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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 Debbie, carefully explaining to her brother Adam who she was, where he was, and the fact that she was now Hungarian. That's a lot to deal with when you're in your pants on a camp bed in a Hungarian utility room.

Anyway, she's a bright woman and she swiftly figured out that if she agreed wholeheartedly with Adam

that Brian was a nut job and needed to hand over the farm, Adam would go home again. So she gave him a quick tour of the village fade and a bit of local cheese and urged him to hot foot it back to the airport. Don't want to miss that flight, Adam. No, seven and a half hours is standard checking for air Hungary. Honestly, off you pop now. Once he got home and

had noisily unzipped his jillet, he started laying plans for ousting Brian, reassuring Alice and himself

that Brian would be so much more relaxed once he didn't have the farm to worry about. They tried

this before and Brian was bored to tears and went round annoying everyone, so he knows that's not true.

Brian promptly spiked his guns by saying that he was going ahead with his plan to grow caravans on Stony Field. Well, I'm no pasture expert, but I'd say with a name like that, caravans is probably all you can grow on it. Brian and Adam had the sort of row couples do on a Saturday morning, when one of them tells the other triumphantly they've got seven people coming for dinner and no time to do the big shop. You didn't tell me! Well, you weren't here to tell, but I did tell you anyway, you were standing over there and you said, oh good, I like them, etc, etc. Alice caught a whiff of agro and went trundling off to insert herself into the middle of it all, as usual. They really all deserve each other that lot. Eric the Viking seemed less than impressed by Krusty's big reveal. She said he wasn't excited. Of course he isn't. He's Jacob's brother. The Hackensum Sons don't do excitement. Krusty had a deep and meaningful on Zoom with him and Helen, instead of bloody leaving the house, said,

oh, I'll just be in the next room, conspicuously failing to add with my ear pressed to a glass against the wall.

Eric the Viking did turn out to be actually quite excited in a wide boy sort of way, which made Krusty happy and therefore me too.

David had the cheek to tell Ruth

not to dwell on the Bracker gene test. If David stubs his toe, he ends up in tears in the

fetal position, playing with a toy farmer talking to his dead father, so he's really not in any position

to advise anyone on dealing with momentous issues. Anyway, after he upset her, he went

off to watch more videos of how to apply eyeliner and then went to see George to ask him to take

drone footage of the agricultural show, aerial shots of the Berger van and the Port-a-Lose, etc.

This apparently necessitates Georgie buying another drone, which astonished Amber, who knows perfectly well George has the ass hanging out of his trousers.

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