Love this podcast?

Support this show through the supporter feature from ACAST.

It's up to you how much you give and there's no regular commitment.

Just hit the link in the show description to support now.

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

Harriet Carmichael, Lucy Freeman, James Everett, who is supposed to be back in there and somehow

isn't, 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 the week with Lillian, who seemed remarkably sanguine at the idea of Justin doing something beaver-related at the rewilding, but then she has other things on her mind.

I can't really envisaged Justin clapping his little hands with glee at the prospect of moving to Canada so Lillian

can relive her happy years with a different husband. But she hadn't really identified that as a

problem yet. She did acknowledge that her two businesses, the stables and Amside, get on perfectly

well without her, which is a good bloody job. She hasn't been to Amside for years.

Clary Fallon and Joy all went to ooh and R over the new charging station.

It's very spacious, they yelled to each other across the empty rooms.

Clary liked it so much, she started work there, which mostly seemed to consist of her standing

right next to the electric doors and making the whoosh open and shut.

Over at the ball, Kenton's latest unhinged idea is a goat Jim Carna,

thousands of goats galloping around, knocking over toddlers and headbutting elderly men in the nuts.

Fun for all the family!

By midweek, Lillian had downgraded her wish to emigrate to Canada

and decided she wanted to go on a four

month round the world cruise instead. That's two countries in a week, then three and a half months in

...