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Welcome to Ambridge on the couch, an in-depth look at the archers with me, Jeff Thomas,

Lucy Freeman, James Everett and Matt Rodriguez-Pain. Now, before we make a start on your emails,

let's have a recap of what happened this week in Ambridge. We began this very grumpy week in

Ambridge with Brian being breathtakingly arrogant and making

George feel bad for wanting the money he was promised in exchange for his silence.

I don't have two grand in my wallet, you know. Yes, but you do actually have two grand,

which none of the grundies do, your pompas git. Does he have any idea of the trouble he'd be in if George blew the gaff?

Not just with the police, but with his own family. That's got to be worth two thousand quid of anybody's money.

And then Brian wrote him a cheque. A check. Have they never read a 1920s murder mystery? You don't leave a sodding paper trail. You pay in cash. Ruth was even grumpier than normal as she was being asked to look after Carol to Boggan, which I must concede as a bit of a cheek on Anna's behalf. Anyway, Leonard, as the pride of the merry widows of Ambridge, dashed over there to Sticky's Ore and anything else he could grab old of in. His visit to Carol's serve two purposes as he bought

flapjacks with him, which meant they were out of Jill's reach should she get a bit

touchy about something. Turns out she has bats in the belfry, which I think anyone who has spent

more than ten minutes with her could have ascertained, frankly. As Anna is profoundly anti-bat,

Carol is naturally pro-bat. Anna has no idea how to deal with her mother.

If she'd wanted to get shot of the bat, she should have announced that she'd joined a bat conservation group and was thinking of marrying one.

Carol would have been in the attic with an air gun in a trice.

Anna bumped into Azra in the tea rooms.

Natasha introduced them, and before they knew where they were, Anna

was ordering a cappuccino while describing her work situation and financial status to

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