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00:00:00Some Christmases will always be more memorable than others.
00:00:07More joyful, serene, with blessings, with love.
00:00:13That we will say is the best Christmas ever.
00:00:19We unbox our traditions year by year.
00:00:23Each celebration must compete with all of those that went before.
00:00:29We set high standards.
00:00:34Write long lists.
00:00:37We cannot be ill, we cannot afford to falter.
00:00:44Christmas becomes a challenge we must rise to.
00:00:50It is our duty to burnish it and to make it shine.
00:00:56We must do well.
00:00:59We must be well.
00:01:03We must do the best we can.
00:01:05We must do well.
00:01:06We must do well.
00:01:07We must do well.
00:01:09We must do well.
00:01:10We must do well.
00:01:11We must do well.
00:01:12We must do well.
00:01:13We must do well.
00:01:14Now it is good to see you.
00:01:15You are the best.
00:01:17Now, we must do well.
00:01:18Come on.
00:01:19Here you go.
00:01:20Come on, here you go.
00:01:21Very Christmas, smoke to mummy.
00:01:24Yes.
00:01:27Merry Christmas.
00:01:28Come to Mummy.
00:01:31There you go.
00:01:32Merry Christmas.
00:01:33Come along then, children.
00:01:35Oh, hello, you.
00:01:38Now, let me see if I've got this right.
00:01:41You're Teddy, you're May, and you're Angela.
00:01:46No, no.
00:01:48Oh, silly Santa.
00:01:51You're Angela and you're May.
00:01:56And what do you want for Christmas?
00:01:58Hmm?
00:02:04You want Mummy and Daddy to get out of bed and put some clothes on?
00:02:13Good afternoon, Dr. Turner's surgery.
00:02:15Miss Higgins, I wondered how everything was.
00:02:18I am only prepared to say Dr. Mukherjee is proving receptive to direction.
00:02:29Can I ask a favor?
00:02:32Sheila needs help with some antlers.
00:02:38Call Miss Stickler for the scriptures.
00:02:40I don't recall any reindeer in Bethlehem.
00:02:43You can't be certain.
00:02:45St. Eustace himself had a vision of Christ between the antlers of a stag, white as snow.
00:02:53And there were mystics who believed that our Lord himself appeared to men in such a form.
00:02:58Shake it all about for me. There's a pet.
00:03:09Oh, love.
00:03:10I'm on my way to give succour to invalids.
00:03:13I require three pounds of oranges.
00:03:21I imagine a modest discount would be smiled upon from the celestial realm.
00:03:26It's on me, love.
00:03:27Oh.
00:03:32This really is exceptionally thoughtful of you, Mother Mildred.
00:03:36I think this is the first thing I've been able to smell our tears for a week.
00:03:40I did catch a whiff of Nurse Crane's sugar and onion mixture.
00:03:44What if you think I can smell it now?
00:03:45Well, it's given my tubes a good seeing to.
00:03:49And it's probably why I'm back in my slacks and gearing up to inspect my Rolodex.
00:03:55So, Sister Hilda, it appears that Nonata's house has been running on oiled wheels during the recent crisis.
00:04:04Reinforcements from the Mother House seem to fill the gaps quite nicely.
00:04:08Once we showed them what to do and where everything was.
00:04:11Hmm.
00:04:12It seems to me that with all the posts so amply covered, the best thing we can do is to take almost all of you away to convalesce.
00:04:23You need a change of scene, good food, sea air.
00:04:28And I know precisely where all three can be obtained.
00:04:32I fear you evoke the spectre of the Mother House.
00:04:36Our esteemed sister is incorrect.
00:04:39I think that on balance that I speak to Sister Julianne alone.
00:04:46We couldn't go into my office. I had just lit the paraffin stove so I could see to some paperwork.
00:04:53Sister, it's best if we remain within convenient distance of the altar rail.
00:04:59By the time I inform you of my plans, we might both feel the need to pray.
00:05:04I believe God is calling me to open another branch house.
00:05:08Where?
00:05:10As ever. Where good nursing and skilled midwives are desperately needed.
00:05:15Where there is often no doctor for many miles.
00:05:18Where the climate is our enemy and water and electricity both fickle friends at best.
00:05:24Are you thinking of expanding our operations in Africa?
00:05:29No.
00:05:31We're going to the Outer Hebrides.
00:05:35The Outer Hebrides?
00:05:37I thought you'd approve being Scottish.
00:05:40I'm not that sort of Scottish.
00:05:42I grew up in a busy market town.
00:05:45The Hebrides are very remote.
00:05:46Precisely.
00:05:48Some of the islands have no access to a doctor.
00:05:51And hospital help can be two hours drive away.
00:05:55Or travel by boat is required.
00:05:57And you think the order can help?
00:05:59I'm convinced we can all help.
00:06:02In the area in question, the district nurse, who is also the midwife,
00:06:06has not only married, but married the doctor.
00:06:09And they've both retreated to the mainland.
00:06:11Support is required in the short term at least.
00:06:15Ten days should suffice.
00:06:18Far too often, the islands lose their nurses because the ladies marry.
00:06:23Religious sisters never let their patients down in that regard.
00:06:28For now, I merely propose an advance excursion.
00:06:33A fact-finding mission, call it what you will.
00:06:36You and your good wife can convalesce in the fresh air
00:06:39whilst helping the order to explore a call from God.
00:06:44But we can't leave the children.
00:06:46Nanny can't be here all the time.
00:06:48A remonstrance I foresaw.
00:06:50And can surmount.
00:06:52Why have I got to mind the Turner children?
00:06:55I'd be much more used in the Outer Hebrides.
00:06:58I used to be a Queen's guide.
00:07:00You must not question Mother Mildred's decision, sister.
00:07:03Any more than I.
00:07:04When we are called, we must listen.
00:07:06Where we are called, we must go.
00:07:09Unless we are called to go somewhere and our superior objects.
00:07:14You really wanted to go, didn't you, sister Monica Joan?
00:07:18A prayer.
00:07:19I received a vision of our Lord himself in altered form.
00:07:26Do you mean a stag? Like the legend of Saint Eustace?
00:07:30Please do not use the term legend.
00:07:33It evokes a fantasy, a tale, a fable conjured out of air.
00:07:37When I speak of a vision, I speak of something real.
00:07:43A truth as tangible as flesh.
00:07:54This is a lot of trouble for ten days.
00:07:57This isn't gonna work.
00:07:59I've got room for my rollers and my lacquer, but not both.
00:08:02Can't go without any lacquer.
00:08:04You'll have to take something else out.
00:08:05I've already jettisoned three pairs of shoes and my lurex two-piece.
00:08:09I'm limiting myself to one all-purpose cocktail frock in case of emergencies.
00:08:14Things we do to promote the health of the deserving.
00:08:17Behold, beige or navy.
00:08:19I routed out some convent issue thermals left over from the big freeze.
00:08:23I'll refer you to my earlier remark.
00:08:25I'll have the beige please, Phyllis.
00:08:27It'll match my new vests.
00:08:29Everything I ever heard about Scotland tells me they're going to be essential.
00:08:31Hmm.
00:08:33Oh.
00:08:35Vi, I think I melted the collar on this shirt.
00:08:38Well, that would be because it's nylon.
00:08:40And I'm not lifting a finger to help you, so don't ask.
00:08:43It's just a week, Vi.
00:08:44But the only building they might be able to have as a convent is some sort of abandoned church they're now using as a youth hostel.
00:08:55Mother Mildred just wants to make sure it's viable.
00:08:58I'll tell you what's not viable.
00:09:00You just waltzing off to the back of beyond just as Reggie comes home for Christmas.
00:09:03Well, I'll be back before Christmas.
00:09:06It's three weeks away.
00:09:10Violet.
00:09:12What are you doing?
00:09:14I'm hiding Reggie's Christmas presents because I haven't got time to wrap them.
00:09:17And did you get him the sticky strips to make the paper chains?
00:09:20Because he looks forward to doing that every Christmas.
00:09:23I brought them down Crisp Street.
00:09:26They're in my coat pocket.
00:09:28I promise you, Vi.
00:09:30Mother Mildred said...
00:09:31Would not wish to hear that woman's name again.
00:09:40I have a medical bag for you.
00:09:46DANG DING DANG DING DANG DING
00:09:50increÃble
00:10:20Our cheeks are nice and rosy
00:10:23And comfy and cozy
00:10:25Are we?
00:10:26We're snuggled up together
00:10:28Like birds of a feather tree
00:10:31Let's take a rosy forest
00:10:34And sing a chorus or two
00:10:36On this lovely weather
00:10:39We'll play right together with you
00:10:42Trips are lovely and hot
00:10:51If we're half a mile past that phone box
00:11:02We must have come to our left turn by now
00:11:04Have we missed the turning?
00:11:06Perhaps
00:11:07I always read my maps upside down
00:11:10It's an absolutely infallible way of working
00:11:12Out left and right
00:11:13If you're going to slow to a dead stop
00:11:18Every time a specimen of the local wildlife
00:11:21Holds into view
00:11:22We won't attain our objective
00:11:24This side of Christmas
00:11:25I've got three packets of gypsy creams in my holdall
00:11:27Do you think it's time to break them open?
00:11:32That's it
00:11:33Hand this vehicle over
00:11:35I have additional keys
00:11:37And I am prepared to use them
00:11:42So this is home for the next ten days
00:12:02Come, Sister Julian
00:12:05Let us approach on foot
00:12:07As pilgrims
00:12:09We have obtained our objective
00:12:27May the Lord guard
00:12:31Our comings and goings
00:12:33And may he help us do the jobs
00:12:35We do so well at home
00:12:37I detect an animal odour underfoot
00:12:45We would be wise to wipe our shoes
00:12:49Right
00:12:59Cup of tea and a gingerbread Santa
00:13:02Because I know you've never been one for a mince pie
00:13:05So it's true then
00:13:08What's true?
00:13:09So he's not here
00:13:10Oh
00:13:11I wouldn't lie to you, Reggie
00:13:14No, he's not here
00:13:15He's where he almost always is
00:13:18Helping other people
00:13:19Except this time he's in Scotland
00:13:21Which is why I need you
00:13:24To be the man of the house
00:13:26Till he gets back
00:13:27Can I sit in his chair?
00:13:30Of course you can
00:13:31Can I have some of his beer?
00:13:46You can have a shandy on Christmas Day
00:13:48When Fred's back home
00:13:49Coats on the bed
00:13:53I haven't slept under coats since I was a kid
00:13:55I wish I thought of that when I first came to England
00:13:58I just used to lie in the nurses' home and shiver
00:14:01There must be 700 years of mist-dampened misery
00:14:06Seeping out of these walls
00:14:08I persuaded Phyllis to lend me her fiery deck
00:14:12Have you got lumbaga?
00:14:14No, I thought if we rub some on ourselves
00:14:15It might warm us up
00:14:17We'd need a gallon of it
00:14:18Not a pitchy little thing
00:14:20I'm dabbing it on my pulse points
00:14:21Or, as Madame Coco once said of Chanel No. 5
00:14:26It should be applied everywhere a woman expects to be kissed
00:14:29Oh, well
00:14:31I won't bother then
00:14:32Kathy!
00:14:49I won't bother then
00:14:52We should not let it count till the skin
00:14:52I won't bother then
00:14:55I won't bother then
00:14:56You should never escape
00:14:57God I won't bother then
00:14:58If you never forgive me
00:14:59Look at this
00:15:00I'll sin
00:15:01Watch this
00:15:02Go!
00:15:03Get up
00:15:0447
00:15:06Fire
00:15:06Fire
00:15:07Fire
00:15:10Fire
00:15:12Fire
00:15:15Fire
00:15:16Fire
00:15:16Fire
00:15:16Fire
00:15:17Fire
00:15:18Fire
00:15:18Fire
00:15:19Greetings. Good, sir.
00:15:43We seek to make the acquaintance of a Mrs...
00:15:46Morag Norrie. Third door on the right.
00:15:49We don't generally labour on the Lord's Day here.
00:15:59We observe the Sabbath according to the commandments.
00:16:03Now, the cleanliness of this hall falls to me,
00:16:08so I hope there'll be no additional dirt.
00:16:11The only time the last nurse used this hall was for her wedding.
00:16:14Four weeks later, I'm still sweeping up confetti.
00:16:19Or sue.
00:16:22Well, that might bring us some luck.
00:16:25You're Scots?
00:16:26Yes, I am.
00:16:28A feel garlic agate?
00:16:33I asked if you spoke Gaelic.
00:16:35There's no need to answer.
00:16:38The nurse had just left. She didn't speak it either.
00:16:41There's some here that speak nothing else on the island.
00:16:44But we manage.
00:16:46Are these your practice records?
00:16:47As you requested.
00:16:49Anything else you want from the old surgery is in the store
00:16:53and will have to be fetched.
00:16:55These are on their way to Stornoway.
00:16:57That's where the nearest doctor is now.
00:17:00But it took us two hours to get here from Stornoway.
00:17:03The electric seems to be playing the game.
00:17:10If it goes off, there's oil lamps in the store.
00:17:13The electric seems to be playing the game.
00:17:43Hello, ladies.
00:18:07I'm a midwife and a nurse, and we are running a tinnit at the village hall.
00:18:29That is the second time you've walked out of singing practice in three weeks.
00:18:33We're going to have the minister round here again. What will we say to him this time?
00:18:36The Psalms make my head ache.
00:18:39You're supposed to be uplifted by them.
00:18:41And improved.
00:18:43You don't need to be improved, Effie.
00:18:46You just need to be kept steady. We all do.
00:18:50We've a new baby coming in the spring.
00:18:53I know you do.
00:19:06Hurry up.
00:19:07We'll be careful.
00:19:08He needs a bed-making.
00:19:09Tell him to be patient.
00:19:10I want Effie to see him.
00:19:11Enter.
00:19:12Ah!
00:19:13Just a person.
00:19:14You can help me sign the Christmas cards.
00:19:15I promised Sister Julienne I'd do them while everyone was away.
00:19:17We must submit to the labors assigned us.
00:19:18Yes, we must.
00:19:19I even submit it to Sister Julienne's request for frugality.
00:19:20Oh, dear.
00:19:21I'm happy to see him.
00:19:22I'm happy to see him.
00:19:23I've received it.
00:19:24I have to find him.
00:19:25You can help me sign the Christmas cards.
00:19:26I've promised Sister Julienne I'd do them while everyone was away.
00:19:28We must submit to the labors assigned us.
00:19:30Yes, we must.
00:19:31ah just a person you can help me sign the Christmas cards I promised sister
00:19:38Julianne I'd do them while everyone was away we must submit to the laborers
00:19:43assigned us yes we must I even submitted to sister Julianne's request for
00:19:48frugality and bought a bargain box of 50 on crisp street market I'm afraid one
00:19:54or two of them are on the saucy side sister Hilda do you consider my mental
00:20:06faculties to be diminished that wasn't why I didn't show you the card you can see
00:20:13it if you like I would not be able to deduce why something is vulgar or
00:20:21amusing my faculties always failed me in that department now others think my
00:20:28faculties are mislaid altogether it's just what can I tell you other than to say
00:20:33that that is not so that we cherish you and if age has cost you things it has
00:20:43replaced them with gifts to us all it is not a gift to me to be deemed too frail
00:20:49to journey to a place where we are needed it is not a gift to me to to be
00:20:55fettered by an ever diminishing roster of trivial tasks I'm sure you're more than
00:21:01capable of extending your daily routine if you feel up to it what if expenditure is
00:21:06required senior sisters are licensed to draw down from the petty cash but I have
00:21:15not been allowed to do so for some time I am overturning that now do you hear me sister do you consider
00:21:31me to be of sound mind yes
00:21:38I feel that the sacrifice of the gypsy creams was warranted it's a very hospitable gesture certainly but I'm afraid there are going to be more midwives and nurses on the welcoming committee
00:21:45I feel that the sacrifice of the gypsy creams was warranted it's a very hospitable gesture certainly but I'm afraid there are going to be more midwives and nurses on the welcoming committee
00:21:52then we will have people to welcome if I have heard the almighty aright and he intends that we establish a branch house here then the sisters in residence will be few and their challenges immense there is no disgrace to the
00:21:59in savoring our numbers whilst we may
00:22:06I told you it's a great place
00:22:08yes
00:22:10do you come in out of the cold
00:22:13and the cold
00:22:15and the cold
00:22:17and the cold
00:22:19and the cold
00:22:20and the cold
00:22:22and the cold
00:22:23and the cold
00:22:25and the cold
00:22:27do you come in out of the cold
00:22:29good morning
00:22:30tea for the gentleman and the lady
00:22:32nurse dyer
00:22:33we have some rather appealing biscuits to accompany your beverage
00:22:37Mrs. Turner we'll take your details
00:22:40we wouldn't say no to a cup of anything hot
00:22:42we just rode across from the night house
00:22:44oh
00:22:45sister Julianne can you examine this lady as soon as I've taken your details
00:22:49hello there
00:22:50thank you
00:22:51it will stay right this way
00:22:55Are we too late?
00:22:57Bus always goes the long way round.
00:22:59I think you'll find you're absolutely punctual.
00:23:01Please, take a seat.
00:23:04The word was, you were from London.
00:23:06We're all from London, including me.
00:23:11Do come through.
00:23:14I think perhaps just one gypsy cream apiece, Nurse Dyer.
00:23:19Who can foretell the hordes that may be upon us?
00:23:25As everything as it should be.
00:23:30Everything is exactly as I like to see it in a lady of eight months.
00:23:34I keep thinking something will go wrong.
00:23:37Why should you think that?
00:23:39I don't know.
00:23:40I left the island for three years.
00:23:43I went to Inverness to work in a pharmacy.
00:23:46My granny said it made me morbid.
00:23:48Your granny didn't approve of that.
00:23:49No.
00:23:51She doesn't approve of much.
00:23:55Her name is Mrs. Norey.
00:23:56Have you met her yet?
00:23:58Yes, we are acquainted.
00:24:02Inverness is a very different environment to this.
00:24:06That's why I liked it.
00:24:08Until I came home one summer for a holiday and met my Angus.
00:24:12He came to work at the lighthouse from the city as a complete stranger.
00:24:18When I saw my home through his eyes, that's when I realised I loved it more than I ever had.
00:24:26It's a very great gift in life to know where you belong.
00:24:30Many spend a lifetime hoping to find out.
00:24:32Is that tender?
00:24:38It's just the wee one kicking my bladder.
00:24:48I'll get them, okay?
00:24:49I'll get them.
00:24:52Help!
00:24:52We need help!
00:24:53Help!
00:24:54It's all right!
00:24:55It's all right!
00:24:56It's my wife!
00:25:01I'll fetch my bag.
00:25:06Where was baby born?
00:25:08Here.
00:25:09In the truck.
00:25:10I pulled over by the roadside about half an hour ago.
00:25:12Go into the hall while we put things to rights.
00:25:14The baby's still attached to mother by the cord.
00:25:27We have brisk blood loss.
00:25:29Have you felt any pain since the baby arrived?
00:25:31Anything to suggest that the afterbirth is on its way?
00:25:33No.
00:25:38We need to get her inside and give her a centermetron.
00:25:40Is it coming yet?
00:26:00Is it?
00:26:00Yes, Maggie.
00:26:01It's a placenta on its way.
00:26:07Here it comes.
00:26:15Oh, my dear.
00:26:18Every fragment of endeavor has been yours.
00:26:22We all commend you for your fortitude.
00:26:26Mother Mildred, could you fetch doctor, please?
00:26:29It's a problem with the placenta.
00:26:31We have a placenta, but it's incomplete.
00:26:40Mother needs an ambulance and a blood transfusion.
00:26:42In that order.
00:26:43You need to ring the hospital in Stornoway.
00:26:46I was going to order some polio vaccine.
00:26:49There's a round of immunizations due.
00:26:51We're also deficient in analgesia for childbirth.
00:26:54I shall ask for trilene if we can't get gas and air.
00:26:57If I stop massaging the uterus, it relaxes.
00:27:08We have to stabilize her now.
00:27:10The ambulance is going to take too long to get here.
00:27:13It is nevertheless already on its way.
00:27:16Mother will be transfused as soon as she's delivered to the hospital.
00:27:19In about four hours' time.
00:27:21I think it's been expelled.
00:27:27Her uterus is contracting.
00:27:32Placenta complete.
00:27:36And a strong and healthy baby.
00:27:38Oh, I'm sorry.
00:27:45But this is a completely dreadful way to convalesce.
00:27:49We're all dressed up as if we'd burgled a jumble sale.
00:27:54Now we're peeling our own potatoes.
00:27:57Oh, with absolutely no way of turning them into chips.
00:28:01May the Lord forgive me, but right now I'd kill for three penny worth of chips and a savoy.
00:28:05Hey, have we turned you into a cockney on the choir?
00:28:08I like to think so.
00:28:13Lucille, I heard what that woman said to you in the clinic today.
00:28:17Happens all the time at home.
00:28:19I'm almost used to it.
00:28:21But people like them aren't used to people like me.
00:28:24And I can't hate them for it.
00:28:26Because I come from an island too.
00:28:28Not an island like this, though.
00:28:29All islands are like this.
00:28:32All islands have a boundary.
00:28:35And you live your life within it.
00:28:37And you love it.
00:28:38Or you break out and make a life elsewhere.
00:28:41And on every island in the world, no matter how magnificent,
00:28:46there are those who cannot leave and those who cannot stay.
00:28:48I was one of those who could not stay.
00:28:52I was one of those who could not stay.
00:29:18Good evening.
00:29:23Mrs. Buckershop.
00:29:25This is Original speaking.
00:29:27Reggie?
00:29:28Is that you?
00:29:29Vard is out.
00:29:31Count to meet him.
00:29:32Oh.
00:29:33Oh.
00:29:33Hang on.
00:29:34Hang on.
00:29:35Oh.
00:29:35Here we go.
00:29:37Did you get the tree up?
00:29:39Yep.
00:29:41What, what, what?
00:29:42Is it a spruce or a Nordman?
00:29:44It's green.
00:29:45We need to make the paper chain, Fred.
00:29:51Yeah.
00:29:54Wait, wait, wait.
00:29:55Oh.
00:29:56I've run out of money.
00:29:58Tell Violet I called.
00:30:07Let the Lord and Lord that therein is
00:30:10The compass of the world and may that dwell therein
00:30:15For he had founded it upon the seas
00:30:19And prepared it upon the wild
00:30:24The calf was on my lap and then it did its milk all over me.
00:30:53Isla.
00:30:54Oh, you shall have to get changed straight into your nightdress.
00:30:57I've no other clothes dry for you unless there's been some sort of miracle out on the line.
00:31:00Can I go back to the calf?
00:31:02No.
00:31:03You stay in here now.
00:31:04You smell high enough already, Isla.
00:31:07Ify, you get some more water.
00:31:09We'll have to soak her things in a bucket.
00:31:11Soak you in a bucket.
00:31:13Eh.
00:31:14Eh.
00:31:14Mm-hm.
00:31:23Stormy conditions in the western isles
00:31:25With heavy gales and rainfall.
00:31:29Bye, wait.
00:31:29Let's go.
00:31:59Oh, wait.
00:32:04Oh.
00:32:19Oh, wait!
00:32:24Oh, yeah!
00:32:29Angela, May, watch out for Teddy on those steps.
00:32:40Sister Frances, might I have a word?
00:32:44We've just come to bathe baby Jesus and glue his arm back on
00:32:47so he's ready for the crib at Christmas.
00:32:49I have been following the officers with my breviary.
00:32:52It's not the following of officers that concerns me.
00:32:54Teddy, you're not allowed in there.
00:32:59Since, according to your own admission, I am deemed to be of sound mind,
00:33:04when did you say you thought she was of sound mind?
00:33:07When she implored me to.
00:33:10I replied in the affirmative because it seemed the kindest thing.
00:33:14I have made the decision to travel to the Hebrides independently.
00:33:20Independently is underlined.
00:33:22I know it's underlined.
00:33:24Please do not trouble your conscience or the constabulary.
00:33:29I will trouble the constabulary.
00:33:31I'm going to give them this as evidence.
00:33:33She won't get very far without any money.
00:33:36She's taken a pound note and some loose change out of the petty cash.
00:33:41With my permission.
00:33:43You must feel terrible.
00:33:45I wanted her to have some dignity.
00:33:47She's always got dignity.
00:33:48What she really wanted was to see a stag.
00:33:51But why would she go to the Hebrides?
00:33:52There are stags in Richmond Park.
00:33:54She wanted to see a white one.
00:33:56She believes she might encounter Jesus Christ that way.
00:34:00Oh.
00:34:02Oh, don't tell the police that.
00:34:04They'll think she's going mad.
00:34:05Or that you are.
00:34:06I don't care.
00:34:08I'm calling them now.
00:34:09They're insisting that they alert their counterparts in Scotland.
00:34:12Tickets, please.
00:34:22Tickets, please.
00:34:25It is you and your colleagues who deserve to be subject to scrutiny.
00:34:30It is some considerable time since any one of you has asked to view my travel documents.
00:34:36Tickets, please.
00:34:37Tickets, please.
00:34:45Let's run out from Preston.
00:34:48Only if you consider travel from a strictly temporal perspective.
00:34:53Mine is not merely a terrestrial journey.
00:34:56It is a spiritual quest.
00:35:00And God himself propels this chariot of fire.
00:35:04Please, she's in here.
00:35:18We can't stop her crying.
00:35:19Have you put anything on these yourself?
00:35:30Only butter.
00:35:31It's what you do.
00:35:32Butter for birds.
00:35:34It's flannelette, Nurse Crane.
00:35:35One spark from the fire and it would have gone up like a torch.
00:35:38It's a peat fire.
00:35:39Peat doesn't spark.
00:35:40We'll need to check for fragments of charred fabric clinging to the skin.
00:35:44I can see one or two pieces from here.
00:35:47Listen, Isla.
00:35:49Isla, come on.
00:35:52I need you to be a brave little lass for me.
00:35:55We're going to wash your poor legs with soapy water to get the butter off
00:35:59and then bathe them with lovely fresh antiseptic.
00:36:05We'll need to calm her down.
00:36:15Why didn't you put your wellies on?
00:36:17Because we are heading to town to collect a significant quantity of drugs, vaccines and other medical supplies.
00:36:23And I'm of the view that officeware is more appropriate.
00:36:27This is like nowhere else I've ever been on earth.
00:36:30Do you wish the children could see it?
00:36:33I wish the children could live it.
00:36:36What?
00:36:37You mean move here?
00:36:39The island needs a doctor.
00:36:41Permanently.
00:36:42The vacancy's already advertised.
00:36:45And Mother Mildred said that.
00:36:45I don't want to know what Mother Mildred says.
00:36:48What I do want to know is how she manages to wrap half the men in poplar around her little finger.
00:36:53It isn't just the men.
00:36:55Mother Mildred wrapped you around her little finger.
00:36:57And we ended up with our fourth child.
00:37:00May changed our lives for the better.
00:37:03Change changes our lives for the better.
00:37:05We're a family that thrives on it.
00:37:09We don't stay still, Sheila.
00:37:11No, we don't.
00:37:13And that's why we're needed in poplar.
00:37:15With every year that passes, we're faced with some new crisis and some new way of putting things to rise.
00:37:22The system is improving all the time.
00:37:24There's a good system here.
00:37:26They just don't have anyone to run it for them.
00:37:28I'm not even going to discuss it with you.
00:37:41I'll check your blood pressure and urine when I'm done.
00:37:45That'll save you coming into the clinic while your violets are taken care of.
00:37:51It's my fault that she's burned.
00:37:55I shouldn't have turned my back.
00:37:57Does she need to go to hospital?
00:37:59With daily dressing changes, she's better off at home with her parents and her big sister.
00:38:04Oh, well.
00:38:05Effie's her cousin.
00:38:07My sister died.
00:38:09I'm sorry.
00:38:10My condolences.
00:38:12She went to work as a chambermaid in a hotel in Stornoway.
00:38:17When she came back with Effie in her arms, the story was that she had been widowed.
00:38:20I take it this was soon after the war.
00:38:241948.
00:38:27The father was a submariner from Norway, just passing through.
00:38:31Long enough to leave her with a child, not long enough to leave her with a wedding ring.
00:38:34There were a lot of widows of that type in those days.
00:38:37Not here.
00:38:38My sister died of TB.
00:38:45I said I'd take Effie.
00:38:48She was 12 when she came to me.
00:38:49I already had Isla under my feet.
00:38:50I thought it would be easy.
00:38:53But she was a child then, and now she's a woman.
00:38:55And I cannot keep her reined.
00:38:59Reined?
00:39:00As in reined in?
00:39:02Effie is the same as my sister.
00:39:04She couldn't be penned.
00:39:06She couldn't be penned down.
00:39:08Young people always chafe, Mrs MacLeod.
00:39:11They chafe more, now the world's spinning faster.
00:39:14I want what's best for my niece.
00:39:17And that means that she cannot go running free.
00:39:19It's a gathering winter fuel, well...
00:39:31Fred, are you sure you can chop a tree down just like that?
00:39:34No one ever stopped me on Epping Forest.
00:39:37Anyway, it's to cheer the kiddies up
00:39:39and to take the edge off their nerves when they come for their vaccinations.
00:39:43They don't seem to really go to town with their decorations around here.
00:39:46Maybe they leave it all to the last minute.
00:39:47Have we got anything to put on it?
00:39:50Don't worry.
00:39:51It's all in hand.
00:39:52I've got an idea...
00:39:53about some paper chains.
00:40:04Oh, Reggie!
00:40:06That was supposed to be a surprise for Christmas.
00:40:10Fred was looking forward to reading bits out loud with you.
00:40:13Sorry.
00:40:13Fred was looking forward to reading bits out loud with you.
00:40:15Fred wasn't here, is he?
00:40:20Oh, my God.
00:40:22What's your love?
00:40:23Oh, my God.
00:40:26Oh, my God.
00:40:26Oh, my God.
00:40:31Oh, my God.
00:40:35And what is that pagan monstrosity doing in this hall?
00:40:40I'm sure there was no intention, whatever, of causing offense.
00:40:43I have heard tell of such things on the mainland
00:40:46and from my nephews in America,
00:40:49but it is not the custom in these islands.
00:40:53It never was and it never shall be.
00:40:56Mr. Buckle wanted to do something for the children.
00:40:59And did the children ask for it?
00:41:01Have the children here ever needed such a thing?
00:41:04It is to be removed and disposed of
00:41:08before any more harm is done.
00:41:29Take care of now, sister.
00:41:31Bye.
00:41:32Bye.
00:41:32Bye.
00:41:32Bye.
00:41:34Thanks, Jim.
00:41:35I was headed down that road anyway.
00:41:46It appears I am to travel with precious cargo.
00:41:49Yes.
00:41:50We have a great deal to thank your colleagues for it.
00:41:54Would you oblige me by moving along?
00:41:58I require an unimpeded view.
00:42:04Angus!
00:42:16Angus!
00:42:17Angus!
00:42:23Angus!
00:42:24Angus!
00:42:26Angus!
00:42:32I think it's started.
00:42:34Come on.
00:42:35I want to get you in the boat.
00:42:37You can't leave the boat.
00:42:38You can't leave the letters empty.
00:42:40You'll be dismissed.
00:42:41I don't care.
00:42:43Please.
00:42:44Please let me get you in the boat.
00:42:46I can't.
00:42:47Oh, it's coming too fast.
00:42:49I can't.
00:42:49I can't.
00:42:50I can't.
00:42:50I can't.
00:42:51I can't.
00:42:56This is Four Glass Lighthouse.
00:42:57Four Glass Lighthouse.
00:42:58Calling the Coast Guard.
00:42:59Over.
00:43:00This is the Coast Guard.
00:43:01Over.
00:43:02I need medical assistance for my wife.
00:43:05It looks as if the baby's on the way. Over.
00:43:10And he'll be scared.
00:43:15Oh, she's...
00:43:18You may note that I have refrained from contributing to this ovation.
00:43:30Is it because I have broken the rule of obedience?
00:43:33No, because you have caused alarm to your sisters,
00:43:37purloined convent funds from the petty cash,
00:43:40defrauded British railways,
00:43:42and been thrown upon the mercy of the police.
00:43:45I'm sure no further discussion or chastisement will take place
00:43:49before you have recovered from your journey.
00:43:52I will decide what measures are required.
00:43:55First, I must be fortified with scones.
00:44:00Sit down.
00:44:02Somebody else can answer that.
00:44:04No desire for any further contact with the authorities.
00:44:10St. Phelan's house, how may I assist you?
00:44:15It's the Coast Guard.
00:44:17Bobby Bishtail was a wedlock and a naughty vascals, too.
00:44:28When the nurses arrive, you make them a cup of tea
00:44:31and tell them I've had to go to work.
00:44:34And for pity's sake, put those magazines away.
00:44:36They're months old.
00:44:37If your uncle wasn't away thatching,
00:44:42I'd leave him with Isla and take you to walk the Tweed with me.
00:44:45It's time you learned how.
00:44:46It's what old women do.
00:44:49Not old, Effie.
00:44:52Just women.
00:44:52All I ask is that you row the midwives and myself across to the lighthouse.
00:45:12It is a Lord's Day.
00:45:13I cannot undertake labour.
00:45:16There's a lady on that island with no choice as to whether she undertakes labour.
00:45:20She's having a baby.
00:45:21She can't get over here, so we have to get to her.
00:45:25What would it make it better if we paid you double?
00:45:27It would make it worse.
00:45:28What if we paid you nothing and you did it just to oblige?
00:45:32I obey the rules that oblige the Lord and no other.
00:45:36I imagine we both have equal respect for the Almighty, sir.
00:45:40Just lend us the boat.
00:45:41Lend it to us and we'll row ourselves.
00:45:44I'll just turn you back and let us steal it.
00:45:47Just don't report us to the police till we're halfway there.
00:45:50I feel like one of us should have a megaphone to keep you both in time.
00:45:58Well, it's no worse than going round Vicky Park boating like a couple of times, is it not?
00:46:04It's a shame we couldn't have hired a peddler and got us all an ice cream.
00:46:07The lease of this building is not going to be made available to us.
00:46:24The local council would prefer it to be used for secular purposes or not at all.
00:46:29There will also be problems with the village hall, apparently.
00:46:33Is this because of Fred and his Christmas tree?
00:46:36The council take the view that the denominational divide between ourselves and the Presbyterians is too great.
00:46:43Sister, in Poplar we serve Catholics, Methodists, Jews and Muslims.
00:46:50We serve atheists and Buddhists, Sikhs and Hindus.
00:46:53It does not matter who or how they worship, we treat them all alike.
00:47:00And our faith is our own affair.
00:47:02But there, strangers come into our world, and here we have come into theirs.
00:47:09I fear I have not heard the Lord aright.
00:47:18I fear I acted in haste and failed in humility.
00:47:23By presuming all the power to give and to change and to illuminate was ours.
00:47:32Or mine.
00:47:33What if you had failed in faith, sister?
00:47:41Permit her to continue.
00:47:43She's going to anyway.
00:47:46I say only this.
00:47:48What if he has not yet shown you all that he intends?
00:47:53Almost there.
00:48:11Honey!
00:48:15Honey!
00:48:19She's getting worse!
00:48:20Don't you worry, sir.
00:48:22We'll be by your wife's side before you know it.
00:48:31This way.
00:48:32Quick!
00:48:34How often have the pines been coming?
00:48:37On an off in a couple of days now.
00:48:39A couple of days?
00:48:40Mm-hmm.
00:48:41Kept thinking it was all getting going.
00:48:44Then it would just fade.
00:48:45But once this started this morning, I knew it was no going back.
00:48:51And it's more across my stomach as opposed to up to one side.
00:48:55How do you mean to one side?
00:48:57Almost up by my ribs.
00:48:58Yes.
00:49:08There.
00:49:08Mm-hmm.
00:49:13The mother's definitely pyrexic.
00:49:15Her pulse is also very rapid.
00:49:17How's her blood pressure?
00:49:18That seems normal.
00:49:20A routine urine test at the clinic showed no sign of infection.
00:49:23But Valerie's going to get a sample, so we can check again.
00:49:31Hey, my nan-nan, oh, my nan-nan.
00:49:34Sheh, my nan-nan, oh, my nan-nan.
00:49:35Sheh, my nan-nan, oh, my nan-nan.
00:49:39Where'd he try to brush his tail?
00:49:43And if she...
00:49:44I'm going to cousin Lorna's.
00:49:46She's got new magazines come in the post.
00:49:48Tell your ma'am, I might stay the night if the storm gets worse.
00:49:52You're not meant to leave me on my own.
00:49:55The nurses will be here in a minute.
00:49:57Ma'am be vexed with you.
00:49:59She's always vexed with me.
00:50:01What if the calf gets scared in the storm?
00:50:09The calf is perfectly happy.
00:50:10Are you feeling you want to push, Chick?
00:50:25I don't know.
00:50:27I've never had a baby before.
00:50:30I don't know what pushing feels like.
00:50:32I don't know how to do it.
00:50:33I don't know anything.
00:50:35We do, Janet, and we're here to help.
00:50:37This is your first baby, but we do this all the time.
00:50:43Promise me.
00:50:44You can come right in.
00:51:11The height won't bite you.
00:51:14It's not the height that bothers me.
00:51:17It's the distance.
00:51:19I'm not used to seeing such a long way ahead.
00:51:23City dweller, then.
00:51:26London.
00:51:28I'm from Motherwell.
00:51:31I never knew what distance was, what space was.
00:51:36Space like there was room around you where you could stretch out and breathe.
00:51:39There was nine of us living in two rooms.
00:51:44That sounds familiar.
00:51:46And I took to looking at the sky.
00:51:49I saw something that had no limits, that did not change.
00:51:53And I wanted it.
00:51:54The heavens belong to no man.
00:51:59This is mine.
00:52:02This is my star.
00:52:04It would all mean nothing without my Janet.
00:52:07I know.
00:52:07There was a volcanic wind while I was laying down.
00:52:16I can't understand.
00:52:17Grab him.
00:52:21Yes, sir.
00:52:23Yes, sir.
00:52:24Now, matter with the air.
00:52:25I know that everything was enough.
00:52:27Never be great, too.
00:52:29Whoahu?
00:52:29What are you doing here?
00:52:30How many things was there?
00:52:31I'm not alone.
00:52:32Are you doing anything else?
00:52:33Nothing.
00:52:33I don't know.
00:52:34I don't know.
00:52:34You're mine.
00:52:36Good girl, you tell me if you want some tri-lean for the pain.
00:52:51No, the pain's all good now.
00:52:54It's more like power, like a force.
00:53:00Here it comes.
00:53:02Little pushes.
00:53:04Little pushes.
00:53:06All right.
00:53:10That's it.
00:53:14There we go.
00:53:16There it's out.
00:53:18Give me a hand.
00:53:23You feel that?
00:53:25That's what that power you spoke about can do.
00:53:27Baby's turning.
00:53:40You're the most beautiful little boy you ever need to see.
00:53:58I wouldn't care if he wasn't.
00:54:01He's ours.
00:54:03And he belongs where he was born.
00:54:05Oh.
00:54:05Can we open a window so you can hear the sea?
00:54:32He's blowing up for us, Tangiel, out there.
00:54:37Do you want him to get sucked right out into the storm?
00:54:40How about we all just listen?
00:54:47Do you hear that?
00:54:59Do you?
00:55:01This is your home.
00:55:06I don't want you.
00:55:10I don't want you.
00:55:22Are you all on your own?
00:55:25Isla, the more you fast, the longer this will take, and I don't like to say this, sweetheart,
00:55:39but the more it will hurt.
00:55:41It hurts anyway.
00:55:50The cancer data again, it's not warranted.
00:55:59When will you start smiling?
00:56:02Bless you, Mr. McGuskill.
00:56:04We'll have to wait a few more weeks for that.
00:56:07Can I take him up and show him the light?
00:56:09We need to get him bearded, properly dressed, and try putting him to the breast.
00:56:13After that, we might discuss it.
00:56:15After birth's still present and correct?
00:56:16Are you happy for me to burn it in the stove?
00:56:22Janet Precious, are you feeling unwell?
00:56:23I think I'm going to be sick.
00:56:25Would you go and ask Doctor to step this way, please?
00:56:29Do you know, Isla, I've often had to put up with some absolutely horrid things.
00:56:37I've sometimes tried to wish them away, and sometimes I've actually fought them, but every
00:56:43single time the thing that's got me through is the promise of a treat, or a reward after
00:56:50the pain is done.
00:56:52The idea that there are better things to come if I'm brave enough.
00:56:55What sort of better things?
00:56:58Well, it might be something like a special cake, or a new nail varnish.
00:57:03Manicules are almost my favourite thing.
00:57:06My favourite thing is to come.
00:57:07No!
00:57:08No!
00:57:09No!
00:57:10No!
00:57:11No!
00:57:12No!
00:57:13I'm sorry, Janet.
00:57:14Am I going to have another baby?
00:57:28No, you aren't.
00:57:30You've got acute appendicitis.
00:57:33I'm sorry, but I have no choice but to dislodge you from your cosy little bed.
00:57:52I will bring you back when our mission is accomplished.
00:57:58You aren't I a young man?
00:58:27The young man are perilously close to falling out.
00:58:37Cozgar, can you arrange for a medical evacuation? Over.
00:58:42Advice for being in situ until storm awaits. Over.
00:58:48This is the GP who diagnosed the patient.
00:58:52Her labor masked the symptoms, and there is a risk that the appendix may now be at the point of bursting. Over.
00:59:00Cozgar, are you able to remain with the patient? Over.
00:59:04I can't leave her, but she needs urgent surgery. Over.
00:59:10Remain in situ. Repeat, remain in situ until the storm abates. Over and out.
00:59:22Bada. Bada. Bada.
00:59:39Bada.
00:59:41Bada.
00:59:44Bada, Bada.
00:59:46The pain stopped hurting whilst I was having him.
01:00:00Precious, that's because the act of giving birth eclipses everything.
01:00:04Hormones flood through the body, sweeping everything else away.
01:00:07Why can't he sweep this away?
01:00:10Because you're not having a baby now.
01:00:13You're sick and we'll take care of you.
01:00:16Dr. Turner's going to anaesthetise her with trialing.
01:00:20We have suture threads and needles,
01:00:22but the clamps and the scalpel will have to be sterilised by boiling.
01:00:25Are the pans coming up to simmer?
01:00:28I brought the gloves we used in the delivery.
01:00:30We need to buy them too.
01:00:32Then we want a pair of clean sheets to cover the table and the patient.
01:00:35We'll hot iron them if there's time.
01:00:38I'm coming right back.
01:00:40Oh, that bomb's plenty big because that's all we need.
01:00:43Dr. Turner's gown's on the back of the chair.
01:00:45Scrub your hands, rinse them off with the dettol, and then take it to him.
01:00:47Sergeant Dyer's got it all organised.
01:01:08She's a right tartar when she wants to be.
01:01:10You can all tell she's been in the army.
01:01:13I was in the army.
01:01:16The last time I took an appendix out was in Italy in 1944.
01:01:21Something to do in Monte Cassino.
01:01:25It was a young artillery gunner from Scunthorpe.
01:01:27I had to fit him in between two amputations with the sound of gunfire in the distance and hail on the roof of the hospital tent.
01:01:38Every single day, the thing that scared me the most was that my hands would get too cold.
01:01:47That they'd freeze up.
01:01:50You don't want that when you're working with precision tools.
01:01:53Feels like old times.
01:01:55My hands aren't warm.
01:01:57I'm having to improvise.
01:01:58And if I get it wrong, a life gets cut short.
01:02:09Come on.
01:02:10You don't want to get on the wrong side of Sergeant Dyer.
01:02:21Shoulders back.
01:02:22He wasn't hurt.
01:02:40I can see it in his eyes.
01:02:44That's all we can hope for, really, isn't it?
01:02:47Someone who knows when we're in pain.
01:02:49I can see it in his eyes.
01:03:19Your mummy's got work to do.
01:03:23Everybody's busy.
01:03:25So you can help me do my job, eh?
01:03:34You're not helping with the operation?
01:03:37Not really a spectator sport.
01:03:39Scalpel.
01:03:52Scalpel.
01:03:54Scalpel.
01:03:55Now, while the baby was in utero, the appendix would have been pushed upwards, which is why the pain was atypically high in the abdomen.
01:04:09It should now have returned to its usual position.
01:04:12So, I will make the classic incision over McBurney's point.
01:04:20Like.
01:04:22Like.
01:04:23So.
01:04:24Like.
01:04:25So.
01:04:26The electricity's gone off.
01:04:45Clamp.
01:04:46Just find the clamp.
01:04:47The stall's blown the power out.
01:04:59The keeper's gone up the tower.
01:05:00We've got one oral lab and one torch, and that's it.
01:05:03It'll have to do.
01:05:04It'll have to do.
01:05:05And you'll have to hold them.
01:05:06So we won't stand.
01:05:08I shall be treating us both to a pre-emptive dose of link just when we get back indoors.
01:05:13We've not long seen off the flu, and you're minus one of your stockings.
01:05:17You sure you don't want to cycle back and fetch it?
01:05:20I'm never crossing the threshold in that barn again.
01:05:23I don't care if I have to paint my other leg with dark gravy browning.
01:05:32Oh, good God.
01:05:34It's Effie.
01:05:37I thought it was an animal.
01:05:39Whatever's happened to the lass?
01:05:50Gently does it.
01:06:04Good grief.
01:06:06Is that normal?
01:06:07No.
01:06:09It's about three times the usual size.
01:06:11It's full of pus, and it would have burst by morning.
01:06:15Swap.
01:06:20I telephoned the post office, and they're taking a message to Effie's auntie.
01:06:33I was sort of parsimonious with the details.
01:06:36We don't really have any details ourselves, except that it's whiskey.
01:06:41I can smell it seeping through her skin.
01:06:44We'll leave her on her side.
01:06:45I dare say we'll be deploying the bucket again at some point.
01:06:51Oh, lass.
01:06:53Do you want to stand down?
01:06:57It doesn't actually help that she's wearing my pajamas.
01:07:00No, I don't suppose it does.
01:07:04I've never quite got used to it.
01:07:07As a nurse.
01:07:09The way you can suddenly see yourself reflected back at you.
01:07:13In a place or a face where you...
01:07:16least expected.
01:07:17If we allow ourselves to think like that, we'll be seeing ourselves round every corner,
01:07:23and not paying due attention to our patients.
01:07:32Go on.
01:07:33You avail yourself of my bed.
01:07:39And I'll dance attendance on our young delinquent.
01:07:45Phyllis, Effie didn't do this because she's bad.
01:07:49She did it because she's unhappy.
01:07:51Oh, no.
01:07:52I don't know.
01:07:53I don't know.
01:07:54It's all right, lass.
01:07:56You're looked after.
01:07:57Mum!
01:08:01Mum!
01:08:04It's all right, Liz. You're looked after.
01:08:21I've come to see my granddaughter.
01:08:25Donald the Ferry wants his boat back. At your convenience.
01:08:30The word is, you all had quite the night of it.
01:08:42It would appear you've all been very resourceful.
01:08:46We had no choice, other than to choose to do our best or panic and do nothing.
01:08:51Oh, panicers never last long in these parts.
01:08:54Neither do people with romantic notions in their minds.
01:08:58Pound to a penny if they come here and fall in love with the islands.
01:09:03Next thing, they fall in love with a man and run away.
01:09:07We're not running away, Mrs. Narry. We're just going home to London.
01:09:12When?
01:09:13At the end of the week.
01:09:15But Nurse Diane, I won't leave you for a day or two.
01:09:18I would have died without them.
01:09:25I know you would.
01:09:29You must all have been missing your families.
01:09:33With Christmas coming and it being so important where you live.
01:09:39Nothing is more important than this, Mrs. Narry.
01:09:42Kippers, I think they'll upset me.
01:10:01Not as much as Nurse Franklin's going to upset your auntie when she fills her in on last night's antics.
01:10:07Er, Mina doesn't need to know.
01:10:10Yes, she does.
01:10:15Because she needs to know you.
01:10:17Oh, Reggie!
01:10:27Oh, you do look smart.
01:10:29But I don't think you need to wear a tie.
01:10:31You've got any hat on?
01:10:32Yes, but I'm not going to be packing Christmas parcels with the youth club.
01:10:36You're going to be one of them this afternoon.
01:10:38I'd rather do paper chains.
01:10:40They'll still be here when you get back.
01:10:43Go and take the tie off and make yourself look groovy.
01:10:47The only way I'll make Aunt Mina happy is if I stay here.
01:11:12Live on a croft, sing songs every Sunday, wearing Wellingtons.
01:11:17I've no quarrel with a good stout gumboot.
01:11:20Not in these climes.
01:11:22I shall deposit this in an appropriate dustbin.
01:11:27I don't believe you ever really wanted it.
01:11:34My father worked in a submarine.
01:11:40I never saw him, but...
01:11:44I imagine him sometimes, under the water, in the dark with everything locked tight, shut above his head.
01:11:52He can't get out.
01:11:55Neither can I.
01:12:01Did you know...
01:12:03I was a bastard?
01:12:07I know your mother wasn't married.
01:12:11My mother wasn't married.
01:12:15You say it as if you're not ashamed.
01:12:18I was so ashamed once upon a time.
01:12:21I could smell it on my skin.
01:12:24Not because I was dirty.
01:12:27But because we could only afford the cheapest soap.
01:12:30Mother and I were as clean as we could make ourselves.
01:12:36Oh, but we were lonely.
01:12:38I never realised my mother and I were lonely.
01:12:45She always used to say,
01:12:47it's more fun.
01:12:49Just us.
01:12:52We used to take the bus to a gospel hall in another part of town.
01:12:57My mother was the only fallen woman in the congregation.
01:13:03I think they quite liked having her.
01:13:06So they could forgive.
01:13:08Because one day I suddenly realised how proud I was of my mother.
01:13:14Keeping me took courage.
01:13:18And I decided I'd make her proud of me.
01:13:26I've missed my chance there.
01:13:32Being proud of yourself would be a start.
01:13:48Now remember, ladies and gentlemen, if the box you are filling has scarlet tinsel on it,
01:14:01it will be donated to an elderly lady.
01:14:04And we require the inclusion of bath cubes and a miniature liqueur.
01:14:09If it has gold tinsel embellishment, it is destined for a gentleman.
01:14:12So kindly incorporate a bottle of pale ale and a chocolate tool set.
01:14:18Well, I shall now hand over to Councillor Buckle.
01:14:22On your marks.
01:14:24Get set.
01:14:26Go!
01:14:42I can still smell the drink on you from here.
01:14:59It will pass.
01:15:02And if she died from the cold, that wouldn't have passed.
01:15:06If she'd been hit by a car, that wouldn't have passed.
01:15:08What would your mother say, Eve?
01:15:11She isn't here to say anything.
01:15:14I'm not her.
01:15:16Aunt Mina.
01:15:18Neither am I.
01:15:21I can't be what she was to you.
01:15:24Do you have a child of your own?
01:15:27And another coming soon?
01:15:30Do you think that means I wouldn't have room for you?
01:15:33I don't know.
01:15:34I just didn't want you to make her mistakes.
01:15:46I am the mistake.
01:15:48Oh, no.
01:15:50No.
01:15:53You're the gift.
01:15:54What was it I said about seeing yourself reflected?
01:16:05That you don't approve.
01:16:08That was it.
01:16:09How nice to see a young person conducting themselves with decorum.
01:16:24Do you require assistance?
01:16:26Yes.
01:16:27Glue tastes horrible.
01:16:28When I was a child, we used to make chains out of scrap paper and flour and water paste.
01:16:46It's remarkably compelling.
01:16:47One never knew quite when to stop, or indeed if one wanted to.
01:16:53I'm going to get in the Guinness World Records book.
01:17:00Oh, really?
01:17:02What's that?
01:17:04For the longest paper chain in the world.
01:17:07Wow.
01:17:27Sister Monica Joan?
01:17:29Where are you going?
01:17:31Where he leads me.
01:17:32You are to stay here, and you are to rest.
01:17:44I undertook to follow our sister, and I will.
01:17:47And I will.
01:18:17I'll be right back.
01:18:19It's a nice little thing.
01:18:23I want to know.
01:18:29I can't wait.
01:18:32You won't.
01:18:34You're to be a blanket.
01:18:36I can't wait.
01:18:38No, no.
01:18:41No.
01:18:42I knew him at once
01:18:58From the love
01:19:01In his glance
01:19:04He came
01:19:07He lost
01:19:10I need you part
01:19:13In that case
01:19:17We will accept his blessing
01:19:20And go to seek him
01:19:22In another place
01:19:23Oh, good afternoon
01:19:31I wonder if you might be able to advise
01:19:34I require a telephone number
01:19:36For a publishing body
01:19:38Called the Guinness World Records Book
01:19:41Have a happy Christmas
01:19:43I bring Yuletide greetings
01:19:49By hand
01:19:50Oh
01:19:51So much more
01:19:55Personal
01:19:56Yes
01:19:57And it saves on the cost of a stamp
01:19:59Is Reggie at home?
01:20:02I've some rather splendid news for him
01:20:04Well, I didn't know what to say, Fred
01:20:08She presented it as a fait accompli
01:20:11What do you mean?
01:20:12A fait accompli?
01:20:14She had it all planned out
01:20:15The youth club are making paper chains
01:20:18The town's women's guild
01:20:20And Miss Nadine's dancing school
01:20:22Are making paper chains
01:20:23And then they're all going to be stuck together
01:20:24So that Reggie can apply
01:20:26To be in the Guinness World Records book
01:20:29Well, I bet that put him in the Christmas spirit
01:20:33He's as bright and as happy
01:20:35As a robin on a postbox
01:20:36Hang on, hang on, hang on
01:20:38Well, that's what we want, innit?
01:20:43Yes, it is always
01:20:44I don't want him to be let down
01:20:46Or disappointed
01:20:48Or embarrassed
01:20:49No, we won't be, no
01:20:51I promise
01:20:52It's easy for you to say
01:20:54You're still over 700 miles away
01:20:55Hang on
01:20:56Hello?
01:21:02Hello?
01:21:11Mother Mildred is adamant
01:21:13This isn't the place for the order
01:21:15The health authorities are recruiting staff
01:21:18In the usual way
01:21:19The doctor will be a very lucky man
01:21:21I don't envy him
01:21:25I wish I'd been there with you
01:21:29For the operation
01:21:30You'd have got a glimpse of me
01:21:33As a younger man
01:21:34Really?
01:21:35What was he like?
01:21:38Scared
01:21:38Competent
01:21:41But scared
01:21:42My hands are always warm now
01:21:47I know what I'm doing
01:21:50And I know where I belong
01:21:53They're not feeding you enough
01:22:09You look as though you're scavenging for scraps
01:22:11Scavenging for something
01:22:13I just felt Mrs. Norrie don't catch me
01:22:17I heard about that
01:22:19I think it was the tree
01:22:21That she was at war with
01:22:22Not something that would make a child smile
01:22:23You trying to make a child smile now?
01:22:28Not a child
01:22:29But someone very special
01:22:31You're packing up?
01:22:39Yes
01:22:39A new district nurse arrives in the new year
01:22:43Where the pleasure of your company
01:22:45Has been requested
01:22:47So they can take these back home after the party
01:23:09Oh yeah
01:23:47In the week midwinter, frosty wind laid home.
01:23:58Earth stood hard as I am, water like a stone.
01:24:08In the week midwinter, a stable place of ice.
01:24:21O God Almighty, Jesus Christ.
01:24:33In the week midwinter, a stable place of ice.
01:25:03I found Les Crane's whistle.
01:25:28she left it on her mantelpiece
01:25:30many thanks
01:25:31I have in fact secured the loan
01:25:34of Mrs. Buckles' bell
01:25:58some Christmases will always be more memorable than others
01:26:12not because they surpass all the others we've known
01:26:17but because the light shines from a different source
01:26:20we're warmed
01:26:22but made wiser
01:26:24welcomed in and given something new
01:26:27Christmas is not a competition
01:26:31but the prize itself
01:26:34a gathering
01:26:36and a sharing
01:26:38of the things that matter most
01:26:40it is of no consequence
01:26:51whether we're the biggest or the brightest
01:26:54whether we're the strongest
01:26:56the bravest
01:26:57or the most inclined to win
01:26:59it is the smallest things that have the highest value
01:27:05the glance that sees
01:27:08the ear that hears
01:27:10the thought
01:27:11made deed
01:27:12and the links in the chain of love
01:27:16that bind us all
01:27:17Merry Christmas!
01:27:19Merry Christmas!
01:27:19Merry Christmas!
01:27:27Merry Christmas!
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