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You should grade history, really.

You know, rather than listening to me.

What happens when you unravel your family's past

and discover a buried confession?

And your father was an expert in gases?

In poison gas.

Poison gas, yes.

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and how the past lives on inside us,

even when we try to ignore it.

I started to wonder what else

had slipped from my great-grandfather's memory

while writing his memoirs.

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You're listening to Friday's episode of The Archers from BBC Radio 4. Freddy, what you doing here? I told you to stay at home.

Well, I couldn't lie in bed all day, Vince. How does that help?

Come in for a minute, will you? Close the door.

Okay. So how are you this morning?

Me? I'm fine, I didn't have a broken bottle at my throat.

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