05/09/2023

The Archers

BBC

Fiction, Arts, Drama, Performing Arts

4.0 • 9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Pat’s looking after Henry, who’s less than forthcoming about his school day. As they chat Henry receives a text. He assures Pat it’s just a mate – he’s blocked Rob and will never be in touch with him again. Pat assures Henry she trusts him. But his mum doesn’t, counters Henry. He feels bad about the trouble he’s caused, and goes over some of the things Helen said to him in her anger. Pat explains Helen spoke out of turn because she was under pressure. She adores Henry. Henry acknowledges this. Helen returns and is pleased to see Henry happier. She admits she hasn’t told Lee about the incident with Henry and Rob. She’ll tell him when he’s back from America. Pat’s doubtful, but Helen asserts there’s no need to involve Lee until he’s back. Pat concedes that Helen needs to do what she thinks is best. Pat reports her conversation with Henry, and Helen chats with him. She apologises for her harsh words. Henry says he’d never seen her so angry. Helen explains she just wants to keep him, and Jack, safe. Henry gets it, and they hug, bonding over a video game. Unhappy Sykesy tells Ben that Jill’s been to see him and bawled him out for being ungrateful and upsetting Ben. Ben can’t understand how she knew about the situation, but it occurs to Sykesy that he might have told her himself. Contrite, he offers Ben a cheque. Ben thanks him but explains he can’t accept it. Sykesy doesn’t like rules, and tries to give Ben the cheque. But to Ben’s horror he falls and hurts himself.

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0:00.0	BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:05.0	You're listening to Tuesday's episode of The Archers,
0:08.1	from BBC Radio 4.
0:10.3	How was your day, Henry? Fine. Anything good happened? No. Anything bad happened? Uh,
0:34.6	don't think so. What about interesting? Did anything
0:38.6	happen? Nothing interesting ever happens at school,
0:41.7	granny. Come on, that can't be true. Just can't be. But it's sort of it. It's just one
0:48.0	lesson after another, and then you go home. Do you know, I think almost every secondary
0:53.2	school kid in the country probably comes home and says, nothing happened, everything's
0:58.2	fine. Your mum was just the same. Was she? Oh, you. Can I get you a snack or something?
1:05.2	Uh, I might make myself a sandwich. Oh, I can do that for you. It's okay. I'll do it.
1:11.0	Okay. Where's Jack? He's just watching TV. What time's Mum back? About 5 5 30.
1:23.2	Don't worry, it's just my mate Frank. I wasn't worried. You looked at it. Did I? Sorry.
1:31.0	It's booked, you know. Rob. I know. I would never ever be in touch with him. Not now.
1:39.2	I know you wouldn't. Honestly, I do trust you, Henry. My mum doesn't. She's been like
1:44.8	jumpy as anything since the thing. But she was already fairly jumpy. And with good reason.
1:51.4	I do feel bad about what happened. Sweetheart, it's so hard. My mum said he never wanted me.
2:00.1	Rob. What? He wanted Jack, but he didn't want me. I don't think that's true, Henry. I think Rob was
2:07.6	very committed to being a dad to you. Till Jack came along. Oh, Henry. I mean, I get it. Jack
2:14.4	is his actual son, whereas I'm just some random boy. Henry, you are not just some random boy.
2:20.7	To him. To him, I am. Your mum shouldn't have said that. Yeah, she knows that. She feels bad.
2:27.8	She's been under so much pressure, Henry. I know. She adores you. I know that too. Well, that's good.
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