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The Archers: 22/05/2016

22/05/2016

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Rob is having trouble getting through, and Ursula is pleasantly surprised.

Peggy phones Pat from the hospital. Helen is in the early stages of labour and Pat worries about her strength. Kirsty phones Pat, she can't sleep for worrying about Helen. Rob is trying to get through to Pat but the number is engaged. He's frustrated he can't find out what's happening and he's angry his son will spend his first months of life in prison. Ursula tries to calm him. Henry joins them saying he had a bad dream about mummy. Helen worries about how the labour will go; her face feels puffy, could she be getting pre-eclampsia? Peggy rings for the midwife.

Kirsty joins Pat at Bridge Farm. Pat can't believe she didn't see that Helen was being manipulated, she will never forgive herself. Kirsty also laments about how she could have been a better friend. As Pat answers the phone, it's Tony calling from the hospital, Ursula arrives. Ursula points out to Kirsty that her and Rob have something in common: both of them have had their lives wrecked by one of Pat's children. Pat comes off the phone - Helen has pre-eclampsia and she's gone for an emergency caesarean.

As she comes round from the anesthetic, Peggy tells Helen the baby is fine and everything is alright. Helen bursts into tears; no it's not, she replies. Back at Blossom Hill Cottage, Ursula is touched when Rob names the baby Gideon; it's the name of her father. They raise a toast to Gideon Robert Titchener.

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