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The Archers: 23/05/2016

23/05/2016

BBC Radio 4 - The Archers, 23/05/2016

Helen cannot relax, and Kirsty accepts an apology.

Tony phones Pat to tell her about the new baby. The manager of the mother and baby unit can take pictures for the family. The baby has the toy rabbit with him that Pat sent up. Helen is having difficulty breastfeeding. It's hard to relax when she knows a guard is sitting outside. She thinks she should feed the baby with a bottle but Peggy encourages her to keep trying. Tony thinks the baby looks like Pat's father while Peggy thinks he's all Archer. Helen thinks he looks like Rob.

Kirsty takes lunch out to Tom. She is helping to staff the shop when it re-opens on Friday. The farm is stretched with no Jazzer and no Tony. Tom sees he has no choice but to get rid of the pigs. They talk about what happened between them. Tom apologises to Kirsty for leaving her at the altar and running away. Kirsty accepts his apology and reminds him that it was her mistake as well.

Peggy and Tony have lunch while Helen rests. Tony notices that Helen doesn't seem to be very interested in the baby. Peggy says it may take time for her to bond. They need to keep telling her the baby is hers as much as Rob's.

Fallon tells Kirsty about the party at Grange Farm to celebrate Emma and Ed's first wedding anniversary. Ed wrote Emma a poem; it was sweet but not very good. There was drinking and dancing and now Clarrie is really worried because there's a huge crack in one of the walls. Kirsty and Fallon discuss Tom and Jazzer's falling out and plot to talk sense into both of them.

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