Rutting season for Ruaridh - fan podcast of BBC The Archers
Ambridge on the Couch - this week on The Archers
Ambridge on the Couch
4.7 • 610 Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Brian's put out to pasture and Alice is just put out.
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| 0:00.0 | Love this podcast? |
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| 0:18.0 | Welcome to Ambridge on the couch. |
| 0:20.4 | An in-depth look at the archers with me, Harriet Carmichael, Jeff Thomas, Lucy Freeman, James Everett and Matt Rodriguez-Pain. |
| 0:28.1 | Now, before we make a start on your emails, let's have a recap of what happened this week in Ambridge. |
| 0:34.3 | We began the week with Stella having a panic about the people who have offered her the job |
| 0:38.1 | wanting her to start doing the job and what she was going to do with the dog. |
| 0:42.2 | All was solved as in the grand tradition of archering. |
| 0:45.1 | She dumped her on the grandparents. |
| 0:47.5 | Alistair chatted with Ian at Gay Graebles and refused another anchovy as he didn't want to spoil his lunch. |
| 0:53.6 | Brad, who is being written |
| 0:55.0 | very oddly, sometimes as though he's Stephen Hawking and then as if he's an eight-year-old, |
| 0:59.4 | ushered Ian into the ballroom to find out about another one of Dame's fever dreams, namely |
| 1:03.8 | job shadowing selected at random. Grumpy Ian was horrified to hear that Alan had experienced |
| 1:09.4 | trauma with the courgette and as equally as |
| 1:11.9 | horrified that no one had told him as he hates to miss out on anything he can throw a tantrum about |
| 1:16.0 | and that one very nearly got by him. It was quite a vettie week one day one way or another. We had a bit |
| 1:22.0 | of now then Mr. Eriott when Paul and Alista performed a cesarean and one of Brookfield's calves |
| 1:26.2 | and in thanks, Cleo ate Paul's shoe. |
| 1:29.6 | Paul then popped over to home farm and rescued Rory, who was being gored by a stag. |
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