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There'd be a whole heap more incels.

That time of week again.

1st February 2026 - 6th February 2026
01/02 Suspicions are aroused for Pip, while David is left disappointed.
02/02 Amber faces a complication, and Josh has his nose put out of joint.
03/02 Will there be good news for Stella? And there's a changing of the guard at the dairy.
04/02 George makes his feelings clear, and the future is considered at Brookfield.
05/02 Emotions run high for the Gordon family, and Kenton finds himself caught in the middle.
6/2: Esme makes a surprising offer, and Susan gets her hopes up.

Writer: Sarah McDonald Hughes
Director: Jessica Bunch
Editor: Jeremy Howe

David Archer.... Timothy Bentinck
Josh Archer.... Angus Imrie
Kenton Archer.... Richard Attlee
Pat Archer.... Patricia Gallimore
Pip Archer.... Daisy Badger
Ruth Archer.... Felicity Finch
Susan Carter.... Charlotte Martin
Amber Gordon.... Olivia Bernstone
Anne Marie Gordon.... Kate Ashfield
Bill Gordon.... Matthew Gravelle
Clarrie Grundy.... Heather Bell
George Grundy.... Angus Stobie
Will Grundy.... Philip Molloy
Paul Mack.... Joshua Riley
Esme Mulligan.... Ellie Pawsey
Stella Pryor.... Lucy Speed
Hannah Riley.... Helen Longworth

Radio Times 31 January - 6 February
Suspicions around the identity of George’s attacker have been consuming Ambridge and now Pip is also concerned. What has Stella been hiding? Josh gets miffed at Meadow Farm and decides to stir the pot. Kenton gets embroiled in David and Ruth’s Valentine’s Day plans. Amber and George arrange a make-or-break meeting with her parents, Clarrie drops a bombshell and Esme makes a surprising offer.

Total TV Guide 31 January to 6 February
The normally uncomplicated Stella has been behaving uncharacteristically, and Pip’s suspicious. What is she hiding ? And perhaps even more concerningly, what’s up with the dog? Meanwhile, a disgruntled Josh is in the mood to make trouble. With Valentine’s Day approaching, David’s thoughts turn to matters of the heart, but when his plans go awry, Kenton finds himself caught in Cupid’s crossfire, and love - of a brotherly kind, at any rate - is in short supply. Elsewhere, things could very much go one way or the other when George, Amber and her parents agree to meet, there’s a changing of the guard at Bridge Farm, Clarrie has a bombshell to drop, and Esme makes a decision she may live to regret…

Daily Mail Weekend Magazine Archers Update - February 1st-6th 2026
While Stella's strange behaviour makes Pip suspicious about what she might be hiding, there's a changing of the guard at Bridge Farm as Pat considers her various options for the dairy, and then Clarrie drops a bombshell.

8th February 2026 - 13th February 2026
08 Feb There’s big news at Brookfield, and Ruth’s got Stella all confused.
09 Feb Fallon has a brainwave, and is George ducking out?
10 Feb Chelsea’s full of excitement, and Emma’s left wondering.
11 Feb Jazzer’s got the bit between his teeth, and Lilian has a rude shock.
12 Feb Accusations are flying, and George is hiding something from Will.
13 Feb David’s happy with his lot, and Brian has some words of advice.

Writer: Tim Stimpson
Director: Pip Swallow
Editor: Jeremy Howe

Brian Aldridge … Charles Collingwood
Ben Archer … Ben Norris
David Archer … Timothy Bentinck
Josh Archer … Angus Imrie
Pip Archer … Daisy Badger
Ruth Archer … Felicity Finch
Lilian Bellamy … Sunny Ormonde
Alice Carter … Hollie Chapman
Ruairi Donovan … Arthur Hughes
Amber Gordon … Olivia Bernstone
Emma Grundy … Emerald O'Hanrahan
George Grundy … Angus Stobie
Will Grundy … Philip Molloy
Chelsea Horrobin … Madeleine Leslay
Tracy Horrobin … Susie Riddell
Jazzer McCreary … Ryan Kelly
Stella Pryor … Lucy Speed
Fallon Rogers … Joanna Van Kampen

15th February 2026 - 20th February 2026
Sun 15/2 - Alice has a suggestion to put to Rex, and at Berrow Farm, Hannah is sceptical
Mon 16/2 - Akram challenges the system, and a new arrival at Brookfield shakes the tree
Tue 17/2 - Ruairi exceeds expectations, and Rex gets the wrong end of the stick
Wed 18/2 - Brookfield’s guest continues to stir the pot, and Ruairi steps up
Thu 19/2 - Tom has reservations, and Stella has some mopping up to do
Fri 20/2 - Contemporary drama in a rural setting

No cast list published for this week yet. Who on earth can be visiting Brookfield? I can only think of Leonard's son.

Cleo?

If perhaps Stella has to be away for a while?

Thank you, @Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g!

Thanks @Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g .

Clarrie decides to sue Bridge Farm because her redundant job has been refilled? It was her who bottled George? She's running away with a colleague at Little Underwoods? All of these?

Thinking of Stella and that she knew Justin before she worked at Home Farm. Is that about to unfold?

I think Josh, Stella and Akram are interested in the Meadow Farm tenancy. I'm not.

George will faint again.

Who could the visitor be? Why would Leonard's son be there. Is he called Simon? Could he and Pip fall in love and run off to Singapore?

I reckon the SW's had Leonard bake scones so that we could hate Pip even more.

Not The Archers but ...
The Archers was being mentioned on some odd threads yesterday.

Cleo would make sense. Pip wouldn't have her because of Fat Rosie.

On reflection it would be quite funny if Pat and Helen spent a few weeks training Akram, having made Clarrie redundant and (possibly) pissing off Susan, for him to be accepted as the new tenant of Meadow Farm and using his savings/inherited wealth to set up a rival Jersey herd "bells and whistles" dairy (anybody else remember Loseley Park yoghurt and ice cream?).

@Madcatsyes! Grew up near Loseley, used to love both the ice cream and Christmas Fair.

The rectangular one-litre plastic dubbies in which Loseley Park ice cream was sold for a while were absolutely the best-ever containers for the freezer, and after my mother died in 2001 I inherited three from her. The containers are still going strong but their lids have fallen down behind the fitted cupboard in the kitchen where they were stored, and short of taking out the cupboard I am not sure how I shall ever get them out from behind-and-under, which is where I assume they now are.

A company called Loseley Bakery exists but the ice-cream they sell is called Marshfields and is in useless round containers like yoghurt pots, not the almost-rectangular ones my old Ma bought last century. Probably more than fifty years ago, now I think about it. Eeek.

@AskingQuestionsAllTheTime , could you remove the plinth and use something to pull them out?

Is Loseley Park near Guildford?
I got lost in Surrey and ended up in Albury. The countryside around there is beautiful.

Near Guildford, yes.

The cupboard is one of a row of nine under a long work-surface and doesn't have a back to it so there is a gap between the bottom of the cupboard and the wall behind it (the man who lived her before us was a do-it-yourself-badly expert), and the cupboard has openwork mesh drawers in it so you can't get at it that way; the plinth front is 178 inches long and has no way to access it either from in front where there are tiles in front of the bottom of it or from inside the cupboard.

This bloke was seriously good at not allowing access for repairs of any kind. For example, the kitchen ceiling with electrics in it is artexed in swirly patterns, and the floor of the bathroom above is tiled, and there are junction boxes in there between floor and ceiling: the electrician who discovered this was tearing out his hair about it because it's not legal but he couldn't make it right short of demolishing much of that corner of the house. (In the end he ran a new, legal mains using a sort of flexible thing a bit like a very long drain-cleaner.) The water main from the road is under the drive, and the drive is metre-deep concrete where the main started to leak so that we had to have a new main fitted: there was no way the old one could be got to at all. Things like that.

I still love the house, even though it is definitely a Folly.

@AskingQuestionsAllTheTime

the almost-rectangular ones my old Ma bought last century.

May be a blessing in disguise if you can't access the lids, ancient plastic may not be so food-safe as it once was.

Thanks @AskingQuestionsAllTheTime , I thought it sounded vaguely familiar.

Your house sounds amazing.

When we were looking for a house in this area, I started negotiations in each estate agent (we went to about fifteen altogether) by saying I didn't want to live in any house that was younger than I am.

The estate agent we ended up at after a long day of looking was a lad who looked about fifteen on his own in the office who gulped a bit and then started rummaging in the filing cabinets for the sheets of details and pictures. He pulled out the one for this house, looked at it and then handed it over with the words, "This is one you need to see, because we gave up on trying to describe it: it's beyond estate agent speak. And I can't show you round it because I am going to the football as soon as I close down here in twenty minutes. But it is on the way back to London, so I could ring and see if the owner is home from work yet and whether he'd show you round himself."

He was, and he did, and we fell in love with it: it is mad, and inconvenient, and we could just barely afford it, so we rang him from where we ended up having supper on the way home and said we'd be putting in an offer on Monday morning (it being Saturday evening and us wanting a word with the bank about a mortgage before we committed ourselves). I have to admit to feeling that perhaps a main room with two outside doors, one interior door, an archway leading to my study and another outside door, and the stairs going up from it, isn't the most sensible or the warmest arrangement one could have, but it does have a bar built onto it next to the door into the garage, and the bar-top and the shelves behind it were retrieved from a pub that was being demolished, so you see....

Clarrie drops a bombshell.

Perhaps Pat and Helen confidently offer to take Clarrie back in the dairy, and she tells them to stuff their job up their arses?

I would hope Clarrie’s bombshell is that she’s decided to retire.

(Maybe because she’s had some sort of health diagnosis?) Her family doesn’t seem to care about her at all and would have her working until she’s 90 …

Maybe Clarrie says that she will only come back if they employ George as well.

Maybe Clarrie will refuse out of sheer contrariness or - I dunno - perhaps threaten to sue them if they don't offer to re-hire her?

I might have to stop listening. :vomit
Stella has siblings. Might one visit?

The only redeeming feature Pip has is the farm.

@FatRosie The only redeeming feature Pip has is the farm.

Well, not all of it as the ownership is weirdly complicated and Shula, Kenton & Elizabeth all own minority shares. I can imagine Dave'n'Ruth being daft enough to leave their majority portion to Pip, though ... and when Dayveed dies, in a tragic (but sadly unusual) case of a man boring himself to death, that would give Stella an excellent reason to shove Ruth under a combine, in revenge for Weaver.

After that, a quick trip to Usha in which Pip makes a will in favour of Row-Zee or, failing her, Stella, would result in the tragic demise of the lardy child, eaten by her new pet Komodo dragon.

I like the idea of a komodo dragon for the Fat Fairchild. Could a badger/combine harvester swallow Pip whole please?

Inspired by another topic, do you think the proposal was one that would bowel you over or would it be a bit shitty? Why does anyone working further away from Ambridge than Lower Loxley have to be dog tired from the commuting.
Is TA in the gutter or is it just crap?

Have not yet heard last night's. I can see I am in for a treat.

Meanwhile, here are some new spoilers to buoy us all up. 😱

Radio Times 7-13 February
George plays Poirot as nagging suspicions have his little grey cells fizzing. Amber tries in vain to keep him on track and he finally confronts someone. As emotions run high there’s an admission of guilt. Ben’s graduation celebration is derailed by Josh pushing David and Ruth to reveal their plans for Brookfield. Chelsea’s business plan proves difficult to implement, and Alice reveals a juicy secret.

TV Times 7-13 February
As Valentine’s Day looms, one villager comes to Ruth’s aid after she gets herself into a muddle. An unlikely ally also rescues Chelsea, who gets more than she bargained for after she shares an idea with her mum. Meanwhile, Ben’s graduation celebrations go awry, emotions run high as George is plagued by nagging suspicions, and Stella has an exciting visitor on the horizon.

Total TV Guide 7-13 February
At Brookfield, Ben doesn’t get to celebrate his graduation as anticipated when Josh demands Ruth and David unveil their plans for the farm’s future. One of the younger Archers receives their parents’ news with admirable equanimity - but is their reaction all it seems? Meanwhile, Chelsea reveals her own scheme for her hairdressing business and finds herself in a hair-curling situation - it’s clear she’s out of her depth. As Valentine’s Day closes in, Ruth is tied in knots, but another local aims to fan the flames. And there’s a fraught showdown after George confronts a villager with what seems irrefutable evidence. It’s like ‘Who Shot JR?’ all over again, but with less Ewing oil, more tractor diesel.

Dear me …

Josh really gets on my nerves. It was bad enough when he started dick-swinging at Meadow Farm (who knew a repaired gutter would be such an affront to his manhood?) but ruining his brother's graduation party because he's chosen that moment to demand details of the farm inheritance tax arrangements? What a git.

Not a single one of the SW have ever owned a pet, have they? How else can they imagine this lavishly funded, utopian Animal NHS where you don't have to phone for an appointment, turn up to an empty waiting room, and just hand your dog over to a nurse and order some unspecified scans without giving any explanation beyond an enigmatic "she ate a cheesecake and may have swallowed some kind of harmful, non-food item"?