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

I hope you didn't mind having me up here. / Nuh, of course not. Once / into harvest / be different. / True. / just need to select a few lambs, but it's not urgent. / I'm very grateful. / any particular reason you wanted to come? / I find / lake / very calming. So did your father. / Yeah. Generations of Archers must have felt the same. / I'm sure they did. / And, you need calming because ... ? / I'm going to see Elizabeth / N__'s birthday yesterday / Oh, mom / said / you didn't need / involved / Open Farm Sunday / Yes, I did. My place / at the moment / hope / Elizabeth / understands. / I'm sure she will. / Huh. ... Oh, David, do you think all this is going to change? / No, it won't, not if I have anything to do with it. / I can't bear to think about it. Look at that wonderful view. / I know. / And now, imagine the road tearing its way through it ... tearing its way through our happy memories. / I feel the same. But don't take it as certain, mom, 'cause / long way to go yet. / such a special place / and me ... and your children, of course, the family picnics you've had ... / mom. ... Believe me, mom. I will do everything in my power to stop it happen / Don't worry, David, So will I.

Oh, morning, Roy. / Ah, you busy? / was wondering .... ah. / just looking up / weather forecast / see / going to be like when / the festival. / very accurate so far ahead. / Well, I hope not, 'cause this one is not very promising. / Can I have a look? / Yes, of course / Right. / it just says / covering themselves / little rain clouds / suns peeping out / I don't want to spend two days s__ing in the mud / firstly / going / secondly, that can be fun / that's what Freddie and Lily keep telling me. / Don't you believe them? / they're teenagers. They like / sort / really / I'm sure / thousands of people do. / that's another thing. What sort of crowd / expect? / protect / tatoo / if that's what worrying you. / Huh, it does sound / put it like that / sense of adventure? / Yeah. I seem to have lost it somewhere along the way / have to do anything you're not comfortable with / this is all about you enjoying yourself. / I hope so. / You will, Elizabeth. I know you will. And ... and you / prepared / a lot of festival goers / am I / wear / pair of w__.

Morning, Adam. Thought I might find you here. / Oh, hi, Brian. / What do you reckon? / bad / ahead / as I predicted / well / good start / warm spring. / I can't / particularly in / great crop of strawberries though, eh? / didn't hurt / so far, so good. / I was wondering, Adam, / Huh huh? / might be a good time / day / did you / particular in mind? / you know, the __ event. / Huh. / looks like it's / interesting / the thing is ... / too short notice for you / pretty / after all / you could leave the farm for a day / Charlie / breathing / neck again. / quite opposite / go with him / oh, I see / sure / if you came, too. / no, no, no, you go with him / Are you sure? / honestly / it's fine.

Mmm ... oh, __'s soup / delicious, Elizabeth. / Mmm, yes, isn't it? I'll tell him. / so, how did yesterday go? / wasn't as bad as I was expecting. / That's good. / children / and then we decided / something N__ would have liked to do himself. / Did you? / we took a boat out on the lake / it was lovely / such / I had the same idea. I took / one of N__'s favorite rides / it was / really early, and the birds' song was fabulous. / Dan / fast asleep / that's no surprise. / Alistair / plenty of time / though / Sunday each, and he went to both. / Oh. / We are reacting rather differently / his S__ experience. It was probably easier for Dan / cope with us one at a time. / suppose / different attitudes / let alone / mothers and fathers / find / so exciting. / every man thinks / less of himself for not being a soldier. / Who said that? / great uncle / Dr. / felt like that? / I don't know. I meah, he wasn't agressive in any way at all. / Oh, no. / But he did get very obsessed / stuff / Yes, I remember. / You are still not happy about Dan's decision? / exactly / I'm very proud of him. He seems much more grown up, and he's obviously loving it. / But? / Well ... I hope he's up to what they ask of him. He'd be shattered if he failed / something now. / what / got / coming / middle of nowhere / mountain, and / find / own way back, the kind of exercise soldiers die on. / No ... uh ... very rarely / it happens / it must be hard. / Alistair says I didn't know / where / in America, and that's a far more dangerous place / Black Mountains / he has a point. / This is just a start / Elizabeth / my life / going to be like ... dreading the knock on the door / phone call. You know, he had to make his will / heavens / of course it's perfectly sensible. / to imagine Freddie doing that / Alistair's said / coped / so well. / It's hard having a son, isn't it? / I didn't find it so, not until now. Do you? / Yeah, recently / Freddie growing up / growing away from me. / And it's not as difficult as with Lily? / Oh, no / much worse fight / understand her / Freddie's becoming / mystery to me. / Yes. / I / about him. / Of course you do / trying so hard to / father's footsteps / Borsetshire show / bless him / well, being like N__ / that / worst thing in the world / no, I know, of course / it's ... it's too much responsibility / for him / trying to be the man of the house / always / himself / Elizabeth ... / I just ... I don't want him / turn / N__ / perfect man he's never / live up to. / Of course you don't. / never / so different. Dan never knew him / then / Alistair, of course / and we both know he's not perfect / who is / Oh, look, here's mom. / hello / I see you decided to start without me / quite sure / time you were coming / all / first course. / menu, mom. Take your time. / I want say how sorry I was I couldn't get over yesterday. / That's all right. I / at Brookfield / when Dan and I were up there / yes, it was marvelous / good / pleased for them / let you down, you and the twins. / Of course not. / I / important I was there / going on at the moment. / oh, the new road. Yes, it's horrifying. / it is. And, if they choose the one that goes / brookfield / they mustn't. We've got to stop it.

Huh, this is nice. / It is. / Yeah. An English pub garden, / June / what could be better? / farm kitchen, by the sound of it. / oh, if only your mother wasn't such a perfectionist. / so, what / wrong with / tile / exactly? / wrong color. / mom / noticed / didn't get full impact / up, apparently. / Yes. And / before she / gotta / I suppose. / So I'm told. / of course / have to find some new ones / Lord knows how long that's gonna take. / hello / David. You are heavy-laden. / I am / just / put this down for a moment. / got / plates and cutlery and stuff for Open Farm Sunday. Kenton needs them back / coming / of / tea and cakes / very pleased. Got / two hundred, I reckon / for us. ... Well, / sure it's nothing / compared to / delivered the / burgers / on the strawberries / uh, well, quality, not quantity. I'd like to think our visitors / good experience / real family farm. / I'm sure they did / Echo there / well done. / come out / actually, I / thank for that / a bit of rivalry / compare and contrast / well, we mind that just as long as they don't make us look q__.

Oh, Elizabeth. Good. I've just come out to find you. / Oh, I'm sorry I'm late / Shula / about / new road proposals / she must be frantic about it. / nothing has been decided yet. I mean, it may not affect / Brookfield / may not even happen at all / let's hope not. ... Anyway / some good news. / Mmm, sounds promising. / retrieve the noodles / don't you remember / one / every known form of noodle / yes / Freddie was very disappointed when he heard / lost them. / Well, we haven't / Roy / well done. / balance / get / more p__s with us / S__ will be delighted / something anyway. I / put it on the web site. / Brilliant. / so exciting. Aren't you just a little bit excited, too? / go along with / experience yourself / there's nothing like it. I promise you. / So you keep saying. ... And, do you know what, Roy? I think / starting / say this, but I think / I might actually be looking forward to it.