Charlotte Higgins on The Archers: Emma Grundy cancels Christmas!

While her family roast their own turkeys, bitter Emma calls a halt to festivities, what with her son being banged up. Then Joy’s mystery daughter arrives, fresh from a … cult?The wheel of fortune has turned. This Christmas, the Aldridges – finally on an even keel after Alice was exonerated from involvement in the fateful car crash on the Am – spent a day of familial bliss dining on Scandinavian themed treats, like so many Norse gods in a Wagner opera, under the elegant a