Returning to The Archers after years away and have various questions!

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I used to be a regular listener but I haven’t listened for YEARS. The ongoing threads are brilliant but I can’t possibly catch up with everything. Would anyone mind answering my random questions? Here are few for starters:

• I know the actor who played Roy Tucker sadly passed away a few years ago - what happened to the character?
• Where has Harrison Burns been? “Up North” I believe, but why? Did he have some kind of breakdown after the infamous accident involving Fallon and George?
• Who is Miranda? Is she in a relationship with Brian? Are they moving back in to the farmhouse that Jenny Darling and Brine had to sell when he had all those environmental fines to pay?
• Who the hell is Joy? Is she the new Lynda Snell? Wither Lynda?
• Who is Vince - is he now Mr Elizabeth?

I am sure I will have many more questions and moments of bafflement but these are the few that have come to mind whilst listening to the last few episodes.

Yes and I quite enjoyed them but hearing them or not hearing them wouldn't help or hinder your understanding of what's actually going on now in terms of the investigations.

Thank you. Most people don't get that.

Roy went to Bulgaria to be with Lexi, Adam and Ian's son's surrogate mother. He sold Willow Farm to Kirsty. Denise (Alistair's girlfriend) lodges there.

Denise's son, Paul lives with Josh and Lily at The Stables. Shula is now in Sunderland. Paul and Ruairi are in a relationship of sorts.

Harrison Burns has been 'up north' in Huddersfield, I think, working on a hush hush project.

Miranda is Brian's girlfriend and Justin Elliott's ex-wife. The plan was for her to buy the Home Farm house and for Brian to move in.
Kate is in a relationship with Jakob, a vet, but when not at Jakob's cottage (rented to him by Chris Carter), she lives with Brian at Blossom Hill Cottage.
Chris lives in the flat above the village shop but during renovations, he lodged with Fallon but is now at Ambridge View.

Vince is Elizabeth's boyfriend. He owns a local abattoir. He employs Freddie.

Joy is probably the 'new Lynda Snell'. Lynda is still around but her husband sounds and behaves differently. Joy came from nowhere with no backstory other than a daughter Rochelle, and grandchildren Noah and Harper.
Joy lives with Mick, a former roadie who works at Grey Gables.
Rochelle is an eco-terrorist or something and got a job at Vince's abattoir. She was arrested and this split her and Rex up.

New to the village are the Maliks. Azra is the local GP and her husband Akram is a plumber who is from a Pakistani farming background. They have 2 children: Zainab, who is about 19 and delivers takeaways, and Khalil who is about the same age as Henry. Khalil is animal mad and has had leukemia.
Azra is Adil's much older sister. Adil was involved in the Grey Gables re-furb.

Esme Mulligan is the daughter of a recently deceased local tenant farmer neighbour of Brookfield. Despite being a freelancer, she hopes to take on the tenancy. Josh is interested in the tenancy. We suspect that she will become Mrs Josh.

Kirsty now works with Rex at the Rewilding. Phoebe went to work in Scotland an now has a baby, Peggy, with Brodie (silent).

Kirsty sold her house on the Beechwood estate to Tom and his wife Natasha. Helen had been renting it. Helen, Henry, Jack, Tom, Natasha, and 3-yr olds Nova and Seren all live there now.

The Bull was targeted by some thugs led by someone called Marky. George has made an enemy of them.

Jill Archer has a toyboy, Leonard, who is a retired surveyor. He stays at Brookfield but has a home elsewhere. His silent son is in Singapore.

Pip Archer is in a relationship with Stella. Stella lives in The Bungalow and her lodger is Hannah.

Brookfield has a barn that they converted to a functions venue. Vince's daughter Steph had her wedding there.

Josh is currently single having been dumped by silent musician Nina. Ben is also single. He was loved up with Beth, Vince's daughter, but a ONS with Chelsea Horrobin led to a late termination, and Ben had a psychotic episode. Joy was good with him. Vince wasn't.

Chelsea is single, still hairdressing bit works at the Orangery and the Tea Room.
Brad went out with Mia, but they split up because they were going to different universities.
Tracy Horrobin is now married to Jazzer.

Over at Grange Farm, Oliver lives there with Clarrie and Eddie. Emma and Ed have a static caravan, 'Little Grange', having failed to buy an 'affordable home' on the Beechwood estate.
Will, Poppy, George and Amber live at No 1,The Green, having evicted Hannah. Hannah has crossed George over a sausage roll wrapper.

Neil turns out to have been a foundling.

Excellent summary, thank you

Baby Peggy is registered as Margaret, named after her great-great-grandmother, Peggy Wooley.
(I had to think about that one. Peggy - Phoebe - Kate - Jennifer - Peggy)

Thanks @KnittedFerret - really helpful details! I had not heard that Pip is now a lesbian - last I was paying attention she’d had a baby with a Fairbrother brother.

Ooh which podcast was this please? I've just started listening to the Archers. My grandparents used to listen and it brings back happy memories. Nice easy background listening when pottering around. 😊

Thanks for the summaries. I might actually try listening again and can refer back here to know what is happening.

Is anyone actually farming now? One of the stories I remember was them selling a herd and Tony being unhappy?

Is Jill who must be going on some age still cooking or are they being subjected to Ruth’s cooking? Or has someone else stepped up?
who is Pips daughter again?
Whst happened to the Fairbrothers?

@TheKatzKlaws , go to BBC Sounds and search for The Archers Podcast.
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@Manename , we don't hear much from Jill but Leonard does a bit of baking.
Pip's daughter is Fat Rosie.
Fat Rosie is co-parented by PIp and Toby but Toby lives in Stratford IIRC.
Rex lives on a houseboat on the Am.

Not much farming goes on other than a lot of milking at Meadow Farm.
Meadow Farm is the handiwork of the Ambridge Property Fairy.

Thanks for the excellent summaries! Can I ask one question - what happened to Alice? I stopped listening when she was deep into alcoholism and, excellently written and performed as that storyline was, it was all a bit too real for comfort.

She went to rehab and eventually managed to stop drinking. She and Chris are now divorced but still on good terms and co-parenting. A couple of years ago she got involved with a man called Harry who turned out to be another alcoholic and she relapsed. During this time she drove to a quiet spot near the village and drank a bottle of vodka. She passed out in the car. George Grundy walked past on his way home from a party. He moved her out of the driving seat and drove the car but lost control of it as they went over a bridge over the Am. The ineffable Joy was in a car coming the other way with her chap Mick and Fallon. They were coming back from a concert or festival. Their car was driven off the road and went into the Am. George helped to rescue Joy and Fallon, but then he went back to the car and moved Alice back into the driving seat. George was hero of the hour and Alice, who could remember nothing about the night's events, was a pariah. However, the stress told on George and he eventually confessed to Emma. She told Will, and then Neil and Susan, and after a lot of agonising she went to the police. George was convicted and served a prison sentence of a year or so for perversion of the course of justice, dangerous driving and possibly one or two other things.

Alice went to rehab a couple of times. She is now amicably divorced from Chris, after he decided to not take her to the cleaners.

Alice last got drunk the night of the big accident. She went to the village shop and bought a big bottle of vodka, then parked her car just off the road.
George was walking home from a party, saw the car and a slumped Alice, and drove it.
Alice tried to open the passenger door, George swerved causing Mick's car into the Am. Mick had been collecting Joy and Fallon from a gig. Alistair and Denise were heading for a dirty weekend and ended up in the Am.

George jumped in and rescued Fallon. Realising he needed to cover his tracks he dragged Alice into the driver's seat. George was hailed a hero until he was forced by Neil & Susan to go to the police. He was jailed for perverting the course of justice and lost his licence.

When Fallon was at the hospital, a doctor told her and Harrison that she was pregnant. Harrison was delighted at the news.She was not pregnant for long (because she had already had a coil fitted). Harrison blamed the accident for the 'miscarriage' and had a breakdown.

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This is AMAZING. I stopped listening around the time the twins were born, and don’t really miss it as it got so awful. But I do love dropping in on the main Archers threads. This all fills in so many blanks.

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Ahhh amazing thank you, doesn’t seem to be on the Apple Podcasts version! I’m going to start listening. Comforting memories!

Neil turns out to have been a foundling.

What the what now?!?

Completely ridiculous story.

Thank you all! I listen only sporadically and not at all over Christmas and the NY.

I have been intrigued about how Amber seems to have turned from irritating shallow influencer into something more solid.

But I missed what happened re George and a fight of some sort?

Joy totally passed me by, and I had no idea Freddie went to prison. What was that about?

Thanks!

Noli (Kate's eldest child with Lukas in South Africa) was over for an extended visit and she and Freddie were experimenting with mushrooms and so on. Freddie got pills and stuff from some guy at Borchester Green. I can't remember if it was dealing at Harrison's stag do (where unsurprisingly, there were afew policemen,) or because Noli had an overdose and ended up in hospital that got him arrested and thence prison.

Kate was very incensed about Noli almost being killed, and totally forgot she once added weed to one of Jenny's casseroles.

I usually listen to the Omnibus over Sunday and Monday evening while I'm cleaning the kitchen.
This past week was very much spoiled by all the extra Archers stuff. I found myself listening to some of the Truth and Lies episode live when I hadn't heard the New Years Eve episode.

Agreed in spades! In spite of the fact that Neil had some sort of back story when he was introduced which made it clear to anybody who was listening back then or has read any of the many books about The Archers that he was not a foundling and had grown up with his Mum, or possibly an aunt, the current production team decided that didn't matter and for reasons of their own, which are not clear at all, suddenly had him talking about being found on the doorstep of a bakery by the daughter of the baker. He went to visit her, I think. I have done my best to wipe this nonsense from my brain so can't guarantee the details are correct.

The extra mini-episodes didn't contain any spoilers though. It was just backstory really.