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00:00The weather looks like it's holding.
00:20Yes.
00:21It's been nice up there today.
00:24Oh, don't forget, the clocks.
00:30Oh, good morning, everybody.
00:43Ouch.
00:44Heavy night?
00:45Oh, yes.
00:46I may have had one or two glasses of wine.
00:50And when I say one or two, I mean probably two.
00:55You certainly know how to have fun at these Meet the Writers events.
01:00We nearly finished the bottle.
01:02Sounds insane.
01:04You don't know the half of it.
01:06Joan Mabry had to get a taxi home and she'd actually driven there.
01:13Oh, that's the end of the story.
01:21Oh.
01:21What?
01:24No, nothing.
01:25No, I just went to a bit of a do last night and now I'm suffering the consequences.
01:30It's actually a reading from my book.
01:32What do you want to order?
01:33I don't care what you do, who you are.
01:35Just some toast and some tea, please.
01:40Oh, I've seen him.
01:41It's always the same.
01:42Don't mention anything to Arthur about the book reading.
01:44I didn't tell him and I sort of should have.
01:46He was invited, but I wanted to go on my own.
01:49As far as you know, I was at a film, all right?
01:53You're not a good liar, Michael.
01:55What?
01:55What?
01:56You get too guilty.
01:57You can never remember what story you've told and everyone knows anyway.
02:01Your neck does that thing.
02:03What thing?
02:04The vein.
02:05What?
02:05What vein?
02:06Morning.
02:09Oh, someone's been a naughty boy.
02:11What?
02:12Your neck.
02:13Either you're about to have a heart attack or you're feeling guilty about something.
02:17I'm not feeling guilty about anything.
02:19Why would I feel guilty?
02:20Maybe I look guilty, but I don't feel guilty because I'm not guilty.
02:23I'm not guilty.
02:24I'm not guilty, my lord.
02:26Usually, Arthur.
02:28Not very hungry this morning, I've seen him.
02:30Just a tea, please.
02:32So how was your film then?
02:33What film?
02:34I haven't seen any films.
02:36I thought you were off to see some unmissable film last night.
02:39Oh, yes.
02:40The film.
02:41I'm sorry.
02:42It's the way you talk.
02:43It was good.
02:44It was all right.
02:45It wasn't great.
02:46What film was that, then?
02:47What?
02:49What film was it?
02:50It's just a film.
02:52Who cares what the name was?
02:54What are you talking about?
02:55Don't you know what film you were watching?
02:57Yes, I can.
02:57It's just I can't think with all these relentless questions.
03:01It's just a stupid film, all right?
03:03What's wrong with your neck?
03:05Nothing.
03:06Are you sure you're all right, Michael?
03:08I'm fine.
03:09You look like you're going to have a heart attack.
03:11All right, I went to a do.
03:14And you were invited, but I didn't tell you because I wanted to go on my own.
03:18There was no film.
03:20I've been lying to you.
03:21I've been lying to you all.
03:26Don't ever take up poker, Michael.
03:33Oh, look at this.
03:35What?
03:36Oh, he's going to make me suffer now.
03:39Why is he not sitting here?
03:40I'll have to buy him a present tomorrow.
03:44We're closed tomorrow.
03:45What?
03:46Clocks go back.
03:47Clocks go back?
03:47I close the cup.
03:49Why?
03:50Because idiot man cannot deal with it.
03:52Every year there's some disaster.
03:54He just can't get his head around it.
03:56The clock's going back.
03:58Last year there was a fire.
04:01Listen, Arthur.
04:04Arthur, I'm sorry I didn't invite you to the book reading.
04:07All right?
04:07I get it.
04:08Get it?
04:09What do you get?
04:10All this, the sighing and the mooning about.
04:13It's not got anything to do with you.
04:15Oh.
04:16Hmm, OK.
04:16Yes.
04:17So I'm not bothered about your reading, believe it or not,
04:20even though I would have enhanced the event tremendously.
04:23It's just an important date for me today, that's all.
04:27Why, if you don't mind me asking?
04:29Is it because the clocks are going back?
04:31What are you talking about?
04:32It is me, isn't it?
04:34Oh, for God's sake.
04:35Please, Arthur, I need you to convince me
04:37that I'm not a terrible person.
04:38Oh, look.
04:40It's not you.
04:42Nothing to do with you.
04:43It's something that happened to me a long time ago.
04:47But it's painful for me.
04:49I don't like talking about it.
04:52It all began in 19...
04:54John, I'm telling a story.
04:55Everyone, I'm about to tell a story.
04:58It all began in 1963.
05:01I was younger than you, little more than a kid.
05:09I was a bad boy.
05:11The kind of guy you wouldn't want to get on the wrong side of
05:14if you knew what was good for you.
05:15At that point, I was in one of the toughest walker gangs around.
05:21Nobody messed with the Greenwich Mean Gang.
05:25With us guys, it was always time to rumble.
05:28Oh, yeah, right.
05:33Mods versus rockers and all that.
05:35No, this was before that.
05:36Not as well known, but just as vicious.
05:39Rockers versus urchins.
05:42Urchins?
05:43Street urchins.
05:45What, like in Oliver?
05:46Urchins versus rockers.
05:54He's getting mixed up.
05:56He's mixing up his life and Oliver.
05:58Oh, this is going to be such a long story.
06:01It became known as the Limehouse Rumble.
06:05So that's who I was.
06:19A street-fighting man with a chip on my shoulder
06:22the size of a family caravan.
06:25That was until I saw her.
06:29I was doing my speciality.
06:31Blind pinball.
06:33When I saw her.
06:36Eileen.
06:40Hello.
06:43What's your name?
06:45She was so beautiful, I didn't know what I was saying.
06:48I don't know.
06:54I was smitten.
06:56I'd never felt like this about anyone before.
06:58We looked pretty good together.
07:01There were some well-cleaned boys from the local airbase,
07:04and even they were put in the shade.
07:06You sure you wouldn't want to be over there with those fly guys?
07:09Well, there is something about a man who flies.
07:12It was at the Rosses.
07:19Someone had grasped me up for the Limehouse Rumble.
07:21They threw me in a cell.
07:29Oh, now it's the great escape.
07:34I've never felt so alone as when I was doing solitary confinement.
07:39The only thing that kept me going were the letters from Eileen.
07:43These gave me hope, but also filled me with shame.
07:49I wanted Eileen to think of me as a hero, not some dirty jailbird.
07:53So when I got out, I tried to join the RAF.
07:56Instead, I ended up in the army.
08:03Three months of training and I'd been honed into a fighting machine.
08:06Through those difficult days, one thing kept me going.
08:19Eileen.
08:23Before I was posted to Foreign Parts, they gave me a 48-hour pass.
08:27I got a message to Eileen to meet me outside the youth club.
08:31I wanted to show her I'd changed, but she never turned up.
08:36Didn't you try and get in touch with her later, Arthur?
08:41I thought about it, but in the end, I was too scared.
08:45I later heard she married the RAF bloke.
08:49There's something about a man who flies, she said.
08:52I had the uniform, but without those wings,
08:54I was still half a man stuck on the ground.
08:59Anyway, no-one mind.
09:02I'd like to be by myself for a bit.
09:05Of course, Arthur, we understand.
09:06Can I come?
09:07What?
09:08No.
09:09Oh.
09:10Yes, of course.
09:18This isn't my fault, you know?
09:21None of this happened because I didn't invite him to the book reading.
09:24Yeah, I knew that.
09:25Then why is everyone making me feel so guilty?
09:27We're not.
09:28Poor Arthur, eh?
09:29He looked like he was welling up.
09:31I just wanted to do one thing on my own.
09:34Sorry?
09:34Can't I have fun?
09:35Do I have to do everything with Arthur?
09:37Oh, Michael.
09:38Just stop picking on me!
09:39Three p.m.
09:48That's brilliant.
09:48Perfect.
09:49Thank you so much.
09:50OK, bye-bye now.
09:53Who's a daddy?
09:54See, name?
09:54I am.
09:55I'm a daddy.
09:56I think it's who's the daddy.
09:59No, no, the phrase is who's a daddy.
10:01I don't think so.
10:02Well, I'm a writer, so it's sort of my business.
10:05Arthur, Arthur.
10:06I have got you a present.
10:08Oh, yeah?
10:09What have you done that for?
10:11No particular reason.
10:12Feeling guilty because you didn't bring me to your drinks, do, that you'd know I would have loved?
10:16No, Arthur, I'm just...
10:18Come on, this is really, really good.
10:19What is it?
10:20I have bought you a flying lesson.
10:24You what?
10:25Yeah.
10:25Why?
10:27What, because of the story?
10:29No, I don't think so, thanks.
10:31Well, oh, come on, Arthur.
10:33Arthur, this is a chance to lay all those old ghosts to rest.
10:37I appreciate what you're trying to do, Michael, but it's too late for that.
10:41Oh, please, Arthur, you have to do it.
10:43And not just because I pay for it, obviously.
10:46There's something about a man who flies, isn't there?
10:55Oh, I forgot you were close today.
10:57I said I'd meet Arthur here at one.
10:59Ha!
11:00I told you.
11:01Who knows when he will turn up?
11:02Three, five.
11:04What are you looking at?
11:07Nothing.
11:07You have to be careful, you know.
11:08He will suck you into his madness.
11:11For Arthur, the day the clocks change, it's like crazy Christmas.
11:15What are you looking at?
11:18You said one.
11:20It is one.
11:21The clocks went back.
11:22I put my clock back.
11:23Then why weren't you there?
11:24Well, maybe you didn't put your clock back.
11:26It does it automatically on my phone.
11:28Are you sure?
11:29Yes!
11:29I think so.
11:33Maybe it doesn't.
11:34Well, there you go, clever clocks.
11:36Excuse me, have you got the right time?
11:38Just past twelve.
11:40Twelve?
11:41Yeah.
11:41Clocks went forward.
11:43The clocks went back.
11:45No.
11:45No, they went forward.
11:47But you're even earlier than I am.
11:49How could you think they went forward and still be at midday?
11:51I don't know, mate.
11:52My phone does it automatically.
11:54No, you're both.
11:55How we're going now, it doesn't matter.
11:58Why don't we have to come back this way?
12:00Here comes the cafe.
12:01You don't need an apostrophe in clocks!
12:03It's very quiet.
12:20Where is everyone?
12:23Oh, maybe we're late.
12:27Or early.
12:28I've absolutely no idea what time it is.
12:32I'm going to go and look for somebody.
12:34You stay here in case somebody comes.
12:42Hello?
12:42Hello?
12:42Hello?
12:46Hello?
12:54So, if you'd like to fill it in here, here, and here,
12:58my husband will see you in a moment.
13:00Right.
13:01He shouldn't be long.
13:02Enjoy the lesson.
13:12Flying lesson?
13:24Oh, right, yes.
13:26It's nearly three o'clock now, you know.
13:28Is it?
13:30I'm late then.
13:30I'm so sorry.
13:32Never mind.
13:32You're here now.
13:33Did you forget about the clocks?
13:35Well, I thought my phone would do it automatically,
13:37but maybe it hasn't.
13:39Happens to the best of us.
13:40Yes.
13:41I won't hold it against you.
13:43Oh, phew.
13:44I don't know why they do it, to tell you the truth.
13:46Why do they do it?
13:47Uh, I'm not sure.
13:49Is it because of the daylight?
13:51Oh, well, I suppose we all do need daylight.
13:58Yes.
14:00Well, then, shall we get on with it?
14:02Yes.
14:03Yes, of course.
14:09Oh, God.
14:11Oh, God.
14:40so what's the procedure uh right yes look well the first the first thing that we need to make
14:51sure is is that the brakes are full-on you don't sound very sure what we need to run the engine up
15:01to high revs around 2000 rpm yes and then and then we need to cut each magneto in turn excellent
15:18thank you don't mention it we just need to turn the fuel pump on and we're good to go and what's this
15:31really basic stuff well the basic stuff is important isn't it yes sorry yes of course
15:39um this is a control yoke what does it do i controls altitude pitch and roll very good
15:46right then shall we get up there yes
15:50hello i'm uh you're three o'clock michael baker no sorry you're very early i've got a first
16:09assessment now so i'm early you know the clocks went back yes i do know the clocks can you please
16:16tell me the right time yes it's precisely who's in the warrior someone's in the warrior
16:22stop stop stop that plane come back bring back my aircraft
16:41stop you
16:51you
17:01who's taken my aircraft this is luxury airfield
17:05come in warrior once i-in-five-two trainer
17:08LOCK TREE AIRFIELD 15T TRAINER, DO YOU RECEIVE?
17:26Someone's stolen your plane.
17:28That's extraordinary.
17:34Well, here we are.
17:37Yes. Very exciting.
17:40I thought you'd have been used to it by now.
17:44I suppose.
17:46How long have you been doing it?
17:48Oh, this is my first time.
17:50Really? This is your first lesson?
17:52Yes.
17:53Well, you're doing very well.
17:56I'm very relaxed.
17:59Great.
18:01Turn on the radio. Please turn on the radio.
18:05It's funny. I can't find Arthur.
18:06Who's Arthur?
18:07The one who's doing the lesson.
18:08That's not you.
18:09Me? Oh, no.
18:10No, I've never been one for heights.
18:12Even when my father used to lift me up, I didn't like it if he...
18:15Shut up!
18:16This Arthur could be the one who took up the aircraft.
18:18Is that a possibility?
18:19Arthur? No, no.
18:20Arthur? No, no.
18:21He... Oh, my God. Oh, my God!
18:29This isn't so hard, is it?
18:30No, not really.
18:32Only a bit that worries me is the landing.
18:33Oh, well, don't worry.
18:34I'll let you take care of that.
18:38How do you mean?
18:39I wouldn't like to attempt a landing.
18:41Do you fancy listening to the radio?
18:45OK.
18:48Arthur! Arthur!
18:51Michael?
18:52What's Michael doing on the radio?
18:54Oh, I see.
18:55It's one of those types of radios.
18:57Hello, Michael.
18:59Oh, thank God, Arthur.
19:01Have they let you have a go on the radio?
19:04You've taken up my aircraft.
19:06What are you doing?
19:07Over.
19:08I'm doing a flying lesson.
19:10Who with?
19:11What's your name?
19:12Over.
19:13Jeremy Warriner.
19:14Over.
19:15Jeremy Warriner.
19:16He's not an instructor.
19:18What does that mean?
19:19What did he say?
19:20He said, he's not an instructor.
19:23Who isn't?
19:24Who isn't?
19:26The man you're with.
19:28The man you're with.
19:30That's you.
19:31Well, I know I'm not an instructor.
19:33He said he knows that.
19:35Dear, oh, dear.
19:39Hang on a minute.
19:40What do you mean by, I'm not an instructor?
19:44Well, just, I'm not an instructor.
19:47You're not an instructor?
19:50No.
19:51You told me you were.
19:52No, I didn't.
19:54Aren't you assessing me?
19:57Hold on a second.
19:58There seems to be some confusion here.
20:01He says, he's not an instructor.
20:03He's not an instructor.
20:15Okay.
20:17Arthur, it's Michael here.
20:19Hello again, Michael.
20:20Hello.
20:22Who's actually in charge of the aeroplane?
20:24He is.
20:25No, I'm not.
20:26What do you mean, you're not?
20:28Well, I thought you were.
20:29What, on my first lesson?
20:31I'm not supposed to be having my first assessment.
20:33I'm not allowed to fly.
20:35But I don't know how to fly.
20:37I'm not an instructor.
20:39You're not an instructor.
20:42He's not an instructor.
20:43Oh, dear.
20:45I feel sick.
20:47Are there any air sickness, Bugs?
20:49Look.
20:50Whatever you're doing, keep doing it for the moment
20:52until I can think.
20:54Don't make any sudden moves.
20:56Just circle the airfield if you can.
20:59Can you do that?
21:00Over.
21:06I've been sick on the radio.
21:07This is your first time in a plane.
21:08Flying one, yes.
21:09I've been in one before, of course.
21:10I went to Vollendam.
21:11I won a competition to look round the biscuit factory.
21:13Oh, it was a lovely weekend, that.
21:15I'm still in touch with some of the friends.
21:17Look, James.
21:18Jeremy.
21:19Who is?
21:20I am.
21:22Couldn't have sworn you were called, James.
21:24Tell us, well, what are you going to do?
21:26I'm still in touch with some of the friends.
21:30Look, James.
21:31Jeremy.
21:32Who is?
21:33I am.
21:34Couldn't have sworn you were called, James.
21:35Tell us, well, whatever it is you call yourself.
21:38I don't think we can risk landing the plane
21:40if neither of us knows how to do it.
21:42That's obvious.
21:43What else can we do?
21:44Oh, hang on a second.
21:46Let's have a look.
21:48Everything's going to be all right, James.
21:50I've got a parachute.
21:55Oh, God, he can't die.
21:58He can't die because of me.
22:01I just wanted a night on my own.
22:03Do I have to bring him to everything?
22:06Stop babbling, man.
22:08Are you calling?
22:10Is there someone you can call to make this better?
22:12Emergency services.
22:14Oh, God.
22:16Oh, God, oh, God, oh, God, oh, God, oh, God, oh, God, oh, God.
22:19What on earth is going on?
22:21Two students have taken up an aircraft together.
22:24I'm a nice man.
22:29Jeremy, don't be like that.
22:35I'll give you the parachute.
22:37I'm old.
22:38I've had my fun.
22:39I'm sorry.
22:42No, it's not that.
22:44What?
22:45What's come over you, James?
22:46Jeremy?
22:47James?
22:49Maybe I should just crash the plane.
22:52Maybe I don't deserve to live.
22:54That's a terrible thing to say.
22:56If I couldn't hold onto her, then what's the point?
23:00This isn't about a woman, is it?
23:03Yes.
23:05It's Isabel.
23:07She left me.
23:08She's gone back to France.
23:10I was too scared to go with her.
23:12Jeremy, you may not believe this,
23:15but despite the fact that I don't know how to fly,
23:18I am the perfect person to have in this plane with you.
23:23Why?
23:24Because I'm here to tell you to take this plane and fly it to France.
23:28Don't do what I did.
23:30Don't park your dreams on the runway.
23:32Fly them.
23:33Fly them to Vallandam.
23:35France.
23:36France.
23:37I can't.
23:38God damn it, James.
23:39Jeremy.
23:40Listen to me.
23:41Don't make the same mistake I did.
23:43You'll regret it for the rest of your life.
23:45If you love this girl, go after her and tell her.
23:49It's too late for me, but it's not too late for you.
23:52There's something about a man who flies, James.
23:56Oh, Jeremy.
23:57You can't see that.
24:01But maybe you're right.
24:02You're down tooting I'm right.
24:04Listen to me.
24:05You're the finest pilot I've ever flown with.
24:08So what are you going to do?
24:10Are you going to take this plane and fly it to France?
24:14Yes.
24:16Yes, I am.
24:18I can do it.
24:19Good man.
24:20I'll say goodbye then.
24:22Win the girl you love.
24:24Back off that RAF man.
24:25What?
24:27Never mind.
24:28You'll understand one day.
24:31So long, James or Jeremy.
24:34I'll never forget you.
24:36Arthur.
24:38Arthur, I've got something to say to you.
24:41You have been the closest thing to a father that I've had since Dad died.
24:47And I am proud to call you my friend.
24:53If the worst should happen.
24:58And I'll miss you.
25:02I really will, Arthur.
25:03Will?
25:14You can say something now.
25:19Uh, I'm sorry, but he jumped onto the plane ages ago.
25:27I'm coming, Isabel!
25:29I'm coming!
25:33Ooooah…
25:59Ouhhh…
26:00Woo-hoo-hoo!
26:02Whee!
26:30Arthur?
26:49Oh, my God, it is you!
26:52Eileen, how have you been keeping?
26:56You know, it's kind of fitting you should be here.
26:59Strong!
27:00Only those urchins had finished you off.
27:04They really were urchins?
27:06Oh, Arthur.
27:08And you're a flyer.
27:10Yes, I suppose I am.
27:12And you always liked a man who flied.
27:14Flued.
27:15Flued, didn't you, Eileen?
27:17Yes.
27:18Is that why you never turned up that day?
27:21What day?
27:22What?
27:23The youth club.
27:24I did turn up.
27:26What?
27:27Yes.
27:28It was the day the clocks went back.
27:30I thought that might have confused you.
27:32No, no, no.
27:33I'm very good with things like that.
27:35But I'm glad you're here.
27:37Because I have something I want to tell you, Eileen.
27:40You know, when we first met, I was just a crazy kid in a pair of jeans and a bad attitude.
27:49But obviously I was wearing other clothes as well.
27:53I had, um, a top on.
27:56I was about to fucking get a word in anyway.
27:59But meeting you, Eileen, even for that short time, made me a better man.
28:06Bad timing.
28:08Bad timing.
28:10I'll see you around, Freckles.
28:13Come on, kid.
28:16It's time to go home.
28:18Why are we going this way, Arthur?
28:27The car park's back there.
28:30Then we need to call a taxi.
28:33We're going all the way over to this wood.
28:36Why are you walking like that?
28:39Just these bloody straps.
28:41Squeezing all my landing gear.
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