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00:29Satsang with Mooji
01:09Come on, Alan. You haven't got long.
01:11Come on, Alan. Quickly. You can do it.
01:13Go on, Alan.
01:16Come on, Alan. Faster.
01:18Go on, Alan. Faster.
01:21How much longer? How's it going, Mel?
01:26Go on.
01:27Now.
01:32Stop it, Alan. Please.
01:43Now.
01:45I said now, Pete.
01:53Go on, Alan. Get up there. You can do it.
01:56Go on, Alan. Get up there. Go on, Alan. Faster.
02:00Come on.
02:00I'm coming. I'm coming.
02:02Hurry up, Mel.
02:03I can't hold him any longer.
02:06Come on, Alan. Get up there.
02:07Come on.
02:17I can't hold him.
02:18Stupid, daft, crazy rotten game that was.
02:20Well, you weren't in any danger, were you?
02:22Oh, get lost.
02:30No one's got killed yet, Dave. Have they?
02:47What'll blow up that?
02:48It seemed to stop giving off gas about two days ago.
02:53Seems to take about 12 days.
02:55Why?
02:56Seems to take about 12 days to give off all the gas it can.
03:00Now, we've got 18 cubic feet of manure in there, Hubert.
03:04So what's 12s into 18?
03:0512s into 18...
03:06That's right, one and a half.
03:07Oh, one and a half, yes.
03:08So we've got to pour one and a half cubic feet of manure in there every day, okay?
03:11And that's all.
03:12Do pigs give off that much?
03:14Well, if they don't, we'll have to use car dung or vegetable compost mixed up with water.
03:17I see.
03:21Oi, look out, it's all spilling out this end.
03:24Well, the same amount comes out there as I put in here.
03:27Well, what's the point then?
03:28Well, all that stuff's giving off all the gas.
03:31What?
03:31In there?
03:32Yeah.
03:32That's what takes about 12 days to fill it up.
03:35Then what?
03:36Well, I just have to find some way of drawing it off and build a gas holder.
03:41Just so long as I know we're near when it blows up.
03:50How will you make a gas holder?
03:52Oh, it shouldn't prove too difficult.
03:54And basically it's only one container inverted inside another.
03:57Just feed in the gas underneath and the inner one rises as it fills.
04:00Why don't you just pipe it through the way you need, the workshop?
04:02Well, all Jack needs in there is just a bellows and a charcoal fire.
04:06I don't want to use that for heat or light.
04:08What power?
04:10You can drive a car with methane gas.
04:12Very straight.
04:13Very straight, okay?
04:14First find your car.
04:15Well, I've already started experiments with that old motorbike engine.
04:18The conversion valve isn't difficult.
04:20The problem is the amount of gas you've got to carry to make the whole thing worthwhile.
04:24You don't seriously intend to run a car?
04:26No, of course not.
04:28The only form of transport anyone's going to know around here is the horse.
04:31So why do we need an engine?
04:32Use the water wheel down at the mill.
04:35Yeah, if the kids will let you in there.
04:36What?
04:37Well, they've turned into a sort of club for themselves.
04:39You should go down there sometime.
04:40Oh, we could still use it as a mill.
04:42Yeah, but you can't drive a tractor with a water wheel.
04:46Tractor?
04:46Yeah.
04:47Must be dozens of them rotting away in deserted farmyards.
04:50But you can run on methane gas?
04:52Well, it'll take a bit of experimentation, but I reckon I can...
04:54Oh, wait a minute.
04:55I thought we agreed.
04:56We'd never become dependent on anything that we can't replace ourselves.
04:58Well, I can keep a tractor in working order.
05:00Replace a carburetor?
05:02Gearbox?
05:03Clutch without a factory or machine tools?
05:05You know, if you had the same amount of faith in me as an engineer as I have in you
05:09as a farmer,
05:10you'd realize that by the time I needed a new clutch, I'd be able to make one.
05:13Once more, I'd have trained someone like Alan to make one too.
05:16Well, I still think we can do without.
05:18Of course I can.
05:19What do you think our liberating a tractor would be?
05:22Dig ditches, cut hedges, spread muck.
05:24A man with a tractor can plough a five-acre field in a day.
05:27And if we don't show some positive progress before the winter sets in...
05:33You know, you really should go down to the mill.
05:36The mill? Why?
05:38Well, those two. Alan and Melanie.
05:41They've been down there most of the afternoon.
05:44Well, at least we've achieved some leisure, Greg.
05:46It's Sunday afternoon. Why shouldn't they?
05:49I thought you were hot.
05:51Oh, aren't you?
05:53Let's go for a swim, then.
05:56We could go down by the weir.
05:58It's great down there.
05:59Oh.
06:00I don't fancy rivers.
06:05Where shall we go, then?
06:08South of France.
06:09Spot of water skiing.
06:10Oh, very good.
06:13With your scene, not mine.
06:15The furthest I ever got was South End.
06:18Used to take a couple of mates and their bikes and burn it up all the way to South End.
06:22I can imagine.
06:25Oh, come on.
06:26Let's swim, Mel.
06:28We needn't go down by the weir.
06:29We could go up by the meadow.
06:31We'd be on our own there.
06:37Melanie!
06:41Melanie!
06:42I said I'd help Pep with the cheese.
06:44But it's Sunday.
06:45They don't make us work on Sundays now.
06:49You can't want to go back to the camp, surely.
06:54I can't.
06:56Don't you think?
07:09Now where are you going?
07:10I'm going for a swim.
07:12Alan must be 22 at least.
07:15Climbing a rope to see how strong he is seems incredibly childish to me.
07:19Oh, it's not just climbing it.
07:21You see, the others hold the other end.
07:22And as he climbs up, well, every ten seconds or so.
07:27Yes?
07:28Oh, it's like you say, childish.
07:31Pass me the rennet, will you?
07:34Hey.
07:38Hey.
07:40Mm?
07:41I don't know how to put this, but we live a funny sort of life here and...
07:46Are you regular?
07:48What?
07:49Your monthly's.
07:51Too regular.
07:53Mine's seven weeks late now.
07:55Doesn't necessarily mean anything, does it?
07:58Not necessarily.
08:00Any other symptoms?
08:02Yeah.
08:04So you're having a baby.
08:05It doesn't follow.
08:07I'd see Ruth.
08:09And don't look so alarmed.
08:11I didn't mean to have one.
08:13That's not the sort of thing that we can help nowadays.
08:15Well, we should be able to.
08:18Sally!
08:31Well, it beats me.
08:33I just don't want to.
08:34That's all.
08:36You were wanting me this afternoon when I climbed up that rope in the mill.
08:39I suppose you only did it because you thought it would turn me on.
08:43Going up the hill just now, you wanted me then as well.
08:46Come on, Mel.
08:47We've made love before, lots of times.
08:49It was great for both of us.
08:51Not at this time of the month.
08:52Oh, not that again.
08:54It's all right for you.
08:58Melanie!
08:59I'm not risking it!
09:02But it wouldn't be so bad even if you...
09:04Charles would be knocked out!
09:07Are you sure?
09:08I told her to see Ruth, but I don't think there's very much doubt.
09:13Well, I must say that makes me very happy.
09:16Someone pregnant at last.
09:18I don't think Sally's all that happy about it.
09:20Oh, she's bound to be a bit apprehensive.
09:22But Ruth will soon reassure her.
09:25Sally's the kind of girl whose father would have turned her out of the house if that had happened in
09:28the old days.
09:28Well, it's not the old days. I'll never talk to her.
09:30I'd leave it to Ruth.
09:32Well, they just want to make her see that if she is having a baby, it's something to be proud
09:34of.
09:35I'd still leave it to Ruth.
09:37Oh.
09:39Oh.
09:40Well...
09:42Maybe you're right.
10:03Did he go back to the farm?
10:05I dunno. Left with Mel.
10:08How long have they been gone?
10:10About an hour.
10:12You might find him down by the river.
10:13He wanted her to go for a swim.
10:15That fowl river?
10:16Yeah, that's what Mel said.
10:19He really fancies her, doesn't he?
10:21I wouldn't say that.
10:23He'd probably live with her if he could.
10:25No, Alan wouldn't live with anyone.
10:27He might.
10:29He doesn't need to, does he?
10:31He should be glad, really.
10:33Glad.
10:36Oh.
10:37Not four girls and three blokes.
10:39Whoever started pairing off, that'd leave one of you out, Nicole, for good.
10:43No sign of life anywhere else.
10:45At least not since the last place.
10:47It wouldn't be fair enough ones left out, would it?
10:49I love Alan.
10:53Here, I'll have some knockout.
10:55No, thank you.
10:57Better than the mint tea.
10:59Makes me sick.
11:00So does that mint tea come to that?
11:04Unless it's something else.
11:07What's bothering you, sir?
11:10My mother was 18 hours in labour having me.
11:13My dad often told me as if it was my fault.
11:16And she was in hospital.
11:24Hello.
11:26Hey, you wanna watch it, Sal?
11:27That stuff with Melanie's can put you out, you know.
11:29At least there's something that they can.
11:32Where is Melanie, anyway?
11:34Gone back, why?
11:38Did you have an enjoyable swim together?
11:45No escape from this place, is there?
11:47You just can't move without everybody knowing where you are and what you're doing!
11:59Give me a little of a tank!
12:01You're a right one, aren't you?
12:03What?
12:04You know what you've done to Sal, don't you?
12:06Dad.
12:16Dad.
12:33Dad seems to think you're having a baby.
12:36Is that right?
12:36Is that right?
12:38Looks like it.
12:42It's a turnip, isn't it?
12:45Was that last time when we played the game afterwards?
12:53I mean, is it yours? Of course.
12:56There isn't anyone else.
12:59Cheer up, Sal. Think where a fuss they'll all make of you.
13:03Nobody's had a baby at White Cross since Jenny had hers.
13:07Jenny's married. Never.
13:09Anyway, what's that got to do with it?
13:11Hey, you don't think they're going to chuck you out because you're having a baby, do you?
13:14I love you, Alan.
13:16Well, I'm not going to run away, Sal.
13:18If it's my baby, I'm not going to deny it.
13:21We could live together.
13:23But we all live together. That's the point.
13:28You won't be having it on your own.
13:30Everybody here will look after you.
13:32I don't want to be married to everyone.
13:35We're married.
13:37But she actually wants that.
13:40To Alan. Catch him.
13:41Well, no one here's actually married.
13:43Oh, well, I don't mean she necessarily wants a wedding.
13:46There, I wouldn't put it past her.
13:48Plight theme, my trough for this day forever.
13:51She'd have a white satin dress and bridesmaids if she could.
13:53Oh, well, don't send up marriage too high.
13:55Well, that wasn't a bad idea, a mistake.
13:57Oh, I would have got married even then.
13:59At least that's one thing we've got shot off for good.
14:01Yeah.
14:02Well, I'd marry Jenny.
14:04Well, you might, yes.
14:05Yeah.
14:06Charles and Mary Pepp.
14:07Ceremony in all.
14:09Didn't create a moral precedent which we can't afford just at the present time.
14:12Well, don't talk to me.
14:14Tell Sally.
14:16One had to be married to be allowed to have a baby, Sally.
14:19I don't mean literally married.
14:21Just living together properly like you and Charles.
14:24Even so.
14:26The babies are limited only to the people who've decided to live together permanently.
14:31Well, the way things are here at present,
14:34that puts the entire future of this place onto Jenny and me.
14:37And I don't seem to be able to help very much.
14:40Lucky you.
14:41What are you so afraid of?
14:45I just hope that Alan might have wanted to live with me, that's all.
14:49I know it's hopeless for you.
14:52Has Alan even said he loves you?
14:55Alan doesn't need to love anyone.
14:58Why should she expect me to live with her just because she's having my baby?
15:01Even in the old world they didn't force you to marry.
15:04In the old world she'd have been on the pill.
15:08Not us, Sally.
15:10What surprises me, the more of the girls aren't pregnant.
15:13Well, it's not our fault.
15:15It's not. It's Melanie. She makes the rules.
15:19Honestly, I think she keeps a chart on them all.
15:21And Sally broke the rules.
15:23No, she didn't.
15:24More of a stickler for the safe period than the rest of them.
15:27She was just born unlucky, that's all.
15:30Unlucky?
15:30Sally.
15:32Sally's pregnancy is the best thing that's happened here.
15:35You may go see that.
15:38Who'd want a baby in this dump?
15:40There are other dumps.
15:42Start having kids, you'll never have the chance to find out.
15:45You're going to find out, are you?
15:47Once you've got that motorbike going...
15:50No, no, no. The only thing I'm going to get going is a tractor.
15:53Oh, well, if you can make a tractor, one day you'll be able to make a car.
15:56Yeah, and someone can go off and clear all the roads.
15:58Phil and Judy got away.
16:00Well, I wonder what happened to them.
16:01Oh, probably in Paris by now. Sipping perno on the boule miche.
16:06Paris is just a compost heap.
16:08You can't be sure of that.
16:09Well, of course I'm sure of it.
16:11When we were in London, all we managed to...
16:13Oh, you found 500 people you didn't even know existed.
16:16Yeah, and there was a chap on the radio set who'd been in contact with the rest of the world.
16:19Three or four places, that's all.
16:21The rest of the world.
16:23There are only 12 people left alive in Cairo.
16:26Who'd ever want to go to Cairo?
16:31Does she seriously think that there are still some bright lights burning in the world?
16:35Yeah, well, there might be.
16:36Not a chance.
16:37You can't be sure.
16:38There must be some city somewhere.
16:40South America, Australia, Japan.
16:43There must be somewhere the plague didn't reach.
16:45Never.
16:47You can't really expect us to accept the idea we're going to have to spend the rest of our lives
16:52here.
16:54Good God, does she think if one of them gets pregnant she'll be turned out of doors in disgrace?
17:00Is that why Sally wants to marry Alan?
17:02Because she's afraid of being branded as an unmarried mother.
17:04She just wants someone to look after her.
17:06Someone to depend on and keep her safe.
17:09Safe?
17:10We'll keep her safe.
17:11Did you tell her that?
17:12We have more to be relied on than young Alan.
17:15Perhaps we should have a party.
17:17What?
17:18To celebrate.
17:19To celebrate.
17:19The whole community.
17:23Pet.
17:25That is a very good idea.
17:27Make her see that the baby is something to rejoice in.
17:30A new generation.
17:31Faith in the future.
17:32Ruth!
17:33We're going to have a party.
17:34I've never brought that off.
17:36Sally's pregnancy.
17:37We're not sure she is pregnant yet.
17:39I'd say she's due in six months' time.
17:42She's seen you at last.
17:44I asked her to help me give the calf an injection.
17:46It wasn't too difficult to bring the subject up then.
17:48She'd never have come to me about it cold.
17:50You told her there was nothing to worry about?
17:51Yes, I did.
17:52But I didn't think she believed me.
17:53She told me that her mother was in labor with her 18 hours in a hospital.
17:57So, she's just afraid of the birth then?
18:00No anesthetics to speak of.
18:01No surgery if anything goes wrong.
18:03It's understandable.
18:05Is that all?
18:06All?
18:07You told her the women were having babies thousands of years before anesthetics were even invented?
18:11Natural childbirth.
18:13Like the cow dropping her calf.
18:16How lovely to be a man.
18:18There's no reason to expect any complications.
18:20She's a normal, healthy girl.
18:21Oh, Charlie.
18:23Well, it's your duty as a doctor to reassure her, Ruth.
18:25And I did.
18:25But why should she believe me?
18:27I've never had a baby.
18:29Get Jenny to talk to her.
18:31At least Jenny's been through it.
18:32I'll talk to her.
18:33And we'll have that party.
18:34We need to establish a completely new set of mores if we'd have any future.
18:42There's more in this than Charles understands.
18:45And there's more in Charles than you understand.
18:49It's not Sally's baby he's so anxious to see born.
18:53It's his own.
18:58It's good news, Sally.
19:00I've been waiting for this for months.
19:03Can't you see how important it is?
19:05I can see it's important to me.
19:06No, no, no, no. For all of us.
19:09Here we are. We're what?
19:1128 people scratching out a living on this hillside.
19:16Your baby will give everyone the sense of commitment we seem to lack at the moment.
19:19Not even pets conceived yet.
19:21I'm sure she will soon.
19:22No.
19:23There's nothing to fear, Sally.
19:25I know Ruth may not have a fully equipped obstetrics ward.
19:29But she did go to medical school.
19:31And she learned more there than about natural childbirth than ever they taught in your mother's day.
19:38I suppose so.
19:44I know you want to marry Alan, but...
19:47I know if I did, it'd be very unfair on the other girls.
19:50Well, yes, I'm afraid it would.
19:52You see, amongst 28 people who've come together by chance, well, you never get enough to be able to pair
19:57off together like we used to.
19:59We're such a ragbag.
20:01I mean, look, there's Maggie and Elsie.
20:04Everybody's very fond of them, but no man really fancies them.
20:08Hubert does.
20:10They don't fancy Hubert.
20:12Poor Hubert.
20:14Well, as always Jack, if he's got eyes for anyone, it's for Melanie.
20:18Oh, they've all got their eyes for Melanie.
20:21She won't have any of them.
20:22At least not for keeps.
20:23Melanie wants to go to Paris.
20:26Still dreaming of the gay life she used to have.
20:28Well, there you are, you see.
20:30Many girls are there under 25.
20:32More than there are boys.
20:34And we can't deny them children just because there's no one to live with them permanently.
20:38So that's why we're giving you a party, Sally.
20:41Party?
20:42Yes, with you as guest of honour.
20:44Oh, no, Charles.
20:44No, no, no, no, no.
20:45I'm going to see Daniela about it now.
20:48Well, it's as good an excuse as any for a party, isn't it?
20:51The best.
21:04Ah.
21:05Been a naughty girl, eh?
21:07What?
21:09Got yourself into trouble, I hear.
21:12A party?
21:13With music and dancing, too?
21:15Yeah, well, Greg conveys me time.
21:17And if we have it outside?
21:19On midsummer night.
21:20Why not?
21:20It's only a week away.
21:21Oh, is it so soon?
21:23There's not much time for all to be ready.
21:25The sooner the better, Daniela.
21:26See, see, there's plenty to help.
21:28And if I keep back some of the food and we do extra baking?
21:32A wedding feast.
21:33Ah, well, it's hardly that.
21:36Bride and groom at the head of the table.
21:39And lanterns in the trees when dark it grows.
21:42Will Jack and the others be back?
21:43Yes, I hope so.
21:44Look, uh, Daniela, you do realise they're not getting married.
21:47Si! Married!
21:49And, you know, I was thinking when I went past that house in the tree.
21:53It's not for illness you need it now.
21:55No, it's falling to bits, Daniela.
21:56Oh, yes, but Jack and Albana made it.
21:59That house in the tree is just a place for Alan and Sally and the baby when it comes.
22:06Daniela, they're not going to live together.
22:09You see, we're having this party to show how much we all rejoice in the birth of the baby.
22:13Now, we need babies, don't we, Bambini?
22:15Yes, well, we want to show that every girl living here has the right to have a baby whether she
22:21lives with the father or not.
22:23With the father?
22:24Oh, that little hussy go boy just now. Got one in the oven, ain't she?
22:29Alan, that is I bet. That lad ought to be gelded.
22:39I ain't got enough to do those kids, have they?
22:43Little slut.
22:45I really don't think it's necessary, Sally.
22:48I only examined you the day before yesterday.
22:50I don't want you to examine me, Ruth.
22:53I want you to get rid of it for me.
22:56About six months, Ruth says.
22:58So, December?
22:58Hmm. Right about Christmas.
23:02Well, you can see that she gets all the vitamins she needs.
23:05At least living this sort of life, mother and child should be healthy.
23:07It's a psychological side that worries me.
23:09Ah, a social side, too.
23:11Hubert plays the outraged citizen every time he sees her.
23:13She takes no notice of that, I hope.
23:16This party you're giving, Daniella seems to see it as some kind of wedding breakfast.
23:21Well, it's bound to take a bit of time for people like Hubert to adjust.
23:24It's the attitude of the young that worries me.
23:28Well, they don't expect us to get married, do they?
23:31Oh, no, no.
23:32Well, thanks to Melanie, they seem to think that getting pregnant is somehow letting the side down.
23:36And that's where you can help, Jenny.
23:38You make them see what a good thing it is to have a baby.
23:41I believe it from you, you're the only one here that's had one.
23:46Well, see you.
23:48Uh, I'm not so sure.
23:52Okay.
23:53Please.
23:55You all right?
23:57An abortion.
24:00She asked for that?
24:02Yes.
24:04What did you tell her?
24:05That I didn't recommend it.
24:08On medical grounds.
24:10And on other grounds, too, I should imagine.
24:14She told me it was time I invented an efficient contraceptive.
24:18Well, I have tried.
24:21Melanie's always on at me.
24:22So are the other women.
24:23I didn't know this.
24:25It's nothing to do with you.
24:27What, that you're putting your mind to thinking of ways to stop women from having babies?
24:31Have you forgotten there are hardly any people in the world?
24:33It took women thousands of years to achieve the opportunity not to conceive against their will.
24:38And now, when they finally get that freedom...
24:40...to let the world die out?
24:42One of the worst effects of the plague, to my mind, is that women are just going to be child
24:46bearers again.
24:47Not just.
24:48You'll see how it turns out.
24:49Well, I don't intend to help put women back into the dark ages again just because the world needs people.
24:55Not even for love, not even for Paul would I risk it.
24:59A child is not a threat.
25:02Look, if Sally doesn't want to bring up her baby, then nobody is going to force her to.
25:07Her freedom is not in jeopardy. The community will rear her child if she wants it to.
25:11In care, as they used to call it.
25:13Don't be ridiculous.
25:15There's nothing of charity in the idea of the kibbutz.
25:20Look, can't you see that women will be more liberated than they ever were before they were on the pill?
25:25You can't... you can't sublimate a natural instinct, Ruth.
25:29Don't worry about me.
25:31You can still be a mother and a doctor.
25:33I am not frustrated. I am fulfilled.
25:37But don't look so surprised.
25:39The only known doctor. Of course I'm fulfilled. So are you.
25:42I am hardly relevant to this argument.
25:46Before the plague, your ideas of self-sufficiency made you a crank in the eyes of the supermarket society.
25:51But now you've come into your own.
25:54The death of the world has given you a much happier life than you ever had before.
25:59Here, you're king.
26:01But what about Melanie?
26:03Living with her film director boyfriend in Saint-Germain-des-Prés.
26:07The Lamborghini down the autoroute to Cannes for the weekend.
26:10Movies and parties, shops and clothes.
26:13The roads.
26:14A world you despise, but she reveled in.
26:17No wonder she's digging her heels in.
26:19The most you've got to offer is a harvest supper once a year and motherhood.
26:23She's even younger than I am.
26:25Two or three good years to look back on.
26:27You had nearly half your life. All right for some, wasn't it?
26:34What on earth is all that about?
26:37She means to live as a nun.
26:40What?
26:42An attractive young woman like Ruth.
26:45Repressing all her natural instincts for her work. It's absurd.
26:49She can leave her full life here as a woman and still be a damn good doctor.
26:52There must be a man for her pet.
26:56Perhaps you.
26:58What?
27:00You might be more fortunate with her.
27:15All right, Paul, I'm coming.
27:33Lizzie's still asleep.
27:36That's good.
27:38It's only thunder, isn't it?
27:40Mm-hmm.
27:41Lizzie might be frightened if she wakes.
27:44Well, she won't be if you tell her that it's just thunder, will she?
27:47Now, go on. Hop it. Get back to bed.
27:49All right. I'll tell her. Just thunder.
27:52Just thunder.
28:00That was a tree coming down just now.
28:02Mm-hmm.
28:04It could have come down on the house.
28:06I hate being so close to the woods.
28:09It's not being struck by lightning or fell by trees, that's the worries.
28:12The rain's gonna do to the hay.
28:14Yeah, I suppose we have rain like this in August.
28:17I suppose the harvest is washed up as well.
28:18Well, just suppose that you stop supposing.
28:21Hmm.
28:23And I think of all that's growing out there.
28:25All that we've planted and worked on.
28:28And today it would only take two weeks' heavy rain at harvest time.
28:32Well, I just have to start all over again.
28:35Yes.
28:38And Charles expects me to tell Sally it's a good thing to have a baby.
28:53Ah.
28:55Well, we needed rain.
28:57Not all at once.
28:59What's the like in the valley?
29:01Oh, the river broke its banks.
29:02Oh, it flooded the valley.
29:03Yeah, well, it's drying up.
29:05Well, at least the hay will dry out.
29:06Yeah, if we turn it enough, it doesn't rain anymore.
29:09Well, it could have been worse, Greg.
29:12Charles?
29:13Yeah.
29:15I wouldn't rely on Jenny to help Sally over our hang-ups.
29:19She was wishing last night that she didn't have a child of her own.
29:22Children are our only real hope.
29:24Proof that we mean to go on.
29:26Give us the roots we need.
29:28Yeah, but if you're going to put down roots,
29:29you've got to be sure of the ground first.
29:31Well, unless we do put them down, we never shall be.
29:34Unless we commit ourselves here,
29:36we'll always be just squatters whatever we grow.
29:38Well, Alan and Melanie seem to think there's always something better to be had on the other side of the
29:42hill.
29:43Yeah, grass always greener.
29:44We'll never settle here.
29:46Move on like gypsies?
29:47Yeah, like Mark Carter.
29:50Well, we're giving that party tonight for Sally's baby.
29:55Let's hope that gives us a sense of commitment.
30:13All right, then, all right.
30:15Well, if she doesn't want to say anything, then I will.
30:17Oh, I knew he would. He'd like to hear himself talk.
30:20You know, we've lost half the hay, and the barley is under water.
30:29Ruth tells me that the horse is going lame,
30:32and Jack and the others are still not yet back from getting the salt that we so desperately need.
30:39But Sally...
30:41Sally is going to have a baby.
30:43And that more than makes up for the rest of it.
30:46A brother or a sister for baby Paul?
30:48For he?
30:49Yes, and for John, Lizzie, Norma, Yara.
30:52Oh, she's not their mother too, is she?
30:54Well, you're the father, Hubert.
30:55I am not the father.
30:56Yes, you are, Hubert.
30:57You see, we're all of us, all of us mothers and fathers.
31:00It doesn't matter a hoot about the hay or the barley, they're simply setbacks.
31:05Look.
31:07This is our land.
31:09It's fertile for us to sow at the harvest.
31:13It's capable of infinite prosperity,
31:16as long as we ensure that there are enough of us to work it.
31:21We have a stake in the future.
31:23And Sally's baby, remember, like Jenny's Paul,
31:25will have no bitter memories of the old world to mar the excitement of the new one.
31:30And so for them, and for these, and for the others yet to be born,
31:35we have to make the world good, for them to make it better.
31:40So Greg, give us a song.
31:43We've got something to celebrate.
31:46The future.
31:47The future!
31:50Well, and who would like some more pie?
31:52I kept one back in the kitchen for the green days.
31:55You both?
31:56Wouldn't say now.
31:58No, do not.
31:59I'd like some more pie, please. Not some more pie.
32:02Where you put it all, young men, I don't know.
32:04Thank you very much.
32:05Sally!
32:06Will you be having some more pie?
32:08No, thank you.
32:10You must be eating for two now, remember?
32:13What I really would like is an orange.
32:16I've got this crazy-feeling frory.
32:18We will not see those again.
32:20Oh, I don't know.
32:20There must be some somewhere in Spain.
32:23Wild ones.
32:24And that's not so far away.
32:26We could fetch them together when Greg's fixed the motorbike.
32:29Well, we can hardly go by tractor.
32:33Loving and living.
32:36Like birds in the trees, a bees in the honey-hands.
32:41Your favorite.
32:42Feel her beautiful.
32:43She's running a temperature.
32:45Why is nothing serious?
32:46Well, it could be.
32:48Well, I'd put her to bed if I were you.
32:51Come on, Izzy. Let's tuck you in.
32:54You too, John. Bedtime. Sorry.
32:56I'm having some more pie.
32:57Yeah, you'll make yourself sick. Come on.
32:59Not yet.
33:02Norbler and Yara aren't going to bed yet.
33:08I told you to be all right, didn't I, Sal?
33:11Eh?
33:18He should have stood by what he'd done, that's what I say.
33:21Made an honest woman off you.
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