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- Fuel on.
- Fuel on.
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Chocks are in position. Switches are off.
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You sure about this, sir?
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When I got married, my in-laws made me
marshal of the Royal Air Force,
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as a result, I'm the most senior airman in
the country and I can't bloody well fly.
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-Yes, I'm sure.
-Right-o, sir.
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- Ready, sir?
- Ready!
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Here we go. Whoa!
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Okay.
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Blimey!
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Christ!
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- All right there, sir?
- Yes, yes, fine.
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- Now it's your turn. You have control.
- I have control.
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Now remember what I told you,
keep your eye on the altimeter
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and the compass heading
and keep the stick level.
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That's very good.
That's balanced.
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Stick to the left,
then to the right.
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- And level. Good.
- Noisy, isn't it?
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How's this, sir?
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My God.
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- Isn't it wonderful?
- Heaven.
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You fought in
the Battle of Britain, didn't you?
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I did, sir.
Two-five-seven squadron.
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- Flying what? Spitfires?
- Hurricanes, mostly, sir.
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-Any kills?
-One or two.
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Shouldn't we get her started now?
The ground seems terribly close.
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No, it's too low to restart,
sir. We'll do a dead-stick landing.
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- I have control.
- You have control.
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That was wonderful.
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-Same time next week, sir?
-How about tomorrow?
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-Latest charts.
-Thank you.
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Thank you, sir.
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Johnson, what do you think of this?
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Interesting.
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Sir?
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I think you should see these.
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I see.
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Sir.
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Goodness me.
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Excuse me, you can't go
in there. Excuse me, sir.
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Sorry, sir. Thought you should see these.
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Good God.
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We must send a warning.
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To cover our backs.
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Kenneth, it should probably come from you,
as chief scientist.
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Address it to the PM.
He'll never read it, of course.
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But the important thing is we sent it.
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I'll get it to Downing Street right away.
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Wait there, please.
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If Her Majesty could lean forward.
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And deep breath in...
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...and out.
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The air's a little stuffy, ma'am. It
might help to open the window a crack?
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Not while they're rehearsing.
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What are they rehearsing?
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My funeral.
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Oh, there you are. Miss Scott.
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-Mr. Thurman.
-Mr. Collins.
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-This is for you.
-Thank you.
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I'm not a scientist.
I can't say I understand it.
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But, what I can tell you is we don't get
a weather warning like this every day.
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We don't get one every month, either.
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In fact, I've never heard of us
getting one at all.
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Does the name Donora mean anything to you?
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Donora?
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Oh, of course I remember Donora.
It was a scandal.
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A small mill town in America,
outside Philadelphia?
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Pittsburgh.
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They had a smog
brought on by a freak anti-cyclone
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which trapped the emissions
from the local copper work...
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-Zinc.
-...in the fog.
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-In a few days a number of people died.
-Twenty.
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And several thousand became
seriously ill from the poisonous fog.
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After the incident a cross-party
delegation was sent to Donora
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on an urgent fact-finding mission.
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They recommended that clean air zones
be set up all round London,
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as a precautionary measure.
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-I never saw the report.
-With good reason.
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Our Prime Minister threw it away,
claiming it wasn't a priority.
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-Can you prove that?
-I can, Mr. Atlee.
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The Cabinet minutes
where it was discussed.
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He's insisted the country keep
burning coal irresponsibly this winter,
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to give the illusion of a solid economy.
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-This is great, Clem.
-It's interesting, for sure.
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What I don't understand is this.
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Why a Downing Street employee,
working for the government,
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should come to me with this information?
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I've read the Aeneid, Mr. Thurman.
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"Do not trust the horse, Trojans.
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I fear the Greeks
even when they bring gifts."
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Mr. Atlee, I entered the civil service
to serve the public
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and to serve government, any government.
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But I am also a responsible citizen
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and I cannot stand by
while chaos reigns around me.
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This is not a government.
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Mr. Attlee, this is a collection
of hesitant, frightened, old men
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unable to unseat a tyrannical,
delusional even older one.
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Yours was the most radical,
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forward-thinking government
this country has ever seen.
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How you lost the election escapes me.
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Escapes us all.
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I believe I would be doing the British
public and this country a service
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if I helped to usher him out of
the door, and you back in.
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And to that end you come to me
with a "master plan"
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that involves me crucifying the Tories
for their failure to deal with a fog
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which as yet shows no sign of appearing.
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At present I can see stars.
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- Good night.
- Good night.
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Miss Scott.
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Thank you for your conscientiousness,
but it's late.
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-Go home.
-I am, sir.
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You're no good to me tired.
Good evening to you.
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-Scott, still here?
-Good night, sir.
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Good night.
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Evening, Pat.
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You haven't moved.
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I suppose it's still a "no"?
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-To what?
-Coming out.
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Oh, you mean going to the Lamb and Flag
with you, sitting at the bar,
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twinkling our ankles at every
unremarkable young man in the room.
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Then letting those men buy us drinks
for us to bring them home,
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only to have their unremarkability
confirmed to us again?
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No, thanks.
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Goodness. And what will you be doing
in the meantime?
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Spend time in the company
of someone remarkable.
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Ta-ra.
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"Hear this, young men and womeneverywhere, and proclaim it far and wide.
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The earth is yoursand the fullness thereof."
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"Be kind but be fierce.
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You're needed now more than ever before.
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Take up the mantle of change..."
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"...for this is your time."
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Good morning.
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The time is eight o'clock on the 6thof December and here is the news.
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London has been brought to a haltby dense fog,
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which has descended overnight.
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Long queues have formed on main roads.There are reports of motorists
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abandoning their vehiclesand continuing on foot.
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London Airport is expected to be closed.
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Good God.
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The meteorological officehas issued a statement
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saying that a persistent anti-cycloneover London is to blame.
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Smoke from the capital's chimneysis being trapped at street level
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which is aggravating the fog.
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The windless conditions meanit is expected to last for some time.
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Be careful out there,it's a real pea souper.
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Ah. Is the car ready?
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I'm afraid the visibility
is too poor to drive, ma'am.
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It's what, 200 yards?
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It's been judged too hazardous, ma'am.
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I have an appointment
to see my grandmother.
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I intend to keep that appointment.
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If it's too hazardous to drive...
then there's only one thing to be done.
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I saw that.
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Might it be possible for you
to pretend that you haven't?
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And the Queen is here, Your Majesty.
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-Could you be more specific?
-Ma'am?
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-Which queen?
-Queen Elizabeth, ma'am.
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-Which one? There are two.
-The young one.
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Oh, the Queen.
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I thought you was all queens.
They gave me a sheet.
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We are.
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I was the queen so long as my husband
the king was alive, but since he died,
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I am no longer the queen,
I am simply Queen Mary.
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My late son's widow was also the queen,
but upon the death of her husband,
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she became Queen Elizabeth,
the Queen Mother.
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Her daughter, Queen Elizabeth,
is now queen, so she is...
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-The Queen.
-Bravo.
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Nurses and nuns have the same problem.
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-We're all called Sister.
-So you are.
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Well, she's outside. The Queen.
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Then let her in. Sister.
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-Bad time?
-Not at all.
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-How are you?
-I'm always happy to see you,
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and my mood will improve yet further
if you promise me one thing.
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-Name it.
-Not to ask me how I am.
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It's all anyone ever does.
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Forget death by lung disease,
it's death by bad conversation.
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All right. I promise.
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But if you are feeling up to it,
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there was something
I wanted to talk to you about.
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Fire away.
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I was listening
to the wireless this morning,
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where they described this fog
as an act of God.
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Now, in your letter that you sent me,
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you said...
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"Loyalty to the ideal you have inherited
is your duty above everything else,
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because the calling comes
from the highest source.
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From God himself."
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Yes.
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Do you really believe that?
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Monarchy is God's sacred mission
to grace and dignify the earth.
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To give ordinary people
an ideal to strive towards,
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an example of nobility and duty
to raise them in their wretched lives.
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Monarchy is a calling from God.
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That is why you are crowned in an abbey,
not a government building.
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Why you are anointed, not appointed.
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It's an archbishop
that puts the crown on your head,
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not a minister or public servant.
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Which means that you are answerable
to God in your duty, not the public.
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I'm not sure that my husband
would agree with that.
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He would argue
that in any equitable modern society,
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that church and state
should be separated.
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That if God has servants
they're priests not kings.
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He would also say that he watched
his own family destroyed,
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because they were seen by the people
to embody indefensible
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and unreasonable ideas.
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Yes, but he represents a royal family
of carpetbaggers and parvenus,
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that goes back what? Ninety years?
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What would he know of Alfred the Great,
the Rod of Equity and Mercy,
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Edward the Confessor,
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William the Conqueror
or Henry the Eighth?
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It's the Church of England, dear,
not the Church of Denmark or Greece.
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Next question.
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It's chaos out there. Trains
disrupted, air services cancelled.
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At Richmond Bridge this morning,
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visibility was officially measured
at one yard.
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That's a record low, incidentally.
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Our Trojan friend in Downing Street
has been speaking
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to his friends at the Met office.
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They say this is just the beginning.
They expect it to get worse.
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I know you would have me call
a vote of no confidence,
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and will doubtless call me
over-cautious for not doing so.
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But the Prime Minister
needs to be given a chance.
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Even if it's only to hang himself.
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Let's see how the old fool responds.
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There you go. There you go.
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Hey! Get out the way!
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Morning.
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Oh. I'm glad to see someone else made it
in. No one saw this coming, did they?
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No.
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Prime Minister? Sir?
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-Ah, you made it? Bravo!
-Oh, I'm so sorry, sir.
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-I was just--
-No, no. You did well to get here.
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I gather
half the Downing Street staff didn't?
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It wasn't easy. Just crossing the road
you take your life in your hands.
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Well, then don't.
You are too important to all of us.
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Hardly.
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All I do is bring you things to sign.
Then take them away again.
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And so the wheels keep turning,
and the business gets done,
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and the country is governed.
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But what's my personal contribution?
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You improve the quality of life
for all that deal with you.
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An ornament. A flower.
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By comparison at my age
you were a published writer,
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and a cavalry officer, posted to India,
248
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fighting local tribesmen
on the north west frontier.
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Who told you that?
250
00:24:50,240 --> 00:24:54,560
You asked me to engage in a relationship
with a young man, my own age.
251
00:24:54,640 --> 00:24:57,000
So I have been reading
your autobiography.
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Oh, yes.
That's not quite what I had in mind.
253
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"Hear this, young men and women
everywhere, and proclaim it far and wide.
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The earth is yours
and the fullness thereof.
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Be kind but be fierce.
256
00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:17,760
You are needed now
more than ever before.
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-Take up the mantle of change...
-Stop.
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...for this is your time."
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You were 24.
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All energy and hope
and passion and fire.
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It's remarkable.
262
00:25:44,320 --> 00:25:48,080
You found something you liked
in that young man?
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I did.
264
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Good morning.
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The time is eight o'clock on the 7thof December, and here is the news.
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The serious fog that brought muchof the capital to a standstill yesterday
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continues this morning, with emergencyservices struggling to cope
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and widespread disruptionreported across the nation.
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00:26:37,600 --> 00:26:41,200
Flares are being used to guide motoristsin parts of the capital.
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Trains are stoppedor running hours behind schedule
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from major London railway stations.
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- The Prime Minister is facing criticism
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for failure to dealwith the mounting crisis.
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London Airport is closed again today,with all flights grounded.
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-Piss.
-The unmoving fog,
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which has spread to over 30 miles wide,is likely to cause complete darkness
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by two o'clock this afternoon.
278
00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:20,560
Are you all right?
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00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:23,920
You're not.
280
00:27:25,320 --> 00:27:29,800
-Come on, let's get you up.
-No, no. I'm fine. I promise.
281
00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:37,600
It's just because the window was open.
Now go to work. You've got a job to do.
282
00:27:46,160 --> 00:27:49,800
Let us start with the unrest in Egypt,
283
00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:53,160
where anti-colonial passions
continue to run high,
284
00:27:53,240 --> 00:27:58,120
and where our soldiers continue to come
under fire from nationalist insurgents.
285
00:27:58,200 --> 00:28:04,280
It is vital that we remain
and successfully defend the Suez Canal,
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a point that I will be making in person
to the Commonwealth Heads,
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00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:12,560
when I host them
for the weekend at Chequers.
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Weather permitting.
289
00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:16,000
Indeed.
290
00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:18,480
What is the latest information
that you have?
291
00:28:19,240 --> 00:28:25,040
About the weather?
It's fog, ma'am. It will lift eventually.
292
00:28:25,120 --> 00:28:27,440
I was hoping
for something more scientific.
293
00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:31,680
Then I will ensure
that a barometric report
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is included in your box tomorrow,
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complete with isobars and isohumes.
296
00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:42,400
It has been an unusually cold winter,
297
00:28:42,480 --> 00:28:46,120
and there are only so many things
that I, as Prime Minister,
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00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:50,320
am prepared to inflict on your subjects
as a reward for winning a World War
299
00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:54,800
and prevailing over fascism,
evil and tyranny.
300
00:28:54,880 --> 00:28:57,720
Letting them freeze is not one of them.
301
00:28:58,280 --> 00:29:01,200
-You do not seem unduly concerned.
-I'm not.
302
00:29:01,280 --> 00:29:07,160
You do know that my late father wrote,
many years ago, to your predecessors,
303
00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:10,080
to express his deep concern
about the inner city power stations
304
00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:11,640
that your party was building.
305
00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:15,960
Indeed.
306
00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:22,640
And I was sympathetic
with your father's concerns at the time.
307
00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:27,080
I also have sympathy with the leader
articles in the newspapers today,
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00:29:27,160 --> 00:29:28,800
baying for blood.
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00:29:28,880 --> 00:29:34,880
Wanting my head.
People have to be angry at someone.
310
00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:39,920
But as leader,
one cannot simply react to everything.
311
00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:43,160
We need the power stations,
we need the coal.
312
00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:46,080
The people need to burn coal
to warm their homes.
313
00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:51,400
-It is weather. It will pass.
-Well, I do hope so.
314
00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:54,840
Not least because my husband's mood
is intolerable.
315
00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:55,920
Why?
316
00:29:56,920 --> 00:30:00,440
Well, being caged in like this.
He can't fly.
317
00:30:02,160 --> 00:30:07,040
-Fly where?
-Well, nowhere, he is learning to fly.
318
00:30:08,600 --> 00:30:10,600
Whatever for?
319
00:30:10,680 --> 00:30:14,320
Have we not enough qualified pilots
to take him where he needs to go?
320
00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:18,200
No, he wants to fly himself.
It's a boyhood dream.
321
00:30:18,280 --> 00:30:21,360
-It's what he's always wanted.
-Why was government not consulted?
322
00:30:21,440 --> 00:30:24,640
Because it's a private matter.
And I am in favor.
323
00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:28,200
Nothing you or His Royal Highness do
is a private matter.
324
00:30:28,760 --> 00:30:30,560
And the father
of the future king of England
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risking his life needlessly is...
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00:30:33,560 --> 00:30:34,600
quite unacceptable.
327
00:30:34,680 --> 00:30:39,480
Please. Do not curtail my husband's
personal freedoms any further.
328
00:30:39,560 --> 00:30:42,880
You've taken away his home.
You've taken away his name.
329
00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:45,800
There comes a time
where one must draw a line in the sand.
330
00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:50,080
And the job of drawing that line
falls to Cabinet, ma'am. Not to you.
331
00:30:50,160 --> 00:30:53,280
Something your dear late papa
would certainly have taught you
332
00:30:53,360 --> 00:30:56,480
had he been granted more time
to complete your education.
333
00:30:58,520 --> 00:31:00,160
And now our time is up.
334
00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:05,920
Until next week.
335
00:31:11,840 --> 00:31:12,840
Sir.
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00:31:17,080 --> 00:31:19,880
Meteorological report.
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00:31:22,080 --> 00:31:25,160
Good morning. The time iseight o'clock on the 8th of December
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and here is the news.
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00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:30,520
The choking, eye-watering fog whichhas already caused two days of chaos
340
00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:33,400
across the capitalhas worsened overnight.
341
00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:36,760
The great coal-burning electricitystations in Battersea and Fulham,
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00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:38,280
have attempted to reduce emissions
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00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:40,960
of poisonous sulphur dioxidefrom their chimneys.
344
00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:43,320
But we've been told that it is unlikely
345
00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:47,120
they'll be able to make any significantchange to the air quality.
346
00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:50,680
The government is expectedto make a statement later today.
347
00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:03,240
-Come on, let's get you to hospital.
-I'm fine.
348
00:32:03,320 --> 00:32:06,400
You're not. Come on. Let's get you up.
349
00:32:07,440 --> 00:32:08,640
Shoes.
350
00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:21,880
Off we go. Arm in. And the other.
351
00:32:34,160 --> 00:32:38,080
- I can't breathe.
- Do as I say and hold onto me.
352
00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:50,840
Come along.
353
00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:06,560
Quick, hold my hand.
354
00:33:18,120 --> 00:33:19,120
Make way!
355
00:33:20,280 --> 00:33:21,840
You all right, lady?
356
00:33:29,920 --> 00:33:33,360
Control of this story
is getting away from us.
357
00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:37,320
The opposition's blood is up.
We have to respond.
358
00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:38,720
Respond how?
359
00:33:38,800 --> 00:33:41,000
I would suggest
by commissioning a public enquiry.
360
00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:43,760
An enquiry would be expensive.
361
00:33:46,920 --> 00:33:50,880
Winston, people are angry.
They see us as the culprits.
362
00:33:50,960 --> 00:33:57,160
Culpable for what? It's fog. Fog is fog.
It comes and it goes away.
363
00:33:57,240 --> 00:34:01,160
Well, I'm glad that the Prime Minister
finds time for levity.
364
00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:05,760
Perhaps I should remind him exactly
how serious the situation has now become.
365
00:34:05,840 --> 00:34:09,840
This morning a suburban train
collided with a gang of railway workmen,
366
00:34:09,920 --> 00:34:12,560
killing several
and injuring a great many more.
367
00:34:13,160 --> 00:34:17,000
In parts of the capital, there is now
a total breakdown of law and order.
368
00:34:17,080 --> 00:34:18,240
Hospitals are filling up,
369
00:34:18,320 --> 00:34:22,360
as our citizens are breathing in
poisonous sulphur dioxide.
370
00:34:30,640 --> 00:34:34,200
Sometimes we have sunshine.
371
00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:37,120
Too much sunshine
and they call it a drought.
372
00:34:37,200 --> 00:34:39,000
Then we have rain.
373
00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:43,840
Too much rain, and they call it a deluge
and find a way to blame us for that too.
374
00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:46,000
It's an act of God, Bobbety.
375
00:34:46,080 --> 00:34:51,320
It's weather. And for better or for worse,
we get a great deal of it on this island.
376
00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:54,600
Frankly, there are more pressing matters
to deal with.
377
00:34:54,680 --> 00:34:58,280
-Like what?
-The Duke of Edinburgh.
378
00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:14,920
Telephone, sir.
The Marquis of Salisbury.
379
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:16,160
Oh, not now.
380
00:35:16,240 --> 00:35:20,040
He asked me to stress
the importance of the matter.
381
00:35:24,240 --> 00:35:28,040
-Bobbety.
-Thanks for taking my call, Dickie.
382
00:35:28,120 --> 00:35:30,360
-Are you alone?
-Yes.
383
00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:33,600
Can anyone overhear what you're saying?
384
00:35:36,440 --> 00:35:39,320
-No.
-Good.
385
00:35:42,080 --> 00:35:44,080
-It's chaos.
-I know.
386
00:35:44,160 --> 00:35:46,280
Every ward is full. Every corridor too.
387
00:35:46,360 --> 00:35:49,880
Most of the doctors are sick now,
and those that are well can't get in.
388
00:35:49,960 --> 00:35:51,640
It was better than this in the war.
389
00:35:51,720 --> 00:35:54,280
What do you need?
More equipment? Or masks?
390
00:35:54,360 --> 00:35:56,320
Masks are bloody useless.
They're just for show.
391
00:35:56,400 --> 00:35:58,600
To make it look like the government
is doing something.
392
00:35:58,680 --> 00:36:02,200
-Then what is needed?
-Money. People. Trained staff.
393
00:36:02,280 --> 00:36:04,120
Help is what is needed. Urgently.
394
00:36:05,600 --> 00:36:07,080
Let her rest for now.
395
00:36:09,280 --> 00:36:13,600
Maybe I can put a word in
with the people who make a difference.
396
00:36:13,680 --> 00:36:17,320
-Such as?
-The Prime Minister, for example.
397
00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:20,360
I see. You're just going to walk into
Downing Street and whisper in his ear.
398
00:36:20,440 --> 00:36:22,360
Yes, something like that.
399
00:36:22,440 --> 00:36:26,200
You know, my day is bad enough without
some delusional girl playing jokes.
400
00:36:26,280 --> 00:36:29,440
Now, excuse me. Nurse? Nurse.
401
00:36:30,720 --> 00:36:34,680
- I'll show you.
- Get out of the way.
402
00:36:42,160 --> 00:36:44,280
- Jim, where are you?
- Over here.
403
00:37:01,880 --> 00:37:03,600
Someone phone for an ambulance.
404
00:37:07,440 --> 00:37:09,600
How much longer
are you going to give the old man?
405
00:37:09,680 --> 00:37:11,120
Their majority is tiny.
406
00:37:11,200 --> 00:37:13,880
A vote of no confidence
and he'll be toppled.
407
00:37:15,360 --> 00:37:16,800
You know what he calls you?
408
00:37:17,800 --> 00:37:21,080
Yes, I know.
A sheep in sheep's clothing.
409
00:37:23,680 --> 00:37:26,120
Perhaps it's time to prove you're not.
410
00:37:31,840 --> 00:37:33,200
Very well.
411
00:37:33,280 --> 00:37:36,280
Let's put a motion down on paper
and brief the whips.
412
00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:49,280
Thank you, sir.
413
00:38:04,040 --> 00:38:07,280
-Anything interesting?
-Yes.
414
00:38:08,760 --> 00:38:11,560
-Care to share it?
-No.
415
00:38:12,840 --> 00:38:16,120
I'd be happy to share glide ratios
and adiabatic lapse rates with you.
416
00:38:16,200 --> 00:38:18,400
As part of a quid pro quo arrangement.
417
00:38:18,480 --> 00:38:22,200
One glide ratio in return
for some cabinet minutes, for example.
418
00:38:23,840 --> 00:38:27,760
No? A dihedral angle
or an absolute ceiling.
419
00:38:27,840 --> 00:38:30,520
These are very interesting concepts.
You might learn something,
420
00:38:30,600 --> 00:38:33,600
in exchange for a foreign office briefing?
421
00:38:34,720 --> 00:38:37,040
Am I going to have to explain
my position again?
422
00:38:37,120 --> 00:38:39,320
-No.
-Good.
423
00:38:42,280 --> 00:38:43,840
"Once you have tasted flight,
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00:38:43,920 --> 00:38:46,520
you will forever walk the earth
with your eyes turned skyward,
425
00:38:46,600 --> 00:38:50,640
for there you have been
and there you will always long to return."
426
00:38:52,640 --> 00:38:55,120
You know what's remarkable
about those words?
427
00:38:57,200 --> 00:38:58,800
-Go on.
-They were written 300 years
428
00:38:58,880 --> 00:39:00,560
before man first got in a plane.
429
00:39:01,720 --> 00:39:03,160
Leonardo da Vinci.
430
00:39:05,960 --> 00:39:07,880
Look, Philip, I know--
431
00:39:11,160 --> 00:39:12,520
Lord Mountbatten, Your Majesty.
432
00:39:12,600 --> 00:39:15,800
-Uncle Dickie. What's he doing here?
-I know as much as you do.
433
00:39:15,880 --> 00:39:17,640
He said it was important, ma'am.
434
00:39:17,720 --> 00:39:18,760
Thank you.
435
00:39:23,640 --> 00:39:25,080
Elizabeth.
436
00:39:28,640 --> 00:39:31,240
-Hello.
-I came as soon as I could.
437
00:39:32,440 --> 00:39:33,600
So...
438
00:39:35,240 --> 00:39:40,240
Oh, is this a meeting
with Elizabeth your niece, my wife?
439
00:39:40,320 --> 00:39:42,720
-Or the Queen?
-The latter, I'm afraid.
440
00:39:42,800 --> 00:39:44,720
Right, then I know my place.
441
00:39:53,760 --> 00:39:56,920
-What's the matter with him?
-Nothing.
442
00:39:58,480 --> 00:40:02,480
He's just feeling a little grounded.
Ignore it.
443
00:40:02,560 --> 00:40:04,680
Right, all ears.
444
00:40:04,760 --> 00:40:09,960
I received a telephone call today
from Bobbety Salisbury.
445
00:40:10,720 --> 00:40:13,960
It seems that even among his own people
the feeling is that our Prime Minister
446
00:40:14,040 --> 00:40:17,080
is not able to deal
with a national crisis.
447
00:40:18,440 --> 00:40:23,280
Indeed he could be seen
to be responsible for that crisis.
448
00:40:23,360 --> 00:40:25,880
Hospitals are overflowing. People dying.
449
00:40:25,960 --> 00:40:28,880
As sovereign,
you have the right to demand
450
00:40:28,960 --> 00:40:32,880
that a government in your name
shows effective leadership.
451
00:40:34,040 --> 00:40:38,680
The opposition are now calling
for a motion of no confidence.
452
00:40:38,760 --> 00:40:42,720
So, I would say the time has come
453
00:40:42,800 --> 00:40:47,920
for you to... summon Churchill and...
454
00:40:48,960 --> 00:40:50,040
And what?
455
00:40:52,040 --> 00:40:53,800
Insist that he go.
456
00:40:56,520 --> 00:41:00,040
-I can't do that.
-You can, and should.
457
00:41:00,800 --> 00:41:04,600
But wouldn't that violate
the constitution?
458
00:41:04,680 --> 00:41:06,920
As queen...
459
00:41:09,360 --> 00:41:12,520
you have the right to be consulted.
460
00:41:13,440 --> 00:41:17,760
The right to encourage. The right to warn.
461
00:41:17,840 --> 00:41:22,560
Also, to appoint a new Prime Minister
in the event of incapacity
462
00:41:22,640 --> 00:41:28,800
and many would say that Churchill's
behavior now constitutes incapacity.
463
00:41:28,880 --> 00:41:32,520
-Then a revolution must come from within.
-They are trying.
464
00:41:32,600 --> 00:41:35,760
-Well, then, they must try harder.
-They will.
465
00:41:35,840 --> 00:41:39,800
But would prefer it to be bloodless.
466
00:41:39,880 --> 00:41:43,760
So have asked for your help and influence.
467
00:41:46,280 --> 00:41:48,920
I cannot do it. I will not do it.
468
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:53,120
Let's not forget it was Churchill
who denied Philip's children
469
00:41:53,200 --> 00:41:54,920
-his own surname...
-Dickie.
470
00:41:55,000 --> 00:41:57,080
...and insisted that you live
in Buckingham Palace.
471
00:41:57,160 --> 00:42:00,560
-As, alas, did everyone else.
-And now with looters on the street
472
00:42:00,640 --> 00:42:02,640
and hospital corridors
stacked with the dead,
473
00:42:02,720 --> 00:42:05,320
he is interested in only one thing.
474
00:42:06,680 --> 00:42:09,880
Stopping Philip flying.
475
00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:14,240
-What?
-At a crisis cabinet meeting this morning
476
00:42:14,320 --> 00:42:16,560
when there should've only been
one thing on the agenda,
477
00:42:16,640 --> 00:42:19,080
the unfolding national emergency...
478
00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:26,440
all our Prime Minister wanted to discuss
was your husband's new hobby.
479
00:42:30,240 --> 00:42:34,120
-I'm so sorry, sir.
-Who are her parents?
480
00:42:34,200 --> 00:42:36,120
Her father is a clergyman. From Suffolk.
481
00:42:36,200 --> 00:42:38,640
-They've been notified.
-I want to go to the hospital.
482
00:42:38,720 --> 00:42:41,760
There is an emergency meeting
at the House. A meeting you must attend.
483
00:42:41,840 --> 00:42:43,240
The House can wait.
484
00:42:53,680 --> 00:42:56,240
-You wished to see me, Your Majesty?
-Yes, Tommy.
485
00:42:59,480 --> 00:43:02,320
I know how much my fatherdepended on you.
486
00:43:03,560 --> 00:43:06,560
And how closely you worked together.
487
00:43:06,640 --> 00:43:09,840
Which is why I wanted to ask your advice.
Now...
488
00:43:09,920 --> 00:43:16,320
It seems our Prime Minister, a man
who's led the country through many crises,
489
00:43:16,400 --> 00:43:18,640
is no longer leading us at all.
490
00:43:19,560 --> 00:43:22,800
Representations have been made to me,
491
00:43:22,880 --> 00:43:25,320
through an intermediary
from the heart of the government,
492
00:43:26,680 --> 00:43:32,520
to intercede and bid him stand down.
Make way for a younger man.
493
00:43:34,240 --> 00:43:36,960
Which brings me to my question.
494
00:43:39,240 --> 00:43:42,960
What are my responsibilities,
as head of state?
495
00:43:45,680 --> 00:43:47,560
What should I do?
496
00:43:47,640 --> 00:43:50,840
When it's in the national interest?
How far dare I go?
497
00:43:54,360 --> 00:43:57,400
I'm not sure if her Majesty is aware,
498
00:43:57,480 --> 00:44:03,080
but shortly before your father died
the Foreign Secretary, Mr. Eden, came,
499
00:44:03,160 --> 00:44:05,800
begging his late Majesty to intervene,
500
00:44:05,880 --> 00:44:09,800
if not on an official level,
then on a personal one.
501
00:44:09,880 --> 00:44:13,280
As a friend.
To bid the Prime Minister to resign.
502
00:44:14,760 --> 00:44:17,760
-What did my father say?
-Well...
503
00:44:17,840 --> 00:44:19,720
His Majesty was,
like his father before him,
504
00:44:19,800 --> 00:44:22,280
a stickler for convention and tradition,
505
00:44:22,360 --> 00:44:25,720
and would never have done anything
that violated the constitution,
506
00:44:25,800 --> 00:44:28,680
or overstepped the mark.
507
00:44:30,520 --> 00:44:33,000
-Then I have my answer.
-But...
508
00:44:33,080 --> 00:44:35,720
that was His Majesty, not Your Majesty.
509
00:44:36,520 --> 00:44:39,880
And I do read the newspapers,
and I do listen to the wireless,
510
00:44:39,960 --> 00:44:43,200
and the situation we're in today
is quite different,
511
00:44:43,280 --> 00:44:46,160
than the one we were in when Mr. Eden
came to see your father.
512
00:44:48,480 --> 00:44:51,840
Different situation, different sovereign.
513
00:45:03,360 --> 00:45:04,760
Wait for me here.
514
00:46:02,640 --> 00:46:03,640
Sir.
515
00:46:06,400 --> 00:46:08,160
Just a child.
516
00:46:10,440 --> 00:46:12,520
A beautiful child.
517
00:46:14,280 --> 00:46:17,720
I just received word
from Buckingham Palace.
518
00:46:17,800 --> 00:46:21,360
-The Queen has requested an audience.
-When?
519
00:46:21,440 --> 00:46:23,440
At your earliest convenience.
520
00:46:27,520 --> 00:46:33,840
"All energy and hope
and passion and fire."
521
00:46:36,680 --> 00:46:37,680
Sir?
522
00:46:48,800 --> 00:46:51,600
-Do the newspapers know I'm here?
-No.
523
00:46:54,120 --> 00:46:57,480
-But it could easily be arranged.
-Then do it.
524
00:46:58,720 --> 00:47:02,160
And tell the Queen
I'll be there first thing in the morning.
525
00:47:04,040 --> 00:47:05,640
After the papers.
526
00:47:36,520 --> 00:47:38,560
Good God.
527
00:47:42,000 --> 00:47:43,040
Dear God.
528
00:47:54,360 --> 00:47:57,680
Just come on in, the Prime Minister
will be here in a few moments.
529
00:48:12,600 --> 00:48:15,280
-They're ready for you, sir.
-Yes, yes. One moment.
530
00:48:24,040 --> 00:48:25,760
Quiet. Please. Settle down.
531
00:48:27,280 --> 00:48:32,360
-Mr. Churchill?
-I have witnessed scenes here today,
532
00:48:32,440 --> 00:48:37,960
the likes of which we have not seen
since the darkest days of the Blitz.
533
00:48:39,400 --> 00:48:44,320
But alongside the suffering,
I have also seen heroism.
534
00:48:44,400 --> 00:48:48,640
And where there is heroism
there will always be hope.
535
00:48:50,720 --> 00:48:57,640
Only God can lift the fog,but I, as Prime Minister,
536
00:48:57,720 --> 00:49:01,560
am in position to ease the suffering.
537
00:49:01,640 --> 00:49:05,840
To that end, I pledge to make availablewith immediate effect,
538
00:49:05,920 --> 00:49:11,240
more money for hospital staff,
more money for equipment,
539
00:49:11,320 --> 00:49:17,280
and a full and independent public enquiry
into the causes of air pollution...
540
00:49:18,640 --> 00:49:22,400
to ensure that such a calamity
541
00:49:22,480 --> 00:49:26,160
may never befall us again.
542
00:49:27,760 --> 00:49:29,560
Thank you all.
543
00:49:34,920 --> 00:49:37,040
"The Prime Ministerwas alone among senior politicians
544
00:49:37,120 --> 00:49:40,960
to visit hospitals
and respond to the crisis in person.
545
00:49:41,040 --> 00:49:43,520
And was rewarded by cheers and applause,
546
00:49:43,600 --> 00:49:47,840
by those suffering through the worst smog
this city has ever witnessed."
547
00:49:47,920 --> 00:49:52,320
The headline reads,
"True leader in a crisis."
548
00:49:56,760 --> 00:49:58,440
Ma'am, the Prime Minister's here.
549
00:50:00,800 --> 00:50:03,440
"The parallels
between his appearance yesterday,
550
00:50:03,520 --> 00:50:05,840
and the war time years was striking.
551
00:50:05,920 --> 00:50:10,160
And his personal popularityamong the people remains undimmed."
552
00:50:13,040 --> 00:50:14,120
Hello?
553
00:50:15,120 --> 00:50:19,800
Clem, are you still there? Hello? Clem?
554
00:50:21,600 --> 00:50:25,120
Clem, can you hear me? No, right...
555
00:51:26,520 --> 00:51:28,320
The Prime Minister, Your Majesty.
556
00:51:36,360 --> 00:51:37,600
Your Majesty.
557
00:51:40,720 --> 00:51:44,800
-You asked to see me, ma'am?
-I did.
558
00:51:54,560 --> 00:51:59,280
There is a delicate matter
which I felt I needed to discuss with you.
559
00:51:59,360 --> 00:52:02,720
-In person.
-Concerning what?
560
00:52:05,360 --> 00:52:07,000
Your position.
561
00:52:09,400 --> 00:52:10,680
My position?
562
00:52:11,640 --> 00:52:13,040
Yes. Your position...
563
00:52:17,280 --> 00:52:18,520
as Prime Minister.
564
00:52:23,280 --> 00:52:24,560
Go on.
565
00:52:28,240 --> 00:52:30,680
At that point she hesitated...
566
00:52:31,800 --> 00:52:37,600
and then she asked me to pick
either Khawaja Nazimuddin of Pakistan
567
00:52:37,680 --> 00:52:39,720
or Sidney Holland of New Zealand.
568
00:52:39,800 --> 00:52:43,640
-Whatever for?
-To sit next to at dinner!
569
00:52:43,720 --> 00:52:46,800
No, she summoned you for that?
570
00:52:46,880 --> 00:52:48,720
Oh, no, I think she summoned me
571
00:52:48,800 --> 00:52:51,880
to haul me over the coals
for my handling of the fog,
572
00:52:51,960 --> 00:52:54,160
but then the fog lifted,
573
00:52:54,240 --> 00:52:57,440
and she had to make a decision
right then and there, in the room.
574
00:52:57,520 --> 00:53:01,240
You could see the wheels
turning behind her eyes.
575
00:53:01,320 --> 00:53:06,200
And then she switched her tack
without so much as a flicker. Clever.
576
00:53:07,320 --> 00:53:09,640
-No, no, not clever. Ingenious.
-Why?
577
00:53:09,720 --> 00:53:14,120
Because it disarmed me.
And made me switch tack too.
578
00:53:14,200 --> 00:53:15,560
What about?
579
00:53:15,640 --> 00:53:19,640
About allowing Philip to learn to fly.
He can now.
580
00:53:19,720 --> 00:53:20,720
Good.
581
00:53:22,440 --> 00:53:25,760
But he still has to ask Cabinet
permission to do rolls and spins.
582
00:53:36,000 --> 00:53:37,960
What, dear girl?
583
00:53:40,560 --> 00:53:42,680
But what if the fog hadn't lifted?
584
00:53:44,760 --> 00:53:47,800
And the government
had continued to flounder?
585
00:53:47,880 --> 00:53:50,200
And people had continued to die?
586
00:53:51,320 --> 00:53:53,360
And Churchill
had continued to cling to power
587
00:53:53,440 --> 00:53:56,120
and the country had continued to suffer?
588
00:53:57,120 --> 00:54:01,760
It doesn't feel right,
as Head of State, to do nothing.
589
00:54:01,840 --> 00:54:05,120
-It is exactly right.
-Is it?
590
00:54:05,200 --> 00:54:08,280
But surely doing nothing is no job at all?
591
00:54:08,360 --> 00:54:11,480
To do nothing is the hardest job of all.
592
00:54:11,560 --> 00:54:14,840
And it will take every ounce of energy
that you have.
593
00:54:15,560 --> 00:54:19,040
To be impartial is not natural,
not human.
594
00:54:19,120 --> 00:54:22,880
People will always want you to smile
or agree or frown.
595
00:54:22,960 --> 00:54:27,120
And the minute you do, you will have
declared a position. A point of view.
596
00:54:27,200 --> 00:54:31,640
And that is the one thing as sovereign
that you are not entitled to do.
597
00:54:33,000 --> 00:54:37,560
The less you do,
the less you say or agree or smile--
598
00:54:37,640 --> 00:54:40,880
Or think? Or feel? Or breathe? Or exist?
599
00:54:40,960 --> 00:54:42,320
The better.
600
00:54:45,800 --> 00:54:47,640
Well, that's fine for the sovereign.
601
00:54:50,000 --> 00:54:51,880
But where does that leave me?
602
00:55:05,400 --> 00:55:06,400
So go on.
603
00:55:06,480 --> 00:55:08,600
How long would it take me to get my wings?
604
00:55:08,680 --> 00:55:11,800
Well, normally, a trainee would spend
anything between 100 and 120 hours
605
00:55:11,880 --> 00:55:13,400
in one of these things.
606
00:55:13,480 --> 00:55:15,600
Do you think I could do it
in three months?
607
00:55:15,680 --> 00:55:17,880
That would be unusual, sir.
608
00:55:17,960 --> 00:55:22,480
I'm a fast learner, and believe me
when I say I've got nothing else to do.
609
00:55:37,440 --> 00:55:39,720
I couldn't help notice
you filled her right up.
610
00:55:39,800 --> 00:55:42,680
- Starboard and port. Eighteen gallons?
- Yes.
611
00:55:42,760 --> 00:55:45,320
- Fancy lunch in Edinburgh?
- Edinburgh?
612
00:55:45,400 --> 00:55:48,760
They made me Duke there, so I
should probably show up from time to time.
613
00:55:48,840 --> 00:55:50,960
Unless you have
more pressing engagements?
614
00:55:51,040 --> 00:55:52,040
No, sir.
615
00:55:52,120 --> 00:55:56,240
All right, I'll adjust RPMs
and cruising speed for range flying.
616
00:55:56,320 --> 00:55:59,320
We'll have to land to refuel,
sir. RAF Finningley.
617
00:55:59,400 --> 00:56:02,000
- Oh, really? Where's that?
- Doncaster.
618
00:56:02,080 --> 00:56:05,120
Doncaster? Right.
619
00:56:06,305 --> 00:56:12,833
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