1 00:01:04,664 --> 00:01:08,031 I remember the smells most. 2 00:01:08,101 --> 00:01:12,060 Stale lockers with fruitcakes rotting into the wood. 3 00:01:12,138 --> 00:01:14,299 Crusty shoe polish. 4 00:01:14,374 --> 00:01:16,604 Damp towels. 5 00:01:16,676 --> 00:01:19,440 Quink ink for fountain pens. 6 00:01:19,512 --> 00:01:22,538 Disinfectant on the floors of the shower block. 7 00:01:22,615 --> 00:01:24,207 Fresh chalk. 8 00:01:24,284 --> 00:01:27,617 Moldy oranges blue with mildew. 9 00:01:27,687 --> 00:01:29,814 And on a rainy day... 10 00:01:29,889 --> 00:01:35,555 the deep, rank, wild smell of discarded football boots. 11 00:01:37,330 --> 00:01:39,298 And I remember pain. 12 00:01:39,365 --> 00:01:42,129 But... only vaguely. 13 00:01:43,770 --> 00:01:46,398 I had a thick hide by then. 14 00:01:46,473 --> 00:01:47,804 They'd sent me to boarding school... 15 00:01:47,874 --> 00:01:50,308 so I wouldn't become a delinquent. 16 00:01:50,376 --> 00:01:53,937 Don't wet yourself, Embling. 17 00:01:54,013 --> 00:01:55,878 - For some reason... - Next. 18 00:01:55,949 --> 00:01:59,749 this caused the letters "H" as in Heaven... 19 00:01:59,819 --> 00:02:03,414 - and "W" as in... - Psychopath. 20 00:02:03,490 --> 00:02:08,325 And "W" as in women to sometimes be unsayable. 21 00:02:22,475 --> 00:02:24,102 Bend over. 22 00:03:03,016 --> 00:03:04,677 Next. 23 00:03:22,402 --> 00:03:24,097 Take a look at Backa's, will you? 24 00:03:24,170 --> 00:03:26,604 What about Embling? 25 00:03:26,673 --> 00:03:29,642 Show us your stripes, Embling. 26 00:03:30,877 --> 00:03:33,710 He's probably bawling. 27 00:03:33,780 --> 00:03:35,805 - What about Desert Head? - Keep it quiet. 28 00:03:37,150 --> 00:03:38,913 Where's your camera? 29 00:03:41,854 --> 00:03:43,515 Come on. Fair go. 30 00:03:43,590 --> 00:03:46,218 - Take one. - Don't piss around. 31 00:03:48,895 --> 00:03:50,863 - Chrome dome. - Get out! 32 00:04:07,213 --> 00:04:10,182 If I hear anything more, it'll be six for the lot of you. 33 00:04:12,852 --> 00:04:15,252 One thing about boarding school... 34 00:04:16,556 --> 00:04:19,787 twenty-four hours a day, you were surrounded. 35 00:04:19,859 --> 00:04:21,326 Bird. 36 00:04:23,830 --> 00:04:26,799 Either you abandoned yourself and became a herd animal... 37 00:04:26,866 --> 00:04:28,891 or you dug a cave deep into your head... 38 00:04:28,968 --> 00:04:31,528 and skulked inside... 39 00:04:31,604 --> 00:04:33,834 peering through your eye sockets. 40 00:04:37,043 --> 00:04:41,776 At the source of major solace and inspiration... 41 00:04:41,848 --> 00:04:44,112 our sister seat of learning... 42 00:04:44,183 --> 00:04:48,142 Cirencester Ladies College. 43 00:04:48,221 --> 00:04:50,815 The two schools stared across the lake at each other... 44 00:04:50,890 --> 00:04:54,485 like brooding volcanoes. 45 00:05:08,341 --> 00:05:11,208 When I was asleep... 46 00:05:11,277 --> 00:05:13,711 I used to leave my body... 47 00:05:13,780 --> 00:05:18,183 and drift the cold currents to the Cirencester grounds... 48 00:05:18,251 --> 00:05:20,947 where I hovered like a dark angel. 49 00:06:25,084 --> 00:06:26,574 Anyone got a banana? 50 00:07:07,493 --> 00:07:08,619 Jock. 51 00:07:12,598 --> 00:07:14,293 How's it going? 52 00:07:14,367 --> 00:07:16,130 Good. 53 00:07:16,202 --> 00:07:18,102 We'll run all over them in the second half. 54 00:07:18,171 --> 00:07:20,105 Will you be around after? 55 00:07:20,173 --> 00:07:22,038 Probably. 56 00:07:22,108 --> 00:07:23,473 See you then. 57 00:07:24,744 --> 00:07:26,143 Send him to the knackery. 58 00:07:31,284 --> 00:07:33,809 Bandits at seven o'clock. 59 00:07:33,886 --> 00:07:36,616 - How about those two? - A bit young. 60 00:07:36,689 --> 00:07:40,853 - They're our age. - Like I said, a bit young. 61 00:07:40,927 --> 00:07:43,225 I go for the mature male. 62 00:07:45,164 --> 00:07:46,825 When the devil rings a bell... 63 00:07:46,899 --> 00:07:50,391 all the cat-eyes go to hell. Yeah! 64 00:07:52,071 --> 00:07:54,835 We need another stretcher. 65 00:07:54,907 --> 00:07:59,071 - Good match? - Yeah. 66 00:07:59,145 --> 00:08:01,204 Three badly injured so far. 67 00:08:01,280 --> 00:08:03,271 You don't sound very patriotic. 68 00:08:03,349 --> 00:08:04,907 No, I'm not. 69 00:08:04,984 --> 00:08:06,508 Aren't you interested in football? 70 00:08:06,586 --> 00:08:10,147 Only from an anthropological viewpoint. 71 00:08:10,223 --> 00:08:11,884 What are you talking about? 72 00:08:11,958 --> 00:08:15,052 It's a form of mating ritual. 73 00:08:15,127 --> 00:08:16,617 What? 74 00:08:16,696 --> 00:08:18,857 That's why you're here, isn't it? 75 00:08:18,931 --> 00:08:20,694 You're deranged. 76 00:08:20,766 --> 00:08:22,927 You're incredibly rude, did you know that? 77 00:08:23,002 --> 00:08:24,799 That's why I haven't got friends. 78 00:08:24,871 --> 00:08:27,169 - I'm not surprised. - I take pity on him. 79 00:08:27,240 --> 00:08:29,970 I'd say it's wasted. Come on. 80 00:08:37,750 --> 00:08:39,183 Brilliant. 81 00:08:40,987 --> 00:08:46,516 From Greenland's icy mountains 82 00:08:46,592 --> 00:08:51,461 From India's coral strand 83 00:08:51,531 --> 00:08:57,401 Where Africa's sunny fountains 84 00:08:57,470 --> 00:09:02,407 Roll down their golden sand 85 00:09:02,475 --> 00:09:07,913 From many an ancient river 86 00:09:07,980 --> 00:09:13,282 From many a balmy plain 87 00:09:13,352 --> 00:09:19,291 They call us to deliver 88 00:09:19,358 --> 00:09:24,819 Their land from error's shame 89 00:09:38,110 --> 00:09:39,668 United States Marines... 90 00:09:39,745 --> 00:09:42,213 began landing yesterday north of Da Nang... 91 00:09:42,281 --> 00:09:46,012 to take up security duties around the large jet airfield. 92 00:09:46,085 --> 00:09:48,519 They are the first U.S. ground combat troops... 93 00:10:09,442 --> 00:10:12,070 - Excuse me. - Do you mind? 94 00:10:12,144 --> 00:10:13,441 There are other things going on in the world... 95 00:10:13,512 --> 00:10:15,810 besides skinny rock 'n' roll singers jumping around. 96 00:10:15,881 --> 00:10:17,109 Yes, of course. 97 00:10:17,183 --> 00:10:19,344 Little Miss Sophistication can tell us all about it. 98 00:10:19,418 --> 00:10:21,249 It might actually concern you. 99 00:10:21,320 --> 00:10:22,981 I doubt if it'll concern you. 100 00:10:23,055 --> 00:10:25,114 They're certainly not going to mention Uganda. 101 00:10:25,191 --> 00:10:26,385 I never heard it mentioned ever. 102 00:10:26,459 --> 00:10:28,893 They're not even in the Olympic games. 103 00:10:28,961 --> 00:10:30,053 Probably not eligible. 104 00:10:30,129 --> 00:10:32,563 They would be 105 00:10:35,968 --> 00:10:37,060 You bitch! 106 00:10:37,136 --> 00:10:40,071 Sorry. Slipped on a banana. 107 00:11:07,099 --> 00:11:09,226 Do you see what I see? 108 00:11:13,439 --> 00:11:16,033 Australia's answer to Ursula Andress. 109 00:11:21,147 --> 00:11:22,876 She folds her legs. 110 00:11:22,948 --> 00:11:25,576 In doing so, I glimpse Xanadu. 111 00:11:33,926 --> 00:11:35,757 Good afternoon. 112 00:11:35,828 --> 00:11:39,195 The subject of today's debate is... 113 00:11:39,265 --> 00:11:41,893 that this house agrees with Bertrand Russell... 114 00:11:41,967 --> 00:11:43,366 that intellectual pursuits... 115 00:11:43,436 --> 00:11:46,564 are the highest form of human endeavor. 116 00:11:46,639 --> 00:11:48,800 And it'll be ladies first. 117 00:11:48,874 --> 00:11:51,707 Speaking for the affirmative... 118 00:11:51,777 --> 00:11:55,213 Miss Nicola Radcliffe. 119 00:12:03,889 --> 00:12:06,653 Professor Barbour, Reverend Nicholson... 120 00:12:06,726 --> 00:12:08,819 members of the adjudicating panel... 121 00:12:08,894 --> 00:12:10,919 ladies and gentlemen. 122 00:12:14,033 --> 00:12:15,227 And others. 123 00:12:16,736 --> 00:12:19,261 The central thrust of our argument... 124 00:12:19,338 --> 00:12:20,999 will be that the pleasures of the intellect... 125 00:12:21,073 --> 00:12:23,064 are of a higher order altogether... 126 00:12:23,142 --> 00:12:26,578 as opposed to the other simple pleasures of life. 127 00:12:26,645 --> 00:12:28,875 And, to this end, we will be citing evidence... 128 00:12:28,948 --> 00:12:31,439 from such illustrious sources... 129 00:12:31,517 --> 00:12:34,918 as William Shakespeare, Immanuel Kant... 130 00:12:34,987 --> 00:12:36,420 Alfred, Lord Tennyson... 131 00:12:36,489 --> 00:12:38,980 Bishop Barclay, Samuel Pepys... 132 00:12:39,058 --> 00:12:42,050 Sir Robert Menzies, Aristotle... 133 00:12:42,128 --> 00:12:43,789 and the Duke of Edinburgh. 134 00:12:43,863 --> 00:12:48,197 Firstly, to begin with William Shakespeare... 135 00:12:48,267 --> 00:12:54,172 I'd like to suggest that rugby football... 136 00:12:54,240 --> 00:12:58,199 is the highest form... 137 00:12:58,277 --> 00:12:59,744 of... 138 00:13:02,748 --> 00:13:06,115 Highest form of... 139 00:13:06,185 --> 00:13:09,154 human endeavor. 140 00:13:10,856 --> 00:13:13,290 How can one go past... 141 00:13:13,359 --> 00:13:18,126 the fluid inspiration of Jock Blair... 142 00:13:18,197 --> 00:13:22,293 sprinting down the wing for a brilliant try? 143 00:13:22,368 --> 00:13:25,132 How can one not be moved to tears... 144 00:13:25,204 --> 00:13:28,196 by the naked courage of a smaller player... 145 00:13:28,274 --> 00:13:31,141 hurling himself at a much larger opponent... 146 00:13:31,210 --> 00:13:34,873 bouncing off, but picking himself up again and again... 147 00:13:34,947 --> 00:13:37,074 in a frenzy of guts and determination? 148 00:13:38,384 --> 00:13:42,218 Rugby football embodies... 149 00:13:42,288 --> 00:13:44,722 all the noblest virtues... 150 00:13:44,790 --> 00:13:48,089 enshrined in a school like ours- - 151 00:13:48,160 --> 00:13:52,221 teamwork, bravery... 152 00:13:52,298 --> 00:13:54,732 pride, school spirit... 153 00:13:54,800 --> 00:13:58,759 creativity, intelligence... 154 00:13:58,838 --> 00:14:04,105 love of one's fellow man- - 155 00:14:04,176 --> 00:14:06,440 surely the virtues... 156 00:14:06,512 --> 00:14:08,503 which distinguish human beings... 157 00:14:08,581 --> 00:14:12,881 from brute animals. 158 00:14:28,133 --> 00:14:31,000 - The final speaker... - Good stuff. 159 00:14:31,070 --> 00:14:35,063 for the affirmative side is Miss Thandiwe Adjewa. 160 00:14:48,153 --> 00:14:51,281 Having listened carefully to the speakers of both sides... 161 00:14:51,357 --> 00:14:53,587 and wishing to be totally impartial... 162 00:14:53,659 --> 00:14:54,785 I feel the position... 163 00:14:54,860 --> 00:14:56,987 for which my team is arguing is untenable... 164 00:14:57,062 --> 00:14:59,189 though not for the tedious reasons... 165 00:14:59,265 --> 00:15:00,459 given by our opponents... 166 00:15:00,532 --> 00:15:02,295 the last speaker excepted. 167 00:15:02,368 --> 00:15:04,928 My colleagues have quoted... 168 00:15:05,004 --> 00:15:07,837 many poets and philosophers to support our case... 169 00:15:07,907 --> 00:15:10,307 that intellectual pursuits are the highest form... 170 00:15:10,376 --> 00:15:12,401 of human endeavor... 171 00:15:12,478 --> 00:15:15,811 but most contemporary artists... 172 00:15:15,881 --> 00:15:19,408 seem more interested in bodily functions. 173 00:15:19,485 --> 00:15:22,818 For example... 174 00:15:22,888 --> 00:15:27,222 "I don't want you toast my bread. 175 00:15:27,293 --> 00:15:29,386 "I don't want you make my bed." 176 00:15:31,063 --> 00:15:33,327 "I don't want your money, too. 177 00:15:33,399 --> 00:15:36,368 "I just want to make love to you." 178 00:15:39,238 --> 00:15:42,639 "Tutti frutti, au rutti." 179 00:15:48,747 --> 00:15:52,877 "A- wop- bop a- loom- op a- lop bam boom." 180 00:15:54,420 --> 00:15:57,048 If these philosopher- poets are any guide... 181 00:15:57,122 --> 00:15:59,818 the so- called animal side of human beings... 182 00:15:59,892 --> 00:16:02,486 leaves the intellectual side for dead. 183 00:16:02,561 --> 00:16:04,995 Is this just a recent development... 184 00:16:05,064 --> 00:16:08,625 or are we only now becoming mature enough... 185 00:16:08,701 --> 00:16:12,068 to reveal our dirty washing? 186 00:16:19,845 --> 00:16:21,369 Time? 187 00:16:21,447 --> 00:16:23,677 About one minute. 188 00:16:25,751 --> 00:16:29,187 You were not only totally disloyal to the school... 189 00:16:29,254 --> 00:16:31,279 by deliberately throwing away the debate... 190 00:16:31,357 --> 00:16:34,815 but you reduced the occasion to a gutter level. 191 00:16:34,893 --> 00:16:36,485 I can't imagine that you were encouraged... 192 00:16:36,562 --> 00:16:38,723 to get away with that at school in England... 193 00:16:38,797 --> 00:16:41,425 but I can certainly guarantee you won't be given... 194 00:16:41,500 --> 00:16:43,525 the opportunity to repeat such behavior here. 195 00:16:43,602 --> 00:16:46,162 She didn't mean to be offensive. 196 00:16:46,238 --> 00:16:48,399 She made a mockery of the whole debate. 197 00:16:48,474 --> 00:16:51,034 If you believe rock 'n' roll songs are equal to poetry... 198 00:16:51,110 --> 00:16:53,044 then I wonder what they teach you over there at all. 199 00:16:53,112 --> 00:16:54,579 At any rate, I shall be speaking... 200 00:16:54,646 --> 00:16:56,546 to the headmistress in the morning. 201 00:16:58,250 --> 00:17:00,650 She was really wetting her pants. 202 00:17:05,858 --> 00:17:08,725 I saw you getting blasted. 203 00:17:08,794 --> 00:17:11,786 I wanted to congratulate you. It was terrific. 204 00:17:11,864 --> 00:17:14,298 I loved your rugby speech. 205 00:17:14,366 --> 00:17:15,924 Are you going to the boarders' dance? 206 00:17:17,770 --> 00:17:21,467 I'm not sure. I don't think so. 207 00:17:21,540 --> 00:17:23,269 Aren't fifth formers allowed? 208 00:17:23,342 --> 00:17:26,539 Yeah, but not many go. 209 00:17:26,612 --> 00:17:30,639 I'm not. They always play terrible music. 210 00:17:30,716 --> 00:17:32,377 Frightful. 211 00:17:32,451 --> 00:17:34,476 Yes. I prefer jazz to rock. 212 00:17:34,553 --> 00:17:37,886 The bus is here, girls. Hurry up, please. 213 00:17:45,230 --> 00:17:47,095 I might see you there... 214 00:17:47,166 --> 00:17:48,258 at the dance. 215 00:17:48,333 --> 00:17:49,823 Right. 216 00:17:51,003 --> 00:17:52,163 Super. 217 00:17:53,472 --> 00:17:55,838 - What's the time? - 7:30. 218 00:17:55,908 --> 00:17:58,206 Sir? 219 00:17:58,277 --> 00:18:00,643 - Yes, Bourke? - It's 7:30, sir. 220 00:18:00,712 --> 00:18:02,236 All right. 221 00:18:02,314 --> 00:18:04,578 Those going to the dance can go and get changed. 222 00:18:04,650 --> 00:18:05,742 Quietly. 223 00:18:05,818 --> 00:18:09,185 Backa, don't do anything I wouldn't do. 224 00:18:09,254 --> 00:18:12,246 Doesn't leave me much room to maneuver. 225 00:18:12,324 --> 00:18:15,191 - Who's Embling going with? - Who'd have him? 226 00:18:15,260 --> 00:18:17,820 Quiet. 227 00:18:17,896 --> 00:18:21,832 Who've you got lined up, Embling? 228 00:18:21,900 --> 00:18:23,800 Didn't think you'd ever manage to finish... 229 00:18:23,869 --> 00:18:25,803 asking someone out. 230 00:18:27,106 --> 00:18:28,903 People wonder how Hitler managed... 231 00:18:28,974 --> 00:18:31,738 to get so many followers? 232 00:18:31,810 --> 00:18:34,472 It's never surprised me. 233 00:19:43,415 --> 00:19:45,645 You're certainly getting around. 234 00:19:45,717 --> 00:19:47,878 Just trying to lead a balanced life. 235 00:20:06,672 --> 00:20:08,902 - How's the hamstring? - Good, sir. 236 00:20:08,974 --> 00:20:10,532 Remember you got a football match tomorrow. 237 00:20:10,609 --> 00:20:11,735 Yes, sir. 238 00:20:16,915 --> 00:20:19,782 Did I not tell you to get a haircut? 239 00:20:19,851 --> 00:20:21,648 I did, sir. 240 00:20:25,324 --> 00:20:28,782 You're not going to go looking like this, are you? 241 00:20:28,860 --> 00:20:30,760 Yes, sir. 242 00:20:30,829 --> 00:20:32,319 I beg your pardon? 243 00:20:34,366 --> 00:20:37,301 I could put water on it, sir. 244 00:20:37,369 --> 00:20:39,030 No, you're not going at all. 245 00:20:39,104 --> 00:20:40,969 You didn't get a haircut, did you? 246 00:20:41,039 --> 00:20:42,802 Yes, sir. 247 00:20:42,874 --> 00:20:45,570 Are you contradicting me? 248 00:20:45,644 --> 00:20:48,442 No, sir. I just had a trim, sir. 249 00:20:48,513 --> 00:20:50,708 The rest of you can go. 250 00:20:52,217 --> 00:20:55,084 What about the girl I asked, sir? 251 00:20:55,153 --> 00:20:57,383 You should have thought of that before. 252 00:20:57,456 --> 00:21:00,687 Report to the prefect's room and get your hair tidied up... 253 00:21:00,759 --> 00:21:03,319 then you can go back to prep. 254 00:21:03,395 --> 00:21:04,885 But, sir... 255 00:21:08,100 --> 00:21:10,694 You want a thrashing as well? 256 00:21:12,137 --> 00:21:13,866 No, sir. 257 00:21:26,318 --> 00:21:27,979 They're here. 258 00:21:30,055 --> 00:21:33,149 I want to see Nicola Radcliffe. I'm desperate. 259 00:21:33,225 --> 00:21:34,385 I'm a desperate man! 260 00:21:34,459 --> 00:21:37,121 - Hey, mate. No pushing. - Stop it. 261 00:21:49,641 --> 00:21:51,040 Stop pushing. 262 00:21:58,984 --> 00:22:01,919 All right, gentlemen. Back to your desks. 263 00:22:01,987 --> 00:22:05,081 - Oh, sir! - Fair crack of the whip. 264 00:22:05,157 --> 00:22:07,022 You'll get your go next year. 265 00:22:07,092 --> 00:22:08,423 That's next year, though, sir. 266 00:22:08,493 --> 00:22:10,586 It'll shrivel up and die. 267 00:22:10,662 --> 00:22:12,061 What was that, Green? 268 00:22:12,130 --> 00:22:14,428 I said we'll die of starvation, sir. 269 00:22:15,500 --> 00:22:17,434 Come on. Back to your desks. 270 00:22:39,024 --> 00:22:40,218 They're here. 271 00:22:51,770 --> 00:22:54,705 Remember that you're all young ladies. 272 00:23:18,263 --> 00:23:19,821 The tall one. 273 00:23:19,898 --> 00:23:22,662 The one in the yellow. We'll see. 274 00:23:34,980 --> 00:23:38,347 - That one's mine. - In the back? 275 00:23:38,417 --> 00:23:40,146 Handsome, isn't he? 276 00:23:52,297 --> 00:23:54,663 I'm proud of you, girls. Have a nice night. 277 00:24:22,894 --> 00:24:24,759 What's she like, the boong? 278 00:24:24,830 --> 00:24:27,765 Really stuck- up. Reckons she knows everything. 279 00:24:27,833 --> 00:24:29,323 Who is she supposed to be here with? 280 00:24:29,401 --> 00:24:31,130 Some kid called Danny somebody. 281 00:24:31,203 --> 00:24:33,296 - Danny Embling? - That's right. 282 00:24:33,371 --> 00:24:36,863 Bird Embling? She won't be doing much dancing. 283 00:24:36,942 --> 00:24:38,341 How's your old man? 284 00:24:39,611 --> 00:24:41,909 It'll be a great match next week. 285 00:24:41,980 --> 00:24:45,279 Don't you ever think about anything besides football? 286 00:24:45,350 --> 00:24:47,284 I thought you liked it. 287 00:24:47,352 --> 00:24:50,014 No. Not really. 288 00:25:01,399 --> 00:25:03,424 There's an Abo at the window. 289 00:25:04,803 --> 00:25:07,067 Excuse me, sir. 290 00:25:07,138 --> 00:25:08,662 - Can I go to the toilet, sir? - Yep. 291 00:25:29,327 --> 00:25:31,557 - Hello. - Good evening. 292 00:25:35,700 --> 00:25:38,032 What's going on now? 293 00:25:44,442 --> 00:25:45,875 Who's out there? 294 00:26:00,792 --> 00:26:03,625 Me, sir. I've just been sick, sir. 295 00:26:03,695 --> 00:26:05,060 Are you all right? 296 00:26:05,130 --> 00:26:07,963 I'm not feeling too good, sir. 297 00:26:08,033 --> 00:26:11,002 Pop over and see matron and get something. 298 00:26:11,069 --> 00:26:12,434 Yes, sir. 299 00:26:19,311 --> 00:26:20,778 Come on, it's clear. 300 00:26:22,814 --> 00:26:26,682 Well done. Where will we go? 301 00:26:26,751 --> 00:26:30,482 Well, if we hang around here, we'll get caught for sure. 302 00:26:30,555 --> 00:26:32,750 How about your dormitory? 303 00:26:34,659 --> 00:26:36,286 There'll be no one there for awhile. 304 00:26:36,361 --> 00:26:37,487 It's all right. 305 00:26:37,562 --> 00:26:39,757 Just thinking of somewhere we can talk. 306 00:26:39,831 --> 00:26:41,059 OK. 307 00:26:48,340 --> 00:26:51,309 - Clear. - Who'd be around? 308 00:26:51,376 --> 00:26:53,435 Third formers will be in bed by now. 309 00:26:53,511 --> 00:26:55,445 Elliott will be in his study. 310 00:26:55,513 --> 00:26:59,210 Fourth formers come through in half an hour. 311 00:27:02,020 --> 00:27:05,581 Why were they making bird noises at you? 312 00:27:05,657 --> 00:27:07,921 It's an Australian form of admiration. 313 00:27:14,799 --> 00:27:17,165 - Cigarette? - No, thanks. 314 00:27:18,870 --> 00:27:21,236 So where you from? 315 00:27:21,306 --> 00:27:24,742 My father's Ugandan. My mother was from Kenya. 316 00:27:24,809 --> 00:27:26,538 She was half- English. 317 00:27:26,611 --> 00:27:28,078 How come you're here? 318 00:27:28,146 --> 00:27:31,980 Dad's lecturing at university in Canberra for a year. 319 00:27:32,050 --> 00:27:33,984 I met Sartre. 320 00:27:34,052 --> 00:27:37,021 Really? Where? 321 00:27:37,088 --> 00:27:38,555 Paris. 322 00:27:41,493 --> 00:27:42,653 Who's this? 323 00:27:46,131 --> 00:27:47,996 A friend from home. 324 00:27:49,434 --> 00:27:50,594 Where's that? 325 00:27:53,371 --> 00:27:55,737 Out in the boondocks. 326 00:27:55,807 --> 00:27:58,105 These schools are like prisons, aren't they? 327 00:27:58,176 --> 00:28:01,805 Yeah. Run by former Gestapo operatives. 328 00:28:04,049 --> 00:28:07,485 What did you say to Sartre? 329 00:28:07,552 --> 00:28:10,419 I suggested marriage was a doomed institution. 330 00:28:12,524 --> 00:28:14,219 What did he say? 331 00:28:14,292 --> 00:28:16,590 He agreed most people marry to please their parents... 332 00:28:16,661 --> 00:28:18,595 or society. 333 00:28:18,663 --> 00:28:20,756 Not keen on marriage yourself? 334 00:28:20,832 --> 00:28:24,393 I see so many terrible ones. 335 00:28:24,469 --> 00:28:26,562 People just stop communicating. 336 00:28:26,638 --> 00:28:30,972 My father and stepmother are brilliant communicators. 337 00:28:31,042 --> 00:28:33,476 They hardly ever talk to each other these days... 338 00:28:33,545 --> 00:28:34,944 except in public. 339 00:28:37,515 --> 00:28:40,916 Anyway, I doubt whether I'll find anyone... 340 00:28:40,985 --> 00:28:44,648 complex enough to keep me interested. 341 00:28:44,723 --> 00:28:47,556 I lose interest in people. 342 00:28:47,625 --> 00:28:52,324 I imagine they're far more fascinating than they are... 343 00:28:52,397 --> 00:28:54,558 so I'm always disappointed. 344 00:28:56,935 --> 00:28:58,402 Hard life. 345 00:29:08,146 --> 00:29:09,943 Where's the bathroom? 346 00:29:12,417 --> 00:29:13,884 Let me escort you. 347 00:29:22,293 --> 00:29:24,955 I wonder what would happen if someone saw us? 348 00:29:25,029 --> 00:29:27,657 First, they'd extract our fingernails... 349 00:29:27,732 --> 00:29:30,166 sexual organs next. 350 00:29:30,235 --> 00:29:32,965 You sound like you'd like to watch. 351 00:29:33,037 --> 00:29:34,504 I'll stand guard. 352 00:29:43,548 --> 00:29:47,211 I would have asked Jean- Paul about anguish. 353 00:29:47,285 --> 00:29:50,777 Seemed like a pretty romantic concept at the time. 354 00:30:00,431 --> 00:30:03,059 - Where's Desert Head? - In his office. 355 00:30:03,134 --> 00:30:05,159 Shit! 356 00:30:12,243 --> 00:30:13,505 My watch stopped. 357 00:30:13,578 --> 00:30:15,273 The fourth formers are coming in for their showers. 358 00:30:15,346 --> 00:30:16,779 Better get out, then. 359 00:30:16,848 --> 00:30:18,782 Can't. They'll see you. 360 00:30:18,850 --> 00:30:20,249 How about the window? 361 00:30:20,318 --> 00:30:22,309 It's too high. 362 00:30:22,387 --> 00:30:24,446 Look, I'm really sorry. 363 00:30:24,522 --> 00:30:25,921 Go and have another look. 364 00:30:34,732 --> 00:30:35,926 Thank you, boys! 365 00:30:39,704 --> 00:30:42,673 We're buggered completely. Desert Head's out there. 366 00:30:47,045 --> 00:30:48,979 One... two... three... four. 367 00:30:49,047 --> 00:30:50,981 She had a ruby on her tummy 368 00:30:51,049 --> 00:30:52,983 And a diamond big as Texas 369 00:30:53,051 --> 00:30:55,713 On her toe- whoa- whoa 370 00:30:57,555 --> 00:30:59,113 She a put a hat on 371 00:30:59,190 --> 00:31:00,953 And she did the hootchy- kootchy 372 00:31:01,025 --> 00:31:02,754 Real slow- whoa- whoa 373 00:31:02,827 --> 00:31:05,022 This is romantic. 374 00:31:05,096 --> 00:31:07,724 Sing it again, yes 375 00:31:11,169 --> 00:31:13,569 Did you see that prefect woman again? 376 00:31:13,638 --> 00:31:14,730 Nicola Radcliffe? 377 00:31:14,806 --> 00:31:17,934 - Incredible legs. - Great knockers, too. 378 00:31:18,009 --> 00:31:20,603 You wouldn't know what knockers were. 379 00:31:20,678 --> 00:31:21,940 He's got a good set himself. 380 00:31:25,750 --> 00:31:28,218 Small boys are so charming. 381 00:31:28,286 --> 00:31:31,449 Hurry up, will you? Who's in there? 382 00:31:31,522 --> 00:31:33,456 Whoever it is has been there for ages. 383 00:31:33,524 --> 00:31:35,492 Come on, you constipated or something? 384 00:31:58,116 --> 00:32:00,414 Fucking hell! 385 00:32:00,485 --> 00:32:03,784 I told you before that if you slide around in your socks... 386 00:32:03,855 --> 00:32:05,755 you'll get splinters. 387 00:32:05,823 --> 00:32:07,518 Now, is there any reason I shouldn't cane you? 388 00:32:07,592 --> 00:32:10,686 No, sir- - Yes, sir. 389 00:32:14,832 --> 00:32:16,390 That was great. 390 00:32:16,467 --> 00:32:17,798 Yeah. Good fun. 391 00:32:20,371 --> 00:32:21,963 I suppose I'd better get back to the dance... 392 00:32:22,040 --> 00:32:24,270 in case they notice I've gone. 393 00:32:24,342 --> 00:32:27,072 God knows what they'd think I was up to. 394 00:32:30,882 --> 00:32:34,909 So, when do we see each other again? 395 00:32:34,986 --> 00:32:36,954 Very soon, hopefully. 396 00:32:37,021 --> 00:32:38,181 I'd like that. 397 00:32:38,256 --> 00:32:39,814 For a kid, you've got some class. 398 00:32:39,891 --> 00:32:42,121 Gosh. 399 00:32:42,193 --> 00:32:44,661 - Thandiwe! - Miss Macready. 400 00:32:44,729 --> 00:32:48,665 If she wanted to wee- wee she would have asked me first. 401 00:32:48,733 --> 00:32:50,667 There's a ladies' under the stairs... 402 00:32:50,735 --> 00:32:52,566 but I've already checked in there. 403 00:32:54,806 --> 00:32:56,239 You'll be for it. 404 00:32:56,307 --> 00:32:57,672 Too bad. 405 00:32:59,978 --> 00:33:01,639 I'll expect a letter. 406 00:33:07,051 --> 00:33:08,916 Where have you been? 407 00:33:08,987 --> 00:33:10,921 It was a call of nature, Miss Macready. 408 00:33:10,989 --> 00:33:14,925 How dare you leave the hall without telling me! 409 00:33:14,993 --> 00:33:17,518 Do you know the trouble you've caused? 410 00:33:17,595 --> 00:33:20,029 I don't see anything to laugh at. 411 00:33:20,098 --> 00:33:24,467 You've put into jeopardy the whole future of the dances. 412 00:33:24,535 --> 00:33:26,526 It's been a great worry to us both. 413 00:33:26,604 --> 00:33:27,935 To both of us! 414 00:33:28,006 --> 00:33:31,237 So I hope you're satisfied. 415 00:33:31,309 --> 00:33:35,405 Now, you'll spend the rest of the evening in the bus... 416 00:33:35,480 --> 00:33:37,914 and I've already told the prefects... 417 00:33:37,982 --> 00:33:42,248 we're leaving half an hour earlier because of you. 418 00:33:45,857 --> 00:33:48,587 What did she taste like? 419 00:33:48,659 --> 00:33:50,251 A girl. 420 00:33:50,328 --> 00:33:52,262 Jesus. 421 00:33:53,364 --> 00:33:56,629 Then you didn't actually get any further? 422 00:33:56,701 --> 00:33:59,192 It's only our first encounter, Gil. 423 00:33:59,270 --> 00:34:01,795 But she suggested you go back to the dormitory. 424 00:34:01,873 --> 00:34:04,239 Could well have been expecting you to make a move. 425 00:34:04,308 --> 00:34:05,866 She's a bit up herself. 426 00:34:05,943 --> 00:34:07,570 So what? 427 00:34:07,645 --> 00:34:11,706 No one's obsessed with Ursula Andress' personality. 428 00:34:11,783 --> 00:34:16,220 Look, I know body language, and hers says, "Give me." 429 00:34:16,287 --> 00:34:20,223 They can be pretty, you know, desperate, these black women. 430 00:34:20,291 --> 00:34:21,724 Look at "National Geographic." 431 00:34:21,793 --> 00:34:24,728 - Here he is. - How'd you go, Danny? 432 00:34:24,796 --> 00:34:27,390 - She's not bad. - Licorice Allsort. 433 00:34:27,465 --> 00:34:30,229 - She the one you invited? - Yeah. 434 00:34:30,301 --> 00:34:31,529 Good one. 435 00:34:31,602 --> 00:34:33,399 Bloody Embling brought his woman over... 436 00:34:33,471 --> 00:34:34,904 and had a shower with her. 437 00:34:34,972 --> 00:34:37,406 - Fair dinkum. - She was nude. Starkers. 438 00:34:37,475 --> 00:34:39,568 Half of fourth form saw her. 439 00:34:39,644 --> 00:34:41,339 What? 440 00:34:41,412 --> 00:34:44,279 - What was he like? Shy? - Or retarded? 441 00:34:44,348 --> 00:34:46,282 We just talked. 442 00:34:46,350 --> 00:34:48,614 Pretty daft, letting him take you to his dormitory. 443 00:34:48,686 --> 00:34:49,778 I suggested it. 444 00:34:49,854 --> 00:34:51,788 God, did you sit on his bed? 445 00:34:51,856 --> 00:34:53,949 - Yeah. - And? 446 00:34:54,025 --> 00:34:55,492 Will you three shut up? 447 00:34:55,560 --> 00:34:57,187 - Get... - Stuffed. 448 00:34:58,563 --> 00:34:59,860 Well. 449 00:35:01,466 --> 00:35:06,028 It's not just you, Thandiwe. The whole school suffers. 450 00:35:06,104 --> 00:35:08,504 I'm going to have to think seriously... 451 00:35:08,573 --> 00:35:10,564 whether I allow any Cirencester girls... 452 00:35:10,641 --> 00:35:13,610 to attend any future dances. 453 00:35:14,979 --> 00:35:17,345 And you're not just letting yourself down. 454 00:35:17,415 --> 00:35:19,315 There's your parents, as well... 455 00:35:19,383 --> 00:35:22,181 and your country. 456 00:35:23,855 --> 00:35:25,288 And so I certainly hope... 457 00:35:25,356 --> 00:35:27,051 I don't have to see you in my office... 458 00:35:27,125 --> 00:35:29,719 under such circumstances again. 459 00:35:29,794 --> 00:35:31,659 And when you finish that... 460 00:35:31,729 --> 00:35:32,821 you can pick up all the litter... 461 00:35:32,897 --> 00:35:35,764 in the quadrangle and the tennis courts. 462 00:35:35,833 --> 00:35:38,358 And if I find even an icy- pop stick... 463 00:35:38,436 --> 00:35:40,631 you can do them again next weekend. 464 00:35:40,705 --> 00:35:41,797 There's that guy. 465 00:35:41,873 --> 00:35:44,341 He's very good- looking. 466 00:35:44,408 --> 00:35:48,003 - Pity he's a tradesman. - I thought you liked him. 467 00:35:48,079 --> 00:35:50,912 - Pardon? - I've seen you looking at him. 468 00:35:54,719 --> 00:35:58,052 Don't judge people by your sordid standards, Fiona. 469 00:36:09,133 --> 00:36:11,533 When I started thinking about Africa... 470 00:36:11,602 --> 00:36:14,332 I realized the only images I knew... 471 00:36:14,405 --> 00:36:16,270 were from old annuals... 472 00:36:16,340 --> 00:36:20,140 Tarzan comics, and Hollywood movies. 473 00:36:20,211 --> 00:36:23,647 Cannibals with bones through their noses... 474 00:36:23,714 --> 00:36:27,241 lions tearing the throats out of antelopes... 475 00:36:27,318 --> 00:36:31,516 and a lot of wondrous oozing words... 476 00:36:31,589 --> 00:36:35,821 like Limpopo... 477 00:36:35,893 --> 00:36:38,327 Zambezi... 478 00:36:38,396 --> 00:36:40,796 Mombasa... 479 00:36:40,865 --> 00:36:42,992 Tanganyika. 480 00:37:08,226 --> 00:37:10,057 Embling's got a letter from his girlfriend. 481 00:37:10,127 --> 00:37:12,755 - Lubra lips. - Good on you, Bird. 482 00:37:12,830 --> 00:37:14,297 Don't peck her eyes out. 483 00:37:23,341 --> 00:37:24,774 Say please. 484 00:37:27,712 --> 00:37:30,442 - Open it, Fedder. - Fair go. 485 00:37:30,514 --> 00:37:32,778 Let's see what she's got to say. 486 00:37:32,850 --> 00:37:35,250 Don't be an idiot, Bourke. 487 00:37:35,319 --> 00:37:37,344 "Dear Danny..." 488 00:37:39,156 --> 00:37:41,522 "Signing your letter with a 'Yours'... 489 00:37:41,592 --> 00:37:43,082 "was a bit demure, wasn't it?" 490 00:37:45,029 --> 00:37:47,896 "I thought after our episode in the showers... 491 00:37:47,965 --> 00:37:49,990 "I deserved something a little warmer." 492 00:37:51,235 --> 00:37:53,499 "I'm told your nickname is Bird." 493 00:37:55,673 --> 00:37:57,641 "Well, I like long noses. 494 00:37:57,708 --> 00:37:59,198 "It means you're well- endowed..." 495 00:38:00,711 --> 00:38:02,144 "with brains, of course." 496 00:38:04,282 --> 00:38:07,718 People like to have someone to look down on. 497 00:38:07,785 --> 00:38:12,313 Makes them feel better about themselves. 498 00:38:12,390 --> 00:38:14,358 No one realized what a great community service... 499 00:38:14,425 --> 00:38:17,724 I was performing by being the school dag. 500 00:38:17,795 --> 00:38:19,262 I didn't care. 501 00:38:20,798 --> 00:38:22,265 I'd met this girl. 502 00:38:27,805 --> 00:38:29,136 Come in. 503 00:38:33,044 --> 00:38:34,773 I'd like to report something, sir. 504 00:38:39,283 --> 00:38:42,775 Something that I think isn't fair, sir. 505 00:38:45,823 --> 00:38:46,983 Well? 506 00:38:49,126 --> 00:38:51,424 Some of the boys have been opening letters... 507 00:38:51,495 --> 00:38:53,122 and reading them to everyone. 508 00:38:55,833 --> 00:38:57,198 I see. 509 00:39:01,772 --> 00:39:03,933 A very nice pipe, sir. 510 00:39:12,616 --> 00:39:16,643 Mr. Elliott wants to see Bourke in his office, sir. 511 00:39:16,721 --> 00:39:18,746 All right, Bourke, off you go. 512 00:40:11,909 --> 00:40:14,776 "Yours faithfully" was a little bit demure. 513 00:40:14,845 --> 00:40:16,836 It's so funny. Everyone was rolling around. 514 00:40:16,914 --> 00:40:18,006 Then she said... 515 00:40:18,082 --> 00:40:21,245 "Big noses do mean you're well-endowed." 516 00:40:21,318 --> 00:40:23,946 - She's so pretentious. - Really? 517 00:40:24,021 --> 00:40:27,081 I don't think it's funny reading people's letters. 518 00:40:34,198 --> 00:40:36,792 No. I had it down. 519 00:40:36,867 --> 00:40:40,735 - OK. - Try "Dearest Gilby." 520 00:40:40,805 --> 00:40:42,466 It's not dearest. I hardly know him. 521 00:40:42,540 --> 00:40:43,871 - Yet. - "Dear Gilby." 522 00:40:43,941 --> 00:40:45,841 - It's not even "Dear." - Looks like a deer. 523 00:40:45,910 --> 00:40:48,743 An old dear. One of those people who was born old. 524 00:40:48,813 --> 00:40:50,838 - About fifty. - He's not that bad. 525 00:40:50,915 --> 00:40:52,280 At least he's brave enough to write. 526 00:40:52,349 --> 00:40:53,839 No accounting for taste. 527 00:40:53,918 --> 00:40:55,943 Lights. 528 00:40:57,955 --> 00:41:01,391 Glad to know your boyfriend's well- endowed, Adjewa. 529 00:41:02,793 --> 00:41:04,784 Pardon? 530 00:41:04,862 --> 00:41:06,796 Your St. Albans friend. 531 00:41:12,603 --> 00:41:15,902 - God, it stinks. - Is it moving? 532 00:41:15,973 --> 00:41:17,838 Of course it is. It's Danish blue. 533 00:41:17,908 --> 00:41:20,536 Excuse me, Miss Macready. 534 00:41:20,611 --> 00:41:22,738 Phone call for Thandiwe- - her father. 535 00:41:22,813 --> 00:41:24,371 Off you go. 536 00:41:33,390 --> 00:41:35,756 Can I go to the toilet, please, Miss Macready? 537 00:41:35,826 --> 00:41:39,489 You may go to the bathroom, Melissa, yes. 538 00:41:56,380 --> 00:41:58,348 To whom am I speaking? 539 00:41:58,415 --> 00:42:00,042 Milton Adjewa here. 540 00:42:00,117 --> 00:42:02,244 May I speak to my daughter, please? 541 00:42:02,319 --> 00:42:05,720 Milton, Thandiwe doesn't want to speak to you anymore. 542 00:42:05,789 --> 00:42:08,587 - Why? - Why do you think? 543 00:42:08,659 --> 00:42:10,422 You've been showing her letters to everyone. 544 00:42:10,494 --> 00:42:12,462 You're an absolute pill. 545 00:42:12,530 --> 00:42:13,929 The letter was stolen. 546 00:42:13,998 --> 00:42:16,990 You should have looked after it. 547 00:42:18,836 --> 00:42:20,133 Thanks. 548 00:42:20,271 --> 00:42:23,434 This year's musical is called "Proserpina"... 549 00:42:23,507 --> 00:42:26,499 the dramatic story of the rape of Persephone... 550 00:42:26,577 --> 00:42:28,772 as she was called by the Greeks- - 551 00:42:28,846 --> 00:42:32,646 a beautiful goddess who was kidnapped by Pluto... 552 00:42:32,716 --> 00:42:35,276 the God of the Underworld. 553 00:42:35,352 --> 00:42:38,753 Ultimately, it's a tale of birth, death, and renewal... 554 00:42:38,822 --> 00:42:42,815 embodying the myth of the origins of the seasons- - 555 00:42:42,893 --> 00:42:46,260 spring, summer, autumn, and winter. 556 00:42:46,330 --> 00:42:47,820 Who's the author, Mrs. Archer? 557 00:42:47,898 --> 00:42:49,661 It's something I wrote myself. 558 00:42:49,733 --> 00:42:51,758 An adaptation from the German. 559 00:42:53,137 --> 00:42:59,565 Some more volunteers. Nice to have you with us. 560 00:43:04,648 --> 00:43:07,617 I want you to form up in pairs. 561 00:43:17,161 --> 00:43:20,255 I don't think we're a very good match. 562 00:43:20,331 --> 00:43:24,529 - Have you got anyone? - No, I suppose not. 563 00:43:24,602 --> 00:43:25,899 Good. 564 00:43:28,839 --> 00:43:31,808 Has anyone not got a partner? 565 00:43:34,678 --> 00:43:37,806 Don't be shy, you two. 566 00:43:53,097 --> 00:43:58,034 - I'm Thandiwe Adjewa. - Jock Blair. 567 00:43:58,102 --> 00:44:01,503 - Where are you from? - Uganda. 568 00:44:01,572 --> 00:44:03,733 You speak really good English. 569 00:44:03,807 --> 00:44:05,775 So do you. 570 00:44:07,311 --> 00:44:08,744 Where are you from? 571 00:44:08,812 --> 00:44:11,212 Near Cootamundra. My father's a grazier. 572 00:44:11,281 --> 00:44:13,749 I wanted to see four steamrollers... 573 00:44:13,817 --> 00:44:16,217 attached to Jock Blair's arms and legs... 574 00:44:16,286 --> 00:44:18,754 driving in opposite directions... 575 00:44:18,822 --> 00:44:23,850 leaving only a twitching torso flailing blood like a live hose. 576 00:44:23,927 --> 00:44:27,886 And sheep. My father's a man for all seasons. 577 00:44:27,965 --> 00:44:31,230 And I wanted even worse things to happen to her. 578 00:44:31,301 --> 00:44:35,567 In the meantime, I'd make her ferociously jealous... 579 00:44:35,639 --> 00:44:37,766 by pulling off the seduction of the century... 580 00:44:37,841 --> 00:44:39,308 with Nicola Radcliffe. 581 00:44:51,321 --> 00:44:53,448 What's wrong with you now, Embling? 582 00:44:53,524 --> 00:44:55,014 He's feeling crook, sir. 583 00:44:55,092 --> 00:44:58,186 Your health's becoming a constant source of concern. 584 00:44:58,262 --> 00:45:00,230 It's the elephant dick. It's rank. 585 00:45:00,265 --> 00:45:01,993 It's going to walk out of here. 586 00:45:02,066 --> 00:45:03,226 Shut up, Green. 587 00:45:06,036 --> 00:45:08,061 I think I'm going to be sick, sir. 588 00:45:08,138 --> 00:45:10,936 Go down and get something from matron. 589 00:45:15,512 --> 00:45:17,241 I'm feeling a bit crook myself, sir. 590 00:45:17,314 --> 00:45:18,747 Green... 591 00:45:42,005 --> 00:45:44,405 Sultry. 592 00:45:56,854 --> 00:45:59,254 Smolder. 593 00:46:00,290 --> 00:46:02,383 Good. 594 00:46:06,330 --> 00:46:09,231 I think we should swap partners in the musical. 595 00:46:09,299 --> 00:46:10,459 Why? 596 00:46:10,534 --> 00:46:12,729 You're writing to him, aren't you? 597 00:46:12,803 --> 00:46:14,498 Not anymore. 598 00:46:15,806 --> 00:46:18,570 - What happened? - He showed one of them around. 599 00:46:18,642 --> 00:46:20,735 That wasn't him. 600 00:46:20,811 --> 00:46:23,678 One of the other kids stole it and read it out aloud. 601 00:46:23,747 --> 00:46:26,238 Challenge one another. 602 00:46:41,498 --> 00:46:44,296 Puss, puss, puss. 603 00:46:46,003 --> 00:46:50,030 I'm just going to feed the cat and then check up on the girls. 604 00:46:50,107 --> 00:46:51,802 I'll put the kettle on. 605 00:46:54,211 --> 00:46:56,805 Rastus, Rastus. 606 00:47:07,791 --> 00:47:09,258 Shit. 607 00:47:13,897 --> 00:47:16,161 You coming or not? 608 00:47:16,233 --> 00:47:19,532 It's delicious liver and kidney. 609 00:47:36,653 --> 00:47:39,121 Don't meow, Rastus. 610 00:47:50,968 --> 00:47:53,766 - Quiet! - It's a man! 611 00:47:53,837 --> 00:47:56,931 Shut up. It's a St. Albans kid. 612 00:47:59,209 --> 00:48:00,403 I'm stuck. 613 00:48:07,618 --> 00:48:10,416 - Why did you come? - To see a girl. 614 00:48:14,625 --> 00:48:16,286 Come on. 615 00:48:18,795 --> 00:48:22,162 - Thanks. - One, two, three. 616 00:48:26,803 --> 00:48:28,236 Someone's coming! 617 00:48:29,306 --> 00:48:32,275 What is going on up there? 618 00:48:35,145 --> 00:48:36,737 What's all this noise? 619 00:48:36,813 --> 00:48:39,145 Come on, what is it? 620 00:48:39,216 --> 00:48:40,649 It was the window, Miss Macready. 621 00:48:40,717 --> 00:48:42,617 It came down and woke us all up. 622 00:48:42,686 --> 00:48:44,449 We thought it could be a murderer... 623 00:48:44,521 --> 00:48:45,783 Or a raper. 624 00:48:45,856 --> 00:48:47,619 Rapist. 625 00:48:47,691 --> 00:48:50,751 It's a pity you don't put that imagination to work... 626 00:48:50,827 --> 00:48:53,193 on your compositions, Jean. 627 00:48:53,263 --> 00:48:56,289 Back to sleep now, girls. Good night. 628 00:48:59,002 --> 00:49:00,629 Who did you want to see? 629 00:49:00,704 --> 00:49:02,535 Thandiwe Adjewa. 630 00:49:02,606 --> 00:49:04,198 We'll take you. 631 00:49:06,777 --> 00:49:08,574 Come on, Stace. 632 00:49:08,645 --> 00:49:10,237 We'll take you there. 633 00:49:13,283 --> 00:49:14,750 Have a nice time. 634 00:49:47,818 --> 00:49:49,752 You go and wait. 635 00:49:49,820 --> 00:49:51,412 In the bushes. 636 00:50:13,844 --> 00:50:15,812 Your father's on the telephone. 637 00:50:26,356 --> 00:50:28,290 I do karate. 638 00:50:28,358 --> 00:50:29,757 It's me. 639 00:50:58,455 --> 00:50:59,581 Where's Embling? 640 00:51:01,658 --> 00:51:04,650 He had a terrible attack of the trots, sir. 641 00:51:04,728 --> 00:51:06,958 - Again? - It's the elephant, sir. 642 00:51:07,030 --> 00:51:09,396 I was in the toilet for an hour. 643 00:51:09,466 --> 00:51:11,263 What are you talking about? 644 00:51:14,171 --> 00:51:16,298 He means the elephant dick, sir. 645 00:51:23,647 --> 00:51:25,512 And... 646 00:51:26,850 --> 00:51:29,114 what is elephant dick, Green? 647 00:51:31,354 --> 00:51:34,619 Meat loaf with egg in the middle, sir. 648 00:51:36,793 --> 00:51:39,284 I'll see you in my office after prep. 649 00:51:39,362 --> 00:51:40,761 Yes, sir. 650 00:51:43,867 --> 00:51:45,027 You think it's funny? 651 00:51:45,102 --> 00:51:46,967 No, sir. 652 00:52:01,318 --> 00:52:03,252 I better go. 653 00:52:03,320 --> 00:52:05,413 Probably been missed already. 654 00:52:05,489 --> 00:52:06,922 What will happen? 655 00:52:06,990 --> 00:52:09,254 I'll get caned. 656 00:52:09,326 --> 00:52:10,793 I feel terrible. 657 00:52:12,829 --> 00:52:14,387 I didn't trust you. 658 00:52:17,100 --> 00:52:19,625 I won't let you down again. 659 00:52:20,670 --> 00:52:22,137 I mean it. 660 00:52:28,345 --> 00:52:29,607 Stop it. 661 00:52:31,148 --> 00:52:33,309 Miss Anderson's asking where you are. 662 00:52:41,558 --> 00:52:45,324 You could be expelled for being in these grounds. 663 00:52:46,863 --> 00:52:51,163 Well, I'm not actually here. This is a dream. 664 00:52:53,603 --> 00:52:57,471 Get back to bed before it turns into a nightmare. 665 00:52:57,541 --> 00:53:01,272 If I do catch you again, that's it. 666 00:53:10,820 --> 00:53:12,287 Good night, Nicola. 667 00:53:26,970 --> 00:53:30,371 Thandiwe started telling me about Africa as she knew it. 668 00:53:33,143 --> 00:53:38,103 How her mother was killed in the Mau- Mau period in Kenya... 669 00:53:38,181 --> 00:53:41,844 how her father wrote books about African nationalism... 670 00:53:41,918 --> 00:53:43,010 and the problems created... 671 00:53:43,086 --> 00:53:46,317 as the colonial governments scrambled to get out. 672 00:53:48,058 --> 00:53:51,789 There had been terrible times the last few years- - 673 00:53:51,861 --> 00:53:54,796 the Belgian Congo... 674 00:53:54,864 --> 00:53:56,798 Zanzibar... 675 00:53:56,866 --> 00:53:58,834 Angola, Kenya. 676 00:54:00,637 --> 00:54:03,504 Places I'd barely heard of. 677 00:54:05,642 --> 00:54:08,042 What's happening? 678 00:54:08,111 --> 00:54:09,806 We're just flirting. 679 00:54:20,223 --> 00:54:23,124 Often I never really heard what she said. 680 00:54:25,328 --> 00:54:27,796 I'd be staring at her legs. 681 00:54:31,268 --> 00:54:32,929 They were very comforting. 682 00:54:34,838 --> 00:54:38,740 Sometimes there would be little bruises... 683 00:54:38,808 --> 00:54:43,472 or marks around her ankles from the elastic in her socks. 684 00:54:44,848 --> 00:54:47,817 That's how I knew she was real. 685 00:55:07,137 --> 00:55:08,502 What's happening? 686 00:55:08,571 --> 00:55:11,039 I'm cracking a monstrous fat. 687 00:55:11,107 --> 00:55:12,472 What can you see? 688 00:55:12,542 --> 00:55:13,702 Everything. 689 00:55:13,777 --> 00:55:15,244 Don't cream yourself, Cheddar. 690 00:55:15,312 --> 00:55:19,009 God, there's Nicola Radcliffe. 691 00:55:19,082 --> 00:55:20,515 What is she doing? 692 00:55:20,583 --> 00:55:22,813 Sitting down. 693 00:55:22,886 --> 00:55:25,081 Taking off her shoes... 694 00:55:25,155 --> 00:55:28,352 unfastening her zip. 695 00:55:36,333 --> 00:55:38,324 Would you keep it down? 696 00:55:38,401 --> 00:55:40,232 What's happening now? 697 00:55:40,303 --> 00:55:41,668 God. 698 00:55:41,738 --> 00:55:44,434 Has she taken it all off? 699 00:55:44,507 --> 00:55:46,907 There's Embling's girlfriend. 700 00:55:46,976 --> 00:55:48,773 Not bad. 701 00:55:48,845 --> 00:55:50,107 Great set. 702 00:55:51,314 --> 00:55:52,508 Get a picture. 703 00:55:53,983 --> 00:55:55,575 Don't take a picture, Bourke. 704 00:55:55,652 --> 00:55:57,381 Tasty. 705 00:56:02,292 --> 00:56:03,759 Jesus! 706 00:56:03,827 --> 00:56:06,455 Fight! Fight! Fight! 707 00:56:16,773 --> 00:56:19,867 You want to fight, do it in the ring with gloves. 708 00:56:21,644 --> 00:56:23,635 Friday, Embling. 709 00:56:23,713 --> 00:56:25,704 You're lucky Nicholson didn't come down. 710 00:56:25,782 --> 00:56:28,444 You'd both be out of the show altogether. 711 00:56:28,518 --> 00:56:31,248 Finish getting dressed and get up onstage. 712 00:56:34,791 --> 00:56:35,917 Feeling OK? 713 00:56:37,127 --> 00:56:39,061 Friday at five. 714 00:56:51,007 --> 00:56:52,998 It was you, was it? 715 00:56:53,076 --> 00:56:56,239 - Who with? - The ham in the dress. 716 00:56:56,312 --> 00:57:00,009 Don't worry about him. He's probably a fairy. 717 00:57:02,051 --> 00:57:04,281 Don't turn up on Friday. 718 00:57:04,354 --> 00:57:05,446 To what? 719 00:57:05,522 --> 00:57:07,422 They're supposed to finish it in the gym. 720 00:57:07,490 --> 00:57:08,923 You're stupid if you do. 721 00:57:08,992 --> 00:57:10,357 He's the top boxer in the school. 722 00:57:15,031 --> 00:57:17,226 I wondered if my old friend Jean- Paul Sartre... 723 00:57:17,300 --> 00:57:19,791 would have fought in a situation like this. 724 00:57:19,869 --> 00:57:23,100 I know Cassius would have. 725 00:57:23,173 --> 00:57:24,663 I liked big Cassius. 726 00:57:24,741 --> 00:57:27,209 I liked his poems. 727 00:57:27,277 --> 00:57:30,246 He wasn't built like Twiggy, though. 728 00:57:30,313 --> 00:57:32,508 Every morning at the mine 729 00:57:32,582 --> 00:57:35,016 You could see him arrive 730 00:57:35,084 --> 00:57:39,350 He stood 6'6", weighed 245 731 00:57:47,130 --> 00:57:48,688 Kind of broad at the shoulders 732 00:57:48,765 --> 00:57:50,892 And narrow at the hip 733 00:57:50,967 --> 00:57:54,664 Everybody knew you didn't give no lip 734 00:57:54,737 --> 00:57:56,671 To Big John 735 00:58:10,487 --> 00:58:12,546 Telephone for Embling. 736 00:58:12,622 --> 00:58:14,487 Go west, young man. 737 00:58:15,625 --> 00:58:21,995 Big John 738 00:58:24,300 --> 00:58:26,291 Big Bad John 739 00:58:28,238 --> 00:58:29,933 If you go ahead with this... 740 00:58:30,006 --> 00:58:32,236 I won't have any respect for your intelligence at all. 741 00:58:32,308 --> 00:58:34,776 Don't worry. I'll see you on the weekend. 742 00:58:34,844 --> 00:58:36,277 Good night. 743 00:58:44,320 --> 00:58:46,447 In the red corner... 744 00:58:46,523 --> 00:58:50,926 weighing in at 192 pounds... 745 00:58:50,994 --> 00:58:54,293 Barry "Backa" Bourke. 746 00:58:56,499 --> 00:58:57,932 Where is Bird? 747 00:58:58,001 --> 00:59:00,469 He's probably chickened out. 748 00:59:00,537 --> 00:59:02,767 No. Here he is. 749 00:59:02,839 --> 00:59:06,775 Weighing in at 51/2 ounces... 750 00:59:06,843 --> 00:59:10,279 the flea- weight champion of the world... 751 00:59:10,346 --> 00:59:12,814 Danny "Poofter" Embling. 752 00:59:30,466 --> 00:59:32,093 Shut up. 753 00:59:32,168 --> 00:59:34,500 Come on. There's only half an hour till tea. 754 00:59:34,571 --> 00:59:37,597 Embling will fall in one. 755 00:59:38,675 --> 00:59:39,937 - You all right? - Yeah. 756 00:59:40,009 --> 00:59:43,172 - Shake hands. - Good luck. 757 00:59:43,246 --> 00:59:48,707 Back to your corners and come out fighting. 758 00:59:48,785 --> 00:59:50,912 It's not worth risking brain damage. 759 00:59:50,987 --> 00:59:52,716 Just kick him in the cods. 760 00:59:52,789 --> 00:59:54,723 Honor will be satisfied. 761 00:59:57,527 --> 01:00:00,394 Round one! 762 01:00:01,431 --> 01:00:03,558 Come on, Backa! Come on! 763 01:00:10,773 --> 01:00:12,206 Drop him! 764 01:00:15,612 --> 01:00:18,376 Come on, Bird, don't push him to the ground. 765 01:00:23,853 --> 01:00:25,445 That's it. Come on, Backa. 766 01:00:51,781 --> 01:00:54,978 Start jabbing to the right. He'll go down. 767 01:00:55,051 --> 01:00:56,541 Watch this. 768 01:00:56,619 --> 01:00:59,611 You've put on a good show. You're still on your feet. 769 01:00:59,689 --> 01:01:01,919 - We'll pull out now. - No. 770 01:01:01,991 --> 01:01:03,618 Think of the brain cells. 771 01:01:03,693 --> 01:01:05,661 You'll end up a bloody jellyhead like him. 772 01:01:05,728 --> 01:01:08,253 You're supposed to inspire me, not demoralize me completely. 773 01:01:08,331 --> 01:01:11,027 Round two! 774 01:01:17,840 --> 01:01:20,240 Bourke, what are you doing? 775 01:01:20,309 --> 01:01:21,333 Go. Come on, Backa! 776 01:01:35,858 --> 01:01:38,190 Sonny Liston! Sonny Liston! 777 01:01:45,134 --> 01:01:47,728 One... two... 778 01:01:47,804 --> 01:01:49,931 three... four... 779 01:01:50,973 --> 01:01:53,567 Want to call it a day? 780 01:01:53,643 --> 01:01:56,203 Come on, Backa, in for the kill! 781 01:02:12,128 --> 01:02:14,096 One... 782 01:02:14,163 --> 01:02:15,596 two... 783 01:02:15,665 --> 01:02:18,293 three... 784 01:02:18,367 --> 01:02:20,062 four... 785 01:02:20,136 --> 01:02:22,104 five... 786 01:02:22,171 --> 01:02:23,798 six... 787 01:02:23,873 --> 01:02:25,204 seven... 788 01:02:25,274 --> 01:02:27,208 eight... 789 01:02:37,520 --> 01:02:39,579 Jean- Paul. 790 01:02:39,655 --> 01:02:42,624 - Cigarette? - No. 791 01:03:43,820 --> 01:03:45,754 One... two... 792 01:03:45,822 --> 01:03:47,813 three... four... 793 01:03:47,890 --> 01:03:49,824 five... six... 794 01:03:49,892 --> 01:03:51,860 seven... eight... 795 01:03:51,928 --> 01:03:54,396 Stop it! 796 01:04:07,677 --> 01:04:10,077 How can you do that? Stand there and watch? 797 01:04:10,146 --> 01:04:13,377 Come on. He'll be all right. 798 01:04:16,686 --> 01:04:19,120 OK, everyone. Off to tea. 799 01:04:23,593 --> 01:04:26,357 You're dead, Backa. 800 01:04:28,698 --> 01:04:30,893 Done like dinner. 801 01:04:30,967 --> 01:04:33,902 We'll take him to the dispensary. 802 01:04:33,970 --> 01:04:36,734 Got a stretcher? 803 01:04:36,806 --> 01:04:38,273 He'll be all right. 804 01:04:43,746 --> 01:04:46,738 I tried to talk him out of it. 805 01:04:46,816 --> 01:04:48,681 I know. 806 01:04:48,751 --> 01:04:51,413 He's a trifle unstable at times. 807 01:04:51,487 --> 01:04:54,820 I try and be the voice of reason. 808 01:04:54,891 --> 01:04:56,756 You're a bit more sane... 809 01:04:56,826 --> 01:04:58,384 like me, I think. 810 01:04:58,461 --> 01:05:00,361 Aren't you? 811 01:05:00,429 --> 01:05:02,727 I can be pretty pig- headed, too. 812 01:05:02,798 --> 01:05:05,995 So can I. Big lapses I have sometimes. 813 01:05:07,637 --> 01:05:10,401 I better go. Give him my love. 814 01:05:10,473 --> 01:05:11,633 All right. 815 01:05:23,853 --> 01:05:27,186 Just been to the dispensary, sir. 816 01:05:27,256 --> 01:05:28,746 What happened to you, Embling? 817 01:05:28,824 --> 01:05:31,759 Get caught on the wrong side of a bus? 818 01:05:31,827 --> 01:05:34,261 Sort of like a bus, sir. 819 01:06:49,872 --> 01:06:52,306 Certainly was different. 820 01:06:52,375 --> 01:06:54,309 We thoroughly enjoyed it. 821 01:06:54,377 --> 01:06:57,346 I've got some people I'd like you to meet. 822 01:06:59,115 --> 01:07:02,607 Mum, Dad, this is Thandiwe Adjewa. 823 01:07:02,685 --> 01:07:04,983 - Pleased to meet you. - How do you do? 824 01:07:05,054 --> 01:07:07,022 My parents, Danny Embling. 825 01:07:07,089 --> 01:07:09,649 Solomon Adjewa, my wife Letitia. 826 01:07:09,725 --> 01:07:10,817 How do you do? 827 01:07:10,893 --> 01:07:14,829 - Bruce and Sheila. - Hello. 828 01:07:14,897 --> 01:07:16,091 Marvelous music. 829 01:07:16,165 --> 01:07:18,759 Yes. Sort of African, isn't it? 830 01:07:18,834 --> 01:07:21,462 Program says German. 831 01:07:21,537 --> 01:07:25,906 The rhythms remind me of that sort of thing. 832 01:07:25,975 --> 01:07:29,411 Mr. Adjewa's lecturing at the university in Canberra. 833 01:07:29,478 --> 01:07:32,038 Do you know Canberra much? 834 01:07:32,114 --> 01:07:35,914 I went to Parliament House when I was a girl. 835 01:07:35,985 --> 01:07:39,580 It still hasn't quite found its feet as a city. 836 01:07:39,655 --> 01:07:40,747 It's like Brasilia- - 837 01:07:40,823 --> 01:07:43,087 built for politicians more than people. 838 01:07:43,159 --> 01:07:45,024 They built it there because it was halfway... 839 01:07:45,094 --> 01:07:46,527 between Melbourne and Sydney. 840 01:07:46,595 --> 01:07:50,429 I've always thought Brazil must be very interesting. 841 01:07:50,499 --> 01:07:53,127 The furthest I've been is New Guinea. 842 01:07:53,202 --> 01:07:56,137 My husband fought there during the war. 843 01:07:56,205 --> 01:07:58,264 He never talks about it. 844 01:07:58,340 --> 01:08:00,001 I'm not surprised. 845 01:08:00,076 --> 01:08:03,204 It must be hard for anyone else to understand... 846 01:08:03,279 --> 01:08:04,906 how tough it was. 847 01:08:07,650 --> 01:08:09,117 That's true. 848 01:08:12,288 --> 01:08:14,222 We better make a move. 849 01:08:14,290 --> 01:08:18,283 - Very nice to meet you. - Nice to meet you. 850 01:08:18,360 --> 01:08:21,659 - Look after Thandiwe for us. - We keep an eye on each other. 851 01:08:21,730 --> 01:08:24,164 So we hear. Good- bye. 852 01:08:24,233 --> 01:08:26,929 - Good- bye. - Nice to meet you. 853 01:08:34,343 --> 01:08:36,868 They seem nice. 854 01:08:36,946 --> 01:08:39,005 What did you do to your eye? 855 01:08:39,081 --> 01:08:41,709 - Football. - You playing? 856 01:08:41,784 --> 01:08:43,809 - What position? - Wing. 857 01:08:43,886 --> 01:08:47,515 Good one. I'll have to have a talk to Tom Alcock. 858 01:08:47,590 --> 01:08:50,957 Let him know he might have a new recruit. 859 01:08:52,461 --> 01:08:55,692 I'll just say good- bye to Thandiwe. 860 01:09:01,370 --> 01:09:03,964 - Can I see you tonight? - Definitely. 861 01:09:04,039 --> 01:09:05,165 What time? 862 01:09:06,175 --> 01:09:08,234 One- thirty? 863 01:09:08,310 --> 01:09:10,141 Nice girl. 864 01:09:18,354 --> 01:09:20,185 Don't go beyond six. 865 01:09:20,256 --> 01:09:21,951 You haven't known him that long. 866 01:09:22,024 --> 01:09:25,152 I'd say eight. 867 01:09:25,227 --> 01:09:27,718 If you're going to risk a midnight rendezvous... 868 01:09:27,796 --> 01:09:29,457 might as well make it worthwhile. 869 01:09:29,532 --> 01:09:30,965 What's eight? 870 01:09:31,033 --> 01:09:33,433 Top off, hands below. 871 01:09:33,502 --> 01:09:35,436 Blissful. 872 01:09:35,504 --> 01:09:39,270 Just don't get caught with tissues down your bra. 873 01:09:39,341 --> 01:09:41,309 You didn't tell me about that. 874 01:09:41,377 --> 01:09:42,674 What did you say? 875 01:09:42,745 --> 01:09:45,475 I said I had a cold and didn't have any pockets. 876 01:09:45,548 --> 01:09:46,708 Janet. 877 01:09:48,784 --> 01:09:52,345 Can he be trusted, though... 878 01:09:52,421 --> 01:09:55,481 not to go into No Man's Land? 879 01:09:55,558 --> 01:09:57,219 No man can. 880 01:09:57,293 --> 01:09:59,386 She can control him... 881 01:09:59,461 --> 01:10:02,396 but can she control herself? 882 01:10:21,317 --> 01:10:25,048 It's as cold as a concrete cot. 883 01:10:25,120 --> 01:10:27,452 There's no way she'll turn up if it's this cold. 884 01:10:30,326 --> 01:10:32,385 You made any preparations? 885 01:10:32,461 --> 01:10:34,793 - What do you mean? - Don't be naive. 886 01:10:34,863 --> 01:10:38,629 Think she'll risk meeting you just for a chat? 887 01:10:38,701 --> 01:10:41,261 She'll expect you to have precautions. 888 01:10:41,337 --> 01:10:42,929 Probably wants to reward you... 889 01:10:43,005 --> 01:10:46,338 for taking a stand in her self- defense. 890 01:10:50,279 --> 01:10:51,769 One thing... 891 01:10:51,847 --> 01:10:54,645 remember her needs as well as yours. 892 01:10:54,717 --> 01:10:57,311 In the long run, they're more important. 893 01:10:57,386 --> 01:10:59,752 If you can give her pleasure... 894 01:10:59,822 --> 01:11:01,847 she'll be back for more. 895 01:11:04,893 --> 01:11:06,360 See you, Gilbert. 896 01:11:11,867 --> 01:11:14,028 Oh, God! 897 01:11:45,701 --> 01:11:48,898 My parents are going back to Uganda. 898 01:11:48,971 --> 01:11:51,132 Some kind of crisis. 899 01:11:53,208 --> 01:11:56,041 They want me to finish the year here. 900 01:11:59,381 --> 01:12:00,973 I'm worried for them. 901 01:12:03,052 --> 01:12:05,577 My father has so many enemies. 902 01:12:06,889 --> 01:12:10,347 So much corruption he's always writing about. 903 01:12:12,861 --> 01:12:14,089 Sad. 904 01:12:15,531 --> 01:12:18,227 There was real hope in our country. 905 01:12:44,526 --> 01:12:46,460 Do you mind if we just kiss and touch a bit... 906 01:12:46,528 --> 01:12:47,756 and leave it at that? 907 01:12:47,830 --> 01:12:48,956 Sure. 908 01:13:18,260 --> 01:13:19,784 Welcome. 909 01:13:26,902 --> 01:13:28,096 Women's clothes... 910 01:13:28,170 --> 01:13:30,434 are much better designed for this sort of thing. 911 01:13:32,641 --> 01:13:35,166 You must get all squashed up in there. 912 01:13:44,686 --> 01:13:46,153 It can get... 913 01:13:48,357 --> 01:13:50,291 pretty tricky sometimes. 914 01:13:50,359 --> 01:13:51,951 When it's big? 915 01:13:55,030 --> 01:13:58,431 Yeah, if it's like... 916 01:13:58,500 --> 01:14:00,161 when you're in church or something. 917 01:14:00,235 --> 01:14:02,260 Does it happen there? 918 01:14:04,339 --> 01:14:07,570 It can happen anywhere. 919 01:14:07,643 --> 01:14:10,009 Aren't bodies strange? 920 01:14:16,885 --> 01:14:19,080 You'd better stop. 921 01:14:19,154 --> 01:14:20,621 Why? 922 01:14:26,028 --> 01:14:27,825 Sorry. 923 01:14:27,896 --> 01:14:29,386 I don't mind. 924 01:14:33,902 --> 01:14:35,870 I couldn't stop it. 925 01:14:38,907 --> 01:14:41,034 Sorry, I'm so... 926 01:14:42,077 --> 01:14:44,272 Sticky? 927 01:14:44,346 --> 01:14:45,813 We both are. 928 01:14:53,689 --> 01:14:55,156 You're beautiful. 929 01:14:58,360 --> 01:15:00,328 I think you are, too. 930 01:15:34,663 --> 01:15:35,994 Where have you been? 931 01:15:37,399 --> 01:15:39,424 To the bathroom. 932 01:15:39,501 --> 01:15:41,833 Do you always get dressed to do that? 933 01:15:41,904 --> 01:15:44,930 It was cold. 934 01:15:45,007 --> 01:15:47,771 I looked in before, and your bed was empty. 935 01:15:47,843 --> 01:15:49,674 Where have you been? 936 01:15:49,745 --> 01:15:52,305 I went for a walk. I couldn't sleep. 937 01:15:53,849 --> 01:15:55,214 Turn around. 938 01:15:59,354 --> 01:16:01,549 Your back is filthy. 939 01:16:03,725 --> 01:16:05,192 Follow me. 940 01:16:10,365 --> 01:16:13,300 You want a milk drink or something? 941 01:16:13,368 --> 01:16:15,302 No, thank you. 942 01:16:15,370 --> 01:16:16,735 Sit down. 943 01:16:22,377 --> 01:16:24,345 Were you seeing Danny Embling? 944 01:16:29,384 --> 01:16:31,318 I heard about his fight. 945 01:16:31,386 --> 01:16:33,479 It sounded awful. 946 01:16:33,555 --> 01:16:37,184 Told Jock Blair what I thought of him for letting it happen. 947 01:16:37,259 --> 01:16:40,251 I told another friend to keep an eye on Danny. 948 01:16:40,329 --> 01:16:42,661 He can look after himself. 949 01:16:42,731 --> 01:16:44,756 Anyway, you shouldn't be running off... 950 01:16:44,833 --> 01:16:46,858 in the middle of the night to see him. 951 01:16:46,935 --> 01:16:49,130 You could be picked up by the police... 952 01:16:49,204 --> 01:16:51,035 end up being expelled. 953 01:16:55,410 --> 01:16:56,934 So... 954 01:16:58,680 --> 01:17:00,545 what did you actually do together? 955 01:17:03,919 --> 01:17:05,750 I beg your pardon? 956 01:17:08,757 --> 01:17:10,725 No. It's all right. 957 01:17:10,792 --> 01:17:12,726 You don't have to tell me. 958 01:17:16,765 --> 01:17:20,861 I think, if I liked somebody enough... 959 01:17:20,936 --> 01:17:22,870 I'd want to. 960 01:17:26,208 --> 01:17:27,573 Have you ever? 961 01:17:28,944 --> 01:17:31,071 Of course not. 962 01:17:34,516 --> 01:17:35,710 Almost? 963 01:17:38,954 --> 01:17:40,421 Well... 964 01:17:42,891 --> 01:17:46,088 do you remember the young guy who was fixing the bell tower? 965 01:17:51,199 --> 01:17:55,693 I took him a cup of tea each morning before assembly. 966 01:17:55,771 --> 01:17:59,207 I liked him, even though he never said much. 967 01:18:02,911 --> 01:18:04,378 I used to... 968 01:18:05,681 --> 01:18:09,310 close my eyes... 969 01:18:09,384 --> 01:18:11,113 and sit on a chair... 970 01:18:13,455 --> 01:18:15,719 and let him touch me all over. 971 01:18:17,259 --> 01:18:19,819 As long as he promised not to take anything off. 972 01:18:22,764 --> 01:18:26,894 I thought I was so exquisitely daring I'd almost faint. 973 01:18:26,968 --> 01:18:28,333 I'd have to sit down. 974 01:18:28,403 --> 01:18:31,600 I'd be trembling so much, my legs would've given way. 975 01:18:33,208 --> 01:18:34,766 Afterwards, I'd be reading the lesson... 976 01:18:34,843 --> 01:18:36,777 convinced all the teachers must know... 977 01:18:36,845 --> 01:18:38,278 because I was so... 978 01:18:40,148 --> 01:18:42,582 so shivery delicious all over. 979 01:18:47,122 --> 01:18:48,749 I'm amazed. 980 01:18:51,193 --> 01:18:53,821 So am I when I think of it... 981 01:18:53,895 --> 01:18:58,798 which I do most of the time, especially in maths. 982 01:19:02,637 --> 01:19:03,934 So... 983 01:19:05,741 --> 01:19:07,766 here's to risks. 984 01:19:43,378 --> 01:19:46,609 Not again. We had it on Friday, sir. 985 01:19:46,681 --> 01:19:48,114 Come on, boys. It's good food. 986 01:19:48,183 --> 01:19:49,548 Good to make you constipated, sir. 987 01:19:49,618 --> 01:19:52,109 An expert, are you, Green? 988 01:19:52,187 --> 01:19:54,018 He broke the record at Cadet camp, sir. 989 01:19:54,089 --> 01:19:55,556 What record? 990 01:19:55,624 --> 01:19:56,921 Ten days without going to the toilet, sir. 991 01:19:56,992 --> 01:19:58,584 It was the latrines, sir. They were putrid. 992 01:19:58,660 --> 01:20:00,753 - Thank you, Green. - Even the flies were fainting. 993 01:20:00,829 --> 01:20:04,697 That's enough. This is good energy food. 994 01:20:04,766 --> 01:20:06,233 That's what Embling needs. Give him heaps. 995 01:20:06,301 --> 01:20:09,532 - Why is that, Embling? - Don't know, sir. 996 01:20:09,604 --> 01:20:11,538 Looks a bit tired, don't you reckon, sir? 997 01:20:11,606 --> 01:20:14,973 Looks all right to me, apart from his black eye. 998 01:20:15,043 --> 01:20:17,841 - What are you reading, Green? - Nothing, sir. 999 01:20:17,913 --> 01:20:20,814 - Give us a look. - It's a note from my mother. 1000 01:20:20,882 --> 01:20:22,873 - Come on. - It's intensely personal. 1001 01:20:32,961 --> 01:20:34,519 What's this about? 1002 01:20:34,596 --> 01:20:39,431 "Embling scored last night with Lubra lips." 1003 01:20:39,501 --> 01:20:40,934 Who's Lubra lips? 1004 01:20:42,237 --> 01:20:43,670 Don't know, sir. 1005 01:20:43,738 --> 01:20:45,330 What are you burning for, Embling? 1006 01:20:45,407 --> 01:20:47,500 Shut up. You wouldn't know what scoring was. 1007 01:20:47,576 --> 01:20:51,512 Perhaps you can tell us what it is, Bourke. 1008 01:20:51,580 --> 01:20:54,845 Lubra lips is what we call Fedderson. 1009 01:20:54,916 --> 01:20:57,885 Played Embling at table tennis. Lost 21- love. 1010 01:20:59,154 --> 01:21:02,453 That's very ingenious for you, Bourke. 1011 01:21:19,541 --> 01:21:21,634 I'll see you in my office, Green. 1012 01:21:25,447 --> 01:21:28,177 I had the longest letter yet today from Gilby. 1013 01:21:28,250 --> 01:21:29,877 Twenty- three pages. 1014 01:21:29,951 --> 01:21:31,782 It's like "Wuthering Heights." 1015 01:21:31,853 --> 01:21:33,878 I'll bet Heathcliff had a long tongue. 1016 01:21:38,860 --> 01:21:42,387 Miss Anderson wants to see you in her office right away! 1017 01:21:44,299 --> 01:21:45,732 This is Dr. Pierce... 1018 01:21:45,800 --> 01:21:48,735 a colleague of your father's from the university. 1019 01:21:48,803 --> 01:21:50,737 Apparently, your father was arrested... 1020 01:21:50,805 --> 01:21:52,864 shortly after he arrived. 1021 01:21:52,941 --> 01:21:54,499 What's happened to him? 1022 01:21:54,576 --> 01:21:56,942 I spoke briefly to your mother this morning. 1023 01:21:57,012 --> 01:21:58,172 The line was very bad. 1024 01:21:58,246 --> 01:22:01,807 The situation's confused, but we think he's all right. 1025 01:22:01,883 --> 01:22:03,976 I have to go back. 1026 01:22:04,052 --> 01:22:07,112 There's nothing to be gained by doing that. 1027 01:22:07,188 --> 01:22:10,351 You'll only be putting yourself in danger. 1028 01:22:10,425 --> 01:22:12,859 My stepmother could also be arrested. 1029 01:22:12,928 --> 01:22:14,862 She's a writer, too. 1030 01:22:14,930 --> 01:22:16,864 And there's my brother and sister. 1031 01:22:16,932 --> 01:22:18,365 They're nine and ten. 1032 01:22:18,433 --> 01:22:20,867 We've requested the Department of Foreign Affairs... 1033 01:22:20,936 --> 01:22:23,404 to inquire into your father's safety. 1034 01:22:24,839 --> 01:22:26,466 I have to go. 1035 01:22:33,114 --> 01:22:35,275 I can't get a flight until the day after... 1036 01:22:35,350 --> 01:22:37,443 but I'm not telling them that. 1037 01:22:37,519 --> 01:22:39,316 Miss Anderson thinks I'm leaving tomorrow. 1038 01:22:48,263 --> 01:22:49,821 Yeah, I understand. 1039 01:22:59,741 --> 01:23:01,072 Come on, girls! 1040 01:23:01,142 --> 01:23:02,439 Hold it! 1041 01:23:03,712 --> 01:23:05,475 That's good! 1042 01:23:05,547 --> 01:23:07,412 We'll miss you terribly. 1043 01:23:07,482 --> 01:23:09,848 You have to write at least every week. 1044 01:23:11,319 --> 01:23:14,948 Hurry up, Thandiwe. The train leaves in half an hour. 1045 01:23:23,331 --> 01:23:25,856 You know you're leaving against my advice. 1046 01:23:25,934 --> 01:23:28,266 We have no embassy in your country. 1047 01:23:28,336 --> 01:23:29,769 The Foreign Affairs Department... 1048 01:23:29,838 --> 01:23:31,772 says you can contact the British Legation... 1049 01:23:31,840 --> 01:23:33,273 if you need any help. 1050 01:23:33,341 --> 01:23:34,672 Thank you. 1051 01:23:34,743 --> 01:23:37,473 We do wish you a safe journey. 1052 01:23:47,956 --> 01:23:53,292 I don't think Fate is a creature or a lady... 1053 01:23:53,361 --> 01:23:56,762 like some people say. 1054 01:23:56,831 --> 01:23:59,231 It's a tide of events sweeping us along. 1055 01:24:01,870 --> 01:24:02,962 But I'm not a fatalist... 1056 01:24:03,038 --> 01:24:05,939 because I believe you can swim against it... 1057 01:24:06,007 --> 01:24:10,341 and sometimes grasp the hands of the clock face... 1058 01:24:10,412 --> 01:24:13,040 and steal a few precious minutes. 1059 01:24:14,983 --> 01:24:18,248 If you don't... 1060 01:24:18,319 --> 01:24:20,617 you're just cartwheeled along. 1061 01:24:20,688 --> 01:24:24,920 Before you know it, the magic opportunity's lost. 1062 01:24:24,993 --> 01:24:27,587 And for the rest of your life... 1063 01:24:27,662 --> 01:24:29,027 it lingers on in that part of your mind... 1064 01:24:29,097 --> 01:24:33,397 which dreams the very best dreams... 1065 01:24:33,468 --> 01:24:36,369 taunting and tantalizing you with what might have been. 1066 01:24:58,726 --> 01:24:59,852 Name? 1067 01:24:59,928 --> 01:25:02,158 Camus. 1068 01:25:02,230 --> 01:25:05,495 - Huh? - C- a- m- u- s. 1069 01:25:08,169 --> 01:25:11,332 Room for one night with a double bed. 1070 01:25:11,406 --> 01:25:13,271 That's right. 1071 01:25:22,150 --> 01:25:23,549 Number 306. 1072 01:25:27,589 --> 01:25:29,250 Thanks. 1073 01:25:54,249 --> 01:25:56,217 Should keep the world out. 1074 01:25:58,153 --> 01:25:59,620 Here we are. 1075 01:26:13,768 --> 01:26:15,235 Guess what I've got. 1076 01:26:18,373 --> 01:26:20,603 Nicola made herself look about twenty- five... 1077 01:26:20,675 --> 01:26:22,336 went out and got it for me. 1078 01:26:22,410 --> 01:26:23,968 Nicola Radcliffe? 1079 01:26:41,896 --> 01:26:44,228 I often think how all of us... 1080 01:26:44,299 --> 01:26:46,631 were going through the normal grubby business... 1081 01:26:46,701 --> 01:26:49,192 of school and growing up... 1082 01:26:50,805 --> 01:26:52,466 while the most incredible things... 1083 01:26:52,540 --> 01:26:53,700 were happening in her world... 1084 01:26:55,877 --> 01:27:00,246 but she liked me enough to do this... 1085 01:27:00,315 --> 01:27:01,942 to say good- bye. 1086 01:27:06,921 --> 01:27:09,856 It's Dr. Pierce from the university on the phone. 1087 01:27:09,924 --> 01:27:11,721 She wants to speak to Thandiwe. 1088 01:27:11,793 --> 01:27:15,092 I told her she'd gone, and now she wants to talk to you. 1089 01:27:24,505 --> 01:27:26,803 But she's not leaving tomorrow. 1090 01:27:26,874 --> 01:27:30,241 She left on the train this afternoon. 1091 01:27:30,311 --> 01:27:32,939 So much for this food- poisoning business. 1092 01:27:33,014 --> 01:27:35,505 Embling hasn't been to the dispensary. 1093 01:27:35,583 --> 01:27:39,519 So it looks like he's with this African girl. 1094 01:27:39,587 --> 01:27:41,578 She's changed her train ticket to tomorrow... 1095 01:27:41,656 --> 01:27:43,681 so they're probably still in the area. 1096 01:27:43,758 --> 01:27:45,919 Lubra lips. 1097 01:27:45,994 --> 01:27:47,985 Nothing. 1098 01:27:48,062 --> 01:27:50,622 Having kittens over at Cirencester. 1099 01:27:50,698 --> 01:27:55,567 Don't want to tell the police. Cause the most terrible row. 1100 01:27:55,637 --> 01:27:59,038 There can't be too many hotels in this town. 1101 01:30:12,373 --> 01:30:14,307 You'd better get dressed. 1102 01:30:15,743 --> 01:30:17,574 Hurry up. 1103 01:30:17,645 --> 01:30:20,341 Will you pass me my clothes, please? 1104 01:30:25,987 --> 01:30:30,253 Get dressed in the bathroom, for goodness sake. 1105 01:30:51,078 --> 01:30:54,673 Your parents will be very disappointed in you. 1106 01:30:54,749 --> 01:30:56,944 Seems like you haven't learned very much at all... 1107 01:30:57,018 --> 01:30:58,815 while you've been with us. 1108 01:31:16,604 --> 01:31:18,629 Aren't they all funny? 1109 01:31:18,706 --> 01:31:19,968 Aren't they? 1110 01:31:21,776 --> 01:31:24,074 I think we'd better go. 1111 01:31:24,145 --> 01:31:25,612 Yes. I'm ready. 1112 01:32:11,392 --> 01:32:14,122 You keep this half of the world going. 1113 01:32:14,195 --> 01:32:16,095 You look after the other! 1114 01:32:41,122 --> 01:32:44,990 I realized I hadn't any idea what she'd gone back to. 1115 01:32:46,694 --> 01:32:48,628 Her letters came every week. 1116 01:32:48,696 --> 01:32:52,792 She told me about an army officer called Idi Amin... 1117 01:32:52,867 --> 01:32:56,303 and how her stepmother had disappeared... 1118 01:32:56,370 --> 01:32:58,463 and she was looking after her brother and sister. 1119 01:33:00,274 --> 01:33:03,334 We read in the papers her father had been executed. 1120 01:33:12,753 --> 01:33:14,778 Then the letters stopped. 1121 01:33:27,602 --> 01:33:29,832 After I was expelled... 1122 01:33:29,904 --> 01:33:34,068 I went back home and worked in my dad's pub. 1123 01:33:37,678 --> 01:33:40,238 I was a bit like a sleepwalker. 1124 01:33:40,314 --> 01:33:42,009 Here you go. Kev. 1125 01:33:42,083 --> 01:33:44,711 The old town hardly seemed real anymore. 1126 01:33:47,221 --> 01:33:49,086 I spent my time writing to embassies... 1127 01:33:49,156 --> 01:33:51,181 and government ministers... 1128 01:33:51,258 --> 01:33:52,725 even the prime minister. 1129 01:33:54,762 --> 01:33:57,663 But mostly... 1130 01:33:57,732 --> 01:33:59,757 I concentrated. 1131 01:34:04,205 --> 01:34:07,333 An ether surrounds the world... 1132 01:34:07,408 --> 01:34:10,639 washing over us all the time... 1133 01:34:10,711 --> 01:34:13,737 and all sorts of messages get transmitted through it. 1134 01:34:16,117 --> 01:34:21,180 I had this dread I'd suddenly know she'd gone. 1135 01:34:21,255 --> 01:34:25,589 I spent most of the time willing her to be all right... 1136 01:34:25,660 --> 01:34:28,493 sending... 1137 01:34:28,562 --> 01:34:30,325 love, I suppose. 1138 01:34:32,099 --> 01:34:35,227 That word neither of us had used because... 1139 01:34:35,302 --> 01:34:37,566 we were both too cool for that. 1140 01:35:18,279 --> 01:35:21,043 "Danny... 1141 01:35:21,115 --> 01:35:25,211 "we're in Nairobi now and finally safe. 1142 01:35:25,286 --> 01:35:28,380 "A lot of things have happened. 1143 01:35:28,456 --> 01:35:32,756 "I'm very different to how I was when you last knew me... 1144 01:35:32,827 --> 01:35:34,624 "but I'm waiting for the time... 1145 01:35:34,695 --> 01:35:40,531 "we'll sit down together and look into each other's eyes. 1146 01:35:40,601 --> 01:35:44,196 "I look forward to that time more than I can say." 1147 01:35:58,285 --> 01:36:00,253 Suddenly... 1148 01:36:00,321 --> 01:36:03,688 there were much bigger worlds again... 1149 01:36:03,758 --> 01:36:06,727 and some small place in them for me.