Has The Archers lost the plot with it's spicy storylines?

It is a convention of a long-running drama series that each programme begins with a reminder of what's already happened. So, imagine this one (spoken in portentous tones)... Previously on The Archers: Eddie Grundy milks a cow, there's a crumpet under the grill at Lower Loxley Farm and Tom is having a crisis with his sausages. Since New Year's Day, 1951, there have been 17,575 episodes of The Archers and, for many of them, the events listed above (none of which I believe has actually happened) a