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Watch this show, allow yourself to step into the meaning and purpose behind the narrative and go along for the journey. By joining TV Guide, you agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy. There are few problems that can’t be solved over a pint in the Two Brewers or a cup of tea during a break in the corner of the field. As he summarises with characteristic humility: “On the whole, I get to do stuff that is really good and I don’t have to do a lot of stuff that isn’t very good.

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Whilst out detecting Andy and Lance encounter their old rivals – now renamed the "Dirt Sharks" – who suggest that Peter might have other motives for finding the plane than simply to lay a wreath. This is easier said than done as wildlife photography takes hours of patient waiting, but we were lucky one morning when we went to capture sunrise over Lance and Andy’s field.Series 3 ended with Andy (Crook) and Lance (Jones) seemingly finding both their literal and allegorical gold. The affection expressed for Detectorists over the years has been incredible and I hope fans of the show will enjoy this new, extended episode. Watch the scene in the second season in which Terry's wife Sheila (Sophie Thompson) – a woman with a very literal interpretation of the adage that when life gives you lemons, you make lemonade – is sympathising with Lance over his difficulties with his daughter. One of the show’s many pleasures is Lance and Andy’s lived-in friendship, yet Jones and Crook were near strangers until filming began: “We later worked out we’d been in about five or six of the same movies without ever having really met. But when a mysterious relic is unearthed, he breaks protocol, threatening his friendship with Andy and the future of the DMDC.

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Later, when we were filming at the Suffolk Archaeology Service office I showed the stone to Anna Booth, the finds liaison officer for the county. It is very British in some respects, and perhaps it helps to be a bit of an Anglophile, but I didn't find any of the references or settings exclusionary or alienating. Sophie defends Peter, accusing the others of paranoia, but later discovers he was lying to her all along. Ladwa said: “Other then that, I will hopefully find myself on a field with all the Detectorists actors again. Growing up near Oxford, as the eldest of three sons who’ve all gone into the business in some capacity, dinner table conversation was never “about academic ideas”; instead “they’d talk about emotions and stuff”, which teenage Toby “found profoundly embarrassing”.

This is a comparatively vulgar raking of the same ground, and the rift the big news causes between the pair is, by Detectorists standards, as unbalancing and alien as it would be if Crook packed the whole cast off to Torremolinos. It's just a well-written, well-acted, keenly observed show, and its theme of trying to find one's place and purpose in life is universal.

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The fact that Sheila is usually such a comedic character makes it all the more poignant and piercing.A newspaper has an article about Russell and Hugh finding a prison tag, as well as a piece about the proposed solar farm. Baby Stan has arrived, Andy has qualified as an archaeologist but has no work, and Becky is off with Gay Martin, talking about VSO. The main filming location for the series and Christmas specials is Framlingham, a small market town in Suffolk.

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Danebury's mayor seeks the DMDC's help finding his chain of office which he has lost at a dogging site. Reflecting on why the show was so popular, the actor said: "Aside from the splendid writing and scenery of the British countryside, I think it captures our ‘quirks and foibles’ very pleasantly.To view the purposes they believe they have legitimate interest for, or to object to this data processing use the vendor list link below. A contractor comes to chop down an ancient oak tree in the field where Andy and Lance are detecting, and the pair want to stop them.