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Note that spoilers are included below the cast and crew.

Cast :
Brian Aldridge - Charles Collingwood
Pip Archer - Daisy Badger
Ruth Archer - Felicity Finch
Lilian Bellamy - Sunny Ormonde
Alice Carter - Hollie Chapman
Chris Carter - Wilf Scolding
Rex Fairbrother - Nick Barber
Chelsea Horrobin - Madeleine Leslay
Bert Horrobin - David Sterne
Tracy Horrobin - Susie Riddell
Adam Macy - Andrew Wincott
Azra Malik - Yasmin Wilde
Kirsty Miller - Annabelle Dowler
Stella Pryor - Lucy Speed
Fallon Rogers - Joanna Van Kampen
Lottie Summers - Bonnie Baddoo
Ms Shah - Sudha Bhuchar

Writer : Shaun Mckenna
Director : Rosemary Watts
Director : Pip Swallow
Editor : Jeremy Howe

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Spoilers:
Sunday 12th - Bert is threatening to sue, and Brian feels herCOs being ambushed.
Monday 13th - Alice catches up with Fallon, and Lilian makes a promise.
Tuesday 14th - Stella tries to keep her fears in check, and Lottie plans
a date with someone new.
Wednesday 15th - Bert warns Chelsea not to be too trusting and there's
an embarrassing moment
between Fallon and Rex
Thursday 16th - Pip goes to her appointment, and Ruth is supportive.
Friday 17th - Alice thinks she needs to take action, and Brian admits
the truth to Lilian.



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RT Review by David Crawford

It has been foreshadowed subtly, even by querulous Carol Tregorran, but
after Pip discovers a lump in her breast, an anxious Stella and an
empathetic Ruth support her at the clinic appointment. Could the
Brookfield wedding fall apart in the worst possible way?

Brian finally tells Lilian whatrCOs happening between him and George rCo leaving her horrified at the implications. A coffee rCLin the Irish stylerCY may be in order.


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We last heard from Bert in 2012. I wonder whether an absence of 14 years
is long enough for us not to notice a change in voice. Back then, he
sounded more like Martyn Read.


Ms Shah will be Pip's doctor, no doubt. Sudha Bhuchar previously
appeared in 2018, as Sandeep Johal, an environment officer.
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On Fri, 10 Apr 2026 22:26:44 +0100, carolet <carolet.umrat@gmail.com>
wrote:

Writer : Shaun Mckenna

Another heavyweight in the writing profession guesting on TA. I don't
think he's written for the programme for some time.

We last heard from Bert in 2012. I wonder whether an absence of 14 years
is long enough for us not to notice a change in voice. Back then, he
sounded more like Martyn Read.

On first reading I didn't pay enough attention to the cast list and
jumped to the (wrong) conclusion that a different Bert was back from
the dead.

Nick
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On 10/04/2026 23:02, Nick Odell wrote:

On Fri, 10 Apr 2026 22:26:44 +0100, carolet <carolet.umrat@gmail.com>
wrote:

Writer : Shaun Mckenna

Another heavyweight in the writing profession guesting on TA. I don't
think he's written for the programme for some time.

We last heard from Bert in 2012. I wonder whether an absence of 14 years
is long enough for us not to notice a change in voice. Back then, he
sounded more like Martyn Read.

On first reading I didn't pay enough attention to the cast list and
jumped to the (wrong) conclusion that a different Bert was back from
the dead.

Nick

YANAOU

john
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On 2026/4/11 7:9:17, john ashby wrote:

On 10/04/2026 23:02, Nick Odell wrote:

On Fri, 10 Apr 2026 22:26:44 +0100, carolet <carolet.umrat@gmail.com>
wrote:

[]

We last heard from Bert in 2012. I wonder whether an absence of 14 years >>> is long enough for us not to notice a change in voice. Back then, he
sounded more like Martyn Read.

On first reading I didn't pay enough attention to the cast list and
jumped to the (wrong) conclusion that a different Bert was back from
the dead.

Nick

YANAOU

john

Indeed! (I can't actually place who new Bert is.)
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British people think Americans are stupid and vulgar but funny.
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On 11/04/2026 11:19, J. P. Gilliver wrote:

On 2026/4/11 7:9:17, john ashby wrote:

On 10/04/2026 23:02, Nick Odell wrote:

On Fri, 10 Apr 2026 22:26:44 +0100, carolet <carolet.umrat@gmail.com>
wrote:

[]

We last heard from Bert in 2012. I wonder whether an absence of 14 years >>>> is long enough for us not to notice a change in voice. Back then, he
sounded more like Martyn Read.

On first reading I didn't pay enough attention to the cast list and
jumped to the (wrong) conclusion that a different Bert was back from
the dead.

Nick

YANAOU

john

Indeed! (I can't actually place who new Bert is.)

Bert Horrobin I think.
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On 10.4.26 22:26, carolet wrote:

We last heard from Bert in 2012. I wonder whether an absence of 14 years
is long enough for us not to notice a change in voice. Back then, he
sounded more like Martyn Read.

Somewhat difficult for Mr Read to read his part I believe hence the
recasting.
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On 10.4.26 22:26, carolet wrote:

We last heard from Bert in 2012. I wonder whether an absence of 14 years
is long enough for us not to notice a change in voice. Back then, he
sounded more like Martyn Read.

Elsewhere it was noted that the character had recently gained a
photograph on the cast list page. One wonders why it was felt necessary
to bring him back.
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On 11/04/2026 13:59, Kosmo wrote:

On 10.4.26 22:26, carolet wrote:

We last heard from Bert in 2012. I wonder whether an absence of 14
years is long enough for us not to notice a change in voice. Back
then, he sounded more like Martyn Read.

Elsewhere it was noted that the character had recently gained a
photograph on the cast list page.-a One wonders why it was felt necessary
to bring him back.

Perhaps in order to kill him off.

john
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On Fri, 10 Apr 2026 22:26:44 +0100, carolet <carolet.umrat@gmail.com>
wrote:

So...

They say we're going to have to wait until

Friday 17th - ..... [before] Brian admits
the truth to Lilian.

Didn't that all come out on Monday night?
What more could possibly be revealed?

Nick
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On 10.4.26 22:26, carolet wrote:

Ms Shah will be Pip's doctor, no doubt. Sudha Bhuchar previously
appeared in 2018,-a as Sandeep Johal, an environment officer.

Not wishing to claim any responsibility but I understand from another
place that Ms Shah's best friend created the part of one Usha Gupta and
indeed there did appear to be vocal similarities. Usha is of course
(unlike Tracy) past the age of regular mammograms so I assume they are unlikely to talk to each other.
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On 17/04/2026 14:33, Kosmo wrote:

On 10.4.26 22:26, carolet wrote:

Ms Shah will be Pip's doctor, no doubt. Sudha Bhuchar previously
appeared in 2018,-a as Sandeep Johal, an environment officer.

Not wishing to claim any responsibility but I understand from another
place that Ms Shah's best friend created the part of one Usha Gupta and indeed there did appear to be vocal similarities.-a Usha is of course (unlike Tracy) past the age of regular mammograms so I assume they are unlikely to talk to each other.

You are right, The Archers Encyclopaedia confirms that Usha Gupta has
been played by both Sudha Bhuchar and Souad Faress.

Usha was born in 1962 and is coming up to 64. The NHS normally carries
out breast screening every 3 years until your 71st birthday, so Usha
might have another 3 mammograms before they stop inviting her to have
one. I doubt whether Usha would encounter Ms Shah during a routine
mammogram though, it sounded as if she deals with cases where there is
cause for concern, found either as a result of a mammogram or because
the patient has found something unusual, as Pip did. Presumably that
could happen after the age of 71.
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CaroleT

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