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00:00My dear darling Peggy, I've been racking my brain to think of a good way of saying this.
00:10But the truth is, there is no good way.
00:14It breaks my heart to say it, but I'm leaving you.
00:21Perhaps there's a small part of you that is aware that no matter how hard I've tried,
00:28I've never quite been able to stop myself loving Pat.
00:35Oh, Pat and Frank's relationship was complicated, to say the least.
00:42Frank loved Pat from the moment that he saw her win Miss Butlin when she was about 17.
00:51But it never quite went right.
00:53Nothing melded and joined in the right places.
00:58It always went wrong somewhere along the line.
01:02Over a year I waited for you to come back.
01:06A year of stomach-churning worry, of sleepless nights,
01:10of having to face people out there knowing that they were talking about me.
01:14I scrubbed people's floors, I cleaned their toilets,
01:20I worked 14 hours a day to keep this place going and to put food on the table, not for me.
01:26Oh no.
01:27I could have quite happily done a runner and all.
01:30They couldn't live with each other, they couldn't live without each other.
01:33In fact, I remember John York, head of a series, and Tony Jordan, writer-producer,
01:40saying to me once that they felt that the only real love story in EastEnders was Pat and Frank.
01:48I had no reason to expect that you hadn't found someone else.
01:59Of course you needed a friend.
02:01Someone to talk to, someone to take you out now and again.
02:04Like you said, it's been nearly two years.
02:07It didn't cross my mind, but there you go, that's me, ain't it?
02:11It doesn't have to make a difference.
02:12I'm back now.
02:15And doesn't matter what he thinks, or anybody else thinks, I know you still love me.
02:21When he came back, Pat had married Roy.
02:24And for whatever that was, it was security.
02:29I don't think it was the greatest love in the world.
02:32It was a pity, because Tony Conter is a lovely man.
02:35And so Frank got his feet under the table with Peggy.
02:42Now, are you sure you've ever forgotten anything?
02:47No, I don't think so.
02:49I have a coffee table, kitchen sink, a picture of the Queen and the Wrens.
02:53Are you taking the Mickey?
02:54No, no, no, I'm just checking, that's all.
02:56No, it's Terry and I who you meet us over here.
02:57Er, he didn't say, do I.
02:59Well, don't you think you'd better phone him?
03:00I mean, there's only four of us, and we could all share the same cat.
03:03Jawohl, mein Fuhrer.
03:05I heard that!
03:07They went off to the sun, and we know what happens when you're in the sun.
03:11Get a bit hot under the collar.
03:15This was a place of retreat, of sunshine, of happiness.
03:23And the fact that she could prove to herself that, actually, she was better than Peggy.
03:28What is he talking about?
03:31I'm talking about life.
03:33The rods that we forge to beat ourselves up with.
03:36I mean, like you and Pat, who knows where you'd be now if you'd just accepted what you had and hadn't aspired for something else, like Peggy.
03:44I think you've said enough, Belle.
03:46I've heard enough.
03:47Er, I think we'll go inside, yeah?
03:49So, um, they ended up in bed.
03:53Enough, Mr. Boebe.
03:56Oh, no.
03:59I suppose we'd better get up before the others get back.
04:02Oh, no, no, no, no, no.
04:02Come on, five more minutes, please, please.
04:04In order to get us all in this tiny little bedroom, although it had a sort of small double bed, the cameraman had to be in the lavatory, standing on the lavatory pan with the door open.
04:24And then, um, the sound, the sound man sort of had to get round him and between his legs or whatever, because it's so tiny.
04:37So, of course, we started off laughing, which was good.
04:41Um, and, well, what can I say?
04:45It went from there.
04:46I remember the day very well when poor Mike Reed had to come into the studio, freezing cold studio, um, with his bow tie.
05:06He did have his underpants on, but, I mean, he was actually meant not to have.
05:10But, oh, I felt so sorry for him.
05:12It really, it really was cold and miserable.
05:14But it's lovely because I still get people who saw that, you know, reminding me of it.
05:22It was, it was something which, when people loved, they, they, they found it very amusing.
05:28Where are your clothes?
05:30Outside of the yard.
05:32Does anybody see you?
05:34Just a couple of layers from the market, that's all.
05:36You sure?
05:38Come on, relax.
05:40Only you've seen me.
05:41I've got a naked man in my kitchen.
05:42He's telling me to relax.
05:43Not quite naked.
05:47Voila.
05:48Well, I suppose that whizzing bow tie summed up the best of Pat and Frank.
05:54Which really, was perhaps a, a little shallow.
06:02But if it was happy, then that was great.
06:06What are you doing here?
06:07Are you trying to kill me?
06:08It wasn't my choice.
06:09I was forced.
06:10All right, well, listen to this.
06:11I don't know what I wrote to Peggy.
06:13Telling her what we were doing.
06:15It's gone missing.
06:15Where is it?
06:17Phil.
06:18What?
06:19He's got it.
06:19It can only be in.
06:20I'm going over there now.
06:21That's when I summed it.
06:23Mike Reed was a devil to work with.
06:26Well, I mean, he wanted to do, you know, he wanted to do his gig, didn't he?
06:32Which was great.
06:33And if anybody else messed about, it was like, I'm right, not sticking up with this.
06:40I'm going, I'm off, I'm off.
06:43But no, he was, he was lovely.
06:46He really was.
06:47I just want to know that while he was up there, did you happen to see a note with Peggy's name on it?
06:53Oh, I do remember an envelope.
06:56That's a yes, then, isn't it?
06:57But I don't remember picking it up.
06:59Now, this is very important.
07:00I've got to think about this.
07:01What do you think you might have done with it if you did?
07:07Put it in the bin if I wasn't thinking properly?
07:10Oh, I'm really sorry.
07:12Shall I go and have a look for it now?
07:13No, no, no, no, no.
07:14You stay where you are, darling.
07:15You're fine.
07:16Don't worry about it at all.
07:17And I promise you, you're not in any trouble, are you?
07:21You're a good girl.
07:22The wonderful thing about a series is that you're developing it all the time.
07:27It's happening like your life is happening.
07:30Your personality is changing in the way that it does in real life.
07:35So all those things that you have to do for static drama, in a funny sort of way, you don't have to do it because it comes at you.
07:42If something is really, really heavy, we've got a good amount of notice.
07:51I never liked to be told too much in advance what I was doing.
07:57I mean, the thread, yes.
07:59But, you know, you do get actors who, you know, tippy, tippy, tippy up to the office.
08:06Can I just have a word with so-and-so because I'm wondering if I could just, you know, and actually what they're doing is trying to puff up their part.
08:15And I'd much rather treat it as life.
08:21It's, it takes me by surprise as much as it takes Pat by surprise and vice versa.
08:26Sorry, only I've just remembered.
08:29When Mr Butcher asked me about it earlier, I was in a bit of a tizz and I wasn't thinking straight.
08:33But I've remembered now.
08:34Yeah?
08:35You know, you can see how it is, darling.
08:37Yeah, the thing is, I didn't want to say anything about it earlier in case it was lost and I'd get the blame.
08:42Only it's coming back to me now.
08:43I did pick it up when I was wiping the kitchen table and I thought I'd put it back down again, but I didn't.
08:49I put it in the pocket of my cleaning apron because I've just been to check.
08:52I can look.
08:54What's that?
08:55It's the note that Mr Butcher was looking for.
08:57But as it's got your name on it, I'm giving it to you.
09:00Oh.
09:01Oh, ta.
09:01Thanks a lot.
09:02Barbara and I were great mates.
09:04What's the point in here?
09:05Peggy, will you really please?
09:06Well, yes.
09:06She was a doll.
09:08Absolute doll.
09:08Barbara and I were very similar in that we didn't want to not get a slap right by pulling back.
09:22We both said, I'd rather have a hit than it looks naff.
09:28And I said, if you want to, you know, give me one, just do it.
09:33So, in the pub, she read the letter, she turned to Frank, she gave him a whack.
09:42She turned to me and gave me a whack, which was a whack.
09:47And all I could think of was not, whoops, it was, my earrings just come off.
09:56I don't know where it is and it's going to bugger up the continuity.
10:00So, I was sort of, it's a ridiculous thing to be thinking at that point, you know, what
10:07about the continuity?
10:09Fortunately, when I saw it back, I saw it run back because I said something, it was, it
10:16was fine.
10:16It was, for some reason, some, it must have been the position I was in, it didn't show
10:21that it had gone.
10:22And, um, so that was, you know, that was, thank goodness for that.
10:28But, yes, that was Peggy's revenge.
10:32Oh, hope you all enjoyed the fireworks.
10:37Good night.
10:37I think Pat had some sort of strange idea of roses and hearts and, you know, and, silly
10:51woman.
10:52I think she probably thought, what are you doing?
10:55You've got security here.
10:57You've got a man who loves you, who's kind.
11:00Perhaps we should think about redecorating in here.
11:02Who's understanding.
11:04I've lost count of the times I've said this to you, Roy.
11:07Who's gentle.
11:08I really don't deserve you.
11:10And so, she assumed.
11:13She assumed that going back to Roy, it would be fine.
11:16Right.
11:18This is year zero, yeah?
11:21No more lies.
11:23No more deceit.
11:25And if we're unhappy about something, we come right out and say it, yes?
11:29There's no bottling it up.
11:31No.
11:34Right.
11:36I'll start.
11:38I don't like your earrings.
11:42I beg your pardon?
11:43None of them.
11:44I never have.
11:46I think they're cheap and vulgar, and I'd prefer it if you didn't wear them.
11:50You've never said anything before.
11:51No, I know I haven't.
11:53But I'm saying it now.
11:54Well, I don't think you should ever be proud of anything you've done.
12:01I mean, you can watch it and enjoy it.
12:04I do sometimes watch something I've done and think, oh, no, I think I got that wrong.
12:11Wish I'd done that.
12:12Can I go back?
12:15But I think the only judgment I could make about how I felt about a performance after is whether I think I've given it a fair crack of the whip.
12:27And the story comes over, and so does what you're trying to say about, you know, as a character.
12:35I think probably the Bonfire Night episode, this episode, is one that worked beautifully.
12:45But then I thought that Mike and Barbara gave cracking performances in those.
12:53I really did.
12:53So I was able to just sit back and watch them and not have to think about me, if you see what I mean.
13:02I mean, I wasn't in the way, but I just, I was so concentrated on them, which was, yeah, I think they were fantastic.
13:13Hey!
13:15Hey!
13:20I'm sorry!
13:21Oh, my, I certainly remember filming this episode where I was soaked to the skin for I don't know how many hours.
13:32I love you!
13:35I love you!
13:39For some extraordinary reason, the person who was running the floor wouldn't let anybody come anywhere near me to just pad the wet that was running down the back of my...
13:49I mean, I know that I had to be kept wet because that was continuity.
13:54So we were picking up bits here and there, shots from the square, etc.
13:59But I wasn't going to dry myself down completely.
14:03And I just needed to actually be able to see out of running eyes.
14:09And I mean, absolutely soaked.
14:11We had an enormous bowser.
14:13I don't know how many feet it was.
14:16Because, we all know, you can't rely on rain looking like rain.
14:22And it was a very, very unpleasant experience.
14:27No acting required in actors' phraseology.
14:31Um, yeah.
14:32That was, that was not comfortable.
14:35Pleased to say I didn't catch anything afterwards.
14:37Didn't get pneumonia.
14:42Run!
14:43I wonder if I miss Pat.
14:51I...
14:52Do you know, I think that's...
14:56Something that I haven't really thought of terribly long.
15:02Long and hard.
15:03And I think I'm pleased, in a sense, to have unburdened myself of Pat.
15:14Not for a reason of not liking playing it.
15:17I just, perhaps just needed not to be playing it.
15:23And I wasn't living with the character.
15:25I mean, I wasn't, in no way was the character impinging on my life.
15:30Um, but I think I just, I needed a break from it.
15:37And I didn't have a break soon enough, unfortunately.
15:40Um, I, somebody said to me when I left,
15:45Go on, off you go, go, you know, go and have a few weeks, a few months in the sun.
15:53And that was the last thing I wanted.
15:55Anyway, it was quite demanding.
15:56You know, that's when somebody's trying to get hold of you,
16:00People are, you know, thank you, thank you very much, God,
16:04Of offering you things, and, um...
16:07You need to be around.
16:10So I kept putting it off.
16:11And I didn't really have...
16:13I didn't mourn her, as I should have done.
16:16But never mind, I can always put iPlayer on and say hello.
16:26Hello.
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