00:00It's very nice to see you, very nice to see you, it's lovely to part with you, and it's also the best time of the year.
00:10It's a great pleasure to be able to come over here.
00:14I'd like to move this over in your hands.
00:17Off we go.
00:19Your Majesty, tonight is a celebration of you, our dearest friends.
00:25Your Majesty, your patronage and the kinship of this superb group of people to create the wonderful theatre stories that we tell.
00:35Those of you who are...
00:37No, Rufus, please.
00:39Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it.
00:44Trippingly on the tongue.
00:46But if you mouthed it, as many of your players do, I'd just leave the town cry, I've spoken my line.
00:51And do not soar the air too much with your hands thus, but use more gently.
00:55They imitated humanity so abominably.
00:58So, get you ready.
01:02LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE
01:32We had a very nice chat at the Oswald where I thanked you for all your support at the moment.
01:37We've got you after, come on.
01:39No, no, I'm like you, I'm right here.
01:41This is a sensational dress.
01:44Well-timed.
01:45Yeah, correct.
01:47LAUGHTER
01:49It's hard, it's hard.
01:51When you're...
01:53It's hard.
01:55So was I.
01:57LAUGHTER
02:00No, you haven't been in any of them.
02:02I have. That's an actual thing I've done.
02:06So good news, good news.
02:08Hello, Alan.
02:10How are you?
02:11Very nice to see you.
02:28Shut up!
02:30I'm sorry.
02:32Hi, Dan.
02:34Hello.
02:36Very nice to see you.
02:48LAUGHTER
02:53I do.
02:57Oh, that was...
03:03So...
03:07So delighted you could join me.
03:09Shall we walk?
03:11Now, there is a very eager young man awaiting us in the next room.
03:17He desires my daughter's hand.
03:20I do not have high hopes.
03:22But I would value your opinion.
03:25I have the same list as my dear friend, Her Majesty, does.
03:29We work together, in fact.
03:31Fortunately, in England, at any rate,
03:34education produces no effect whatsoever.
03:37What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime
03:41and the duties exacted from one after one's death,
03:44land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure.
03:47In fact, as far as I can make out,
03:49the poachers are the only people who make anything out of it.
03:52A country house.
03:54In Belgrave Square, but it's let by the year to Lady Bloxham.
03:57Of course, I can get it back whenever I like, at six months' notice.
04:01Lady Bloxham, you are welcome.
04:04Do you mean the fashion of the side?
04:07Oh, if necessary, I presume.
04:09I said I had lost my parents.
04:11At birth, I was... I was found.
04:14Found?
04:16The late Mr Thomas Cardia,
04:18an old gentleman of very charitable and kind...
04:21LAUGHTER
04:23As for the particular locality...
04:25I don't see how I could possibly manage to do that.
04:27I could produce the handbag at any moment.
04:29It's in my dressing room at home.
04:31You could hardly imagine that I and Lord Bracknell
04:34would dream of allowing our only daughter,
04:37a girl brought up with the utmost care,
04:41to marry into a cloakroom
04:44with a parcel.
04:47Good day, Mr Worthy.
04:50Morning.
04:52Young man?
04:54Young man?
04:56Give me my seat, please.
04:58LAUGHTER
05:00APPLAUSE
05:08Oh, for goodness sake!
05:10Don't play that ghastly tune now, Jane!
05:12Always refusing people.
05:14I think it is most ill-natured of her.
05:16Gwendolyn is as right as a trivet.
05:18As far as she is concerned, we are engaged.
05:20What?
05:22Your smallest instinct about when to die.
05:24That is nonsense.
05:26It isn't?
05:27I won't argue about the matter,
05:29though you always want to argue about things.
05:31That is exactly what things were originally made for.
05:33Become like their mothers.
05:35That is their tragedy.
05:37No man does.
05:39That is his.
05:41What shall we do after dinner?
05:43Shall we go to the theatre?
05:45No! I loathe listening.
05:47Well, let us go to the club.
05:49No, I hate talking.
05:51Well, we might trot round the Empire Attack.
05:53No, I can't bear looking at things.
05:55It is so silly.
05:57What shall we do?
05:59Nothing.
06:01It is awfully hard work doing nothing.
06:03However, I don't mind hard work
06:05when there is no definite object of any kind.
06:07Shall we go to the palace?
06:09No, I can't abide the palace.
06:11LAUGHTER
06:13APPLAUSE
06:15SONG CONTINUES
06:39APPLAUSE
06:45It is absolutely fantastic
06:47that you are our patron.
06:49We are, after all, the Royal National Theatre.
06:51It means a huge amount to us
06:53to have your support.
06:55We would like to see you more often.
06:57You could drag your other half along as well
06:59if you would like to.
07:01We promise it won't be too long.
07:03APPLAUSE
07:09It is a pleasure.
07:11Thank you so much.
07:13This is one of my favourite bits.
07:15It is absolutely lovely to watch.
07:19Hugh and Susie.
07:21How are you?
07:23Long time no see.
07:25We were recording the night before Christmas.
07:27Yes, we did it.
07:29Everybody did a bit.
07:31It was so much fun.
07:33It was lovely, wasn't it?
07:35Thank you for having me back.
07:37Lovely to see you.
07:39How are you?
07:41I have loved every second of it.
07:47It was brilliant.
07:49Is it a play that you love?
07:51It is one of my favourites.
07:53It is so funny.
07:55You were brilliant at it.
07:57You got us spot on.
07:59I like all your decorations.
08:01You can't nick any, though.
08:03If you want to fashion yourself...
08:05I can borrow a few
08:07for a steak dinner.
08:09It is a very big garment.
08:13We start rehearsals for this in April.
08:15We have already done it
08:17nearly 15 years ago.
08:19That was our first time around.
08:21We are coming back to it.
08:23Thank you very much indeed.
08:25Hopefully you will be able to see it.
08:27Yes, absolutely.
08:29Hello.
08:31Quite a big cast.
08:33Thank you so much.
08:35Thank you very much indeed.
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