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The Archers: 22/06/2020

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22/06/2020

BBC Radio 4 - The Archers, 22/06/2020

Kirsty attempts to make the best of a bad situation and there’s panic at Brookfield.

Kirsty’s disappointed that Brookfield will be giving priority to wedding bookings when they re-open, which means her and Philip’s ‘engagement’ party is way down the list. It’s so ironic that theirs is secretly a wedding reception. She’d have liked to give Philip some cheerier news; he’s so depressed and grouchy. She wishes later that she hadn’t told him. She thought he might be ok with it, but it upset him, and he had to apologise to her for snapping. She hadn’t realised how important their wedding was to him; it was the only thing getting him through the fallout from the Grey Gables explosion. 
Josh films himself talking about how not to buy farm machinery, hoping it will help him sell his remaining stock. He needs the money to rebuild his egg business – he’s getting more requests than he can fulfil with his current number of hens. Scornful Ben laughs at his brother’s efforts. He reckons Josh’s online video was his idea in the first place. But Josh won’t take any advice from him on where or how to film it. 
Ben goes to add a super to one of Jill’s hives and finds the bees have swarmed. He loses them while distracted by a call from Chloe. He goes in search of the swarm, buoyed by the prospect of making dinner for Chloe sometime, but equally nervous of what Jill will say if he doesn’t find the bees.

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