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The Archers: 17/05/2024

17/05/2024

BBC Radio 4 - The Archers, 17/05/2024

There’s a sad goodbye for Chris, and Chelsea gets carried away.

Chelsea thinks George is living his best life – what with the free family meal at The Bull tonight as well as Oliver’s magnum of champagne.  When George says he hopes things will die down soon, Chelsea doubts it and shows George Fallon ’s post telling the world he’s superman.  George spots a comment from the Borchester Echo wanting to do a feature on him, but isn’t sure he feels comfortable doing it.

Alice gets cold feet as she packs to leave for London with Ruairi tomorrow.  She doesn’t want to leave Martha, but she doesn’t want Martha to see her in this state. Alice checks if she can still drink when she’s in London and Ruairi agrees, but with some rules including only drinking in Ruairi’s company.  In the meantime they decide to get some fresh air and walk Martha’s Shetland pony, Champion.

Chris admits to Tracy that he’s struggling to cope with not only his job and Martha, but also with wondering whether Alice has had a drink or not.  When Tracy calls Alice a piece of work, Chris reminds her that alcoholism is an illness.  Later Tracy bumps into Ruairi and Alice on their walk, telling Alice that Chris, Martha and everyone else would be better off if she didn’t come back from London.

Later while Alice is reading Martha’s bedtime story, Chris explains to Ruairi that he’d hoped that Alice would go back to rehab – it would be one good thing to come from the accident.  When it’s time for Alice to go, Chris says he’ll miss her, and Alice says she’ll miss Martha – and Chris too.

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