Source: BBC Radio 4 "The Archers" Archers: 2013-05-22 Wednesday                  http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/archers archers_20130522-1920a.mp3

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Hi, it's Jono. Leave your message. I'll ring you back. / Hi, Jono. It's Helen again. You're a busy chap, aren't you? Um, I haven't seen you for a while, but I'm doing a cheese delivery today, near the swimming pool. Are you still doing that changing room refurbishment? Cause, well, if you are, and you are free at lunch time, maybe we could meet up for a quick bite and a catch up. .... Uh, give me a ring if you can. / Sorry, Helen. Have you been waiting? / No, I've just got here. Just, / making a quick call. / silage / dad / Oh yeah? How is it? / should be ready / next week. / Good. so where is he then? / you want him / well / I thought just you, actually. / Not even mom? / how they are about / ready meals / been / enthusiastic / I guess not. / preocupied there at the moment. I thought / get more useful feedback from you / Yeah, fair enough. / That's all right, isn't it? / fine / ready / presentation then? / Yeah, go ahead / great / find the slides / set up / going to be tomorrow / about a dozen / all / ready meal suppliers / putting up two lines / being / The meatball and the sausage casserole. / OK. / I'll put one of each / oven / actually / actually / I've got plans for lunch. / oh, ok / with you. / Thanks / convince them about / provenance and security of supply / Who's on the panel? / belingum's chief exec, their head chef, a couple of buyers / Including the guy you are dealing with? / and a couple of consumers as well. / from / focus groups / gonna  be tough, Tom, with so many other suppliers in the frame / I know. But it's still a fantastic opportunity. .... OK. Can you see the screen? / yep. / Right. .... Consumers today need three things when buying / they can trust / tastes great / offers value / I'm tom archer / bear my name deliver these three essentials. First, let me talk about Trust.

The main photo makes him look like some sort of, I don't know, Dickensian villain. / came in to the shop yesterday / bought up all the copies they had left. / Really? / Jim, you know / team leader too? / Yeah. / ordered / wholesaler. / copy in the kitchen / look / finished, emma / all right / B... Life / right. and you are OK to do the extra hour today / coming on Saturday / tommorow or friday'd be fine / no, no, it's all right / great. / It's gonna be a bit wierd, going back there. / expect / will be / all right about it / maybe / someone else / no / it's fine. / extra money will be nice / great / David! / Yeah? / Can you spare me a minute? / I'm sorry, no / moment / silaging / oh yeah / need to get back to the field pronto.

Hello? / Hi, Jono / yeah, Helen / Did you get my message from this morning? / I did, yeah. / So, what do you think? I'm in  / good / I was gonna ring you / finish / swimming / last week. / Oh. / on / Right. Where is that / probably / know it. / I might. where is it? / Anderson Road. / Yeah, yeah, of course / b... supplies / that's not too far away / could / in about ten minutes. / I haven't really got time / proper lunch / we can get a coffee. / yeah. .... uh, Helen, uh, .... the thing is / Yes? / I'm sorry, but, .... I don't think we should see each other again. .... You still there? / Yeah. I'vn't gone anywhere. / There's this girl, I went out / back / quite a while, but she broke off, and, the guy she was going out with, / that's ended now, and / get back together. / Huh huh. / And, you are a really nice person, I woudn't wanna give you the wrong impression / No no. / wanna / lead you on. hope you understand / yes, I understand. ... really. / We had fun, didn't we? / Yeah, 't'as great. / But, uh, .... / yes. this girl / so, .... see you around, maybe? / Probably not, but, have a nice life. / Yeah. .... yeah, and you. .... Bye then. / Bye. .... Oh, damn.

Fresh flask. / That is brilliant, Ruth. / And some of your mom's flapjacks / Oh, excellent. / Should keep ... going, I hope. / tell / that bad / No, no, it's just / yesterday I thougt made me a flask of tea. / Oh. / first gulp I took, I thought / worst tea I've ever tasted. / now / How's it going? Pretty well, by the look of things? / Yeah, we've made good progress / accident / should / Great. / anyway. .... Do you want some of this? / No, it's yours, David. / thanks / Oh, hot news. / gonna have a bit of a family competition in the single wicket / Josh / threatened / slash me, but, if it's / cricket / sledging / No, not Josh. Pip. / condition / scoring / been trying to pursuade Pip to enter / a bit short of women / on holiday / I suppose. / Josh was taking part / then / like a shot / following his example, is she? / I wish / do / way / I think I'll have one of those things right now. / have the sack / Uh, talking of Pip, ....  / Yeah? / obviously / to her. You know, / party line / consistency and all that / Do I sense a "but" coming? / honest / not all that comfortable about it / no one is comfortable about it, Ruth. It's an unpleasant situation. / But don't you think you are being a bit harsh? / No, not at all. got this idea / 20 years old, she's entitled to drive around / brand-new luxuary motor car / Come on,  / sort / she's looking for. .... I do agree with you, she needs to set her sights lower / all by herself / at the same time / josh out / business thing. that's different / still a loan / asking for / bail her out, remember? / Yeah, but, it's the way she said it. / I know. I just find it a bit hard to justify.

might as well / a bottle / you must / towards it / sure? / very good of you / come out / such short notice / Oh yeah. Really noble of me, come to  / let you buy me wine / I'm grateful anyway, Emma. Right, there you are. / thanks / right. I feel we should raise a toast to babysitting grandparents / Yeah, I would drink to that. / Cheers. / Cheers. / so, what's up / well, the headline is that jono and I are no longer an item. / Oh, Helen. / sure / What happened? / I happened. / Sorry? / He dumped me today, tried to let me down gently with a fairly story / old girl friend / really was / scared him off. / I'm sure you didn't. / believe me / really well. / was / Oh, no / I thought / must be keen / third date / yeah / quite / I felt, for the first time, I felt like / really open up to him / tell him more about myself. / And? / well / Henry's father, you know. Once I started, I couldn't stop, and I could see ..... / more and more panicky / trying to hide it / guess / it was ok. I should never have told him how Henry was conceived. / Yeah. Perhaps it was a bit early to tell him that. / big secret, you know. If we were gonna get more initimate. / Yeah. / after that / quiet on me, / nothing on Facebook / sending him text and even voice mails / ended up today / practically stalking him. / Oh, Helen. / OK, wasn't quite as bad as that, but still  / really embarrasing / Well, it's his loss / that's one way of looking at it. / Yeah. Call him a practice boyfriend. / There's plenty more where he came from. Honestly, Helen.