The Archers spoilers thread #9: Can't wait for 7.02pm? Join us here!

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Spoilers thread for The Archers. All Archers listeners are welcome here, whether you post on our main Archers thread or not. There's just one rule: please keep all spoiler-related discussion in this thread and do not spill the beans on the main Archers thread.

We usually add the BBC teasers and cast lists for forthcoming episodes as they
become available, plus the Radio Times and Daily Mail previews when possible.
Feel free to add anything else you come across, e.g. cast news, scriptwriter
tweets!

Here are all the spoilers I have at the moment, culled from various sources. Will update when I can lay my hands on more.

Friday 10.5 Tensions boil over for one family, and Harrison takes shocking action.
Sunday 12.5 One resident makes a horrifying discovery, and Tracy is on a mission to bring the community together.
13.5 Adam lays down his conditions and Kirsty overpromises.
14.5 Alice presses self destruct, and tensions mount at the vet surgery.
15.5 A familiar face returns to Ambridge, and Jolene offers a shoulder to cry on.
16.5 Emotions run high for one family, and Alistair has to think on his feet.
17.5 There’s a sad goodbye for Chris, and Chelsea gets carried away.
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.
21/05 Neil offers support to a friend, and Kirsty has a secret weapon.
22/5 Harrison has the rug pulled from under him, and Ben launches a surprise.
23/5 Emotions run high for Tom, and Vince finds himself cornered.
24/5 Fallon reaches the end of her tether, and there’s a shock for Joy.

Radio Times Ambridge Diary 12-17 May:

After the traumatic events of last week, the village is still in shock. Several characters are desperate to keep their own secrets under wraps as fingers are pointed and suspicions are raised, but it sounds as if at least one will crack under the pressure. Tracy tries to bring everyone together for the cricket match, but has trouble raising a team. Meanwhile, Adam struggles to hold his family together as the Aldridges implode and Alice hits the self-destruct button.

Cast lists for as far ahead as we have them:
This week, ending Friday 10th May
Writer: Naylah Ahmed
Director: Kim Greengrass
Brian Aldridge…. Charles Collingwood
Harrison Burns…. James Cartwright
Alice Carter…. Hollie Chapman
Chris Carter…. Wilf Scolding
Alan Franks…. John Telfer
George Grundy…. Angus Stobie
Will Grundy…. Philip Malloy
Jakob Hakansson…. Paul Venables
Joy Horville…. Jackie Lye
Alistair Lloyd…. Michael Lumsden
Paul Mack…. Joshua Riley
Adam Macy…. Andrew Wincott
Kate Madikane…. Perdita Avery
Jazzer McCreary…. Ryan Kelly
Denise Metcalf…. Clare Perkins
Fallon Rogers…. Joanna Van Kampen
Mick…. Martin Barrass
Dr Ghanam…. Philip Ardetti

Next week, ending Friday 17th May
WRITER: Sarah Hehir
DIRECTOR: Rosemary Watts
Jolene Archer…. Buffy Davies
Kenton Archer…. Richard Attlee
Pip Archer…. Daisy Badger
Harrison Burns…. James Cartwright
Alice Carter…. Hollie Chapman
Chris Carter…. Wilf Scolding
Ruairi Donovan…. Arthur Hughes
George Grundy…. Angus Stobie
Jakob Hakannson…. Paul Venables
Chelsea Horrobin…. Madeleine Leslay
Tracy Horrobin…. Susie Riddell
Alistair Lloyd…. Michael Lumsden
Paul Mack…. Joshua Riley
Adam Macy…. Andrew Wincott
Kirsty Miller…. Annabelle Dowler
Freddie Pargetter…. Toby Laurence
Fallon Rogers…. Joanna Van Kampen
Mick…. Martin Barrass
Lisa…. Rhiannon Neads (Alice's AA buddy, we think)

Week after next, ending Friday 24th May
Writer: Liz John
Director: Jeremy Howe
Ben Archer…. Ben Norris
David Archer…. Timothy Bentinck
Tom Archer…. William Troughton
Pat Archer…. Patricia Gallimore
Harrison Burns…. James Cartwright
Neil Carter…. Brian Hewlett
Vince Casey…. Tony Turner
Mick Fadmoor…. Martin Barrass
George Grundy…. Angus Stobie
Joy Horville…. Jackie Lye
Alistair Lloyd…. Michael Lumsden
Jazzer McCreary…. Ryan Kelly
Kirsty Miller…. Annabelle Dowler
Elizabeth Pargetter…. Alison Dowling
Freddie Pargetter…. Toby Laurence
Lily Pargetter…. Katie Redford
Fallon Rogers…. Joanna Van Kampen
Inspector Norris…. Bharti Patel

Thanks Gasp

Thank you for the new thread!

Thank you!

Thanks @Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g !

Thanks for the new thread.

I wonder who is going to figure out what really happened.

Mick?
Tracey via Brad and Jazzer?

It certainly won't be Harrison!

Thanks @Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g

24/5 Fallon reaches the end of her tether

I'm only surprised that it takes her that long.

Me too... 🤔

Thanks Gasp0de

Maybe it'll be Emmur. Which will/would be an awful moment.

Do we think they actually mean it when they say that Alice self-destructs?!

She presses self destruct. I take this to mean that somebody will stop her going ahead with whatever she planned. Then they'll pack her off somewhere to recover.

What a mess her life has become.

With 3 kids under the age of 5 IRL, I can see why she might fancy a few years away from the recording studios.

In my experience of actors they love their work and never turn anything down, especially given how long it might be before anything else is offered. Hollie Chapman has done fantastically well with this part. I'd forgotten she'd been playing Alice for so long - that Telegraph article says 25 years, starting when she was 11! Not many child actors successfully make that transition to playing the part as an adult.

Thanks for the new thread. So much drama 😣

More spoilers have landed.

26.5 Harrison has some making up to do, and Chelsea learns a few new tricks.
27.5 There’s a crisis at Casey Meats, and Lilian treads carefully.
28.5 Jakob has bad news to impart, and Lynda launches her latest scheme.
29.5 Ben struggles to say no, and Jolene makes an interesting discovery.
30.5 Freddie hatches a plan, and Oliver has concerns.
31.5 Vince issues a warning, and a new era dawns for Tracy.

Writer: Sarah Hehir

Ben Archer… Ben Norris
Jolene Archer…. Buffy Davies
Pat Archer…. Patricia Gallimore
Harrison Burns…. James Cartwright
Lilian Bellamy… Sunny Ormonde
Vince Casey…. Tony Turner
George Grundy…. Angus Stobie
Jakob Hakansson…. Paul Venables
Chelsea Horrobin…. Madeleine Leslay
Tracy Horrobin…. Susie Riddell
Freddie Pargetter…. Toby Laurence
Fallon Rogers…. Joanna Van Kampen
Lynda Snell… Carole Boyd
Robert Snell…. Michael Bertenshaw
Oliver Sterling…. Michael Cochrane
Jason Burntwood [who he?]…. Ian Conningham

George still at large, I see. No Alice, no Chris, no Aldridges at all. Bad news re Bartleby? No mention of a funeral, so perhaps Brian's going to survive. I do hope so.

The crisis at Casey’s is going to involve Bartleby…

It myst be very odd being "Brian" or "Alice", finding out that large(?) numbers of listeners think you might be deaded.

I suspect that they are both fine, if a little battered (physically and mentally).

Can somebody remind me who is at Casey Meats; Freddie? They really do need to sort out what will happen to Lower Loxley. The lad will be 25 in December!

Freddie, yes. He has unexpectedly come into his own at Casey Meats. There was that odd episode at Christmas where some of the 'lads' had hidden David's meat order as some kind of practical joke on Freddie, but he sorted it all out. Not all of us here thought that showed that he was doing well, but I suspect that's what it was meant to show.

Aren’t we supposed to think he’s being bullied?

That was certainly how it came across to me.

@Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g Jason Burntwood [who he?]

The Wicker Man comes to Lakey Hill! (Sorry.)

Thought I'd best post this here rather than the main thread, although not really spoilery - Interview with Harrison actor
"He's not really a great policeman, is he?"

I wonder if a drunken Alice making a pass at Jakob will be her moment of self destruction. She does have form for this kind of thing.

@BoreOfWhabylon - Many thanks for that link. That was one of the best All-About-The-Archers interviews I've seen. He pretty much took over, and made me laugh.