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German aircraft
carried out a number of attacks
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on Great Britain last night.
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The raids, which lasted
for several hours,
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were scattered over many parts
of the country.
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Enemy aircraft have been
reported over towns
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on the south coast, the west of England,
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the north Midlands and the Northwest,
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as well as over the London area.
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There are reports from Germany
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that our bombers attacked
industrial targets there
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Spring, Mr Burton I had been
thinking to give up on it.
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Yes, Ma Yes, indeed.
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Will you be writing this morning?
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Certainly, that is my plan.
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Oh Then I shall keep sotto voce.
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Do you have everything
you need, Mr Burton?
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Yes Yes, thank you, Ma.
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OK
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Slowly! Slowly
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? All things bright and beautiful
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? All creatures great and small
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? All things wise and wonderful
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Good morning, Mr Burton.
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Good morning, everyone
Please sit down
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I have the results
of your latest endeavours
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Dolan Excellent
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Morgan Handwriting.
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Please don't make me tell you
again Otherwise, excellent
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Driscoll.
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- Where is Mr Driscoll?
- He's sick, sir.
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Sick? Well, that explains something.
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Uh, Evans?
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How many Es in "elementary"?
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Uh, three, sir.
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"Three, sir Please try and use all of them.
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Otherwise, good.
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The rest of you, fair Hand them out.
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Whose is this?
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That's mine, sir
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Jenkins, we may not
judge a book by its cover,
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but we cannot judge a book
with no cover at a...
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If a national paper shortage
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cannot persuade you to look after them,
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I shall have to persuade you myself.
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Henry V, Prologue "O for a Muse of fire".
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End of school tomorrow, by heart.
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But, sir, it's
the Neath game tomorrow.
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They made me openside
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Shut up.
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End of school tomorrow, prompt
Find me here.
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"O for a Muse of fire."
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What is a muse?
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- Anyone?
- A poet's bit of skirt
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In a year and three months' time,
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most of you will be in uniform.
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Some of you may be asked
to go out and kill,
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and may face death yourselves Why?
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Well, I shall tell you You will be fighting
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for what is good and right and beautiful,
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"and this is the essence
of all those things.
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Picture the scene.
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Agincourt On one side,
the English and the Welsh.
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King Henry and Fluellen.
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And on the other,
a force five times our strength.
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The French with their banners
and horses and spears.
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"God's arm strike with us!"
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"'Tis a fearful odds."
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But wait.
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Wait.
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Then
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a single arrow flies!
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Are you quite sure, Mr Burton?
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Please don't come on my account.
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In the absence of a theatre, Ma,
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there's nowhere I would rather be
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Fine work, Hirth.
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Magnificent, Herr Kommandant.
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So, the curtain rises on Canada
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Heavy new blows
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have fallen on the Italian
navy and merchant fleet
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in their home waters,
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as well as in the central Mediterranean
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and off the coast of North Africa.
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Most of the credit
goes to our submarines
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"Then call we this the field of Agincourt
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fought on the day of Crispin Crispianus".
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If you say so, Mr Burton
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I'd like a word
with your openside, Mr David,
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if you don't mind Just for a moment
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Come on, boys!
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Push, push, push Get it
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"Well played.
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- What happened to you?
- Mr Burton
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I was expecting you at half past three.
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I did wait for you, sir, I did - Ah.
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Are you suggesting I was late?
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Well, it's the truth.
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"Then you'" know the Prologue, of course.
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"O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend
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the brightest heaven of invention".
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"A kingdom for a stage, princes to act
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and monarchs to behold
the swelling scene".
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"Then should the warlike Harry,
like himself
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assume the port of Mars,
and at his heels".
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Fine - "Leash'd in like hounds,
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should famine, sword and fire".
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Thank you, Jenkins
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I can do it all, sir.
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"No, no, that'll do.
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Yes, sir.
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It's not much of a punishment,
to be honest with you.
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I bloody loved it
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I am the ghost of Taibach future.
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Come into my arms, little one.
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Ah
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- What are you doing here?
- Homework.
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Hmm See you later
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Where the hell have you been again?
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Why? What's it to you?
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School ended at half past three
this afternoon
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If you think I'm going to spend
the rest of my life
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slaving down that blasted hole
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so you can have - So what?
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You're going to throw me out, are you?
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Let me tell you.
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If your father was less of a drunkard.
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Don't you dare Don't you bloody dare
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Richie
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Homework?
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I brought you some cocoa.
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Diolch.
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Don't think too badly of him,
Richie He's worried, is a...
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His chest.
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That's two shifts
he's had to miss this week.
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I'll go back to Ponty
That'd be the best thing.
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"Dad'll have me One less mouth
for Elfed to worry about
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Richie, don't be daft.
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There's two to a bed in Ponty as it is.
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How would you get to school?
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Just try to keep your head down a bit.
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Do your homework, play your rugby.
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Just make something of yourself
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Ah.
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One of yours, Mr Burton?
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No, Ma, not one of mine.
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The BBC have given me
some more production work.
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Oh.
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Well, perhaps not a bad thing,
just at the moment.
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I wonder if it wouldn't do you good
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to look outward for a time.
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You are right, Ma, as you ever are.
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It is spring, after all.
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Still it is the theatre that I miss.
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Hmm.
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There is nothing to replace it - No.
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Not the wireless, not the cinema.
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No.
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We used to put on plays
when I was a girl at the YMCA.
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Oh, I did love those It was
such a nice little stage.
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Ma, how long
have I lodged here with you?
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Twelve years, or 15?
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And you have never before
told me that you are an actress?
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Oh No, I
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I'm quite sure I was terrible
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Well, you must tell me, who did you play?
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Well, oh
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Well, I did play Juliet once.
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Ma! I curse the day
that I missed your Juliet!
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Oh, Mr Burton
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Aye, anyway, Libretto,
the horse was called, man.
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And damn me if he didn't bloody win.
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You can say what you like
about gambling, boys,
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but I haven't seen more money
in a single place to this day.
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Never mind a round My father
must have bought a drink
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for every man in Pontrhydyfen
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So, of course, come stop-tap,
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it fell to me to wheel the
bugger back home up the hi...
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And an heroic climb it was,
I'm telling you.
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By the time we reached his gate,
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I was blowing like a winding engine.
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"Never forget the brakes
on a wheelchair, boys"
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Huh?
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Oh.
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Our Richie
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Jeanie, get a pint for the boy
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and I'll have another one myself
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Well now, bachan, bachan.
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That's the kind of interruption I like.
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Where was I, then? Aye.
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Never forget the brakes on a wheelchair.
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There's a lesson for you now
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I stopped for a minute to catch my breath.
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The next thing I know,
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the old man was careering down the hill,
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shouting and screaming
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and beating the side of his wheelchair,
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"Come on, Libretto Come on"
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"Come on."
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The speed he was going I tell
you, I shall never forget.
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"Come on, Libretto."
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Down Station Road, past Dan-Y-Bont,
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and I heard him one last time, "Libretto".
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And whack.
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Old Thomas met the pillar
of the aqueduct.
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Killed him stone dead
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Bloody true,
boys, bloody true!
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Oh Mr Burton It's on.
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Elgar
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George never liked him
I could never understand it.
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George was wrong, Ma.
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Simple as that
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No room at the inn
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Still with us, is it?
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I expected you would be
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I've got some news for you, I have.
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I found you a job.
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Elfed, what are you talking about?
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One pound eight a week
Good position One for life.
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He's at school You know he can't work.
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When I was his age, I'd been
working for three years,
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six days a week.
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But, Elfed
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I can't Next year, I've got
the School Certificate.
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I shan't have this family
falling short any longer.
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He's not going down the mine.
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No No, he's not.
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A job has come up at the Co-op.
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Haberdashery department
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Our naval aircraft
made another successful attack
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on a convoy in the Mediterranean.
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And they and the RAF
have bombed many objectives
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in Sicily and North Africa.
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A U-boat has been damaged
and captured
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by aircraft of the Coastal
Command and ships of the navy
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Good morning, Mr Burton.
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"And summer's lease
hath all too short a date."
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Anyone?
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- Sonnet 18, sir.
- Sonnet 18 Thank you, Dolan.
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Please sit down.
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Have we mislaid Mr Jenkins?
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Left he has, sir.
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Oh, really? I was not informed.
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Well, we shall have
to try to survive without him.
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A new half-term is upon us
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and we must address ourselves
to the Gothic.
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In the shape of The Castle of Otranto.
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Haunted passageways,
horrid, inexplicable.
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No Not that way.
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Dear me, how many times
do I have to show you?
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Take both shoulders.
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Now lift up the collar
and flatten the lapel.
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The lapel Do you even know
what a lapel is?
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Ivor.
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Has my copy of the Radio Times
been delivered?
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Just this minute, Mr Burton - Ah
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I'm sorry for the wait You know how it is.
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Thank you
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Good Lord, look at this lamp!
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Quick! Put those lights out!
Get out, all of you!
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Close the door! Quick!
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Place isn't fit for a dog to be in
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Rather be here than on
the other side of that tunnel
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I know that.
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The point is, five men or 50 of us,
265
00:22:06,436 --> 00:22:08,495
I tell you, we're on the edge
of an explosion
266
00:22:08,519 --> 00:22:10,120
that can blow us all to hell!
267
00:22:13,853 --> 00:22:16,870
Production was by PH Burton.
268
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Mr Wales, the chief inspector
269
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Morning, Mr Burton - Morning.
270
00:22:38,311 --> 00:22:39,353
"Well
271
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Jenkins So
272
00:22:43,061 --> 00:22:45,745
this is where you've been.
273
00:22:45,769 --> 00:22:48,454
Yes, sir Can I help you, sir?
274
00:22:48,478 --> 00:22:53,162
Oh, yes This, uh, jacket.
275
00:22:53,186 --> 00:22:55,769
A seam needs some attention.
276
00:22:59,061 --> 00:23:01,061
Yes, sir Of course, sir.
277
00:23:05,353 --> 00:23:09,561
So, why have you stopped
attending school?
278
00:23:12,061 --> 00:23:13,269
I, um.
279
00:23:14,811 --> 00:23:18,144
Well well, circumstances, sir.
280
00:23:19,186 --> 00:23:20,269
At home, see.
281
00:23:21,394 --> 00:23:22,728
I understand.
282
00:23:25,936 --> 00:23:29,829
I must say, it's too bad, sir.
283
00:23:29,853 --> 00:23:31,870
Cos I always liked your lessons,
especially
284
00:23:31,894 --> 00:23:35,370
I'm still reading your books,
I am The ones you set.
285
00:23:35,394 --> 00:23:36,644
Which?
286
00:23:38,436 --> 00:23:39,686
Well, Shakespeare, sir.
287
00:23:42,186 --> 00:23:45,579
Well, I'm glad to hear that at least.
288
00:23:45,603 --> 00:23:50,394
You must keep reading, Jenkins
There's nothing more important.
289
00:23:53,936 --> 00:23:55,103
Thank you.
290
00:23:55,894 --> 00:23:58,186
And, uh, good luck.
291
00:24:02,936 --> 00:24:04,019
I, uh.
292
00:24:06,186 --> 00:24:10,079
I heard your play the other
night, on the wireless.
293
00:24:10,103 --> 00:24:12,037
Oh?
294
00:24:12,061 --> 00:24:13,894
It was fine work, it was
295
00:24:16,478 --> 00:24:19,103
Well, thank you, Jenkins.
296
00:24:30,269 --> 00:24:32,454
Jenkins.
297
00:24:32,478 --> 00:24:36,037
If you're interested in the theatre,
298
00:24:36,061 --> 00:24:42,412
I have recently started
a dramatic society at the YMCA
299
00:24:42,436 --> 00:24:44,870
where you'd be very welcome.
300
00:24:44,894 --> 00:24:49,454
You're putting on plays then,
sir, are you? Like at school?
301
00:24:49,478 --> 00:24:50,644
Yes.
302
00:24:51,936 --> 00:24:56,186
You'd be very welcome Give it a try.
303
00:25:05,519 --> 00:25:08,745
Ah, yes, that is good, sister,
to think of that.
304
00:25:08,769 --> 00:25:11,454
But, I, uh, I don't want to sell them.
305
00:25:11,478 --> 00:25:14,269
You see, my mother gave
them to me on her deathbed.
306
00:25:17,436 --> 00:25:18,745
Jenkins.
307
00:25:18,769 --> 00:25:21,686
Ah, come in Come in.
308
00:25:23,644 --> 00:25:25,662
Join us
309
00:25:25,686 --> 00:25:27,686
Uh, can we get Jenkins a chair?
310
00:25:31,603 --> 00:25:33,037
Welcome
311
00:25:33,061 --> 00:25:34,829
You auditioning then, are you?
312
00:25:34,853 --> 00:25:37,287
I thought I'd give it a go, see.
313
00:25:37,311 --> 00:25:43,787
So, Jenkins, we're reading
sections of our play,
314
00:25:43,811 --> 00:25:45,686
The Bishop's Candlesticks.
315
00:25:47,144 --> 00:25:51,495
And, uh, Well, why don't you
jump right in?
316
00:25:51,519 --> 00:25:53,912
We need someone to play our Convict.
317
00:25:53,936 --> 00:25:57,829
Um, Convict begins on page nine,
is it, Baynham?
318
00:25:57,853 --> 00:26:00,079
Uh, yes, top of page nine, sir.
319
00:26:00,103 --> 00:26:04,620
Now, Jenkins,
the Convict is a fugitive.
320
00:26:04,644 --> 00:26:07,329
And he's starving.
321
00:26:07,353 --> 00:26:10,120
And he is armed with a knife
322
00:26:10,144 --> 00:26:12,478
as he comes into the Bishop's house.
323
00:26:14,061 --> 00:26:15,079
Yes, sir.
324
00:26:15,103 --> 00:26:17,620
Don't worry Just just give it a go.
325
00:26:17,644 --> 00:26:20,745
Right The clock strikes 12
326
00:26:20,769 --> 00:26:23,287
Bennett, you be our clock.
327
00:26:23,311 --> 00:26:25,037
Dong.
328
00:26:25,061 --> 00:26:27,370
- Let's have some wind.
- Dong
329
00:26:27,394 --> 00:26:30,162
Of you go.
330
00:26:30,186 --> 00:26:31,478
Dong.
331
00:26:33,436 --> 00:26:37,811
Dong Dong.
332
00:26:39,728 --> 00:26:41,537
If you call out, you are a dead man!
333
00:26:41,561 --> 00:26:44,894
But, my friend, as you see, I am reading.
334
00:26:45,061 --> 00:26:48,412
Why should I call out?
Can I help you in any way?
335
00:26:48,436 --> 00:26:49,870
I want food I'm starving
336
00:26:49,894 --> 00:26:51,662
I haven't eaten anything in three days.
337
00:26:51,686 --> 00:26:53,454
Give me food quickly Quickly, curse you.
338
00:26:53,478 --> 00:26:56,954
Good Very creditable First go.
339
00:26:56,978 --> 00:26:58,954
Um, I'm wondering.
340
00:26:58,978 --> 00:27:01,144
If he's desperate, uh
341
00:27:02,811 --> 00:27:05,037
he doesn't want to be discovered.
342
00:27:05,061 --> 00:27:08,811
Maybe we could try him, uh
343
00:27:10,561 --> 00:27:12,329
Quieter?
344
00:27:12,353 --> 00:27:15,436
Quieter Good idea
345
00:27:22,436 --> 00:27:24,329
"If you call out,
you are a dead man.
346
00:27:24,353 --> 00:27:26,019
Better
347
00:27:57,978 --> 00:28:00,412
Thank you, my lovely.
348
00:28:00,436 --> 00:28:02,370
Best be quick about it, mind.
349
00:28:02,394 --> 00:28:04,412
Going to the theatre, I am, see.
350
00:28:04,436 --> 00:28:06,079
My boy's in a drama there
351
00:28:06,103 --> 00:28:08,204
Acting, is it?
352
00:28:08,228 --> 00:28:10,436
Children in a thousand, I got
353
00:28:21,936 --> 00:28:23,811
Break a leg, you two
354
00:28:25,811 --> 00:28:27,561
It means good luck.
355
00:28:34,478 --> 00:28:37,870
- Here we are, Ma.
- Thank you, Mr Burton.
356
00:28:37,894 --> 00:28:40,120
"And, uh, I'll see you after the show.
357
00:28:40,144 --> 00:28:42,329
Right And the very best of luck.
358
00:28:42,353 --> 00:28:44,454
Oh I'm not supposed to say that, am I?
359
00:28:52,603 --> 00:28:54,519
We only paid for standing.
360
00:29:09,561 --> 00:29:11,519
My father's coming tonight, he is.
361
00:29:13,061 --> 00:29:16,353
Don't say anything more Kiss
me and give me your blessing.
362
00:29:17,478 --> 00:29:19,495
I'm going to bed
363
00:29:22,644 --> 00:29:24,404
If you call out,
you are a dead man!
364
00:29:28,144 --> 00:29:30,061
- Line?
- My friend.
365
00:29:32,353 --> 00:29:35,954
My friend, as you see, I am reading.
366
00:29:35,978 --> 00:29:39,019
Why should I call out?
Can I help you in any way?
367
00:29:42,769 --> 00:29:44,870
I want food I'm starving
368
00:29:44,894 --> 00:29:46,894
I haven't eaten anything in three days.
369
00:29:48,853 --> 00:29:51,829
Give me food Quickly, curse you.
370
00:29:51,853 --> 00:29:54,787
But, certainly,
my son, you shall have food
371
00:29:54,811 --> 00:29:57,245
I will ask my sister
for the keys of the cupboard.
372
00:29:57,269 --> 00:29:58,603
Sit down.
373
00:30:03,228 --> 00:30:04,853
I have a wolf inside me
374
00:30:07,228 --> 00:30:09,019
tearing at my entrails.
375
00:30:11,311 --> 00:30:12,936
Tearing me apart
376
00:30:27,644 --> 00:30:30,204
We thought you was wonderful,
Richie, wonderful!
377
00:30:30,228 --> 00:30:31,853
It weren't so bad, was it?
378
00:30:33,269 --> 00:30:35,478
- Where's Daddy?
- Got held up, I expect.
379
00:30:37,186 --> 00:30:39,079
Right.
380
00:30:39,103 --> 00:30:40,769
Mrs Jenkins?
381
00:30:42,061 --> 00:30:43,954
Mrs James, Mr Burton.
382
00:30:43,978 --> 00:30:46,454
This is my husband, Mr Elfed James
383
00:30:46,478 --> 00:30:48,954
I'm Richie's sister
He lives with us, you see.
384
00:30:48,978 --> 00:30:51,412
Oh - How do you do?
385
00:30:51,436 --> 00:30:54,912
How do you do? Well,
you should be very proud
386
00:30:54,936 --> 00:30:57,954
Richard excelled himself this evening
387
00:30:57,978 --> 00:31:00,120
I'm only sorry he's no longer
attending school.
388
00:31:00,144 --> 00:31:03,329
He did love your lessons, Mr Burton.
389
00:31:03,353 --> 00:31:05,329
Always on about them, he was.
390
00:31:05,353 --> 00:31:07,329
Well, if there's anything I can do
391
00:31:07,353 --> 00:31:09,579
Richard is an intelligent boy.
392
00:31:09,603 --> 00:31:12,519
He could do a lot better
than working in that shop.
393
00:31:15,061 --> 00:31:21,894
I-I-I do understand these
are hard times for everyone,
394
00:31:22,061 --> 00:31:25,912
but it might be possible to have
him reinstated in school
395
00:31:28,478 --> 00:31:31,912
I heard the applause Bloody marvelous
396
00:31:31,936 --> 00:31:33,662
Tremendous.
397
00:31:33,686 --> 00:31:35,912
Please excuse me, Mr Burton
and thank you, again.
398
00:31:35,936 --> 00:31:38,120
Thunderous, it was A mighty roar
399
00:31:40,186 --> 00:31:42,245
I could hear it out here!
400
00:31:45,853 --> 00:31:47,728
Come on.
401
00:31:52,228 --> 00:31:55,620
"These are hard times
for everyone"
402
00:31:55,644 --> 00:31:57,204
I knew what he meant.
403
00:31:57,228 --> 00:31:59,204
Like I've not done and supported that boy
404
00:31:59,228 --> 00:32:00,412
since he was two years old.
405
00:32:00,436 --> 00:32:02,204
He's willing to give Richie
another chance.
406
00:32:02,228 --> 00:32:04,787
The boy's had chances
up to his eyeballs, man
407
00:32:04,811 --> 00:32:06,079
I mean, what about us?
408
00:32:06,103 --> 00:32:07,745
What about those who has to carry him?
409
00:32:07,769 --> 00:32:09,120
He's an important man
410
00:32:09,144 --> 00:32:11,037
Call that sort a man, do you?
411
00:32:11,061 --> 00:32:12,120
Elfed.
412
00:32:12,144 --> 00:32:15,412
All right Give me one good
reason why I should help him.
413
00:32:15,436 --> 00:32:17,329
When has he ever helped me? Or you?
414
00:32:17,353 --> 00:32:20,079
Cos no one in this family has
ever finished their education.
415
00:32:20,103 --> 00:32:21,811
Not one of us, never.
416
00:32:26,311 --> 00:32:27,436
Elfed.
417
00:32:28,728 --> 00:32:31,704
It's one more year
Not even that, ten months.
418
00:32:31,728 --> 00:32:34,353
Then he'll be call ed up to
the forces, like it or not.
419
00:32:35,144 --> 00:32:37,311
"You'll never have to support him again.
420
00:32:40,936 --> 00:32:42,519
The boy has to pay his way.
421
00:32:43,561 --> 00:32:46,662
What if I paid my way
and went to school?
422
00:32:46,686 --> 00:32:48,537
I'd believe that when I saw it
423
00:32:48,561 --> 00:32:50,269
I could do it, I could, honest.
424
00:32:51,269 --> 00:32:53,644
I can't stand the Co-op no more, see? I
425
00:32:54,978 --> 00:32:58,103
I'll do anything, I will I promise.
426
00:33:02,936 --> 00:33:04,269
Then prove it.
427
00:33:10,394 --> 00:33:11,811
Ta-ra then
428
00:33:31,769 --> 00:33:33,287
Good work, you
429
00:33:35,894 --> 00:33:37,412
See you tomorrow
430
00:33:37,436 --> 00:33:41,079
I think Jenkins has
a strong case for reassessment
431
00:33:41,103 --> 00:33:45,245
I believe he shows considerable
intellectual promise.
432
00:33:45,269 --> 00:33:48,894
It's very unusual that
a reinstatement will be awarded.
433
00:33:49,061 --> 00:33:53,894
But it is our job
to assess a child's potential,
434
00:33:54,061 --> 00:33:56,204
not judge him by his past.
435
00:33:56,228 --> 00:33:58,204
Haven't got any old papers
for us, have you?
436
00:33:58,228 --> 00:33:59,769
Let me have a look, now.
437
00:34:01,061 --> 00:34:02,228
Here we are
438
00:34:07,353 --> 00:34:10,454
Sixty-three papers I got for
you, Edith Two up on last week.
439
00:34:10,478 --> 00:34:11,912
How much do you want for them, then?
440
00:34:11,936 --> 00:34:13,186
Shilling?
441
00:34:17,978 --> 00:34:22,894
Jenkins has told me that
it is his ambition, long held,
442
00:34:23,061 --> 00:34:25,037
to become a teacher himself.
443
00:34:25,061 --> 00:34:28,561
To give back to the community
that has supported him.
444
00:34:29,478 --> 00:34:33,037
I believe that what Jenkins will gain
445
00:34:33,061 --> 00:34:37,912
from completing his education
will be repaid many times over,
446
00:34:37,936 --> 00:34:41,079
to the benefit of this town
for generations to come.
447
00:34:46,186 --> 00:34:49,728
If you'd like to wait outside,
we can make a decision.
448
00:34:52,853 --> 00:34:53,853
Thank you
449
00:35:06,978 --> 00:35:10,037
Morning, Mr Burton.
450
00:35:10,061 --> 00:35:12,079
Good morning, everyone.
451
00:35:12,103 --> 00:35:16,478
And, uh, welcome back, Jenkins.
452
00:35:17,728 --> 00:35:19,144
Sir
453
00:35:43,311 --> 00:35:46,894
Well, Well, WellI Jenkins on fire watch.
454
00:35:49,311 --> 00:35:50,561
Jolly good.
455
00:35:54,769 --> 00:35:56,061
What are you reading?
456
00:35:57,728 --> 00:36:00,061
James Joyce, it is, sir - Oh, yes?
457
00:36:02,769 --> 00:36:04,620
Ah.
458
00:36:04,644 --> 00:36:08,662
Not the best advertisement for
the Irish educational system.
459
00:36:17,394 --> 00:36:18,894
I wanted the chance to
460
00:36:20,519 --> 00:36:23,936
well, thank you properly, I did
For getting me back into school.
461
00:36:25,436 --> 00:36:30,019
"Just pass your exams
That's all the thanks I ask.
462
00:36:35,728 --> 00:36:37,954
If there is one thing to be said
for the blackout,
463
00:36:37,978 --> 00:36:39,644
it's the clarity of the skies.
464
00:36:41,103 --> 00:36:45,019
Look See Mars setting?
465
00:36:45,894 --> 00:36:49,436
- There's a flicker of red?
- Yeah.
466
00:36:51,894 --> 00:36:53,061
You know.
467
00:36:54,728 --> 00:36:58,370
I once spent a night under
the stars in the Mojave Desert.
468
00:36:58,394 --> 00:37:01,019
The Mojave Desert? In California?
469
00:37:05,061 --> 00:37:06,561
Have you been to Los Angeles?
470
00:37:07,894 --> 00:37:09,394
Did you meet anyone famous?
471
00:37:11,436 --> 00:37:15,144
Well, as a matter of fact, I did Um.
472
00:37:16,353 --> 00:37:18,745
Eddie Cantor
473
00:37:18,769 --> 00:37:20,704
Dorothy Lamour - Dorothy Lamour?
474
00:37:20,728 --> 00:37:24,370
We actually became quite friendly
475
00:37:25,478 --> 00:37:28,787
I was on a theatrical exchange
Six months' sabbatical.
476
00:37:28,811 --> 00:37:30,019
Mr Burton?
477
00:37:32,061 --> 00:37:33,353
Yes, Jenkins?
478
00:37:34,561 --> 00:37:37,120
There is something
I wanted to ask you.
479
00:37:37,144 --> 00:37:40,603
Or-or you know, tell
you, really, I suppose.
480
00:37:42,144 --> 00:37:44,436
- Oh, yes?
- I was thinking, see
481
00:37:45,186 --> 00:37:46,686
that I might
482
00:37:48,394 --> 00:37:49,811
want to be an actor.
483
00:37:52,394 --> 00:37:56,079
You would like to be an actor?
484
00:37:56,103 --> 00:37:59,454
I know it's not usual,
but I wondered if, you know,
485
00:37:59,478 --> 00:38:01,144
if you thought that I could.
486
00:38:06,394 --> 00:38:09,245
I could do it, sir I know I could.
487
00:38:09,269 --> 00:38:12,704
- If you was to help me.
- If I were to help you.
488
00:38:12,728 --> 00:38:14,829
Yes Yes, yes, sir You know?
489
00:38:14,853 --> 00:38:17,620
If If you were to help me
490
00:38:17,644 --> 00:38:21,436
I don't mean to be unkind, Jenkins, but
491
00:38:22,561 --> 00:38:24,370
it's been a long day.
492
00:38:24,394 --> 00:38:30,454
"And all I want for now
is to wonder at the stars
493
00:38:30,478 --> 00:38:34,811
and for no one to drop
an incendiary on us
494
00:39:13,353 --> 00:39:15,620
- Thank you, sir.
- Thank you, Mr Burton.
495
00:39:15,644 --> 00:39:19,103
Thank you, sir - Thank you, sir.
496
00:39:21,353 --> 00:39:23,061
Jenkins, have you got a moment?
497
00:39:28,519 --> 00:39:30,061
Are you free this afternoon?
498
00:39:32,353 --> 00:39:33,894
I can be, sir.
499
00:39:39,186 --> 00:39:42,228
Right then, Jenkins Follow me.
500
00:39:44,686 --> 00:39:46,787
Where are we gonna go then, sir?
501
00:39:46,811 --> 00:39:48,394
"Go" not "gor."
502
00:39:49,519 --> 00:39:52,186
"Go" Go Go - Up there.
503
00:39:52,769 --> 00:39:55,037
Don't throw stones
504
00:39:55,061 --> 00:39:58,353
into lonely holes without
knowing where they're going.
505
00:40:03,394 --> 00:40:05,704
Read that sign for me.
506
00:40:05,728 --> 00:40:07,228
"Please close the gate."
507
00:40:09,186 --> 00:40:11,103
"Gate" not "gairt."
508
00:40:12,644 --> 00:40:13,912
Gate.
509
00:40:13,936 --> 00:40:15,894
"Please close the gate."
510
00:40:16,811 --> 00:40:18,394
"Please close the gate."
511
00:40:19,394 --> 00:40:21,412
Listen to the vowel sounds.
512
00:40:21,436 --> 00:40:26,120
An actor must know how
to extract their full value
513
00:40:26,144 --> 00:40:29,811
"Please close the gate".
514
00:40:30,936 --> 00:40:34,519
"Please close the gate."
515
00:40:36,978 --> 00:40:38,019
Now.
516
00:40:39,353 --> 00:40:41,537
Please close the gate.
517
00:40:41,561 --> 00:40:43,436
Huh? Oh.
518
00:40:44,394 --> 00:40:47,686
Pitch Pronunciation Emphasis.
519
00:40:48,269 --> 00:40:52,394
These are the skills
you must learn to employ.
520
00:40:54,478 --> 00:40:57,329
Are we gonna talk by 'ere
then, sir, are we?
521
00:40:57,353 --> 00:40:59,519
Going Go-ing.
522
00:41:00,269 --> 00:41:03,579
And, please, Jenkins, the word is "here",
523
00:41:03,603 --> 00:41:05,495
not "by 'ere".
524
00:41:05,519 --> 00:41:07,811
"H'yere"
- Shorten the vowel "Here".
525
00:41:09,061 --> 00:41:10,745
H'yere.
526
00:41:10,769 --> 00:41:12,704
Aspirate.
527
00:41:12,728 --> 00:41:16,745
Have you heard Heather Hodder
is here at the hotel
528
00:41:16,769 --> 00:41:20,394
happily having hysterics? Here.
529
00:41:21,269 --> 00:41:22,269
Here.
530
00:41:23,853 --> 00:41:26,912
And, in answer to your question,
yes, we are
531
00:41:26,936 --> 00:41:29,745
I don't think Mrs Smith
would appreciate our company
532
00:41:29,769 --> 00:41:31,662
under the circumstances.
533
00:41:31,686 --> 00:41:34,603
Now then Henry V.
534
00:41:35,894 --> 00:41:38,454
Let us start with the Chorus speech,
535
00:41:38,478 --> 00:41:42,120
with which, of course, you are familiar.
536
00:41:42,144 --> 00:41:47,620
The Chorus is an incantation, as it were.
537
00:41:47,644 --> 00:41:50,495
Your task is simply
to deliver the meaning
538
00:41:50,519 --> 00:41:52,495
of what is, after all,
539
00:41:52,519 --> 00:41:59,103
an unusual form of speech,
Elizabethan blank verse.
540
00:42:00,061 --> 00:42:01,311
Let's hear it.
541
00:42:04,144 --> 00:42:05,537
O for a Muse of fire,
542
00:42:05,561 --> 00:42:07,954
that would ascend the brightest
heaven of invention.
543
00:42:07,978 --> 00:42:09,061
Stop.
544
00:42:12,394 --> 00:42:15,478
That is mostly dreadful.
545
00:42:16,311 --> 00:42:20,495
Right Stand firm Plant your feet.
546
00:42:20,519 --> 00:42:23,769
Shoulders back Head erect.
547
00:42:26,061 --> 00:42:27,954
Good.
548
00:42:27,978 --> 00:42:29,894
Let's give it another try.
549
00:42:31,561 --> 00:42:33,603
Are you able to hear me?
550
00:42:34,561 --> 00:42:35,620
Yes.
551
00:42:35,644 --> 00:42:37,870
O for a Muse of fire
552
00:42:37,894 --> 00:42:41,704
that would ascend the brightest
heaven of invention.
553
00:42:41,728 --> 00:42:43,478
Are you able to hear that?
554
00:42:44,936 --> 00:42:46,478
Yes.
555
00:42:47,728 --> 00:42:51,394
Good Now you have a try
556
00:42:53,353 --> 00:42:55,412
O for a Muse of fire
that would ascend.
557
00:42:55,436 --> 00:42:56,853
Stop.
558
00:42:57,686 --> 00:42:58,894
Was I shouting?
559
00:43:00,186 --> 00:43:01,287
No.
560
00:43:01,311 --> 00:43:05,537
Volume, Jenkins,
is of secondary importance.
561
00:43:05,561 --> 00:43:09,103
Distinctness, this is what you must learn.
562
00:43:10,061 --> 00:43:15,662
Now, I would like you to scream,
as loud as you can.
563
00:43:15,686 --> 00:43:17,079
Scream?
564
00:43:17,103 --> 00:43:18,144
Scream
565
00:43:28,603 --> 00:43:30,019
And again
566
00:43:37,686 --> 00:43:42,204
Screaming, as with shouting,
567
00:43:42,228 --> 00:43:47,079
is simply moving as much air
out of your lungs as you can,
568
00:43:47,103 --> 00:43:50,912
and straining your vocal cords
to make a sound.
569
00:43:50,936 --> 00:43:56,745
Projection, on the other hand,
filling a theatre,
570
00:43:56,769 --> 00:44:01,228
that is a matter of using
the muscle in your diaphragm,
571
00:44:02,269 --> 00:44:05,287
here, and your lungs, here,
572
00:44:05,311 --> 00:44:09,620
so that you can control
the flow of air, retain clarity,
573
00:44:09,644 --> 00:44:13,162
and make a significant
increase in volume.
574
00:44:13,186 --> 00:44:17,079
Your task, therefore, is to distinguish
575
00:44:17,103 --> 00:44:20,370
between these two things.
576
00:44:20,394 --> 00:44:25,412
So, stay here until nightfall if necessary,
577
00:44:25,436 --> 00:44:27,478
and I will see you in the morning.
578
00:44:28,686 --> 00:44:30,478
First lesson, I believe.
579
00:44:31,978 --> 00:44:35,162
Are you leaving me h'yere? Here.
580
00:44:35,186 --> 00:44:37,579
Scream and scream
581
00:44:37,603 --> 00:44:40,745
until you can find a way for it not to hurt
582
00:44:40,769 --> 00:44:44,686
I know it sounds primitive,
but it will be effective.
583
00:44:45,769 --> 00:44:47,061
Scream
584
00:44:53,686 --> 00:44:55,019
Louder
585
00:45:08,811 --> 00:45:10,662
"Everything all right up there, is it?
586
00:45:10,686 --> 00:45:12,037
Yes, thank you.
587
00:45:14,894 --> 00:45:20,204
Sss Shh Fff.
588
00:45:20,228 --> 00:45:21,495
Mah
589
00:45:21,519 --> 00:45:24,412
Jenkins Mrs Smith, my landlady.
590
00:45:24,436 --> 00:45:25,495
How do you do?
591
00:45:25,519 --> 00:45:28,787
Jenkins feels that
he would like to be an actor.
592
00:45:28,811 --> 00:45:30,353
Oh, is that a fact?
593
00:45:40,269 --> 00:45:43,912
Your voice is raspy, uncontrolled
594
00:45:43,936 --> 00:45:47,204
and completely lacking in range.
595
00:45:47,228 --> 00:45:50,728
"Indeed, we may well be wasting our time.
596
00:45:51,436 --> 00:45:52,912
O for a Muse of fire
597
00:45:52,936 --> 00:45:55,704
that would ascend the brightest
heaven of invention.
598
00:45:55,728 --> 00:45:57,662
My kingdom for a stage, princes to act,
599
00:45:57,686 --> 00:45:59,829
and monarchs to behold
the swelling scene
600
00:45:59,853 --> 00:46:02,162
Dear me, that voice.
601
00:46:02,186 --> 00:46:05,579
A voice you can work on
He has a good face.
602
00:46:05,603 --> 00:46:08,912
A good face, and eyes like a cat.
603
00:46:08,936 --> 00:46:11,894
If you want to be
a professional actor,
604
00:46:12,061 --> 00:46:15,144
it must be
not because of encouragement
605
00:46:15,644 --> 00:46:18,079
but in spite of discouragement.
606
00:46:18,103 --> 00:46:21,120
You have promise.
607
00:46:21,144 --> 00:46:25,454
But without discipline,
promise will remain unfulfilled.
608
00:46:25,478 --> 00:46:31,037
An old actor once told me that
nobody can play Shakespeare
609
00:46:31,061 --> 00:46:36,329
until he can recite all
six verses of the First Psalm
610
00:46:36,353 --> 00:46:37,853
in a single breath.
611
00:46:38,894 --> 00:46:40,662
"Blessed is the man that walketh
not in the counsel
612
00:46:40,686 --> 00:46:42,245
of the ungodly, nor standeth
in the way of sinners,
613
00:46:42,269 --> 00:46:43,620
nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful,
614
00:46:43,644 --> 00:46:44,829
but his delight is in the law of the Lord,
615
00:46:44,853 --> 00:46:46,204
and in His law
doth he meditate day and night,
616
00:46:46,228 --> 00:46:47,954
and he shall be like a tree
planted by the rivers of water,
617
00:46:47,978 --> 00:46:49,287
that bringeth forth his fruit in his season;
618
00:46:49,311 --> 00:46:50,370
his leaf also shall not wither;
619
00:46:50,394 --> 00:46:53,186
and whatsoever he doeth
shall prosper"
620
00:46:55,561 --> 00:46:58,728
Did you know that already?
621
00:47:01,436 --> 00:47:02,894
Not in English, I didn't
622
00:47:10,519 --> 00:47:13,061
O for a Muse of fire that was.
623
00:47:28,644 --> 00:47:30,912
"The rain comes pittering pattering down,
624
00:47:30,936 --> 00:47:33,204
plippetty, plippetty plop".
625
00:47:33,228 --> 00:47:34,787
"The farmer drives his horse to town,
626
00:47:34,811 --> 00:47:37,120
"- clippetty, clippetty clop"
- Richard.
627
00:47:37,144 --> 00:47:39,162
"The rain comes pattering,
horse goes clattering,
628
00:47:39,186 --> 00:47:42,936
- "clippetty, clippetty clop"
- Richard! For God sakes, boy!
629
00:47:44,728 --> 00:47:48,019
Don't you see what this teacher is doing?
630
00:47:49,686 --> 00:47:52,329
Well, you wouldn't understand,
would you?
631
00:47:52,353 --> 00:47:54,269
You're an intellectual brute.
632
00:47:59,769 --> 00:48:01,061
Richie.
633
00:48:02,269 --> 00:48:03,311
You
634
00:48:04,853 --> 00:48:06,311
talking like that, you
635
00:48:08,061 --> 00:48:10,894
you're not just talking to me, you know.
636
00:48:11,061 --> 00:48:12,829
"You're talking it at all of us.
637
00:48:12,853 --> 00:48:17,353
Your sister, your father, your mother.
638
00:48:19,311 --> 00:48:21,037
Everybody you come from
639
00:48:27,436 --> 00:48:28,728
Look, I.
640
00:48:30,978 --> 00:48:35,061
I'm not so good at the Welsh, I know that.
641
00:48:37,061 --> 00:48:38,394
But I know who I am.
642
00:48:40,644 --> 00:48:44,561
Now, your voice,
that's your birthright, it is.
643
00:48:46,061 --> 00:48:47,603
Your voice
644
00:48:51,728 --> 00:48:54,686
Oh, I do feel so queer.
645
00:48:56,103 --> 00:48:58,019
Did you put something funny
in the champagne?
646
00:48:58,603 --> 00:49:00,245
Yes The bubbles
647
00:49:01,353 --> 00:49:05,662
It took me hours Every single
little bubble put in by hand,
648
00:49:05,686 --> 00:49:06,769
rather gently.
649
00:49:08,186 --> 00:49:10,954
Don't you think I deserve
just a little reward for that?
650
00:49:10,978 --> 00:49:12,019
Oh, no
651
00:49:13,478 --> 00:49:16,120
I'm not going to budge
from here until I get that kiss
652
00:49:16,144 --> 00:49:18,103
and I'm sitting very comfortably
653
00:49:20,728 --> 00:49:22,579
You won my bet? You?
654
00:49:22,603 --> 00:49:25,787
Presumptuous insect! I won it.
655
00:49:25,811 --> 00:49:27,704
What did you throw those
slippers at me for?
656
00:49:27,728 --> 00:49:29,745
Because I wanted to smash your face
657
00:49:29,769 --> 00:49:32,019
I'd like to kill you, you selfish brute.
658
00:49:33,144 --> 00:49:36,019
The creature is nervous, after all.
659
00:49:37,186 --> 00:49:40,912
Ah Would you? Claws in, you cat.
660
00:49:40,936 --> 00:49:42,954
How dare you show your temper to me?
661
00:49:42,978 --> 00:49:44,454
What's to become of me?
662
00:49:55,061 --> 00:49:56,228
Head back.
663
00:50:03,061 --> 00:50:04,603
That hurt?
664
00:50:06,436 --> 00:50:07,478
No.
665
00:50:09,936 --> 00:50:11,811
No, no, doesn't 'urt.
666
00:50:13,061 --> 00:50:16,019
"Hurt" Aspirate.
667
00:50:23,061 --> 00:50:25,103
What on earth is the matter, Richard?
668
00:50:26,144 --> 00:50:27,644
The show went well.
669
00:50:29,061 --> 00:50:31,478
Yeah, well, now I go back
to Caradoc Street.
670
00:50:33,603 --> 00:50:36,436
There What is wrong with that?
671
00:50:39,228 --> 00:50:40,870
I'm not much wanted there.
672
00:50:40,894 --> 00:50:43,370
Oh, I hardly believe that.
673
00:50:43,394 --> 00:50:46,287
Your sister dotes on you.
674
00:50:46,311 --> 00:50:47,620
It's Elfed that's the problem.
675
00:50:47,644 --> 00:50:49,829
He hates me He's crushing me.
676
00:50:49,853 --> 00:50:51,829
Honestly, Mr Burton,
I can't stand it anymore
677
00:50:51,853 --> 00:50:53,537
I don't know what I'm going to do.
678
00:50:53,561 --> 00:50:55,579
There's no space in my father's house.
679
00:50:55,603 --> 00:50:56,936
There we are.
680
00:50:58,644 --> 00:51:01,454
That should be serviceable
for tomorrow night.
681
00:51:01,478 --> 00:51:04,079
I'd rent a room,
if I could find one.
682
00:51:04,103 --> 00:51:06,769
Well, of course,
Mrs Smith has a vacant room.
683
00:51:09,311 --> 00:51:12,620
- I can move in with you!
- Hmm?
684
00:51:12,644 --> 00:51:15,870
I'm quite sure Elfed
and especially your sister
685
00:51:15,894 --> 00:51:18,894
- wouldn't want you to.
- Could you ask her, Mr Burton?
686
00:51:19,061 --> 00:51:20,912
For me? Could you? Just ask her.
687
00:51:20,936 --> 00:51:24,603
Dear me, no I
I shouldn't have mentioned it.
688
00:51:30,811 --> 00:51:32,019
You see?
689
00:51:33,853 --> 00:51:35,603
When push comes to shove
690
00:51:37,103 --> 00:51:38,728
nobody wants me.
691
00:51:42,394 --> 00:51:43,603
I'm sorry, Richard.
692
00:51:45,436 --> 00:51:49,037
I cannot pretend that
I don't have my misgivings
693
00:51:49,061 --> 00:51:51,579
I've never had a lodger of such an age,
694
00:51:51,603 --> 00:51:54,186
and how can he afford
five shillings a week?
695
00:51:56,603 --> 00:52:00,186
But, I-I-I do have other concerns.
696
00:52:01,561 --> 00:52:05,894
As you know, teaching a young
man here, that is one thing.
697
00:52:06,061 --> 00:52:08,894
But having him living in the house?
698
00:52:10,686 --> 00:52:12,394
It's bound to fuel
699
00:52:14,478 --> 00:52:16,019
speculation.
700
00:52:19,228 --> 00:52:24,019
Well, you do not need to worry
about me, Ma.
701
00:52:25,394 --> 00:52:29,061
"Yes, but I do worry,
all the same, Mr Burton.
702
00:52:30,311 --> 00:52:34,454
Besides, this may be quite academic.
703
00:52:34,478 --> 00:52:37,478
His sister and brother-in-law
may well not agree.
704
00:53:14,436 --> 00:53:16,144
Thank you, Mr James.
705
00:53:18,853 --> 00:53:20,019
Please.
706
00:53:21,311 --> 00:53:24,019
- Good afternoon, Mrs James.
- Hello, Mr Burton.
707
00:53:27,311 --> 00:53:30,186
- Shall I take that for you?
- Coat.
708
00:53:31,061 --> 00:53:34,204
As you know,
Richard has asked me
709
00:53:34,228 --> 00:53:38,495
if he might move
the few streets from here
710
00:53:38,519 --> 00:53:43,162
to Mrs Smith's house,
where I currently reside.
711
00:53:43,186 --> 00:53:44,811
But
712
00:53:45,936 --> 00:53:48,912
I should say at once, however,
713
00:53:48,936 --> 00:53:51,079
I think there are a number of reasons
714
00:53:51,103 --> 00:53:54,103
why this might not be a good idea.
715
00:53:57,603 --> 00:54:00,644
But it was your idea, the boy did tell me.
716
00:54:02,519 --> 00:54:04,436
It is true, that, uh
717
00:54:05,603 --> 00:54:10,478
unthinkingly, I
I did mention a vacant room.
718
00:54:12,061 --> 00:54:13,519
So you won't take him on?
719
00:54:15,228 --> 00:54:19,894
I do not wish to imply any lack
of commitment to Richard.
720
00:54:20,061 --> 00:54:23,620
As you know, I have
dedicated a lot of time to him.
721
00:54:23,644 --> 00:54:26,370
Enlisting him in the RAF Cadet Force,
722
00:54:26,394 --> 00:54:28,745
and helping him with his schoolwork
723
00:54:28,769 --> 00:54:31,204
and craft of acting.
724
00:54:31,228 --> 00:54:34,495
And, indeed, he has been made
remarkable progress
725
00:54:34,519 --> 00:54:36,954
in all these areas.
726
00:54:36,978 --> 00:54:39,311
We might even consider university.
727
00:54:40,644 --> 00:54:42,144
University?
728
00:54:43,894 --> 00:54:48,269
But to move out of the family home is.
729
00:54:49,436 --> 00:54:51,686
Well, it's a considerable step.
730
00:54:52,769 --> 00:54:54,370
Is he old enough?
731
00:54:54,394 --> 00:54:57,954
Is he responsible enough?
732
00:54:57,978 --> 00:54:59,353
So you would pay his rent?
733
00:55:03,061 --> 00:55:07,245
After long consideration,
I would be prepared to meet.
734
00:55:07,269 --> 00:55:10,519
Then I think you should
take him on, Mr Burton.
735
00:55:12,686 --> 00:55:13,728
Please.
736
00:55:14,811 --> 00:55:16,019
Take him on.
737
00:55:22,519 --> 00:55:24,061
Where is Richard?
738
00:55:24,978 --> 00:55:26,894
Upstairs, he is.
739
00:55:27,061 --> 00:55:32,519
Perhaps we should discuss this
together in the same room.
740
00:55:37,478 --> 00:55:39,103
"Well, I'll go fetch him, then.
741
00:55:48,811 --> 00:55:50,061
Mrs James
742
00:55:51,311 --> 00:55:56,019
Richard is your son much more
than he is your brother.
743
00:55:57,228 --> 00:55:59,603
I know how much you love each other.
744
00:56:00,603 --> 00:56:05,561
Please, tell me, what is it
you want me to do?
745
00:56:07,728 --> 00:56:09,686
If you take him, Mr Burton,
746
00:56:11,436 --> 00:56:13,353
"it'll be the answer to my prayers
747
00:56:59,519 --> 00:57:00,870
Hello?
748
00:57:00,894 --> 00:57:04,787
Eight o'clock, Richard
Ma likes us to be prompt.
749
00:57:04,811 --> 00:57:06,436
All right.
750
00:57:24,353 --> 00:57:26,329
Perhaps you could tidy your bedroom
751
00:57:26,353 --> 00:57:27,954
after breakfast, Richard.
752
00:57:27,978 --> 00:57:31,579
P'rhaps - Per-haps.
753
00:57:31,603 --> 00:57:33,370
Per-haps.
754
00:57:33,394 --> 00:57:34,853
- Enough?
- Hmm.
755
00:57:51,186 --> 00:57:53,144
Good morning - Morning, Ma.
756
00:57:54,394 --> 00:57:56,228
- How did you sleep?
- Like an innocent.
757
00:57:58,269 --> 00:57:59,954
Right No, no, I'm sorry, Richie,
758
00:57:59,978 --> 00:58:03,079
but that that really will not do here.
759
00:58:03,103 --> 00:58:04,769
Right No.
760
00:58:06,061 --> 00:58:09,644
Use the edge towards you Right?
761
00:58:10,478 --> 00:58:13,370
No, no, no, no No, no, no
762
00:58:13,394 --> 00:58:16,495
Bring it Bring it to your mouth.
763
00:58:16,519 --> 00:58:18,186
Right? Dear me.
764
00:58:19,853 --> 00:58:21,704
Well!
765
00:58:21,728 --> 00:58:23,287
Right - That's better.
766
00:58:23,311 --> 00:58:26,061
"And whatever you do, don't
speak with your mouth full
767
00:58:27,728 --> 00:58:29,454
Oh, for goodness' sake
768
00:58:29,478 --> 00:58:30,936
I thought I could smell something!
769
00:58:32,144 --> 00:58:35,704
Well, I only have
the two pairs, Ma.
770
00:58:35,728 --> 00:58:37,912
Right Well, honestly,
there's more hole than sock
771
00:58:39,228 --> 00:58:40,686
Did your mother never think.
772
00:58:48,311 --> 00:58:49,561
"It's all right, Ma.
773
00:58:52,186 --> 00:58:55,936
I was only two I don't remember
anything about her.
774
00:59:02,103 --> 00:59:05,478
Well, it's a good job I'm here
Myself and Mr Burton.
775
00:59:07,394 --> 00:59:09,204
Right Well, finish your breakfast,
776
00:59:09,228 --> 00:59:10,704
and then take them off,
777
00:59:10,728 --> 00:59:12,519
"and I'll if I can't find some fresh ones.
778
00:59:17,228 --> 00:59:19,454
- What's that?
- Hmm?
779
00:59:19,478 --> 00:59:21,936
Oh Nothing
780
00:59:36,103 --> 00:59:38,769
Yes?
781
00:59:40,894 --> 00:59:44,103
Do you never
get lonely, living on your own?
782
00:59:45,811 --> 00:59:48,228
A cultured person is never lonely.
783
00:59:54,353 --> 00:59:57,186
"The lips of time
leech to the fountain head".
784
00:59:58,311 --> 01:00:00,412
"Love drips and gathers,
785
01:00:00,436 --> 01:00:02,936
but the fallen blood shall calm her sores".
786
01:00:04,686 --> 01:00:07,537
"And I am dumb to tell a weather's wind
787
01:00:07,561 --> 01:00:10,561
how time has ticked
a heaven round the stars".
788
01:00:13,394 --> 01:00:15,103
That's wonderful - Isn't it, though?
789
01:00:16,478 --> 01:00:17,811
God knows what it means.
790
01:00:20,894 --> 01:00:21,894
Where'd you find it?
791
01:00:23,061 --> 01:00:25,912
Well, I've got PH's library, don't I?
792
01:00:25,936 --> 01:00:28,019
I even have his socks
793
01:00:32,519 --> 01:00:33,894
You know, Richie.
794
01:00:35,061 --> 01:00:36,701
You're not a bit like I thought you'd be.
795
01:00:39,728 --> 01:00:40,769
How so?
796
01:00:43,561 --> 01:00:46,561
"I thought you'd be more, well
797
01:00:47,519 --> 01:00:48,745
all hands
798
01:00:50,603 --> 01:00:54,019
You know what I mean.
799
01:00:56,603 --> 01:01:00,436
And you never not with me.
800
01:01:02,061 --> 01:01:04,728
Yeah, well, that's because
I'm a gentleman.
801
01:01:14,894 --> 01:01:16,894
You do want to though, don't you?
802
01:01:23,269 --> 01:01:24,811
Of course I bloody want to.
803
01:01:26,894 --> 01:01:28,186
Good.
804
01:01:31,686 --> 01:01:33,561
Why on earth would you think I don't?
805
01:01:35,894 --> 01:01:38,644
I dunno It's nothing
806
01:01:49,436 --> 01:01:50,686
Richard?
807
01:01:59,061 --> 01:02:03,412
I would like you to repeat
your mathematics paper.
808
01:02:03,436 --> 01:02:04,853
My mathematics?
809
01:02:06,353 --> 01:02:07,870
But, PH, you said it was good.
810
01:02:07,894 --> 01:02:09,728
Good, yes, but, uh
811
01:02:11,061 --> 01:02:13,269
good is not good enough
812
01:02:15,644 --> 01:02:20,120
But I want to be
an actor, not a professor
813
01:02:20,144 --> 01:02:21,620
Richard.
814
01:02:21,644 --> 01:02:27,120
To be an actor, you will need to
move in certain social spheres,
815
01:02:27,144 --> 01:02:32,537
and, as it happens, the RAF
have a new six-month scholarship
816
01:02:32,561 --> 01:02:36,019
for several cadets
to study at Oxford University.
817
01:02:37,353 --> 01:02:41,019
And my friend, Sir Cyril Cooke,
is in charge
818
01:02:42,186 --> 01:02:43,370
Oxford?
819
01:02:43,394 --> 01:02:45,870
Oxford, yes.
820
01:02:45,894 --> 01:02:49,519
But, uh your marks
will need to be excellent So.
821
01:02:50,478 --> 01:02:52,370
You have an hour from now
822
01:02:52,394 --> 01:02:55,037
and if you do not better your mark,
823
01:02:55,061 --> 01:02:56,519
I will set you another.
824
01:02:59,436 --> 01:03:00,644
Yes, PH.
825
01:03:02,186 --> 01:03:03,436
Oh, and Richard?
826
01:03:04,353 --> 01:03:07,912
If you continue to be late
for our appointments,
827
01:03:07,936 --> 01:03:10,787
I may be forced
to reconsider our arrangement.
828
01:03:10,811 --> 01:03:13,394
Do I make myself clear?
829
01:04:03,519 --> 01:04:04,644
Sorry.
830
01:04:07,394 --> 01:04:08,436
I, um.
831
01:04:10,228 --> 01:04:11,603
Uh.
832
01:04:13,811 --> 01:04:16,228
I didn't know you was writing
for the theatre, PH.
833
01:04:19,519 --> 01:04:20,644
Yes.
834
01:04:22,394 --> 01:04:25,103
Although, as you can see
835
01:04:26,853 --> 01:04:30,811
not to the satisfaction
of HM Tennent Limited.
836
01:04:32,811 --> 01:04:35,144
Well, your work's good enough
for the BBC.
837
01:04:36,811 --> 01:04:39,811
A regional service of the BBC.
838
01:04:41,853 --> 01:04:44,603
I did have a job in London We...
839
01:04:45,936 --> 01:04:47,769
The offer of a job, at least.
840
01:04:49,144 --> 01:04:50,936
But then the war broke out.
841
01:04:55,061 --> 01:04:58,436
You mean, you don't want
to be a teacher?
842
01:04:59,269 --> 01:05:03,561
No Don't misunderstand me.
843
01:05:04,519 --> 01:05:08,329
I believe teaching is a noble profession
844
01:05:08,353 --> 01:05:09,745
I suppose I didn't think
845
01:05:09,769 --> 01:05:12,353
I'd spend so much of my life doing it.
846
01:05:14,144 --> 01:05:17,329
But the Ministry of Labour
847
01:05:17,353 --> 01:05:20,704
considers my talents, such as they are,
848
01:05:20,728 --> 01:05:25,228
better suited to the classroom
than Broadcasting House.
849
01:05:26,144 --> 01:05:27,394
And thus.
850
01:05:29,436 --> 01:05:32,311
I fell out of step with the London stage.
851
01:05:33,769 --> 01:05:38,287
So, have you written other plays, then?
852
01:05:38,311 --> 01:05:40,228
Too many, perhaps.
853
01:05:48,936 --> 01:05:51,061
So, writing must also be pursued
854
01:05:53,644 --> 01:05:55,019
in spite of discouragement.
855
01:05:58,061 --> 01:05:59,269
I suppose it must.
856
01:06:06,353 --> 01:06:09,894
PH, no one understands the stage
like you.
857
01:06:11,436 --> 01:06:12,954
I know that for certain
858
01:06:12,978 --> 01:06:16,686
I mean, your work as a director.
859
01:06:19,186 --> 01:06:22,287
I watch it in wonder I do.
860
01:06:22,311 --> 01:06:24,103
And if you hadn't been h'yere
861
01:06:28,811 --> 01:06:30,686
Been here.
862
01:06:33,853 --> 01:06:36,103
Well, I dunno.
863
01:06:38,144 --> 01:06:39,478
We never would have met.
864
01:06:43,644 --> 01:06:44,894
I must show you something.
865
01:07:02,894 --> 01:07:06,037
Now, they are only minor roles,
866
01:07:06,061 --> 01:07:07,912
and there will be fierce competition.
867
01:07:07,936 --> 01:07:09,686
"Emlyn wants Welsh actors."
868
01:07:11,228 --> 01:07:12,954
"Mr Emlyn Williams is looking for
869
01:07:12,978 --> 01:07:14,579
several Welsh actors and actresses
870
01:07:14,603 --> 01:07:16,370
for small parts in his new play".
871
01:07:16,394 --> 01:07:20,204
"Types wanted vary from young
people to character actors"
872
01:07:20,228 --> 01:07:22,704
I could inform him of our interest.
873
01:07:22,728 --> 01:07:23,954
Of your interest.
874
01:07:23,978 --> 01:07:25,204
Emlyn Williams
875
01:07:25,228 --> 01:07:29,061
I do know Williams a bit.
876
01:07:35,978 --> 01:07:37,478
Thank you.
877
01:07:42,144 --> 01:07:43,644
You should get some sleep.
878
01:08:09,519 --> 01:08:11,728
O for a Muse of fire
879
01:08:14,686 --> 01:08:16,829
that would ascend
880
01:08:16,853 --> 01:08:19,728
the brightest heaven of invention.
881
01:08:20,811 --> 01:08:25,162
A kingdom for a stage, princes to act
882
01:08:25,186 --> 01:08:28,519
and monarchs to behold
the swelling scene.
883
01:08:30,353 --> 01:08:36,769
Then, should the warlike Harry,
like himself,
884
01:08:38,311 --> 01:08:41,287
assume the port of Mars,
885
01:08:41,311 --> 01:08:44,829
and at his heels, leashed in like hounds,
886
01:08:44,853 --> 01:08:49,353
should famine, sword and fire
crouch for employment
887
01:08:55,269 --> 01:08:59,311
He really is a changed boy
these days, Cyril.
888
01:09:00,978 --> 01:09:04,620
In the ATC, on the fire-watch rota,
889
01:09:04,644 --> 01:09:09,019
and his marks have improved
beyond all recognition.
890
01:09:10,561 --> 01:09:14,120
Well, you know I respect
your judgement, PH
891
01:09:14,144 --> 01:09:15,454
I will support you, of course.
892
01:09:15,478 --> 01:09:20,103
Although, to be candid,
I do foresee certain problems.
893
01:09:23,103 --> 01:09:26,561
His background, for instance
He's a miner's son, isn't he?
894
01:09:28,228 --> 01:09:30,912
Not that I have anything against
miners' sons, of course,
895
01:09:30,936 --> 01:09:35,394
but, um, they are hardly the
type that Oxbridge smiles on.
896
01:09:36,894 --> 01:09:37,894
And then
897
01:09:39,061 --> 01:09:41,394
there is the matter of the surname.
898
01:09:42,353 --> 01:09:43,561
How How do you mean?
899
01:09:44,561 --> 01:09:47,353
The boy's name is Jenkins
Yours is Burton.
900
01:09:49,394 --> 01:09:50,829
He lives with you
901
01:09:50,853 --> 01:09:53,561
and it will inevitably lead to questions.
902
01:09:54,519 --> 01:09:57,769
And with competition for
the RAF scholarship so fierce.
903
01:10:01,228 --> 01:10:04,537
Anyhow, best get on
This war isn't winning itself.
904
01:10:04,561 --> 01:10:07,936
Yes Yes, of course Thank you, Sir Cyril.
905
01:10:10,936 --> 01:10:14,870
Look, PH, I know a man's name
shouldn't hold him back
906
01:10:14,894 --> 01:10:18,811
in this day and age, but
you know how these things work
907
01:10:28,894 --> 01:10:30,954
The drops are dripping
908
01:10:33,811 --> 01:10:35,579
That's Dic Jenkins's boy, that is
909
01:10:35,603 --> 01:10:36,894
It's not, is it?
910
01:10:37,061 --> 01:10:38,412
Living with that teacher
911
01:10:38,436 --> 01:10:40,537
- Guess what he's after.
- Yeah
912
01:10:53,061 --> 01:10:54,769
More tea, PH?
913
01:10:58,103 --> 01:11:01,394
Oh Yes Thank you, Richard.
914
01:11:09,436 --> 01:11:10,644
Richard.
915
01:11:11,769 --> 01:11:17,870
We need to discuss your
application for a scholarship
916
01:11:17,894 --> 01:11:19,353
to Oxford University.
917
01:11:20,728 --> 01:11:21,769
Right.
918
01:11:23,603 --> 01:11:26,853
As you know,
this is an enormous opportunity.
919
01:11:27,811 --> 01:11:29,037
And, thankfully,
920
01:11:29,061 --> 01:11:33,353
Sir Cyril has agreed
to support the application.
921
01:11:35,061 --> 01:11:36,394
Lovely.
922
01:11:37,269 --> 01:11:40,245
But there is a caveat.
923
01:11:40,269 --> 01:11:45,037
He believes that my putting you forward
924
01:11:45,061 --> 01:11:48,870
as a concerned teacher
925
01:11:48,894 --> 01:11:53,853
will raise awkward questions
about your living arrangements.
926
01:11:57,478 --> 01:11:58,478
I see.
927
01:12:00,853 --> 01:12:03,061
For me to put you forward,
928
01:12:04,311 --> 01:12:07,287
and for that to be accepted
without question,
929
01:12:07,311 --> 01:12:09,287
would require me to
930
01:12:09,311 --> 01:12:12,894
to take legal responsibility for you.
931
01:12:14,853 --> 01:12:16,478
What do you mean, legal?
932
01:12:22,686 --> 01:12:23,745
Adopt me?
933
01:12:23,769 --> 01:12:29,061
Think of this as a means
to an end, a formality, but
934
01:12:30,478 --> 01:12:33,662
inevitably, this would require you to.
935
01:12:33,686 --> 01:12:35,144
Change my name?
936
01:12:52,728 --> 01:12:53,936
Fine.
937
01:12:55,144 --> 01:12:56,894
Change it.
938
01:13:01,853 --> 01:13:02,894
Right.
939
01:13:04,144 --> 01:13:07,561
Um, in order to do that,
940
01:13:08,686 --> 01:13:12,769
we would need the permission
of your current legal guardian.
941
01:13:14,186 --> 01:13:17,144
Who's that? Is it Cis?
942
01:13:19,103 --> 01:13:21,436
No I'm afraid not
943
01:13:46,269 --> 01:13:47,894
Who the bloody hell is this?
944
01:14:23,978 --> 01:14:25,894
It would allow me to go to university.
945
01:14:27,519 --> 01:14:29,061
Perhaps even to Oxford.
946
01:14:31,561 --> 01:14:32,811
I need you to sign it.
947
01:14:36,394 --> 01:14:40,662
"The infant, Richard Walter Jenkins,
948
01:14:40,686 --> 01:14:42,495
shall, from the date hereof,
949
01:14:42,519 --> 01:14:47,936
absolutely renounce and abandon
the surname of the parent,
950
01:14:49,686 --> 01:14:51,686
Richard Walter Jenkins
951
01:14:57,811 --> 01:15:02,287
and shall bear the surname
of the adopter,
952
01:15:02,311 --> 01:15:05,561
Philip Henry Burton
953
01:15:09,894 --> 01:15:12,162
and shall be held out to the world
954
01:15:12,186 --> 01:15:13,954
and in all respects treated
955
01:15:13,978 --> 01:15:18,186
"as if he were, in fact,
the child of the adopter"
956
01:15:41,478 --> 01:15:42,811
Well, boy
957
01:15:46,144 --> 01:15:47,228
you need to know.
958
01:15:50,269 --> 01:15:51,894
This won't come for nothing
959
01:16:23,894 --> 01:16:25,228
Fifty pounds?
960
01:16:28,644 --> 01:16:30,019
And how would you like the notes?
961
01:16:31,061 --> 01:16:33,436
Uh, five-pound notes will be fine
962
01:17:02,311 --> 01:17:03,954
He's from Scotland, isn't he?
963
01:17:03,978 --> 01:17:05,704
Stay here.
964
01:17:05,728 --> 01:17:07,269
PH - It's for the best
965
01:17:56,728 --> 01:17:57,769
Hey.
966
01:17:59,561 --> 01:18:00,829
Do you want any more?
967
01:18:00,853 --> 01:18:03,853
I've got another ten
968
01:18:07,811 --> 01:18:09,019
Well, lad.
969
01:18:10,394 --> 01:18:12,769
Looks like the boys are right.
970
01:18:13,436 --> 01:18:15,728
They said you'd turned into a poofter.
971
01:18:18,853 --> 01:18:19,894
Hmm
972
01:18:29,811 --> 01:18:32,019
We'll pop this in the post
on the way home.
973
01:18:35,603 --> 01:18:39,269
I, uh I think I need to take a walk.
974
01:18:40,769 --> 01:18:41,811
Of course.
975
01:18:43,478 --> 01:18:45,019
I-I'll meet you for dinner.
976
01:18:46,603 --> 01:18:48,186
Maybe we'll open a bottle
977
01:19:54,061 --> 01:19:55,311
Richie?
978
01:19:56,603 --> 01:19:59,287
Ah, there you are
979
01:20:08,811 --> 01:20:10,912
Thought you'd get me drunk, did you?
980
01:20:10,936 --> 01:20:13,269
Of course not.
981
01:20:16,061 --> 01:20:20,061
I thought, uh, well,
we have things to celebrate.
982
01:20:21,436 --> 01:20:24,019
Do we not? Or mark, at any rate.
983
01:20:25,228 --> 01:20:27,412
Your exam results, and.
984
01:20:27,436 --> 01:20:29,495
Well, all we have achieved together
985
01:20:32,144 --> 01:20:35,936
Richie You'll wake up Ma.
986
01:20:36,894 --> 01:20:39,478
"- I'll shut this door
987
01:20:41,728 --> 01:20:43,019
Mr Burton?
988
01:20:46,853 --> 01:20:48,894
Do you really think I'm that stupid?
989
01:20:52,186 --> 01:20:54,787
Do you think I don't know
what you're up to?
990
01:20:54,811 --> 01:20:57,745
What What are you talking about?
991
01:20:59,978 --> 01:21:02,478
You know very well
what I'm talking about.
992
01:21:05,478 --> 01:21:07,853
Richard - Good old PH, eh?
993
01:21:10,728 --> 01:21:11,936
How he, um
994
01:21:14,561 --> 01:21:15,853
clothed me.
995
01:21:19,061 --> 01:21:20,561
He fed me.
996
01:21:22,436 --> 01:21:24,787
All out of the goodness of his heart
997
01:21:24,811 --> 01:21:27,495
Richard, let me make you a cup of tea.
998
01:21:27,519 --> 01:21:30,894
It's the worst-kept secret
in fucking Port Talbot.
999
01:21:31,061 --> 01:21:32,228
Richard.
1000
01:21:33,311 --> 01:21:36,120
It's been an eventful day A long day.
1001
01:21:36,144 --> 01:21:39,204
And you I'm sure you need some sleep.
1002
01:21:39,228 --> 01:21:42,662
Do you think I don't know
what it is that you want?
1003
01:21:42,686 --> 01:21:44,287
Richard
1004
01:21:44,311 --> 01:21:48,704
I have done everything for you,
everything that you requested,
1005
01:21:48,728 --> 01:21:50,829
and I have asked for nothing in return.
1006
01:21:50,853 --> 01:21:55,579
Nothing, except to
to see you flourish as an actor.
1007
01:21:55,603 --> 01:21:59,603
Yes, perhaps a little gratitude,
but good God.
1008
01:22:00,978 --> 01:22:02,704
In a matter of weeks,
1009
01:22:02,728 --> 01:22:04,829
you will be auditioning for Daphne Rye
1010
01:22:04,853 --> 01:22:06,353
Daphne Rye.
1011
01:22:07,644 --> 01:22:11,329
Perhaps the most influential
casting director in the country.
1012
01:22:11,353 --> 01:22:14,686
And she will be paying you
particular attention.
1013
01:22:17,311 --> 01:22:19,912
Do you suppose these things
happen by chance?
1014
01:22:19,936 --> 01:22:25,079
Or-or-or are you in some way
special? Is that it?
1015
01:22:25,103 --> 01:22:26,269
Richard?
1016
01:22:31,103 --> 01:22:32,103
Well, is it?
1017
01:23:30,436 --> 01:23:33,495
Richie What on earth are you doing?
1018
01:23:33,519 --> 01:23:37,061
Come down, will you?
I need to talk to you
1019
01:24:56,811 --> 01:24:59,537
I am sorry if we disturbed
you last night, Ma
1020
01:24:59,561 --> 01:25:03,061
Well, no you didn't disturb me.
1021
01:25:07,103 --> 01:25:09,144
Let me make you some tea.
1022
01:25:10,436 --> 01:25:12,936
I am afraid we may have
to find you a new tenant.
1023
01:25:26,394 --> 01:25:27,686
Mr Burton.
1024
01:25:30,228 --> 01:25:33,579
I don't want to say that
I was afraid this would happen,
1025
01:25:33,603 --> 01:25:35,811
because - I know.
1026
01:25:40,394 --> 01:25:42,412
I don't want to speak ill of Richie,
1027
01:25:42,436 --> 01:25:44,370
however terribly he's behaved
1028
01:25:44,394 --> 01:25:47,019
because I've become so fond of the boy.
1029
01:25:50,353 --> 01:25:53,120
Do you remember
that first play at the YMCA?
1030
01:25:53,144 --> 01:25:54,811
We...
1031
01:25:55,728 --> 01:25:59,311
That's how he's been to me,
right from the start.
1032
01:26:00,436 --> 01:26:05,019
Scared and hunted, I suppose you'd say.
1033
01:26:08,728 --> 01:26:11,370
We could have given him
all the kindness in the world,
1034
01:26:11,394 --> 01:26:15,311
and nothing was ever
going to change that, ever.
1035
01:26:20,269 --> 01:26:22,537
"But to throw it all back at me?
1036
01:26:22,561 --> 01:26:24,245
I know.
1037
01:26:24,269 --> 01:26:27,269
But who else, Mr Burton?
1038
01:26:28,436 --> 01:26:29,644
You must know that.
1039
01:26:31,936 --> 01:26:35,769
Who else does he care about so much?
1040
01:26:57,144 --> 01:26:59,495
I'm afraid it is a boy
we are looking for
1041
01:26:59,519 --> 01:27:01,829
But she could pass
for a boy, Miss Rye, isn't it?
1042
01:27:01,853 --> 01:27:03,454
There is a war on, after all.
1043
01:27:03,478 --> 01:27:06,495
Yes, Mrs Barron, but it is a boy
we are looking for.
1044
01:27:06,519 --> 01:27:08,603
Please, take a seat to the left.
1045
01:27:11,436 --> 01:27:12,811
Donald Brown.
1046
01:27:15,311 --> 01:27:16,644
Donald Brown?
1047
01:27:18,061 --> 01:27:19,603
No? Very well.
1048
01:27:21,894 --> 01:27:23,186
Richard Burton
1049
01:27:24,103 --> 01:27:26,061
Stand up straight
1050
01:27:32,103 --> 01:27:35,186
Don't forget to smile.
1051
01:27:38,186 --> 01:27:40,811
Ah, yes You're Philip Burton's boy.
1052
01:27:43,394 --> 01:27:44,519
Yes, Miss Rye.
1053
01:27:46,353 --> 01:27:47,519
I, um.
1054
01:27:51,103 --> 01:27:53,769
I've, uh, I've memorised
the lines you sent.
1055
01:27:57,311 --> 01:27:58,311
Carry on, then.
1056
01:28:06,811 --> 01:28:08,579
What do I want with stories
1057
01:28:08,603 --> 01:28:10,269
when I got the hay to get in?
1058
01:28:13,228 --> 01:28:15,894
I 'aven't read a story,
not since I was in bed
1059
01:28:16,061 --> 01:28:17,644
from the stallion throwin' me.
1060
01:28:18,853 --> 01:28:20,811
I got to think about other things.
1061
01:28:21,894 --> 01:28:23,061
Like girls.
1062
01:28:24,769 --> 01:28:26,912
And what is the sky like for tomorrow
1063
01:28:26,936 --> 01:28:28,644
and the taste of a pint.
1064
01:28:32,894 --> 01:28:34,412
And girls.
1065
01:28:34,436 --> 01:28:36,561
Thank you May I see your profile?
1066
01:28:45,228 --> 01:28:46,988
You can see the other
side too, if you like.
1067
01:28:49,853 --> 01:28:52,103
Is it particularly different?
1068
01:28:53,311 --> 01:28:54,728
You tell me.
1069
01:28:58,728 --> 01:29:00,936
Dear me, you are a bold one, aren't you?
1070
01:29:03,519 --> 01:29:04,769
You cannot imagine.
1071
01:29:07,394 --> 01:29:10,495
And your availability? You're in the RAF?
1072
01:29:10,519 --> 01:29:12,704
I see Philip mentions a scholarship.
1073
01:29:12,728 --> 01:29:16,186
Yes In April, the RAF
are sending me to Oxford.
1074
01:29:17,394 --> 01:29:18,561
Exeter College.
1075
01:29:19,686 --> 01:29:22,353
Till then, my time is yours.
1076
01:29:26,228 --> 01:29:28,353
Stay and take a seat, if you would.
1077
01:29:38,686 --> 01:29:39,894
David Cecil.
1078
01:29:50,394 --> 01:29:53,245
- David Lovely to see you again.
- Nice to see you too.
1079
01:29:53,269 --> 01:29:55,704
Did you receive the play?
1080
01:30:10,853 --> 01:30:15,037
Marry, then sweet wag,
when thou art king,
1081
01:30:15,061 --> 01:30:18,370
let not us that are squires
of the night's body
1082
01:30:18,394 --> 01:30:20,603
be called thieves of the day's beauty.
1083
01:30:22,061 --> 01:30:23,228
Thou sayest well,
1084
01:30:24,936 --> 01:30:27,120
for the fortune of us
that are the moon's men
1085
01:30:27,144 --> 01:30:28,704
doth ebb and flow like the sea
1086
01:30:28,728 --> 01:30:30,787
being governed, as the sea is,
by the moon.
1087
01:30:30,811 --> 01:30:35,103
No, Richard These are comic scenes.
1088
01:30:36,061 --> 01:30:38,620
Can't you make it a little lighter?
1089
01:30:38,644 --> 01:30:42,787
Hal is a truant,
a boy who seeks enjoyment
1090
01:30:42,811 --> 01:30:44,894
rather than respectability.
1091
01:30:48,269 --> 01:30:49,394
As you keep telling me.
1092
01:30:53,394 --> 01:30:59,853
So, what exactly are you failing to grasp?
1093
01:31:01,811 --> 01:31:04,019
You yourself seek enjoyment,
do you not?
1094
01:31:05,144 --> 01:31:06,894
Day and bloody night, as far as I can tell.
1095
01:31:07,061 --> 01:31:09,519
Everywhere, in fact,
except here, where it matters.
1096
01:31:11,353 --> 01:31:13,019
It's five o'clock - Thank you
1097
01:31:36,519 --> 01:31:37,728
Rich.
1098
01:31:39,394 --> 01:31:41,061
That is your last.
1099
01:31:43,061 --> 01:31:46,370
Do you understand? You need
to pull yourself together
1100
01:31:46,394 --> 01:31:48,912
I am perfectly intact
1101
01:31:48,936 --> 01:31:51,204
You are arseholed.
1102
01:31:51,228 --> 01:31:53,162
Again, Richard,
any other actor would give.
1103
01:31:53,186 --> 01:31:54,353
Actors!
1104
01:31:55,061 --> 01:31:56,103
Actors!
1105
01:31:57,603 --> 01:31:59,769
I fucking hate actors.
1106
01:32:01,061 --> 01:32:03,478
Them and their their make-up.
1107
01:32:04,769 --> 01:32:09,519
You know, what kind of man
wears make-up? I ask you that.
1108
01:32:14,728 --> 01:32:18,894
Give me leave to tell you
once again that at my birth
1109
01:32:19,061 --> 01:32:22,936
the front of heaven
was full of fiery shapes.
1110
01:32:24,186 --> 01:32:25,311
Here he is.
1111
01:32:26,561 --> 01:32:28,519
The English Glendower.
1112
01:32:30,561 --> 01:32:34,204
And behold, the Welsh Prince Hall
1113
01:32:34,228 --> 01:32:37,079
The indignity of it
1114
01:32:37,103 --> 01:32:38,579
Me!
1115
01:32:38,603 --> 01:32:41,603
Understudy to the drunken son
of a drunken bloody miner.
1116
01:32:43,894 --> 01:32:45,019
What?
1117
01:32:47,936 --> 01:32:49,662
It was just a joke, Rich.
1118
01:32:49,686 --> 01:32:51,144
Although, let's face it.
1119
01:32:58,811 --> 01:33:00,019
Let's face what?
1120
01:33:12,061 --> 01:33:13,186
Rich!
1121
01:33:14,436 --> 01:33:17,120
Jesus Christ You broke my nose!
1122
01:33:17,144 --> 01:33:19,954
- It's just a scratch.
- Richard, come with me.
1123
01:33:19,978 --> 01:33:22,061
At last I thought
you would never capitulate.
1124
01:33:22,728 --> 01:33:25,186
Make sure it doesn't go on my shirt or tie.
1125
01:33:31,478 --> 01:33:33,704
Just what the hell is wrong with you?
1126
01:33:33,728 --> 01:33:36,287
Four bloody days until opening night
1127
01:33:36,311 --> 01:33:39,079
I told Tony you were
the only actor for the part.
1128
01:33:39,103 --> 01:33:41,769
And I promised him I would sort you out.
1129
01:33:46,311 --> 01:33:47,519
You?
1130
01:33:49,103 --> 01:33:50,686
Sort me out?
1131
01:33:57,936 --> 01:33:59,478
Nobody can sort me out.
1132
01:34:02,686 --> 01:34:06,228
Richard, I do in fact have a limit
1133
01:34:42,728 --> 01:34:44,728
399, Mrs Smith speaking.
1134
01:34:46,519 --> 01:34:48,228
Oh, Rich Richie
1135
01:34:49,061 --> 01:34:51,061
Richie, Richie, what's the matter?
1136
01:34:52,561 --> 01:34:55,829
Uh No, Richie, no
Richie, no, it's terribly late.
1137
01:34:55,853 --> 01:34:58,186
It's gone one o'clock I couldn't possibly.
1138
01:34:59,186 --> 01:35:01,394
No, Richie Shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh.
1139
01:35:08,353 --> 01:35:09,561
Ma.
1140
01:35:11,478 --> 01:35:13,412
"I'm not at all sure this is a good idea
1141
01:35:13,436 --> 01:35:14,787
I think I should telephone him.
1142
01:35:14,811 --> 01:35:17,662
Mr Burton, there's not a cat's
chance that he's awake yet.
1143
01:35:17,686 --> 01:35:19,579
He was very much the worse for wear.
1144
01:35:19,603 --> 01:35:23,329
But he made it clear
that he needs you, urgently.
1145
01:35:23,353 --> 01:35:25,787
- But just to leave like.
- I shall call by the school
1146
01:35:25,811 --> 01:35:27,519
and explain the situation.
1147
01:35:30,103 --> 01:35:34,370
Now, Mr Burton,
Richie is your responsibility.
1148
01:35:34,394 --> 01:35:36,454
Now, I know that you didn't
part on the best terms,
1149
01:35:36,478 --> 01:35:40,228
but the fact remains, this is your duty.
1150
01:35:41,061 --> 01:35:43,061
If he needs you, then you must go
1151
01:36:46,853 --> 01:36:48,620
Mr Burton.
1152
01:36:48,644 --> 01:36:50,144
Richard.
1153
01:36:53,269 --> 01:36:54,478
Ah
1154
01:36:55,436 --> 01:36:58,061
You don't recall, uh.
1155
01:36:59,561 --> 01:37:03,853
You spoke to Mrs Smith
on the telephone last night.
1156
01:37:10,686 --> 01:37:11,853
Dear God.
1157
01:37:14,519 --> 01:37:15,811
I must have been drunk
1158
01:37:22,186 --> 01:37:23,436
Is Ma well, then?
1159
01:37:25,353 --> 01:37:27,478
She is in excellent health.
1160
01:37:30,061 --> 01:37:31,144
Good.
1161
01:37:34,853 --> 01:37:37,579
All right, everyone, we are moving on.
1162
01:37:37,603 --> 01:37:40,787
We're going back to
Part I, Act Three, Scene Two
1163
01:37:40,811 --> 01:37:44,204
Harry, if I could have you here,
upstage left, and Richard here.
1164
01:37:44,228 --> 01:37:46,894
Oh, and the throne will be
down here, downstage right,
1165
01:37:47,061 --> 01:37:49,537
with a marvellous white light from above.
1166
01:37:49,561 --> 01:37:52,287
All right Here we are
The lords have just scattered.
1167
01:37:52,311 --> 01:37:54,853
The King, the Prince Thank you, Harry.
1168
01:37:56,853 --> 01:37:59,329
I know not whether God will have it so
1169
01:37:59,353 --> 01:38:02,120
for some displeasing service
I have done,
1170
01:38:02,144 --> 01:38:04,894
but thou dost in thy passages of life
1171
01:38:05,061 --> 01:38:07,287
make me believe
that thou art only marked
1172
01:38:07,311 --> 01:38:09,245
for the hot vengeance
1173
01:38:09,269 --> 01:38:12,912
and the rod of heaven
to punish my mistreadings.
1174
01:38:12,936 --> 01:38:15,412
So please Your Majesty, I would I could
1175
01:38:15,436 --> 01:38:17,644
"quit all offences, I.
1176
01:38:22,103 --> 01:38:23,245
Um.
1177
01:38:23,269 --> 01:38:24,412
Could all?
1178
01:38:24,436 --> 01:38:27,686
With as clear - No I have it.
1179
01:38:31,186 --> 01:38:32,853
I I shall.
1180
01:38:33,353 --> 01:38:34,495
I shall.
1181
01:38:34,519 --> 01:38:35,870
I, uh
1182
01:38:35,894 --> 01:38:40,186
I shall hereafter, my thrice gracious lord,
1183
01:38:41,603 --> 01:38:43,079
be more myself.
1184
01:38:43,103 --> 01:38:46,079
You skipped an entire page
there, Richard.
1185
01:38:46,103 --> 01:38:48,620
We're a matter of days away,
and you're still not off-book.
1186
01:38:48,644 --> 01:38:49,870
Yes, I am aware of that.
1187
01:38:49,894 --> 01:38:53,728
We will do that again
Uh, Daphne?
1188
01:38:56,894 --> 01:38:59,495
Who is this person
in my rehearsal room?
1189
01:38:59,519 --> 01:39:01,311
"He's with me, Tony I'll explain later.
1190
01:39:02,311 --> 01:39:04,245
All right, let's get on with it.
1191
01:39:04,269 --> 01:39:06,079
Let's pick it up again from the top
1192
01:39:06,103 --> 01:39:08,061
Harry, please, in your own time
1193
01:39:15,061 --> 01:39:16,103
Richard.
1194
01:39:19,436 --> 01:39:22,144
It's been four years
since I was last in Stratford.
1195
01:39:22,644 --> 01:39:25,936
I shall go to the Holy Trinity,
pay my respects.
1196
01:39:27,311 --> 01:39:28,811
You've visited the grave?
1197
01:39:31,436 --> 01:39:32,644
No Not yet.
1198
01:39:35,519 --> 01:39:36,603
So.
1199
01:39:37,853 --> 01:39:39,019
What did you think?
1200
01:39:41,061 --> 01:39:42,745
Good.
1201
01:39:42,769 --> 01:39:45,603
Yes, uh Interesting.
1202
01:39:47,061 --> 01:39:49,478
Do you want to - Good
1203
01:39:50,978 --> 01:39:52,620
Good.
1204
01:39:52,644 --> 01:39:54,394
Then I'm finished for the day.
1205
01:40:06,811 --> 01:40:08,353
Care for one?
1206
01:40:08,978 --> 01:40:12,144
No, uh, not for me, thanks.
1207
01:40:18,186 --> 01:40:21,436
You see, I am the son of a miner.
1208
01:40:23,061 --> 01:40:25,728
At five o'clock, a miner starts drinking.
1209
01:40:28,978 --> 01:40:30,394
Of course.
1210
01:40:31,103 --> 01:40:32,478
Well, I.
1211
01:40:33,853 --> 01:40:36,019
"I wish you all the very best with it.
1212
01:40:39,853 --> 01:40:41,061
Go on then.
1213
01:40:43,394 --> 01:40:44,894
Tell me your thoughts.
1214
01:40:46,061 --> 01:40:47,103
Here.
1215
01:40:55,103 --> 01:40:59,329
Well, candidly, Richard,
my thoughts are these.
1216
01:40:59,353 --> 01:41:02,287
Firstly, you are not a miner,
1217
01:41:02,311 --> 01:41:04,061
you're an actor.
1218
01:41:04,894 --> 01:41:06,745
You're an actor with three days
1219
01:41:06,769 --> 01:41:10,412
to salvage what might be
the opportunity of your career.
1220
01:41:10,436 --> 01:41:13,495
The chance to establish yourself
as a classical actor
1221
01:41:13,519 --> 01:41:16,061
in the most prestigious theatre
in the world.
1222
01:41:17,853 --> 01:41:20,894
Do you not understand
the magnitude of that?
1223
01:41:23,228 --> 01:41:24,870
Somewhat - Good.
1224
01:41:24,894 --> 01:41:29,436
Then I propose we find some food
and get down to work.
1225
01:41:31,478 --> 01:41:34,454
"I know you all, and will awhile uphold
1226
01:41:34,478 --> 01:41:37,329
the unyoked humour of your idleness".
1227
01:41:37,353 --> 01:41:39,287
"Yet herein will I imitate the sun."
1228
01:41:39,311 --> 01:41:40,811
Try again.
1229
01:41:47,894 --> 01:41:49,394
"I know you all,
1230
01:41:50,978 --> 01:41:52,912
and will awhile uphold
1231
01:41:52,936 --> 01:41:56,162
the unyoked humour of your idleness".
1232
01:41:56,186 --> 01:41:58,769
"Yet herein will I imitate the sun."
1233
01:42:01,353 --> 01:42:05,245
You understand this character, Richard.
1234
01:42:05,269 --> 01:42:11,704
You know that he's not
some thigh-slapping youth.
1235
01:42:11,728 --> 01:42:14,454
Yes, Hal is a young man,
1236
01:42:14,478 --> 01:42:18,870
but he's always aware of his destiny.
1237
01:42:18,894 --> 01:42:20,370
That, on the death of his father,
1238
01:42:20,394 --> 01:42:23,245
he will have to turn away
from Falstaff's irreverence
1239
01:42:23,269 --> 01:42:26,704
and the drunken life of the tavern.
1240
01:42:26,728 --> 01:42:31,287
He will transform into a king,
1241
01:42:31,311 --> 01:42:33,079
and, like a king,
1242
01:42:33,103 --> 01:42:37,269
lead his country
as a king must, by example.
1243
01:42:39,436 --> 01:42:42,519
You must trust your instincts, Richard.
1244
01:42:44,436 --> 01:42:46,811
All right, stop Stop, stop!
1245
01:42:47,853 --> 01:42:50,894
I tell you to shout, and you
whisper I tell you to laugh
1246
01:42:51,061 --> 01:42:52,901
I am not some straight man
to your funny lines.
1247
01:42:53,061 --> 01:42:54,537
It is a comic scene.
1248
01:42:54,561 --> 01:42:57,787
We're in the tavern, a world of ribaldry.
1249
01:42:57,811 --> 01:42:59,954
Look, why don't you try doing it like.
1250
01:42:59,978 --> 01:43:01,912
There is no other way I will be doing it
1251
01:43:01,936 --> 01:43:03,829
Richard, I am your director!
1252
01:43:03,853 --> 01:43:06,829
And you shall have
my performance Nobody else's.
1253
01:43:06,853 --> 01:43:11,454
Nobody else's? Then what exactly
is he doing here?
1254
01:43:11,478 --> 01:43:14,495
Tony Tony, honestly,
I think you should go with it
1255
01:43:14,519 --> 01:43:17,061
I know it's different,
but I think it is working.
1256
01:43:19,186 --> 01:43:21,412
Bloody Welsh.
1257
01:43:21,436 --> 01:43:23,412
Over the Marches you come,
out of the mountains,
1258
01:43:23,436 --> 01:43:26,228
raiding our cattle
You don't come to contribute.
1259
01:43:27,644 --> 01:43:30,394
You're just bloody raiders.
1260
01:43:59,644 --> 01:44:02,037
A grammar school boy.
1261
01:44:02,061 --> 01:44:05,144
Not a prince Not a lord.
1262
01:44:07,228 --> 01:44:09,353
Three hundred years
1263
01:44:10,394 --> 01:44:13,519
and we're still transported by his words.
1264
01:44:17,478 --> 01:44:18,853
Tomorrow, Richie.
1265
01:44:21,978 --> 01:44:23,603
Sound trumpets.
1266
01:44:25,269 --> 01:44:28,811
Let our bloody colours wave.
1267
01:44:46,728 --> 01:44:48,019
And either victory
1268
01:44:50,978 --> 01:44:52,436
or else a grave.
1269
01:45:17,728 --> 01:45:19,269
Morning, Rich.
1270
01:45:21,561 --> 01:45:22,769
Tim.
1271
01:45:25,603 --> 01:45:27,228
Your friend's looking for you.
1272
01:45:28,186 --> 01:45:31,019
Your, uh Your acting coach.
1273
01:45:33,811 --> 01:45:35,144
He's not my acting coach.
1274
01:45:36,603 --> 01:45:37,769
Well, then, uh
1275
01:45:38,894 --> 01:45:40,269
you know, whoever he is.
1276
01:46:02,436 --> 01:46:05,853
I, uh, thought we might discuss
the coronation scene.
1277
01:46:10,769 --> 01:46:12,329
I have a six-hour performance.
1278
01:46:12,353 --> 01:46:13,936
Of course Of course, but
1279
01:46:15,811 --> 01:46:19,245
there's a line towards
the end of the scene
1280
01:46:19,269 --> 01:46:21,787
which underlines
the scale of the transformation
1281
01:46:21,811 --> 01:46:23,228
he has undergone.
1282
01:46:27,519 --> 01:46:28,894
I need some air.
1283
01:46:31,394 --> 01:46:32,519
Mr Burton?
1284
01:46:34,311 --> 01:46:35,769
Would you mind signing this?
1285
01:46:45,228 --> 01:46:46,394
Dear me, look at that.
1286
01:46:51,228 --> 01:46:53,269
"What the hell were they thinking?
1287
01:46:57,061 --> 01:46:58,311
Thank you
1288
01:47:07,436 --> 01:47:08,853
Are you still here?
1289
01:47:32,728 --> 01:47:33,894
Richie?
1290
01:47:35,978 --> 01:47:38,478
Yes What is it?
1291
01:47:39,769 --> 01:47:40,894
What do you mean?
1292
01:47:41,061 --> 01:47:43,686
I have been waiting for you
for nearly two hours.
1293
01:47:44,561 --> 01:47:47,728
Yes And I will be along
when I'm good and ready
1294
01:47:48,728 --> 01:47:54,454
Richie, I remind you,
I was summoned here to help you.
1295
01:47:54,478 --> 01:47:55,870
I, too, am a busy man.
1296
01:47:55,894 --> 01:47:57,603
Do you think you can just turn up
1297
01:47:59,186 --> 01:48:00,728
after eight years?
1298
01:48:01,603 --> 01:48:05,579
Eight bloody years And
and have me do your bidding?
1299
01:48:05,603 --> 01:48:07,478
Like I'm your schoolboy again?
1300
01:48:08,186 --> 01:48:11,454
Richie I cannot talk here Let's go away.
1301
01:48:11,478 --> 01:48:13,269
Just who the hell do you think you are?
1302
01:48:14,978 --> 01:48:16,870
I am one of the most promising
young actors
1303
01:48:16,894 --> 01:48:18,436
in this whole bloody country.
1304
01:48:20,561 --> 01:48:21,686
And you?
1305
01:48:22,853 --> 01:48:24,144
Remind me.
1306
01:48:25,103 --> 01:48:26,686
Who are you?
1307
01:48:48,519 --> 01:48:49,954
Oh, Richie.
1308
01:48:49,978 --> 01:48:52,662
Oh, Richie - Ma.
1309
01:48:52,686 --> 01:48:56,103
Oh, it's so wonderful to see you.
1310
01:48:56,769 --> 01:48:58,061
I know.
1311
01:48:59,186 --> 01:49:01,329
Mr Burton telephoned yesterday
1312
01:49:01,353 --> 01:49:03,245
and so I told him
that we'd keep it a surprise.
1313
01:49:03,269 --> 01:49:05,662
But he's managed to get me a ticket.
1314
01:49:05,686 --> 01:49:07,370
Oh, Richie, you must be so proud.
1315
01:49:07,394 --> 01:49:09,579
He said it was all he could do
just to get the one,
1316
01:49:09,603 --> 01:49:12,245
what with both of you
working on the play, so.
1317
01:49:12,269 --> 01:49:13,311
Yes.
1318
01:49:15,061 --> 01:49:16,787
Isn't this a wonderful place?
1319
01:49:16,811 --> 01:49:19,537
Mr Burton has told me so much about it
1320
01:49:19,561 --> 01:49:21,811
I can't believe I'm really here.
1321
01:49:22,644 --> 01:49:23,853
Oh, Richie.
1322
01:49:25,186 --> 01:49:28,603
If all the year
were playing holidays
1323
01:49:30,353 --> 01:49:34,019
to sport would be as tedious as to work.
1324
01:49:35,894 --> 01:49:39,019
So when this loose behaviour I throw off,
1325
01:49:42,853 --> 01:49:45,353
and pay the debt I never promised
1326
01:49:53,061 --> 01:49:56,478
By how much better than my word I am
1327
01:50:46,811 --> 01:50:48,269
I'm sorry.
1328
01:50:49,978 --> 01:50:51,353
I'm so sorry.
1329
01:50:55,311 --> 01:50:57,019
It's unforgivable what I said.
1330
01:50:59,061 --> 01:51:01,019
Unforgivable and entirely untrue.
1331
01:51:09,561 --> 01:51:10,853
I was drunk.
1332
01:51:15,394 --> 01:51:16,436
Again.
1333
01:51:19,894 --> 01:51:21,311
It was no excuse.
1334
01:51:24,978 --> 01:51:26,519
I owe you
1335
01:51:28,853 --> 01:51:30,019
everything.
1336
01:51:34,103 --> 01:51:35,829
I've never said it to you
1337
01:51:35,853 --> 01:51:37,186
I've never even
1338
01:51:38,978 --> 01:51:40,853
apologised So.
1339
01:51:41,811 --> 01:51:46,162
So, I thank you and I apologise now.
1340
01:51:46,186 --> 01:51:47,353
Truly, with all my heart.
1341
01:52:02,311 --> 01:52:03,519
I'm afraid.
1342
01:52:06,144 --> 01:52:07,811
I am I'm afraid.
1343
01:52:09,644 --> 01:52:11,144
I'm not like you.
1344
01:52:12,061 --> 01:52:13,686
I'm just a bloody fake.
1345
01:52:17,603 --> 01:52:18,936
I'm half an actor.
1346
01:52:21,061 --> 01:52:26,579
And I'm jealous and proud
and selfish and spiteful.
1347
01:52:26,603 --> 01:52:29,394
And you are everything.
1348
01:52:31,353 --> 01:52:33,436
You're strong Truly, you are.
1349
01:52:34,436 --> 01:52:37,311
And this play, PH
1350
01:52:41,269 --> 01:52:43,228
this is everything we worked for.
1351
01:52:44,436 --> 01:52:45,811
And I'm terrified.
1352
01:52:49,561 --> 01:52:50,769
I'm terrified.
1353
01:53:00,853 --> 01:53:02,228
Please.
1354
01:53:03,978 --> 01:53:05,561
Help me.
1355
01:53:08,644 --> 01:53:10,061
Come back
1356
01:53:22,228 --> 01:53:23,436
I have to go
1357
01:54:53,478 --> 01:54:56,936
Now, Hal,
what time of day is it, lad?
1358
01:55:06,978 --> 01:55:08,353
Thou
1359
01:55:11,811 --> 01:55:17,269
art so fat-witted with drinking of old sack
1360
01:55:18,478 --> 01:55:21,079
that thou hast forgotten
to demand that truly
1361
01:55:21,103 --> 01:55:23,329
which thou wouldst truly know.
1362
01:55:23,353 --> 01:55:26,329
What a devil hast thou to do
with the time of day?
1363
01:55:26,353 --> 01:55:30,704
Unless hours were cups of sack,
and minutes capons,
1364
01:55:30,728 --> 01:55:32,495
and clocks the tongues of bawds
1365
01:55:42,853 --> 01:55:45,370
Do not think so; You shall not find it so.
1366
01:55:45,394 --> 01:55:48,120
And God forgive them
that so much have swayed.
1367
01:55:48,144 --> 01:55:49,954
Your Majesty's good thoughts
away from me.
1368
01:55:49,978 --> 01:55:52,019
To tell you that I am your son.
1369
01:55:56,978 --> 01:56:00,644
Why doth the crown lie there
upon his pillow,
1370
01:56:03,144 --> 01:56:06,228
being so troublesome a bedfellow?
1371
01:56:07,769 --> 01:56:09,811
Oh, polished perturbation.
1372
01:56:12,061 --> 01:56:13,269
Golden care
1373
01:56:15,228 --> 01:56:19,079
that keep'st the ports
of slumber open wide
1374
01:56:19,103 --> 01:56:21,686
to many a watchful night.
1375
01:56:24,603 --> 01:56:28,519
My King, my Jove,
I speak to thee, my heart.
1376
01:56:31,103 --> 01:56:33,061
I know thee not, old man.
1377
01:56:36,561 --> 01:56:37,853
Fall to thy prayers.
1378
01:56:43,144 --> 01:56:47,603
How ill white hairs
become a fool and a jester.
1379
01:56:54,769 --> 01:56:57,853
I have long dreamt of such a kind of man.
1380
01:56:59,936 --> 01:57:01,103
But being awaked,
1381
01:57:02,603 --> 01:57:05,103
I do despise my dream
1382
01:58:16,061 --> 01:58:17,269
Bravo!
1383
01:58:40,061 --> 01:58:42,120
Wonderful, thank you
1384
01:58:44,144 --> 01:58:46,662
Of course
1385
01:58:49,728 --> 01:58:51,019
Richie.
1386
01:58:52,061 --> 01:58:53,853
Act Five, Scene Five.
1387
01:58:55,936 --> 01:58:58,228
The modulation of your voice It was.
1388
01:58:59,978 --> 01:59:03,394
Well, your stillness, it was really.
1389
01:59:08,811 --> 01:59:10,894
Uh, I was really.
1390
01:59:12,644 --> 01:59:15,644
Well, I, uh, I have never.
1391
01:59:39,936 --> 01:59:41,103
What?
1392
01:59:45,103 --> 01:59:47,561
Can a man not hug
his own bloody father?
1393
02:01:34,228 --> 02:01:38,311
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