I’m away this weekend, at a friend’s wedding. Sadly Alan isn’t conducting the ceremony at St Stephen’s, so I shall be AWOL (Ambridge Without Leave) again. You’ll have to clop your own coconut halves together this week, I’m afraid. See you next week! #TheArchers #AmbridgeAntiques
Mrs Overall, wearing a tabard as usual, carries a tea tray piled high with colourful macaroons. She looks very pleased.
Miss Babs: “Mrs O, crack open the Vino de Milo and some of your delicious macaroons – we’re going to throw a party to celebrate Miss Esme taking over the tenancy of #AmbridgeAntiques!”
Mrs Overall: “Oh, I am pleased!” #TheArchers
Mrs Overall delivers a tragically prophetic line about her macaroons, which have been on a low light since Tuesday: “Slice them finely, or somebody might choke to death! I don’t think she heard me…”
Tracy: “...and 83p change. Enjoy your peanuts! Don’t choke on them or anything! I don’t think she heard me...” #TheArchers #AmbridgeAntiques
Susie Blake continuity announces this week’s Ambridge Antiques.
Continuity: “And now, for those of you who forgot to change your clocks, it’s time for a confusing final 15 minutes of #AmbridgeAntiques.” #TheArchers
Miss Pat: “Help yourself to a cup of tea and Mrs Overall’s delicious homemade macaroons.”
Everyone: “Oh, we are pleased!” #TheArchers #AmbridgeAntiques
Amber: “Reg thought an AAMR would be good for George.”
Emma: “What’s that?”
Amber: “An #AmbridgeAntiques Macaroon Recipe.” #TheArchers
Susie Blake continuity announces this week’s Ambridge Antiques.
Continuity: “And now, for those of you who remembered to change your clocks, it’s time for this week’s visit to #AmbridgeAntiques.” #TheArchers
Mrs Overall, wearing a tabard as usual, carries a tea tray with an antique phonograph on it (an Edison Resin cylinder phonograph, c.1899). She looks very pleased.
Miss Babs: “Mrs O, I’ve just had a mysterious phone call from Mr Brian. Fortunately I secretly recorded it onto this antique phonograph.”
Mrs Overall: “Oh, I am pleased!” #AmbridgeAntiques #TheArchers
Susie Blake continuity announces this week’s Ambridge Antiques.
Continuity: “And now it’s time for this week’s visit to #AmbridgeAntiques. And after last week’s exciting cliffhanger, let’s see if they’re any further on with finding that secret recording of Mr Brian’s confession.” #TheArchers
Mrs Overall, wearing a tabard as usual, carries a tea tray with a mug on it, plus a bottle of Aberfeldy whisky and a pile of shortbread. There is a Highland scene in the background, overlaid with the (barely visible) words ‘Take the High Road’. It is an opening title screen from the iconic Scottish soap opera of the same name (1980–2003). She looks very pleased.
Miss Babs: “Mrs O, we’re all moving to Scotland and relaunching #TakeTheHighRoad. And they want you to take the part of Mrs Mack!”
Mrs Overall: “Oh, I am pleased!” #AmbridgeAntiques #TheArchers
Susie Blake is thrilled to read out the birthdays in Birthday Parade, complete with wallaby hops from Wally Wallaby. (Within reason. She’s an announcer, not Fatima Whitbread.) From ‘Victoria Wood As Seen On TV’ (1985-1987).
Continuity: “Hello. Now it’s time for Birthday Parade. Again. Martha Carter is five years old this week. Her mummy says can she please have five beaver bounces from Barry Beaver. I think Mummy must be a little bit common, judging by the sun lounger.” #AmbridgeAntiques #TheArchers
Mrs Overall, wearing a tabard as usual, carries a tea tray piled high with colourful macaroons. She looks very pleased.
Miss Babs: “Mrs O, we’re going to need a lot more of your delicious macaroons to bring about a biscuit-based peace to the world beyond #AmbridgeAntiques, I’m afraid.”
Mrs Overall: “Oh, I am pleased!” #TheArchers
Susie Blake continuity announces this week’s Ambridge Antiques.
Continuity: “And now it’s time for this week’s visit to #AmbridgeAntiques. And after last week’s exciting cliffhanger, let’s see if they’re any further on with opening that chic new antiques boutique in Franchesterford.” #TheArchers
Mrs Overall, wearing a tabard as usual, and a red beret at a jaunty angle, not as usual, carries a tea tray with a Louis XIV gold decorative clock on it. Propped up in front of her, the top-right hand corner of a painting is visible: a couple of umbrellas against a background of buildings, from Caillebotte’s ‘Paris Street, Rainy Day’. She looks very pleased.
Miss Babs: “Box up those French antiques, Mrs O – we’re opening a chic new antiques boutique in… Franchesterford!”
Mrs Overall: “Ooh, la la!” #AmbridgeAntiques #TheArchers
Susan: “…and 59p change. Enjoy your antiques!” #AmbridgeAntiques #TheArchers
Susie Blake continuity announces this week’s Ambridge Antiques.
Continuity: “And now it’s time for this week’s visit to #AmbridgeAntiques. And after last week’s exciting cliffhanger, let’s see if they’re any further on with counting the results of the Loxley Norton and Hollerton by-election.” #TheArchers
Mrs Overall, wearing a tabard as usual, carries a tea tray with a mug and a BAFTA award on it. She looks very pleased.
Miss Babs: “Mrs O, don’t forget it’s the #BAFTAs tonight. They’ve asked you to present the award for Best Contemporary Drama in an Antique Shop Setting!”
Mrs Overall: “Oh, I am pleased!” #AmbridgeAntiques #TheArchers
Susie Blake continuity announces this week’s Ambridge Antiques.
Continuity: “And now, for the young at heart and weak in the head, it’s #RoundTheHorne! Oh – no, I’m sorry, that’s on the other side. It’s #AmbridgeAntiques. Again.” #TheArchers
Mrs Overall, wearing a tabard as usual, carries a tea tray with a bottle of chardonnay and a boxed game of Cluedo on it. She looks very pleased.
Miss Babs: “Mystery solved, Mrs O! It was Mr Ruairi, on the bridle path, with the bottle of Chardonnay!”
Mrs Overall: “Oh, I am pleased!” #AmbridgeAntiques #TheArchers #Cluedo
Susie Blake continuity announces this week’s Ambridge Antiques.
Continuity: “And now it’s time for this week’s visit to #AmbridgeAntiques. And after last week’s exciting cliffhanger, let’s see if they’re any further on with disinfecting that antique engagement ring.” #TheArchers
Mrs Overall, wearing a tabard as usual, carries a tea tray with a mug on it, and also a tiny, barely mug-height model of some of the stones from Stonehenge. She looks very pleased.
Miss Babs: “Mrs O, we’ve just had a delivery of a VERY old antique. It’s none other than STONEHENGE!”
Mrs Overall: “Oh, I am pleased!” #AmbridgeAntiques #TheArchers #SpinalTap #Stonehenge
Mrs Overall, lying on the floor of Acorn Antiques, has just choked to death on her own macaroon. Miss Babs and Miss Berta are standing over her. They all think filming has finished. Mrs O says: “I thought that went quite well, didn’t you?” Miss Babs replies: “Mm, it was all right.” The director says, in a loud whisper, “STILL ON AIR!”, and Mrs O plays dead again.
Lilian: “I thought that went quite well, didn’t you?”
Justin: “Mm, it was all right.”
Studio Manager (whisper): “STILL ON AIR!” #TheArchers #AmbridgeAntiques
Susan: “...and 53p change. Enjoy your antiques!” #TheArchers #AmbridgeAntiques
Susie Blake continuity announces this week’s Ambridge Antiques.
Continuity: “And now it’s time for this week’s visit to #AmbridgeAntiques. And after last week’s exciting cliffhanger, let’s see if they’re any further on with getting the cows in.” #TheArchers
Mrs Overall, wearing a tabard as usual, carries a tea tray with an antique teddy bear on it. She looks very pleased.
Miss Babs: “Mrs O – fetch that antique teddy bear. We’re going to have a baby shower for Miss Amber!”
Mrs Overall: “Oh, I am pleased!” #AmbridgeAntiques #TheArchers
Susie Blake continuity announces this week’s Ambridge Antiques.
Continuity: “And now it’s time for this week’s visit to #AmbridgeAntiques. And after last week’s exciting cliffhanger, let’s see if they’re any further on with invading Greenland.” #TheArchers
Mrs Overall, wearing a tabard as usual, carries a tea tray with a mug on it. The mug bears the text ‘I Chardonnayed GG’, with a picture of George Grundy underneath, rather in the style of those ‘I Shot JR’ mugs you could get in 1980, in the long summer between seasons 3 and 4 of ‘Dallas’. Also on the tray is a bottle of Chardonnay, appropriately enough named ‘Pitchfork’. She looks very pleased.
Miss Babs: “Quick, Mrs O, plant that antique bottle of Chardonnay in Mr Chris’s forge – I think we might have got away with it!”
Mrs Overall: “Oh, I am pleased!” #AmbridgeAntiques #TheArchers
Susan: “...and 53 change. Enjoy your antiques!” #TheArchers #AmbridgeAntiques
Susie Blake continuity announces this week’s Ambridge Antiques.
Continuity: “Well this is where we unfortunately have to lose half our audience. Because there's a much better programme on Radio 2.” #AmbridgeAntiques #TheArchers
Mrs Overall, wearing a tabard as usual, carries a tea tray with Cluedo and Guess Who on. She looks very pleased.
Miss Babs: “Mrs O, you can put away Cluedo and Guess Who. Borchesterford Police say they’ve solved the mystery of who Chardonnayed Mr George, so #AmbridgeAntiques Games Night is cancelled!”
Mrs Overall: “Oh, I am pleased!” #TheArchers
