The Archers spoilers thread #8: 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. 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.

Or perhaps the long-awaited sinkhole will open up? <Pollyanna mode: ON>

Eddie Grundy, a man who has handled livestock all his life failed to realise that the alarmingly large new male pet is heavily pregnant. Oh how we will laugh.

Yup. That ‘Farm life; I wouldn’t have it any other way!’ from Eddie surely sets the seal on a Grundy eviction in about five minutes time …

We live in hope.

Can they be evicted right out of the programme, please? I am thoroughly bored with they Grundys and their shenanigans.

They would only turn some other family into the Groundling Humour area.

Arf! I'd quite like that family to be the Bridge Farm lot.

Ollie's going to sell the farm to buy back GG isn't he?

I do hope so. With his allotment experience, perhaps Adil could buy it? 😂

So I’m assuming Alan’s shocking discovery will be Rob - either deceased or collapsed and eventually transported to a hospice, perhaps. If deceased then presumably we’d get his recorded voice or a video at the end of the month. Otherwise he lingers and someone - Alan, Helen, Pat - visits him before his death.

However - I’m not sure Alan has ever come into contact with Adil, has he? At least in any significant broadcast way. Perhaps the former discovers the latter slumped over the car wheel after an accident brought about by stress and exhaustion?

George overrun - surely with baby guinea pigs?

Oh, I doubt it @Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g . Rico the neutered male guinea pig from Ronnie the Rodent had merely eaten a few extra pies. The fact that Rico looked like a snake that had swollen a sheep was sheer coincidence.

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Bet the SWs are picturing us polishing our nails when we find out that we predicted this. Even if we'd not read the spoilers it is so obvious.

The GG SL is weird and I can't see where it's going unless Oliver buys back his share. I don't think we've seen the last of Adil. Why would his sister have turned up? Why did she make a point of saying she was much older than him? Why did she call him prince, unless it's just a way of saying darling or sweetheart?
Why is he single-handedly project managing the refurb? Is he an employee managing it for relatives/himself? Why did he take on an allotment if not planning on staying in the village for years? Might he be related to the Gills of Home Farm? His late wife might have been of british scottish/punjabi heritage.
Would Adil have had some large life assurance payout on his wife's death?

Maybe I got it all wrong and George being overrun is when all the Ambridge young ladies (bonnets optional) come knocking on his door when they realised that he's a changed person. [no flying pig emoticon afaik]

I agree about his sister. Prince is something I didn't notice but that does suggest the wider family context of him being the heir to a business.

I'd welcome a great "big business" family coming to Ambridge. Maybe he had to mess it up to bring mum/dad/granny down upon GG.

She didn't say "prince", she said a word meaning prince.

Where's Hazel Wooley in the mix?

Hazel Wooley couldn't possibly afford to have bought Grey Gables, or even sixty percent of Grey Gables, so I don't think she's likely to be in the mix at all. Why would she bother if she can't be the boss – which if she were one of a consortium, she wouldn't be.

No, but why did she come back?

Just going to slip these in here, for the impatient and nosy, i.e. people like me. This is as far ahead as the BBC teasers go. Looks like the Grey Gables re-launch is going to go tits up. Quelle surprise! If the Grundys are still in Grange Farm this time next year, I will eat my hat. Where do we think they will go?

15/10 Clarrie finds herself in the spotlight, and Lee stands accused.
16/10 Oliver faces a crisis, and Pip takes a big step.
17/10 There’s chaos at Grey Gables, and Ian offers some advice.
18/10 One resident makes a shocking discovery, and Oliver comes to a controversial decision.
19/10 Alan faces a difficult conversation, and George has something up his sleeve.
20/10 The Grundys have the rug pulled from under them, and Helen doesn’t know where to turn.
Helen Archer …. Louiza Patikas
Henry Archer …. Blayke Darby
Pip Archer …. Daisy Badger
Lee Bryce …. Ryan Early
Ian Craig …. Stephen Kennedy
Alan Franks …. John Telfer
Clarrie Grundy …. Heather Bell
Eddie Grundy …. Trevor Harrison
George Grundy …. Angus Stobie
Brad Horrobin …. Taylor Uttley
Alistair Lloyd …. Michael Lumsden
Kirsty Miller ..... Annabelle Dowler
Stella Pryor …. Lucy Speed
Lynda Snell …. Carole Boyd
Oliver Sterling …. Michael Cochrane

22/10 Helen finds herself in an awkward situation, and there’s an emergency at the Stables.
23/10 Adam attempts to offer reassurance, and Mia has a brainwave.
24/10 Ian struggles to let go of the past, and there’s concern for the Grundys.
25/10 Reality sets in for Helen, and Mia fears the worst.
26/10 Lynda offers some tough love, and Lilian spots an opportunity.
27/10 It’s the end of an era for one resident, and Oliver takes tentative steps.
Writer: Daniel Thurman
Director: Marina Caldarone
Editor ..... Jeremy Howe
Helen Archer…. Louiza Patikas
Henry Archer …. Blayke Darby
Lilian Bellamy ….. Sunny Ormonde
Lee Bryce ….. Ryan Early
Alice Carter ….. Hollie Chapman
Ian Craig ….. Stephen Kennedy
Eddie Grundy ….. Trevor Harrison
Mia Grundy ….. Molly Pipe
Will Grundy ….. Philip Molloy
Jakob Hakansson ….. Paul Venables
Adam Macy ….. Andrew Wincott
Azra Malik ….. Yasmin Wilde
Adil Shah ….. Ronny Jhutti
Lynda Snell ….. Carole Boyd
Oliver Sterling ….. Michael Cochrane

29/10 Brian has some difficult news to deliver, and Denise needs a favour.
30/10 Opportunity knocks for Jazzer, and a new bond is formed at the Bull Quiz night.
31/10 There’s a Halloween revelation for Alistair, and Hannah has an awkward question to ask.
01/11 Tensions boil over for one family, and Lily has a brainwave.
02/11 Harrison faces a difficult negotiation, and Stella puts her foot in it.
03/11 There’s more bad news for Alan, and Pip attempts to build bridges.

Writer, Nick Warburton
Director, Dave Payne
Editor, Jeremy Howe
Ruth Archer ….. Felicity Finch
Josh Archer ..... Angus Imrie
Pip Archer ….. Daisy Badger
Tony Archer ..... David Troughton
Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood
Harrison Burns ….. James Cartwright
Alan Franks ..... John Telfer
Alistair Lloyd ..... Michael Lumsden
Paul Mack ..... Joshua Riley
Denise Metcalf ..... Clare Perkins
Jazzer McCreary ..... Ryan Kelly
Lily Pargetter ..... Katie Redford
Stella Pryor ..... Lucy Speed
Hannah Riley ..... Helen Longworth
Bruce Titchener ..... Michael Byrne
Miles Titchener ..... Adam Astill
Rob Titchener ..... Timothy Watson

Denise is back! So is Alistair. Hurrah. Also pleased to see Hannah in the cast. And - Rob, Bruce and Miles! Is this it, at last?

To throw Tom and Natasha out of the flat over the shop and to cause a bit of melodrama.

Interesting to see the Titchenors there but only Tony of the Bridge Farm Archers. And no mention of any of them in the teasers!

I hope Alistair’s Halloween revelation is that Denise is single and ready to mingle!

That's certainly what I'm hoping!

I'd like that too. Plus it would give a reason for Shula not to return, having exploded in a fit of "How very DARE he?"

Shula … having exploded in a fit of "How very DARE he?"

Wouldn’t she just? Bwahahaha.