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Documentary, Drinking for England
Drinking for England" is a 1998 BBC documentary film, part of the "Modern Times" series, that explores the relationship between individuals and heavy alcohol consumption. The film documents people who use poetry and song to describe their often tragic, and sometimes amusing, relationships with drink. The documentary can be found on BBC iPlayer.
Series: Part of the BBC's "Modern Times" documentary series.
Content: Follows individuals with high alcohol consumption and their personal and often complex relationships with drinking.
Themes: Features participants using poetry and song to express their experiences with alcohol.
Individuals who consume large amounts of alcohol use poetry and song to describe their often tragic, and sometimes amusing, relationship with drink. They include a man who drinks a minimum of ten pints of beer a night, a fashion model who drinks until she collapses, and a woman receiving detoxification treatment in a private hospital.
#DrinkingforEngland #Drinking #England
Drinking for England" is a 1998 BBC documentary film, part of the "Modern Times" series, that explores the relationship between individuals and heavy alcohol consumption. The film documents people who use poetry and song to describe their often tragic, and sometimes amusing, relationships with drink. The documentary can be found on BBC iPlayer.
Series: Part of the BBC's "Modern Times" documentary series.
Content: Follows individuals with high alcohol consumption and their personal and often complex relationships with drinking.
Themes: Features participants using poetry and song to express their experiences with alcohol.
Individuals who consume large amounts of alcohol use poetry and song to describe their often tragic, and sometimes amusing, relationship with drink. They include a man who drinks a minimum of ten pints of beer a night, a fashion model who drinks until she collapses, and a woman receiving detoxification treatment in a private hospital.
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01:00It's what we do.
01:02It's what we do.
01:32It's as simple as that.
01:35Why do we do it?
01:37Why do you think?
01:38We like it because we like a drink.
01:40There isn't a reason.
01:42There isn't a plan.
01:43Why do dogs lick their bollocks?
01:45Because they can.
01:46Amy's the worst.
01:57She drinks like a drain.
01:59Carrie's the worst.
01:59She's got booze on the brain.
02:01When Amy goes out, she's a right little raver.
02:03I only drink to carry a favour.
02:05Remember the time you fell out the car?
02:07Remember the time you danced on the bar?
02:09Remember the night you passed out in the club?
02:11Remember the time you puked up in the pub?
02:13All right, we admit it.
02:14We're sold on the stuff.
02:15We drink it like water.
02:16We can't get enough.
02:23The days of the week can be pretty eventful,
02:25but weekends we tend to go totally mental.
02:28We start in the house so we're already smashed
02:30when we go into town to get perfectly trashed.
02:32We open with lager, then move on to wine,
02:52and spirits and cocktails, two at a time.
02:54We have a way up!
02:55Till we're holding as much as we're physically able,
02:58by which time we're shit-faced and under the table.
03:00And when we wake up, we're a sorrowful sight.
03:03But we go out and we do it again the next night.
03:05Go on, go on!
03:07Yeah!
03:09We couldn't begin to work out what it cost us.
03:12To tell you the truth, we don't give a fosters.
03:14When I start drinking, I do get agreed for it.
03:27This is kind of a problem with me,
03:30because I don't get drunk straight away.
03:31I can drink loads and loads and loads
03:33and be sober for ages.
03:35And then it hits me,
03:37and I'm really drunk all of a sudden.
03:38I never think I'm damaging myself when I drink.
03:44It doesn't even occur to me.
03:47It never crosses my mind,
03:49what I'm doing to my body,
03:50or what I'm doing to my insides,
03:52or my brain, physically or mentally.
03:55Amy, are you ready to slam it?
03:56Are you OK?
03:57Are you ready to slam it?
03:58Yeah?
03:59Slam it.
04:00Put your hand up with salt.
04:02OK, salt.
04:02Get a lemon.
04:03Yeah!
04:03One down Cockney, Rhymer, Apple Fritter.
04:30Bitter.
04:31Two down Cockney, Rhymer.
04:36Calls for Foe to finish.
04:38Goodness.
04:40One across.
04:41Her indoors is better half a carving knife.
04:46For the wife.
04:53Sean, that's me.
04:54Who rattles through the cryptic crossword in the Tines.
04:57Who got a lightning for the amber nectar in his teens.
05:00Who sometimes makes a turn.
05:03But leaves the washing up.
05:05Who waits all day to make a beeline to the pub.
05:08Who wants to spend his evenings with the lads.
05:10Who's got stepdaughters and a wife called Abs.
05:13Who's getting back from work as Sean is going out.
05:16Who keeps an even keel and doesn't rock the boat.
05:19Who works a double shift to keep the house afloat.
05:22Here I go, give us your dinner.
05:29Sean, that's me.
05:31Sitting at a nine to five job with a dodgy hip.
05:33Who's killing time to early doors at six o'clock.
05:38Whose house is full of baby talk or women talk or both.
05:42Whose girls leave bras and knickers soaking in the bath.
05:46Who couldn't stand to sit there stewing like a pickled whelp.
05:48Who drives himself to drink like someone's setting off to work.
05:56I drink about ten, twelve pints a daily.
06:02Seven nights a week.
06:04Barbara gets absolutely pissed off with it.
06:06And I can understand it.
06:11But she works, comes home at five.
06:14And at six I'm gone.
06:17And at half eleven, quarter twelve.
06:19She has to pick me up.
06:21And I sort of just stumble into bed.
06:25And she has to take my socks off.
06:26Because I can't bend down.
06:27Because of my hip problem.
06:30And if you've been standing in a pub for that long.
06:33Your feet tend to pen and ink a bit.
06:35And she takes them off going,
06:36Oh God, the smell.
06:39And I'm going, oh that stuff.
06:40It's alright.
06:41And I plonk out on the bed.
06:43And that's it.
06:44And I'll see her in the morning when she puts me sock back on.
06:46Sean who pulls the same old store up at the bar and parks his arse.
06:58He sinks the best part of a gallon every night in halves.
07:02His only exercise in life is running up a tank.
07:06This old man bought him booze when he was twelve years old.
07:09And that was that.
07:10Going down to the pub with your dad when you were a boy is one of the best things you can do.
07:19I wish more people could do it.
07:24When I was about fourteen,
07:27my mum when she was alive she said,
07:29Go and get your dad down to the pub.
07:30He's late.
07:31I went alright.
07:32So I've gone down there,
07:33knocked on the door and they wouldn't let me in.
07:36Because all the curtains are pulled.
07:38So I threw a brick through the window.
07:40And the landlord would come out and he'd got me in.
07:43And when I got in there and my dad said,
07:45Why do you do that?
07:46I said,
07:46Well,
07:46they wouldn't let me in and mum wants you to come home.
07:49He's gone,
07:49Alright.
07:50Do you want to have a drink?
07:52I go,
07:52Oh,
07:53yes.
07:54So they bought me half of AK.
07:56And I drank it.
07:57He said,
07:57Now you're doing exactly what I'm doing.
07:59You're having a drink all the time.
08:00Don't fucking do it again.
08:03And that was his way of telling me off and I appreciated it.
08:05But it was good fun because I was in there with men.
08:08And he gave me a fag.
08:10The players.
08:11So I've got that there puffing away.
08:13Half a beer.
08:14And I'm in the pub with me dad.
08:16And it was a great feeling.
08:18Happy Christmas.
08:20Of course she does.
08:20There's only two things limit you in drinking and that's your fun and getting fat and being bothered about the fact that you're drinking timid so you have to do something about it.
08:39I mean, but if it wasn't the fact that you have to pay by getting fat and drinking, I'd drink forever.
08:46You know what I mean?
08:47I would definitely drink a litre bottle of sherry.
08:56I might start at tea time, half past five, six o'clock.
09:03I always make sure I have plenty.
09:06You vary your places where you're by so they're not aware.
09:16Because you're embarrassed in front of shopkeepers.
09:18So you use houses of dirt, quicksave, corner shop.
09:24You move about.
09:25I have more than I need.
09:31Because if it gets to 11 o'clock at night and I feel I haven't enough, when am I going to get it?
09:43Today's a big step in my life.
09:47I'm going to Gisborne Park Hospital on a special programme for alcoholics.
09:55I'm going to stay there for at least two weeks.
10:0338 now.
10:05And I know one day will come when everything has to change.
10:09And today's that day.
10:14I know I've got some here now.
10:17And that's Sherry.
10:20And I've got some here.
10:21But that's the last bottle I have in the house at the moment.
10:28And that's the last bottle that's coming in this house.
10:32Because I don't think I'll even let anybody else bring it in.
10:35I want to stop drinking because I think eventually it might kill me.
10:47If it doesn't kill me, it might ostracise me.
10:51I've got some fabulous friends.
10:57But they'll only go so far.
11:00And they'll get fed up.
11:01I can't let them down.
11:04And I can't let my son down.
11:07And he's the most important thing in my life.
11:13He's just turned 13.
11:17And I want to see him when he's 23.
11:21And if I'm not careful, I'm not going to be there.
11:24When she's not been drinking, she's fine.
11:33She's all right.
11:34But when she's been drinking, she's bad-tempered.
11:39And she gets upset.
11:43And I just never know what to do.
11:48I've always wanted her to admit that she has this problem.
12:01And if she could only admit it, which she has done now,
12:06it's one big step forward.
12:09And she's getting some help, for which I'm truly thankful.
12:13And it's such a relief.
12:18I'm just hoping that after all this,
12:25that we get her back again.
12:26Because we are proud of her.
12:28We're proud of what she's prepared to do.
12:31And hope that everything goes all right.
12:34And she will recover.
12:36Okay, hello.
12:48You're not coming.
12:49No, I'll wait for that.
12:52See you, Satan.
12:55All right, will you?
12:58Come on.
13:05Come on.
13:05I love you.
13:09I love you as well, very much.
13:11I'm sorry.
13:13You have no need to be sorry.
13:14Come on.
13:15Come on.
13:17Not at all.
13:21Come on, love.
13:22I'll see you soon, won't I?
13:23Of course you will.
13:25I promise.
13:26I promise.
13:27And listen, we're not going to leave you there.
13:29I'm your tod.
13:31All right.
13:32All right.
13:35Have you been sober?
13:55It's no good, you know.
13:58I mean, it's not...
14:00Drugs better than sober, like, you know, having sex is better than not having sex.
14:05You know, obviously, it goes without saying, it's what most people spend their lives trying
14:12to achieve is having a good time.
14:14A good time for working-class people is, or for any people, is the drugs that you take.
14:22I'm a thinking man, and I like a good thing.
14:25I'm a thinking man, and I like a good thing.
14:29I'll walk to the bar and think like a fish.
14:30I thank the good Lord for the things that I think.
14:32And I think that I'll think like this till I'm sunk.
14:34I'm a joking man, and I like to be joking.
14:35I'll joke and I'll joke till I'm damn nearly choking.
14:41I'll strike up a light and joke like a chimney.
14:42It makes me to think all the jokes I've got in me.
14:43Thinking's a beautiful thing for a man.
14:48He thinks from a bottle and thinks from a can.
14:49Thinks from hell and straight to the brain.
14:53Thinks from a bucket and straight to the brain.
15:08Thinks from a bottle and thinks from a can.
15:14Thinks from hell straight to the brain
15:17Thinks coming there from the heavens like rain
15:21Well, I can't afford to spend all this time and all this money on drinking.
15:31You know, it's my 40th birthday today and here I am, potless.
15:36I've got no house, no car or anything else.
15:39I've spent all my money on enjoying myself, what I consider enjoying myself.
15:42Some people would say I've pissed it up the wall, you know.
15:46But I like to compare it with the old George Best joke that was...
15:49A fella said to him, you know, you've earned so many millions of pounds, you know,
15:53what did you do with it, you know.
15:55And he said, well, 90% of it went on booze and drugs and easy women
16:00and I squandered the other 10% and I totally agree with him, you know.
16:05That's how I like to look at things, you know what I'm saying.
16:08I'm a thinking man with things on his mind
16:14I'm 40 years old for the first time tonight
16:19On a day like today, is it evil or sinful
16:24To dream about sinking as much as a skimfall
16:27A joking man with fire in his eyes
16:3040 years young for the last time tonight
16:35Smoking a sign at the Crimea lake
16:40For those thousands of jokes that have gone upon the flames
16:44Thinking's a beautiful thing for a man
16:46Things from a bottle and things from a can
16:52Things from hell straight to the brain
16:57Things coming there from the heavens like rain
17:00A joking man and a thinking man
17:05No doubt about it, that's who I am
17:11Thinking and joking and still going strong
17:16Drinking and smoking my whole life long
17:22I don't know if I can cut down
17:42I think this is what they're going to teach me at Gisborne
17:45I think they're going to find out whether, for me
17:49It's going to be total abstinence
17:52I haven't got enough to fulfil my life
17:59But I know I should have
18:00Because I know things I can do
18:05But the drink has been stopping me doing it
18:09And it's got to go
18:12It's a life with it or a life without it
18:20And to be honest, this last couple of years
18:23The life with it
18:25I wouldn't recommend to anybody
18:28Because it doesn't do anything for you
18:30Not at the end
18:31It does temporarily
18:33Not at the end of the day
18:35Why have you come in for treatment, Jane?
18:43One day I would come
18:44I've always known that
18:46And this is the day
18:50So this is the day
18:52And you're ready for treatment?
18:54Yeah, this is the day
18:54Do you think you are an alcoholic
18:58Or chemically dependent?
19:00Do you feel that?
19:01Do you feel that?
19:02Well, it is
19:06I am dependent
19:07I don't know much
19:09So at the moment you feel that
19:11You have a dependency
19:12Oh, I am
19:13Do you have any history of any withdrawal fits, Jane?
19:19No
19:19Any serious suicide attempts?
19:23Not serious
19:24Do you feel that you'd want to do that now?
19:28Do you feel that you'd want to self-harm or anything?
19:32Not at the moment, no
19:33I went to pick me brother up
19:42From shopping
19:44And I said, oh, I just need to walk to the bank
19:47To get some cash out of the machine
19:50And on the way back
19:54It was time centre
19:55With this guy
19:58I don't know
19:59Late fifties, maybe sixty
20:01Stood there
20:03Like this
20:07Time centre
20:08And I just laughed
20:15And I said
20:15I said, I'm not that bad yet
20:18And
20:21The day after
20:23I realised
20:25What right I'd have to say that
20:29Because
20:32Who is to say that
20:36I wouldn't end up like that
20:38And that people
20:39Have been laughing at me
20:41Like that
20:43I don't know who that guy was
20:46He might
20:48Never have been anything special
20:50In his life
20:51He could have been a politician
20:55He could have been anybody
20:56And what gave me
21:00Of all people
21:01The right to
21:02Sneer
21:03But then I think
21:06It came home to me
21:07Maybe one day
21:08I will have to worry
21:10I will be that bad
21:11Because at some stage
21:14He must have been
21:15In my position now
21:17He must have been
21:18He didn't go from
21:20Not drinking
21:21To talking to himself
21:23Shouting at
21:25All the pedestrians
21:27And that's
21:29What I don't want people
21:30To think about me
21:31She's sad
21:32Because someone
21:34I'm not
21:35I would think
21:41Somebody who has
21:42A drink problem
21:43Goes down to the
21:44Off-licence
21:44And buys
21:45Tenants Extra
21:46Or some sort of
21:47Super cider
21:48Or whatever
21:48Drinks those
21:50In their house
21:50And gets
21:51Terribly pissed
21:52All on their own
21:53I don't ever
21:55Sit on me own
21:56Having a drink
21:57In order to get drunk
21:58I just never do that
22:00But I know a lot
22:01Of people do
22:01And some people
22:02Would say
22:02They have a drink problem
22:04It's a problem
22:05Or not
22:06You know
22:06I mean
22:06If a tramp
22:08Gets through the day
22:09Sleeping on a bench
22:10In the most miserable
22:11Circumstances in the world
22:13By drinking
22:13Half a bottle of cider
22:15Then fair play to him
22:16I wouldn't say
22:16He's got a drink problem
22:17I'd say
22:18He's got a house problem
22:19You know what I mean
22:20This is what is
22:26Lobicoed in this bar
22:27This is actually
22:28A quick fuck
22:28A quick fuck
22:29And it's a variant
22:30Of the B-52
22:31Floated on top
22:33It goes down very well
22:36And believe me
22:37Plenty of them do
22:38In this bar
22:39To honour
22:40Get on that
22:42And stay on that
22:44Lovely
22:48I'm the worst
22:52Getting drunk
22:53Because I'm
22:54Quite cocky anyway
22:56When I'm sober
22:57But when I get drunk
22:59It just brings out
23:00Some people would say
23:02The worst
23:02But probably
23:03The best
23:05I would say
23:06In me
23:06To honour
23:07Get on that
23:09And stay on that
23:10When you're in your 20s
23:16You do what you can do
23:17When I'm in my 40s
23:20I'm not going to go out
23:21In tight trousers
23:22And things like that
23:23And get drunk
23:24And flirt
23:24At this point in time
23:27I enjoy having a drink
23:29Most of the time
23:31I make a fool
23:31And so
23:31But I haven't got a problem
23:36I don't think women
23:55Understand
23:56Men's need for
23:59Being with other men
24:00To have a drink
24:01And Barbara
24:03Certainly doesn't
24:04Understand football
24:04He's got no idea
24:07At all
24:08Of what Tottenham
24:08Means to me
24:09He goes to the pub
24:12Every night
24:13Without fail
24:15I could go out
24:17With him
24:17But where he drinks
24:18It's mostly men
24:22And I feel
24:23That I'm intruding
24:24On his
24:25Social
24:27Sort of
24:28Conversation
24:29Which he needs
24:30I think
24:31Sometimes
24:31If I say
24:38Why are you spending
24:39So much time
24:40In the pub
24:42He just says
24:43I've been
24:44On my own all day
24:45And I need some
24:47Company
24:47Male company
24:48Which I do
24:49Understand
24:50Have you ever seen
24:53Me in the pub
24:54With my woman
24:54Yeah
24:55That's right
24:56How many times
24:57Not very often
24:58When 15 years
24:59I've known you
25:00Twice
25:01Yeah exactly
25:01Yeah
25:02I reckon women
25:03Should be locked in cages
25:04And when you want one
25:06Just come and get one
25:07Why does a woman
25:09Want to go down the pub
25:10You know
25:11She's
25:11Let's say
25:12Late thirties
25:13Early forties
25:15She's got the home to run
25:16She's got the kids
25:18To look after
25:19I'd like to see more
25:20Women in pubs
25:21But um
25:22Not the pub I go in
25:25Because it's a man's pub
25:26Perhaps there should be
25:30Just pubs
25:30Where women could go
25:31And sit there
25:33Talking about
25:33Whatever they want
25:34To talk about
25:35Don't bring your wives
25:41Out to the pub
25:42No
25:42Why
25:43Because your male
25:44Show him his time
25:45No because I fucking
25:46Stay at home
25:46Your wife's my
25:49Who does your
25:50Wining, cooking, cleaning, scrubbing
25:52Come on there you are
25:53Yeah that's right Sean
25:54That's good
25:54Yeah
25:55That's good
25:55I'll give you a hug
25:56I don't think it's fair
25:58That men and women
26:00Are split up like
26:02Like this
26:03Because of drink
26:04Er
26:05But I don't consider
26:07That our problem
26:08Is that they're serious
26:08As maybe someone else's
26:10Who
26:10Who's with someone
26:11That's got a real
26:12Sort of alcoholic problem
26:14A man like me
26:30In his sunset days
26:31Needs to steer a course
26:33Into quieter seas
26:34No floods
26:36High tides
26:36Or tidal waves
26:37Just a steady flow
26:40And a constant stream
26:41So with the sun in the east
26:44And a following breeze
26:45It's off to the local
26:46To take on board
26:47A consignment of lager
26:49To store in the hold
26:50Two or three jills
26:53To moisten the gills
26:54And a joke and a jake
26:56With the usual crap
26:57Badger and weasel
27:00Ratty and Tony
27:01Have to get a string vest
27:05Harry's doing a full mountain
27:07I'll have to leave mine off now
27:09Quite long on the puns
27:10Frank
27:10First of May
27:12Why
27:12We don't need to know
27:13There we do
27:16Tell us more Frank
27:18You can tell she comes
27:20From Yorkshire
27:21Can't you
27:21From the amount of noise
27:22She makes
27:23You must be choking
27:24Drinking patterns change
27:31With your years in life
27:33But as you get older
27:35You possibly need the drink
27:37Early in the morning
27:39Or early in the day
27:40The first one
27:43Sometimes is
27:44You know
27:45Not desperate
27:48But it's pretty useful
27:49It's not as bad now
27:52As it used to be
27:55When I was younger
27:56I used to say
27:57I always started the day
27:59Two gin and tonics down
28:00And I didn't function really well
28:04In business or whatever
28:06Until I'd had those two gin and tonics
28:09Two or three jills
28:14To moisten the gills
28:16Then one for the road
28:18Then toodlepip
28:25And back to the billet
28:26Before falling foul
28:28Of the legal limit
28:29If there wasn't
28:33A drink drive law
28:34Well then
28:34I could go out
28:36And drink
28:36A reasonable amount
28:38Of alcohol
28:38But
28:39You can't do it
28:41Can you
28:41People who have been
28:44Regular drinkers
28:45All our lives
28:46You know
28:46We are the victims
28:47Of this law
28:48Now which exists
28:50Because it is so stringent
28:51There should be dispensation
28:56For people
28:56Who have
28:58Or can prove
29:00A known medical record
29:01Of drinking
29:03Over a period of time
29:04Without any ill effects
29:06And an ill accident record
29:09That's what I think
29:11Donner boys
29:28Mother wife
29:29Drink of choice
29:31Diamond white
29:32Everyday
29:33Corner shop
29:34First one down
29:36Comes back up
29:37Special brew
29:39If I'm flush
29:40For a treat
29:42Vodka neat
29:43Don't you know
29:44Tell you why
29:46Mother drinks
29:47So do I
29:48Bottom line
29:54Need it bad
29:55If I drink
29:57I concur
29:58I might sink
29:59I might sink
29:59If I don't
30:01Want to sail
30:02Want to float
30:03If I'm dry
30:05Start to sweat
30:07Get the shake
30:08Start to fret
30:09Never sleep
30:11Through the night
30:12Feel like death
30:13Want to die
30:14Don't you know
30:16Tell you why
30:17Mother drinks
30:19So do I
30:20Started up
30:22Age 13
30:24Side a girl
30:25On the street
30:26Got a taste
30:28Got a thirst
30:29Could have drowned
30:30Bad to worse
30:31Feeling down
30:34Cut my veins
30:35In the blood
30:37So they say
30:39Keep the booze
30:44In the house
30:46Keep myself
30:47To myself
30:48Need a drink
30:49Just to start
30:51Couldn't work
30:52Can't go out
30:54Never take kids
30:55To park
30:56Eldest son
30:57Helps me out
30:59Hide the cans
31:01Down the road
31:02Don't you know
31:04Tell you why
31:05Mother drinks
31:08So do I
31:10If I don't
31:12Watch me fall
31:14If I do
31:15Even kill
31:16Drink to live
31:17Not to fail
31:18Drink to love
31:20Not to kill
31:21Need it bad
31:23In the blood
31:24I am ill
31:26Help me God
31:27I am good
31:29I am good
31:30Steady flow
31:42Constant stream
31:43Light lunch
31:44A bite to eat
31:45And a drop of wine
31:47Half of red
31:48Or a half of white
31:50Then drift in the doldrums
31:52Till four or five
31:53When Jill my wife
31:55Gets back from town
31:56And we cast off again
31:57I have always worked
32:02On the principle
32:03That you should not
32:04Drink cheap wine
32:06People who suffer
32:08From alcoholism
32:09Or the effects
32:11Of excessive drinking
32:12Usually do it
32:14Because they drink
32:14Cheap booze
32:15My drinking isn't
32:18A problem
32:19Not to me
32:20It just
32:22Slightly governs
32:24The way I lead
32:25My life
32:25I can't remember
32:29The last time
32:30I went a day
32:31Without a drink
32:32Steady flow
32:39Constant stream
32:40Tonic diluted
32:42With lashings of gin
32:43G&T
32:46With lemon and ice
32:47It's an act of faith
32:49It's a way of life
32:50The club
32:51The veranda
32:52The drop before dinner
32:53The shadow
32:55The yard arm
32:55The trip round the garden
32:57Singles or doubles
32:59Doubles or triples
33:00The classical
33:01Typical
33:02Evening tipple
33:03The civilised drink
33:05For the civilised couple
33:06So
33:07Two or three
33:09Or four of them
33:10Then supper time
33:11And a bottle of wine
33:12Which takes us through
33:14To eight or nine
33:15Any chance of any wine
33:17I'll be
33:17Yeah
33:18Thanks
33:18Come along now
33:20An alcoholic to me
33:24Is somebody who
33:26Drinks every day
33:27But is not capable
33:30Of controlling
33:31The amount of alcohol
33:33He drinks every day
33:34I.e.
33:35He doesn't know
33:36When to stop
33:37Whereas I've never been
33:40That sort of drinker
33:41To batten the hatch
33:45I crack the seal
33:46On a bottle of scotch
33:47Knock one back
33:49And a large one at that
33:50Then maybe another
33:52To round things off
33:53Then dock for the night
33:55Before raising the anchor
33:56At opening time
33:58The morning after
33:59Steady flow
34:03Constant stream
34:04Steer a course
34:07Quieter seas
34:08No floods
34:10High tides
34:11Or tidal waves
34:12For a man like me
34:14In the West End's days
34:16I haven't feeling
34:26Better than I expected to
34:27A bit wobbly
34:30Bit of a bad stomach
34:32Cos I've had a little bit
34:34Of breakfast
34:34But my stomach's not used
34:36To food
34:37I slept for five hours
34:40Straight off
34:41So that was quite good
34:42But it's probably the medication
34:44That's helping a lot
34:45I'm just wondering
34:47What's happening today
34:48Now
34:49What we will do
34:52In the next few days
34:53Is have a look
34:54At what we call
34:55Our programme
34:56The 12 step programme
34:57Looking at step one
34:59And that is very much work
35:01That I will be
35:02Asking you to do
35:04To have a look
35:05At the unmanageability
35:06And the powerlessness
35:08Over your life
35:10Do you want to change?
35:12Do you want to change
35:13Your lifestyle?
35:14I have to change
35:15I want my mum
35:32To be proud of me
35:33And my dad
35:35They only live round the corner
35:37And only go to their house
35:38They say come down for a bit
35:40They know damn well why they haven't
35:42Because they haven't got any drink
35:43Well they haven't
35:45My dad has some
35:46In the cupboard
35:47But they don't drink
35:48It's been
35:48When Jane's sat there
35:54Saying I've got to find
35:55Another way of
35:55Building that confidence
35:57Instead of turning to the drink
35:58Or the relationships
36:00That come from it
36:01Sometimes I feel ashamed
36:06Of things I've done
36:07When I was drinking
36:09This
36:11Alcoholism
36:12It's a disease
36:13That takes a grip
36:15And you don't realise
36:18Until
36:18Well some people never realise
36:20And that's why they die
36:21I'm fortunate
36:23I've learnt early on in life
36:25And I have a chance
36:26Drinking is what makes life fun
36:34Along with all the other things
36:36That make life fun
36:37You know
36:37Macrobiotic diets
36:40Don't make life fun
36:42No of course
36:43I don't bother about me
36:44Insights
36:44I may when
36:45They start to break down
36:47And fall apart
36:48And all the rest of it
36:48And they tell me
36:49Well you've only got a month to go
36:50So it's best to stop now
36:52You know
36:52Then I might
36:53But
36:54Well no I won't actually
36:55I'm lying
36:57I won't stop at all
36:58We open with lager
37:07Then move on to wine
37:08And spirits and cocktails
37:10Two at a time
37:11Till we're holding as much
37:12As we're physically able
37:13By which time we're shitfaced
37:15And under the table
37:16And when we wake up
37:17We're a sorrowful sight
37:18But we go out
37:19And we do it again
37:20The next night
37:20We couldn't begin
37:22To work out what it cost us
37:23To tell you the truth
37:24We don't give a fosters
37:26When we wake up
37:30And when we wake up
37:33When we wake up
37:36No we can't
37:40Get out
37:40It's light out
37:41It's clear
37:42And when
37:44That's you
37:48You go away
37:49I'll be fine
37:49And then we go out
37:51And do it next night
37:52So cute
37:55To tell you the truth
38:06We couldn't
38:07Give us the fosters
38:12And then we go out
38:15We're a sorrowful sight
38:16But then we go out
38:18We do it the next night
38:19We couldn't begin
38:20To tell you how much
38:21It cost us
38:21To tell you the truth
38:23We couldn't give a fosters
38:24To tell us
38:29To tell us
38:30Sherry and me, we're madly in love
38:38Sherry and me, like hand in glove
38:42But it's time to let go
38:44Give Sherry the shove so stolen
38:46You're gone, I'm on my own again
38:52Sherry and me, go back a long way
38:57From the break of dawn to the end of day
39:01But there's hell and high water, a matter to pay
39:04So here it goes
39:06God knows I'm on my own again
39:11Sherry's the one with an up-brown eyes
39:16One full of promise, one full of lies
39:20Sweet times like honey, straight from the high
39:23Five times were black, they were buried alive
39:27Sherry's my love, but it's time to break free
39:38Sherry's the one who's been turning the key
39:42I kill Sherry, Sherry kills me
39:46So don't stall
39:47Walk tall, I'm on my own again
39:52A heavenly kiss on the lips was fatal
39:57The spirit of evil, the breath of an angel
40:01Sherry and me, we're a fact of life
40:04I'm a widow to Sherry as well as a wife
40:08It's a stab in the bag to give Sherry the knife
40:12So well said, you're dead
40:15I'm on my own again
40:18I'm all alone again
40:21I'm going home again
40:27We're going to have about half an hour together today, Jen, before you go home
40:36How does it feel about going home today?
40:40How does that feel?
40:41How is it?
40:42It makes feelings
40:43Yeah, I'm looking forward to going home
40:47Because that's what your class is, normal life
40:51But I'm a bit sad to leave here, really
40:54What do you believe your disease is, Jane?
40:59It's alcoholism
41:00It's a disease that I'll have the rest of my life
41:07And for me to stay alive, I have not to drink every day
41:12But just take it one day at a time
41:14I will not have a drink today
41:15I can imagine pouring it
41:18Even imagine drinking it
41:20But I'll do that tomorrow
41:21I'll drink it tomorrow
41:23Not today
41:24And you feel that you can cope with that?
41:28Well, that's the only way to cope
41:29Because the actual, you know, the realisation that
41:34You know, at 38 years old
41:37You have to think to yourself, I can never have a drink again
41:41That is a very frightening thought
41:42We were at the bowl of garlic
41:47The whole bowl of garlic
41:48And was completely alright then
41:50And I was not sick
41:51Mwah
41:52You can't drink this much as well
41:54Oh, leave off
41:56Get out of it
41:57Go away
41:59You talk some shit
42:00I ate a complete bowl of garlic
42:04This is a gospel truth
42:05A complete whole bowl of garlic
42:07It said, you won't eat it
42:08In a chink and I ate it
42:09And it's pissed him off forevermore
42:11But I ate it
42:12And not only did I eat it
42:14I asked for a side dish of garlic
42:15To go with it
42:16That's what I did
42:18You have never, never, never
42:22Hit a chocolate pudding with garlic
42:24No, I don't like chocolate pudding
42:25You know I don't like anything sweet
42:26Well, I did it
42:27Yeah, but I don't like all that chocolate shit that he likes
42:30You can't drink as much as me
42:33It's okay
42:33Look, I'm in trouble
42:36I'm late at home now
42:36And it's your 14
42:37I don't often ask him to stay at home
42:41Because I know what the answer's going to be
42:43He says, but I won't be long
42:46And he always is
42:47And even after all this time
42:49I still think he might come back early
42:52But he very rarely does
42:53Sean, that's me
42:58Whose stomach must have played the host to 50,000 beers
43:02Who must have blown 100,000 pounds in 40 years
43:06Whose world revolves around the small circumference of a glass
43:10Who likes the crack of knocking back the lager with the lads
43:14Who does at least a 35-hour week inside the pub
43:18Who watches football on a giant screen
43:20Or chats the barmaid up
43:23Excuse me
43:25I'll follow
43:28Could I have half a pint of lager please, thank you
43:33Mate
43:33I go on the top shelf and I've had about 10 to 14 pints
43:38And you're so bloated
43:39That you can't physically drink anymore
43:42You're up to here with beer
43:43But it's only 10 o'clock
43:45So you don't want to go home that early
43:47So you can start on the vodkas
43:48Large one
43:49But you drink them like beer
43:51You don't sip them
43:53You just pop
43:54Before you know it
43:55You've had seven large ones
43:56And now you're pissed
43:58And you get that
44:00Pratt, Robin Cook
44:01Oh, Robin Cook
44:03Where did I get him from?
44:06There you go, Frank Dobson
44:10Yeah, he ain't done lots of dollars
44:12He ain't though, is he?
44:13Sure
44:14Frank Dobson, he ain't done fuck gold
44:15He ain't done nothing
44:16Yeah, he ain't done nothing
44:18Oh, Tony Blair
44:19He's all right
44:20He's an arson sporter
44:21He's a wanker
44:22He's an arson sporter
44:23Tony Blair
44:24I don't think he's got a drink problem
44:31I feel that he would need to have a drink as soon as he got up in the morning if there was a real problem with him
44:38He's got a problem with his hips, how we've been told because of the drinking
44:42But I don't think he's helping his situation
44:45You just can't tell him
44:47Because I drank so much from an early age
44:50The blood vessels contracted and didn't feed the bone in the hip
44:54And they just crumbled away
44:57Through drink
44:59And they did tell me to stop drinking
45:01But damage is done so you've got to carry on
45:05The most you can drink is the amount that you drink
45:09To get you to the point that's where you want to be
45:13Whatever you want to be
45:15I like oblivion myself
45:18I've said many times that
45:21Trying to describe to people how much I like drinking
45:24I try to explain it to people
45:26And you know that swirling feeling when you're lying in the bed
45:30And you put your head back and everything spins
45:33And if you close your eyes you go backwards at about 150 miles an hour and so on
45:37And it's a really weird feeling
45:39Well I love that
45:40You know
45:41I think that's the greatest feeling ever
45:49You didn't help me
45:51I'm suddenly plastered
45:53I'm drinking like a...
45:57Amy's the worst, she gets totally plastered
45:59Harry's the worst
46:00I mean, it's like a bastard
46:01Harry's the worst, I mean, it's like a bastard
46:02All right, we admit it
46:03We're so wrong and stuff
46:04We're drinking like water
46:05We can't get enough
46:06So open your wallets and pay for a round
46:08When the maidens and maidens roll into town
46:11What I didn't understand is why you used to drink
46:29Do you understand the saying to drown your sorrows?
46:33No
46:34No, it means any problems you have
46:38You think if you have a drink it takes them away
46:41You forget about them
46:43And you do
46:44But when you get up the day after
46:46They haven't gone away
46:48They're still there
46:49So what I have to learn to do is sort them out
46:54But sober
46:56And...
46:57I mean, I haven't been happy either
47:03Thinking about it
47:04And I've felt guilty
47:08I've felt I've been letting you down
47:11But in some respects you've been letting me down, haven't you?
47:16You're not doing your best that you can at school
47:19And you've been having a go at smoking
47:24But I want to make a bargain with you now
47:29Now, how do you think about this?
47:32I give up the drink
47:34And you give up the cigarettes
47:37Is that a fair deal?
47:39OK
47:40Is that a promise?
47:42Yeah
47:43I have to promise you that I won't drink either
47:46Shake on it
47:47As a kid
47:49Cos I love you now
47:51Not only you'll love me
47:53And we'll be a good team
47:56OK
47:58And I'm just glad that
48:00I haven't left it too late
48:02Till it got to a stage where
48:04You stopped loving me
48:08When you've had enough
48:10Sean, that's me
48:11Who hits the vodka
48:12When his belt won't stretch another notch
48:22Who stands to leave before a stroke of twelve o'clock
48:26Who wobbles slightly as he walks but never hits the deck
48:29Who might be dodgy on his pins but never drops
48:33Whose wife descends at closing time to drive him back to family life
48:39Before he springs a leak
48:41Or pops
48:42Or pops
48:53It's not much of a deal for Barbara but she's got me
48:56Which sounds a bit big-headed, doesn't it?
48:59But it's not meant to be
49:01Cos we're good friends, you know
49:03I would like her
49:05Obviously to spend more time with her
49:07But what can you do?
49:09You've got to
49:10Take what life deals with you, haven't you?
49:12It's always at me, isn't it?
49:42I'm a man you don't need
49:48Every day
50:12You don't need
50:13I don't need
50:14What a deal
50:15You
50:16Have to
50:17You
50:18I'm a man you know
50:19You
50:20You
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50:24You
50:26You
50:27You
50:29You
50:31You
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