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Ambridge on the Couch - this week on The Archers

The Aldridges ring a cracked bell

Ambridge on the Couch - this week on The Archers

Ambridge on the Couch

Performing Arts, After Shows, Arts, Tv & Film, Archers Radio4 Soap

4.7610 Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2026

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

We all enjoy both an Aldridge punch-up (sans bottle this time), and Susan has a List of Designated Walks

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Welcome to Ambridge on the couch. An in-depth look at the archers with me, Jeff Thomas.

0:23.6

I'm laughing already.

0:25.8

Lucy, in anticipation of your recap, Lucy.

0:32.2

With me, Jeff Thomas, Lucy Freeman, James Everett and Matt Rodriguez Payne.

0:38.3

Now, before we make a start on your emails, let's have a recap of what happened and

0:43.3

what happened this week in Ambridge.

0:47.3

We began the week with Carol being a cow again and refusing to let Leonard in until he had

0:52.3

declared the presence of cake. But in her defence, I'd get pretty annoyed if I had an octogenarian stalker.

0:58.2

Jill has taken to deploying Leonard to interfere,

1:01.2

as why would she shuffle round the village sticking her o'er in

1:03.8

when she can sit on the sofa eating ginger nuts and watching outlander,

1:07.5

while her slippered mercenary Leonard trundles round the village doing her

1:11.1

beating and getting into trouble, or on this occasion, get a cake tin back. For one horrible

1:16.2

moment, I thought it'd been sent to get the cake back. He'd need to have danger money for that,

1:21.1

not just whatever shriveled rewards Jill's giving him. I'd bite someone that tried to take a lemon

1:25.8

drizzle off me that was given in good faith.

1:28.4

Anyway, Carol has decided that she needs to check if the bats are likely to fall over in the attic,

1:33.8

so has installed the camera up there. She's given them all pendant alarms, does their shopping once a

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