04/05/2026

The Archers

BBC

Fiction, Arts, Drama, Performing Arts

4.0 • 9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2026

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Leonard arrives at Glebe Cottage with the pendant alarm for Carol, who tells him she doesn’t want it. She suspects Leonard’s there to keep an eye on her with the Occupational Therapist. Leonard explains it’ll just be an assessment, but it’s the tin of flapjacks he’s brought which swings the balance, so Carol lets him in. After the Occupational Therapist’s gone Carol grudgingly allows that she did a good job listening and making suggestions. Leonard’s flapjacks and tea-making skills seem to have softened Carol, too. Leonard hints at some tension currently at Brookfield, before Carol tells him she’s been hearing noises at night and thinks it might be the ghost of a vicar’s wife. Leonard goes into the loft to investigate and discovers bats up there. Carol’s delighted, imagining what Anna will say when she finds out…

Tom and Natasha discuss the Battling Bull’s heavy defeat in yesterday’s cricket match and the knee injury Tom sustained. Tom’s in a bad mood, but Natasha’s looking forward to showing round a group of prospective buyers for Justin’s shares and selling Ambridge to them. It’ll be a good earner for Natasha, but she’s still anxious about not managing to sell any clothes on the app yet. Tom suggests selling the clothes stored in bags in their loft – so long as he takes joint responsibility and starts using the app as well, Natasha chides. Later, disappointed Natasha admits Justin’s potential investors weren’t interested in anything she showed them, despite her best efforts, while Tom still isn’t keen on getting involved with selling their clothes.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts.
0:07.5	The Most Haunted House in England, or a Victorian ghost hunters' elaborate hoax.
0:12.7	Witnesses to genuine poltergeist activity are at 1960s Yorkshire family with an overactive imagination.
0:20.6	Join me, Danny Robbins, and my team of paranormal experts as we dig deep into the past,
0:26.4	reopening classic cases and searching for the truths they left behind.
0:32.1	Uncanny cold cases. Listen on BBC sounds.
0:36.0	You're listening to Monday's episode of The Archers from BBC Radio 4. Carol, it's Leonard, I brought over a pendant alarm. Anna's asked me to set it up for you. I don't think it should take too long.
1:16.9	Carol, is everything all right in there? Oh, good. Of course everything is all right. What did you think
1:24.0	had happened? Well, no, nothing. Well, I hope nothing.
1:29.0	It's good to see you, Carol.
1:31.6	Come to drip paint all over my path again, have you?
1:33.4	I'm very sorry about that.
1:36.5	No, I've just brought this pendant alarm system.
1:39.1	I don't want it, I told Anna.
1:43.1	I think she thought it might be handy for peace of mind.
2:05.1	Whose peace of mind? Hers? It won't give me peace of mind. It'll give me a pain in the neck having to wear some great big alarm necklace all the time. It actually looks very compact from the box. Well, you wear it then. I mean it. I don't want it. Take it away, please. Is there anything else I can do while I'm here? I could tidy up the garden for you. Make a cup of tea.
2:09.5	Leonard, I am perfectly capable of pouring hot water onto a tea bag.
2:13.3	Oh, no, that. Nice for someone else to do it sometimes, though.
2:15.6	You must think I came down in the last shower.
2:16.6	Not at all.
2:21.1	I know exactly why you're here at the crack of dawn.
2:22.8	I wouldn't say it's the crack of dawn.
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