Name: 2025 05 07 The Archers Soap Opera
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So I was forced into The Archers when I was a child.

And look, it's come back to bite me later on.

The Archers is the world's longest running radio show with more than 15,000 episodes broadcast.

Despite being a rural flavour show, The Archers is recorded in the heart of the UK's second largest city, Birmingham.

You're listening to Wednesday's episode of The Archers, from BBC Radio 4.

All right then, give your mum my love and I'll talk to you later.

I heard you getting up at least three times in the night.

And you managed to hear this while you were fast asleep?

We'll turn into zombies if we don't sort it out.

I need at least six good hours, not a jumbled mess of weird dreams.

Well, I put a coffee on for you and there's one croissant left.

Yes, I'm hoping to go with him to see his mum tonight.

Yeah, but hopefully the consultant will say she can go home tomorrow.

Well, Vince is eager to get her home as soon as possible.

You hear too many stories of elderly people who break a bone and never quite get over it.

Oh, he told me to tell you that he's already at the abattoir if you want to work from home this morning.

He also said, what a solid, dependable man you are.

Would you think he would put that in writing for me for the Lower Loxley trustees?

It's so nice to be seen as a decent human being for once, instead of the wild, feckless man-boy they seem to think I am.

He's grown up quite a lot in the last couple of years.

Aha, so you were also part of the is feckless school of thought.

Pass me that croissant, Freddy, and learn how to take a compliment.

No, but to be fair, it does actually really mean something when Vince hands out a compliment.

I've learnt loads from him, especially in the last week at work when something goes wrong.

He switches into this strategic mode and just deals with it.

No bluster, no stress, which, you know, means people around him stay calm too.

And if any week was going to test him, this was the week.

He even managed to spin some of the news reports so we came across as the superheroes protecting the nation's food from the crazies.

Yeah, but that woman Saskia could easily have grabbed the headlines as a rebel hero if Vince hadn't got in there quickly.

But hardly anyone saw the live stream on the big screens before the police got there, and we've actually done a really good job of blocking the footage online too.

It's the product recalls that are doing the most damage in terms of public perception, and there's not a lot we can do about that.

You're worried about your potential academy contract?

When parents hear the words poison, meat and school meals in the same sentence...

Yeah, but even if it was never poisoned in the first place?

Well, Vince seems confident the supermarkets will come back after a few weeks when the spotlight is off, but I think the schools are a different matter.

Probably not, but you know, Mum, it's my project, and one I really believe in.

I was speaking to the head of the academy chain this morning.

Customers abandon Bridge Farm in their droves after the sewage disaster, but they're slowly drifting back.

Isn't it just a case of weathering the storm with this too?

I'm just trying it out for a couple of hours.

I imagine it's a lovely place to work, surrounded by all this history.

Chelsea's kindly been showing me the ropes.

Always Susan and me, putting the world to rights.

It's not easy getting my head round a whole new job.

I was thinking about treating myself while I gathered my courage to go and speak to Elizabeth, but I've decided I'd be better off if I just took at it over with.

Is this about the incident at Casey Meats?

Well, officially I'm here to deliver a poster about the events in the village tomorrow.

Elizabeth's agreed to put it up at the start of the Lower Loxley tour, but obviously I feel like I should apologise for what Rochelle did.

I do a one-year update on using my Walla.

The main reason that I got this was because of the dual function with the straw and also basically has this opening right here.

So obviously if this is full of water, you can sip the straw like that, but it also has this opening so that if you want to drink it like kind of like a coffee style, I call it, you can do that, which is cool.

One of the things about other companies that I don't like is if you were to lay this down, water would just spill out.

And this has this really nice silicone topper right there that when you push this closed, it latches and then it doesn't, it just doesn't open anymore until you push this button.

It has this really nice carrying handle as well.

You can push that closed and it'll actually cover the button so it doesn't accidentally get pushed.

Obviously you can push that up when you open it again.

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