Tenko. S03 E07. Evidence.

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First broadcast 18th November 1984.  The women start being questioned by the military to give evidence against Yamauchi and co for war crimes.  Ann Bell - Marion Jefferson Stephanie Cole - Dr. Beatrice Mason Jean Anderson - Lady Jocelyn 'Joss' Holbrook Patricia Lawrence - Sister Ulrica Burt Kwouk - Major Yamauchi Emily Bolton - Christina Campbell Elizabeth Chambers - Mrs. Domenica Van Meyer Claire Oberman - Kate Norris Lizzie Mickery - Maggie Thorpe (as Elizabeth Mickery) Cindy Shelley - Alice Courtenay Jonathan Newth - Brigadier Clifford Jefferson Damien Thomas - Jake Haulter Preston Lockwood - Stephen Wentworth Elspet Gray - Phyllis Bristow Stephen Gordon - Colonel Smithers Nigel Greaves - Harry Alderston-Bennett Michael Lees - Colonel Jackson Kay Tong Lim - Chinese Policeman Kenneth MacDonald - Corporal Rangit Nakara - Bank Teller John Rowe - Policeman Ron Gregory - Soldier Vincent Wong - Barman

Transcript

00:00Thank you for listening.

00:30What the devil do you think you're doing? Take your hands off me.

00:42All you have in bag, you give.

00:45How dare you. That's my personal property.

00:48And I take great exception to being dragged from a friend's room and shoved out here as if I was some kind of gangster.

00:54English woman not belong such places.

00:55Nonsense. I have a perfect right to go where I choose.

01:00Watch that arm. He's that septic.

01:03Where the hell are you taking him?

01:05To headquarters. You two will come with us.

01:07Now move.

01:07This is quite outrageous. Outrageous.

01:11And I have no hesitation in reporting this to your superiors.

01:14You. There.

01:15Whom I have no doubt will offer me an apology which I most certainly will not accept.

01:20Hold your horses.

01:38Mr. Westbrook.

01:41Wait.

01:43Wait.

01:43What the hell's the matter? I'm coming. I'm coming.

01:47What else are running with you?

01:48It was awful. The police have picked up my uncle and have taken them away.

01:52Them? What do you mean them?

01:53Joss was with him. They found something in a holdall. What shall we do?

01:57Oh, my sainted aunt.

01:58She was picking up some black market stuff. Quick, chuck me that van.

02:02They're sure to come here and search.

02:04My poor uncle.

02:05You can see how they grabbed his bad arm.

02:07And he looked so scared and lost.

02:08Not surprised. How was Joss taken?

02:11He was pushed into a lorry. Where do you think they've taken them?

02:14Your guess is as good as mine. What with all the detention centers laid out.

02:17Not forgetting dear old Cheyenne.

02:21I bought this stuff from a man in the market.

02:27What man?

02:29How should I know?

02:31I see.

02:35How long have you been buying this stuff?

02:38First time.

02:40How long?

02:41And before you reply, I do have other sources of information.

02:46Week or so.

02:47From the same man?

02:48No.

02:49Because you had to have a special contact, now, didn't you?

02:52Didn't you?

02:54I'm waiting.

02:57There were different men in different markets.

03:01Whose side are you on?

03:02Law and order or the riffrafter go fat on other people's suffering?

03:05It's not like that.

03:06All I was trying to do is to help the poor devils who are too frightened to go to outpatients.

03:14Only because they're starting to hide.

03:15Maybe they have.

03:17Maybe they're just frightened of authority.

03:20Because of their record.

03:21I don't know.

03:22I don't know.

03:23I don't know.

03:24I don't know.

03:25Why don't you just clap me in jail and...

03:26I've done.

03:27I don't think I wouldn't.

03:28Only you happened to be under Rappuy's care.

03:30So let's get this over with, shall we?

03:31Who was he?

03:32Who was he?

03:33Who was he?

03:34Who was he?

03:35That's right.

03:36Turn your back and stare out of the window just like our commandant.

03:38Who was he?

03:39Who was he?

03:40That's right.

03:41Turn your back and stare out of the window just like our commandant.

03:46I'm waiting.

04:09I'm waiting.

04:16No sé.

04:17No sé.

04:34Who is it?

04:35Only me.

04:38Horrives are butting on you.

04:40But haven't seen Domenicar anywhere.

04:44haven't seen Dominicare anywhere have you?

04:47they're shipping her back to Holland. if only. no Smithers wants her. thought she might

04:53prefer to be interviewed about her internment here rather than the judge

04:56advocate building. what about me? well don't you worry. I told him you were far

05:00too run down to give any evidence yet. how dare you! how dare you assume I'm not up

05:05to giving evidence when it's the one thing that's kept me going since this

05:08bloody war decided to end itself!

05:14so I got this tip off that it's shangy back to normal. chop chop. in fact rumor

05:25has it they're holding more looters and collaborators than they know what to do

05:27with. not to mention black marketeers. naughty. anyway they need someone to clear

05:34up the shacks and stuff put up by the POWs. in such a state even the rats have moved out.

05:40I've managed to pull some strings so it's odds on the contract's in the bag. surprise surprise!

05:45there are three types who survive in the East my girl. legitimate.

05:50ne'er-do-wells paid off to stay away from home. and those who are bright enough to work the system.

05:57and good luck to them. I have no love for authority. wherever it parks itself.

06:02how dare you be so impertinent!

06:08I'm very sorry mrs vanmere. only you are overdrawn to the limit. however if you would

06:14like to see the man- I demand to see the manager on what is more straight away. I'm afraid that's

06:18not possible. but if you would like to join the queue- queue! I have just spent over three and a half

06:24years queuing in order to be given nothing and I see no reason why this time the results will be

06:29any better given this bag's ridiculous meanness towards me. if you- coming in are you? I told you.

06:34I'm off to ruffles. and I'm out of bags.

06:44you smoke too much.

06:47can't you look where you're going?

06:50oh it's you. hey what's up? what's going on?

06:52I thought you might. why can't people just leave me alone?

06:58what's she all seemed that about?

07:00search me. only something's thrown her.

07:04daft old bat.

07:07ciao.

07:09stop. sir Anne Goodenrode.

07:13always poking their nose at me.

07:18I demand to give my evidence. demand. do you hear me?

07:21if anyone knows what went on and what we went through then it's me. and if you think i'm not

07:25up to it then you've got another thing coming. please dr mason. i couldn't be more delighted.

07:29so why don't we make general headings before we- no drugs. no vitamins. lack of food. lack of water.

07:34no sanitary arrangements. no facilities for burial. hold on. i must have buried hundreds. hundreds.

07:39and with my bare hands. and as for the walking wounded who'll never get back their health. whose injuries

07:44you can't even see why they must go into their thousands. and all the time there were our medical

07:51supplies that they kept back. deliberately kept back. do you understand?

08:05stop.

08:07stop.

08:09Hello.

08:39You must understand that I myself have no need of money, none at all.

09:00I am here to be out of kindness and my heart to do a favour for a friend.

09:05A poor woman who is much too ill even to leave her bed and let alone go out into the street.

09:12Oh.

09:15Oh, that's better.

09:18No point in old Stevens seeing me like this.

09:22Even in camp I never saw you so upset.

09:26Only because it was so unexpected.

09:30Should have known better.

09:32What will they do?

09:34Not much considering we're off back home.

09:37If we get some move on.

09:41Do forgive.

09:43So, have you heard anything yet?

09:47No.

09:48But I have a feeling it will be back to Holland for a refreshing course.

09:54What, for heaven's sake?

09:56For heaven's sake I have to learn obedience.

09:59I've taken too many decisions upon myself.

10:02Don't see how.

10:04Attending Sally's funeral.

10:06Not stopping Dorothy from doing the dreadful thing.

10:10No power on earth would have stopped her.

10:12If I had told, Miss Hassan would have done so.

10:16Turned in former.

10:18There are worse things.

10:23To take one's own life or the life of an unborn child.

10:28It's only that when you love and understand the people...

10:31Ah.

10:32There's the rub.

10:34The vow of obedience is not easy for one of my character.

10:38Not easy for any of us.

10:40Ah.

10:41But I am a nun who dedicated myself to obeying the word of God and those put in authority over me.

10:49It is only now that I'm beginning to question.

10:54To be sent away when I'm needed so badly here.

11:01Forgive me.

11:02For what?

11:03For my thoughts entirely.

11:05For our own refugees.

11:07What they have lost.

11:09And they're getting all the help they need.

11:11Not only on your Nelly.

11:12My God.

11:13The powers that be have a lot to answer for.

11:19So our job is to see that justice is done.

11:22To collect and collate the evidence so that when the trials begin there's no holdout.

11:26Is that clear?

11:27Oh quite sir.

11:28Spot on.

11:29Sorry I'm late.

11:30I've been getting a belly full of Dr. Mason.

11:33Boy.

11:34Once you got to going there was no stopping her.

11:36That's what I like to hear.

11:38What about that young one over there?

11:40I rather thought we'd leave her.

11:42Just coffee.

11:43You know what rap is like about us not harassing them and well she is a bit young.

11:47Even so no harm in asking.

11:49She's more your generation.

11:51Why don't you cut across there and test the water?

11:53Me sir?

11:54She won't bite.

11:56Besides I want a word with the Colonel in private so make yourself scarce.

11:59Yes sir.

12:00Absolutely.

12:01Honestly.

12:02They get younger by the day.

12:03He can't be more than five years older than my boy and a major to boot.

12:08Excuse me.

12:09Harry Alderson Bent.

12:10At your service.

12:11How do you do?

12:12Alice.

12:13Alice Cortner.

12:14I wonder might I sit down.

12:15Only there's something I'd like to ask you.

12:16Oh please.

12:17Most kind.

12:18Now it's about your giving evidence.

12:19And with so many leaving on the boat in just a few days I want no dragging of feet.

12:24Is that understood?

12:25Quite.

12:26So what about that one?

12:27Not good around to it yet.

12:28In which case.

12:29Miss Thorpe.

12:30Sir I went and found Jake to alert him but he already knew.

12:43Look at this place I mean just look at it.

12:46Police aren't famous for tidying up after.

12:49Damned hooligans.

12:50Just be grateful they didn't find anything.

12:53No quick sinking.

12:54What does it matter?

12:55it matter? all I can think of is my uncle what they're doing to him. and they tell

13:02you nothing? only that he's being held. all he did was stay on in his job in the

13:08civil service to get the extra rice ration for his son. I can't stand not

13:13being able to do anything. how right you are. and seeing that the best means of

13:18defense is attack I'm off to the Straits Times to demand an article on why we're

13:23forced to rummage for what we need. and if they dare to suggest I go through an

13:28official channel I shall personally stuff them up it. that's the spirit. and once

13:32more I shall come with you. you will not. there's one thing that gives me the pip.

13:36it's anyone trying to nanny me. especially you.

13:40hey! hey!

13:53Beatrice the mountain won't come to Mohammed. this is a pleasant surprise all

14:10the visitors I've had what do they think was Jocelyn. I've made a bit of a fool of myself.

14:14ah

14:24it's this evidence business so I found I couldn't stop on and on and on I went

14:30spewing it out when I finally stopped to draw breath what's his name was sitting

14:38there staring at me as if he was stunned and so well I suddenly saw myself through

14:48his eyes half crazed middle-aged woman obsessed with her pound of flesh I don't

14:55regret what I said gave him every miserable detail blow by blow whole bank

14:59shoot and now you feel bad no no not about that no way it's just I made

15:07everything so personal whereas once I used to pride myself on how objective I

15:12always was only where your work was concerned do you think so what about the

15:17wise Beatrice the woman whose opinion was sought on every single occasion

15:21there's no notice anybody takes of me I might just as well be wallpaper perhaps we

15:29are both too caught up in worries about ourselves in the camp everything was so

15:36straightforward because we're fighting for our lives but the fight for our souls

15:41that is a different matter

15:47you're not happy are you happy to be happy one must be sure you have doubts of God's

15:59purpose for me yes if I was a believer I think I'd ask myself what is it I do best for him I love the East and I love its people I feel as if we've have found so close

16:17love is never wrong no only what we do with it I know it's your first letter from Ben but

16:26how many more times are you going to read it well what's he got to say for

16:32himself

16:33thanks such as such as summer halls autumn term subjects he's taking from a trick oh yes and

16:44he's he's saving to buy a bicycle a racing bicycle all as it should be to his mother after all these years

16:53what would you like him to say but he missed me but he can't wait to see me goes without saying very British it's what we are might as well be a letter to a distant relative which of course I am halfway across the world half remembered nonsense he just can't express himself on paper that's all few boys can at that age

17:12has never crossed your mind he could be afraid of meeting me no then of course it could be the other

17:17way around yes well I suppose we're almost strangers him no longer a child and me anticipating the worst just

17:25being a realist if I learned anything in camp it was to be that I see what were you before may I ask a child living in her own dream world that's not true and you know it isn't it sheltered by loving parents given away by a father into the safe

17:39keeping of a man he could trust to cherish his daughter till death as do part except the war did that instead

17:44and partying peace seems to be following in its footsteps if you say so seems to be the way it is

17:52tell me something going back to England are you going to or running away from I would like to know most of

17:59me can't wait to see him that's not what I asked all right then I can't tell you because I don't know all

18:04I know is I'm afraid years of longing and now now this house us I feel so alone you've changed so

18:15much I don't know what you want anymore or how to help you you can help by not dwelling on the past not

18:20asking any more questions about the count it's my job it's personal of course it's personal every

18:25time I look at you I see the enemy much more than you see me that's not true you see Sato you see

18:31Commandant Yamouchi no I see you and I see how much you've suffered and sadly it's not going to get any

18:37easier Yamouchi's here he's under lock and key

18:44he's putting things in the desk now I don't know doesn't he ever file anything

19:12yes don't tell me the great interrogators having a line more likely mucking up his own office at

19:22headquarters I wish he would stop using mine like a dustbin dumping these things on and in my desk

19:28my heart bleeds for you what have I done to deserve you damn and blast

19:34all right all right wrap for your office raffles yes yes yes yes she's one of ours

19:45she what I see and you want me to have a word with her oh surely wouldn't it be better coming from you

19:55or if you say so

19:59oh Phyllis Cordelia Jane it's not your day

20:03anyone remember how to spell pandemonium

20:05C-H-A-O-S

20:08oh it's you

20:09no need to ask where you spent the night

20:12no and if you're worrying about my reputation don't bother

20:16just reached an all-time low

20:19at least I haven't yet stooped to lying

20:21you're referring to me don't be absurd

20:25no when I was down at the Straits Times office guess what

20:31what were you doing down there

20:32never you mind but there was a Dutch journalist hanging around

20:36very attractive he was too and we got chatting and

20:40apparently one Metro Goldwyn gave him an interview which was published

20:46sir went something like this I was often punished for the many times I resisted the enemy

20:53and the many times I risked my life for my companions and to obtain information from the natives

21:01yeah on the terrible forced march even though I was dying I gave up my stretcher so that others might be able to rest

21:10others? what others? we couldn't prise her off the bloody thing Van Mayer I want you out of my way

21:17right where's Van Mayer? she's gone to the grue room

21:21right

21:23I see you've been told

21:26just about

21:27had to get medicine from somewhere

21:29caught with black market goods

21:31consulting with a suspected collaborator

21:34refusing to give your contacts to the police

21:36causing a disturbance at the Straits Times

21:38well need I go on?

21:41not if you don't want to

21:43you're old and you're frail

21:45well you're old anyway

21:47despite which you have managed to cause more trouble than the rest of the internees put together

21:51good

21:52please

21:53if I managed to wangle you a lovely large cabin all to yourself

21:56wouldn't you just go home say tomorrow?

21:59over my dead body

22:01my place is here

22:03and easy I shall remain until the rest of us leave together and that's flat

22:07is it quite finished?

22:08no and I never will

22:10oh I give up

22:12Joss Holbrook

22:15consider yourself severely reprimanded

22:18not your fault

22:19it doesn't stop them landing me in it

22:21oh bloody liar

22:22how dare you call me such names

22:24you don't by any chance have a drink do you?

22:26I think we may need it

22:27that's it

22:28right

22:29now

22:30re-article Dutch newspaper

22:33and do please correct me if I am in the slightest degree wrong

22:38were you ever on any occasion punished for even the smallest show of resistance to the enemy?

22:43no you were not

22:44and did you ever ever risk your skin for any of us at any time during the whole of those three and a half bloody years?

22:52but

22:53no you did not

22:54and did you ever even once give up your stretcher without us shoving you off it even to those who are damn well dying?

23:01but

23:02no you did not

23:03and why?

23:04because you

23:05because you

23:06are a selfish

23:07self-indulgent

23:09cowardly liar

23:11who has only ever considered her own comforts for the whole of her miserable and useless life

23:19well

23:20aren't you going to have hysterics like always you usually do?

23:25dear

23:30of course I was in the punishment cell

23:32and what's worse

23:33when nurse Bridie O'Hara

23:34kept grinding on about how she was a neutral from her and why couldn't the nips work out the difference?

23:38oh lord nurse O'Hara

23:40well don't tell me she's still chunting on

23:42at the Seaview Hotel thank god

23:44oh can't yourself lucky

23:45I had a morning, noon and night

23:48anyway

23:49after I was let out they shoved in Blanche and Blanche Simmons

23:54who by all accounts was quite a girl

23:56read about her in Mrs. Jefferson's diary

24:00of course

24:01you do know all about us

24:03so

24:04tell me about Blanche

24:09caught smuggling in food

24:11to me amongst others

24:13so they battened her down

24:14the only thing was

24:17she'd bury berry

24:20the kind that fills you up with water

24:23ever heard the berry berry song?

24:27it's the wailing sound they make

24:31just before they die

24:33not very pretty

24:37very pretty

24:40anyway

24:42that was her number up

24:47she was dead for hours before they found her and flung her out

24:53unrecognizable

24:55I see

25:03bloody hell

25:05would you like to call her today?

25:08wouldn't mind

25:09why don't you go and get yourself a stiff drink

25:13we can finish this later

25:24I never meant to tell so many stories but the journalist he was so simpatical

25:28so

25:30not quite the ticket

25:31all things considered

25:32no

25:33mind you my dear

25:34after all you've suffered

25:35I don't doubt you weren't quite yourself

25:38the chaps went the same way don't you know

25:40and who's a chap to blame them?

25:42but now I am to be put into silence

25:44ah

25:45non-speaker

25:47so

25:48fair do's

25:49got to balance things out

25:51I don't think I can take much more

25:54no my dear

25:55you just keep your pecker up

25:56they'll come round

25:57you'll see

25:58I do know my dear

25:59I've seen it all before

26:01hello Mary

26:03where's Joss got you?

26:04gone off to Jake's

26:06seems they searched him as well

26:07they'll not find anything

26:08he's much too fly

26:09oh

26:10there you are

26:11what's so urgent all of a sudden?

26:12hold on

26:13I'll go and get met her

26:14no don't

26:15DON'T

26:16no

26:18very well

26:19but be sure to tell her

26:20tell her what?

26:23Jan Mulch is here

26:25he's in Changi

26:28so?

26:29well I thought you ought to know

26:30why

26:31that's all

26:32who cares where he is

26:33so long as he's under lock and key

26:34under the sod would be more appropriate

26:37how could you?

26:39hard?

26:40well he wasn't all bad

26:43were you round that bend a sword?

26:45what about the

26:46stakings out

26:47the batterings we all took

26:48not to mention blunts

26:49so he was heartless

26:50but isn't everyone during a war?

26:51how do you mean?

26:52the British for instance

26:54even before the fall of Singapore

26:56isn't true

26:57think so

26:58so how about when the Japanese were almost in the suburbs

27:01and the British still refused to arm the natives

27:04that they weren't reliable enough

27:05and when at last the guns were handed out

27:07they held the line until they were massacred brave as lions

27:09I didn't know

27:11there's a lot more you don't know

27:13like the Japanese have always hated the Chinese

27:15even forced them to pay ransoms just to stay alive

27:18and now my uncle is in custody just because he's Chinese

27:20that's not true and you know it

27:22all I know is that most of Europe had to work for the Nazis

27:25the French on the railways and such

27:27the Belgians

27:28the Dutch staying on on their jobs

27:29even the civil service

27:30but are they behind bars?

27:32he'll be let go you'll see

27:33oh yes

27:34oh yes

27:35and they might even say it's all been a ghastly mistake

27:38but he'll never be the same again

27:40and neither will I

27:41if you'll excuse me

27:45I must go after her

27:46no I'll go

27:47she talks to me

27:48being a colonial

27:50I've dedicated myself to saving people's lives

27:54now I hope to hang them

27:58I think I need some fresh air

28:00you won't come in

28:02no

28:03I'm going up to my room

28:04yes me too

28:13Marion

28:14would you mind if I joined you?

28:17of course not

28:19same again please

28:21what is happening?

28:22Lammucci's here

28:30Dominica what is it?

28:31I have been stupid as always

28:34I gave an interview to a paper

28:36and made myself out of heroin

28:38is that all?

28:40it's not a joke

28:41even though I am

28:43all those terrible years in the camp

28:45I was so afraid

28:46and I so wanted to be brave

28:48just as I wanted to be a good wife

28:51I was so pretty

28:54and now I feel

28:56so ashamed

28:57there's no need

28:59there's no need

29:03we couldn't have done without you

29:07so I gave the girl Phyllis as good as I got

29:10told her I was staying until I went home with the rest

29:14and that's that

29:19so how about you then?

29:20I shan't go home

29:22not even for a visit

29:23not even for a visit

29:25what to?

29:26a younger sister I didn't even like

29:28and can hardly remember

29:30besides London

29:32my London's gone

29:34the city

29:35cafe de Paris

29:36even the club

29:37so what'll you be up to?

29:42oh this and that

29:44what does that mean?

29:46seeing Monica's nephew for one

29:47checking he's alright

29:49sorting out cousin Lizzie's estate

29:52she got done in in one of the last air raids

29:54silly woman

29:55oh you never said

29:56why should I?

29:58anyway it seems she left me a bit

30:00so arrangements have to be made

30:02hmm all right for some

30:04a bit late to do me any good

30:10how about coming back?

30:14we'll see

30:25Clifford?

30:26mm-hmm

30:28I've decided I'm not going to give any evidence

30:31look at me

30:32you've got my diary

30:33that's more than enough

30:34sorry but only the whole truth is enough

30:36and that means every detail

30:37and you know it

30:38including the good things Yamuchi did

30:40good things?

30:41he was sometimes kind

30:42in his way

30:44perhaps you'd like me to recommend him for a medal

30:47what sort of kindness was it

30:48when he refused the sick the drugs they were sent

30:50for god's sake

30:54think of the women and children that you buried with your own hands

30:56it wasn't all bad

30:58not compared to Seto

31:00Seto is dead

31:01so Yamuchi is to stand trial for him as well

31:04tell me something

31:05are you deliberately setting out to undermine the course of justice?

31:08only I would like to know

31:09what kind of justice is it when you discount anything that could be said in Yamuchi's favour?

31:13he's a murderer

31:15and you more than anyone else must know that

31:18all I know is I don't want to say one more thing in case it'll be twisted

31:26I see, well if that's really how you think it would work

31:28perhaps it would be just as well to remain silent

31:31ah

31:32may I, may I?

31:33or perhaps you wish to be alone

31:35that is the last thing I would wish

31:36ah

31:37her boy

31:38her toot in things

31:39thank you

31:41oh

31:42and not still brooding on that interview to the newspaper

31:44I hope

31:45no

31:46I have just been talking to Colonel Smithers

31:48oh

31:49war crimes

31:50didn't bully you I hope

31:51no

31:52indeed I was able to tell him everything he wished to hear

31:56I only hope that this time it was the truth

31:58well as long as you told him just how it was

32:01with all the stories I've made up I'm no longer sure

32:03why should I feel so guilty when I hate the Japanese more than anything in the whole world

32:09well that's the price of peace my dear

32:11war equals anger

32:13peace equals forgiveness

32:14or so we're brought up to believe

32:16and what's more it returns us to the dashed muddle we've made of our own lives

32:20including all the things we've done that we're ashamed of

32:23not much room for righteous indignation then is there?

32:27how very wise you are

32:29oh

32:30just very old

32:31oh good heavens no

32:32oh good heavens no

32:33quite old

32:34when sometimes

32:35I feel so young

32:36ah

32:39another drink

32:40thank you

32:42shall we make a move

32:43yes

32:45I can't sit here all night

32:47let's go home

32:48at least there we can talk in private

32:50what about

32:51we've said all we have to say

32:52any more on the gap

32:53it'll just grow wider won't it

32:54sir

32:55Mrs. Jefferson

32:57sorry to interrupt

32:58but there's something I think you ought to know

33:00well

33:01oh

33:02excuse me

33:03I'll go and see how Dominica is

33:06oh come on man

33:07don't make a meal of it

33:09Christina Campbell has requested a visit to your mooch

33:11usually by joke

33:12well the answer's no

33:13as it's virtuous

33:16name one

33:17one of our men will be listening in

33:25fetch me a couple of chairs

33:29we've got a visitor for you

33:30what a visitor for you

33:38oh

33:39oh

33:40oh

33:41oh

33:42oh

33:43oh

33:44oh

33:45oh

33:46oh

33:47oh

33:48oh

33:49oh

33:50oh

33:51oh

33:52oh

33:53yes

33:54come on

33:55wait none of that

33:56let's just have it in English shall we

33:58it's less of a bind for me

34:00if that's what you wish

34:04Sid

34:06wait outside

34:07thank you

34:11you are well

34:15I'm well

34:17and you

34:19I have food

34:21and water

34:25I've brought you some biscuits

34:26sorry miss

34:27part of the rules

34:29I'm sorry

34:31and

34:32your friend

34:34J.R. well

34:36very well

34:38Dorothy Bennett has left

34:40for London

34:43if there's anything you'd like me to do

34:45is that permitted?

34:49there is nothing

34:52oh

34:54what happened?

34:55I thought you might need

34:56some paper and a pencil

35:02there is a bird that comes

35:06it will

35:07much like

35:08the little pieces

35:11I have named it

35:12after my grandson

35:13you've had word of him

35:17no

35:19we must bow

35:20and trust

35:21to the kindness

35:22of the gods

35:27I have tried

35:28to put the sin of self

35:29behind me

35:32to accept without question

35:34the obedience

35:35of the discipline

35:36of the church

35:38at first I thought

35:39I had succeeded

35:40but

35:41the memory

35:44of the other camps

35:45I was in

35:47the decisions

35:48I was forced

35:49to make

35:50for myself

35:53if I'm truly honest

35:55I cannot accept

35:56that they were always wrong

35:59Kintyre

36:02Scotland

36:03well

36:06that's foxy done

36:10honestly

36:12you'd think after a lifetime

36:13of writing to my brother

36:15it would get a sight less difficult

36:17no

36:19I couldn't even bring myself

36:20to tell him about Monica's death

36:22then what would he understand?

36:24things that are very painful

36:26it is difficult to speak of them

36:28quite so

36:30the loss of your husband eh?

36:32my husband?

36:33no I was not thinking

36:34of that loss

36:35then what?

36:37for god's sake

36:38Dominica

36:39you look utterly bereft

36:42if I tell you

36:43you will say nothing

36:44to the others?

36:45not if you don't want me to

36:46no

36:47look so very bare

36:53don't you think?

36:55but then you have to give something

36:56as security against a loan

36:57when you have spent

36:58all your account

37:00now I have nothing

37:02nothing in the whole wide world

37:04oh come on

37:05it's hardly that tragic

37:07oh I mean for one ghastly moment

37:08I thought it was something really terrible

37:09it is to me

37:11maybe but

37:12it's only money

37:13you have always had so much

37:15what do you know about

37:16how it feels to be without?

37:18this is nonsense

37:19I can let you have something

37:20at least to redeem the ring

37:21later on

37:22no I cannot be beholden

37:24oh come on

37:25between friends

37:26friends?

37:27what kind of friend is it

37:28who tells Beatrice

37:29of my stupid article

37:30in the first place?

37:31not to mention the rest of them

37:32putting me into silence

37:34no sign of friendship there is there?

37:37put like that?

37:39no

37:40no there isn't

37:41all I know is that whatever I do is wrong

37:44and why?

37:45because I am the silly Mrs Van Mare

37:47who is good for a laugh

37:48and not much else

37:50but I will tell you something

37:53for some of us

37:54money is the only comfort that we can have

37:57and at least it never lets one down

38:00if it comes out I'll go for a walk

38:11if it doesn't I'll

38:15do something else

38:16are you that poor?

38:17just about

38:18you don't help

38:21what do you mean?

38:22I'm 30 alone and single that do you?

38:24I thought it best not to get involved

38:29how shall I put it?

38:31going in as I do for passing fancies

38:33here today etc

38:35thought I was being considerate

38:36letting you be

38:37don't tell me you're afraid of hurting me

38:40something like that

38:41oh

38:42with a condescending little so and so

38:46not really

38:48for some odd reason I happen to like you

38:50Dorothy more so

38:51you wouldn't by any chance like to go to bed

39:01I thought you'd never ask

39:06that's for the wash

39:09seems funny somehow not to have bugs

39:12hilarious

39:16what's this about Metro being sent to Coventry?

39:19after what she said?

39:20in my young days she would have had her mouth washed out with soap

39:23even so

39:25she's a bit low at the moment

39:26and this on top

39:29right I'm off

39:31anything to post?

39:32yeah

39:35and give her a gas to Stephen

39:37right

39:39I'll do that

39:51Mrs. van Mayer

39:52you through?

39:53I'm so sorry I didn't know you wanted it

39:55please forgive me

39:57look this other business

39:58I'm not taking back a word I said

40:00however

40:01what's done is done

40:03let's just not make a meal of it shall we

40:06for God's sake woman go and put some muck on your face

40:09you'll look an absolute fright

40:10thank you for telling me

40:12pull yourself together

40:14marvellous isn't it

40:17I can tell everyone else what to do when it comes to myself

40:25excuse me Miss Priestow

40:27yes

40:28I am sister Ulricha

40:30of course how nice to meet you

40:31how is your splendid reverend mother?

40:33very well

40:34she has asked me to say to you that she's arranging a picnic

40:37so if you would like to choose six of the younger children she would be most happy to include them

40:41oh very thoughtful of her

40:43I wonder

40:44might I go up to see my friends?

40:47feel free everyone else does

40:49however by this time I should think you'll find them in the bar

40:53oh

40:54hardly a den of iniquity

40:56no of course not I'm just being foolish

40:58I might see you in there myself if I can get this lot sorted out

41:06how nice to see the young ones enjoying themselves

41:09a friend of the brigadiers I believe

41:11I don't know about that but he works for you

41:13oh very suitable

41:15Marion where's the brigadier?

41:17working late as usual I'm waiting for him to pick me up

41:20oh I'm hanging on for Stephen

41:22talking of who? where the hell's he got himself?

41:24I think I saw him going upstairs

41:25oh sneaking a bath no doubt

41:29honestly his feet

41:30wish he'd wear socks

41:32orica!

41:33who is this with you?

41:34oh he's sweet

41:36oh I'll get you a chair

41:38I feel very dowry

41:40absolutely intrepid

41:42and to what do we owe this honour?

41:43I've missed you

41:44Joss!

41:45oh look who I've dragged down

41:47oh fantastic!

41:48there you be!

41:50oh

41:51so the mountain has final names

41:53oh here's the people

41:54Stephen Wendrell

41:55can I present our very dear first sister all the time?

41:56oh sure

41:58now where can we sit down?

42:00shall we join Christina?

42:02what would you like to drink?

42:03it's all right all

42:04would you like coffee, tea, lemonade, gin, sling?

42:06oh gin, sling

42:07I would just sit here and enjoy being with you all

42:12now tell me all the news

42:14what is there to tell?

42:16we're still waiting for Rapidway to get those skates on

42:17suppose you know that Yamouchi's in Singapore?

42:20or so we're told

42:22Yamouchi in Singapore?

42:23I visited him this morning

42:27he asked after you all

42:29and I said you were well

42:31yes please

42:32and why should you wish to do that?

42:33sometimes he was kind

42:35what's he not?

42:36tell me are you all to give evidence?

42:38no

42:40we won't be giving any evidence after

42:42oh?

42:43I too have decided not to do so

42:45forgiveness is what is needed now

42:46don't you agree?

42:47no not really

42:49I suppose we must all choose our own parts to follow

42:53quite but I should have thought

42:54Christina's been having a bad time recently

42:56first she discovers her long lost uncle

42:59they clap him behind the bars

43:01he's in prison

43:02yes working for the Japanese

43:03only for extra rice

43:04and that was for his son

43:06would you like me to visit him?

43:08to take him some food?

43:09would you?

43:10it would be my pleasure

43:11I thought you weren't allowed out all that much

43:13what are you doing here?

43:14I've always been allowed out

43:16only sometimes

43:18sometimes we can build our own prisons

43:21tell me Christina

43:22your uncle and his son

43:23they are your only relatives?

43:25only my uncle has survived

43:27and your cousin?

43:29he's dead

43:30just seventeen

43:32executed for collaborating

43:34executed?

43:36by the Japanese

43:37for smuggling rice and the Changi for your lot

43:40the British prisoners of war

43:41the Japanese prisoners of war

43:42the Japanese prisoners of war

43:43the Japanese prisoners of war

43:44and the first time

43:47who wrote down the Japanese

43:50Philip's in the Japanese

43:51they are all hungry

43:52and they've been very sick

43:54they've been very sick

43:56they've been so well

43:58they've been very sick

43:59they've been very sick

44:01and this scene

44:03they're very sick

44:06and that there's still not

44:07that there's no longer

44:08whether they have been

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