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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:25,264 --> 00:00:31,067 At the end of Cromwell's time, in and around the year of our Lord, 1660... 2 00:00:31,203 --> 00:00:36,505 two things miraculous came about which, as l shall relate... 3 00:00:36,642 --> 00:00:41,239 gave us great hope for the future ofthis island, this England 4 00:00:41,380 --> 00:00:46,284 The first, the Restoration of Charles Stuart to his throne of England... 5 00:00:46,418 --> 00:00:50,480 after many long years of exile in Holland - 6 00:00:50,622 --> 00:00:55,287 miraculous for his father, King Charles, was executed by Cromwell... 7 00:00:55,460 --> 00:00:58,293 only 11 years earlier 8 00:00:58,430 --> 00:01:05,700 And the second, the birth of Henry Purcell, organist, composer... 9 00:01:06,939 --> 00:01:12,969 his father and his uncle both ofthe Chapel Royal in the great Abbey at Westminster 10 00:01:13,111 --> 00:01:16,206 From heaven he came 11 00:01:39,071 --> 00:01:43,508 Their lives were drawn together as if by divine hand 12 00:01:43,642 --> 00:01:49,081 And together they changed our history for ever 13 00:02:24,516 --> 00:02:28,316 Kind Heaven, make us Englishman again 14 00:03:23,308 --> 00:03:26,369 Any who may show good reason... 15 00:03:27,446 --> 00:03:32,680 why Charles Stuart shall not be King of England... 16 00:03:32,818 --> 00:03:36,914 let him come forth and speak 17 00:04:38,116 --> 00:04:43,919 Dread Sovereign, I offer no flattering titles, but speak words of truth 18 00:04:45,023 --> 00:04:49,824 You are the desire ofthree kingdoms... 19 00:04:50,729 --> 00:04:56,691 the strength and stay of the tribes of the people 20 00:05:08,013 --> 00:05:13,008 Really? Why then did it take you so long to ask me back'? 21 00:05:20,358 --> 00:05:24,852 Oddsfish, Mr Newton, what's this'? A wrestling match'? 22 00:05:25,263 --> 00:05:28,824 Mr Newton, why are you upon the floor'? 23 00:05:53,658 --> 00:06:00,462 Well, we're sure never to see his like again... in this world 24 00:06:02,400 --> 00:06:09,670 'Tis said, we have a pretty, witty King, whose word no man relies on 25 00:06:09,808 --> 00:06:16,077 He never says a foolish thing, and never does a wise one 26 00:06:16,281 --> 00:06:19,444 To which His Majesty replied: 27 00:06:19,584 --> 00:06:24,283 "That is very true, for my words are my own... 28 00:06:24,890 --> 00:06:29,191 my actions are those of my Ministers" 29 00:06:32,998 --> 00:06:36,957 illllfl HIIIIiQDQIIfiI 30 00:06:37,302 --> 00:06:39,270 Dire 31 00:06:40,772 --> 00:06:43,742 Well, it's a creaky old play 32 00:06:43,909 --> 00:06:47,607 I rather liked it. Howwould you know? You've never seen it 33 00:06:47,746 --> 00:06:50,238 No, but I've heard it, forweeks 34 00:06:50,382 --> 00:06:52,578 I'm never dry there! 35 00:06:52,717 --> 00:06:57,712 Oh, don't look so sad, sweetheart. Any of us could have done it 36 00:06:57,889 --> 00:07:00,517 Well, sorry, it ruined the whole scene 37 00:07:00,659 --> 00:07:03,685 It doesn't matter, it didn't ruin anything 38 00:07:03,828 --> 00:07:07,787 Go on, get dressed if you're coming - I don't think I feel like eating 39 00:07:07,933 --> 00:07:12,461 KFIQIQIIIIKI'. fill, Ii 40 00:07:13,738 --> 00:07:16,332 Oh, how's the mighty work'? 41 00:07:16,474 --> 00:07:21,275 Stopped, ceased, dead 42 00:07:25,984 --> 00:07:31,184 So, we're writing a play, are we'? Well it can't be as bad as this one 43 00:07:33,825 --> 00:07:38,524 May I remind you ladies and gentlemen, the matinee starts tomorrow at five o'clock... 44 00:07:38,663 --> 00:07:40,893 with orwithout an audience 45 00:07:41,032 --> 00:07:45,833 And would the owner ofthe blue Ford Cortina, BKH 1T... 46 00:07:45,971 --> 00:07:49,202 not park outside the stage door as this space is reserved... 47 00:07:49,341 --> 00:07:52,675 for the manager ofthe Sloane Square Underground station 48 00:07:54,679 --> 00:07:58,013 Didn't take you long - No, never does 49 00:07:58,650 --> 00:08:01,347 Bill was in - Shit! 50 00:08:01,886 --> 00:08:04,856 Nelly, Nelly, where are you'? 51 00:08:10,795 --> 00:08:14,925 Oh, Bill, he's in the shower, he didn't know you were in 52 00:08:15,066 --> 00:08:19,469 I didn't know you were in. Did you know you were going to be'? 53 00:08:19,838 --> 00:08:23,399 Did you notice me dry'? Sorry 54 00:08:23,942 --> 00:08:26,843 Don't apologise to me Nelly Gwyn, apologise to Charles 55 00:08:26,978 --> 00:08:29,003 Ihfllli - KIIIIIUIIII,III 56 00:08:29,147 --> 00:08:30,774 When are we coming off'? 57 00:08:30,915 --> 00:08:36,820 I have never seen anything as boring as tonight. What's the matterwith you'? 58 00:08:36,955 --> 00:08:38,923 Everybody knows it's coming off, Bill 59 00:08:39,057 --> 00:08:43,119 Well I don't know it's coming off and I'm the fucking producer! 60 00:08:43,328 --> 00:08:47,128 And even if it is coming off, who's to blame? 61 00:08:47,265 --> 00:08:52,203 We're supposed to be doing a play of our times here, the golden age 62 00:08:52,337 --> 00:08:55,534 But does it look like it'? Does it buggery! 63 00:08:55,673 --> 00:08:58,335 It looks like some creaky old piece by George Bernard Shaw 64 00:08:58,476 --> 00:09:02,709 'Iljiili -filfllllll.fillfilfll'kll 65 00:09:02,847 --> 00:09:06,044 QIIIQD. Ylllili, I'll!!! 66 00:09:06,184 --> 00:09:11,179 I mean we can do anything as long as it's not boring! 67 00:09:11,322 --> 00:09:14,019 Hello Bill, didn't know you were in 68 00:09:14,592 --> 00:09:17,584 EIIillTUIII-GIH Illii 69 00:09:17,729 --> 00:09:19,959 They opened up the theatres again 70 00:09:20,098 --> 00:09:26,265 Science, poetry, Dryden, Milton, actors and actresses... 71 00:09:26,404 --> 00:09:30,272 Wren, St Paul's, music, Purcell 72 00:09:30,408 --> 00:09:34,072 I mean Purcell... 73 00:10:57,195 --> 00:11:00,392 Ah, Squire Dryden... 74 00:11:00,532 --> 00:11:03,968 All eyes you draw and with the eyes the heart... 75 00:11:04,102 --> 00:11:06,935 of your own pomp the greatest part 76 00:11:07,572 --> 00:11:11,236 Loud shouts the nation's happiness proclaim... 77 00:11:11,409 --> 00:11:16,404 and Heaven this day is feasted with your name 78 00:11:18,349 --> 00:11:21,546 His ashes in a peaceful urn shall rest... 79 00:11:22,287 --> 00:11:25,848 his name a great example stands to show... 80 00:11:25,990 --> 00:11:29,756 how strangely high endeavours may be blessed... 81 00:11:29,894 --> 00:11:34,058 where piety and valourjointly go 82 00:11:34,599 --> 00:11:40,834 I hear tell they have dug up Master Cromwell and his mother... 83 00:11:42,407 --> 00:11:45,968 both looking as cheerful as any could in that condition 84 00:11:49,948 --> 00:11:54,613 The boy Purcell was took into the Chapel Royal School in Westminster... 85 00:11:54,752 --> 00:11:57,187 cleaning and repairing the organ 86 00:11:58,590 --> 00:12:01,082 And sometimes, with his friend Pelham... 87 00:12:01,226 --> 00:12:05,925 being less than helpful to his uncle Thomas, the King's composer 88 00:12:09,033 --> 00:12:13,937 Butch, the sights and sounds and smells young Harry must have seen... 89 00:12:14,105 --> 00:12:16,301 while learning his music 90 00:12:16,641 --> 00:12:18,541 What'? - Sir'? 91 00:12:19,644 --> 00:12:22,136 Why? - Sir'? 92 00:12:23,681 --> 00:12:25,740 This'? 93 00:12:32,290 --> 00:12:34,088 It's a piece 94 00:12:34,659 --> 00:12:37,026 l1' - II1:ll-".' 95 00:12:42,533 --> 00:12:44,729 - \\ 96 00:12:45,103 --> 00:12:52,669 Ajllflilll-fllllljfl! fill'?! 97 00:12:52,977 --> 00:12:55,912 But what is it'? ls it... What is it'? 98 00:12:56,180 --> 00:12:58,774 Blow, boy! 99 00:13:05,189 --> 00:13:07,385 Well, it has a catch 100 00:13:07,759 --> 00:13:09,386 It is not a catch! 101 00:13:10,061 --> 00:13:14,328 No, it is not a catch 102 00:13:14,832 --> 00:13:18,166 Do give it to the King. He has such a plump bass 103 00:13:18,303 --> 00:13:23,639 lPYlll-lhhllliihxj. 104 00:13:42,593 --> 00:13:48,032 ...t'will surely catch with him, and I shall say it which it is... 105 00:13:48,166 --> 00:13:53,195 which is why, in face of brought over... 106 00:13:53,338 --> 00:14:00,176 I say brought over Frenchmen... Which you do Master Locke! 107 00:14:00,311 --> 00:14:05,477 Smelling as thou dost of popish superstition, thou brat of Rome 108 00:14:06,284 --> 00:14:11,848 Not one bit of it anywise other than what it is 109 00:14:11,989 --> 00:14:17,826 Which it is English... English! 110 00:14:18,963 --> 00:14:23,161 I want none of your Vingt Quatres here! 111 00:15:01,806 --> 00:15:07,267 L, Captain Henry Cooke, say it as Master ofthe Children ofthe Royal Chapel... 112 00:15:07,745 --> 00:15:11,511 you, Harry Purcell, are destined... 113 00:15:12,984 --> 00:15:18,718 do you but stay obedient and compliant and do betterwith yourviol... 114 00:15:19,791 --> 00:15:21,418 and your fingering 115 00:15:21,592 --> 00:15:24,084 I hate the viol! 116 00:15:24,262 --> 00:15:28,859 Its use is to strengthen a part, to support the voices 117 00:15:29,367 --> 00:15:34,066 A chest of viols is essential in church when the people cannot sing in tune 118 00:15:34,205 --> 00:15:38,233 I would always have my people sing in tune... and rest the voices... 119 00:15:38,376 --> 00:15:40,071 and then use my violins 120 00:15:40,211 --> 00:15:42,703 Fiddles! Too brisk! 121 00:15:43,214 --> 00:15:47,412 What can a fiddle say alongside a generous heroic viol... 122 00:15:47,552 --> 00:15:49,987 except it should not come among them'? 123 00:15:50,321 --> 00:15:52,619 Fingering... Fingering, Harry! 124 00:15:53,057 --> 00:15:58,723 Fret and finger, orwe shall banish cornets with voices now we have 'em... 125 00:15:58,863 --> 00:16:01,491 to the Glory of God and the King and to... 126 00:16:05,102 --> 00:16:10,165 I shall say it... to Prosperity! 127 00:16:12,043 --> 00:16:14,944 This is a music factory 128 00:16:17,048 --> 00:16:19,983 But make people feel, Master Purcell 129 00:16:20,852 --> 00:16:25,414 Give them lessons in feeling. Let 'em think afterwards 130 00:16:26,357 --> 00:16:31,921 Now in some countries this might be thought a dangerous approach... 131 00:16:32,063 --> 00:16:35,795 But not in England, not today, dear heart 132 00:16:36,501 --> 00:16:38,333 What? 133 00:16:40,304 --> 00:16:43,934 Little danger of people feeling too much 134 00:16:44,075 --> 00:16:47,807 Not in England, not today... 135 00:16:48,546 --> 00:16:52,744 encircled as we are with a Cromwellian army of prigs... 136 00:16:53,117 --> 00:16:57,850 knighthood-seekers and grubby timeservers... 137 00:17:00,858 --> 00:17:03,691 fat delayers of the law 138 00:17:08,366 --> 00:17:10,596 Blackheads... 139 00:17:12,203 --> 00:17:16,800 who merely shrug their shoulders... 140 00:17:18,109 --> 00:17:21,272 while their money meters tick merrily away... 141 00:17:21,412 --> 00:17:24,404 whose wealth is a licence for calumny... 142 00:17:24,549 --> 00:17:27,985 whose cupidity passes for concern 143 00:17:32,990 --> 00:17:38,053 To fly from love's sickness is both foolish and vain 144 00:17:39,463 --> 00:17:43,263 For I am myself my own fever and pain 145 00:17:44,669 --> 00:17:46,296 What are you talking about'? 146 00:17:49,373 --> 00:17:53,173 I gave it all to her, Mother bloody Hubbard... 147 00:17:53,411 --> 00:17:56,108 when I left her, you know 148 00:17:57,548 --> 00:18:00,745 So many children, she didn't know what to do 149 00:18:00,885 --> 00:18:04,150 Inn-quantum: 4n. 150 00:18:04,689 --> 00:18:08,887 I'm not in the mood, not anymore. You brought up money! 151 00:18:09,026 --> 00:18:11,154 Well, if you don't get on and write the bloody play... 152 00:18:11,295 --> 00:18:14,128 this poor Nelly will definitely starve 153 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:18,469 If only it were as easy as that 154 00:18:24,909 --> 00:18:30,143 Do you know, last night I had the same dream I've been having all these years 155 00:18:31,849 --> 00:18:35,251 I'm about to make my entrance on a stage 156 00:18:35,386 --> 00:18:41,325 Behind the flats, the other actors are performing a play I know nothing about 157 00:18:41,459 --> 00:18:46,488 A play about the short life and tragic death of Henry Purcell... 158 00:18:47,264 --> 00:18:51,997 Composer in Ordinary to the violins of King Charles ll 159 00:18:52,703 --> 00:18:55,365 I play the King - Of course 160 00:18:57,274 --> 00:19:00,904 My entrance is important, that I know 161 00:19:01,045 --> 00:19:06,984 I'm peering through cracks in the scenery, trying to find out what is going on 162 00:19:08,419 --> 00:19:11,389 Eventually I decide I must have missed my entrance... 163 00:19:11,522 --> 00:19:13,889 so I grab a door handle and push 164 00:19:14,291 --> 00:19:21,061 Everything rattles... and suddenly I'm in a world were I can't see anything 165 00:19:21,899 --> 00:19:26,962 Even though I knowthe spotlight is on me I don't know my moves or my first line... 166 00:19:27,505 --> 00:19:34,377 but I make enormous efforts to speak, to say... something 167 00:19:36,080 --> 00:19:42,486 I open my mouth and drive all the strength I can find into my diaphragm... 168 00:19:42,620 --> 00:19:45,453 but I make no sound 169 00:19:45,690 --> 00:19:50,389 Ilflhifillflj- IIICI 170 00:19:52,363 --> 00:19:58,996 I can feel the light... but I cannot see 171 00:20:04,008 --> 00:20:06,170 Dreams won't pay the bloody rent! 172 00:20:09,180 --> 00:20:11,549 Sod you! 173 00:20:11,549 --> 00:20:12,482 Sod you! 174 00:21:15,880 --> 00:21:17,848 How much'? 175 00:21:19,150 --> 00:21:25,317 Eleven pounds, two shillings and tenpence 176 00:21:26,657 --> 00:21:32,289 The total in the Exchequer, your Majesty 177 00:21:34,231 --> 00:21:36,290 And the national debt... 178 00:21:37,401 --> 00:21:44,398 in excess ofthree million, your Majesty 179 00:21:50,981 --> 00:21:53,541 I cannot pay them 180 00:21:54,552 --> 00:21:59,080 Why they do it, I cannot think... why they play on... 181 00:21:59,723 --> 00:22:02,317 sing on... but they do 182 00:22:04,562 --> 00:22:08,795 I cannot pay my sailors, I cannot pay my guard... 183 00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:13,359 but they are rogues, they pay themselves 184 00:22:14,271 --> 00:22:19,334 �Qhl-hl-m- Ilflj 185 00:22:19,743 --> 00:22:25,147 filllllllQih�llll QIiT 186 00:22:26,116 --> 00:22:30,713 Bankers were a tribe grew up in Cromwell's time 187 00:22:33,524 --> 00:22:35,993 Never were heard of before 188 00:22:38,295 --> 00:22:41,959 They are come to stay, I fear 189 00:22:59,283 --> 00:23:03,845 Since when did you smoke a pipe, dear'? Harold Wilson, is it'? 190 00:23:03,988 --> 00:23:07,618 I've always smoked a pipe. There's a kind of... 191 00:23:09,059 --> 00:23:13,326 spirituality about a pipe, rarely found in love... 192 00:23:13,831 --> 00:23:16,300 but occasionally in friendship 193 00:23:16,433 --> 00:23:21,030 You won't find anything on Purcell, I've searched everywhere 194 00:23:21,171 --> 00:23:24,471 I found that for you in the London Library 195 00:23:25,409 --> 00:23:29,346 I mean, nothing - that's what makes him an ideal subject for a play 196 00:23:29,480 --> 00:23:34,748 Nobody knows anything about him, except "Nymphs and Shepherds" 197 00:23:34,885 --> 00:23:39,982 I could play a shepherd and Nelly could play a nymph 198 00:23:43,460 --> 00:23:45,656 No seriously, Charlie, you can make it all up... 199 00:23:45,796 --> 00:23:47,992 we'll get George to put it on and we'll make you a star! 200 00:23:48,132 --> 00:23:51,830 We could even get an Arts Council grant - Means-test Man! 201 00:23:51,969 --> 00:23:56,304 We can get Guy to play King James, Vernon can do Spratt... 202 00:23:56,440 --> 00:23:59,967 and Murray can play... thingy... what's he called'? Salisbury 203 00:24:00,110 --> 00:24:03,705 Shaftesbury, Bill, Shaftesbury 204 00:24:04,114 --> 00:24:10,542 Another five years ensnared by middle-class pietists... Thank you very much! 205 00:25:02,439 --> 00:25:07,240 He's the only composer to be buried here apart from John Blow, his teacher... 206 00:25:07,378 --> 00:25:09,972 and, hallelujah! George Frederick 207 00:25:10,481 --> 00:25:13,451 ls this... Vellington'? 208 00:25:14,785 --> 00:25:17,379 Paid for by a lady - What? 209 00:25:17,521 --> 00:25:20,547 A lady... we don't know who. There's even a mystery there 210 00:25:20,691 --> 00:25:25,322 Who paid for the inscription next to Purcelis grave'? Lady Howard, possibly 211 00:25:26,430 --> 00:25:30,628 We know when he died; St Cecilia's Day - the patron saint of music - 212 00:25:30,768 --> 00:25:34,864 probably of tuberculosis, possibly of chocolate poisoning 213 00:25:35,005 --> 00:25:37,497 We don't know when orwhere he was born... 214 00:25:37,641 --> 00:25:39,666 whether his father was actually his uncle... 215 00:25:39,810 --> 00:25:43,769 uunlnnnl-'uu. mun 216 00:25:44,248 --> 00:25:48,207 One thing we are sure about is that he owed everything to Charles ll 217 00:25:48,352 --> 00:25:51,219 XIfiflfi-fllfi -$I 218 00:25:51,355 --> 00:25:55,314 Yes, you. You wouldn't even be remembered. 219 00:25:55,459 --> 00:25:59,726 Who remembers tarts unless they get to screw somebody famous? 220 00:26:01,065 --> 00:26:04,035 "No sleep as sweet as thine" 221 00:26:05,702 --> 00:26:08,865 Isn't he pretty'? Aren't you pretty'? 222 00:26:09,006 --> 00:26:12,806 Vot'? Vellington'? 223 00:26:13,210 --> 00:26:16,578 Well, l'll do my best. Where shall we start'? 224 00:26:25,155 --> 00:26:27,852 The music and the mirth of Kings are out of tune 225 00:26:29,026 --> 00:26:32,291 Do you know, she picked up this tourist in Westminster Abbey! 226 00:26:32,429 --> 00:26:35,296 What were you doing there? You're not a Christian 227 00:26:35,432 --> 00:26:37,764 Yes I am - Church of England, are we'? 228 00:26:37,901 --> 00:26:42,361 Do you know, Purcell wrote nearly a thousand pieces of music in just 16 years - 229 00:26:42,506 --> 00:26:45,237 only 15 ofthem actually signed 230 00:26:45,375 --> 00:26:48,276 'Iljlllijlfil II- 231 00:26:48,412 --> 00:26:54,112 Everybody thought Charles ll was Church of England, but he wasn't 232 00:28:17,100 --> 00:28:20,161 Yes... I know all that 233 00:28:20,837 --> 00:28:25,331 l know all that. We must fight the Dutch, but who will pay for it'? 234 00:28:26,176 --> 00:28:28,668 Where will the money come from'? 235 00:28:29,479 --> 00:28:32,210 I do believe the Devil shits Dutchmen 236 00:28:38,222 --> 00:28:39,690 Who'? 237 00:28:39,823 --> 00:28:43,987 The judge who sentenced your father to his death 238 00:28:44,127 --> 00:28:48,758 Must l'? I am weary of hanging 239 00:28:54,571 --> 00:28:57,040 Let it sleep 240 00:29:29,139 --> 00:29:30,766 Who... 241 00:29:32,376 --> 00:29:35,209 Majesty? - ...is that'? 242 00:29:37,080 --> 00:29:41,881 Your future Queen, sire. From Braganza 243 00:29:42,986 --> 00:29:46,286 She looks like... a bat 244 00:29:53,297 --> 00:29:55,265 My dear... 245 00:29:57,567 --> 00:30:00,901 Such pretty hands and... 246 00:30:03,040 --> 00:30:04,667 feet'? 247 00:30:07,044 --> 00:30:13,313 A dowry of half a million, Tangiers, access to Brazil and the East Indies trade 248 00:30:13,450 --> 00:30:17,216 Tea, coffee... 249 00:30:17,621 --> 00:30:20,113 rubber, your Majesty 250 00:30:22,893 --> 00:30:27,330 I shall have to contain myself with my Lisbon Kate 251 00:30:29,599 --> 00:30:33,058 I shall of course do my duty 252 00:30:33,570 --> 00:30:36,938 Shall I not, my Lady Castlemaine'? 253 00:31:52,816 --> 00:31:56,116 40,000 or so... or so... 254 00:31:56,253 --> 00:32:01,384 Yes, let's say �40,000, Master Kiffin, is the sum which... 255 00:32:01,725 --> 00:32:07,357 were you to offer in loan would make us so grateful it should advance ye... 256 00:32:07,497 --> 00:32:10,762 Majesty, uttter honour, sire, Death, I swear it! 257 00:32:10,901 --> 00:32:15,896 But rather I would give ye this day... 258 00:32:16,039 --> 00:32:22,502 give ye... �10,000, give ye! 259 00:32:23,880 --> 00:32:27,145 And you shall, Master Kiffin... 260 00:32:27,284 --> 00:32:32,450 for Love hath greater power and less mercy than Fate 261 00:32:36,193 --> 00:32:38,890 Joy! I am saved 30,000 262 00:32:40,363 --> 00:32:42,627 Saved 30,000! 263 00:32:51,675 --> 00:32:54,167 No matter the lack of money 264 00:32:54,311 --> 00:32:58,043 The theatres were flung open, news-sheets flung up... 265 00:33:00,250 --> 00:33:03,618 poetry written, music heard 266 00:33:20,570 --> 00:33:23,369 I had the occasional success myself 267 00:33:23,673 --> 00:33:27,041 But it was the actresses which took the King's eye 268 00:33:45,662 --> 00:33:49,326 Most chief among these was pretty, witty Nell... 269 00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:55,231 with whom I had some dalliance myself before Charles the King... 270 00:33:56,640 --> 00:34:00,008 but that's another story 271 00:34:06,283 --> 00:34:11,722 Oh, poet. Damned dull poet! 272 00:34:12,756 --> 00:34:17,091 Who could prove so senseless as to make Nelly die for love'? 273 00:34:17,594 --> 00:34:24,864 Nay, what yet worse, to kill me in the prime of Easter time... 274 00:34:25,435 --> 00:34:28,564 in tart and cheesecake time! 275 00:34:38,548 --> 00:34:41,950 And a mighty pretty soul she is! 276 00:35:14,284 --> 00:35:15,979 Bloody freezing 277 00:35:16,119 --> 00:35:21,683 Yes, my dear Barbara, you have every right to ask me to support you 278 00:35:22,425 --> 00:35:24,416 What do you want'? Money, I suppose 279 00:35:25,061 --> 00:35:27,029 Would be a help 280 00:35:27,330 --> 00:35:29,298 Writing a play, I hear 281 00:35:29,899 --> 00:35:32,766 Well, trying to, you know... 282 00:35:33,737 --> 00:35:37,264 Writers dissemble, you know. Like you 283 00:35:37,874 --> 00:35:41,003 They're not to be trusted. Like you 284 00:35:41,411 --> 00:35:46,212 They look for intellectual respect and approbation. Like you 285 00:35:48,018 --> 00:35:53,616 They flatter, indulge, and offer false and easy comfort. Like you 286 00:35:53,857 --> 00:35:58,488 Once, our native language was refined and free... 287 00:35:59,229 --> 00:36:03,723 like the old liturgy ofthe Anglican Church, or Pepys, Dryden, Purcell - 288 00:36:03,867 --> 00:36:09,704 each of whom tried to find a vibrant language in which it was possible only... 289 00:36:10,473 --> 00:36:12,271 to tell the truth 290 00:36:12,709 --> 00:36:15,838 That, I believe, is worthy and worth our attention 291 00:36:19,382 --> 00:36:22,613 It's for her, I suppose. The starving Nelly'? 292 00:36:22,752 --> 00:36:25,016 No, it's for me. It's about Purcell 293 00:36:26,022 --> 00:36:29,185 Anything in it for me'? - I wouldn't think so 294 00:36:29,325 --> 00:36:31,919 It's about genius... 295 00:36:57,120 --> 00:37:00,556 Welcome to Her Majesty's Royal Palace and fortress, the Tower of London... 296 00:37:01,091 --> 00:37:07,588 and in particular to the Wakefield Tower, usually known as the Jewel Tower 297 00:37:07,964 --> 00:37:11,958 Here you see in the first case Her Majesty's Crown Jewels 298 00:37:12,102 --> 00:37:15,003 Here, of course, is St Edward's crown... 299 00:37:15,138 --> 00:37:20,201 used in the Coronation of all our Sovereigns ever since 1661 300 00:37:20,376 --> 00:37:23,539 when the Crown was made specifically for King Charles ll 301 00:37:23,680 --> 00:37:28,880 On the right of St Edward's crown, of course, is the ampula and spoon 302 00:37:29,018 --> 00:37:31,487 The ampula was filled with holy oil... 303 00:37:31,654 --> 00:37:35,318 to anoint our Sovereign during the Coronation service 304 00:37:35,458 --> 00:37:37,984 The Crown weighs five pounds in gold... 305 00:37:38,128 --> 00:37:40,893 and is encrusted with over 400 precious stones - 306 00:37:41,030 --> 00:37:44,125 diamonds, emeralds, sapphires, rubies and what have you 307 00:37:44,267 --> 00:37:50,206 What we'll take you to now is the Imperial State Crown, which is much smaller 308 00:37:50,340 --> 00:37:53,310 Come on, this way now 309 00:38:06,890 --> 00:38:11,953 Iiijflllflfi-l-i DQIIIIZ 310 00:38:12,729 --> 00:38:16,290 Were these paid for'? - No they were not 311 00:38:16,432 --> 00:38:21,927 Cost me, his goldsmith, 32,000 - mine by rights 312 00:38:22,071 --> 00:38:23,869 Oh, but he was merry 313 00:38:24,007 --> 00:38:26,908 Sank ten fathoms deep all Parliament's mumping 314 00:38:28,611 --> 00:38:30,579 Pure gold 315 00:38:31,147 --> 00:38:35,311 Sire, you'll stop on and take the other bottle'? 316 00:40:27,463 --> 00:40:30,023 Upon my soul I do declare... 317 00:40:30,166 --> 00:40:34,000 he hath the best manner of singing in the world! 318 00:40:44,013 --> 00:40:46,482 Butch, the plague! 319 00:40:46,883 --> 00:40:50,581 It came every year, and fearwith it 320 00:40:50,853 --> 00:40:56,815 1665 was the worst - the hottest summer in memory, my memory 321 00:40:57,794 --> 00:41:02,891 And mine it is that shrinks from it, from the numbers dead 322 00:41:03,566 --> 00:41:09,027 Halfthe population of London... gone. Cut down, like a flower 323 00:41:09,172 --> 00:41:13,871 Even the dogs, grisly outlaws of nature, killed 324 00:41:14,010 --> 00:41:16,172 40,000 of them 325 00:41:31,627 --> 00:41:34,358 The Dutch brought it, your Majesty, they had it first! 326 00:41:34,497 --> 00:41:38,434 It come ashore with the Dutch and now we all dies, your Majesty! 327 00:41:42,472 --> 00:41:48,070 Filllllflillllj 'Ii- 328 00:41:49,445 --> 00:41:52,107 and so many sad stories as I walk 329 00:42:40,229 --> 00:42:45,258 A dying city. All fled who can 330 00:42:46,302 --> 00:42:48,828 Bring out your dead! 331 00:43:24,974 --> 00:43:28,433 In London Fields in Hackney they buried them 332 00:43:29,078 --> 00:43:33,015 Harry's father among them - in a pit 333 00:45:23,726 --> 00:45:28,687 They say the ravens are beating at the doors ofthe dying 334 00:45:33,502 --> 00:45:36,130 No boats upon the river 335 00:45:36,539 --> 00:45:39,736 The grass is growing all up and down Whitehall 336 00:45:41,310 --> 00:45:43,938 None but wretches in the street 337 00:45:44,213 --> 00:45:51,210 Spots... first... do generally appear in the region ofthe heart and liver 338 00:45:52,088 --> 00:45:54,785 Or the breast or... - No, no, everywhere 339 00:45:55,658 --> 00:45:57,888 Tokens big is half a crown... 340 00:45:58,194 --> 00:46:02,927 sometimes red with blue within, on hands, face, neck 341 00:46:03,065 --> 00:46:07,627 Black they go, black from melancholy 342 00:46:18,914 --> 00:46:23,283 Robbery and thievery, the looting of plunder... 343 00:46:23,786 --> 00:46:25,777 public hangings... 344 00:46:25,921 --> 00:46:33,453 bonfires to purify the stinking air, everywhere, everywhere... 345 00:46:41,604 --> 00:46:43,572 So short a time... 346 00:46:44,540 --> 00:46:47,510 Since I have so short a time to live... 347 00:46:48,744 --> 00:46:51,770 a little ease to these my torments give 348 00:46:52,548 --> 00:46:55,677 A land of confusion and endless night... 349 00:46:56,085 --> 00:46:59,419 where horror reigns, where darkness is might 350 00:46:59,555 --> 00:47:05,085 Take up the filth from among us as ye take our sins from us we do but plead... 351 00:47:05,227 --> 00:47:09,289 and shit from us the plague of popery! 352 00:47:09,565 --> 00:47:12,762 The best remedy, apart from tobacco... 353 00:47:12,902 --> 00:47:15,894 is wash out the mouth with vinegar often... 354 00:47:16,072 --> 00:47:19,702 and rosemary, sorrel, verjuice, marigolds... 355 00:47:20,142 --> 00:47:24,875 all these stuff in the cracks and holes ofthe body when abroad 356 00:47:26,148 --> 00:47:32,246 All had from a physician before he decamped to Gloucester, the coward 357 00:47:33,289 --> 00:47:37,886 The king goes to see the wretched sick and gives a thousand pounds... 358 00:47:38,027 --> 00:47:41,429 Oh, bless him... even though... 359 00:47:44,233 --> 00:47:47,498 Even though he will not pay for music 360 00:47:49,739 --> 00:47:52,401 Even though he loves it 361 00:48:50,499 --> 00:48:53,935 And then the fire destroyed halfthe city 362 00:48:54,270 --> 00:48:57,729 Master Pepys, Master Pepys! 363 00:48:58,040 --> 00:49:01,567 Hllfl-illfllllilllfllll, hllilllll 364 00:49:02,044 --> 00:49:04,138 I saw some smoke, but went back to bed... 365 00:49:04,280 --> 00:49:08,683 for the source being assuredly no more near than the backside of Marke Lane 366 00:49:08,818 --> 00:49:12,118 Our Lord Mayor neither, I am told, saw cause for concern 367 00:49:12,254 --> 00:49:16,851 His words: "A maid may piss it out" Well Jane certainly could not! 368 00:49:20,596 --> 00:49:26,000 There are some buckets being filled but no fire squirts nor cistern engines 369 00:49:26,135 --> 00:49:28,467 All simply remove themselves 370 00:49:28,604 --> 00:49:30,572 Will it reach up here'? 371 00:49:50,259 --> 00:49:56,096 Jaws clamped shut, singing boys! Do not expose your throats to the heat! 372 00:49:57,066 --> 00:49:59,262 Breathe not but through stuff! 373 00:49:59,401 --> 00:50:04,237 Pull us away, boatman, orwe'll burn up on the water! 374 00:50:04,840 --> 00:50:09,107 Muffle boys, muffle! Your cords are everything! 375 00:50:20,422 --> 00:50:26,794 No sooner are we free of Cromwell and can have boys sing again... 376 00:50:26,929 --> 00:50:30,229 than the flames of his hell lick up at us 377 00:50:30,399 --> 00:50:33,562 Such a roaring was never seen in the city before 378 00:50:40,342 --> 00:50:44,370 Oh, do you see his Majesty? 379 00:50:58,394 --> 00:51:02,797 Jamie, they must pull the houses down before it. ls it not being done'? 380 00:51:02,932 --> 00:51:04,457 Oh, they will not 381 00:51:04,600 --> 00:51:09,003 They must do it or the fire will never be stopped. Where is my Lord Mayor'? 382 00:51:09,204 --> 00:51:12,003 Having his daughter piss on it'? 383 00:51:19,748 --> 00:51:26,347 I have fought in his wars, for his father's righteous cause! 384 00:51:27,423 --> 00:51:30,154 The decree has gone out! 385 00:51:30,392 --> 00:51:33,362 Repent or burn! 386 00:51:42,504 --> 00:51:46,372 Squash another murderous Frenchman as should never have been born alive! 387 00:51:46,508 --> 00:51:48,943 See his black hands where he has set light to London 388 00:51:49,278 --> 00:51:51,576 ls the popish villain left his life yet'? 389 00:51:51,847 --> 00:51:56,148 Enough! Enough! - N0 pOpery, your Majesty! 390 00:51:56,385 --> 00:51:59,218 I see nothing that pertains to the man's religion 391 00:51:59,688 --> 00:52:04,319 It will suffice that he is French - Indeed it will, for him 392 00:52:04,893 --> 00:52:09,558 Set to it like no ordinary men or your city will burn itself to death! 393 00:52:09,732 --> 00:52:12,531 Seize me that bucket. Ted, toss it to me, man 394 00:52:12,668 --> 00:52:15,660 My Lord Clarendon, these flames quicken 395 00:52:15,804 --> 00:52:17,670 They will not thank him for it... 396 00:52:17,806 --> 00:52:21,800 but blame him and the religion he is secret supposed to hold! 397 00:52:22,611 --> 00:52:28,948 What he do or not do, he has my loyalty... 398 00:52:29,985 --> 00:52:32,545 in spite ofthe money he owes me 399 00:52:37,626 --> 00:52:42,462 He has not paid his music in six years which is why no man will bring his child in it 400 00:52:42,598 --> 00:52:47,092 So it need be that the science itself must die in this nation! Six years! 401 00:52:47,569 --> 00:52:49,731 Six years since you went to King's crowning! 402 00:52:50,139 --> 00:52:53,109 God save the King! 403 00:52:53,442 --> 00:52:55,137 God save the King! 404 00:53:04,687 --> 00:53:07,816 I promised a liberty to tender consciences... 405 00:53:07,956 --> 00:53:13,622 and this shall be a cause and reason for my six new colonies in the Americas 406 00:53:14,096 --> 00:53:17,896 Maryland I name in memory of my mother, Maria... 407 00:53:18,367 --> 00:53:21,826 New York for my brother James, Duke of York... 408 00:53:22,738 --> 00:53:27,141 and the Carolinas and Charles Town for me 409 00:53:29,278 --> 00:53:32,976 Why did you make me go on that... march'? 410 00:53:33,348 --> 00:53:37,910 You're always telling me that Charles ll had to endure plots and demonstrations... 411 00:53:38,287 --> 00:53:40,346 not to mention fire and plague... 412 00:53:41,156 --> 00:53:43,625 so I thought you ought to see what a real demo is like! 413 00:53:44,159 --> 00:53:50,428 You're one ofthose militants that exploits political crises for personal glory 414 00:53:50,566 --> 00:53:54,662 You're both psychopathic and self-righteous! 415 00:53:55,471 --> 00:53:57,098 Ah, no! My book! 416 00:53:58,474 --> 00:54:04,436 "My Pilgrim's book has travelled sea and land, yet could l never come to understand... 417 00:54:04,580 --> 00:54:09,916 that it was slighted or turned out of door by any kingdom, were they rich or poor 418 00:54:10,652 --> 00:54:13,678 In France and Flanders, where men kill each other... 419 00:54:13,822 --> 00:54:17,656 my Pilgrim is esteemed a friend, a brother 420 00:54:18,961 --> 00:54:24,525 'Tis in New England under such advance receives there so much loving countenance... 421 00:54:24,666 --> 00:54:28,660 as to be trimmed, new clothed and decked with gems... 422 00:54:28,804 --> 00:54:33,071 that it might show its features and its limbs" 423 00:54:44,253 --> 00:54:47,689 Who is that'? As Treasurer, you should know 424 00:54:56,098 --> 00:54:58,692 ...goldsmiths and bankers of Lombard Street... 425 00:54:58,834 --> 00:55:02,828 to whom your Majesty owes �1 ,300,000 426 00:55:05,207 --> 00:55:08,541 That is a very great sum, my lord. 427 00:55:09,845 --> 00:55:12,177 What might we do'? 428 00:55:12,314 --> 00:55:14,806 Prorogue Parliament, close the Exchequer... 429 00:55:14,950 --> 00:55:19,979 all interest on payments stopped, all interest due on loans refused 430 00:55:20,222 --> 00:55:21,690 Splendid! 431 00:55:23,392 --> 00:55:29,331 War, pestilence, fire, and now... 432 00:55:31,433 --> 00:55:34,403 Damn me if we ain't ruined! 433 00:55:55,891 --> 00:55:58,792 Was ever a city so afflicted 434 00:55:58,927 --> 00:56:05,264 4,000 streets destroyed, 90 churches, 14,000 houses... 435 00:56:05,868 --> 00:56:10,101 Architecture has its political uses, my lord... 436 00:56:10,239 --> 00:56:13,607 �I-Qmllll-l-I ulnuly 437 00:56:13,742 --> 00:56:16,734 But the cost, your Majesty 438 00:56:16,879 --> 00:56:23,683 What Master Wren has designed will cost eight million! At least! 439 00:56:24,186 --> 00:56:29,249 It establishes the Nation, draws People and Commerce... 440 00:56:30,392 --> 00:56:33,657 and makes men love their native country 441 00:56:54,316 --> 00:56:57,251 So he built all ofthis... - More or less 442 00:56:59,321 --> 00:57:01,085 And why the boat'? 443 00:57:01,223 --> 00:57:05,922 Oh, he and his brother used to love racing up and down the Thames, just for a bet 444 00:57:06,061 --> 00:57:08,257 He was a fantastic sailor, apparently 445 00:57:08,764 --> 00:57:13,065 He called his boat "The Fubbs" after the nickname of his mistress - 446 00:57:13,402 --> 00:57:16,565 one of his mistresses, the Duchess of Portsmouth 447 00:57:16,705 --> 00:57:22,371 She was small and squat and broad of beam... like you 448 00:57:22,511 --> 00:57:24,479 Cheeky bugger! 449 00:57:25,247 --> 00:57:26,976 How many did he have then'? 450 00:57:27,115 --> 00:57:29,345 What? - Women 451 00:57:29,484 --> 00:57:31,919 Howwould I know? - I don't know... 452 00:57:32,054 --> 00:57:35,285 Thought you are looking him up, writing a play or something 453 00:57:35,424 --> 00:57:38,621 Stop it, keep your hands to yourself if you're not going to be nice 454 00:57:38,760 --> 00:57:41,821 He was accused of having 39 455 00:58:12,761 --> 00:58:17,323 Even had up before a church court to answer some pamphlet written about him 456 00:58:17,466 --> 00:58:20,766 "The Poor Whore's Petition", it was called 457 00:58:20,902 --> 00:58:23,667 Scurrilous - It may be, but... 458 00:58:23,805 --> 00:58:28,470 The temper of England may be indifferent to religion, my Lord Bishop... 459 00:58:28,610 --> 00:58:31,045 but I... lam not! 460 00:58:31,179 --> 00:58:33,045 Is it true, Majesty? 461 00:58:33,181 --> 00:58:35,946 Certainly, my Lord Bishop 462 00:58:36,084 --> 00:58:39,748 One mistress for each Article of Faith 463 00:58:40,288 --> 00:58:43,258 There are 39, are there not'? 464 00:58:43,558 --> 00:58:47,825 Such is my devotion to our Church of England 465 00:58:59,908 --> 00:59:02,104 Weigh your anchors! 466 00:59:05,180 --> 00:59:07,808 Time and tide admit no delay 467 00:59:07,949 --> 00:59:13,217 l'll silence your mourning with vows of returning and never intend to visit you more! 468 00:59:26,401 --> 00:59:28,165 What are you going to do today'? 469 00:59:28,303 --> 00:59:32,536 What Charles wanted and what Purcell wrote about so gloriously... 470 00:59:32,674 --> 00:59:38,408 was a country of tolerance, irony, kindliness 471 00:59:39,247 --> 00:59:45,778 Not like today, when the modesty of heroes is dispatched with derision and contempt... 472 00:59:45,921 --> 00:59:51,416 and thus thrown up a generation forwhom "honour" is a forgotten, meaningless currency 473 00:59:51,560 --> 00:59:55,895 May God rot the tyranny of equality... 474 00:59:56,331 --> 00:59:59,995 streamlining, classlessness... 475 01:00:00,135 --> 01:00:04,538 and above all, absurd, irrelevant "correctness" 476 01:00:05,006 --> 01:00:07,236 That's just a matter of opinion and you know it! 477 01:00:07,375 --> 01:00:09,776 Ah, opinions! 478 01:00:09,911 --> 01:00:15,611 Do you knowthat opinion-making is this country's most virulent growth industry 479 01:00:15,750 --> 01:00:17,718 The market is insatiable 480 01:00:17,886 --> 01:00:22,380 Newspapers, like television, pour out opinions... 481 01:00:22,524 --> 01:00:26,722 with a frenzy that marked the production of Spitfires during the war 482 01:00:26,862 --> 01:00:33,131 Phone-ins proliferate, choked with calls from the semi-literate, the bigoted and the barmy 483 01:00:33,268 --> 01:00:39,731 Opinion polls, the entrails of democracy, are picked over for prophetic insights 484 01:00:40,308 --> 01:00:45,769 We've become a nation of babbling backseat cab-drivers 485 01:00:46,047 --> 01:00:48,311 "What are you giving up for Lent?" I was asked yesterday 486 01:00:48,450 --> 01:00:51,181 "Opinions", I said. "Permanently!" 487 01:00:52,187 --> 01:00:54,155 Ha bloody ha! 488 01:00:54,589 --> 01:00:59,584 Well, to answer your earlier question, I'm off to the British Library 489 01:00:59,728 --> 01:01:02,060 Want to come'? You could pick up... 490 01:01:04,199 --> 01:01:06,463 an education! 491 01:01:31,760 --> 01:01:37,358 The London Gazette, October 9th, 1701 492 01:01:38,366 --> 01:01:43,896 "The score ofthe music for the Fairie Queen, set by the late Mr Henry Purcell... 493 01:01:44,039 --> 01:01:47,873 and belonging to the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden in London... 494 01:01:48,009 --> 01:01:50,671 being lost by his death... 495 01:01:50,812 --> 01:01:54,646 Whoever brings the said score to Mr Zachary Baggs... 496 01:01:55,350 --> 01:02:00,311 treasurer of the said theatre, shall have 2O guineas reward give him! 497 01:02:02,023 --> 01:02:04,856 God, the actual score 498 01:02:05,694 --> 01:02:09,392 Good for Mr Baggs! I hope he paid up 499 01:02:09,831 --> 01:02:13,893 2O guineas for such a priceless manuscript, eh'? 500 01:02:16,004 --> 01:02:21,704 "The Fairie Queen, first performed May 2nd, 1692" 501 01:02:21,977 --> 01:02:27,313 Some of it in PurcelPs own hand... so clear, so beautiful... 502 01:02:28,683 --> 01:02:30,151 What's this'? 503 01:02:30,285 --> 01:02:36,122 "We play loud or soft, according to our fancy, or the mood ofthe music" 504 01:02:40,495 --> 01:02:42,156 Blank pages! 505 01:02:42,297 --> 01:02:47,133 "Here follows..." But what'? What on earth did they do'? 506 01:02:47,836 --> 01:02:50,635 "Let kindness be our guide..." 507 01:02:52,207 --> 01:02:56,872 "The irony of love... The tolerance of hope" 508 01:02:57,912 --> 01:03:02,645 "Still and soften the sound as shades in needlework..." 509 01:03:03,451 --> 01:03:06,785 Give an actor directions like that and he'll do what he likes 510 01:03:07,455 --> 01:03:10,254 Make it up as he goes along! 511 01:03:12,294 --> 01:03:17,789 Ififlliillflllil 512 01:03:44,693 --> 01:03:46,684 From hence you may... 513 01:03:51,933 --> 01:03:58,999 From hence you may look back on Civil Rage and viewthe ruins of a former age 514 01:03:59,474 --> 01:04:02,739 Here a New World its glories may unfold... 515 01:04:03,078 --> 01:04:07,379 and here be saved the remnants ofthe old 516 01:04:08,917 --> 01:04:11,978 But while your days on public thoughts are bent... 517 01:04:12,887 --> 01:04:16,846 past ills to heal, and future to prevent... 518 01:04:17,425 --> 01:04:20,952 some vacant hours allow to your delight... 519 01:04:21,963 --> 01:04:26,491 mirth is the pleasing business of the night 520 01:05:32,901 --> 01:05:37,031 Hush, hush, no more 521 01:05:45,280 --> 01:05:47,476 Be silent 522 01:05:49,717 --> 01:05:53,415 Sweet repose has closed her eyes 523 01:06:00,695 --> 01:06:05,531 Soft as feathered snow does fall 524 01:06:06,835 --> 01:06:10,100 Softly, softly... 525 01:06:12,974 --> 01:06:14,965 Softly 526 01:07:25,146 --> 01:07:28,047 Hard by Pall Mall lives a wench called Nell... 527 01:07:28,783 --> 01:07:31,115 King Charles the Second he kept her 528 01:07:32,020 --> 01:07:34,489 She hath got a trick to handle his prick... 529 01:07:34,889 --> 01:07:38,052 but never lays hands on his sceptre! 530 01:07:38,326 --> 01:07:40,294 Where did you get that'? 531 01:07:40,795 --> 01:07:44,254 Said at the time, sweetheart, a lot of scurrilous poetry about at the time 532 01:07:44,399 --> 01:07:48,233 And dirty ditties too - Purcell wrote quite a few 533 01:07:48,369 --> 01:07:50,736 Just imagine what he must have seen growing up... 534 01:07:50,872 --> 01:07:56,072 in that stew of "luxury and inexpressible profaneness" 535 01:08:13,861 --> 01:08:15,829 By the time he came of age... 536 01:08:15,964 --> 01:08:18,797 young Harry was already well established at the court 537 01:08:19,334 --> 01:08:21,302 Organist at Westminster Abbey... 538 01:08:21,569 --> 01:08:24,800 Composer in Ordinary like his uncle before him... 539 01:08:24,939 --> 01:08:26,907 Keeper of the Kings fiddles 540 01:08:27,308 --> 01:08:29,800 Still with his boyhood friend, Pelham 541 01:08:30,345 --> 01:08:32,575 Still a boy himself 542 01:08:33,147 --> 01:08:36,583 I remember, I remember... 543 01:08:37,051 --> 01:08:39,019 You Harry... - I shall not! 544 01:08:39,153 --> 01:08:42,020 If not you, then I must and I cannot for I am just married myself... 545 01:08:42,156 --> 01:08:44,989 and not an instant would I spend away from it 546 01:08:45,426 --> 01:08:50,762 Marriage... Oh do, Harry, what will you learn, the King commands it! 547 01:08:50,898 --> 01:08:54,664 L-low does he'? - He commands me and I command you 548 01:08:55,703 --> 01:08:58,035 It's French! - It is 549 01:08:58,172 --> 01:09:01,142 'I'llH�1IIKfll'KIl, BID 550 01:09:01,275 --> 01:09:04,734 But not this... "The Marriage of Bacchus"! 551 01:09:05,647 --> 01:09:08,378 Does he hate his brother so much he would give him this is a wedding gift'? 552 01:09:08,516 --> 01:09:12,009 No, no, no. This rivalry... between the King's Company and his brother's... 553 01:09:12,153 --> 01:09:14,588 James? Well, he ne'er troubled his head with too much thinking 554 01:09:14,722 --> 01:09:18,556 If his brotherwants a French play, then so must Charles 555 01:09:18,693 --> 01:09:20,661 The cost of it! 556 01:09:21,029 --> 01:09:24,988 London is not big enough for two theatre companies, I tell you 557 01:09:26,034 --> 01:09:28,093 Isn't she wonderful? 558 01:09:28,236 --> 01:09:30,728 Wonderfully large, she certainly is 559 01:09:31,873 --> 01:09:33,671 Isn't she French'? 560 01:09:33,808 --> 01:09:35,936 Much the same as you were, your first week back from Paris 561 01:09:36,077 --> 01:09:40,480 In the King's service, Harry, the Secret Service 562 01:09:40,615 --> 01:09:42,811 I remember it well, the complete Monsieur 563 01:09:42,950 --> 01:09:47,786 Monsieur Pefam Umfraise ofthe Chapel Royal, full of Moli�re... 564 01:09:47,922 --> 01:09:52,587 I 'ave eeet - I will 'ave 'er, sir! - Thought you might, Monsieur 565 01:09:54,262 --> 01:10:00,031 I can't play it, Monsieur, I can't play this! Too many notes... impossible! 566 01:10:01,302 --> 01:10:05,296 And could he, it would be dreary and incomprehensible 567 01:10:05,540 --> 01:10:08,840 There may be some merit... - None, I shall not! 568 01:10:22,724 --> 01:10:26,058 All human things are subject to decay 569 01:10:26,194 --> 01:10:30,654 So when Fate summons, e'en a Monarch must obey 570 01:10:31,666 --> 01:10:37,833 And yet, a setting sun describes a track of glory in the skies 571 01:10:50,351 --> 01:10:52,820 The King was grown old 572 01:10:53,788 --> 01:10:57,452 Only his horses at Newmarket seemed to please him 573 01:10:57,658 --> 01:11:02,721 Did I tell you'? He founded the great stables at Newmarket 574 01:11:03,231 --> 01:11:06,997 Champion jockey he was, with his brother, James 575 01:11:07,635 --> 01:11:10,969 James, waiting, watching... 576 01:11:15,176 --> 01:11:19,511 ullQillllilllii iiliflfll- 577 01:11:19,647 --> 01:11:22,776 so whistled as he went, for want of thought 578 01:11:23,985 --> 01:11:28,479 hlQHIIIilllllll Iilii- 579 01:11:28,956 --> 01:11:33,120 to be the heir, yet always made to wait 580 01:11:34,061 --> 01:11:39,295 What Charles wanted was for the Crown itself to be extraordinary... 581 01:11:41,202 --> 01:11:42,533 Not like today... 582 01:11:42,670 --> 01:11:47,369 when the monarchy isn't even the tarnished gold fillings in a mouthful of decay 583 01:12:04,525 --> 01:12:07,654 The rot set in, of course, with Queen Victoria 584 01:12:07,795 --> 01:12:12,824 That no-neck little widow who spent most ofthe 6O glorious years of her reign... 585 01:12:12,967 --> 01:12:17,131 skulking behind closed portcullis doors, leading a life of ineffable dullness... 586 01:12:17,271 --> 01:12:20,536 snapping at her huge family and foreign relations 587 01:12:20,675 --> 01:12:24,839 Her husband, quite understandably, thought she was mad 588 01:12:30,885 --> 01:12:36,790 The King still loved the ladies of course. The latest being Mistress Louise... 589 01:12:37,091 --> 01:12:41,551 the "Duchess" of Portsmouth whom he had known for some time... 590 01:12:41,996 --> 01:12:46,433 but who was French, Catholic - and called "Fubbs" 591 01:12:46,701 --> 01:12:48,999 Why'? I was never able to discover 592 01:12:54,442 --> 01:13:00,006 Her son, the "Duke" of Richmond, also founded a racecourse I'm told... 593 01:13:00,147 --> 01:13:02,206 at Goodwood 594 01:13:03,718 --> 01:13:08,053 Butch, a merry Monarch, scandalous but poor... 595 01:13:08,422 --> 01:13:11,517 restless he rolled about from whore to whore 596 01:13:14,328 --> 01:13:17,992 And he still loved his music, though he did not pay for it 597 01:13:18,799 --> 01:13:22,099 Young Harry was always with him - and with him... 598 01:13:23,070 --> 01:13:25,630 his new lady, Frances - 599 01:13:26,173 --> 01:13:31,373 to provide a welcome ode or an anthem, whatever was required 600 01:13:33,247 --> 01:13:36,080 No matter that plot and counterplot... 601 01:13:36,217 --> 01:13:40,814 the scourge of violence lurked everywhere, t'other side of the hangings 602 01:13:43,124 --> 01:13:46,924 Remember'? Returns it to the memory'? 603 01:13:47,995 --> 01:13:52,831 The great pope-burning processions... Does the memoryjog'? 604 01:13:53,167 --> 01:13:57,263 Bread and carnivals... Few took them seriously 605 01:13:58,673 --> 01:14:04,874 The King knew men to a hair and never let them forget it 606 01:14:06,347 --> 01:14:10,215 Do you see them, of his loins not one legitimate 607 01:14:10,351 --> 01:14:13,082 He has peopled the aristocracy of England! 608 01:14:13,220 --> 01:14:15,450 The Queen is barren 609 01:14:15,923 --> 01:14:17,891 He should rid himself of her 610 01:14:18,025 --> 01:14:21,586 lf he will not, he must declare you Duke of Monmouth and his heir 611 01:14:21,729 --> 01:14:26,633 As first born, bastard or no, you could be King, young man 612 01:14:30,705 --> 01:14:34,699 The tragedy was that the King had no children of his own 613 01:14:36,010 --> 01:14:38,604 No legitimate children 614 01:14:53,561 --> 01:14:57,555 His bastard son, Monmouth, was always plotting against him 615 01:14:59,133 --> 01:15:03,570 He loved his son, but he was not his heir 616 01:15:07,174 --> 01:15:09,575 He was not the Crown 617 01:15:11,245 --> 01:15:16,012 Nature and Nature's Laws lay hid in night... 618 01:15:16,550 --> 01:15:20,077 'til God said: "Let there be Newton" 619 01:15:20,254 --> 01:15:23,713 And all was... light! 620 01:15:33,501 --> 01:15:36,994 Yes, the honour is... 621 01:15:43,044 --> 01:15:46,207 Overwhelming'? - No, I am not overwhelmed 622 01:15:46,714 --> 01:15:49,684 I am perfectly capable of arranging the music... 623 01:15:49,817 --> 01:15:53,253 for the announcement of the wedding of your niece, the Princess Mary... 624 01:15:54,021 --> 01:15:58,618 hfiflfliilll-IIXQ Iii 625 01:15:59,393 --> 01:16:00,883 and I am... 626 01:16:06,801 --> 01:16:08,132 Overwhelmed'? 627 01:16:11,005 --> 01:16:14,600 Your Majesty, may I humbly submit... 628 01:16:14,775 --> 01:16:16,573 Ah, Squire Dryden 629 01:16:20,581 --> 01:16:27,214 "lf love and honour now are higher raised, 'tis not the poet, but the age is praised 630 01:16:27,721 --> 01:16:31,089 Wit's not arrived to a more high degree... 631 01:16:31,225 --> 01:16:35,594 our native language more refined and free" 632 01:16:51,078 --> 01:16:55,948 XIII, KI, CUEI-IIQ Dhlfil- 633 01:16:56,083 --> 01:17:01,681 take this man, William, as your dearly beloved husband'? 634 01:17:01,956 --> 01:17:06,621 And wilt thou, William Henry, Prince of Orange... 635 01:17:06,760 --> 01:17:11,459 take this woman, Mary, as your dearly beloved wife'? 636 01:17:12,233 --> 01:17:18,969 With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship... 637 01:17:19,406 --> 01:17:23,809 and with all my worldly goods I thee endow 638 01:17:24,845 --> 01:17:31,649 I now pronounce ye man and wife, till death do ye part 639 01:17:32,686 --> 01:17:37,351 Gather it up girl, it is all clear gain 640 01:17:38,225 --> 01:17:44,722 Those whom God hath joined together, let no man put asunder 641 01:18:18,599 --> 01:18:20,761 You have to get used to my habits! 642 01:18:24,738 --> 01:18:27,969 We may have to live together for a long while! 643 01:18:56,570 --> 01:18:59,699 Have you told the King'? - Told the King'? 644 01:18:59,840 --> 01:19:03,208 I don't talk to the King, unless he talks to me, which... 645 01:19:03,344 --> 01:19:08,305 on the matter of my marriage to Frances, which we are determined shall... 646 01:19:08,449 --> 01:19:10,918 We are determined 647 01:19:12,786 --> 01:19:15,847 ulna mining 648 01:19:18,626 --> 01:19:20,594 I shall take the sacrament 649 01:19:20,728 --> 01:19:22,457 Look... 650 01:19:22,596 --> 01:19:27,898 She, you Frances, are Flanders and Catholic 651 01:19:28,035 --> 01:19:32,597 Harry here, now he is... Well, he's not 652 01:19:32,973 --> 01:19:37,206 Dryden is, certainly, but now we are none of us of... 653 01:19:37,378 --> 01:19:40,905 Ofthe old religion - Dare not be 654 01:19:41,048 --> 01:19:43,449 The King is... secretly 655 01:19:43,584 --> 01:19:47,885 You must not say that. That is not true 656 01:19:49,923 --> 01:19:52,790 The nation would be rent were it so again 657 01:19:52,926 --> 01:19:58,524 Up and down the land we would... Oh, it would be awful, as it was 658 01:20:01,101 --> 01:20:05,129 You may not remember how we were at throats... 659 01:20:05,472 --> 01:20:10,000 Englishmen at the throats of other Englishmen 660 01:20:10,210 --> 01:20:12,542 We will be married 661 01:20:13,280 --> 01:20:15,840 We are married in love 662 01:20:18,285 --> 01:20:23,121 Well... I shall not tell the King 663 01:20:26,660 --> 01:20:29,652 Oh, do take care Master Purcell 664 01:20:32,900 --> 01:20:37,633 From this blessed man, music just seemed to flow 665 01:20:38,305 --> 01:20:41,138 Motets, anthems, songs... 666 01:20:42,209 --> 01:20:45,839 all manner of music for all manner of occasions 667 01:20:46,347 --> 01:20:50,750 There was no dam, no stop to his golden flask 668 01:20:51,452 --> 01:20:53,682 He was... unstoppable 669 01:20:54,655 --> 01:20:57,750 What do it say'? - Vivace 670 01:20:58,759 --> 01:21:02,195 What do it mean'? - Fast and brisk 671 01:21:02,396 --> 01:21:07,994 Why don't you say so, young man'? Ain't it French enough for you'? 672 01:21:08,902 --> 01:21:11,337 What do I 'grave down here 673 01:21:12,239 --> 01:21:16,801 Adagio, if you would take the very great kindness, sir 674 01:21:36,163 --> 01:21:39,724 'IIQIHQKIDIIIJ - K 675 01:21:39,867 --> 01:21:43,599 Oddsfish, do you mean to set that? - Yes 676 01:21:44,671 --> 01:21:48,539 Oh, how your brothers, Charlie and... Joe'? 677 01:21:48,675 --> 01:21:52,839 Are they still travelling abroad - They must, they promised the King... 678 01:21:52,980 --> 01:21:56,280 "for he commandeth and raiseth up the stormy wind... 679 01:21:56,417 --> 01:22:00,752 which lifteth up the waves thereof, and we near to drowned" 680 01:22:01,655 --> 01:22:03,282 Very good! 681 01:22:03,690 --> 01:22:05,658 You can set that... 682 01:22:07,361 --> 01:22:12,322 as long as you promise to abandon your detestable viols! 683 01:22:12,466 --> 01:22:14,195 What, and achieve a fiddle? 684 01:22:16,336 --> 01:22:18,430 Oh, Harry, Harry, Harry... 685 01:22:21,775 --> 01:22:24,301 I will travel no more 686 01:22:24,945 --> 01:22:28,813 I resolve that I shall go abroad no more 687 01:22:28,949 --> 01:22:31,247 It's unimaginable, who would think it or plot it'? 688 01:22:31,385 --> 01:22:33,683 Some would, some do 689 01:22:33,821 --> 01:22:38,054 But then I am beset by plots, am I not, my Lord Shaftesbury'? 690 01:22:41,628 --> 01:22:44,962 When I die... - God save your Majesty! 691 01:22:45,098 --> 01:22:48,659 ...l know not what my brother might do 692 01:22:48,802 --> 01:22:55,367 I am much afraid that he may be obliged to travel again, for his religion... 693 01:22:56,210 --> 01:23:00,738 But I shall take care to leave my kingdom at peace... 694 01:23:00,881 --> 01:23:04,078 wishing that he may long keep it so 695 01:23:06,553 --> 01:23:12,890 But these are all my fears, little of my hopes and less of my reason 696 01:23:14,394 --> 01:23:16,362 I tell you... 697 01:23:17,197 --> 01:23:19,666 poets... that one... 698 01:23:20,567 --> 01:23:23,935 my bastard, pretty Prince Perkin... 699 01:23:24,104 --> 01:23:26,596 will be put on the throne by the Protestants... 700 01:23:26,740 --> 01:23:29,903 by the Whigs, under Shaftesbury - 701 01:23:30,177 --> 01:23:34,444 the loudest bagpipe in the squeaky train 702 01:23:35,482 --> 01:23:40,852 You must fight Shaftesbury for me, you must fight popery too 703 01:23:44,625 --> 01:23:46,719 I'm so weary 704 01:23:48,729 --> 01:23:52,290 Do excuse me for taking such a long time a-dying 705 01:23:55,102 --> 01:24:02,236 Doomsday, my Lord Shaftesbury, we shall see whose arse is blackest 706 01:24:16,356 --> 01:24:19,155 Listen awhile and I'll tell you a tale... 707 01:24:19,326 --> 01:24:22,990 of a little device called the Protestant flail 708 01:24:23,130 --> 01:24:26,498 This flail is made ofthe finest new wood... 709 01:24:26,633 --> 01:24:30,900 for the splitting of brains and the shedding of blood 710 01:24:31,038 --> 01:24:35,737 With a thump-a-thump thump, a thump-a-thump thump... 711 01:24:47,054 --> 01:24:50,820 Come out, you papist whore! 712 01:24:52,626 --> 01:24:55,027 Pray good people, be civil! 713 01:24:55,162 --> 01:24:57,756 The King's whore I may be, but I'm his Protestant whore! 714 01:25:29,329 --> 01:25:34,893 Among the Loyalist people, I am your spokesman... 715 01:25:35,035 --> 01:25:39,472 and by the grace of God nobody will silence me 716 01:26:20,147 --> 01:26:27,247 l, Titus Oates, tell you Lords, there is a popish plot in the land... 717 01:26:27,387 --> 01:26:31,119 for the destruction of his Majesty King Charles... 718 01:26:31,258 --> 01:26:37,857 and that man, he, Lord Stafford, he took from me a commission... 719 01:26:38,398 --> 01:26:41,561 that I was give by Jesuits... 720 01:26:41,702 --> 01:26:46,401 that he should act as Paymaster General of the Pope's army... 721 01:26:48,508 --> 01:26:50,977 to ravage this land! 722 01:26:51,244 --> 01:26:55,875 ...like the prigs and bullies who would now would have dominion over our daily lives 723 01:26:56,283 --> 01:26:58,513 All ofthis will have to go, you know 724 01:26:58,652 --> 01:27:01,451 No one will put up with all this violence, not on the telly anyway 725 01:27:01,588 --> 01:27:03,920 No one will put up the money to make the thing 726 01:27:04,458 --> 01:27:06,187 Violence'? 727 01:27:06,326 --> 01:27:09,387 What about the violence of threatened profit? 728 01:27:09,529 --> 01:27:11,395 The great English bourgeoisie... 729 01:27:11,531 --> 01:27:13,932 who claim to believe in the virtue of "leaving things alone"... 730 01:27:14,067 --> 01:27:19,528 but whose objectives narrow down to a painful sore of human undernourishment'? 731 01:27:19,906 --> 01:27:23,706 Those are the people, the "disgusted of Tunbridge Wells"... 732 01:27:23,844 --> 01:27:26,711 who are, in reality, possessed of the real violence... 733 01:27:26,847 --> 01:27:30,340 the greedy desire to order the lives of all... 734 01:27:30,484 --> 01:27:32,646 especially those who speak out of turn... 735 01:27:32,819 --> 01:27:36,653 the sexually immoral - they think - like King Charles... 736 01:27:36,790 --> 01:27:40,954 or those who simply blaze forth their youth... 737 01:27:41,128 --> 01:27:44,655 like Purcell, Newton, Wren, the whole lot of 'em 738 01:27:44,798 --> 01:27:49,964 Then is the voice of Jeremiah heard loud and clear in the land... 739 01:27:50,303 --> 01:27:53,398 or at least in the columns of the Daily Telegraph! 740 01:27:53,573 --> 01:27:57,874 You're just a bloody socialist! - Socialist? Ha! 741 01:27:59,379 --> 01:28:03,316 To be a socialist today, my dear old Bill... 742 01:28:03,450 --> 01:28:06,476 is like being in the priesthood in a world without God... 743 01:28:06,620 --> 01:28:08,987 still trying to remember the Order of Service... 744 01:28:09,122 --> 01:28:13,286 prattling ceaselessly about the "classless society"... 745 01:28:13,426 --> 01:28:17,021 to a middle class it dare not defy 746 01:28:18,598 --> 01:28:22,933 And what are you doing'? Trying to tune into God'? 747 01:28:23,069 --> 01:28:26,528 No, the Overseas Service. We've got a play on, remember? 748 01:28:28,341 --> 01:28:30,105 This is London... 749 01:28:35,248 --> 01:28:38,980 Well, at least the BBC hasn't forgotten the Empire! 750 01:28:48,962 --> 01:28:52,990 Oh, no. I'm dogged by that bloody tune 751 01:28:54,534 --> 01:28:58,937 They've whistled it, sung it, jeered it up and down the length ofthe land 752 01:28:59,072 --> 01:29:02,599 Blood will flow from it, l'll warrant, before we have our quietude again 753 01:29:02,742 --> 01:29:05,768 It's become an incitement, never an accompaniment... 754 01:29:05,912 --> 01:29:08,210 I can't hold myself responsible 755 01:29:08,615 --> 01:29:11,915 It is believed the man Oates lies 756 01:29:12,786 --> 01:29:15,050 It's not believed there was any plot at all 757 01:29:15,188 --> 01:29:19,716 I shall use it as a ground since that requires so littlejudgment 758 01:29:19,860 --> 01:29:24,593 And you would set "Richard ll", the tale of a usurper 759 01:29:24,731 --> 01:29:29,191 l have renamed it "The Sicilian Usurper". None shall know 760 01:29:30,237 --> 01:29:34,367 Bejudge yourself, I'll bring it to the test 761 01:29:34,841 --> 01:29:40,439 Which is the basest creature, man or beast? 762 01:29:42,382 --> 01:29:46,649 Birds feed on birds, beasts on each other prey... 763 01:29:47,520 --> 01:29:52,082 but savage Man alone does Man betray 764 01:30:09,309 --> 01:30:13,075 The winter which came in 1684 was savage 765 01:30:15,081 --> 01:30:17,345 The Thames froze over 766 01:30:18,652 --> 01:30:21,144 The King became gravely ill 767 01:30:23,256 --> 01:30:25,224 We were all afraid 768 01:30:26,593 --> 01:30:28,561 I'm going blind 769 01:30:29,362 --> 01:30:31,387 I shall write no more 770 01:30:32,599 --> 01:30:35,933 I've written none of my diary for years 771 01:30:37,771 --> 01:30:43,403 This stinking city, very little food neither 772 01:30:44,744 --> 01:30:46,371 Because of the ice... 773 01:30:47,314 --> 01:30:50,375 They've arrested that pygmy, Shaftesbury, you know 774 01:30:51,217 --> 01:30:54,084 A glittering worm in excrement 775 01:30:55,255 --> 01:30:57,280 I am going blind, you know... 776 01:30:57,590 --> 01:31:02,357 Did you never hear the tale ofthe starving soldier... 777 01:31:02,495 --> 01:31:05,294 who was fighting in the Holy Crusade'? 778 01:31:05,432 --> 01:31:08,732 He was told by his officer that if he died in battle... 779 01:31:10,170 --> 01:31:13,800 he would dine in Paradise with the blessed Jesus 780 01:31:15,308 --> 01:31:18,767 Well, the soldier ran away, he didn't want to fight 781 01:31:19,746 --> 01:31:22,716 And when he returned after the battle... 782 01:31:23,183 --> 01:31:27,177 the officer asked him why he had run away 783 01:31:28,421 --> 01:31:31,584 "Did you not want to dine with Christ?" he asked 784 01:31:32,092 --> 01:31:36,495 And the soldier replied, "No, I'm fasting today... 785 01:31:36,696 --> 01:31:40,064 fretting my pygmy body to decay" 786 01:31:41,468 --> 01:31:45,530 Which body... they strung up 787 01:31:47,540 --> 01:31:51,067 It's my blindness, you know 788 01:32:22,709 --> 01:32:24,609 We smelled death in the air 789 01:32:27,881 --> 01:32:31,408 Harry's firstborn... died 790 01:32:32,419 --> 01:32:37,380 IIll-uihpl-ll'. lilfli 791 01:32:52,038 --> 01:32:55,338 Young Harry worked on, worked on... 792 01:32:55,975 --> 01:33:01,106 Asked to judge which was the best organ in the land! I ask you! 793 01:33:01,247 --> 01:33:08,017 Oh, what an absurdity at times does possess us... I ask you! 794 01:33:08,888 --> 01:33:12,552 A most unwarrantable act of hostility! 795 01:33:21,334 --> 01:33:28,001 Since there is only one organ may be played, perhaps we should play it 796 01:33:31,111 --> 01:33:34,479 The King is dead! Dead! 797 01:33:44,290 --> 01:33:47,487 A Prince of so many virtues... 798 01:33:48,828 --> 01:33:52,560 Gracious on... so many occasions 799 01:34:20,760 --> 01:34:24,594 Oh, hide me, Frances. Hide me 800 01:34:26,132 --> 01:34:28,965 Hide me from the light of day 801 01:35:20,820 --> 01:35:25,087 And with the new King marched General Disorder 802 01:35:35,301 --> 01:35:40,239 The theatre in confusion - riots, hangings... 803 01:35:40,607 --> 01:35:43,633 The stink of revolution once again in the air 804 01:35:46,312 --> 01:35:50,749 Fear stalked the land in dread of what we thought might come 805 01:35:52,118 --> 01:35:56,919 Men set their door against the setting sun 806 01:36:25,785 --> 01:36:28,516 "ifllllq! -$I 807 01:36:28,821 --> 01:36:30,789 Ever'? - What about'? 808 01:36:31,090 --> 01:36:33,252 You know... 809 01:36:33,860 --> 01:36:36,522 they're arresting those who did... 810 01:36:37,997 --> 01:36:42,798 We have a Catholic King on the throne - Yes, but will he pay his debts? 811 01:36:43,136 --> 01:36:47,937 They say the Queen's Benedictines are costing 1,500 a year 812 01:36:52,612 --> 01:36:56,242 I fear this may well be the end of my church music 813 01:36:57,116 --> 01:36:59,084 I fear it may 814 01:37:23,910 --> 01:37:27,141 Why sleeps the viol and the lute'? 815 01:37:27,947 --> 01:37:31,884 Why hangs untuned the idle lyre'? 816 01:37:37,857 --> 01:37:41,953 They are come for us! - No, no, there's no need to be afraid 817 01:37:55,375 --> 01:37:59,334 Henry Purcell, Composer in Ordinary to the King's Music'? 818 01:38:00,079 --> 01:38:01,706 I'm still that'? 819 01:38:04,150 --> 01:38:07,916 Clerk ofthe Cheque Extraordinary to His Majesty King James... 820 01:38:08,054 --> 01:38:10,785 Colonel Wharton at your service, sir 821 01:38:18,798 --> 01:38:21,199 I shall want a receipt, sir 822 01:38:23,002 --> 01:38:27,940 Monies for repairing the King's instruments before his Coronation 823 01:38:39,318 --> 01:38:41,286 What is it'? 824 01:38:46,592 --> 01:38:49,562 From the King - out of the Secret Service money - 825 01:38:49,862 --> 01:38:54,459 34 pounds and 12 shillings... for erecting an organ! 826 01:39:17,023 --> 01:39:20,288 But life continued, it always does 827 01:39:20,526 --> 01:39:24,588 l'_"_~h_' i_ n 828 01:39:25,565 --> 01:39:27,659 And while others fluttered in the wind... 829 01:39:27,800 --> 01:39:33,261 he stood shoulder to shoulderwith those he loved and with those who loved him 830 01:39:35,641 --> 01:39:37,302 Tell me, you Gods... 831 01:39:37,443 --> 01:39:42,847 why do vain men pursue with endless toil each object that is new... 832 01:39:42,982 --> 01:39:46,145 and cast aside that which they know is true'? 833 01:39:46,419 --> 01:39:49,912 Paid for erecting an organ! 834 01:39:50,056 --> 01:39:54,186 What art thou, what art thou'? Confess! 835 01:39:54,327 --> 01:39:56,489 Giovanni Draghi. At your service, sir 836 01:39:56,629 --> 01:39:59,121 Too many Italians at Court! 837 01:39:59,298 --> 01:40:04,532 There's nothing wrong with being Italian. Italians are now in favour at Court 838 01:40:04,670 --> 01:40:07,264 I'm very proud to be Italian 839 01:40:07,406 --> 01:40:11,343 And I'm very proud to admit ajust imitation of your Italian Masters... 840 01:40:11,477 --> 01:40:15,778 who do bring seriousness and gravity into vogue, nay reputation... 841 01:40:15,915 --> 01:40:21,217 against the levity and balladry of our neighbours, the French! 842 01:40:22,421 --> 01:40:27,518 None may sing as low as my gosling 843 01:40:27,960 --> 01:40:31,225 He called me his gosling 844 01:40:31,364 --> 01:40:34,527 Oh do fill up my bowl... 845 01:40:35,268 --> 01:40:39,865 'IIILHQIIIIIIIIQ I11- 846 01:40:40,139 --> 01:40:42,301 For God' s sake, sing us a catch... 847 01:41:36,662 --> 01:41:39,131 We must play - What? 848 01:41:39,732 --> 01:41:42,326 Blind man's buff! 849 01:41:45,871 --> 01:41:50,001 The 107th Psalm. I set it 850 01:41:50,276 --> 01:41:55,077 Too late. The King, dead, will never hear it 851 01:41:56,716 --> 01:42:01,119 l shall lower it into his grave 852 01:42:24,076 --> 01:42:26,568 Oh, God, I'm drunk! 853 01:43:00,613 --> 01:43:05,050 He was a great King, would set us all... 854 01:43:05,484 --> 01:43:09,318 England too... all... all up 855 01:43:10,823 --> 01:43:14,919 Well, now we have another 856 01:43:16,062 --> 01:43:18,087 His brother 857 01:43:30,176 --> 01:43:34,875 England declined. King James was Catholic 858 01:43:35,247 --> 01:43:37,477 But then, so too was I 859 01:43:38,484 --> 01:43:41,784 Debts piled, bankers grew fat 860 01:43:41,954 --> 01:43:43,683 Bankruptcy flourished 861 01:43:44,657 --> 01:43:48,787 Poverty and death dropped on us everywhere 862 01:45:55,788 --> 01:46:01,158 "windy. lnlnuuunn and! 863 01:46:03,462 --> 01:46:06,898 Yodrejealous, that's all! - Of yourwork'? Come on! 864 01:46:07,032 --> 01:46:10,263 Jealousy, that poisons passion... - And despair that dies for love 865 01:46:10,402 --> 01:46:13,372 Yes, I have read the beginning of your rotten little play, you know 866 01:46:13,505 --> 01:46:15,997 Rotten? Little? 867 01:46:27,987 --> 01:46:30,957 Do you know what this country has become'? 868 01:46:31,957 --> 01:46:35,018 Once we had a church built upon a rock 869 01:46:35,861 --> 01:46:39,798 Nowthe rock has been bulldozed and with it our faith 870 01:46:40,866 --> 01:46:45,064 What we're left with is a crawling underside... 871 01:46:45,204 --> 01:46:49,607 of expediency and dishonour, beholden to Brussels... 872 01:46:50,409 --> 01:46:55,813 wherein the crooked shall be made straight and the rough places plain 873 01:46:57,149 --> 01:47:03,179 England, my England, is shuffling about like an old tramp... 874 01:47:03,322 --> 01:47:07,987 begging for a pair of boots at the tradesman's entrance of Europe 875 01:47:09,628 --> 01:47:12,029 Europe is the future and you know it! 876 01:47:12,998 --> 01:47:18,732 "Europe" is an adroit piece of brand-name dropping... 877 01:47:19,238 --> 01:47:22,003 which will turn democracy into a hoax - 878 01:47:23,242 --> 01:47:29,443 a Masonic Lodge of Commerce with a squalid membership of political mercenaries 879 01:47:29,682 --> 01:47:34,984 The English conscience, for so many years out for hire or rent... 880 01:47:35,621 --> 01:47:39,285 is now up for outright purchase 881 01:47:40,326 --> 01:47:43,023 The "Common Market"... 882 01:47:43,963 --> 01:47:47,797 is about as drab a name for such a monumental swindle... 883 01:47:47,933 --> 01:47:52,200 since some bright little German ad-man... 884 01:47:52,338 --> 01:47:57,742 thought of putting wholesale murder onto the market as National Socialism 885 01:48:02,881 --> 01:48:05,851 And then, another miracle... 886 01:48:17,262 --> 01:48:19,822 Without a blow, James was gone... 887 01:48:19,965 --> 01:48:23,924 prised out by the old aristocracy which was Protestant... 888 01:48:24,069 --> 01:48:26,834 and would not tolerate him any more... 889 01:48:26,972 --> 01:48:30,875 and went to his daughter, Mary, and her husband, William of Orange... 890 01:48:31,010 --> 01:48:35,208 who landed at Torbay, to general acclaim assured 891 01:48:35,481 --> 01:48:38,610 See the flags and streamers curling... 892 01:48:38,751 --> 01:48:42,847 anchors weighing, sails unfurling! 893 01:48:45,824 --> 01:48:49,055 Where is the Queen? Oh, do hurry up! 894 01:50:04,937 --> 01:50:09,204 It seemed a new and glorious age had arrived 895 01:50:10,109 --> 01:50:11,577 And for young Harry'? 896 01:50:11,944 --> 01:50:15,471 You are to receive all your monies, Master Purcell 897 01:50:16,648 --> 01:50:19,015 I am honoured, Majesty 898 01:50:19,585 --> 01:50:22,452 There is great want among the music 899 01:50:23,655 --> 01:50:28,456 There is great want in the Nation, Master Purcell 900 01:50:29,027 --> 01:50:34,397 For peace and prosperity, Majesty, there is a great yearning 901 01:50:36,034 --> 01:50:41,996 There is a great yearning, Master Purcell, for martial music 902 01:50:42,608 --> 01:50:47,444 Oboes and trumpets, Master Purcell 903 01:50:48,247 --> 01:50:53,913 William... will want you to write martial themes... 904 01:50:54,052 --> 01:50:59,218 such as "Sound the Trumpet", "Beat the Drums"... 905 01:51:01,493 --> 01:51:06,363 written, I believe, for my father the late King, James that is... 906 01:51:06,865 --> 01:51:10,028 so lately fled these shores 907 01:51:11,036 --> 01:51:15,405 Oh, you have but to command, Majesty 908 01:51:15,641 --> 01:51:19,077 Oh, but I do command, Master Purcell 909 01:51:19,311 --> 01:51:23,111 I command you to celebrate this... 910 01:51:23,382 --> 01:51:27,478 triumphant day, Master Purcell 911 01:53:15,394 --> 01:53:17,362 These sums of money, Mr Purcell... 912 01:53:17,496 --> 01:53:20,932 taken for admission to the organ loft for a better sight of the Coronation... 913 01:53:21,066 --> 01:53:23,262 are the right ofthe Abbey so to accrue, sirrah! 914 01:53:23,402 --> 01:53:25,632 Sirrah me not, Doctor Sprat! 915 01:53:25,771 --> 01:53:29,730 You may be Dean ofthe Abbey but I am in considerable station myself 916 01:53:29,875 --> 01:53:34,244 You are a minder ofthe instruments, sir and have no right to collect any monies. 917 01:53:34,379 --> 01:53:36,939 11131111. -1lil 918 01:53:37,082 --> 01:53:43,044 I am Composer in Ordinary! Organist, Copyist, and person of considerable worth 919 01:53:43,188 --> 01:53:48,217 A musician born to the Chapel Royal like my father and uncle also... 920 01:53:48,360 --> 01:53:50,727 my life lived here, my work for this place 921 01:53:50,862 --> 01:53:53,832 You will pay back every penny, sirrah! 922 01:53:55,100 --> 01:53:56,568 I shall not 923 01:53:56,702 --> 01:54:01,196 It is my perquisite as it has been the perquisite of every organist... 924 01:54:03,675 --> 01:54:06,201 You shall give all the money to Mr Needham, sir... 925 01:54:06,345 --> 01:54:09,747 or in default you will lose your place, Master Purcell! 926 01:54:29,267 --> 01:54:33,261 Beware, Saul to Endor comes... 927 01:54:33,638 --> 01:54:35,868 lam being dunned 928 01:54:36,007 --> 01:54:38,442 I am pursued for debt... 929 01:54:38,977 --> 01:54:41,207 damned for my religion! 930 01:54:46,184 --> 01:54:52,453 They say I must pay back the money I had for letting places in the organ loft 931 01:54:55,260 --> 01:54:58,355 It's always been done. I have the right 932 01:55:00,899 --> 01:55:02,833 I shall not 933 01:55:02,968 --> 01:55:06,427 Though my debts be such that I shall lose my house 934 01:55:06,938 --> 01:55:10,875 Many do boom and bust, these times... 935 01:55:12,210 --> 01:55:15,407 Nothing at the Court. Not any more 936 01:55:16,081 --> 01:55:20,541 The stage is the thing - for both of us 937 01:55:20,685 --> 01:55:22,779 I knewthat when I saw"Dioclesian" 938 01:55:22,921 --> 01:55:28,690 I said, here is an Englishman equal to anyone abroad! 939 01:55:28,827 --> 01:55:30,386 Did I not'? 940 01:55:31,363 --> 01:55:34,526 And here I have something... 941 01:55:36,768 --> 01:55:39,260 None need know 942 01:55:39,871 --> 01:55:44,433 "King Arthur", originally written for King Charles 943 01:55:57,322 --> 01:56:00,292 Too many words, too little action 944 01:56:02,961 --> 01:56:05,931 n~_u*'l'lluhlu- Illih ' 945 01:56:06,064 --> 01:56:09,364 I always thought we should have done that. Lancelot and Guinevere... 946 01:56:09,501 --> 01:56:12,732 and Merlin - great part for you! 947 01:56:14,239 --> 01:56:18,107 Words are free, Bill. Conscience is cheaper 948 01:56:40,065 --> 01:56:41,999 It will not serve! 949 01:56:42,133 --> 01:56:45,967 My brother Edward serves - in TyrconnePs Regiment in Ireland 950 01:56:46,104 --> 01:56:48,903 It has within it subversion and religion... 951 01:56:49,074 --> 01:56:53,705 and mention ofthe King's defeat at Mons, which is not politic nor is it true 952 01:56:53,845 --> 01:56:58,578 Nor may you say he has a mistress! - I say none ofthis, I simply set it 953 01:56:58,717 --> 01:57:02,585 It is a work for the theatre... an opera! 954 01:57:03,788 --> 01:57:09,158 Opera is a danger you will do best to avoid! 955 01:57:44,195 --> 01:57:49,725 "King Arthur"... an opera, written by Mr Dryden... 956 01:57:49,868 --> 01:57:54,362 was excellently adorned with scenes and machines... 957 01:57:54,506 --> 01:58:01,469 with dances made by Mr Josias Priest, at a total cost of a mere �3000! 958 01:58:02,814 --> 01:58:06,648 The musical part set by the famous Mr Purcell... 959 01:58:07,552 --> 01:58:11,455 whose yearly salary was �1 O0... 960 01:58:12,857 --> 01:58:17,920 with Lady Mary Tudor most excellently undressed as Cupid! 961 02:03:04,048 --> 02:03:08,576 The play and music pleased the Court and City... 962 02:03:08,953 --> 02:03:13,117 and being well performed, it was very gainful to the company 963 02:03:13,424 --> 02:03:16,917 It was awful, wife 964 02:03:17,061 --> 02:03:20,895 It was not heard for machinery, sliding shutters... 965 02:03:21,032 --> 02:03:26,095 roar of cannon, blast of trumpets and flights of... parrots! 966 02:03:27,505 --> 02:03:31,533 Betterton wants to do "The Fairie Queen". From Shakespeare. 967 02:03:31,843 --> 02:03:36,303 With text by that oaf, Sedley... 968 02:03:36,447 --> 02:03:41,886 the father ofthe late King's mistress, Mistress Catherine 969 02:03:45,857 --> 02:03:47,825 What of the Queen'? 970 02:03:47,959 --> 02:03:49,927 What of the Queen'? 971 02:03:52,030 --> 02:03:54,829 She clasped her hands... 972 02:03:55,600 --> 02:04:00,504 and smiled at me with such... such consideration 973 02:04:06,911 --> 02:04:08,879 Did she though'? 974 02:04:14,519 --> 02:04:16,510 And then she died - Who'? 975 02:04:16,654 --> 02:04:20,284 The Queen. Mary. Almost overnight 976 02:04:20,591 --> 02:04:23,925 Taken sick and died within a week 977 02:04:35,540 --> 02:04:39,101 A statistical survey ofthe health ofthe late 17th century... 978 02:04:39,243 --> 02:04:42,213 reveals that from every hundred births... 979 02:04:42,347 --> 02:04:46,306 only one in three lived beyond the age of six 980 02:04:48,186 --> 02:04:52,987 Queen Anne had 18 children. All died 981 02:04:55,927 --> 02:04:59,659 He cometh up, and is cut down like a flower 982 02:05:02,533 --> 02:05:04,763 Only one in 1O lived until they were 7O 983 02:05:04,902 --> 02:05:10,136 The most common disease was rickets, resulting in deformed limbs and scrofula... 984 02:05:10,274 --> 02:05:16,646 while spotted fever, pleurisy, pneumonia and above all, smallpox... 985 02:05:16,948 --> 02:05:21,215 killed two out of every five ofthe population 986 02:05:24,822 --> 02:05:28,816 The first symptoms of smallpox are shivering... 987 02:05:29,293 --> 02:05:33,423 followed by red spots on the skin, a rapid rise in temperature... 988 02:05:33,564 --> 02:05:38,525 vomiting, headaches, intolerance to light, a swollen tongue... 989 02:05:39,904 --> 02:05:43,397 haemorrhage of the skin, a tearing pain... 990 02:05:46,177 --> 02:05:48,145 and death 991 02:05:49,447 --> 02:05:52,417 Regular bleeding, by cutting into the patienfs veins... 992 02:05:52,550 --> 02:05:58,045 is thought to alleviate the suffering, although only temporarily 993 02:06:01,659 --> 02:06:09,032 Suffer us not at our last hour from any pains of death to fall from Thee... 994 02:07:34,819 --> 02:07:38,255 I fear I am becoming old... 995 02:07:39,690 --> 02:07:43,649 and infirmities come with age 996 02:07:48,566 --> 02:07:53,231 Where is my husband'? - Returning from Ireland, your Majesty 997 02:08:06,651 --> 02:08:10,815 I long for rest and peace 998 02:08:18,896 --> 02:08:21,365 A lion has died, you know 999 02:08:22,833 --> 02:08:24,801 At Christmas 1000 02:08:33,311 --> 02:08:37,612 A lion died when Charles... 1001 02:08:38,816 --> 02:08:40,875 the King... 1002 02:09:35,273 --> 02:09:37,264 Remember me... 1003 02:09:39,277 --> 02:09:45,740 and may my wrongs create no trouble in thy breast 1004 02:09:48,953 --> 02:09:51,615 No trouble in thy breast 1005 02:09:55,760 --> 02:09:58,127 She was only 32 1006 02:10:02,066 --> 02:10:04,467 He fleeth as it were a shadow 1007 02:10:04,602 --> 02:10:07,037 Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts 1008 02:10:07,171 --> 02:10:11,165 Shut not Thy merciful ears unto our prayers... 1009 02:10:11,309 --> 02:10:16,076 but spare us, Lord most holy, O God most mighty... 1010 02:10:22,853 --> 02:10:27,086 Her death broke young Harry. At least, that is my view 1011 02:10:27,992 --> 02:10:33,522 He tried his best to revive his "Dido", not one of mine, but some say his best 1012 02:10:34,532 --> 02:10:38,992 But he had no money, you see, so he had to play Belinda himself 1013 02:10:40,171 --> 02:10:41,969 What irony that was 1014 02:10:42,173 --> 02:10:44,642 My girls, Master Purcell! 1015 02:10:44,775 --> 02:10:50,179 My girls, my nymphs, my shepherds! What can be done, Master Purcell? 1016 02:10:50,514 --> 02:10:54,109 Cut them out, Mr Priest! 1017 02:10:56,854 --> 02:11:02,884 Belinda, the loyal servant of a Queen, who dies for love 1018 02:11:03,127 --> 02:11:06,461 I told you, when we first did this, some four years back... 1019 02:11:06,597 --> 02:11:11,694 although we did it in private, as we do now... cut them out! 1020 02:11:11,902 --> 02:11:14,928 They are a mediocrity! 1021 02:11:15,072 --> 02:11:18,531 The King would cut everything out, especially his musicians! 1022 02:11:18,676 --> 02:11:21,202 Ever gentle, ever smiling... 1023 02:11:21,345 --> 02:11:26,715 and the cares of life beguiling, Mr Priest. Begumng! 1024 02:11:29,253 --> 02:11:31,153 Beguiling! 1025 02:11:39,463 --> 02:11:42,023 Our world was disintegrating 1026 02:11:43,067 --> 02:11:48,005 We moved as in a dream, shadows without substance 1027 02:11:49,807 --> 02:11:54,540 Thus did our life become. 'Tis all a cheat 1028 02:11:55,713 --> 02:11:59,616 Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit 1029 02:12:00,317 --> 02:12:03,514 Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay 1030 02:12:04,155 --> 02:12:07,614 Tomorrow is falser than the former day 1031 02:12:08,592 --> 02:12:11,220 So when the last and dreadful hour... 1032 02:12:11,362 --> 02:12:14,525 this crumbling pageant shall devour... 1033 02:12:15,166 --> 02:12:18,727 shall the trumpet still be heard on high'? 1034 02:12:19,570 --> 02:12:26,237 No! The dead shall live, the living die... 1035 02:12:27,178 --> 02:12:31,046 while music shall untune the sky 1036 02:12:36,320 --> 02:12:39,346 No government has ever been or ever can be... 1037 02:12:39,490 --> 02:12:45,122 wherein Timeservers and Blackheads will not be uppermost 1038 02:12:47,431 --> 02:12:50,662 The persons only are changed 1039 02:12:51,802 --> 02:12:56,433 The samejuggling in the State, the same hypocrisy in Religion 1040 02:12:57,475 --> 02:13:03,812 The same self-interest and mismanagement will... 1041 02:13:06,050 --> 02:13:09,384 remain... for ever 1042 02:15:18,248 --> 02:15:22,549 Suffer us not at our last hour... 1043 02:15:22,686 --> 02:15:27,283 from any pains of death to fall from Thee 1044 02:15:41,238 --> 02:15:43,639 Harry was inconsolable 1045 02:15:43,774 --> 02:15:48,177 His heart screamed for peace, ifthat is what it was... 1046 02:15:48,879 --> 02:15:52,611 and he sought it in a hospital called Bethlehem... 1047 02:15:52,750 --> 02:15:55,447 among the mad of Bedlam 1048 02:15:55,586 --> 02:15:59,887 These poor souls, he told me, had seen the light 1049 02:16:00,124 --> 02:16:01,819 What light? 1050 02:16:01,959 --> 02:16:06,795 Had they seen those shadows which we could not see, could only feel 1051 02:16:19,710 --> 02:16:22,702 Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our heart 1052 02:16:22,846 --> 02:16:27,010 Shut not thy merciful eyes from our prayers... 1053 02:16:27,151 --> 02:16:31,748 but spare us Lord most Holy, God most mighty 1054 02:16:36,760 --> 02:16:40,492 England, my England! Do you know what this country has become'? 1055 02:16:40,631 --> 02:16:42,759 And old tramp shuffling around... 1056 02:16:42,900 --> 02:16:47,633 begging for a pair of boots at the tradesman's entrance of Europe! 1057 02:16:48,839 --> 02:16:52,173 Oh, but I do command, Master Purcell 1058 02:16:52,309 --> 02:16:56,576 I command you to celebrate this triumphant day! 1059 02:16:57,281 --> 02:16:59,716 Master Purcell... 1060 02:17:03,821 --> 02:17:07,780 When we first did this, although we did it in private as we do now... 1061 02:17:07,925 --> 02:17:13,591 I told you then, cut them out! They are a mediocrity! 1062 02:17:35,719 --> 02:17:41,590 Still... mediocrity is a great comforter 1063 02:17:42,392 --> 02:17:44,360 You'll see 1064 02:17:44,995 --> 02:17:49,626 I will become a grand object of public unconcern 1065 02:17:51,168 --> 02:17:56,834 My Dido'? Not even performed. At least not in public 1066 02:17:57,841 --> 02:18:03,075 Since "Dioclesian", some 5O works for the stage in only four years 1067 02:18:04,181 --> 02:18:06,548 And the result? 1068 02:18:07,017 --> 02:18:11,045 Penury. Begging for enough to... 1069 02:18:16,093 --> 02:18:23,295 Tell me, is this ugly, cheerless world in which we live... 1070 02:18:24,234 --> 02:18:26,726 supposed to be typical'? 1071 02:18:27,871 --> 02:18:29,930 Is this all'? 1072 02:18:32,409 --> 02:18:36,107 Well, at least you never assembled a lot of sloppy fads... 1073 02:18:36,246 --> 02:18:38,613 and served them up as innovations 1074 02:18:42,719 --> 02:18:49,523 I mourned the unknown, the loss of what went before... 1075 02:18:50,727 --> 02:18:56,757 the deprivation of what, even as a child, seemed irrevocably my own... 1076 02:18:58,168 --> 02:19:02,503 my birthplace... my country... 1077 02:19:04,875 --> 02:19:08,368 1111i, Ilflflflfflil 1078 02:19:13,584 --> 02:19:16,884 Have I looked for answers where there are none'? 1079 02:19:18,555 --> 02:19:25,689 Everyone demands answers, like happiness, as a right 1080 02:19:27,865 --> 02:19:33,804 How hopeless! How... ironic 1081 02:19:34,238 --> 02:19:36,605 Ah, irony! 1082 02:19:38,308 --> 02:19:43,269 That English virtue that purifies our rowdy passion 1083 02:19:44,514 --> 02:19:48,815 No. Hope comes from within, my friend 1084 02:19:50,787 --> 02:19:54,781 When hope goes, we freeze 1085 02:19:56,994 --> 02:20:03,491 Hope falters, but never fawns or crowds, never stands in line 1086 02:20:04,902 --> 02:20:12,138 Even in dread and noise it strains for coherence, for a snatch of harmony 1087 02:20:13,477 --> 02:20:16,503 An old trumpet, played upon but not playing - 1088 02:20:16,947 --> 02:20:19,917 sounding, but only in my head 1089 02:20:22,786 --> 02:20:24,584 Alas... 1090 02:20:25,589 --> 02:20:31,084 coherence conceals as much as it reveals to the lost, like me... 1091 02:20:32,829 --> 02:20:35,457 who contemplate the wreckage 1092 02:21:01,358 --> 02:21:03,656 Frances! 1093 02:21:09,566 --> 02:21:11,591 Let me in! 1094 02:21:18,875 --> 02:21:22,743 L lived among the hills footmarked here... 1095 02:21:23,447 --> 02:21:27,975 rooted here, in ancient English time 1096 02:22:10,227 --> 02:22:15,722 Frances, will the King ever pay our debts'? 1097 02:22:18,001 --> 02:22:20,470 Two hundred, isn't it'? 1098 02:22:21,505 --> 02:22:24,668 At 2O pence a day, it's little wonder... 1099 02:22:28,011 --> 02:22:34,212 "'Tis women make us love, 'tis loving makes us sad... 1100 02:22:34,351 --> 02:22:39,790 'tis sadness makes us drunk, and drinking makes us mad" 1101 02:22:47,898 --> 02:22:50,868 ls it not St Cecilia's Day tomorrow? 1102 02:22:54,438 --> 02:22:57,430 L shall write a Comical History... 1103 02:22:59,076 --> 02:23:01,238 of Don Quixote 1104 02:23:07,384 --> 02:23:09,546 Pray for me 1105 02:26:39,863 --> 02:26:42,958 He was a Colossus, the boy 1106 02:26:44,267 --> 02:26:46,258 It flew up from him 1107 02:26:46,736 --> 02:26:51,264 Notes, everything - they'll not find the half of it 1108 02:26:52,676 --> 02:26:58,774 Did he not give to the Englishman his glorious, unquenchable music? 1109 02:27:00,250 --> 02:27:02,446 There'll be none like him 1110 02:27:18,635 --> 02:27:20,603 "Remember me" 1111 02:27:25,842 --> 02:27:28,641 It's gone up. The notice 1112 02:27:28,878 --> 02:27:31,472 Ah, when'? 1113 02:27:33,283 --> 02:27:35,650 This is the last week 1114 02:27:35,885 --> 02:27:40,652 Good. I'm very tired of it. You'? 1115 02:27:42,225 --> 02:27:45,024 And I've got a coffee commercial 1116 02:27:45,562 --> 02:27:47,758 Did you get that film'? 1117 02:27:49,165 --> 02:27:51,725 "...and forget my fate" 1118 02:27:53,136 --> 02:27:56,470 Still, never mind, there's always your play 1119 02:27:56,606 --> 02:27:59,234 That's if you ever finish it, though 1120 02:27:59,843 --> 02:28:01,709 There's always the telly... 1121 02:28:01,845 --> 02:28:05,145 gunman �flit! 1122 02:28:05,782 --> 02:28:09,309 Only from established authors, I'm told 92877