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Welcome to Ambridge on the couch, an in-depth look at the Archers with me, Jeff Thomas, Lucy Freeman, Harriet Carmichael, 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 the week with the battling balls playing

cricket against a trout. I know they said it was all supposed to be all informal and

fun but that's ridiculous. Even worse, the trout won largely thanks to Brad

helping out. I don't know who was more surprised. Brad or the fish. The

aldeages were still in disarray. Brian was reading Dick Francis in the garden while his family in business collapsed around his ears.

Adam was staggering round the village wondering why the rest of his family sleep slightly miffed with him,

and Kate was galloping backwards and forwards between the cricket and her father, occasionally reminding him of things she claimed she hadn't done, like forcing the sale of home farm.

After Adam realised the only person talking to him was Ian, he potted off to go and find him.

So he interrupted the entirely untrained general manager of a country house hotel on a bank holiday Monday.

I do not know what it is that Ian is getting out of that relationship.

I really don't. My only conclusion is that Adam has the equivalent of a thermos tucked into his corduroyce.

Adam has decided, as is human nature, that the blame should all be laid at the feet of the person that isn't there, i.e. Deby.

After he'd had this revelation and decided that none of it was actually his fault at all,

he wanted to go and share the good news with Kate and Alice, who weren't talking to him.

Presumably, he decided this was because Mercury was retrograde. Adam, if someone isn't answering

your text and calls, it's because they don't want to talk to you, so respect that, and stop

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