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True - but I just don’t want him to end up working odd jobs in the village. He can be a humble accountant - doesn’t have to be a maths professor at Yale

Yes, but it would be so much more fun if he were: just think of all the ways the editorial team could get that wrong.

Let me have my dreams, RS. Also, I believe Phoebe is a director of the algae-herding enterprise.

Brad could be an actuary. I believe you need excellent maths for that and it's potentially very well paid. If only we knew an actuary who listens to TA and compiles statistics on these threads and could comment ...

I am an ex-accountant. The ones I worked with were mostly not humble. You don't in my experience need excellent advanced maths to get through the chartered accountancy exams (or I would never have passed). Of course, that was a long time ago and things may have changed. I got by with O level Maths (grade B), reasonably good mental arithmetic and for exam purposes a lot of blood, sweat and tears trying to get to grips with basic statistics and some other mathematical techniques I've obliterated from my memory. To be fair, most of my colleagues had a better base knowledge than I had and greater natural aptitude.

I’m an accountant!

whilst you say you don’t need excellent maths you do need good maths skills (recognising there is a huge spread of what an accountant actually is)

he would be better suited to being an actuary imo but I would be happy for him to take on any professional role tbh. And perhaps there’s a role for a specialist farming accountant/tax advisor in ambridge

Brad would probably make a very decent analyst at a US investment bank. In my experience, no social skills are required!

I don’t think he’d cope at a us investment bank and would be wise to aim for a European!!

ultimately he needs a job he can do whilst living in ambridge though

You make Ambridge sound like the Hotel California.

It kind of is isn’t it!!

I get the impression the sw want to keep Brad around and I’d rather they didn’t do that by making him have to drop out of uni or something

I’m rather hoping Brad’s new experience is being bested by a girl in a Mathematics seminar …

Not sure if they’d consider that Friday cliffhanger worthy?

Brad could be an actuary.

Do you realise what you’ve done, @Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g ? I now have a sort of earworm of Tracy saying, with considerable vim and emphasis, ‘He’s an actuary, actually’. I think there is something wrong with my brain.

I rather like the description of actuaries as people who find accountancy too stimulating*. It sort of fits Brad. Maybe some hotshot actuary firm will set up in Borchester and let Brad WFH?

• Apologies to any actuaries around these parts

I see George is in the cast list next week. Bit nervous about hearing him in prison again

He'll probably just have another phone call.

Spoiler time again. Brian next week, hip hip hurrah!

20th October - 25th October 2024
20.10 Alice holds out an olive branch, and Stella finds herself in competition.
21.10 There’s a surprise development for Chris, while Ian finds himself in over his head.
22.10 Brad faces a dilemma, and Ruth is determined to prove a point.
23.10 Can Emma handle the truth, and Fallon is feeling positive.
24.10 David faces a nightmare, and Azra offers support.
25.10 Jazzer has reservations about a loved one, and Emma is distracted.

Writer: Sarah Hehir
Director: Peter Leslie Wild
Editor: Jeremy Howe

Brian Aldridge…. Charles Collingwood
Ben Archer…. Ben Norris
David Archer…. Timothy Bentinck
Ruth Archer…. Felicity Finch
Alice Carter…. Hollie Chapman
Chris Carter… Wilf Scolding
Neil Carter…. Brian Hewlett
Ian Craig…. Stephen Kennedy
Clarrie Grundy…. Heather Bell
Emma Grundy…. Emerald O‘Hanrahan
George Grundy…. Angus Stobie
Brad Horrobin…. Taylor Uttley
Azra Malik…. Yasmin Wilde
Jazzer McCreary…. Ryan Kelly
Stella Pryor…. Lucy Speed
Fallon Rogers…. Joanna Van Kampen
Lottie Summers…. Bonnie Baddoo
Rhea…. Shreya Lallu

Radio Times 20-25 October
The Grundys throw themselves into preparations for Apple Day, but with so much bad feeling aimed at them it could be a washout. Alice, meanwhile, takes matters into her own hands when she sees a relative suffering. Brad faces a nerve-racking experience and comes under pressure to keep a potentially devastating secret. Stella has plans for a ploughing competition and Ruth is keen to be involved, but will they be able to prove a point?

27th October - 1st November 2024
27 Oct Justin spots an opportunity, and Kenton gets his hopes up.
28 Oct Lilian is not impressed, and Jolene puts her foot in it.
29 Oct Fallon’s suspicions are raised, and Rex is a man with a plan.
30 Oct The pressure piles on Harrison, while Henry makes a friend.
31 Oct Khalil hatches a plan, and will Justin learn his lesson?
01 Nov There’s shocking news for Ed, and Helen offers the benefit of experience.

Writer: Daniel Thurman
Director: Marina Caldarone
Editor: Jeremy Howe

Helen Archer…. Louiza Patikas
Henry Archer…. Blayke Darby
Jolene Archer…. Buffy Davies
Kenton Archer…. Richard Attlee
Pat Archer…. Patricia Gallimore
Lilian Bellamy…. Sunny Ormonde
Harrison Burns…. James Cartwright
Justin Elliott…. Simon Williams
Rex Fairbrother…. Nick Barber
Martyn Gibson… Jon Glover
Ed Grundy…. Barry Farrimond
Brad Horrobin…. Taylor Uttley
Azra Malik…. Yasmin Wilde
Khalil Malik…. Krish Bassi
Kirsty Miller…. Annabelle Dowler
Fallon Rogers…. Joanna Van Kampen
Wesley…. Barrie Rutter
Inspector Norris…. Bharti Patel

3rd November - 8th November 2024
3.11 Justin takes a walk down memory lane, and Ed tries to do the right thing.
4.11 There’s a ray of hope for the Grundy family, and Lilian remains unimpressed.
5.11 Natasha has a brainwave, and Kirsty finds herself on the spot.
6.11 Rex offers a glimpse of the future, and a visitor makes their presence felt.
7.11 Emma fears the worst, and Helen is forced to put her own feelings aside.
8.11 Disaster strikes for one resident, and has Justin seen the light?

WRITER: Nick Warburton
DIRECTOR: Kim Greengrass
EDITOR: Jeremy Howe

Helen Archer…. Louiza Patikas
Natasha Archer…. Mali Harries
Tom Archer…. William Troughton
Lilian Bellamy…. Sunny Ormonde
Harrison Burns…. James Cartwright
Susan Carter…. Charlotte Martin
Justin Elliott…. Simon Williams
Miranda Elliott…. Lucy Fleming
Rex Fairbrother…. Nick Barber
Ed Grundy…. Barry Farrimond
Emma Grundy…. Emerald O‘Hanrahan
George Grundy…. Angus Stobie <<<< ooh!
Will Grundy…. Philip Molloy
Brad Horrobin…. Taylor Uttley
Kirsty Miller…. Annabelle Dowler
Megan Miller…. Susan Twist <<< Kirsty's Mum
Fallon Rogers…. Joanna Van Kampen
Sarah Byron…. Michelle Greenidge <<< ????Another cameo/new character?

Very nice interview here with Angus Stobie (George). The Archers' Angus Stobie on George's fate: 'Prison might make him worse' | Radio Times No spoilers in it, I'm putting it here rather than on the main thread mainly because of the photos.

Stobie is terrific; pity the anonymous interviewer seems rather vague on details of the programme! As for instance George didn't "offer" to drive Alice home; he manhandled her into the passenger seat without her consent. And it wasn't "a taxi-full of villagers" the car he was driving hit. And I don't think "losing custody of three-year-old Martha" was what happened to Alice....

Angus Stobie is quite remarkably handsome these days, and looks very different from the old, "differently remarkably handsome" photo of George on the BBC Archers website.

Angus Stobie has been quite a looker all along, but did a very good thug imitation for the Archers photographs! Looking him up on the internet produces pictures going back earlier than his casting as George.

https://duckduckgo.com/?ia=images&iax=images&q=Angus+Stobie&t=ftsa

Disaster strikes for one resident,

Well, that’s splendid news whoever it is (always excepting Brian). Nothing trivial, I hope.

Interested to see from the article that AS was actually auditioning for Brad.

while Ian finds himself in over his head

Assuming not literally in the Am, it's more PTA twaddle.

i’m sure the ‘disaster’ will be someone burning their toast and having to go to work on an empty tummy

Maybe Adumb is going to volunteer Ian to do all the cooking for the Terum.