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Ambridge on the Couch - this week on The Archers
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What happened during the Sunday roast in Ambridge?
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Welcome to Ambridge on the Couch, an in-depth look at the archers with me, Geoff Thomas, Lucy Freeman, Harriet Carmichael, 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 with Adam treating the preparation of a Sunday roast as if he was single-handedly about to reopen the Straits of Hormuz. There was a lot of effortful sighing and he announced he had ice cream to compliment the apple crumble. For crying out loud, Adam, it's a family lunch, not sodding MasterChef. Honestly, I was listening on Monday morning and one minute eight seconds in, I was swearing at him. They should not let him in the Sunday episode. It ruins the week before it's begun. Alice asked when their children had become so competitive.
How does Alice react to her children's competitiveness?
Hmm. Why not have a little think about that, Alice, before your half-brother announces he's been given the farm. For this week, anyway. But Horobin, played by Wurzel Gummidge, is the new Joe Grundy, attempting to claim compensation for an injury sustained in an accident he wasn't even there for. He said he'd heard this voice. I'd imagine that's because he probably watches quite a lot of daytime television and in between the adverts for dogs with sad eyes, a cheery voiceover keeps asking you if you've had an accident you might be owed compensation for. Five years of that and he's convinced. To try and prove it to himself and everyone else, he was wearing an ill-fitting neck brace. I had to wear one of those when I was about 12 when I pulled a muscle in my neck pulling tight jeans on.
I found it tremendously useful as it enabled me to rest my chin on it and have a lovely nap during biology.
What is the significance of Horobin's injury claim?
I might see if I can still find it, actually. It's useful in Zoom calls. Anyway, he went to see Dr Malik, who told him to keep his neck moving. What is he, a bloody owl? Lillian went round to see Brian and told him that he had dementia, then told him she wasn't his dead wife, but she was a bit like a rock, which must have made him feel more confused than he was before the poor old sod. He coughed up about Rory and they both agreed that protecting someone who'd committed GBH was what Jenny Darling would have wanted. Well, that's jolly handy, isn't it? Moral approval from beyond the grave. Fallon knows it about Alice's relationship with Rex and then worried her about Chris. I have noticed with Fallon that she does have a distinct tendency to hone in on a sore spot and then just lean on it ever so slightly.
How does Lillian handle Brian's dementia revelation?
Then she goes off humming while leaving the other person staring blankly into the middle distance, wondering where it all went wrong. she did it again with rex when he turned up for their girls night in you weren't expecting me were you well it's lovely to see you then alice having had to go at rex for embarrassing chris appeared to show a prurient interest in his date by asking if they'd been for a date did they kiss and was he allowed upstairs outsideies they are clearly destined to be a long-term couple if they are already at the arguing all the way down the garden path and hissing Well, I didn't know, did I? I told you! At each other in the hallway. Things were a little fraught in the car on the way to the breast clinic, and then Stella went off to have a cup of coffee with Tracy and forgot all about Pip.
Pip said Stella was driving her mad, but she was trying to hide it and asked if she'd been successful. Five million listeners scoffed heartily. Nice Miss Char said Pip's lump was a cyst, and then both of them, exhausted by being considerate and nice, immediately had to go at Stella for letting the coffee go cold. Aww.
What are Fallon's concerns regarding Alice and Rex's relationship?
At the stables, the Cooper kids were poorly. This is worrying, not least to Cooper as he had his nuts off so long ago he can't even remember what or where they were.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What happened during the Sunday roast in Ambridge?
0:00–1:08
2
How does Alice react to her children's competitiveness?
1:08–1:52
3
What is the significance of Horobin's injury claim?
1:52–2:37
4
How does Lillian handle Brian's dementia revelation?
2:37–3:37
5
What are Fallon's concerns regarding Alice and Rex's relationship?
3:37–4:13
6
How does Pip cope with her breast clinic visit?
4:13–4:50
7
What are the implications of Brian's actions in Ambridge?
4:50–5:04
8
How does the episode reflect on the dynamics of aging characters?
5:04–1:03:39