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02:29Well that's what the women used to do in our street when I was a lad
02:33and what's that supposed to prove eh
02:35Oh it's me again Mr Ashton sorry to call so late but your wife knows what I've come for
02:51Our little salvage efforts
02:52Oh yes of course I promised you
02:54Here we are
02:56Oh just the one
02:58I've only got one left I gave you two a couple of months ago
03:01Thank you fair enough for that splendid
03:03Mrs Gordon
03:04It's really a matter of life and death for Lord Beaverbrook to get hold of those aluminium pans
03:09There's one place you haven't thought of looking for them
03:11Oh not round here I think you'll find Mr Ashton
03:14We've been pretty thorough
03:15Try the iron mongers he's got shelves full of them
03:18Edwin
03:19Brand new
03:19Oh that's different Mr Ashton
03:21That's his livelihood
03:22Excuse me
03:24Now if he did have any clothing
03:27Not now
03:28I'll call later
03:29Yes
03:31Oh some of those are vacuines
03:33It's really horrifying
03:35They sleep in their vests
03:36They just don't know any better
03:38Who is it?
03:39I'm sorry
03:40I can't hear you
03:42Some of those young girls have never been taught to use proper sanitary protection
03:45Philip!
03:47Where are you?
03:48What?
03:48You mean tonight?
03:49For how long?
03:51Wait listen
03:51Do you want to work?
03:53Lots of others waiting
03:54He said
03:54He's coming home
03:56Now?
03:57Well he should have been here by six
03:59But the line's blocked
04:00Yes that me last night
04:01I heard they'd hit the railway
04:02Oh tonight
04:03What am I going to give him?
04:04I've only got that bit of corned beef left
04:06Tonight!
04:07Oh Edwin
04:07Why couldn't you let us know sooner?
04:10Embarkation leave perhaps
04:11They don't give them much notice
04:13Careless talk costs lives eh?
04:16It doesn't have to be that
04:17No
04:18But it's a worrying time though
04:20You must be very proud of your two boys
04:24I gave my husband you know
04:27In the last war
04:28Well
04:30Still I expect you'll be wanting to get things ready for him
04:33I'll let myself out
04:35Good night
04:36Good night Mrs Gordon
04:37That's it
04:39Good night
04:43Why were you so rude to her?
04:51I gave my husband she says
04:53To my country
04:54Like Abraham sacrificing Isaac to the Lord God
04:57Anne wants a medal pin dollar for doing it
05:00She puts in hours of work at it
05:02Well she's enjoying this war
05:04It's a marvellous excuse for pushing people around
05:06Never gets a penny doing it
05:08Well the next time she comes here
05:09I'm telling you never mind about evacuees Mrs Gordon
05:12I sleep in me vest
05:13Oh don't you dare
05:16You don't seem to see so much of Frida these days
05:30Since she doesn't start work till two
05:32And I don't finish till five
05:34There's not much chance is there?
05:36Well she didn't have to take that job in the factory did she?
05:38She must have known those shifts would be awkward for you
05:40She's a little bit thoughtless sometimes isn't she?
05:45She had that good job in that nice little hotel
05:48Nice place
05:51Nice class of people
05:52Depends what you mean by nice
05:54If you mean well off
05:56People who eat out five days a week
05:58So they can save all their rations for the weekend
06:01Only Frida didn't want to sit out the rest of the war
06:05Buttering up that particular nice class of people
06:08Anyway
06:09It'll do you no harm to see a bit less of her
06:11Well I mean she's a nice enough girl
06:13But you're too young to go tying yourself down to one person
06:17I always said the same to Danny
06:19I expect he's glad he listened to me now
06:21Why?
06:22Why?
06:23Well when you see some of the girls around here
06:25With husbands and sweethearts in the forces
06:27It's a good thing for Danny
06:28Who doesn't have that to worry about
06:30I don't know what gets into them
06:32What is that you're reading?
06:34Gas
06:34How to recognize different gases
06:37Oh I don't think they'll use gas
06:40Do you?
06:41Maybe not
06:42But it's part of the course all the same
06:44You know
06:45I'm all for you doing this ARP
06:48You need an outside interest
06:50Especially with Frida out working till all hours
06:54Margaret
06:56Margaret
06:58Are you awake love?
07:00Margaret
07:00Oh just a minute
07:02Hello mum
07:10Philip
07:11Everybody okay?
07:15I think so
07:16When do you go back?
07:17Honest mum
07:18The first thing anybody asks whenever I get home
07:19Is when do I go back?
07:21You know what I mean love
07:22I've got seven whole days
07:23You're alright aren't you?
07:25What?
07:26Yes I'm fine
07:26Oh
07:27Well hello there
07:29Hello
07:30Here
07:32When do you go back?
07:34Well I'll be
07:34Shh
07:35Well surely to goodness if you sleep through morning
07:37No it's not the same thing at all
07:39It's noises in the same room
07:42Oh
07:43Wake him
07:45Well you're looking very fit
07:48Welcome home
07:50It's my embarkation leave
07:52Oh
07:53You don't know when?
07:55No
07:55Well we shall just have to make the most of you won't we?
07:59Let me take the nipper
08:00Oh well it's sleep you see
08:02It's not enough of it
08:04She uh
08:05She used to lift him up every time the sounds went
08:08And he'd uh
08:09He'd wake every time
08:10He's much better this way
08:12Yeah
08:12Let me take him
08:14Oh thanks
08:15Hey there
08:19Where's dad?
08:21He's doing his helping out bit at the ARP with Peter Collins
08:24Frida's uh
08:25She's not back from work yet
08:26Hey
08:27Hey let's just get him out there first and chat after
08:30Come on
08:31Come on love don't stand round like a stale bottle of owls your father
08:44Excuse me
09:00Hey
09:04Uh-oh. Come on, you sit down there.
09:11Excuse me.
09:14Sorry to disturb you, mate, but you've been...
09:26Finished?
09:28I was just saying, you've been talking in your sleep,
09:30but there's a young lady here now, see, and you're giving her the creeps.
09:33Now, I think if you'd just sit up back here in the corner...
09:41There you go. There.
09:42Yeah, that's better.
09:46You don't have Pong, though.
09:48He's a doolally, isn't he?
09:50How do you like a couple of strangers come barging into your bedroom?
09:54You all right, love? Not scared, are you?
09:56No, I'm all right.
09:57Good.
09:59Cigarette?
10:00No, thank you. I don't.
10:03Do you mind?
10:04No.
10:05Are you sure?
10:06No, you go right ahead.
10:07Thanks.
10:08Three in a row.
10:09I say I've had three in a row now.
10:11Three what?
10:12Three nights.
10:13Three deliveries.
10:14Two boys and a girl.
10:15And all this business on top of it.
10:18Makes you sick.
10:19You don't mind if I smoke, do you?
10:20She don't mind if you burst into flames.
10:21You'll have to forgive him.
10:22Thinks he's a bit of a comic.
10:23I think his mother got frightened by George Formby.
10:24I think to myself sometimes.
10:25What's it all for?
10:26Me struggling to bring them into the world?
10:27Me struggling to bring them into the world?
10:28Me struggling to bring them into the world?
10:29And a lot of mad bloody men doing their best to send them out again.
10:30I think to myself sometimes.
10:31What's it all for?
10:32Me struggling to bring them into the world?
10:34And a lot of mad bloody men doin their best to send them out again.
10:55You got far to go?
10:58again. you go far to go? oh me? about half a mile.
11:05doesn't sound as though anything's happening. I've got a good mind to make a
11:08dash for it. well it's my mother. she always waits
11:12up. doesn't surprise me she's worried pretty girl like you out walking the
11:16streets this time of night. what do you mean walking the streets? okay Gunga Din
11:21let's have a bit of respect shall we. she knows I didn't mean anything by it
11:24don't you? I mean she wouldn't be doing it without good reason. no I had to work
11:30late. mr. Watson did offer to run me home but I'd have had to wait another hour
11:34before he finished the books. who's that? your boss? I wouldn't let him get too
11:38personal. I dream all the time about airplanes. do you? sometimes. oh I wish
11:46they'd never been invented. don't look at us missus. we're only a couple of AC
11:51plonks. AC what? AC1. aircraft men first class. was it you singing out there? god that's
12:00his national anthem. we got three Aussies. whenever they get together with a pint
12:05inside them. it's never waltzy Matilda. dogs on tucker boxes five miles from
12:11gun to go. you thought I think yourselves lucky. oh that was a short one. oh I bet
12:19Manchester's getting it tonight. well half a mile you said. I'll see you home then. hey look
12:26I want to get home. who's stopping you? I told them I was bringing you. they're expecting two of us like the last time.
12:35I'll be alright. there's no need. look give your mother my love. tell her I'm doing my
12:40good deed for the day. if she leaves the latch up I won't make a sound. now look I've
12:48got a young sister just like you back home and I wouldn't like her out this time
12:51of night. besides there's always... okay boyo it's all yours now. I'll be all right
12:59honestly anyway. okay love don't say it. how do you know I'm all right? that's it isn't it?
13:04well I never said that. he's all right as as long as you watch him. now don't you
13:11worry love. you do as your mother tells you. told you not to talk to boys in
13:15uniform did she? let's go. I'll be thinking about you all night now. wondering
13:36whether you got back safe? sure you won't change your mind? I said are you coming? sh a
13:41minute. she's thinking. well if it isn't too far out of your way. it'll be a place.
13:59no. no me. right. he reckons he won't come back tonight not with all this cloud. I shall get off home if
14:08you. how are you? yes. coming Peter. Edwin. hi. if the wife's making Christmas cake this year say I've
14:18still got a few packets of icing sugar and candied peel for registered customers. now
14:24it's that we'll save them so tell her. right I'll mention it. I think Philip will be there yes? oh sure
14:29to be by this time. and Frida too I shall hope. Frida? yes. she had to work on some sort of emergency.
14:37why don't you come in for a minute on the way back? I'd like to if it's not too late. mum's gone to the shelter
14:45down the road so she probably won't get in right away. even the all clear doesn't seem to stop them
14:49talking. well Philip off maths about you when he writes. night Ted. night. hope we don't see you again tonight.
14:58surely they'd give you some indication love. nope. could be greece. or greece. then you'd only be
15:12facing italians. i shouldn't think it'll be greece. seems to be all over there. we'll bother shouting.
15:16yes. he's here. hello dad. hello son. oh we brought with you. oh peter. come on in. hello phil. how's it
15:24going? fine fine. been back long? one hour or so. you look um what is different about him gene?
15:31a bit older. yeah and i'm feeling older dad. and you can blame margaret for that. say night
15:36night to uncle philip. uncle philip. what about old grandfather here? watch it. is frida back? no not
15:42yeah love. well that'll be here. oh hello. reception committee. i came creeping in. thought we should
15:51all be in bed. what? what are you doing here? why aren't you winning the war? or they're going to try and
15:57struggle on without me for a couple of days. smashing. how'd you get back? oh you may well ask.
16:03and i walked all the way. i don't know what they're making shoes out of these days but you can't tell me
16:07it's leather. looks to me as if he'd been running. running? no. well i was uh hurrying a bit naturally.
16:15i've uh got to get a book. i promised doris. she's waiting outside. don't leave her outside.
16:20ask her to come in. no she um she doesn't want to. she wants to get off. ah here it is. shan't be a sec.
16:26so knobby strained and broke the yoke and poked out baldy's eye and the dog sat on the tucker box five
16:37miles from gun to guy. here it is. thanks. i'll uh see you again then. yes see you again. good night
16:50frida. oh good night mrs collins.
17:10stamp album?
17:11ah. mouth organ. oh thanks. you sure you don't want this? no.
17:22oh philip you're not throwing all those away love. well i thought you needed the space. for the baby
17:27stuff you know. we seem to be uh overflowing a bit. that's your room. yours and robert's always will be.
17:34i only meant to you know any old papers magazines for salvage. there's plenty of those too. i put those
17:40in the shed. now then. ah. martyrdom of man. dad gave me that. not in your line is it? not really.
17:50no not the left book club stuff either. ah now these penguins i thought you might like. thanks.
17:59great. when are you leaving phil? if anybody else asks me that i'll strangle them. sorry. ken
18:08oddingock called up last week. did you know? yes. i met your sister. and billy green's gone.
18:13most of the old crowd. freddie. you remember freddie wilson? yeah. he's in the navy. that's what
18:18your brother's in isn't it? yeah. well it was all right for him. how do you mean? to go off and be a
18:24hero. dump it all on me. oh yes you mean your mother. i don't see how she'd manage if i was gone as well.
18:32yeah but you're a draftsman. it's a reserved occupation. i meant of a volunteered. why on earth
18:38should you want to do that? it's not that i want to. i like my job. i think i can go a long way if
18:43a stick at it. does anybody say you ought to? well they don't say it exactly. at least not straight
18:49out. well there you are then. but i know a lot of them resent it. and their families. i can see them
18:55thinking look at him. my boy's apt to go but he's all right. he's got it cushy. the only reason you
19:01haven't been called up is because you're more used where you are. yeah that's where i tried to tell
19:06freda. i shouldn't have thought freda would need telling. does she? oh i don't know. i hardly ever see
19:11her on this two till ten shift. she's on mornings next week. is she? that's how she said at dinner.
19:17i can see her monday then. i wonder could we get into the odeon? or gary cooper's on at the wrecks. she might
19:24prefer that. ask her. i never see her. oh peter you only live two doors away. you could see her any
19:31night when she's got home. i don't like to barge in at that time of night. look she doesn't work this
19:36shift all the time. now why don't you go and meet the bossy? it's the quarter to ten bus isn't it? well
19:42no. she's been getting in later this week. about half an hour later. go on. thanks love.
19:49mom and dad have been out there since i was a nipper. he was a collier on the ronda. now he works in a
19:59flour milling plant in sydney. what's it like australia? why don't you come and try it for yourself
20:04sometime? well that way in a boat. i'll be sick as a dog. i get the collier wobbles if i go to new
20:11brighton. are you going to finish that? i don't seem to be very hungry. pretty horrible anyway. besides i've got to go.
20:21oh no please. it's getting late. just ten minutes.
20:26ten minutes to wait. so mine's a minor.
20:39well it's not lit is it? curses. it must be sabotage.
20:59i would mess that up. that was supposed to be dead suave. i got it out of a film.
21:05what i like about you really. go on. don't stop there.
21:11well if you try something dead suave as you call it. it doesn't come off. it never seems to matter.
21:18some people get all tensed up over it and make everybody feel terrible. that's this peter you've
21:22been talking about. not only him. well i think he's a bit of a pain. you've never even met him.
21:29well fair enough. let's say i hope he's a bit of a pain. why? come on now. what sort of a question is that? you know why.
21:38don't finish it if you don't want it. tickle the way you hold it.
21:48why? how do you expect me to hold it?
21:51like this? like this? we've got a tea girl in the factory who holds it like this.
22:02might have a fit if she saw me smoking.
22:05freda. freda. freda.
22:12i don't quite know how to say this but i've never met anyone quite like you before.
22:18no no that's the truth now. have you ever felt as if
22:23i don't know as if from now on everything could be different?
22:28get that out of a film too. you just think i'm shooting you a line.
22:37i wish to god we had more time. i'm going back on sunday. you didn't tell me that.
22:42i'm trying to forget it. i don't want to go. i don't suppose anybody does. don't kid yourself.
22:49it's all right if you've got some of your own people to go back to. haven't you any relatives
22:52over here? gran and granddad were living in cardiff when i left sydney. tickle pink they
22:57were when they knew i was coming. they died within a week of each other when i was on the boat.
23:08last leave i couldn't wait to get back to camp. they're a good crowd you know in the ref.
23:12but here in town just mooching around ym pictures the pubs. you look for a girl but they just want
23:19to take you down and clean you out. buy me this. buy me that. i'm not just saying this but
23:27you're the only one i've ever met i've really been able to talk to. we'd better know.
23:40he never goes down there now.
23:44you should have heard him jump down poor old mrs gordon's throat the other day.
23:49all about nothing.
23:56what happened in the pub then dad? hmm oh nothing.
24:00they've got that card stuck up there. you know the one you see them all over the place. in this house
24:06we're not interested in the possibilities of defeat. they do not exist. so? what they take us for morons.
24:13do you think it was going to win? i don't know but the possibility of course the possibility.
24:18stalin shaking hands with them. joe kennedy warning the youngster keep out because we're finished and
24:24half the men our own government pulling their punches because they'd rather be fighting the reds.
24:29do you really believe that? i don't believe anything anymore. i don't believe the figures they give us
24:34about the planes they showed down. you add them up. we've wiped out the whole luftwaffe twice over.
24:40i suppose it's good for morale. not for mine it's not. have you ever read a book called falsehood in wartime?
24:49ponsonby. that's it. about the lies they told us in the last war. and we fell for it. see?
25:01that's how he goes on.
25:02what rattles me phil isn't anything the germans might do. it's what we're doing to ourselves. people
25:11stop thinking. they just react like animals. they've smashed up poor old joe brachius cafe
25:21just because he's an italian. yes that was bad. it's as if every 20 years or so we go raving mad like
25:29lemmings. but you can't say these things. people howl you down. they just don't want to listen. isn't
25:35that understandable though? i mean does it really help talking like this? you see i think it's the
25:41wrong time dad. i think we ought to finish this job first. is that what you thought when you went
25:52out to spain? yes it was. and i wish a few more people had thought the same too. see that's what
25:57went wrong in spain. too many people got carried away by side issues and they all ended up fighting
26:03amongst themselves. if we do that hitler will have us where he wants us.
26:22hey do you always wait up my friend? she won't be long. you go on up. time's gone like mad this leave.
26:31i meant to mend that coal out of store for you. one less job for dad. oh never mind love.
26:36of course you can. i'm going back to larry's. this time of night this weather. there's nothing at all wrong.
26:40it's bleeding isn't it? i just want to see. what are you going to tell them? i don't care what this is.
26:46now go and sit down by the fire. where's the first aid box mum? the drawer of the sideboard.
26:50what's happened? who's this? accident. no it was a fight fool. is he drunk? no we... look give him a towel or something will you mum?
26:59well he'd be better lying flat. no that's for nosebleeds mum. and some clean warm water. now tilt your head back. let's have a look.
27:07oh there's not much of a mark for all that blood. it's inside my lip. my tooth cut into it. oh yes it's swollen.
27:14who was he fighting? peter. peter started it. oh no he said a word. peter went at him like a
27:19like an i don't know what. he went raving mad. why? well just because he was kissing me. oh peter was?
27:25no owen. you mean this chap was? don't call him this chap.
27:33oh don't make me laugh. take it away. it's stopping now. i suppose i shall get a sensible explanation in due
27:40of course.
27:48look i'm very sorry about all this fuss. my name's owen thomas. this is my brother phil.
27:55oh yeah i've been wanting to meet you. never thought it'd be like this though.
28:00look what happened exactly? i mean what was going on?
28:02well i dare say you're his mate and all that but there was nothing going on that she
28:07that frieda didn't want to have. what was all that racket? where's peter now? gone home.
28:12will somebody introduce me? why didn't he come back here? didn't you ask him? no. for the third time.
28:16why not? after the things he said to me. will somebody tell me what's going on here?
28:21edwin! oh for goodness sake wipe that toothpaste off your mouth and either go to bed or go out and put
28:28something on. now then i expect you'd like a cup of tea wouldn't you mr... thomas. oh mr thomas.
28:34thanks. well that's better. i'll go. you're from australia aren't you mr thomas or is it new zealand?
28:41australia. well i knew it must be one or the other. well i'll go and put the kettle on for us shall i?
28:45oh i thought so. oh now look peter. oh don't worry i wouldn't touch him with a barge pole.
28:58no need for him to hide. look there's furniture in here isn't there if you want to step outside and
29:02finish. you be quiet. have you gone mad? you've got a moken up john and i'll never get him off again.
29:07freda. you've hurt your eye. freda get the stuff.
29:17no thank you. oh please yourself. i came to know what she was telling you mr ashton. i've got a right
29:22to put my side of it. oh for the last time who is that and what's he doing here? he's owen thomas.
29:28he's a friend of mine and i met him a week ago. thank you. a week? you never told me. but i haven't seen
29:35you have i. anyway he was saying good night to me. saying good night in the shop doorway in the
29:41blackout like a bloody tar. now look! kissing her and mauling her. did she tell you that? yes yes i
29:47i told them that. oh they're all the same. anything in uniform they don't care who it is.
29:53and the first time you're out with him that's what gets me. i've been seeing freda every night this week.
29:59he meets the bus. we go for a coffee and then he sees me home. is that so terrible? oh he seems to have
30:05got a long way in a short time. what do you know buddy? it's all the time he's got isn't it?
30:10he's only on leave same as philip. after tomorrow i'm in. i may not see him again.
30:22mr ashton i know you don't know me but well
30:27anyone can see what sort of a girl freda is. except him. oh you should have heard the
30:34names he called me. what have i done? it's not as if i'm engaged to him.
30:45when do you go back?
30:48tomorrow night. i've been staying with a mate of mine. did you say you were being posted?
30:53there's been talk about sending some of us back down south but well you know how it is. yes i know.
31:01i came 13 000 miles to join the raft to see some action. we have too these last few weeks. especially
31:07tonight. oh my god. that first one of yours was a real beaut. zonk. never knew what hit me.
31:16you don't know a blind thing about him. not any of you. for he's wearing a uniform and that's enough
31:23isn't it? lay out the red carpet. nothing's too good for him. get away with blue murder as long as
31:30he's got that. you don't know him either. oh you're all the same these days. like women in some
31:37primitive tribe. dress a man in a bit of war paint and you're falling all over yourselves.
31:42no decency. no self-control. it's disgusting. i think you're going a bit far peter. why don't you do
31:50like last time. start dishing out white feathers. it's got nothing to do with that peter. oh and you.
31:58my pal. but never mind all that. oh no. i'm in civvy street. and him. two words of shop talk and your
32:07comrades in arms. why doesn't somebody stop him? they know i'm telling the truth. that's why.
32:12i could have joined up months ago. it's easy. you get out of everything. free. cut the ropes. rat on
32:20everybody. you're a hero. how do you know what he was running away from? wife and two kids. you'd never
32:28know. as god is my witness. leave it. you're gonna be sorry in the morning. don't worry about me.
32:33i know what i'm gonna do in the morning.
33:03oh peter. don't be silly. i mean it mother. join the navy whatever for. you never asked danny that.
33:22danny? well danny's different dear. he would have been called up anyway. besides he was the type.
33:28for you or not. no i'm sorry. it's out of the question. i'm not asking you mother. it's what i'm
33:33gonna do. i see. and what about me? or doesn't that matter to you any longer? i suppose you'll
33:42get an allotment. an allotment. and 10 shillings a week widow's pension. don't forget that. now how can
33:47i keep a house this size on that? couldn't you let part of it? taking lodgers? you want me to do that?
33:54look. other women manage. yes. they've got the husbands behind them. not always. no no. some of
34:00them have jobs. just so happened i never believed in letting my children wander the streets after
34:05school. maybe i'd be better off today if i had. mother. how is it when danny goes you boast to
34:11everybody how brave he is. but when it's me. peter. danny would never have left me on my own. no. he
34:18relied on you. i rely on you. because i know you won't let me down in the end. oh mother there's
34:25a war on. rubbish. if they'd wanted you they'd have sent for you.
34:31has that frieda ashton put you up to this? i know she's never liked me.
34:36have you liked her? liked her? a girl who comes strolling home with an airman at one o'clock in
34:42the morning. and i've seen that with my own eyes. don't forget. am i wrong to want something better than
34:47that for my son. oh it's nothing to do with frieda. i'd have joined up months ago if i...
34:55if i'd been free. oh no peter. i'm sorry but if we're going to be so frank with one another it's
35:01not for my sake you're not out there with danny. it's partly to hang around frieda ashton but it's
35:04mostly because you haven't got the stomach for it. so don't you go trying to shove it all off onto me.
35:11and if i'm like that who made me like it? danny's not like it. danny had dad till he was eight.
35:21i've only ever had you. that's very unkind. i'm sorry but i get a bit desperate about it sometimes.
35:28you know what's happening you've never spoken to me like this before. you know you're all i've lived
35:33for you and danny. well danny's a man now and he's gone. and i've got nobody else in the world except
35:39you. i'm sorry. i'm sorry. and what if you never came back? look i've tried to be a good mother to
35:47you peter. don't fling it all back in me face. you've got a good home here. you've got a career,
35:52a nice job. i can't help it. i get so frightened when you're not here.
35:58i've never told you this because i try not to show it but
36:00sometimes you know when i'm alone in this house and the planes come
36:04i'm shaking all over. please don't do that.
36:09well could you leave it a bit because i might not be here very much longer.
36:15you know i was never very strong. oh god.
36:20okay um wonder.
36:21hmm that smells really pre-war isn't it? no wonder. she's out there cooking the whole week's
36:31meat ration. we'll be on herrings and cheese rissoles. and he's got two ounces of butter in the pudding.
36:36oh come on. oops. talk about that fatted calf.
36:47there's a nice clean boy. when you think you're the one who gets spoiled in this house don't you?
36:54oh me spoiled he says. a naughty auntie feeder cashing in on my sweet good bunch.
36:58there we are then. oh it's a shame. thanks fred. come along sleepyhead.
37:03all right now. all right. yes there we are then. come on.
37:12i'll bet it's mrs gordon. she's been snooping around trying to find out who but the rhubarb leaves
37:17in the pig bin. it's peter mrs ashton. he says he's going to join up. he's going to what? join the navy.
37:23i'm surprised you didn't know. oh i'm so sorry mrs collins. philip love perhaps you could speak to him.
37:30oh philip would you? he respects you. i don't think he'd be foolish to do it. more than foolish. he's not
37:35cut out for it. he'd be miserable. philip would you? he might be just as miserable if he stays. why?
37:42stays with me do you mean? no no but he's been feeling terribly isolated. most of his age group are
37:47gone and going and i don't think you realize how strong the pressures are. look i'm not the reason
37:50he's miserable. i'm not the one who's made him miserable. i'm sorry i didn't mean to say this.
37:55it's not what i came here for. are you sure mrs collins? oh reeder. if anything happens to my son
38:01to my dying day i shall hold you responsible. i know what you've done to him. what i've done to him?
38:06what about you? danny. danny this danny that. all right. i'm not if i'm not allowed to answer
38:13i don't have to stand here and listen. i'm so sorry mrs collins. tell him not to do it. tell him not to go.
38:27mrs collins i'll speak to him. look um ask him to come and see me later today. all right? yes.
38:35well. well. well. it's difficult to know what to say isn't it? you know what i was thinking of
38:52when she was talking. you and your three sons. me?
39:00you got a lot of guts gene ashton. do you know that? nonsense. we're all different that's all. yes.
39:08well you may not say it but you feel it don't you? i'd be a funny sort of mother if i didn't wouldn't i?
39:21where's maggie? she's taken the baby to see the porters. why? i love having my last pair of silk and
39:36they say there won't be any more. well wear your lyle it's cold enough. i can't wear lyle tonight.
39:41look if she asks just tell her i borrowed them.
39:44you see phil i can't forgive churchill for what he did to the miners. my father's a miner and
39:52churchill called the troops out. all they asked for was a living and you can't easily forget something
40:00like that. and why should you? yes i know dad. but i'd damn sight rather have him than chamberlain.
40:05at least he won't do a pay time. oh he'll fight. well that's good enough for me. things haven't changed
40:10you know. there's enough wangling going on even now. the hard-faced bosses don't go without much.
40:18rations or no rations. well okay but let's sort that out when we finish this job. it was the same ones
40:24who made all the sacrifices last time. han got sold down the river when it was all over. hey have you
40:31been reading the daily worker? me? i never see the thing. but have have you read last week's new
40:38stageman? no. wait there a minute.
40:49i'm so afraid he'll say these things outside. you know what people are about defeatists? defeatists?
40:58that's not a defeatist. mum just doesn't intend to go through with his eyes closed that's all.
41:03doesn't like the line-up. what with the tories on our side calling the tune and the russians shaking
41:08hands with hitler. well naturally he feels there's something wrong somewhere. do you? oh yes i do.
41:16i'm sorry mum i've got to say this. people like uncle sefton well they're just interested in their own
41:21skins. it's a bit more than that to dad and i hope to me. but i'll settle for seeing the fascists
41:28he's stopped at the moment. and after that there'll be another sort of war that's all.
41:38well i'll be off then. we're only going two doors up to see philip.
41:43mother i don't know what act this is you're putting on but it's not going to make any difference.
41:48i know what you're doing. you gave the game away. i don't know if you realize.
41:52danny's a man now you said. as if that was some sort of tragedy so you're trying to stop the same
41:59thing from happening to me.
42:03look. what do you want me to say?
42:06i'm sorry? okay. i've got to do this. but if it helps you at all then i'm sorry.
42:21i didn't mean all i said. but me and danny we didn't want to be all you had.
42:27you should have. i don't know. got out more. made more friends.
42:39only nobody around here was good enough for you were they?
42:44peter! i'm going up the road to see philip.
42:48i can't do anything about joining up until tomorrow.
43:04oh no not now. don't worry.
43:07i just wanted to say i'm sorry. it's all right. and goodbye.
43:13oh you mean this joining up business. well it's sunday. you can't join up on a sunday.
43:20i'm going in the morning. first thing.
43:25why are you supposed to be doing it? she thinks i'm making you do it.
43:29i never said that. well then why? surely you didn't think it would make any difference.
43:36i used to be good enough for you.
43:37oh peter. i haven't changed. the only thing is everybody else has changed.
43:45and i'm still here in civie street. people grow out of each other peter.
43:51it's nothing to do with the war. isn't it? that man last night. what about him?
43:58if you'd have met him in his everyday clothes you wouldn't have looked at him twice.
44:01now how could you possibly know that? you only have to listen to him. i mean would you call him educated?
44:05look i'm not all that intellectual. there are other things. what other things?
44:14what do you see in him frida? oh for one thing he doesn't go on and on like this as if everything
44:19i do is the end of the world. you mean he doesn't care as much as i do? maybe not.
44:26maybe i'm not ready for this life and death thing anyway. but i think he's basically nice.
44:32he's fun to be with and everyone else does nothing but grouse about hitler and rationing
44:36and the raids and i get so bored. are you seeing him tonight?
44:42yes it's got to be tonight. he's going back. i see.
44:48but what are you trying to do? spite me? like wait till i'm dead and it'll be your fault and then
44:53you'll be sorry. is that what you're trying to say? no. your mother's breaking her heart over it.
45:01you know that. but you're the one who's always going on. oh yes i know i know. i called her things but
45:07all the same. it's one of the best things about you. you don't break people's hearts.
45:12don't turn yourself into a tough guy peter. you're much nicer as you are. oh peter are you going down
45:24to the post love? only edwin's left his flask. oh yes okay i'll take it. oh and frida? yes.
45:30oh i don't know just don't do anything stupid love. hello peter. oh hi phil. let's uh go into the back room shall we?
45:53look. about last night. forget about last night. sit down. did you want a fact? yes thanks.
46:08help yourself. they uh they tell me you're thinking you're running away to sea.
46:17well that's one way of looking at it yeah. a childish prank. well don't you think it's a bit corny?
46:24i don't see how this concerns you. peter. this is a war of technologies. you're needed where you are.
46:31there's any amount like me. fine i'll wear a label around me neck. technologist. then everybody
46:37will salute. so who are you trying to impress anyway? alfreda? your mum? all the nice girls that love
46:42a sailor? no. what then? you afraid people will think you're scared? i'm afraid they'd be right.
46:50oh for god's sake peter. everybody's scared. i accept those with no imagination at all.
46:56do you think i'm not? ma'am's been out in that kitchen killing the fatted calf for me. whopping
47:02great meals. free to wonders where i'm putting it all. if only she knew it was all turning into
47:06diarrhea whenever i think of going out there. out where? i thought you didn't know. well no but uh
47:11rumor has it africa. with lurid accounts about what the burbers do to you if you get into the
47:15wrong bit of desert. you don't believe that? not rationally i suppose. it's just a nightmare fodder.
47:21what are you trying to do? scare me? i bet i scare a lot more easily than you do chum. you tell me
47:28you've got cold feet after wading into a bloody great earth that looks like something out of the
47:32great australian outback? yes i did didn't i? only because i was too mad to think straight. well if you
47:39ask me that's how half the vcs pull it off. think about it eh? well i was skintsy. dead broke. too
47:49much poker. next time i'll save up and take you somewhere really posh. like where? somewhere with
47:57waiters and stiff white tablecloths. i suppose they'll still have waiters. very ancient ones i expect
48:09well this is it love. you're gonna write to me? i'm coming to the station. sure you want to?
48:22cold feet again tonight i suppose? i'm gonna worry like mad thinking about you.
48:27while i'm selling myself in some tropical climb far away from the war. oh we'll be all right love.
48:34and i'll be all right. you'll see. comforter. come on. some bloody fool down the end of the street there.
48:47two great upstairs windows. lights full on. what do you tell him? couldn't get an answer. there's a
48:52little back window but it's too small for me. looks like a job for you peter. right.
48:58you know i want you to go back to the shelter.
49:18we'll say goodbye now. just in case. if there's nothing doing i'll come back and join you.
49:30we met at the shelter. we did. you're right.
49:38me too.
49:39me too. well goodbye then. goodbye.
50:01go on.
50:05go on.
50:28go on.
50:32Yeah!
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