The Archers
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WRITER: Daniel Thurman DIRECTOR: Marina Caldarone Jolene Archer…. Buffy Davies Kenton Archer…. Richard Attlee Harrison Burns…. James Cartwright Chris Carter …. Wilf Scolding Emma Grundy …. Emerald O‘Hanrahan George Grundy …. Angus Stobie Jakob Hakansson …. Paul Venables Brad Horrorbin …. Taylor Uttley Elizabeth Pargetter…. Alison Dowling Freddie Pargetter …. Toby Laurence Hannah Riley…. Helen Longworth Fallon Rogers…. Joanna Van Kampen Lynda Snell …. Carole Boyd Robert Snell …. Michael Bertenshaw
At the Bull, Emma tries to appeal to Jolene about George’s ban. But Jolene won’t stand for George’s backchat. Upset Emma swears George has grown up and argues with Jolene, with Kenton caught in the middle. Jolene tells Emma that if she has a problem with her decision, she knows where the door is. Kenton challenges Jolene on her mood swings. Jolene doesn’t want bad people in the pub, and Kenton realises what’s up, thinking back to his attack. It’s time to move on, and there’s no point alienating anyone, including Tracy and Emma. If Brad and George apologise, will Jolene let the matter go? She agrees – they had better mean it, though. George sets up his next video, with Chris all dressed up to demonstrate his work as a farrier, attending to Bartleby. He tells Chris about being barred from the Bull and Chris chats about the Cricket Chair nominations – he’ll vote for Lynda, and Harrison wants to recruit younger players. In return for today’s filming, Chris wants George and Brad to come along to cricket nets practice tomorrow and watch the team. Chris is a natural on camera, even adlibbing and giving George instructions to join in with what he’s doing, filing Bartleby’s hooves. Emma asks about the video and George is annoyed that all the comments are about ‘fit’ Chris. Emma’s pleased to receive a text from Kenton, offering George an olive branch. But George stubbornly refuses to go and apologise to Jolene. Emma seethes and threatens to cancel his phone contract if he doesn’t say sorry.
Worried George plays Jakob a video of Bartleby and asks the vet to look at him. Jakob spots the evidence of Bartleby not eating properly and decides on a change of treatment and a special diet. George worries about the cost and tries to secure a free prescription in return for some social media publicity. Jakob reminds George to focus on animal welfare, not publicity. Without the care Jakob recommends, he doesn’t see Bartleby surviving another winter. Kenton has a surprise to perk Jolene up. He’s come up with an idea for a special Easter community event. An easter egg hunt crossed with an egg and spoon relay race. He explains the details and Jolene wryly tells him to focus on his recovery. But he has it covered – Jolene is going to take centre stage to run the event. But she says no. Kenton’s disappointed he hasn’t cheered Jolene up. Elizabeth pops in and Kenton opens up about distant and distracted Jolene. Elizabeth shuts Kenton down when he mentions that Jolene seems panicky about money. He asks Elizabeth to cheer Jolene up, and Jolene works this out, but enjoys Elizabeth’s company. Elizabeth asks Jolene about the Kenton attack investigation, and Jolene puts her off asking Harrison for an update, with Elizabeth changing topic to Kenton’s complicated Easter event plans. Jolene will surely host and adjudicate? Jolene says no, but as Elizabeth offers a pep talk Jolene remembers working the crowds in the past and starts to gee herself up. Okay, she won’t hide away any longer. Elizabeth’s delighted.
Writer: Tim Stimpson Director: Rosemary Watts Pip Archer ……… Daisy Badger Brian Aldridge ………Charles Collingwood Lilian Bellamy …….Sunny Ormonde Sgt Harrison Burns ……. James Cartwright Chris Carter……… Wilf Scolding Alice Carter ……….Hollie Chapman Justin Elliot ……… Simon Williams George Grundy…….Angus Stobie Tracy Horrobin …….. Susie Riddell Kate Madikane ……… Perdita Avery Stella Pryor ……….. Lucy Speed Lynda Snell ………. Carole Boyd Oliver Sterling ……Michael Cochrane Hannah Riley ……..Helen Longworth Robert Snell…………Michael Bertenshaw Miranda Elliot ……………Lucy Fleming
Chris flummoxes Lynda by telling her she’d make a great Chair for the cricket club committee, explaining that Tracy suggested her. Lynda humbly insists that Harrison is consulted, so Chris invites Lynda to the get together at the pub that Harrison has organised. Encouraged by Chris, Lynda makes her case for becoming Chair, pointing out improvements she’d like to make to facilities, using her Grey Gables connection and potential funding. She’d also make the Club more inclusive. Harrison’s delighted to nominate Lynda, with Chris happy to second. But unwitting Robert turns up and explains he’s here about the Chair position – Tracy suggested it to him. Robert and Lynda both insist that the other should stand, and realise they should continue the conversation at home, leaving Chris scratching his head and Harrison admitting he’d prefer Lynda. Harrison tells Chris that with his problems at work, his cricket captaincy and today’s gathering is a useful distraction. It’s a small affair but Stella and Hannah turn up, and Stella encourages Hannah not to turn to jelly around Chris. Stella opens up about how much of her attention Rosie is grabbing, and Hannah tells her to be honest with Pip and set boundaries. Hannah agrees to front up and ask Chris out, if Stella is honest with Pip. Hannah is true to her word, although Chris misses the hint when she gets chatting with him about meeting up one to one, and she ends up agreeing to some private cricket coaching. But a deal’s a deal, so now Stella needs to talk to Pip about Rosie.
Justin makes Stella an interesting offer, and hare spotting is the order of the day at the rewilding.
Robert’s on edge attending to breakfast for fussy B&B guests the Philpotts. Lynda calmly encourages Robert to take himself off and find something to distract himself and restore his usual amiability. Robert stumbles upon George with Bartleby the pony and George’s ears prick up as Robert jokes about Bartleby being the oldest horse in the world. When Robert shares some initial research with George about the oldest living horse, George gets excited by the idea that the ‘title’ could be vacant. Lynda finds them and warns Robert not to encourage George. Robert admits that he wasn’t in the mood for bird watching, and Lynda realises he needs a new hobby to keep him busy – but what? Kate checks with Brian that Alice is ok. Brian is glad Alice reached out to him and she seemed happier yesterday. Kate reckons she had suspicions about Harry from the start. Kate quizzes Brian on where he was on Friday, looking very smart. Just a Rotary club dinner, he says, changing the subject. Kate finds Alice, who insists she’s fine, and they realise that Brian told them different stories about his whereabouts. Kate thought he was acting strangely earlier, and he’s been rather ‘perky’ lately – could it be down to a woman? Kate puts Brian on the spot and he admits he has been seeing someone, but it’s over - he didn’t want to upset his daughters over Jenny. Alice encourages her Dad to follow his own advice to her and live his life. Kate agrees, and Brian’s left pondering rearranging a date – but says let’s just see how it goes.
Writer: Sarah Hehir Director: Kim Greengrass and Rosemary Watts Editor: Jeremy Howe Brian Aldridge ……… Charles Collingwood Tony Archer ……. David Troughton Chris Carter …… Wilf Scolding Alice Carter ……… Hollie Chapman Justin Elliot ……. Simon Williams Will Grundy ……. Philip Molloy Emma Grundy …… Emerald O'Hanrahan Ed Grundy …….. Barry Farrimond George Grundy …… Angus Stobie Kate Madikane ……. Perdita Avery Fallon Rogers ………. Joanna Van Kampen Jakob Hakansson ………. Paul Venables Paul Mack …….. Joshua Riley Miranda Elliott …… Lucy Fleming
Emma and Ed tell Will they’ve discussed his offer of finance for the tree surgery business and want to take him up on it. All three are excited but George is less than impressed. He asks if Will has lost his mind remortgaging their home, saying that if Ed and Emma mess up the family be out on the street. Later Will says he listened to George and has asked Brian Aldridge to look at their business plan. He adds the Grundys have always lived hand to mouth and he doesn’t want to be like that. Later, while drinking a toast, Will tells Ed and Emma he has concerns about their business plan and doesn’t want to sign anything until it is watertight. He leaves them with a list of notes for ways they need to improve it. Annoyed, Ed wonders whether their partnership is going to work. Alice and Chris have an angry and emotional exchange. She can’t understand what he is so wound up about. He reveals that finding out about Harry from Harrison reminded him of all of Alice’s lies when she was drinking. Distraught, Alice says she would never have started a relationship with Harry had she known. Later he apologises to Alice – he didn’t want to make her feel she’s not a good mother but he doesn’t know how to get rid of the fear she’ll relapse. She worries things will always be difficult between them because he will never completely trust her. But to Alice, Martha is all that matters.
Chris questions Alice’s judgement, and not everyone is happy with the new look in the Tearoom.
WRITER: Katie Hims DIRECTOR: Mel Ward Brian Aldridge … Charles Collingwood Harrison Burns …..James Cartwright Alice Carter ….. Hollie Chapman Chris Carter ….. Wilf Scolding Harry Chilcott ….. Jack Ashton Emma Grundy…… Emerald O'Hanrahan Jakob Hakansson …. Paul Venables Alistair Lloyd ….. Michael Lumsden Jim Lloyd ……. John Rowe Paul Mack …… Joshua Riley Denise Metcalf ……. Clare Perkins Jazzer McCreary ….Ryan McCreary Fallon Rogers ….. Joanna Van Kampen
Alistair tells Jakob he has to leave. He can’t stay now Denise knows how he feels. Jakob says their partnership means a great deal, particularly as he doesn’t get on well with people. As he begs Alistair not to talk to Doug today, Don James turns up instead, and he’s a lot less amiable. The team is shaken after his visit. He leaves them a list of 50 things they need to improve. Alistair says they just have to take on the useful stuff and ignore the rest. Then he announces his plan to leave the practice, shocking Denise. And Paul says nothing Alistair is saying makes sense – everyone loves him. Angry, he demands to know why Denise is so quiet. He says his colleagues are being really weird and accuses Alistair of lying. Jakob snaps at Paul to shut up – and rants that Paul talks constantly and acts like the whole world revolves around him. Paul leaves, hurt, but Jakob is unrepentant. Emma tells Fallon she and Ed still haven’t decided whether to accept money from Will for the tree surgery business. As Emma goes on insensitively about how secure Harrison’s career is as a policeman, Fallon reveals that, in fact, there’s a chance he could lose his job. Harrison turns up and asks Emma whether Tracy might let him take over captaining the cricket team. She says she’ll make quiet enquiries. Later Fallon suggests he might consider taking a second job instead. They have no way of knowing what’s going to happen with the hearing.
Fallon loses her cool, and Denise is on the receiving end of some emotional blackmail.
Denise receives an unexpected declaration, while Fallon and Harrison worry about what lies ahead.
WRITER: Katie Hims DIRECTOR: Dave Payne Kenton Archer…. Richard Attlee Jolene Archer…. Buffy Davis Harrison Burns …. James Cartwright Alice Carter …. Hollie Chapman Neil Carter …. Brian Hewlett Susan Carter …. Charlotte Martin Harry Chilcott …. Jack Ashton Justin Elliott …. Simon Williams Tracy Horrobin…. Susie Riddell Alistair Lloyd…. Michael Lumsden Jim Lloyd …. John Rowe Adam Macy …. Andrew Wincott Jazzer McCreary…. Ryan Kelly Fallon Rogers…. Joanna Van Kampen Inspector Norris…. Bharti Patel
Jim mentions to Alistair that the EV Charging Station is making great progress. When Jim points out how frosty things appear between Alistair and Jazzer, Alistair explains it’s because Jazzer was a bit judgey when he asked him for some advice about Denise. When Alistair admits to Jim that he’s in love with Denise, Jim’s not surprised; it’s clear they’re fond of each other. However, Jazzer thought that despite their mutual feelings, Alistair shouldn’t get involved with Denise because she’s married. Tracy’s annoyed with Jazzer for the poor turn out at The Bull quiz last night. Jazzer had put word out that people should take care after the dog attack on Kenton. Later Jazzer outlines to Kenton his idea for a one night only ‘Jazzer Special’ to encourage people back to The Bull. But Tracy worries it will go wrong and Jolene’s equally stressed when Kenton explains Jazzer’s plans. Jim visits Jazzer as he’s practicing ‘Parkour in the Pub’ even though Jazzer hasn’t ever done it before. When Jim broaches the subject of Alistair and Denise, Jazzer’s adamant that Alistair shouldn’t act on his feelings, because of Denise’s marital status. But Jim points out that we only have one life, and that both he and Jazzer need to trust Alistair to do the right thing. Later at a packed Bull, Jazzer’s chickened out of the parkour and left Jim to explain to the assembled crowd that Jazzer’s ‘injured himself’. Then Jazzer takes to the floor to make an emotional speech, indirectly telling Alistair that life is short and that he trusts Alistair to make the right decision.
