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- [Doctor] Okay, take
a seat for me there.

- [Micky] Let's see, how
do you want to check?

- [Doctor] What do
you want me to check?

- I want you to check if
they're working properly.

- [Doctor] Okay, sure.

- You talk in an ordinary voice.

- Okay, sure.

How did you get to
the hospital today?

- I don't get to
the hospital today.

Now, that's all right.

Uh, now talk in
your ordinary voice.

- Are you going to have
lunch in the canteen today?

- I can't hear anything.

- Okay, sure.

- Is that good or bad?

- That's okay seein' as you
haven't got your hearing aid in.

- I can't really hear you.

- [Doctor] Have you been exposed

to loud noises during your life?

- [Micky] To what?

- Have you been exposed to
loud noises during your life?

- In my life?
- Yes.

- Yes, this is why I have
an allowance from the army.

- That's right.

- I was blown up.

- [Doctor] I do, yes.

- [Doctor] The Tirpitz?

- [Doctor] What a
fantastic story.

What's your secret?

- What's my what?

- [Doctor] What's your secret?

- My feet?

- [Doctor] Secret,
for long life.

- Always being in love.

- [Doctor] Ah.

- With either
someone or something.

And always enthusiastic
about something.

Committed to something.

There it is.

Teeth.

- [Interviewer] When was the
last time you went on a trip?

- Last time I went
on a trip. (chuckles)

A very long time ago.

On a serious trip,
a long time ago.

Like this...

A trip, you mean for a
fortnight or something.

Oh God.

Years.

Years and years.

(wind whipping)

Hello.

- Hi again.
- Yeah.

(men chattering)

- That's it, let yourself down.

- You've been there
several times, have you?

To St. Nazaire.
- No, I've never

been to St. Nazaire,
but I've been--

- To other places.

St. Nazaire is a bit of
a gloomy place itself.

- I don't much about it.

Is it?

- But Poland's nice.
- Right.

- Is it, it's a port,
though, isn't it?

- It's a port.

We destroyed it.

- [Mark] (chuckles) Yes.

- Loads of my friends
were killed in the raid.

- [Man] The sea
spray, wasn't it?

- It's a very emotional
occasion always.

- [Mark] And I think
especially for you,

but also for the French as well.

- Oh, the French very much.

- [Neil] We'll get airborne,
we'll talk to Valley.

We'll see if we can
get them to let us go

to Strumble direct.

If not, we're gonna have
to cut across, mate,

down towards Carter.

- As you come in to St. Nazaire
will we go up the Loire?

The river?
- Yes.

- Oh, that'll be amazing
if good visibility.

- We're going to try.
- And the way,

to see the way we
actually came in.

(engine rumbling)

- [Mark] That was wind
on the props and that.

- [Neil] Yeah, it looks
all honky dory, mate.

Shall we?

- [Mark] Whiskey is rolling.

(mumbles)'s good, p's and
t's and the speed is rising.

Gonna get to that
70 knots (mumbles).

(pilot mumbles)

(hands clapping)
* For he's a jolly good fellow

* For he's a jolly good fellow

* For he's a jolly good fellow

(men laughing)
* Which nobody can deny

- [Man] You ready?

Tell 'em to sing (mumbles).

(Micky grunts)

- Not one's gone out.

- Quite happy--
- They're almost,

they're almost.
- Come on, come on.

(man mumbles)

(men blowing)

Oh yeah, very civilized.
(man clapping)

- [Man] There you are,
Statue of Liberty.

- Now I'll put my teeth back in.

(man laughing)

(cork pops)

- Whoa!
- Whoops.

Cheers, Micky.

Many happy returns.

- Many happy returns.
- Cheers.

- Thank you.
- Cheers.

- Thank you.

I can't.

- [Man] You have to, you must.

- I really can't.
- You must.

Come on.

- [Woman] Where are you
going to aim it for me?

(group laughing)

- Forgive me.

(group laughs)

Look at that.

Oh, we must make a good program
of this, we really must.

- [Man] Yes, we have to, Micky.

That's--
- How? How?

No, I'm not worthy of it.

I haven't done nearly enough.

I must invent a few things.

- [Man] I shouldn't
say that if I was you.

- The story, what is the plot?

- We don't have a plot yet.

There are too many plots.

- Too many.

- [James] We're going to have

to spend about a month here.

- Well, I hope so.

That's what I feel to
get the real story.

- To go through--
- I was wondering

what the story would be
that I'd make about myself.

I think it could be a major
comic character, really.

But not entirely.

- [James] Satirical character.

- Satirical character.

Not satirical in his
own eyes. (chuckles)

But it could be, some
of it is so ridiculous.

- [James] Well, improbable.

You led an improbable life.

- [Man] It was what
I was meant to do.

- Never going sufficiently
in any camp, I think,

enough to be
identified with them.

- [James] That's the problem.

- Yes.

- [James] That's
the problem for us.

- Except by those who just
think I'm a name dropper.

- Yes.
- Like the reviewer

in the Telegraph

who just said that I met

all the right people
at the right moment,

and he seems to have
known everybody.

- [James] Yes, but that
doesn't necessarily mean

you're a name dropper.

- No, it doesn't, no.
- It just means you were

in the right place

at the right time.
- That's all, by accident.

- [James] Which you
were in the cities.

- It was quite by chance.

- [James] Yes, you
were quite fortunate.

(upbeat music)

(birds and insects chirping)

- [Micky] Look for something
else, Jim, I'll find it

because I know what
it looks like so well.

- [James] Okay, that's fine.

That's a curious place here.

Hard to think by
the 20 year's time

I'd have gone
through all of this.

- It's very baffling, I
must say, for anybody.

I am sorry about this.

I put it somewhere
special, you know.

- [James] That's all right.

- Know its exact color, though.

- [James] You see, if you'd
been sorting things out

then that's fatal.

* We are climbing Jacob's ladder

* We are climbing Jacob's ladder

* We are climbing Jacob's ladder

* These soldiers in this fight

(Jim chuckles)

- [James] Well,
it's okay, Micky.

We're here for four days.

- [James] You're kidding me.

- Here it is.
- Fantastic.

- You see?
- Excellent.

- Don't pretend.

- Oh, perfect.

Perfect, Micky.

- [James] All we're going to do

is just look at
some of the photos.

- Yeah, okay.
- And then I'll

write down what they are.

- Yeah, I will.

- Then if there are any
stories behind them...

- Yes.

- Yes, you'd have
to get permission

to use things like that.

- It's the family ones

that are very nice.

I initially thought that was
here, but it's not is it?

Unless that's when you
were developing the place.

- Do you know I've
never seen it.

- [James] Haven't you?

- Could be Mary possibly.

I don't know.
- Oh, it's you and Mary.

This is definitely you.

- That's me.

- [James] The seat behind
you says Canadian Pacific.

- I love that.

- [James] That's you on
the royal tour, isn't it?

- Yes, it is.

- I met Micky Burn
in the basement

of the Special
Forces Club in London

way back in 1990 when I
was researching a book

about his Commando days.

I was introduced to this bevy

of rather mature
looking fierce gentlemen

whose duty that day was
to decided whether or not

I was a suitable candidate
for their personal histories.

And it seems that
one of the people

I impressed most was Micky Burn.

And then he invited
me to come out here

to spend a weekend with him.

My approach at that
time was to find out

about his days in the
army, but over the course

of the weekend, I got to
realize that there was

a much more complex
individual there,

someone who had within
the scope of his life

virtually a complete
history of the 20th century.

Most of the other men had
the raid to talk about

or their days in the Commandos,

but there wasn't that
much before or since.

Whereas you realized
that the Commando episode

was really quite a
small one in a life

of significant episodes.

(Mark and air traffic
controller chattering)

- [Air Traffic Controller] And
likewise we've got the 1015.

Any other ways you
want me to check on?

- [Mark] Stand by Whiskers.

- Can you remember what sort

of plane it was?

- 1939.

- Wow.

- Wonderful.

25 below.

Do we approach it?

- [Mark] Not enough, not enough.

(Micky humming)

1-7.

In fact, no, make it 1-8-0.

We had some drift there.

- [Neil] Yeah, it's
in another 30 miles.

So that's 50 on...

- [Neil] No, no,
no, add 30 miles.

- [Mark] Oh, add 30 miles.

- [Air Traffic
Controller] (mumbles) 105.

(mumbles) to Blackpool.

- [Neil] Stand by to turn.

- When anybody asks
me what he does,

you know when I'm
describing Micky,

I say he's a poet, a writer.

He's been in Colditz,
seasoned travelers,

been all over Europe,

but I always think
him first as a poet.

- Yeah, go on, run, run,
run, run, run, run, run.

(Micky chuckles)

- [James] After the war when
Micky moved to North Wales,

ostensibly it was
to be a writer.

I think it was only
when he came here

he began to think of
himself as a poet.

And I think he found a
great deal of comfort

in being able to use
the mechanics of poetry

to record the various
episodes in his life.

(soft orchestral music)

(book slamming shut)

- [Mark] There's the river.

- Yes. Yeah.
- That's where you went up.

- [Micky] This is
the way we came in.

- Yup.
- Yup.

(speaking in foreign language)

- [Air Traffic Control Operator]
Whiskey, whiskey, report--

- [Mark] Officer whiskey, wilco.

- [Mark] Destroy that, yeah.

- [Mark] It does, doesn't it?

I was certainly expecting
it to be much bigger.

- [Micky] Before the
war at St. Nazaire

on the French Atlantic
coast, the biggest dock

in the world was built to house

the biggest ship in the world,

the French Atlantic
liner, Normandy.

In 1940, the Germans
occupied St. Nazaire

and fortified the dock.

In 1942 on the night
of March the 27th,

600 British sailors
and commanders

sailed in to destroy it.

This Normandy dock, over
a thousand feet long,

was the only one on
the Atlantic coast

huge enough to accommodate
the German battleship Tirpitz.

In January 1942,

Winston Churchill wrote,
"The whole strategy

"of the war turns at this
period on this ship."

If it should join the
U-boats in the Atlantic,

which had already
sunk millions of tons

of Allied shipping, but it could
be starved into submission.

The use of the dock for
repairs and maintenance

had to be denied the Tirpitz.

Some of us who did

the denying returned
here 32 years later.

So many died, so many
lives were changed.

It certainly changed my life.

I started out a Commando captain

and ended up a
prisoner in Colditz

with plenty of time to think.

The plan, Operation Chariot,
sounded frighteningly simple.

Load an old destroyer with
delayed action explosives,

sail her to St.
Nazaire, and ram her

into the dock gate at night.

Then about dawn, while a
flotilla of little ships

brought us home,
she would blow up,

taking the dock gate with her.

The old entrance
torpedoed by (mumbles).

The Old Mole, lethal to so many.

The colossal U-boat pins.

The huge dry dock
gates, 54 feet high,

35 thick, 167 across.

Huge, yes, but then suddenly
an incredibly small target

after sailing 450 miles.

- [Neil] Guys, keep it
on this track, mate.

- [Micky] We're
just above it now.

- [Mark] We can keep that
lighthouse in as well.

(water lapping)
(seagulls squawking)

- [Man] Foreign
decoration should be

at the end.
- The what?

You doctors?

- Foreign decorations
should be--

- What is it?

- Should it be first?

- Is that?

Now wait a minute.

- Yours is on the left.
- Yes.

Yours is the wrong way around.

- [Micky] It is the
wrong way around.

- Your military cross

should be in front.

- Your military cross

should be there.

- I know, I know.

- I was told it would be done

by Micky.

(speaking in foreign language)

Don't worry, Micky,
I'll wear them tomorrow.

I'm not gonna wear them today.

Oh well, your good health.

(speaking in foreign language)

- We're all very idealistic.
- Yes, we are.

Yes, Micky.

- I was on the small boat

for a very short
time then I jumped.

Campbeltown was one
of 50 ancient craft

the United States had
given us in exchange

for bases in the Caribbean.

Her funnels were cut back
to make to make her look

in the dark more like
a German warship.

Packed under
Cambeltown's forward gun

were five tons of explosive

consisting of 24 depth
charges in six sections

hidden in concrete.

The pencil fuses, which
had a delay of eight hours,

were concealed in the hollowed
out leg of a mess room table.

The rest of the Commandos would
go in wooden motor launches,

which they knew with
next to no protection

against gunfire and with
extra fuel tanks on deck,

could become deathtraps.

By day, to bluff German
reconnaissance planes,

we would cruise in the formation

of an empty submarine sweep.

On March the 27th,
Admiral Karl Donitz went

to inspect his U-boats
at St. Nazaire.

At that very moment we
were well on our way.

- Another question,
important question.

Is there a reason for you three,

the reason why you decided
to involve in this operation?

- We were tired of waiting
for the Germans to attack us

and we felt that we
should attack them,

and therefore we
volunteered to join.

- [Micky] At half past
midnight we entered

the estuary and advanced
across the sandbanks.

We could smell the countryside.

15 minutes to go.

A searchlight stabbed
the darkness behind us

and then incredibly went out.

On we sailed.

- We all were, yes.

- Have you sometimes (speaking
in foreign language) asked

if you were
frightened by moment.

- The only thing I
was frightened of

was showing fear
in front of my men.

We were too busy
when we got started.

No time to be frightened.

(speaking in foreign language)

- And then I gave the
order for all the guns

to open the firing.

(explosions booming)

- [Micky] With every enemy
light and gun on her,

and everyone onboard
bracing himself for the ram,

she tore through
the torpedo nets

and with our white ensign flying

while our guns firing,
her bough smoking,

she hit the dock gates
dead center with such force

that her boughs
buckled 36 feet back.

The explosive charge lay
right against the gates.

It was 34 minutes past one.

She was four minutes late.

- [Bill] Now, we're right
on target, now it's our job.

We've gotta get out to this

so-called ship as
quickly as possible.

Here go the protection parties,

Roy off, Roderick off,
the demolition parties.

- [Micky] I was on Lieutenant
Commander Stephens's launch.

It received a direct hit.

At blaze and out of control,
it drifted downstream.

Corporal Arthur Young
pulled me ashore.

I was the only one to
land who wasn't wounded.

- What did you do before
the Second World War?

Your job, your...

- [Reporter] You were in Berlin.

- No. (speaking in
foreign language)

- Why did you met Adolf Hitler?

(speaking in foreign language)

- I'm ashamed of it.

(reporters chattering)

- I have a little
present for you.

This is you.

- Oh no!

(everyone chattering)

(cameras clicking)

Oh (speaking in foreign
language) to you.

10 o'clock, Campbeltown's
deadline was long past.

No explosion, the lock
gate still intact.

The Germans boarded
her, searched her,

and found only their flag.

- [Commando] At that
moment there was a bang

and we heard this
terrific explosion,

which could be none other
than six tons of amatol.

- [Micky] Over a hundred
of the occupying Germans,

looters and souvenir
hunters, were killed

in and around Campbeltown
when she blew up.

More troops arrived to
ferret out the rest of us

from our hiding places.

They began to
bring in prisoners.

Among them, many who had
spent the small hours

clinging to the wreckage of
their MLs in the icy sea.

(men chattering)

The round up was in full swing.

There's Corporal Author
Young in the white sweater

who saved my life.

I hid in the engine
room on one of the boats

in the submarine basin
with rifleman Paddy Bush.

We hoped we might get
away from there later,

but we were caught
in the morning

and we were marched
through the streets

with bayonets stuck
into our backs

by German guards and
with our hands up.

And I was very conscious
that we were being filmed,

and it struck me that this film

was a propaganda film
and it might possibly

get back to British
Intelligence,

so I put my hands up
with my fingers like this

in the shape of the V sign
and I believe that this sign

did in fact get back
to British Intelligence

and was taken to mean that
the raid had been a success.

(speaking in foreign language)

After perhaps a week.

(speaking in foreign language)

She had them enlarged

(speaking in foreign language)

- [Reporter] Audrey Hepburn?

- Uh-huh, Hepburn. Oh!

(speaking in foreign language)

Yes, yes, of course, of course.

(speaking in foreign language)

- That's the story,
I can't help it.

(speaking in foreign language)

- [Woman] Incredible.

(speaking in foreign language)

(cameras clicking)

- [James] You ready?

- Yes, of course.

(projector rumbling)

- [James] There we go.

- [James] That's right.

- [James] Ah.

(James chuckles)

- That's good of Mary, isn't it?

- [James] It's excellent, yes.

It's what, 40 years
since you've seen these?

- [Micky] Yes, it is.

- [James] Good heavens.

Oh, is this cleaning the
mussels, Micky? (mumbles)

- [Micky] Yes it is.

- [James] Well I can see
where the money went.

That's quite a lot of equipment.

- Dave.

- It's very difficult
to know whether she knew

quite what she was
getting into with him.

I think it would be

madness to think
that she wasn't aware

of his...

his bisexuality.

It's such a tricky
area, I think,

within a relationship
because there's no indication

in Micky's life that
he was a bisexual.

To me it seems quite clear
that he was a gay man

who fell in love with
and married a woman

and had a fantastic marriage.

- He adored Mary, but he
wasn't in love with her.

And it was this great
conflict for him

that he was in a way
repelled by women's bodies

but absolutely was enthralled
with Mary's beauty.

So it was a bit of a
conflict for him, I think.

The thing that really,
really traumatized him

over and over again
and we'd talk about it

over and over again,
was how he couldn't

make love to her, you see.

And he said she knew how.

And I'd say to Micky, "Micky,
that's a great triumph,

"isn't it?"

And he'd sit there
weeping, you know.

It was a great,
great sadness for him

that she didn't
actually turn him on

if you know what I mean.

(birds and insects chirping)

- This is the Enchanted Ground.

This is nice, isn't it?

That was 35 years ago.

(James and Micky chattering)

- [James] Not as many steps.

You're not the only one, Micky.

* Da da dee da da da da da

* Da da dee da da da da da

* Da da dee da da de da

* Da da dee da da

(singing in foreign language)

(sheep bleats)

I've often thought
that someone else

might some day feel
the way I've felt

and say so after
I am dead in words

or phrases I once made.

And now that I've tried to
guess which words they'd be

and what the cause,
that when at last

the moment came it had
not been in any dream.

In the green color
bern of hills,

the sand, the surf,
and the sky in Wales.

We came upon a little town,

so sky reflecting, taciturn.

So white, expectant,
and enchanted,

an airstrip for a magic carpet.

It seemed that all
the western myths

had risen from its peaty depths.

Three boat lengths they
coil round the shore,

the waterlilies were in
flower and the kingcups

thrust their yellow heads

between the blue
glass of the reeds.

And looking at that lake I
felt a century or two annulled

and other men would
one day be as I was.

That and every day with her
beside me then and living.

Beside me still.

Though lost, still loving,

still lovely, still
beloved, still giving.

The longing tugging at my heart.

It tugged at people in the past

and pointed many unborn
people to utter thanks

and be unable.

- [Producer] Do you
feel that the other men

were braver than you?

- Yes, I do.

I think they were more...

- [Producer] So,
you were shot where?

It's horrible, isn't
it, the whole thing.

Tiger?

- The bridge, yes.

- Down there
somewhere, wasn't it?

- Yes, I think so.

I'm disorientated, actually.

It was bad enough in the
dark on the day. (chuckles)

- I know.

I don't recognize anything.

Do you?
- No. (chuckles)

- Except this is
staggering, the size of it.

- [Bill] Yeah, I do
remember that this

was our primary objective.

- Primary objective, yes.

Oh, my God, just think.

We crashed into this.

It's unbelievable,

isn't it though?

- We got down the
scaling ladders

off the side of Campbeltown.

We were carrying these big
Bergen rucksacks on our backs

with our explosives in
them and then we just

doubled along from where
we got off the ship

down to where we saw our
winding house, which was there.

All the machinery on the docks,

we had destroyed
that completely.

And of course, Campbeltown
when it blew up,

that buggered up the whole
of the dock gate there.

- It caused absolute mayhem
because they were panicked.

They didn't know what
was gonna happen next.

- We all think if we
had a second destroyer,

if they'd only
done that we might

have had a chance of
getting back to England.

And then we'd have
probably been killed

either at the (mumbles) on D-Day

I should think, wouldn't we?

- Bullets seemed to have
a fatal attraction for me,

German bullets. (laughs)

- Not only German bullets.

I've had others, too.

They like me and you.

We had a lot of
casualties on this bridge,

a lot of people killed on it.

- It always brings back to me,

you should have
done better, Watson.

You know, I wasn't
satisfied with my role.

I should've done better.

- [Bill] Balls,
you did okay, boy.

- I could've reloaded
and done more damage,

but I'm not sure now
that I like the idea

of killing other
people, you know.

- Go on, you loved it. (laughs)

No, I just think we're all
bloody lucky, that's all.

When I think of all
the wonderful boys

who were killed on the
raid and we're just

so bloody lucky to
have been spared.

- What I never want to hear
again is people being burned.

- Those wooden MLs with
the octane fuel tanks

for the journey back, they
just went up like torches.

I mean, the river, you
know, was just flaming

and there chaps, if
they weren't drowned,

they were burned to
death or both, you know.

- People didn't
have the resources,

I mean we just didn't have
the resources in 1942.

(camera clicks)

- Thank you.
- I think we're done.

- (mumbles) men, thank you.
- Thank you.

- [Producer] Go ahead, guys.

- [Bill] I don't know about you,

but I'll be glad when
this parade's over.

- [James] I think you'd
started one for me.

- I did I got, he got one.

- [James] It just said "James"

and then it stopped.

- [James] But you
didn't send it.

- [James] (chuckles) Okay.

Okay?

- Yes.
- All right.

- [James] All you have to
do is click on here, Micky.

- I did that.

- [James] Because the message

is already there.

Um, subject.

- [James] It just
takes practice.

(Micky laughing)
- Who is this person?

(Micky laughs)
- Me?

- [James] Well, that's
the plan, Micky.

- Yeah.
- That's the plan.

- [James] It's very, very tight.

- It's like a humidor, Micky.

It's very, very tight.

You have to use a knife to...

- [James] I've put it on too
tightly, that's what it is.

- [James] Don't hold it

by the top or it will fall off.

Almost.

(Micky laughs)

Micky, you were

a Commando once.
- I can't.

(Micky laughing)

- [James] Now, you
just push your finger

through that one.

- [James] Go on, just
a big stab at it.

- [James] That's all right,

you lose everything
else, Micky, so...

- [James] Oh, laughing is good.

(Micky and James laugh)

- [James] That is a good one.

Fill it up

- [Micky] My shadow.

- [James] Now, we'll
just leave you in there.

- [Micky] Yeah, that's right.

- [James] We can poke fun.

- [Micky] Oh yes, my goodness.

- [James] They're perfectly
ripe, aren't they?

Just be careful.

- Look at that.

I bet I look old and
tired and peevish.

(Micky grunts)

- [James] I don't know if
I could do that, Micky.

(Micky chuckles)
Careful.

(Micky grunts)

That's it, you're
out of Colditz now.

(Micky grunting)

(upbeat rock music)

(Micky grunting)

* Shine

* Shine like a revolution, man

* Shine like a river now

* Shine like a revolution, babe

* Shine like a river

* Like a river, man

(sheep bleating)

- It's fairly normal
for people to keep

what they would consider
to be important documents

in their life.

Micky didn't distinguish.

It starts from the
year dot from the time

Micky first appeared and
continued to the present day.

He threw nothing away.

Not only did he manage to
keep all the, for instance,

the letters that came to him,

somehow he managed to get a hold

of the letters that he had
sent to people by and large.

So we have this complete
kind of two way archive

of his life and his wife Mary's.

I think he was very
concerned about his legacy,

and a great deal of
his legacy is tied up

in the files and
personal letters.

And to have it simply
go into storage

or be thrown out simply
wasn't Micky's idea.

He wanted to leave it
to people he thought

would make use of it,
and in making use of it

they would continue to
keep Micky Burn alive.

It was when I was with
Micky in the isolation

of North Wales that
I began to realize

that he had had
contacts with Hitler

and with people like
the Mitford sisters.

That he'd been a society person,

that his father
had been knighted

and his mother was Lady Burn.

That they'd lived

just across from
Buckingham Palace

and that was where his dad
went to work every day.

That he knew the king
and he had also had

an affair with Guy Burgess.

At that time, in 1990
he wasn't quite so open

about his sexuality, but
he later on published

his own autobiography,
Turned Toward The Sun,

and essentially came
out in that book.

- Was that Spence?

- [James] Not at all.

(rain pattering)

I met him at a
party at Cambridge.

I'd left Oxford and

Oh no!

Oh, I remember him,
Peter Harkness.

He was in my troop.

I knew him quite
well, Burtinshaw.

This is all our lot.

Oh no.

Oh, waste.

Oh oh oh!

(Deborah chattering)

- [Micky] At last, at last.

- What are we to say?

- I know, old fair.

- Have you (mumbles)?

You look exactly like you
did 40 or 50, 100 years ago.

- At least 75 years.

- 75 years.
(Micky chuckles)

Quite a long time.

- Oh, it's just so
nice to see you.

- [Deborah] We can.

- [Deborah] Look out, this
is all getting rotten.

- I've got a thing
called aid call.

Have you not got one?

- A what?

- Aid call.

- No.

- When the murderer comes in

you press it, hard.

And then telephones ring.

- When I first
came to your house,

is there the
visitor's book here?

- Yes, we've got it.

- Well, don't worry about it.

- [Deborah] It's on that
little table under the lamp.

- What year was it?

- Thank you.
- Oh, I must look and see.

- There you are, loud as life.

It's very nice to have your
name in the book, 1934.

- Nice for me.

- Oh are you?

- I've just written my memoirs

and it ought to have
been called Namedropping

because that's
exactly what it is.

- No, no, it is.

But I happened to be
among some of the names

that are easily dropped.

I mean, just luck.

But it would have been

quite a long title--

(Micky and Deborah laugh)

- But I'm afraid you
will have to stop.

- Bobo Unity, yes.

- Unity.

- But the thing was,
to see that Germany,

which was just
such a tragic place

with nothing to eat and
all that wild inflation

that they had and
the utter misery

of having been beaten,

and all of these
- Yeah, yeah.

- proud people and then
to see it being lifted up

by its socks, you know,
and suddenly becoming

sure of itself again.

- Yes.

- I think they were
terribly impressed by that.

- Well that's what
impressed me, too.

- It would've impressed
anybody if you'd seen it.

- I was completely
taken by the photo.

- But you know, they
go on about Unity

but there were heaps
of English girls

who were sent there
to learn German.

- Yes.

- She wasn't the only
one and they were all

absolutely fascinated.

I think the other thing
that people forget

from years afterwards,
was how close

the walls were together
and how the people

who remembered the 14-18 War,

it's full horror.
- Absolutely, yes.

- To think that in
less than 20 years

the whole thing was
going to begin again

was just unbearable.

- Oh yes, you leave me
here for the moment.

I'll get my breath back.

- Yes, sit on the seat and
pretend it's comfortable.

You see, this is a
rhododendron root.

- Yes, is it?

- And so is the
whole of that fence

running up and down there,

it's all dead rhododendron.

- No, no, it's dead.

- Yeah, it is.

- Like everybody else we know.

- (chuckles) Oh
no, don't say that.

- They're very shy, these.

Very stupid and very shy.

(chickens clucking)

You stay there, all of you.

(chickens clucking)

Look at the color of these eggs.

- [Micky] Oh, I say.

- Aren't they wonderful?

You don't see--
- My gracious,

I've never seen them
like that before.

- They're very
good, aren't they?

The arch clergyman
is a poultry judge

and I asked him what they need

to be good at the
shows, you see.

So he said, he
looked at me for ages

and said, "Well, they
ought to be egg shaped."

(Micky laughs)

That's all he'd tell me.

- That's very good.

(acoustic guitar music)

(speaking in foreign language)

Oh.

How extraordinary.

I would like to
see the courtyard.

The courtyard.

- The giardino?

- Yes, the giardino.

- The garden?
- Yes, the courtyard.

- But it's, now it's
winter, you know.

You have to take your time.

Come with me.
- I want to see it.

- You want to see the garden?
- Yeah.

- [Restaurant Owner] Okay,
I'll show you the garden.

- Quite different,
quite different.

There was a corner
where Hitler sat.

In the corner, and I remember
it very, very vividly.

I was very, very young.

- Very young.

- Very young.

- But you have to come this way.

You have to look, this is maybe

the corner what you say.

The corner--
- Yes, yes!

That's it.

That's it.

- Do you make some
speeches a long time ago.

Already? You.

You self.

- I'm a writer.

- Ah, (speaking in
foreign language).

A writer.

- You are (speaking in foreign
language), you understand?

- [Producer] And then you
spoke to him, though, right?

- Yes.

- [Producer] She was able

to introduce you to him?

- [Producer] And
what did you say?

It's all very political
(chuckles) in the past.

- [Producer] Do you wanna go see

the rest of the restaurant?

Awful.

(train screeching)

Ah, this it, this
is the entrance.

This is it. That's the gate.

This is the way in.

I remember this.

(speaking in foreign language)

Ah!

Fucking place.

Ah!

It has been redone.

Here we are.

- Guten tag.
- Guten tag.

(speaking in foreign language)

- Hello, ya.

- Hello, (speaking in
foreign language) English?

- Yes, I do.

I'm Renate.

(speaking in foreign language)

- We moved the radio room
from there into the museum.

- I see, but can
I see the attic?

- We can.

(speaking in foreign language)

(Micky breathing heavily)

- [Regina] Want me to pause

a minute?
(speaking in foreign language)

- Oh, the attic.

Oh.

(speaking in foreign language)

Oh.

(speaking in foreign language)

- [Producer] How did you feel
when you found the paper?

- Oh!

(drill buzzing)

- [Man] The boys brought lunch.

- Oh, look. (mumbles)

* Bum bum bum bum

* Bum bum bum bum

That was the BBC call.

This is the BBC.

Colditz Castle was surrendered

to the Americans this morning.

Among those missing
were 10 hostages

all taken away by the SS whose
whereabouts is not known.

That was on the news.

An attempt was made on the
life of Herr Hitler today.

The news is not certain of
whether he is alive or dead.

The news is very sad
tonight, my friends.

I read my shorthand back,
President Roosevelt is dead.

I think the host
did that probably.

- [Producer] What would you say

as a farewell to the castle?

(bells ringing)

(Micky humming)

(foot tapping)

(birds and insect chirping)

It's the events and
pictures of the events.

The intangibles are the
things that these represent.

Tell me if I'm going
off with the point.

- [James] This all looks
tremendously impressive, Micky.

What exactly is it?

- It's meant to be a chronology
of the kinds of things

that you're hoping to
use for this documentary

of my life beginning
at my parents',

with my parents' family bible.

But here, anyhow,
is a love letter

almost exactly a
hundred years old

from my father to
my mother in 1911.

And here am I with my
beloved sister, Stella,

from when I was born.

Diplomatic (mumbles) at
the time was going around.

This is important.

There was the, the
war came to an end.

Yes, I came home and
I was met by my father

and mother and my brother.

Where have we got to?

Had a talk with her.

Took here name and address
with me into prison camp

and soon after the
war I went to see her

and to cut the door
short, we fell in love

and I married her.

And finally, the Iron
Curtain began to come down

over Budapest across the
other side of Europe.

And the (mumbles)
decided to send me there

instead of waiting any longer

for the Soviet Union, thank God.

I wrote this book about
maladjusted young men.

It became a great success
and compulsory reading for...

I wrote this book
about her love affair

with Richard Hillary.

I went upstairs in the box room.

She told me about her love
affair with Richard Hillary,

the airman who was burned
in the Battle of Britain

and thought he was
going to drown.

(somber music)

(birds and insects chirping)

Wonderful, isn't it?

Yes, that's right.

It's a good idea.

Oh good.

- I think the thing
I'll miss the most,

the thing I do miss the most,

and of course I was
lucky enough to have it

all the time in the
last months of his life,

was the laughter.

I mean, crying with laughter.

There was a fantastic incident

which he had so hoped he
would be able to recreate,

such is the vanity of the man.

"We can recreate this for
Greg's film," he said.

I had managed to get him
an electric wheelchair

because after his stroke
he couldn't walk anymore,

so he went off down the
main passage in his house

and into the big room,
which was still laid out

as it had been the
day he had his stroke

with all the things,
which are on your film,

all the stuff about his life,

the photographs of Mary and
this sort of wonderful collage,

if you'd like, of his life,

and he said to me, he said,
"Nick, move back all the things.

"I'm going to make a
circuit of the big table."

And so I pushed everything
around and off he set

with this little joystick,

concentrating
really, really hard,

and he got round three
sides of the table

and he just turned too quickly

and he caught the
corner of the table.

Of course it's a series of
trestle tables, that table,

not a singular, and
he clipped the corner

and the tables just
collapsed onto the floor.

This terrible
noise and commotion

as they all went bang
onto the wooden floor

and everything sort
of jiggled around.

And there was the
moment, I sort of sat

and looked in horror
'cause I thought

he's going to be so upset
that he's done this.

And there was a
moment, just a flicker,

or horror across his face
and then he started to laugh.

Micky laughed, he actually had
tears rolling down his face.

It was just, it was
wonderful 'cause he had just,

everybody laughed
for such a long time.

It was just one of those moments

you couldn't have
recaptured it for the film

because it just was
the moment it was.

And he had so many
moments of near disaster

but it turned into
an absolute joy.

And there were little
things like that every day.

There was laughter.

There was always laughter.

- One of the things I learned
about the whole of my life

has been that I didn't ask
nearly enough questions

of other people.

I was talking about
myself so much

and so overwhelmed with
interest about myself

that I missed a lot about
other people, especially Mary.

And I've had

the experience of being
literally a prisoner

in Colditz and other camps
and also to be in prison

inside myself from
which I've been freed.

I was freed from
Colditz, literally,

and I was freed in myself
gradually by the way

the fashion was changing,

the way people are
talking more openly.

And also I had this wonderful
experience with one woman.

Actually, it was two women,

one of whom was a girl who
died, and the other was Mary.

And she saw me as
somebody to be liberated

from my sexual compressions
just as I saw her

as a woman of fashion who
wanted to be liberated

from what she called,
in a phrase any poet

would be glad of, a
prison of soft hands.

- [Producer] If you were
to describe yourself

as a person in one
word or one phrase,

how would you describe yourself?

- Amateur.

The word originally means lover.

It's to do with am,
which is love in Latin.

Amateur in everything
I've ever done.

Except in poetry.

Except in poetry.

That's your answer to the
question about poetry.

I am not an amateur at poetry.

I am not a professional
poet on the other hand,

but in some of the
poems I've written

I know I am not an amateur.

This could not be better.

I have that feeling, oh, I
couldn't do it any better.

If I were to die now,

which I think of quite often.

I've thought at 97
that I should be able

to help people who are
now alive whom I'm fond of

and others I'm not fond of.

The state of the world,

the general state of the world.

That some way or
another I would appear

somewhere in some form.

It might even occur
to them this is Micky,

just as I think it's Mary.

You see?

And that makes it
all alive to me.

It doesn't mean I look
forward to it or want it.

The name of this poem
is Thine, T-H-I-N-E.

Thine was the chaos,
thine was the creating.

Thine was to the clay
alone and thine the mating.

Thine was the innocence
and the unfolding.

Thine the intransigence
and thine the molding.

Thine is the web and
thine is the unweaving.

Thine disbelief and thine
the green believing.

Thine ages toil and
thine a day's undoing.

Thine has been ruined.

Thine was the renewing.

Thine is the intellect
and thine the feeling.

Thine the withholding,
thine is the revealing.

Thine is the falling off.

Thine the repenting.

Thine was the sentence.

Thine is the relenting.

Thine is the trust and
thine is the despairing.

Thine the wild wreck and
thine the onward faring.

Thine the indifference
and thine the striving.

Thine is as the death and
thine is as the surviving.

(upbeat quirky music)