Transcribed from a C120 cassette tape. There is a gap between parts 1 and 2 as I turned the cassette over when I recorded it off air, so a chunk of Ron Geesin's incidental music is missing plus a very small section of the text. It is possible that mobile phone noises intruded at various points when I digitised the cassette for the computer, so at some stage so I will have to do it again in a less electrically noisy environment. There is no pressing need to do so, though, as the BBC tell me that they have the original recording in their archive.
From Richard Wortley's site at https://www.suttonelms.org.uk/richardwortley10.html:
Two Accidents of Fortune:
Accident One: Wandering in Eden:
'Wandering in Eden' by John Fletcher was elaborately 'followed' by a journalist Chris Barlow for a theatre magazine. We had original music recorded in his home studio by a member of Pink Floyd; normal practice in our digital multi track age, but it used to be session musicians and baton conducting in BBC studios. Pink Floyd went well and so did his home hospitality.
For two days we also recorded sound effects down on a Somerset farm, John Fletcher doing hands-on baling hay, strong in the arm and muscular with the pen. The play did not transmit for some while. We "wandered from Eden" and accidentally wiped these effect recordings. I was in 'Houdini' mode because a new batch of agricultural sound effects had just been made for BBC Radio Birmingham. Yes, I was rescued by "The Archers" team and I never told John.