Summary
Martyn delivers a bottle of wine to Tracy in gratitude for her support over Marlene. Martyn then gives Tracy a sob story about the sadness of eating alone, so Tracy invites him to join her and Jazzer for tea. When Jazzer returns later he covers his irritation by helping himself to Martyn’s wine, before they all enjoy the meal and Martyn invites Jazzer to play golf. Jazzer then excuses himself to go to band practice, despite Tracy’s protestations that they have a guest. Once Jazzer’s gone Martyn is envious of Jazzer’s hobby and Tracy wishes Chelsea had one too. Martyn then extols the virtues of Tracy’s chaotic family life, lamenting his single status and supposing he puts women off by being too serious. Tracy reckons the best thing Martyn can do is just have fun. Fallon returns some shears she’s borrowed from Ed and suggests a drink before band practice tonight. She’s disappointed she hasn’t heard back from Ash about rejoining Dross, but Ed reckons he might just turn up anyway. At The Bull they mull over Stella doing the harvest, Fallon and Harrison’s anniversary, and Amber being in a foul mood this morning. But their main focus is the band’s reunion gig. Their good mood is punctured though, when Fallon gets a text telling her that Ash died a year ago, leaving a young family behind. Ed and Fallon struggle to take in the news, before Jazzer joins them and is equally shocked. Fallon reports that Ash’s wife, Jenna, wants to meet them tomorrow to talk about something, but hasn’t said what.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.3 | You're listening to Monday's episode of The Archers from BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:10.0 | Music Oh, are you, Fallon. |
| 0:31.8 | Hey, Ed. How you doing? |
| 0:33.5 | Yeah, fine. Yeah, the polter arriving in a couple of weeks. |
| 0:37.3 | Turkeys? Well, ready? I'll start playing Christmas songs soon. Oh, I don't. Here, returning your shears. Thanks for the land. Oh, no worries. Just sticking down there. Garden's gone a bit wild since Harrison's been away. I've been so busy. It's been driving me mad every time I look out of the window. Anyway, went to town on the hedge. Satisfying, eh? Oh, yeah. Hey, I don't suppose you fancy having a quick drink with me at the ball before I band practice tonight, make most of my night off. Yeah, okay. Yeah, it'd be nice. Let me just finish up. Yeah, of course. no rush. You know, I still haven't heard from Ash. No? Left loads of messages. Well, it's probably changed his number. That's weird. We used to text every now and again. I didn't know you kept in touch? Well, not really. Just the odd thing about music. It would have been nice to have him back in the band for the comeback gig. |
| 1:28.2 | Well, we've got Stu at least. Yeah, I guess so. I wouldn't worry about it. It's probably off doing some kind of mad fitness thing. Yeah. Well into all that, isn't he? Yeah, it certainly is. It's a pity he's not messaged back, though. Yeah, well, mind you, from what I remember, Ashes, the sort of bloke, will just turn up out of the blue. |
| 1:27.0 | Right, I'll just get these turn up out of the blue. |
| 1:45.3 | Right, I'll just get these last bales onto the trailer and then get myself cleaned up. |
| 1:49.3 | Yeah, no worry. I'll see you down there then. |
| 1:51.4 | Yeah. |
| 2:02.3 | Martin. Good evening, Tracy |
| 2:03.8 | How nice to see you |
| 2:05.4 | How was the cricket yesterday? |
| 2:08.8 | We lost, you were dreadful |
| 2:10.1 | Sorry, eyes and lows of sport |
| 2:13.2 | I'm a golf man myself |
| 2:15.0 | No, I can't stop, I'm just dropping this off for you and jazzer |
| 2:19.0 | Oh you shouldn't have |
| 2:20.2 | Mine of vintage little Tipple |
| 2:21.9 | Has a thank you for looking out for me |
| 2:24.1 | The Marlene business |
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