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First broadcast 10th/17th November 1983.
The unlikely friendship between Johnny Jarvis and Alan Lipton begins in their last year at a comprehensive in Hackney: Jarvis, the loveable clown with a surprising talent for welding, and Lipton, the apparently talentless reject, fantasising about the future and the father he has never met.
Mark Farmer - Johnny Jarvis
Ian Sears - Alan Lipton
Alrick Riley - Paul Turner
Jamie Foreman - Manning
John Bardon - Mr. Jarvis
Catherine Harding - Mrs. Jarvis
Diana Davies - Mrs. Lipton
Mark Penfold - Bannerman
Ian Brimble - Sidney
Lionel Ngakane - Mr. Casson
Diana Kyle - Clare
Jim Dunk - Mason
Caroline Lancaster - Careers' Officer
Peggy Phango - Mrs. Stapleton
Robert Putt - Barber
Martin Carroll - P.E. Teacher (as Martin Anthony)
Paul Vincent - Benson
Mike Smart - Knight
Nick Stringer - The Colonel
Anthony Powell - Arthur
Maurice Colbourne - Jake
Johanna Hargreaves - Stella
Nadia Cattouse - Mrs. Turner
Tommy Eytle - Mr. Turner
Ancel McFarlane - Stephen Turner
Sonya Saul - Sharon Turner
Jim Findley - Kenny
Francis Victory - Macaroni
Arthur Whybrow - Mr. Davis
Roy Heather - Car Showroom Manager
Jeremy Flynn - Job Centre Official
Royston Tickner - Cafe Owner
Mike Kemp - Disco Bouncer
Archie Pool - 'Papa'
Paul Morris - Nelson
Kevin Lloyd - P.C.
The unlikely friendship between Johnny Jarvis and Alan Lipton begins in their last year at a comprehensive in Hackney: Jarvis, the loveable clown with a surprising talent for welding, and Lipton, the apparently talentless reject, fantasising about the future and the father he has never met.
Mark Farmer - Johnny Jarvis
Ian Sears - Alan Lipton
Alrick Riley - Paul Turner
Jamie Foreman - Manning
John Bardon - Mr. Jarvis
Catherine Harding - Mrs. Jarvis
Diana Davies - Mrs. Lipton
Mark Penfold - Bannerman
Ian Brimble - Sidney
Lionel Ngakane - Mr. Casson
Diana Kyle - Clare
Jim Dunk - Mason
Caroline Lancaster - Careers' Officer
Peggy Phango - Mrs. Stapleton
Robert Putt - Barber
Martin Carroll - P.E. Teacher (as Martin Anthony)
Paul Vincent - Benson
Mike Smart - Knight
Nick Stringer - The Colonel
Anthony Powell - Arthur
Maurice Colbourne - Jake
Johanna Hargreaves - Stella
Nadia Cattouse - Mrs. Turner
Tommy Eytle - Mr. Turner
Ancel McFarlane - Stephen Turner
Sonya Saul - Sharon Turner
Jim Findley - Kenny
Francis Victory - Macaroni
Arthur Whybrow - Mr. Davis
Roy Heather - Car Showroom Manager
Jeremy Flynn - Job Centre Official
Royston Tickner - Cafe Owner
Mike Kemp - Disco Bouncer
Archie Pool - 'Papa'
Paul Morris - Nelson
Kevin Lloyd - P.C.
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00:00:00Well, come on, get rid of me.
00:00:08Staying.
00:00:14You working, Johnny?
00:00:16No.
00:00:24Look, come on, I'll buy you a drink.
00:00:26No, it's all right, I couldn't.
00:00:27Look, you don't have to buy it.
00:00:28I said it's all right.
00:00:28Thanks, all the same.
00:00:31We're on the same bloody planet, aren't we?
00:00:34That was the last time I saw Johnny Jarvis.
00:00:37A few years earlier, he'd been exactly the sort of kid I'd always wanted to be.
00:00:42In our last year at school, he looked as if he could do anything he wanted.
00:00:45Well, almost anything.
00:00:47Good morning, Jarvis.
00:00:48Morning, sir.
00:00:48Had you thought of just stopping, climbing off, ever?
00:01:05Have you thought of just stopping, climbing off, ever?
00:01:10That's dull, though, sir.
00:01:11Yes.
00:01:12No worry about Jarvis.
00:01:14Ha!
00:01:14Jarvis will be okay.
00:01:15Someone up there likes Jarvis.
00:01:18Come on, come on.
00:01:19Oh, yeah.
00:01:20Sir, Jarvis will lock the bars.
00:01:21Oh, yeah.
00:01:22Sir, Jarvis will lock the bars.
00:01:23Good grief.
00:01:24Did he hurt himself?
00:01:25No, sir.
00:01:26He fell on Sinclair, sir.
00:01:27Did he hurt Sinclair?
00:01:28Did he hurt Sinclair?
00:01:29Yes, sir.
00:01:30Quite badly, sir.
00:01:31Please, sir.
00:01:32Jarvis jumped in.
00:01:33I'm sorry, sir.
00:01:33I'm sorry.
00:01:34I'm sorry.
00:01:35Can you hear me?
00:01:36I can hear you.
00:01:37I can hear you.
00:01:38Come on, sir.
00:01:39What's the case?
00:01:40Come on.
00:01:41Come on, come on.
00:01:43Right, sir.
00:01:44Come on, come on.
00:01:46Right, sir.
00:01:47Are there any more to come?
00:01:49We had PE, sir?
00:01:50Oh, yeah.
00:01:51Sir, Jarvis will lock the bars.
00:01:52Good grief.
00:01:53Did he hurt himself?
00:01:54No, sir.
00:01:55He fell on Sinclair, sir.
00:01:56Please, sir. Jarvis jumped, in fact.
00:02:01Well, that was par for the course.
00:02:03People did laugh at me quite a lot.
00:02:06Stop running!
00:02:08They laughed with Johnny.
00:02:11At the beginning of that year, I can remember thinking that something was worrying him.
00:02:18Jarvis!
00:02:19Now, these houses here, to buy one of these would cost you about £250, £300 a month.
00:02:26And to get a company to advance you a loan on one, you'd need to be earning about £10,000 a year.
00:02:32Now, how many of you think you could earn £10,000 a year?
00:02:36Jarvis!
00:02:37Sorry, I'm late, sir.
00:02:38Could you earn £10,000 a year, Jarvis?
00:02:40Yes, sir.
00:02:41How do you think you'd do that, then?
00:02:44Work overtime, sir.
00:02:45It's three o'clock in the morning at Gatwick Airport.
00:02:55Freddie Laker must be a proud man.
00:02:58After a six-year battle...
00:03:03Hi, Mum.
00:03:08How's it going, then, son?
00:03:11Mr Mason said we had to be prepared.
00:03:14For what?
00:03:15For after we leave.
00:03:17For what lies ahead?
00:03:19When the sub was big in.
00:03:20No, I'm going to be prepared, though, Dad.
00:03:24What are you going to do, then?
00:03:26You'll see.
00:03:26We should write more friends, Johnny.
00:03:32Who needs friends?
00:03:33We all need friends.
00:03:37It's going to be a great year, Mum.
00:03:39Don't do anything stupid, will you?
00:03:43Is it so, you ready?
00:03:45Right.
00:03:45Thank you, sir.
00:03:46Try some...
00:03:47We'll see you next time.
00:04:17Lovely. Thanks very much.
00:04:24What do you want?
00:04:25Air cup.
00:04:27I can't see that.
00:04:28All off.
00:04:29Oh, there, eh?
00:04:30Good luck.
00:04:31See you now.
00:04:36There we go.
00:04:39One, two, three, or four.
00:04:41Eight.
00:04:42Number four is all off.
00:04:44Number one is absolutely everything.
00:04:46Totally enough.
00:04:47I ain't totally enough.
00:04:48I'll have a number one.
00:04:49Be every day.
00:04:53Want to be like your mates, do you?
00:04:55No, I ain't got any mates.
00:04:56You'd better acquire a few, son.
00:04:57You'll need them with this haircut.
00:04:59And them boots won't do you no good.
00:05:00You want the Dr Martins?
00:05:02Down the market.
00:05:03Open till six.
00:05:16Hello.
00:05:17What did you get there?
00:05:18Uh, boots.
00:05:19Football boots.
00:05:20Yeah, that's it.
00:05:21Cold out, is it?
00:05:22Uh, boots.
00:05:23Football boots.
00:05:24Yeah, that's it.
00:05:25Cold out, is it?
00:05:26Well, it's nearly October, isn't it?
00:05:27It's nearly October, isn't it?
00:05:28Uh, boots.
00:05:29Football boots.
00:05:30Yeah, that's it.
00:05:31Cold out, is it?
00:05:32Well, it's nearly October, aren't it?
00:05:58Is it a louette?
00:06:00Yeah.
00:06:04Aren't you going to take it all, Finn?
00:06:07Nah, not just yet, Dad.
00:06:10I might do it after I go a bit.
00:06:14I might leave it on all night.
00:06:25Oh, I'll have a look at this.
00:06:27Well, Mark, looks like a baby's arsehole, doesn't it?
00:06:31Where'd you get that, Jarvis?
00:06:32Where'd you think?
00:06:33Oh, well, well, well, look who's hard, eh?
00:06:35Takes more than a haircut, you know?
00:06:36Yeah. Yeah, a lot more.
00:06:37Such as?
00:06:39See her over there.
00:06:41What?
00:06:44Bring us back a fiver, Jarvis.
00:06:47Eh?
00:06:48Off our black friend, if you're so hard.
00:06:52Watch me.
00:06:57What do you require?
00:07:00I'm a skinhead.
00:07:01Well, well, ain't that nice?
00:07:02My name's Jarvis.
00:07:03And my name's Stapleton.
00:07:04I'm gonna be a welder.
00:07:05Well, well, well.
00:07:06Get a fiver.
00:07:07No.
00:07:08I'll mug you.
00:07:09You and who else, eh?
00:07:10Wally!
00:07:11Wally!
00:07:12Wally!
00:07:13Wally!
00:07:14Wally!
00:07:15Wally!
00:07:16Wally!
00:07:17Wally!
00:07:18Wally!
00:07:19Wally!
00:07:20Wally!
00:07:21Wally!
00:07:22Stand by your voices.
00:07:23Stand by your voices.
00:07:25Right.
00:07:27Benson?
00:07:28Sir.
00:07:29Davis?
00:07:30Sir.
00:07:31Jarvis?
00:07:32Yes, sir.
00:07:33Knight?
00:07:34Yes, sir.
00:07:35Nixon?
00:07:36Sir.
00:07:37Manning?
00:07:38Sir.
00:07:39Monero?
00:07:40Sir.
00:07:41Norman?
00:07:42Sir.
00:07:43Keaton?
00:07:44Quiddly?
00:07:45Look, I can't share a bench with you.
00:07:46Come on.
00:07:47Because you're a joke, Sofase.
00:07:49So what?
00:07:50I'm trying for saying.
00:07:53Just push off, can't you?
00:07:54I want to emphasize one thing.
00:07:55Why?
00:07:56And that is safety.
00:07:57Look.
00:07:58I'm a skinhead meself.
00:07:59So?
00:08:00So am I.
00:08:02Look, I can't share a bench with you.
00:08:04Wear your goggles.
00:08:05Please.
00:08:06On the leaf.
00:08:07We live in the same flesh, don't we?
00:08:08On the milk.
00:08:09Look, it's embarrassing for you safe ways.
00:08:10And on welding.
00:08:11All right, then.
00:08:12If you're so hard, why are you with them, eh?
00:08:15Because I'm older than them, that's why.
00:08:17Yeah.
00:08:18Yeah.
00:08:19I'm the oldest thing in the room.
00:08:21Yeah.
00:08:22Yeah.
00:08:23If I haven't started yet, I'll show you a little.
00:08:25Show us then.
00:08:26I will show you a little.
00:08:27You will wear your goggles.
00:08:29No.
00:08:30All right, you can share.
00:08:32Just watch it, all right?
00:08:37Oh, stop following me, safe ways.
00:08:39Lipton.
00:08:40Lipton, then.
00:08:41Whoever you are, stop following me.
00:08:44I've got enough problems.
00:08:45Your dad's disconnected me.
00:08:47I mean, nobody likes skinheads, right?
00:08:49I mean, surely my own handbag.
00:08:51Why am I talking to you like this?
00:08:53Because you like me.
00:08:54Well, what gives you that idea?
00:08:56Somebody has to like me.
00:08:57Who says that you stand?
00:08:59So why does it have to be me, eh?
00:09:01Because I've tried everyone else in the school, that's why.
00:09:06It will be dangerous to be seen with me, Lipton.
00:09:09Yeah?
00:09:15Look, stop following me.
00:09:16You might get hurt.
00:09:23You're like my new friend.
00:09:25It's so hard.
00:09:26It's terrifying.
00:09:27I'm going down the safe ways.
00:09:29I'm going down the safe ways.
00:09:30I'm going down the safe ways.
00:09:31I'm going down the safe ways.
00:09:32Oh, shut up.
00:09:34And give me your lot from the store and a little bit more.
00:09:38I'll use this on you.
00:09:40Oh, give it a rest, Jarvis.
00:09:41You won't brush your teeth for that.
00:09:43No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
00:09:45Leave it there, Jarvis, sir.
00:09:46Game off, sir.
00:09:47Game off, sir.
00:09:48Game off, sir.
00:09:49Sir, sir.
00:09:50Jarvis.
00:09:51What in Gosling do you think you're doing?
00:09:56Oh, please, sir.
00:09:57I think I've broken me leg.
00:09:59If I catch you doing anything like that again, young man,
00:10:01you'll be out of here sharpish.
00:10:02The odd man.
00:10:03And that goes for you too, Manning.
00:10:05Sir.
00:10:06What's the matter with you, Jarvis?
00:10:07Nothing.
00:10:08There is.
00:10:09There isn't.
00:10:10Don't do that bad.
00:10:11Oh, shut up.
00:10:12I don't know why you're carrying those books around with you.
00:10:15I'm taking O-levels.
00:10:16You're doing no such thing.
00:10:17I am.
00:10:18I'm taking 8 O-levels, actually.
00:10:19Yeah?
00:10:20Where to?
00:10:21Look, I'm just really fed up with it.
00:10:22What?
00:10:23All of it.
00:10:24Don't let them get you down.
00:10:25Who?
00:10:26No.
00:10:27Them.
00:10:28Look, I've told you I'm not one of them and I won't be seen dead with one of them.
00:10:30Right.
00:10:31Right.
00:10:32Right.
00:10:33Right.
00:10:34Right.
00:10:35That's why you fed up me.
00:10:36You, Lipton, that's why.
00:10:37You got this year off to a really bad start following me around with your books you can't even understand.
00:10:42Don't look for me around school no more because you won't find me.
00:10:46I've had school OK?
00:10:47I'm off.
00:10:48I'll be good.
00:10:49I'll be good.
00:10:50I'll be good.
00:10:51I'll be good.
00:10:52You'll be good.
00:10:53You'll be good.
00:10:54I'll be good.
00:10:55You'll be good.
00:10:56I'll be good.
00:10:57I'll be good.
00:10:58I'll be good.
00:10:59You'll be good.
00:11:00I'll be good.
00:11:01I'll be good.
00:11:02You'll be good.
00:11:03bad school okay I'm off. Right so I'll stop. You go one stop on the road do you? I don't want you
00:11:11following me around. See you John. I mean it.
00:11:25It wasn't just Johnny I wanted. It was his family too. Especially his dad. Johnny's dad was a
00:11:33commissioner. A steady sort of man who could turn you off but nice with him.
00:11:43It's half eight Johnny. Yeah. Don't be late. Yeah. Well that's I didn't warn you. Yeah.
00:11:53Well come on. I'm going on the bus. Yeah. You okay? Yeah of course I'm okay.
00:12:03I'll try then. I'll try.
00:12:09You brought me to the game anymore to let everything go. I thank you all.
00:12:16What happened to your friend Jarvis Lipton?
00:12:38What happened to your friend Jarvis Lipton?
00:12:46He's off school, sir.
00:12:48Yeah, two weeks he's been off, sir.
00:12:51Yes.
00:12:52He's at home. He just sits there.
00:12:56Is this a medley cut out, Lipton?
00:12:58Yes, sir.
00:13:00You're not very good with your hands, are you?
00:13:02No, sir.
00:13:03Not very good with my brain either, sir.
00:13:07Look.
00:13:08You tell your friend Jarvis to turn up at the start of the term.
00:13:11Otherwise, it won't finish his course.
00:13:13No way.
00:13:14Yes, sir. I'll tell him, sir.
00:13:16Good.
00:13:17Because, amazing as it may seem,
00:13:20your friend Jarvis is not unskillful.
00:13:24In fact, he's rather good.
00:13:25In fact, he's very, very good.
00:13:28Yes, sir.
00:13:30Sir, what do you think I should do with this?
00:13:33I should try and hide it if I were you, Lipton.
00:13:37Yes, sir.
00:13:37You tell him, huh?
00:13:39After all, it is life.
00:13:41Yes, sir.
00:13:45Jarvis!
00:13:48Jarvis, it's me, Lipton!
00:13:51You coming back to school this afternoon, Jarvis?
00:13:54Cassian reckons you're a genius, you know?
00:14:02It's your life, Jarvis!
00:14:04My life.
00:14:17He didn't show up the rest of that term.
00:14:21When he wasn't there for school after Christmas,
00:14:23I decided to do something about it.
00:14:25You're useless, Manning.
00:14:27What?
00:14:28Useless.
00:14:29Oh, don't bother.
00:14:30You think you're hard, don't you,
00:14:31because you give my mate an hard time.
00:14:33And who's your mate, Lipton?
00:14:34You know, Manning.
00:14:35Jarvis is my mate.
00:14:36Bollocks.
00:14:37You're ruining his life.
00:14:38Look, don't be stupid, right?
00:14:40I'm coming looking for you, Manning.
00:14:42Oh, yeah?
00:14:44I'm gonna do Manning.
00:14:47Look, you couldn't do a bunny rabbit, Lipton.
00:14:49What are you not doing, mate?
00:14:50Us!
00:14:50Nobody messes my mate about.
00:14:55Wednesday night, nine o'clock...
00:14:56Move! Move!
00:14:56All right!
00:14:57Wednesday night, nine o'clock, cemetery, by the church.
00:15:00I'll be there.
00:15:01Good.
00:15:03Yeah.
00:15:04Can you make it eight?
00:15:05Me mum likes me in by nine.
00:15:08Kick in!
00:15:09Kick in!
00:15:10Help me!
00:15:20I've had a bloke round from the school about you today.
00:15:33Haven't you got a tongue?
00:15:35What is it, eh?
00:15:37Nothing.
00:15:38It can't be nothing, can it?
00:15:41Don't fancy it.
00:15:43Fancy what?
00:15:45School, any of it.
00:15:47Well, it's not a question of what you fancy, is it?
00:15:49I mean, you're gonna be out on the streets in a few months
00:15:51and what you want is some qualifications
00:15:52because they're not giving jobs away today.
00:15:55Well, hadn't you noticed, eh?
00:15:57Eh?
00:15:58I just don't fancy it.
00:16:19More chips, lovey.
00:16:23Time.
00:16:24Ketchup, lovey.
00:16:26Time.
00:16:27More peas, lovey.
00:16:30You want more peas, lovey?
00:16:33Don't call me lovey, mum.
00:16:34Why ever not, angel?
00:16:37Because I don't like it.
00:16:39What do I call you lovey if I don't call you lovey?
00:16:41I don't care much, mum.
00:16:43What do your friends call you?
00:16:49Lipton.
00:16:50I can't call you Lipton.
00:16:52What's your name?
00:16:53I know it is, stupid.
00:16:56Just call me Alan.
00:16:58All right, lovey.
00:17:00I'm going out.
00:17:02Why to?
00:17:02Just out.
00:17:03Where?
00:17:04I'll be back before you go to work.
00:17:06Oh, darling.
00:17:06Oh, leave off, can't you?
00:17:08I'm sorry, mum.
00:17:15It's all right.
00:17:16I don't mean to.
00:17:19You know what I've got.
00:17:21Right.
00:17:23I'll see you.
00:17:30Quite frankly, my thoughts weren't really on Johnny Jarvis
00:17:33as I made my way down a cemetery that evening.
00:17:35And then, if I was thinking about anything,
00:17:38it was, should I have made a will?
00:17:41And how did you go on about doing it?
00:17:44And then, pretty soon,
00:17:47I stopped thinking about anything, really.
00:18:01Where's this mate of yours then, eh?
00:18:03He's busy.
00:18:03What are we supposed to have done to him then, eh?
00:18:07Psychological.
00:18:08It's psychological what you've done to Jarvis.
00:18:12Don't bother, okay?
00:18:14Chicken.
00:18:16What's the point?
00:18:17Let's get started.
00:18:21No.
00:18:22Let's get started!
00:18:23Enough.
00:18:45By no means.
00:18:46Enough.
00:18:51Enough.
00:18:51No.
00:18:56Enough, right?
00:18:56No.
00:19:05Look, what is it with you and this Jarvis, eh?
00:19:07What's with this Jarvis of yours?
00:19:09I don't like what you've done to him.
00:19:17Go on.
00:19:18Now I've done it to the both of you, right?
00:19:23Good.
00:19:23Come on.
00:19:33This ain't a lot of fun.
00:19:40And you tell Jarvis
00:19:42there's more where that come from.
00:19:44Right!
00:19:45Where are you?
00:20:01Bus?
00:20:02Where are you? Bus?
00:20:14No, Manning.
00:20:16Manning?
00:20:17Yeah, Manning.
00:20:20You've done half looked at a state.
00:20:22Yeah.
00:20:23I'll sort him out.
00:20:24Oh, don't be stupid, Jarvis.
00:20:26You don't know where he is and you couldn't sort out a bus ticket.
00:20:30Listen, squirt.
00:20:30Oh, don't you start.
00:20:32I've had that lot jumping up and down on me for the last ten minutes.
00:20:35I don't need you at all.
00:20:37Christ, you're all the same, you skinheads.
00:20:39Look, I've told you, I'm not a skinhead.
00:20:41No.
00:20:41What's that doing then?
00:20:43It's growing.
00:20:43Well, it ain't growing fast enough for me, all right?
00:20:48Lipton.
00:20:51I'll see you around.
00:20:53Lipton.
00:20:57Lipton.
00:20:58All right, Jarvis.
00:20:59All right, Jarvis.
00:21:00All right, Jarvis.
00:21:01All right, Jarvis.
00:21:01All right, Jarvis.
00:21:02All right, Jarvis.
00:21:06All right, Jarvis?
00:21:08How you going, all right?
00:21:08Come back with you.
00:21:09That's it.
00:21:10Do you track in the Jarvis?
00:21:11Later, later.
00:21:11Well, do you where you've been, then?
00:21:12Busy.
00:21:13All right, Jarvis.
00:21:14All right, Jarvis.
00:21:15All right, Jarvis.
00:21:16Hello.
00:21:17Hello.
00:21:18You want to come round my house?
00:21:21Okay.
00:21:22You can only make Wednesday.
00:21:24Why?
00:21:25Who's working you over the rest of the week?
00:21:27Now, say you're an apprentice, right?
00:21:29Say we were apprentices, electricians or something.
00:21:33Now, with the common market, you can just go.
00:21:36You just turn up with your passport, and there you are.
00:21:40Travel, you see?
00:21:41Well, take Arken, Germany.
00:21:43Bomb down the motorway here, double back here, and you're in Stuttgart.
00:21:46Then you're right for the Alps.
00:21:48Christ, imagine the Alps, kind of.
00:21:49Phenomenal.
00:21:50And then on the other side of the Alps, you've got Italy, which is even better.
00:21:54Why?
00:21:55What?
00:21:56Wine.
00:21:57Oh, I see.
00:21:58See?
00:21:59You've got to make something of yourself, Jarvis.
00:22:00That's the thing.
00:22:01Yeah.
00:22:02Yeah.
00:22:03Yeah.
00:22:04You've got to make something of yourself, Jarvis.
00:22:06That's the thing.
00:22:07Yeah.
00:22:08Yeah.
00:22:09You've got to make something of yourself, Jarvis.
00:22:10Yeah.
00:22:11Yeah.
00:22:12You've got to work and work and make something of yourself.
00:22:14Yeah.
00:22:15You more manager or what?
00:22:17I admire you, Jarvis.
00:22:19Yeah?
00:22:20What is that, then?
00:22:21I don't know.
00:22:26What are all these books?
00:22:28Oh, maths, physics, geology, history.
00:22:31Where'd you get them?
00:22:33I borrowed them.
00:22:34From the library.
00:22:36And what do you do with them?
00:22:37Put them on the shelves.
00:22:39I'm going to read them.
00:22:40I'm going to read them.
00:22:42You're mad.
00:22:45So, tell me.
00:22:46Why'd you hit Manning?
00:22:48He was bothering them.
00:22:49Yeah.
00:22:50Well, you've got to work and work and make something of yourself, Jarvis.
00:22:55If you say so, boss.
00:22:58Tea, lovey.
00:23:00Please!
00:23:01Oh, sorry, lovey.
00:23:02He hates that.
00:23:03Two Ts, precious.
00:23:04Two Ts, Alan!
00:23:06Who's that?
00:23:07Oh, it's my dad.
00:23:08He was killed in the war.
00:23:09Second World War.
00:23:10He was a parachutist.
00:23:11I never knew him.
00:23:12Lipton?
00:23:13When was you born?
00:23:141961.
00:23:15And when was the Second World War, Lipton?
00:23:18Oh, leave off.
00:23:19No, is it?
00:23:20Is it really a dad?
00:23:21Really?
00:23:22No, I brought it in a shop.
00:23:23No, I brought it in a shop.
00:23:24For Laura from Stoke Newton, love of my life and your birthday, Laura.
00:23:31Who's your old man then, Manning?
00:23:33Who is it?
00:23:34Me old lady.
00:23:35Get away.
00:23:36Well, she ain't me old lady, really.
00:23:37I ain't me old lady, really.
00:23:38You know.
00:23:39I ain't got it.
00:23:40No, he ain't my old lady.
00:23:41You ain't, I ain't got it.
00:23:42No.
00:23:43You ain't me old lady.
00:23:44No, man.
00:23:45I ain't got it.
00:23:46I ain't got it.
00:23:47No, I ain't got it.
00:23:48I ain't got it.
00:23:49No, I ain't got it.
00:23:50No, I ain't got it.
00:23:51What?
00:23:52me old lady, really. In fact, she's a colored person. Imagine that, eh? My old man is shacked
00:23:58up with one of them. Surprising. What do they do together? They drink. You know who
00:24:05pisses me off? Yeah. Lipton and Turner. They really piss me off. Yeah? Yeah. And someone
00:24:13who really pisses me off. Who's that, then? Jarvis. He's a nutter. No, he's worse than
00:24:19a nutcase. He's popular. Yes. You could planish the surface there, you see. Yeah. Yeah,
00:24:29you could. What's he here for? Oh, he likes a watch. Well, fair enough. Yes. You've done
00:24:37a lot of work on this. And in your own time, too. I think it's going to be very nice. Can
00:24:43I take it home again? Surely. I think it's a good design. I hoped. You were the
00:24:48smart you, will you? Look, I'll get some more paper from my cupboard. You carry on. I'm
00:24:54not going out for lunch yet. Fair enough. What you going to do with a living, Jarvis? Make
00:25:10a match, Trace. Ouch!
00:25:12Yeah! Hey, Matty, do you want to go? Oh, there you are, Trace!
00:25:16Hey! What on earth do you think you're doing? Nothing. And what do you mean by that?
00:25:21Nothing. What do you mean by that?
00:25:25Nothing. What's your name? Manning. Sir? Sir. I remember you. Do you? I do. Well, never mind. In two weeks' time, there'll only be one term left. I'm surprised you bothered to stay, really.
00:25:41So am I, mate. So am I.
00:25:56Fight!
00:26:01What?
00:26:03What one?
00:26:04I love you, Sam!
00:26:07There you go!
00:26:08A little under-底!
00:26:15Out for him!
00:26:15Out for him!
00:26:28Boy!
00:26:31Yeah?
00:26:32How's your sister?
00:26:34Eh?
00:26:35Or is it your cousin?
00:26:37What do you want about?
00:26:39Come here.
00:26:40What do you want?
00:26:41Over here!
00:26:42Just the back of the news, right?
00:26:50It's gone on long enough.
00:26:52What has?
00:26:53You have.
00:26:54What do you want about?
00:26:55Your sister.
00:26:56Or is it your cousin?
00:26:57Look, my name, I don't know what to do.
00:26:58You know what I'm on about, you cheeky black bastard.
00:27:00Get back!
00:27:01Get back!
00:27:02Get back!
00:27:03You!
00:27:04Yeah, me!
00:27:05Shut up!
00:27:06He just started in on me!
00:27:07Did you, Manning?
00:27:08So what if I did?
00:27:09Why?
00:27:10I don't know!
00:27:11Come with me.
00:27:12No way!
00:27:13Come here!
00:27:14Let's go!
00:27:15Let's go!
00:27:16Let's go!
00:27:17Let's go!
00:27:18Let's go!
00:27:19Let's go!
00:27:20Get back!
00:27:21Get back!
00:27:22Get back!
00:27:23Get back!
00:27:24Get back!
00:27:25Get back!
00:27:26Get back!
00:27:27You!
00:27:28Yeah, me!
00:27:29Come here!
00:27:30Mess off!
00:27:31Manning!
00:27:32So long, you stupid sus!
00:27:33This is my last appearance!
00:27:34Manning!
00:27:37Why?
00:27:38I don't know, sir.
00:27:39I don't know.
00:27:40Get out of me!
00:27:42Come on!
00:27:43Get back!
00:27:44Get back!
00:27:45Get back!
00:27:46Get back!
00:27:47Get back!
00:27:48Get back!
00:27:53Can you ever take it off?
00:27:54I'm proud of this uniform.
00:27:56Do they have other sorts of commissioners?
00:27:58How do you mean?
00:27:59What?
00:28:00I mean like...
00:28:01Are you a sergeant?
00:28:02What are you on about?
00:28:03No.
00:28:04What I mean is...
00:28:05Do you tell people what to do?
00:28:06Is that why you wear a uniform?
00:28:08People tell me what to do, son.
00:28:09I stand at that desk and people tell me what to do.
00:28:12I've obeyed orders to the letter.
00:28:13Yeah?
00:28:14Yeah.
00:28:15You knuckle down to it, son.
00:28:16I did.
00:28:17But I'm lucky, Dad.
00:28:18Yeah.
00:28:19Well, you be lucky then, son.
00:28:20Why are you keen?
00:28:26Now, erm...
00:28:27This is still...?
00:28:285C.
00:28:29Yes.
00:28:30And...
00:28:31Did I see you last year?
00:28:33No.
00:28:34No?
00:28:36And you'll be taking CSEs in...?
00:28:39English, Metalwork, Margaret Engineering.
00:28:42Yes.
00:28:43And what sort of thing had you in mind?
00:28:45Erm...
00:28:46Turner?
00:28:47How do you mean?
00:28:48What sort of job had you in mind?
00:28:50I hadn't thought.
00:28:52No.
00:28:53Well, I shouldn't have thought clerical work.
00:28:56What?
00:28:57Erm, a bank, say.
00:28:58Oh, yeah.
00:28:59I wouldn't mind a bank.
00:29:02Ah, yes.
00:29:04But I think, erm...
00:29:05What?
00:29:07Well, you'd need O-levels.
00:29:09I should never have mentioned a bank.
00:29:11Yeah.
00:29:12It was just an example.
00:29:13I see.
00:29:14I see.
00:29:16And what, then?
00:29:17Well, had you any ideas?
00:29:20Not a factory?
00:29:21No.
00:29:23I don't know.
00:29:27You sure I wouldn't get into a bank?
00:29:28Quite sure.
00:29:30I think I would have fancied a bank.
00:29:32Well, I'm afraid a bank is out.
00:29:35Erm, absolutely out.
00:29:37I'll be quite frank with you.
00:29:39The job situation in this borough is, erm...
00:29:41Aired, right?
00:29:42I'm afraid so.
00:29:44There's a vacancy on, erm, this list at dinnerings.
00:29:48What's that?
00:29:49Packing or something?
00:29:50Er, I imagine so, yes.
00:29:51No.
00:29:52No?
00:29:53No.
00:29:54No.
00:29:55Well, okay, then.
00:29:57All right.
00:29:58There's a lot of money in the bank.
00:29:59No, no, no, no.
00:30:00I don't know.
00:30:01No, no.
00:30:02I don't know.
00:30:03But I can't.
00:30:04You're right.
00:30:05Well, okay, then.
00:30:06All right.
00:30:07All right.
00:30:16All right.
00:30:18All right.
00:30:19I'm gonna be an astronaut.
00:30:20All right.
00:30:21All right.
00:30:22you coming to the cuts thing? yeah. do you know how many geography books it takes to
00:30:40make a Pershing missile? 3,700,829. why do we do it? we love it. that's why we do it. they move on we
00:30:56stay here. right. we like that. those are CSE projects. English. any good? pardon me for you. Jarvis and Lipton.
00:31:07he's a bright lad that Jarvis. not syntax wise. he's good with his hands. is he? you're surprised me. there are no rules about these things. he's got a job too. yeah? engineering factory. he just went out and fixed it on on his own. all on his own. it's a great secret he tells me.
00:31:37Alan? Alan love? Alan, cup of tea? what have you been doing? Alan? don't go in there. why have you not? my lamp's in there. oh lovely. it ain't lovely.
00:31:59I'm sure it's lovely. Alan? it's horrible.
00:32:09well just look at it. what did you say it was? it's a lamp. fell off of a lorry did it?
00:32:23um what's this? it's my drawing. i see. you're supposed to design it. see? yeah. and that's the idea.
00:32:33oh it's lovely. no it isn't. well never. what's the matter lovely? stop it can't you? well it's not that important. it is though isn't it? i've got my exam at the end of the term. what sort of a mark am i going to get with a thing like this eh?
00:32:51well you might get some credit for trying. i'm fed up with trying. all i do is try, innit?
00:33:03well you was always more one for reading. well how come they don't reckon me on english or maths or geography or any of them things?
00:33:11how come every time i open a book my eyes go funny? how come i'm so stupid? i don't know. you must have got it from your dad.
00:33:23stop it! look don't cry please. i can't stand that. how come you never tell me where he went? lovey.
00:33:31how come? all i ever got from you is stupid answers.
00:33:35i'll find him one day though. he'll tell me how to do this. i bet he was handy.
00:33:41i know he wasn't alan. he was as much use as a budgery guy your dad's.
00:33:47well maybe he thought the same about you eh? maybe that's why he left.
00:33:51do you mind why he left? or where he went?
00:33:55but mum! all i want to know is where this leaves me. where does this leave me eh?
00:34:01that is your affair alan. entirely your affair.
00:34:23i don't want to add anything to what the headmaster has been telling you about the difficulties you may face when you leave here.
00:34:29all i'd like to say to all you fifth year leavers is this.
00:34:33more than skills. more than attainments.
00:34:36it seems to me that you take from a school something i'd call a way of looking at the world.
00:34:41a way of dealing with others.
00:34:44call it what you like. decency. plain dealing. compassion.
00:34:48in your dealings with others.
00:34:50now what i'd like you to take from your time at bella glenn is a willingness to behave well towards others.
00:34:56and in finding out what is the correct course for you and there'll be as many choices as there are individuals in the fifth year
00:35:02to be truthful to yourselves.
00:35:05i'd like to wish you all the very best of luck.
00:35:07i'd like to wish you all the very best of luck.
00:35:09you know.
00:35:11i'd like to wish you all the best of luck.
00:35:12i'd like to wish you all the best of luck.
00:35:13you know.
00:35:14i'm gonna wish you all the best of luck.
00:35:15i'm going to give it a chance.
00:35:16Yeah!
00:35:22Yeah!
00:35:29Call it off, Peter.
00:35:36Hello, hello, hello.
00:35:39What do you want, Manning?
00:35:40You, Turner.
00:35:41I'm getting lost.
00:35:43No teachers out here, Turner.
00:35:45No-one to run to.
00:35:46Who's running?
00:35:47You will be.
00:35:48Oh, yeah?
00:35:49Certainly.
00:35:50Didn't you know, Turner?
00:35:52Out here, it's one long punch-up.
00:35:55Get lost.
00:36:15It's me, you, me.
00:36:16It's me.
00:36:17It's me.
00:36:18It's me.
00:36:19It's me.
00:36:20It's me.
00:36:21Lifted!
00:36:32Hello, lovely.
00:36:34Kiss for money.
00:36:40Are you OK?
00:36:41Yeah, I'm alright.
00:36:42Where's your friend tonight, then?
00:36:44Which friend?
00:36:45Tony Jarvis.
00:36:46Oh, he ain't around so much.
00:36:48What's he doing, then?
00:36:50Dunno.
00:36:52Up to something.
00:36:54They go down to disco.
00:36:58Your benefit stops next week, lovey.
00:37:00Yeah.
00:37:02When you're 16, I don't get benefit.
00:37:06No.
00:37:08There's a lot of things I should have told you.
00:37:12Such as?
00:37:14I should...
00:37:16Let her come for you.
00:37:18Yeah.
00:37:20From your dad.
00:37:22Yeah? Where is it?
00:37:24I threw it out.
00:37:26You what? I threw it out.
00:37:28Oh, for Christ's sake, stop messing me about.
00:37:30What have you done with it?
00:37:32I've gone looking for him.
00:37:34Where is it?
00:37:36What do you want to go looking for it for?
00:37:38He'll see to you, eh?
00:37:40He'll give you nothing.
00:37:42He took everything I had from me.
00:37:44One piece at a time.
00:37:48Oh, I'm sorry, lovey.
00:37:50You made a bit to drink.
00:37:52I caught you!
00:37:53I'm going out!
00:37:54Alan!
00:37:55Alan!
00:38:06I'm at this address for a few days.
00:38:20Come and stay free of charge.
00:38:22All the best.
00:38:23Your father.
00:38:24Hello, then.
00:38:25Hi, hey.
00:38:26Your mum said you was out here.
00:38:27Yeah?
00:38:28Yeah.
00:38:29I ain't seen you.
00:38:30Nah.
00:38:31You've been hiding.
00:38:32No, I've got a job.
00:38:34You never told me.
00:38:35No.
00:38:36Why not?
00:38:37No, I've got a job.
00:38:38You never told me.
00:38:39No.
00:38:40Why not?
00:38:41Well, I've got a job.
00:38:42Hello, Dan.
00:38:43Hi, mate.
00:38:44Your mum said you was out here.
00:38:45Yeah?
00:38:46Yeah.
00:38:47I ain't seen you.
00:38:48Nah.
00:38:49You been hiding?
00:38:51No, I got a job.
00:38:55You never told me.
00:38:58No.
00:38:59Well, why not?
00:39:01I didn't like to.
00:39:03Why?
00:39:04Because I ain't right.
00:39:06Right.
00:39:07I've been for eight interviews.
00:39:12Yeah?
00:39:13Yeah.
00:39:14Ports don't help.
00:39:16I'm satisfactory.
00:39:18But these days, it ain't enough to be satisfactory.
00:39:21No.
00:39:22Where are you going, then?
00:39:25Engineering.
00:39:26Small place.
00:39:27Good money?
00:39:28Yeah, it's all right.
00:39:30Well, well done, then.
00:39:33Yeah.
00:39:34Yeah.
00:39:35You won't need me around now.
00:39:38Why not?
00:39:39Oh, you'll have money, won't you?
00:39:40You'll be off to pubs and discos and that.
00:39:42No, I won't.
00:39:43But most of me old lady.
00:39:46You never was much of a loony, was you, Jarvis?
00:39:49You'll go just the way of your old man.
00:39:54Well done, anyway.
00:39:56Well, we'll see each other.
00:39:58Sure.
00:39:59Oh, you'll get fixed up, won't you?
00:40:02Make something of myself, right?
00:40:04That's it.
00:40:05Look, I'll see you around, maybe.
00:40:08You could have told me.
00:40:09I wouldn't have burst into bleeding tears.
00:40:12Lipton!
00:40:14Lipton!
00:40:16Who's too stuck out to talk now, eh?
00:40:19Isn't me, is it?
00:40:21I thought we was mates now!
00:40:23What difference does...
00:40:25What difference does...
00:40:35Suddenly I had something much more important to think about than Johnny's friendship.
00:40:40I thought I was off on the greatest adventure of my life.
00:40:54To find my dad.
00:40:57I should have looked over my shoulder that day.
00:41:00I might have dodged a lot of trouble.
00:41:06But, I was only 16.
00:41:08I was in love with the idea of having a father at last.
00:41:12I was just trying to say whatever you want, you know what you want.
00:41:31Hello, son.
00:41:34Hello.
00:41:36You must be Alan.
00:41:38I'm 16.
00:41:40Come in.
00:41:41Right.
00:41:49I'm sorry about the mess.
00:41:51Oh, it's okay.
00:41:53There's a woman supposed to come and clean, but does she clean?
00:41:59No, she doesn't.
00:42:01Right.
00:42:03You okay, then?
00:42:05Never better, never better.
00:42:07You all right there?
00:42:08Oh, I'm okay, thanks, yeah.
00:42:10Yeah.
00:42:12You've got a lot to talk about.
00:42:14Yeah.
00:42:16Has she, uh, said anything?
00:42:20Oh, first hard news I got was, um, when I got the letter.
00:42:24Yeah.
00:42:25Yeah, yeah, just like your mother.
00:42:29Is that a car?
00:42:30I don't know.
00:42:32Have a look for us, would you?
00:42:34Just peek through the curtains in the front.
00:42:36What?
00:42:37Yeah, the curtains.
00:42:48All clear?
00:42:49Well, there's a car with two geezers in it.
00:42:51Hey.
00:42:53Yeah.
00:42:54Yeah.
00:42:55What?
00:42:59Listen, I've got to nip out for a moment.
00:43:00What?
00:43:01Yeah, just for a moment.
00:43:02Oh.
00:43:03Uh, if they ring the bell.
00:43:04What?
00:43:05They're by way of being business partners of mine, but, uh, I've got a liquidity problem
00:43:09just at the moment.
00:43:11Stall them, would you?
00:43:15Nice seeing you again.
00:43:16What do you mean again?
00:43:17PHONE RINGS
00:43:18PHONE RINGS
00:43:19PHONE RINGS
00:43:20PHONE RINGS
00:43:21PHONE RINGS
00:43:23PHONE RINGS
00:43:24PHONE RINGS
00:43:25PHONE RINGS
00:43:26PHONE RINGS
00:43:31PHONE RINGS
00:43:32PHONE RINGS
00:43:51Hello?
00:43:52PHONE RINGS
00:43:53Well, what do you know, Arthur?
00:43:54A genuine Londoner.
00:43:55What do you want?
00:43:56PHONE RINGS
00:43:57You'll find out.
00:44:03You just do what the Colonel says, eh?
00:44:05So, you're Alan Lipton.
00:44:09That's it?
00:44:10Just like his father, wouldn't you say?
00:44:13And what do you want with him?
00:44:15If you see him, you tell him it's okay. I can wait for the money.
00:44:21Right, I'll do that.
00:44:22Good boy.
00:44:23But what do you know, Arthur?
00:44:25Me and Jakey have got a new channel of communication.
00:44:29PHONE RINGS
00:44:44Oh, you can have a paper, son.
00:44:45No, I read it.
00:44:47Okay?
00:44:48Yeah, yeah.
00:44:51Don't leave much.
00:44:52What don't?
00:44:53Well, after I've given her eight quid.
00:44:55Oh, you sound like me.
00:44:57That's half the trouble, isn't it?
00:44:59Is it?
00:45:01Nah, it's all right.
00:45:03Maybe I'll get to do something today.
00:45:05Well, they keep you hard on, do they?
00:45:06Oh, I'm a boy, aren't I?
00:45:07That's all.
00:45:08You stick to it.
00:45:09I think you're all mates.
00:45:10You're all the lucky one, aren't you?
00:45:11Must be.
00:45:12Well, you don't have the equipment.
00:45:13Oh, don't.
00:45:14Yeah.
00:45:15So I'm well getting money out of the government.
00:45:16So they tell me.
00:45:17Yeah, how come you're so cheerful these days, that?
00:45:20Just down.
00:45:28Johnny Jarvis was about the only boy in 5C to get a job.
00:45:33Needless to say, I didn't.
00:45:35I was hanging about in my dad's weird house, waiting for him to return.
00:45:43When he didn't, I arranged to meet Johnny to tell him about my great adventure.
00:45:47He seemed more interested in this bird with funny-coloured hair.
00:45:50Oh, I'd fancy that.
00:45:52Rubbish.
00:45:53Well, I wouldn't do to that.
00:45:55What wouldn't you do to that?
00:45:57Say hello to it for a star.
00:46:00So you got anything yet?
00:46:02Nope.
00:46:03You been down there?
00:46:04Yeah.
00:46:05With Social Security?
00:46:06No, I don't fancy.
00:46:07Bit of a face for that.
00:46:09Yeah, I should imagine.
00:46:12So what's with your dad?
00:46:13Well, it's quite a story.
00:46:16Yeah?
00:46:17Yeah.
00:46:18Well, he was out there long enough.
00:46:20Yeah, a few days, I suppose.
00:46:22It's a quiet story.
00:46:23I don't know whether it's his house or what it is.
00:46:26Well, what happened?
00:46:28I will tell you.
00:46:29But I just...
00:46:30But what?
00:46:31Right now, I just don't believe it myself.
00:46:33Well, you're not giving much away, are you?
00:46:36Have you had your trip to Armwell?
00:46:38What?
00:46:39Never been further than the Essex Road, have you?
00:46:42Yeah.
00:46:43Anwell.
00:46:44Whenever you like.
00:46:46Before Christmas, I mean.
00:46:47A couple of weeks?
00:46:48Yeah, it should be okay.
00:46:50So what is it then?
00:46:51I'll get an affair.
00:46:53You been nicking things?
00:46:54Course not.
00:46:55But we'll tell you.
00:46:57In the end.
00:46:58You're on.
00:46:59Yeah, I've got to go.
00:47:00I've got to go.
00:47:01I've got to go.
00:47:30My card.
00:47:31Uh, if you're ever in any kind of trouble.
00:48:00I don't think Paul Turner found it too easy when he came out of school either.
00:48:05But his problems were a bit different.
00:48:08For which we need a smart appearance.
00:48:10Right.
00:48:11Thanks, love.
00:48:13And the ability to work hard.
00:48:15Right.
00:48:16What's under that cap?
00:48:18My hair's under that cap.
00:48:20Quite.
00:48:21But what's your hair like?
00:48:23It's lovely.
00:48:24I washed it this morning.
00:48:25Don't try and be funny, please.
00:48:27I don't have to try.
00:48:29Do you want this job?
00:48:30Of course I want the job.
00:48:32But you're going on about my hair, right?
00:48:34I thought we wanted someone to clean cars.
00:48:36Sounds like you're looking for a male model or something.
00:48:38We're looking for someone with a smart appearance.
00:48:40What's wrong with my appearance?
00:48:42This is the fifth job I've been for this week.
00:48:45You know, sometimes I get there and they heard me on the phone
00:48:49and they think I'm something different.
00:48:51And when they catch sight of me, suddenly the job's gone.
00:48:54Well, this is saying I ain't a ruster.
00:48:56I ain't locks up.
00:48:58You are so ignorant.
00:49:01I come here for a cleaning job and you give me the shit about my hair.
00:49:06There'll be plenty of others, young man.
00:49:08We shan't be short.
00:49:09Bye.
00:49:10Well, how do you explain it, eh?
00:49:11Goodbye.
00:49:20Hopeless.
00:49:24Hey, Turner.
00:49:25How is it proper?
00:49:26It's good.
00:49:27It's good.
00:49:28It's good.
00:49:29Hey, Turner.
00:49:30Finally permanent yet?
00:49:31Everybody wants me.
00:49:32Pay no attention.
00:49:33Got your dough?
00:49:34Yeah, I got it.
00:49:35You see it, I know it?
00:49:36Maybe.
00:49:37You're weird to support, you know?
00:49:38I've got no enthusiasm.
00:49:39I've got to find an enthusiasm, right?
00:49:40Listen, man.
00:49:41Listen, man.
00:49:42If you ain't got no enthusiasm, some enthusiasm or the other will find you out, see?
00:49:48Because before you know it, they'll be knocking on your door, right?
00:49:49And who knows who they may be?
00:49:50May not be us, you know, Turner.
00:49:51Could be the front door.
00:49:52Yeah, I got it.
00:49:53I got it.
00:49:54You see it, I know it?
00:49:55Maybe.
00:49:56Maybe.
00:49:57Maybe.
00:49:58Maybe.
00:49:59Maybe.
00:50:00Maybe.
00:50:01Maybe.
00:50:02Maybe.
00:50:03Maybe.
00:50:04Maybe.
00:50:05Maybe.
00:50:06Maybe.
00:50:07Maybe.
00:50:08Maybe.
00:50:09Maybe.
00:50:10Maybe.
00:50:11Maybe.
00:50:12Maybe.
00:50:13Maybe.
00:50:14Maybe.
00:50:15Maybe.
00:50:16Maybe.
00:50:17Maybe.
00:50:18Maybe.
00:50:19Where's that?
00:50:20Maybe.
00:50:21No one here.
00:50:22There's no question more to the end.
00:50:24Well, can I come back with you?
00:50:26It could be the front, right?
00:50:27Could be Nelson.
00:50:29Could be.
00:50:30Could be, Nelson.
00:50:31Could be.
00:50:32Stand firm.
00:50:33Don't let them get to you, all right?
00:50:34Of course they lie.
00:50:35Anwell.
00:50:36Dead.
00:50:37You've become quite cosmopolitan, haven't you, Lipton?
00:50:39I'm developing into something of a raver.
00:50:42I'm gonna get myself a new head and a new chest.
00:50:43Then what?
00:50:44Get married.
00:50:45How come everybody's got a bird except you and me, eh?
00:50:49Try and mirror.
00:50:51So try and...
00:51:00So what about this colonel guy?
00:51:02I don't know. Something about him.
00:51:04Good or bad? Bad.
00:51:06You wanted me to spy on my old man.
00:51:15Yeah?
00:51:18Does Alan Lipton live here?
00:51:20Yeah.
00:51:21He said to go round to see him.
00:51:24He's not in.
00:51:25Oh.
00:51:26I don't know when he'll be back. He's away from home a great deal.
00:51:29Commercial traveller, is he?
00:51:31Are you a friend?
00:51:33I don't know.
00:51:34I don't know.
00:51:35I don't know.
00:51:36I don't know.
00:51:37I don't know when he'll be back. He's away from home a great deal.
00:51:39Commercial traveller, is he?
00:51:41Are you a friend?
00:51:43Look, can I wait?
00:51:44I might wait till Christmas.
00:51:45Come in.
00:52:13What's she done to your aunt?
00:52:16Died it.
00:52:19Gets lonely.
00:52:21I'll work evenings, you see.
00:52:23Have a tea?
00:52:25Ta.
00:52:29He's with his father, I think.
00:52:32We don't speak much.
00:52:34Not him nor his father.
00:52:36You're a punk rocker then?
00:52:37No.
00:52:38Oh.
00:52:39What are you then?
00:52:40It would take too long to explain.
00:52:41Well, I'll tell you this in confidence.
00:52:42You're the first girl he's ever brought home.
00:52:43Well, I suppose you brought yourself really, didn't you?
00:52:45Yeah.
00:52:46Well, like I say, it's nice to have company.
00:52:47Wait a bit.
00:52:48It might turn up.
00:52:49You never know.
00:52:50I should have burned it.
00:52:51It's not noisy, is it?
00:52:52No.
00:52:53Say how long did you stay up there?
00:52:54No, you don't.
00:52:55I know.
00:52:56Oh.
00:52:57No.
00:52:58It's good, I'm not going to work.
00:52:59I've no less than anything.
00:53:00No, I'm not going to work.
00:53:01It's quite a bit.
00:53:03It's fine, I don't go back.
00:53:05I'm not going to work.
00:53:06I don't want to be the next because of me.
00:53:08I don't know what you're doing here.
00:53:10I don't know what you're doing here.
00:53:12It's not noisy, is it?
00:53:15No.
00:53:16How long did you stay up there?
00:53:17I got no.
00:53:18It's not noisy, is it?
00:53:20No.
00:53:21So how long did you stay up here?
00:53:23A week or so.
00:53:24You're a funny fella, aren't you?
00:53:26I am. I am a dark horse.
00:53:29No, you've changed. You've come on.
00:53:31So what did you find here?
00:53:33What? I'll show you.
00:53:42Stone, eh?
00:53:44Yeah.
00:53:48Take a look at this stone.
00:53:51What?
00:54:14Nice.
00:54:15Useful, eh?
00:54:21Whose is it?
00:54:22My old man must have left it.
00:54:24You nicked any of it?
00:54:26So what if I have found a key and all? Come and go as I want.
00:54:32What, and your old man just buggered off?
00:54:35This is a picture of the guy who come looking for my old man. The Colonel.
00:54:41I found this up here after the Colonel had left.
00:54:47Must be my dad, see? Jake Lipton.
00:54:50It's full of names and dates and places.
00:54:52So?
00:54:53Well, I tell you what, John, they're all round our way. All the pubs, times to meet people, too.
00:54:58What, you're old man bent then, you reckon?
00:55:00Yeah, must be.
00:55:01No, you want to get yourself something. Don't get mixed up in all of it. And you don't know what it is, do you?
00:55:08Get myself what? There are only no jobs left. Not for people like me. There are only shit jobs left.
00:55:16Apprentice? They wouldn't apprentice me to a milkman. How would they? Come on, you know it.
00:55:22I don't even fancy working.
00:55:26You know what? Well, I don't know, do I?
00:55:32I'm hungry.
00:55:33There's a pub?
00:55:36Oh, we're going to have to score this year, Lipton. Otherwise we're going to turn into a couple of pufters.
00:55:43Might not be such a bad idea.
00:55:52You don't have a bit of a plan like hell.
00:56:02Well, you don't have a plan like that.
00:56:05You're not on your plan like hell.
00:56:11You can pray with my plan like that.
00:56:22Are you receiving benefit?
00:56:24You're entitled to that?
00:56:26No way.
00:56:29Now, we could try you on one of these employment induction courses.
00:56:33Eh?
00:56:34It's a scheme for young people who are not certain what kind of work they would like to undertake.
00:56:38Then there's group work, interview techniques.
00:56:42How do you mean, group work, interview techniques?
00:56:45Well, that's the technique of coping with an interview,
00:56:47in the sense of a one-to-one encounter with someone behind a desk,
00:56:50like what we're having now.
00:56:52Oh. Communication.
00:56:53That's the name of the game.
00:56:57It's just possible, in March,
00:56:59we might be able to get you onto the Youth Opportunities Program.
00:57:03And there's a training scheme which gives employment training in the building trade,
00:57:07which starts...
00:57:08Yeah, that sounds OK.
00:57:10OK.
00:57:11All right.
00:57:13Well, what do you think?
00:57:17Is there something bothering you?
00:57:19I know that, geezer.
00:57:23You all right?
00:57:24I'll be back.
00:57:25Well, what about these books?
00:57:34Turner told me later that he didn't really understand why he followed Manning that day.
00:57:39I think it was because he could understand the racialist bit from a middle-aged car salesman,
00:57:47but not from a kid out of his own class.
00:57:51I could be a lawyer with stratagems and muses.
00:58:06I could be a doctor with policies and bruises.
00:58:09I could be a writer with a growing reputation.
00:58:12I could be the ticket man at Fulham Broadway Station.
00:58:15What a waste.
00:58:18What a waste.
00:58:21What a waste.
00:58:24What a waste.
00:58:25What a waste.
00:58:26What a waste.
00:58:27What a waste.
00:58:28What a waste.
00:58:29What a waste.
00:58:30What a waste.
00:58:31What a waste.
00:58:32What a waste.
00:58:33What a waste.
00:58:34What a waste.
00:58:35What a waste.
00:58:36What a waste.
00:58:37What a waste.
00:58:38What a waste.
00:58:39What a waste.
00:58:40What a waste.
00:58:41MUSIC CONTINUES
00:59:11MUSIC CONTINUES
00:59:41MUSIC CONTINUES
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00:59:59experience schemes work experience what you mean you mean does experience at
01:00:04work like I have work experience this is something new it's like a course like a
01:00:08special training scheme how special one safety on site to excavation free trench
01:00:15timbrey for erecting and dismantling platforms scaffolding ladders and
01:00:21and plants I don't want anymore I've heard enough already Stephen Stephen go
01:00:27catch a ball out of the kitchen how much the pain you for this work experience
01:00:3419 pounds 50 pence boy what these people trying to do to you they're trying to
01:00:40finish you off down there for 1950 you do it
01:00:51keep you away from those boys I'll do it I've told him already I want to work
01:00:56right but it's gonna be odd yes it's hard work experience is hard
01:01:06it's all right what is that with you
01:01:20Johnny what I think
01:01:27well you can't find someone else to hang around with I do not know what does that
01:01:34mean you know what that means do I yeah oh with the brillo pad here doing that
01:01:38lad from upstairs so well who pays for their drinks when are they working is that
01:01:44lad from upstairs working is he I'll pay me well I'll pay me bit here don't I
01:01:47Johnny stop it he was never like this I was never so old was I
01:01:55well every night called gay oh twice a sod in week that's all now don't you let me
01:02:01use language like that in front of your mother again do you hear me
01:02:05sorry
01:02:08more like my Johnny
01:02:13doesn't know is it isn't what
01:02:16oh I don't know maybe I'm a late developer
01:02:20I'm off out work in the morning
01:02:26well listen I know that job backwards now I learned it in two and a half days
01:02:32should never jumped in so quick should have got some qualifications should have got a
01:02:36proper apprenticeship
01:02:38all right and get one then I will good because I'll never had that no you didn't did you look where it got you I I stop it you two can't you
01:02:46sorry dad sorry man sorry good now
01:02:53what have I done he's a good boy is Johnny and you've never been anything other than a
01:03:06good father yeah I know that love don't mind getting easy though does it
01:03:13now all that was last year before Christmas so what have you done with books and sin
01:03:20and it was a roll of money too have you been mag no not since now it's full of appointments and addresses right we went when when when what he'd written in a meet in this pub so we went we thought we might see him but we didn't
01:03:33we didn't so what happened weird pub really weird
01:03:38well I'm not being told all this please
01:03:40because Wednesday week he's written in this address underlined and underneath my
01:03:44name Alan right there see it
01:03:46well so where do I come in
01:03:48well you can come with us
01:03:50I can't work you two out
01:03:52love to
01:03:53so I like excitement
01:03:55jam roll
01:03:58don't rub it in your ear will you
01:04:00now what gives the idea I might do that
01:04:03well punks do don't they
01:04:05she ain't a punk
01:04:07true
01:04:08what is she then
01:04:09she
01:04:10is an armpit
01:04:11we're all armpits ain't you heard
01:04:13we give our mums and dads our wage packets
01:04:15we never go out
01:04:16we don't drink
01:04:17we're in bed by half past nine
01:04:19we're always polite to everybody
01:04:21we never wear precarious clothes or listen to music or go to concerts right
01:04:26it's the new youth movement the armpits we call
01:04:29it's great
01:04:30you're going the wrong way about it son
01:04:33I'm privileged really to be arsed
01:04:38Wednesday week it is
01:04:40one of the boys now still
01:04:41what do you want?
01:04:42come quietly and there will be no trouble
01:04:43hello all right?
01:04:44how are you doing Turner?
01:04:45long time last night
01:04:46yeah right
01:04:47introduce me then
01:04:48this is your girlfriend
01:04:49yeah
01:04:50come quietly and there will be no trouble
01:05:06hello all right?
01:05:07how you doing Turner?
01:05:08long time last night
01:05:09yeah right
01:05:10introduce me then
01:05:11this is your girlfriend
01:05:12yeah
01:05:13Oh, this is her girlfriend. Yeah, you can only afford one.
01:05:16Nice. Can I have three halves of lager, please?
01:05:19Do you want a drink? I'm all right. Just three halves of lager.
01:05:21I'll call you, yeah? Turner, Social Security.
01:05:23Oh, yeah, don't go any more. Me neither. Borrow off me old lady.
01:05:26I don't know why you're so bleeding choosy.
01:05:28She don't have parents, youthful. She squats.
01:05:31Rugs over on her side.
01:05:33So, what are you doing here, Turner? Having a drink.
01:05:37What are you doing? I'm looking for a relative.
01:05:40Oi, look who it is.
01:05:42It's Manning. Who is this? Some kind of reunion.
01:05:45That's him. Who?
01:05:47My dad talking with Manning.
01:05:48What's your dad walking with Manning? Come on. Look. Come on.
01:05:57Funny people.
01:06:12Funny people.
01:06:13I'll confirm how to make himÃ.
01:06:24Easy.
01:06:29winner.
01:06:30So, two-level games.
01:06:32Fl raspy the guitar?
01:06:33He's saved or is that Hurry up.
01:06:35And the other people Band, die.
01:06:38Well that was fun wasn't it? Was it? Yeah I thought so. Why didn't you stay in contact? Busy.
01:06:53Why'd you run away? I got bad breath or what? Get you out of bad company and you're underage.
01:07:00You know your friend asked me to keep an eye on you but I wouldn't do it dad.
01:07:07Ta. So why don't you tell me what's going on? Because it's complicated. Sometimes it's
01:07:14one thing sometimes it's another. A little matter of some things that fell off the
01:07:18back of a lorry. That's all.
01:07:24What's up? Oh let the sod go. What's Manning got to do with this?
01:07:30That lad. We just use him for odd jobs from time to time. That's all. See?
01:07:49Look I've told you. I'm disgusting. I didn't keep no pictures of him. I didn't keep letters right.
01:07:57As far as I'm concerned he is dead and buried and I wish it had stayed that way. I'm sorry.
01:08:02Lovey. Stop that can't you? You used to be a nice boy. Now I've got a lot round the house
01:08:08don't I? Does nothing. He doesn't even bother to draw a doll. He nicks money from me purse
01:08:14when I'm not here. I don't get benefit for you. Do I have to remind you I work for you
01:08:20every night my lad. I don't enjoy going down that hotel. You never showed it before did ya?
01:08:27Showed what? You're so bloody bitter I can see it in the way you move. I can see it in the way you sit at that table
01:08:33morning, noon and night with your bloody fags at the ready. I can see in everything about ya.
01:08:37Well get out. Go on get out of the lot of ya.
01:08:43He'll get in touch again. What do you kids think you're doing?
01:08:52Johnny Jarvis!
01:08:53What?
01:08:54Johnny Jarvis here!
01:08:55What's that?
01:08:56You better come. It's your dad. You better come now.
01:09:13They called the doctor. He hasn't come yet.
01:09:15What's this?
01:09:16It's his tea. He dropped his tea.
01:09:18Dad?
01:09:20Dad, it's me.
01:09:21I don't know what it is.
01:09:22Dad, the doctor's coming.
01:09:24Johnny.
01:09:25He's speaking.
01:09:27Johnny.
01:09:28Dad, don't talk please. He'll be here in a minute.
01:09:30Goodbye, Johnny.
01:09:31Don't talk please.
01:09:33Is he gonna be alright?
01:09:36I don't know Mum, I don't know.
01:09:38Don't you ever take this off, eh?
01:09:40Don't you ever take it off?
01:09:49Hey, take the brain.
01:09:51What?
01:09:52Davies wants to see us.
01:09:53I don't know.
01:09:54I don't know.
01:09:55I don't know.
01:09:56I don't know.
01:09:57How's your dad?
01:09:58I'm no better, Mr Davies.
01:09:59Oh, sorry about that.
01:10:00How about this horse you were asking me about?
01:10:01Yeah.
01:10:02October, I let you go.
01:10:03September, that's it.
01:10:04Yeah.
01:10:05That's it.
01:10:06Yeah.
01:10:07Yeah.
01:10:08Yeah.
01:10:09Yeah.
01:10:10Yeah.
01:10:11Yeah.
01:10:12So they're for the cottage per great.
01:10:13And you'll get your whatever.
01:10:14Sit here and girls, Mr Davies.
01:10:15It takes a few years, though.
01:10:16Right.
01:10:17Right.
01:10:18I don't know.
01:10:19I don't know.
01:10:20I don't know.
01:10:21I don't know.
01:10:22I don't know.
01:10:23I don't know.
01:10:24I don't know.
01:10:25I don't know.
01:10:26I don't know.
01:10:27They're for asking me about.
01:10:28Yeah.
01:10:29October, I let you go.
01:10:30September, that's it.
01:10:31Yeah.
01:10:32To the cottage per great.
01:10:33And you'll get your whatever.
01:10:34Sit here and girls, Mr Davies.
01:10:35It takes a few years, though.
01:10:41Right.
01:10:42Now, tell me, Johnny Jarvis, why should I let a good lad like you go?
01:10:46Oh.
01:10:47Because look at it from my point of view.
01:10:49There ain't that much work round here.
01:10:52Now, supposing you get yourself these qualifications, you'd be off, wouldn't you?
01:10:55Oh, I don't know where it might leave, Mr Davies.
01:10:57I mean, I want to see a future.
01:10:59I don't know where it might leave.
01:11:01I'll get money for it.
01:11:03Yeah?
01:11:04I don't.
01:11:05Now, all I want from you, Johnny Jarvis, is a promise that you'll give me some of your
01:11:09time when you're done.
01:11:10Oh, of course I will, Mr Davies, yeah.
01:11:12Then it's a deal.
01:11:13Start in the autumn.
01:11:14Oh, thanks, Mr Davies.
01:11:15No trouble.
01:11:16You're a good lad.
01:11:17Yes, Mr Davies.
01:11:18Good morning.
01:11:19And you take care of your dad.
01:11:20I will, Mr Davies.
01:11:21I do.
01:11:25Good morning, Mrs Tony.
01:11:26Oh, hi.
01:11:27Hi.
01:11:28Hi, lady.
01:11:29Opportunities.
01:11:30Huge opportunities.
01:11:32Opportunities to do what?
01:11:35To lie around and commit various offences.
01:11:38I will ask Kenny.
01:11:40No, not Kenny.
01:11:42You two, into the car.
01:11:45Oh, my dream.
01:11:46Now.
01:11:47Mum, I don't want nothing to do with Kenny.
01:11:49Kenny is a good carpenter.
01:11:50Now, you listen to me.
01:11:51For three months now, you do your course, right?
01:11:52You finish the training.
01:11:53Now, where are the jobs?
01:11:54I don't see any jobs.
01:11:55You think I want you to finish up like those boys on the street?
01:11:56Think of nothing but the guitar music and ting?
01:11:57Come on.
01:11:58Let's go.
01:11:59In your position, you take a job.
01:12:00You take any job.
01:12:01Okay?
01:12:02Yes!
01:12:03Yes!
01:12:04Now.
01:12:05Now.
01:12:06Now.
01:12:07Now.
01:12:08Look!
01:12:09Let's go.
01:12:11It's a hack.
01:12:12Well, yeah.
01:12:13You mad.
01:12:15Yeah.
01:12:16There's an appointment.
01:12:17I'm not having that responsibility.
01:12:18I'm not having those jobs.
01:12:19Wow!
01:12:20First of all, you don't have jobs.
01:12:22I'm not powers.
01:12:23Let's go.
01:12:24You think I want you to finish up like those boys on the street?
01:12:26Think of nothing but the guitar music and ting?
01:12:27Come on.
01:12:28Let's go.
01:12:29In your position, you take a job.
01:12:30You take any job.
01:12:31Okay?
01:12:32Hey, boy, you know what you're looking at?
01:12:43No.
01:12:44The black economy.
01:12:46You get it?
01:12:47The black economy.
01:12:49Yeah, I get it.
01:12:53Ten after ten is not very many when you're working with someone as clever as Kenny.
01:13:00I'm sure.
01:13:08You hear the noise this van making?
01:13:11I hear it.
01:13:12You think it should be making a noise like that?
01:13:14Nope.
01:13:15No.
01:13:16I agree with you, boy.
01:13:18I don't think it should sound like that, neither.
01:13:30No.
01:13:31There, too, I am also in agreement with you.
01:13:35This your van?
01:13:37For a small down payment, it could be yours.
01:13:39Out.
01:13:41Certainly, officer.
01:13:49You see these back lights?
01:13:51I see them.
01:13:53Shouldn't they be on?
01:13:54No.
01:13:55And why is that my ass?
01:13:56Because I just turned them off.
01:13:58Oh, a bit of a comedian, eh?
01:14:00Well, why don't you go around and turn them on again, then?
01:14:02Sunshine.
01:14:03Certainly, officer.
01:14:14Hear that?
01:14:15Sound as a bell.
01:14:16Yes.
01:14:17And now the lights.
01:14:18I will press the appropriate button.
01:14:29Then why did you stop them?
01:14:30Never stop to discuss things with a policeman.
01:14:32Never!
01:14:34Anyway, this van is not completely insured.
01:14:38And I don't possess an MOT certificate of road worthiness.
01:14:42Or a driver's life.
01:14:45Screw me, Kenny.
01:14:46Find yourself a nice gal to do that.
01:14:48I'll see you tomorrow morning.
01:14:49Right.
01:14:51Half six?
01:14:52Yeah.
01:14:53Hey!
01:14:54You enjoy life in the black economy?
01:14:55Eh?
01:15:09I fancy being a crackdown.
01:15:11It wouldn't be sincere, though, would it?
01:15:13What, I like to buy army?
01:15:14Not enough, not enough.
01:15:15I've got nothing against baggy trousers.
01:15:17You just want the things to go with being a crackdown.
01:15:19Such as?
01:15:20Huh?
01:15:24Do you fancy being a crackdown, Lipton?
01:15:26They couldn't afford me.
01:15:28It suits you, eh?
01:15:29Well, it does.
01:15:30Not working.
01:15:32Yeah?
01:15:33Yeah.
01:15:34When we first met, he was nowhere.
01:15:35Now, look at him.
01:15:36What cocky little squirting hair, ain't ya?
01:15:38Yep.
01:15:39Anyway, I've got a good going.
01:15:41Is your dad still?
01:15:42Yeah.
01:15:43Just lies there, that's all.
01:15:44Well, good to see you, Johnny.
01:15:46Oh, I won't be around the weekend.
01:15:48Overtime?
01:15:49Yeah.
01:15:50We need it.
01:15:51Nice.
01:15:52I don't know.
01:15:53Is it?
01:15:54Is he going back to college?
01:16:08Yep.
01:16:09I think so.
01:16:10What about you?
01:16:11I did a couple of weeks in a shop still.
01:16:12That was enough for me.
01:16:13What's this?
01:16:14My arm, innit?
01:16:15Soon as he's gone.
01:16:16Sneaky little bugger.
01:16:17Do you want me to move it?
01:16:18Suit yourself.
01:16:19Oh, come on.
01:16:20It isn't fair.
01:16:21On who?
01:16:22On him.
01:16:23Is that why you like two boys still?
01:16:24Cancel each other out, do they?
01:16:25Oh, give over.
01:16:26It isn't fair.
01:16:27Oh, come on.
01:16:28It isn't fair.
01:16:29On who?
01:16:30On him.
01:16:31Is that why you like two boys still?
01:16:32Cancel each other out, do they?
01:16:33Oh, give over.
01:16:34It isn't fair.
01:16:35Oh, come on.
01:16:36It isn't fair.
01:16:37Oh, come on.
01:16:38It isn't fair.
01:16:39You're right, though, about you.
01:16:40And he's so nice, Alan.
01:16:41Look, the way I look at it is everyone's got to have a purpose, right?
01:16:43So what's your purpose?
01:16:44I'm gonna find my dad.
01:16:45And then what?
01:16:46Go in with him.
01:16:47In what?
01:16:48Whatever he's got on.
01:16:49Go away with him.
01:16:50And Johnny?
01:16:51Johnny's on a wheel, like one of them mice you see in a pet shop.
01:16:52Johnny's just on a wheel.
01:16:53How are you gonna find your dad?
01:16:54Go in with him. In what?
01:16:56In whatever he's got on. Go away with him.
01:16:58And Johnny?
01:17:00Johnny's on a wheel, like one of them mice you see in a pet shop.
01:17:04Johnny's just on a wheel.
01:17:06How are you gonna find your dad?
01:17:08He'll find me.
01:17:10Secretive little bastard, isn't he? Just like your mum.
01:17:13That didn't go down too well.
01:17:16Apart from not being thrilled by the comparison, I was feeling guilty about her.
01:17:21I'd moved out and left her to her fags and her books.
01:17:25I spent all my time with Stella in this rather seedy-looking squat,
01:17:31trying to get to know her better.
01:17:38Do me a favour. I just want to look at them.
01:17:41You're insatiable, you are.
01:17:43I'm 17 and I've never seen a pair of real girls' breasts.
01:17:46But it won't just be a look, will it? Not with you, it'll be a lot more than a look.
01:17:50A look and a feel.
01:17:52There you are, you see?
01:17:54I thought you was loose.
01:17:56But I ain't loose. I may look loose, but I ain't.
01:17:58Squatters, I don't know. A rude a day I come to live here.
01:18:02You can always go back to mummy.
01:18:07Somebody ate all my cheese.
01:18:11And why you spend half your time with your nose stuck in that notebook of your dad's?
01:18:14I can't imagine.
01:18:15There's another date.
01:18:16Middle of June.
01:18:17And it's marked at the end.
01:18:18Where?
01:18:19Hope and anchor.
01:18:20It's our last chance.
01:18:25Tell you what.
01:18:26Take it off at the weekend.
01:18:27You what?
01:18:28Something to look forward to.
01:18:30You're sick, you are.
01:18:31Next week.
01:18:32Week after that.
01:18:33October.
01:18:34Christmas.
01:18:35Next Christmas.
01:18:36You see, I just want to feel that our relationship is going somewhere.
01:18:47It's going out the bleeding window, mate.
01:18:49That's where it's going.
01:18:50Bloody years.
01:18:51If you won't take your bra off by next Christmas, it is going out the window.
01:18:55I mean, where's the future in a relationship like that?
01:18:58I mean, you might never take it off.
01:19:00You might not take it off by the Christmas after next Christmas.
01:19:02We might be staggering around in crutches by the year 2000.
01:19:05You might still never have taken it off.
01:19:14I mean, you can wait for something too long, you know.
01:19:17You can wait for something too long.
01:19:19Tough.
01:19:25What do you read in them books of yours?
01:19:27I educate myself.
01:19:28People think that people like me can't educate themselves, but I do.
01:19:37I bet my dad's someone remarkable.
01:19:39I bet he's unusual, like me.
01:19:43I bet he...
01:19:44Will you stop going on about your dad?
01:19:45It gives me the creeps.
01:19:49I'm going out.
01:19:50Where?
01:19:51You got a song on it last, are you?
01:19:52Where are you?
01:19:53Oi!
01:19:54You always leave London house, do you?
01:19:55Listen, I want you to keep away, okay?
01:19:56Keep away from what?
01:19:57The Hope and Anchor.
01:19:58Look, Dad.
01:19:59You nicked that little book of mine.
01:20:00It's a heavy pub.
01:20:01I don't want you getting involved.
01:20:02Some very nasty people go there.
01:20:03Does that include you?
01:20:04We just employ one or two of the larger ones.
01:20:05That's all.
01:20:06Oh.
01:20:07Just wipe it out.
01:20:08That should see you're right.
01:20:09What?
01:20:10Dad!
01:20:11Dad!
01:20:12Dad!
01:20:13Dad!
01:20:14Dad!
01:20:15Dad!
01:20:16Dad!
01:20:17You're right.
01:20:18Dad, Dad!
01:20:19We need you.
01:20:20I need you.
01:20:21And you're driving a little book of mine.
01:20:23I don't want you getting involved.
01:20:24Some very nasty people go there.
01:20:25Does that include you?
01:20:26We just employ one or two of the larger ones.
01:20:28That's all.
01:20:29Oh.
01:20:30Just wipe it out.
01:20:31That should see you're right.
01:20:33Ben! Ben!
01:20:49Eight o'clock, Dad.
01:20:51Here with our weekly Radio 2 selection.
01:20:53All right.
01:20:53Some of the best sounds around from the world of pipe and electric organs.
01:20:57Starting off with a visit to Mia Farm in 40-70.
01:21:00What's up?
01:21:17Nothing.
01:21:19I don't know why you read those books all night.
01:21:21You don't start till the autumn.
01:21:24It's only two months away.
01:21:26Maybe.
01:21:26Maybe.
01:21:28I don't understand none of it, Mum.
01:21:30No?
01:21:31No.
01:21:33Some lines and squares and P this and V that.
01:21:35If you don't want to, Johnny...
01:21:37It's not that I don't want to.
01:21:39I mean, I want to.
01:21:40It's just that I'm thick, aren't I?
01:21:41I'm stupid.
01:21:42Why don't I just go out and get a dunce's cap and have done with it?
01:21:45Why don't I get myself a frigging commissionaire's uniform?
01:21:48Johnny.
01:21:49I'm sorry.
01:21:50You've got no call to...
01:21:51No, I know I've no call.
01:21:54I haven't been out for nearly a month.
01:21:55No-one's said...
01:21:56Oh, no-one's said anything.
01:21:58But there's ways, isn't there?
01:22:00There's ways of looking and not talking that say as much as anything.
01:22:03That boy...
01:22:04That boy left home, I know.
01:22:06Didn't say I was going, did I?
01:22:08I'm not like that, Mum.
01:22:09You're a good boy, Johnny.
01:22:10I'll give that a rest, can't you?
01:22:12Give up that stupid book if you don't understand it.
01:22:26Hello.
01:22:27I'm not very bright.
01:22:29Stop it.
01:22:30Can I have a CSE, please?
01:22:32Get on.
01:22:33And two on Wednesdays.
01:22:35What cane would you like?
01:22:37What?
01:22:38I'd like the CSE in there.
01:22:40Nuclear physics.
01:22:42Sorry.
01:22:43We run out.
01:22:48They do, though.
01:22:49They think we're bloody stupid.
01:22:52It's cos we can't write P for Q and V for R.
01:22:55Do you know what I reckon?
01:22:56I reckon the geezer who thought those numbers up stupid.
01:22:58That's my opinion.
01:23:00Lord, you go out.
01:23:03Yeah, I'm going to a meeting.
01:23:07With him and that girl?
01:23:09He wants me to go.
01:23:11It's just a favour to him.
01:23:12I don't see him and still no more.
01:23:14It's just a favour to him.
01:23:15Johnny, was you and that girl...
01:23:17No, she was nothing to do with me.
01:23:19Ain't any girl that has anything to do with me.
01:23:22I'm an horrible monster.
01:23:24A repulsive creature.
01:23:26Johnny, you take care of yourself, won't you?
01:23:29Going to any meeting with those two?
01:23:31Yeah, I will.
01:23:52Double moan!
01:23:54Double moan!
01:23:56Double moan!
01:23:58Double moan!
01:24:00Oi!
01:24:02Again?
01:24:03We can't go on a meeting like this.
01:24:05Tell him the money was to stay away and tell him there's a lot more.
01:24:08He knows that.
01:24:10Listen, Sam, take my advice.
01:24:12Don't get mixed up in any of this, all right?
01:24:14Not any of it.
01:24:16It's up there, you mean.
01:24:18I know.
01:24:20And it is not my meeting.
01:24:22I simply have business here, that is all.
01:24:25Same as your daddy does.
01:24:27Don't that make it your meeting?
01:24:29Now don't start getting academic with me, please.
01:24:31Now come on, we're late.
01:24:35Look, take his advice, can't you?
01:24:37All right?
01:24:41See you afterwards.
01:24:43We're not up there, eh?
01:24:45Bashing the blacks up there, are we then?
01:24:47Look, I've told you there's some useful letters.
01:24:49We're not up there, eh?
01:24:51Bashing the blacks up there, are we then?
01:24:53Look, I've told you there's some useful lads hanging around in there.
01:24:56That's all there is to it.
01:24:58Now leave it alone.
01:25:00You...
01:25:03Look, that platform up there, if we go out there, we can see through the window.
01:25:07All right.
01:25:23I'm ready.
01:25:24I'm ready.
01:25:45He's given him something.
01:25:46It's a back-hander.
01:25:47It's a back-hander.
01:25:48It's a back-hander.
01:26:04Christ almighty!
01:26:05Christ almighty!
01:26:26Jesus, get out.
01:26:35Come on, let's go.
01:26:36Come on, let's go.
01:26:37Come on, let's go.
01:26:38Come on, let's go.
01:26:39Come on, let's go.
01:26:40Come on, let's go.
01:26:41Stand back.
01:26:42Stand back, please.
01:26:43Come on.
01:26:44Come on.
01:26:47Stand...
01:26:48Just stand back, please.
01:26:49Get on there.
01:26:50Stand back.
01:26:51Okay.
01:26:52Go with him, Red.
01:26:53Stay back.
01:26:54Let's go, let's go.
01:26:56What happened?
01:26:57It was one of those spinners.
01:26:58It's all over there.
01:26:59It was my hand.
01:27:01Hey...
01:27:16My hand went...
01:27:22Whoa.
01:27:28Bye.
01:27:29Hi, Dad.
01:27:36Hello.
01:27:41Ah.
01:27:48I went to the law to find you.
01:27:51Ah, I thought you might.
01:27:53They weren't too helpful.
01:27:55They've got this prejudice against me.
01:27:58Hmm.
01:27:59What's that?
01:28:07Lemonade.
01:28:08What do you think?
01:28:10Blimey.
01:28:11Hey, steady.
01:28:16You got Borstal, then?
01:28:18Who did?
01:28:19Your friend Manning.
01:28:21I thought he was yours.
01:28:23Yeah.
01:28:24Won't see him for more than a year.
01:28:27No.
01:28:28What did you do, Dan?
01:28:33When?
01:28:34With your life.
01:28:36I bred racehorses.
01:28:38Bit of space travel.
01:28:41Prime Minister of Uganda for a while.
01:28:43Spot of brain surgery.
01:28:45I ain't going to get no sense out of you, am I?
01:28:49No.
01:28:52Why did Manning do it?
01:28:56Someone set him up to it.
01:28:57Yeah.
01:28:58I suppose it was your friend the Colonel.
01:29:00I saw him talking to Manning.
01:29:02Leave it out, Alan.
01:29:02You don't understand how it works.
01:29:08What happens when the bag's full up?
01:29:11Hmm.
01:29:12Stick around.
01:29:14Okay.
01:29:14So I went back to see him a few days later.
01:29:19But predictably, he'd disappeared.
01:29:22As I was leaving the hospital, I had a nasty shot.
01:29:25A fat man looking for my dad.
01:29:28A fat man looking for her.
01:29:30But he worked for him.
01:29:31I went back to see him a few days later.
01:29:32I went back to see him a few days later.
01:29:33So he came back to see him a few days later.
01:29:34Yeah.
01:29:35So I would give him a few days later.
01:29:36Can you help him?
01:29:37I said he's my friend.
01:29:38I said, I'm happy to see him.
01:29:38He said, come back to me.
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