Summary
As the New Year begins Emma and Will desperately search for Keira, unable to contact Ed or Eddie, while drawing a blank with Keira’s friends. Will reassures Emma, who believes that somehow it’s all her fault. Lilian finds Fallon treating a cut to her hand, downplaying any effect George’s appearance earlier might have had on her. Meanwhile, Neil and Tracy meet up on the Green, joined by Jazzer, then Will and Emma, the strain beginning to tell on all of them. Jazzer and Neil head off to check a bridle path, while Emma blames herself again, before Tracy suggests calling George, in case he knows something. On the bridle path Neil hears the sound of a phone, before spotting a body. Fallon joins Emma, Will and Tracy, suggesting they ring the police, before Will tries George and increasingly frazzled Emma despairs her phone has died. Elsewhere, Neil calls 999, reporting that George hasn’t got a pulse, while Jazzer reels in shock. Neil then wraps George in his coat, desperately looking for signs of life, while an ambulance someone else has called approaches. Emma panics, thinking the ambulance is for Keira and chases after it, followed by Will, not hearing Tracy report that Keira’s been found. On the path Neil tells Emma it’s not Keira, while Will passes on the news that Keira’s safe. Neil then tells them George has been attacked, but won’t say how badly he's been hurt. He tries to hold Emma back, but she tears herself free to be with her son.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:07.6 | Police, drop your weapon! |
| 0:09.9 | In 2025, we were here for the investigators, gangster. |
| 0:14.1 | They were stealing money from wealthy institutions. |
| 0:17.5 | Debt was fair game. |
| 0:18.9 | Murder, they wrote. |
| 0:19.9 | He was a preacher, a good guy. |
| 0:21.4 | But now he's dead. |
| 0:23.0 | It has all the marks of a sort of like a proper horror film. |
| 0:26.3 | And fame under fire. |
| 0:27.8 | He has no longer afforded the right of a regular citizen. |
| 0:31.4 | He is guilty until proven innocent. |
| 0:32.9 | Get the best of 2025 with podcasts on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:38.3 | You're listening to Thursday's episode of The Archers from BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:44.0 | Music Ed, why aren't you picking up? I thought you were coming back to the house. |
| 1:07.0 | I've left your mum at Little Grange and I'm on the lane down to the village. |
| 1:10.4 | I've managed to get through to Kira's friend Eva and she doesn't know where she is but she's going to message the rest of their group and see if she's with one of them. Please call me back and let me know where you are. Emma? I will. I was checking the churchyard. No sign of her then? No, nothing. I don't know where Ed is neither neither. Him and Eddie went off to see if Keira's hiding somewhere around the farm, but that was a while ago, and he's not answering his phone. Well, maybe ain't got a signal. You know what it's like, especially around by the pole barn. You're lucky if you get a single bar. I know. I'm just so scared. Something terrible has happened. Hey, come on. Kira's a sensible kid. I'm sure she's safe wherever she is. I am so. Keep thinking about that promise I made, George. What promise? When he told me it was him driving Alice's car. He made me swear on Kira's life. I wouldn't tell anyone and I did. Em, that's ridiculous. Kira hasn't run away because you broke your promise. |
| 2:03.4 | I know that really, but it doesn't stop it going round and round in my head. |
| 2:07.8 | Look, everyone's out looking for her. |
| 2:10.4 | We'll find her. |
| 2:11.5 | Or she'll realise she's made a silly mistake and come home. |
| 2:14.1 | Either way, Kira's going to be fine. |
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