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You are listening to Friday's episode of The Archers from BBC Radio 4.

Oliver, / Yes? / I've just heard from Joe's solicitors. / Ah, at last. And? / Yes. Yes, they've accepted our offer. / Oh, that is good news. What a relief ! / Yes, it is. You know I was worried they might refuse and drag it out even longer / more-than-generous offer / I hope so / get back to normal between us now. / I'm sure it does. / darling, I'm so pleased for you. / It is another weight off my mind. / Yes. Well, hey, / yes, it has. Things are really starting to look up. The Christmas promotions brought in a few more bookings / that's promising / tea dances are proving popular. What about the Christmas Ball? / Huh huh. Yep. Tickets are selling well for that, too. / Great. Now what we need to do is to find a new deputy manager.

Shula, can I have a word. / For heaven's sake, Darrell, be careful. Shhh, ___ shhh ... / Sorry. Sorry. / When will you learn? Have you forgotten what happened last week? / No, no, of course not. / Good. / I didn't wanna miss you. I didn't want you to go out / we / chance to, well, talk. / I see. / So, can we talk, please? / I suppose. But stand still, and keep your voice down. / Thank you. __ we haven't spoken since, well, since / you have been in your room. / Yeah. Too ashamed to show my face. I'm so sorry, Shula. / So you keep saying. Can ... can you imagine what it felt like for me to come home and find someone in a drunken s___ on my own sofa? / It's pathetic. I'm pathetic. / and self-pity / n't help either. / I know / do something positive / Yeah, I want to. I'm so sorry about the videos. / I don't want to talk about it / I'll put it right / you can't Darrell. You've destroyed them. / Oh ... I'm really ... / Oh, don't say you are sorry. / OK, OK. / Don't you see? Your actions have consequences that can't be put right just by your saying you are sorry. / I know. / Then do something about it. / Oh. Darrell. You've surfaced at last then? / I thought it was better if / my room / have done / what have you done? / I do. What is it this time? / the videos, the ones / Daniel when he was a baby. Shula says I've ruined them. / You've done what? When? How? / Yesterday afternoon. I ... I didn't mean to ... / Yesterda ... Shula? / There's no point in us talking about this now. I've got a lesson to give / talk later. But I'm not busy. Darrell can tell me all about it himself.

I hope this isn't a bad time, Caroline. / No, no, it's fine. I'm not, uh __ I'm a bit confused, to be honest. / Yes, I can see that. / I thought you'd accepted your job / this job in Ferpersham. / I have. But I ... / you are having second thoughts? / yes / health club / doesn't fit / long term, much as we / regret / it, of course. / Thanks. / So, if the Felpersham  / I didn't come to talk about the health club. I / deputy manager's job / see / I assumed you / be interested, now that / offer / I'd only just accepted that when / about the post here / if I had told you before you / new job? / I don't know. I'd certainly have asked if you'd even consider me as a potential deputy manager. So, that's what I've come to do. / Right. Huh. I understand. / If you were looking for someone younger, obviously / any point / looking / for the job, whatever their age. / Really? / Yeah. And you know how much I appreciate the great work / the health club. Some of your ideas were brilliant. / Thank you. / So, with the personal knowledge I have / previous experience, yes, yes you would be very welcome to apply / good / I can't make any promises / of course not. I ___n't expect it. / I've no idea / the other applications / be like / Yeah, I know what it's like / but, if you are prepared to take your chances like the rest of them, well, go for it. / Thank you. / But don't feel you have to just because we / had this conversation / burden / This is a hard decision. / Yes, yes, it is. / You have to think really carefully, Kathy. ... Huh. That's up to you.

It's very kind of you to let me get myself some breakfast. / I presume you haven't eaten since you didn't join us for supper / No. To be honest, / much lunch either / except a liquid one / So, let me see / I've got this right / OK. / You borrowed some money from Shula to go and see Anna. / Yeah. / know / benefits / know exactly / why you need to that, but let's not go into that now. / Let's not. / But, instead of using this borrowed money to go and see Anna, you bought all that booze, got drunk in our sitting room, and, in the process, completely destroyed some precious m___s of our son's childhood. / Sounds awful when you put it like that. / It is awful. Isn't it? / Yeah. / What I don't understand is why you started drinking in the first place. / I needed some Dutch courage to go and see Anna. / Didn't work very well, did it? / no / I couldn't face / drinking / Why? / To forget how much I was letting her down. / A bit of a vicious circle, isn't it? / I suppose. / No "suppose" about it. That's what happens with an addiction. / I ain't got addiction / I'm not an alchy. / one of the first signs / doing things you don't mean to do / which hurt people you love / doing / I didn't mean to ruin the videos / upset people / trying to help you. / I didn't mean to ruin the video. It was an accident / coming in like that / should have not? / startled me. That's what made me knock it over / videos / that's where we keep our stuff. / I didn't know / completely / know / awful lot of things you don't know. / Yeah, there are. / Do you know what your behavior / Shula? Have you got any idea? / like this. She's been so good to me. / Yes, she has. / You too / all you've said / tough love, eh? / Tough, anyway. / Yeah. I ... I've lisened, yeah? I've taken it in. Things will be different from now on. / Yes. ... They will.

So, uh, shall we start looking at the deputy manager applications? / Hmm. You know, I'm surprised / so quickly / it was a good sign, isn't it? / oh / another surprise this morning / Kathy might be interested. / But, uh, I thought she's got a new job. / Not as good as this one / be / I see. Well, / would be ideal. I mean / someone on the spot we already know / who else out there / do we? / true / might / yet, do we? / That's true. / There might be someone even better / we / favour / it's not fair to the others. / No no. / Or, to Kathy. She'd have to get her job on her own merits. / I'm sure / she / any other way / she applies / how / leave / I'd be very happy if she did. / we would / but we couldn't make any promises. / No, of course not. And how did you react? / really like to carry on working here.

I've come in for coffee, Alistair. I don't want an argument. / Neither do I. I'd just like to know why you did't tell me what Darrell had done. / I was waiting for a right moment. / Were you? / You see, and you'd be angry / Of course I am angry. I know how precious they were to you, and me, come to that. / Aren't you angry? / Yes. And I told him so. / But not me? / I knew you would blame him / Of course / He didn't mean to do it. / Huh. I am getting a bit tired of that particular excuse. / I was there. He didn't do it on purpose. / No? Someone forced him at gunpoint to buy the drink, and then poured it down his throat? / give the man the dignityof being responsible for his own actions. / I'm partly to blame. It was stupid of me to give him the money. / Then why did you? / Well, / if / could / contact with Anna / get their relationship on track again / maybe then he wouldn't / everything is quite hopeless. / She wants to see him. He's the one / messing it up / I I would call that his fault. / what / saying / have to take responsibility for his own actions? / Of course he does. I've told him. / You've told him, but you keep making excuses for him. / Yes. ... I ... I don't think I'm handling the situation very well. / His situation. Not yours. You have been kind. You have been helpful. You have been forgiving. And it hasn't changed a thing. / Well, that's not fair. Darrell's got so many problems. You ... you can't expect him to solve them all overnight. / Not when / keep / can you honestly say his / has improved at all since he's been with us? / He's clean, he's fed properly, he's asking me for help to get back on track. / He's not capable of / help you're offering / not at the moment / give him time / we haven't got time / Daniel will be home in a couple of weeks / I have. / So, how much energy are you gonna have left over from picking up the pieces of Darrell's life to enjoy time with your own son? / I'll find time / Maybe you will. But will Daniel? Do you think he's gonna be able to relax in his own home with Darrell here? / Darrell's got his own room. / Oh, come on, Shula. Darrell has taken over our home, and your life, and you are too caught up in his problems to see it. / Of course Daniel comes first. And you. There's no question of that. / Prove it. / Prove it? / Yeah. We had an agreement. You promised me that if this didn't work out / you'd ask Darrell to leave. / We can't. We can't put him back out on the street, the state he's in. / you want to wait / because he will be / No. / Yes, unless he gets the help he needs. His problems are too big for you to fix and you know it. / Oh, but, with no one to help him at all ... / has he let you help him? Really? I mean, you / just been / him up, and it hasn't worked / So ... what? You are saying I should turn him out? Let him hit rock bottom? Let him think he's totally on his own? / If that's what it takes. He's got to / one to / situation / without that, you are just wasting your time. / don't say that / things / have to / how much lower / does he have to sink / before you admit it. / It is now. How much more damage to our home and our family can you take? / I ... I can't just watch him go under / worse / him / for both of you. / breaking point. / Oh, Alistair ... / He's got to go. Shall I tell him? Or will you?