Archers Addicts.

5 kittens, right. That's one for Joy, to have someone else to chat to. One for Kirsty and Philip in their new house. One for Kate to keep to lure Yacob round. Any ideas for the other two?

Please ignore my previous post!

Oooh, we could be in for Christmas kittens then!

Approximately 9 weeks, Merlot.

Well done merlot!

Kate, as ever is being daft!

Mind you, I expected better of Peggy, you would have thought she would have got Hilda spayed!

What's the gestation period for a cat??

phoenix surely that is going a bit far, Peggy deserved a bit of stress herself as she does dish out some to everyone else I think Joy has escaped from Holby City, wasn't she Scary Sue????? sounds very much like her, she was a nightmare as well, although she was lonely like Joy seems to be (perhaps Scary Sue has changed her name ?????)

"Interesting" is hardly the word for Joy!

for the first time in a loong, loooong time I have actually felt sorry for Peggy!

Interesting new character AyjayF, put in there to drive listeners (and other people in the village) to distraction. She's desperately lonely, Rochelle has probably run to the hills and has vanishingly little contact with her needy mother. Breakdown city. Maybe she's to be yet another Archers character with m.h. problems.

I'm beginning to feel a bit sorry for Joy. Why doesn't anyone point her towards the W.I. or the church flower rota or the traffic census. She'd be an asset in all these areas. Good new character though

He'll stay with the Grundy's, have a key role in the funeral. If the Grundy's need him cared for elsewhere given the possible move, I'm sure Shula will step in.

I think Bartleby will pine for Joe and die pretty soon.

Agree, it has to be Bartleby. What's going to happen to him?

So, the funeral? They've got the plot sorted, I seem to remember Wiwlyum had a wicker coffin for Nick (green burial ground and all that) and you can have wicker coffins or even just a "proper" shroud (as in not just a winding sheet)

Still think it should be pony & trap with Joe's beloved Bartleby.

Me too, making me cry!

Lovely scene with Clarrie & Susan, glad they are friends again.

Beautifully done.

I was trying to listen while trying to shush three children! I’ll listen again on the iPlayer, so I can cry in peace.

So well done Eddy and not over sentimental.

Who do we have to fill that slot now? Bert has gone to ground. Joe took over so well from Walter.

No Maw not silly. I needed so many tissues!

I’m glad I wasn’t driving home- I was in bits. How silly can you get

I missed the beginning! Was there music?

What a soliloquy. I have just heard it driving home and it was hard not to concentrate more on the emotions Eddie produced than the road. And then how William and Ed responded - excellent

Eddie's goodbye to Joe was beautifully handled.
It must be very difficult once an actor has died to work it into the script but this was done sensitively

What a lovely way for Eddie to say goodbye to his dad. So very moving.