Harassment’s copped it
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Ambridge on the Couch - this week on The Archers
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What happened this week in Ambridge and who are the key characters involved?
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Welcome to Ambridge on the Couch, an in-depth look at the archers with me, Geoff Thomas, Lucy Freeman, James Everett and Matt Rodriguez-Payne. Now, before we make a start on your emails, let's have a recap of what happened this week in Ambridge.
We began the week at Lower Loxley with Fallon and Lizzie in the crotch barn. Astonishingly, this building project is the first one in the history of ever to have started and finished sooner than the builders said. That is the most Elizabeth thing I've ever heard. Lizzie is trying to seduce Fallon away from the bull to be a program manager. So not a chef then, the thing she can do and has been doing seemingly without complaint for the last five years or so. Righto. Harrisman kept telling people how completely fine he was while being horrible to Fallon. He is displaying many of the signs of a man having a stonking affair and trying to convince himself that he isn't, flip-flopping between guilt, anger and a pretense that everything's fine.
He has won an Outstanding Achievement Award and Fallon had to go and clap and listen to a bunch of people she didn't know calling her husband Harris McHarrisman or something and making ribald references to the woman that fancies him. Rex and Alice were clearly listening to me last week, as they're now going on holiday together. They are going to Gozo, or Going Gonzo, maybe. I think they may be through the honeymoon period, as on World Cup night she had a bath, got straight into her pyjamas and declined to go and sit in strange silence with Fallon and Harrisment, while watching Argentina play like a gang of hooligans suspended from a correctional facility. As further proof they are going gonzo, they are moving in together.
Thankfully not into the boat, as I can imagine a four-year-old on a narrow boat would take decades off a parent's life, but into the nesticle, or whatever Alice's house is called. Bert was perched on his little stool like a budgie in the shop while Susan bustled about him, but they discovered a shared love of gossip which seemed to bond them quite nicely. Once they'd exhausted local news, Susan tried to mine Bert for information about Clive and everyone's ears pricked up when he mentioned Clive taking his bank card to get his pension money out. Mineless a bit for groceries and paddy power, I suspect. The village fate is getting underway, which means endless committee meetings and bickering. It's being held in the wrong place.
Carol doesn't want to charge an entry fee. And in the middle of the meeting, Alan suddenly announced that he would offer a service for Carol's deceased son to repair their relationship without having been told officially by her that there was anything to repair. Carol then had a little think and went to see Alan and told him that Richard had been disapproving of some of her choices. Specifically, I suspect, her decision to bump off her husband. This charging an entry fee thing, I think this may be a bit of an error. Bearing in mind the stallholders won't have to pay, presumably, and they will be the villagers, and everyone else, if indeed there is anyone else, will refuse to, we'll just have the stallholders visiting each other's stalls and inspecting what they've seen thousands of times already, and then they'll all go home.
I'm not sure they've thought this through. Tracy had a terrible time at her own birthday dinner, although enjoying a 30% discount, which everyone seemed astonished by, while riddled with guilt at having abandoned her father to the tender mercies of the lovely Clive. She is now leaving him to the somewhat manic hygiene fest of Susan's house. To be honest, he'll probably prefer Clive's crack den to being sprayed with Zaflora every 20 minutes. We had a series of terrible advice given by unlikely candidates. Carol urged Bert to stay close to Clive, and Linda appeared to tell Fallon blithely that she might want to consider a divorce.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What happened this week in Ambridge and who are the key characters involved?
0:00–8:00
2
Why are Fallon and Harrison’s marriage troubles coming to a head now?
8:00–30:33
3
How might Fallon’s romantic future play out—could Ed, Chris or someone else be next?
30:33–55:52
4
What’s the mystery around Bert and Clive’s money—did Clive steal from Bert?
55:52–57:41