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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, Matt Rodriguez-Pain and James Everett.

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 Justin and Lillian bickering boringly. I rapidly became as annoyed as both of them because the scriptwriters forced me to side with Justin, and I hate it when that happens. He suggested drowning the bloody kitten in an ice bucket so he could crack on with his Sunday dinner. Lillian tried to cheat, and Jolene said she was making a mockery of the whole thing. I agree, I can't bear people being frivolous about a serious game of name the sound effect. Pat, with her lightning brain, immediately picked up on the fact that George was not happy and was having a fairly appalling time in prison. He's not really going to have any other sort of time, is he? And also, what exactly can anyone do

about that? I mean, I know the mood Emma's in. She's quite likely to want to be airlifted into

the prison yard from a helicopter, kick the doors in, throwing young offenders behind her, but it's

unlikely. Alan Bennett appeared on The Archers, playing Wesley Hutchinson, who sparked what must surely

have been the most pointless of all

recent storylines, namely whether or not Jolene should call people my darling or not. I mean,

the problem with stories like this is, apart from the fact that this one made me want to rip Kenton

apart with my bare hands, that they involve the character saying things like, I hate this,

I'm really fed up with this, this is ridiculous, etc, which immediately prompts a listener to agree,

wholeheartedly and loudly, and if you're me, with expletive. Brad was approached by Justin. Justin

doesn't really approach though, does he? He sidles. He's one of those people whose air of

shifty mystery has now

become second nature to such an extent that he probably insists on having his hair cut in the dark in a

phone box. Anyway, watching Brad working with Justin is like watching a guinea pig being paired with a

leopard in a game of tag wrestling. Crossy and Rex completely forgot to renew the rewilding lease,

despite rewilding being entirely focused on the land itself and its stewardship. Well, it's an easy mistake to make, like a swimming pool forgetting to pay its water bill. Anyway, they were confident that Justin being such a relaxed and straightforward chap wouldn't mind. They were too focused on having an entire video marketing campaign driven by the

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