The Archers - Spoilers

[Ellipsis]

A separate "spoilers" thread to avoid revealing plotlines in other Archers threads.

[hellywelly4]

The Archers keeps popping up in unexpected places - on Countryfile tonight!

[mikey4444]

Prudie....My best guess, for the immediate future is that Henry will be claimed by Ursula and Husband, as he is Rob's nearest relative, legally, to Helen.

Watch out a custody battle between the Archers and the Titcheners !

Peggy should be ashamed of herself by the way !

[seadogg]

Maybe Jess will come to the rescue of Helen by revealing what a nasty control freak Rod is/was.

[mikey4444]

She may very well do but will it be enough to save Helen ?

[jourdain2]

Hope so. So difficult for Helen to explain. But Jess will be important and so, hopefully, will all the other doubters/witnesses to Rob's violent streak be. I do wish poisonous Susan would shut up.

[ladybirder]

Remind me who actually owns Blossom Hill Cottage please.

[Prudie]

Didn't Peggy gift it to Helen (I may be way off here).
As for Helen even if all of us listeners told what had been going on that wouldn't get Helen off would it? After all she did stab him. Can't see how this will be resolved.

[Ric.ror]

Did rob actually get around to adopting Henry?
I thought it was still in the planning stages

[jourdain2]

No, Roc - he actually adopted Henry.

[Ric.ror]

Oh dear
And there's the new baby to consider too

[jourdain2]

I think we are seeing an example of when the law parts away from common sense. :(

[ladybirder]

Thanks Prudie. I'm not sure whether she did or not.
Helen needs to stop saying No Comment. Wonder what Henry said to the police. I can see Rob, Ursula and Henry ending up together in BH cottage, in the short term anyway. Unless Rob dies, obviously. In soaps the police always get it wrong, to start with anyway. I think we've got month and months before this storyline comes to an end.

[Ellipsis]

Things will be OK in the end. It may take a while - worst case a conviction followed by successful appeal - but I don't see the scriptwriters or the listeners accepting that a victim of coercive behaviour, and one of the title characters at that, ends up serving a long sentence for something she didn't do.

[Ric.ror]

Mind you this is Helen and no one liked her before he came along

[zebo]

I thought he had step-parental rights, short of full adoption because he didn't want to go through investigations. Is it me or does Rob's father seem a bit like him in the way he speaks to Ursula?

[ladybirder]

Zebo on The Archers' website, Henry is listed as Rob's adopted son.
And no it's not just you. Rob's father has taught his son well by the sound of it!

[mikey4444]

Good old Jill to the rescue !

I love Jill....I wish she was my Mum !

[hellywelly4]

Agreed Mikey! Let's home things will get better for Helen from now on.

[The Builder]

I can see Henry growing up to be the next Anders Breivik.

Now that would be another great storyline ... ;o)

[melv16]

I've just looked on the archer's web site and found out I share my birthday with Helen Archer! OMG!!