: Can't wait for 7.02pm? Join us here!

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Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 05/09/2023 15:32

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. Last spoilers thread here: www.mumsnet.com/talk/radio_addicts/4197199--The-Archers-spoilers-thread-7-Cant-wait-for-7-02pm-Join-us-here

Current main Archers thread here: https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/radio_addicts/4887688-archers-thread-153-total-absolute-rubbish-but-we-keep-on-listening-hoping-for-better-things-its-the-hope-that-kills-you-discuss-the-archers-here?latest=1 The main thread tends to last a few weeks. The spoiler thread runs for around a year, but I strongly suspect it gets read about as much as the main thread.

Archers thread #153: Total & absolute rubbish, but we keep on listening hoping for better things. It’s the hope that kills you! Discuss The Archers here. | Mumsnet

Thank you, @PseudoBadger, for kicking off this long, long series of Archers threads. [archers] All views on The Archers welcome here! New blood welco...

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Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 02/05/2024 21:18

We voted today too. London Mayor, Greater London Assembly (two separate votes here). I wonder if they were voting in Ambridge.

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WhoppingBigBackside · 02/05/2024 21:21

The Cricket Tea and Cake Commissioner

BoreOfWhabylon · 02/05/2024 22:04

Bruisername · 02/05/2024 20:09

Oooh, where did you hear that?

It was right after "Front Row" before the News, but it's not on the Sounds version, must only go out live.

TottersBlanklyIntoBimboCore · 02/05/2024 22:39

I wonder if they were voting in Ambridge.

That’s exactly the sort of thing I would have like to hear.

But after tonight’s episode I’m afraid I’m worrying about Jakob.

•Toasting a character is absolutely the kiss of death.

• They wouldn’t be trailing Mick’s death.

• It would make sense of ‘a sad goodbye for Chris’.

Oh dear … Sad

JanglyBeads · 02/05/2024 23:43

It sounds like multiple dramas really doesn't it?

TherapistInATabard · 02/05/2024 23:53

Just listened again to the end of tonight’s episode. Was Brian just huffing about all the lovey doveyness or was he out of breath? Definitely sounded weird.

MollyButton · 03/05/2024 06:23

Mick gets a surname so is going to be around for a while

Gonners · 03/05/2024 11:46

MollyButton · 03/05/2024 06:23

Mick gets a surname so is going to be around for a while

Mick's surname will be needed by the Crown Court Clerk when he reads out the charges.

TottersBlanklyIntoBimboCore · 03/05/2024 12:07

Excellent thought, @Gonners!

I’d far rather Mick was despatched than Jakob - but I’m no longer certain it will be him …

TottersBlanklyIntoBimboCore · 03/05/2024 12:11

Though I don’t like to think of poor Brian if his favourite Ambridge-resident daughter is charged with a serious criminal offence …

Gonners · 03/05/2024 12:34

A couple of years ago they upped the maximum sentence for causing death by drunk driving from 14 years to life. So with one loud crunch, we could be free of both Alice and (please) Mick. In that case, Joy would visit her in prison.

ZadocPDederick · 03/05/2024 13:56

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 02/05/2024 20:20

Final two spoilers from week after next are up now. Must have been a glitch earlier.

Sun 19/5 Tensions rise at the cricket, and Jazzer attempts to lend a hand from afar.
20/5 There’s an emergency at Brookfield, and Freddie relives the past.

Maybe Freddie reliving the past is a session where he passes on tips about surviving life in prison to his cousin.

WhoppingBigBackside · 03/05/2024 13:58

Which cousin? Pip, Josh, Ben, Dan or Meriel?

ZadocPDederick · 03/05/2024 14:06

Alice

RegimentalSturgeon · 03/05/2024 14:37

TottersBlanklyIntoBimboCore · 03/05/2024 12:11

Though I don’t like to think of poor Brian if his favourite Ambridge-resident daughter is charged with a serious criminal offence …

Actually, he’d probably make a better fist of it than PatnTony did. Throw money at a good defence team and feel he’d done all that could reasonably be required of a chap. And he wouldn’t have conniptions about her being in prison-issue tracksuit bottoms.

WhoppingBigBackside · 03/05/2024 14:43

@ZadocPDederick , Alice is a second cousin.

Bruisername · 03/05/2024 14:46

Just heard the preview.

still don’t get how Alice was driven back to drink by he experience with Harry and then drink drives

i I can understand her relapsing just not after all the Harry stuff

ZadocPDederick · 03/05/2024 14:54

WhoppingBigBackside · 03/05/2024 14:43

@ZadocPDederick , Alice is a second cousin.

Exactly. She's his cousin.

ZadocPDederick · 03/05/2024 14:56

Gonners · 03/05/2024 12:34

A couple of years ago they upped the maximum sentence for causing death by drunk driving from 14 years to life. So with one loud crunch, we could be free of both Alice and (please) Mick. In that case, Joy would visit her in prison.

I'd actually be quite sorry if we lost Alice, if only because she's played by a good actor. Now, if it were Pip, there would be celebrations throughout the land. Or if Alice mowed over Pip, she should be honoured, not imprisoned.

WhoppingBigBackside · 03/05/2024 14:56

@ZadocPDederick , cousin implies a first cousin.

Bruisername · 03/05/2024 14:59

I think we all knew who zadoc meant

if she ran over pip then she would deserve a ticker tape parade

am thinking Denise on the way to the posh hotel? Or maybe she hits John as he’s cycling the country lanes

WhoppingBigBackside · 03/05/2024 15:01

@Bruisername , I think differently.
I'd be sorry to lose Alice.

ZadocPDederick · 03/05/2024 15:04

WhoppingBigBackside · 03/05/2024 14:56

@ZadocPDederick , cousin implies a first cousin.

No, it really doesn't. People use the term interchangeably.

Bruisername · 03/05/2024 15:07

Agree it would be a shame to lose Alice

I would hope whoever her victim is they don’t die!!!

I wonder if Chris devastation is simply that he has to face the fact the woman he loves is never going to be someone he can be with and the mother of his daughter has self destructed.

WhoppingBigBackside · 03/05/2024 15:10

@ZadocPDederick , people use literally to mean almost, but the two words don't mean the same thing.