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00:00THE END
01:37Come on, Geraldine.
01:38Get a move on.
02:05Where did it come from?
02:07Did you see?
02:14Shouldn't we go after it?
02:15It must be miles away.
02:17Well, you can see for miles on that hill.
02:19See where it's going, anyway.
02:20I'll get the horses.
02:40Tell Charles.
02:45Hey!
02:49Oh, we'll never catch up with you.
02:53Come on.
02:54Come on.
03:04There it is.
03:15I didn't see it.
03:17Nor did we.
03:17Newbert says Greg and Jenny have written off after it.
03:20What kind of balloon?
03:22Hot air, I imagine.
03:24What heats it?
03:24Gas?
03:25Methane.
03:26I'll bet Greg wishes he thought of that.
03:55I'll bet Greg wishes he thought of that.
03:59Now I know what it's like on a desert island.
04:01See a ship pass by that doesn't see you.
04:06Jenny! Greg!
04:11Well, we might as well go home.
04:29You think it even saw us?
04:32We ought to keep a fire going, day and night, on top of that hill.
04:38What for?
04:40So anything like that balloon could spot us.
04:44You all feel you need to be rescued.
04:47We were just wondering about the balloon. You can't expect us not to wonder about it.
04:58Come on, Melanie. There's miles to go home yet.
05:01Why are all the sheep up here when all the best pastures down in the valley?
05:05Oh, come on, Mel.
05:06She's right. Something must have frightened them.
05:12Will you shut the gate for me, Alan?
05:19Look! There, that splash of red in the trees.
05:23Here's the balloon!
05:25Come on, Melanie. Get up here.
05:28Come on. That's it.
05:48Come on.
06:00Come on.
06:01Quick, give me a hand to get this bloke down.
06:08Look, don't do that. You're tightening it.
06:10Come on.
06:28Grab hold of his feet.
06:29Then just stand by to catch him around and do this.
06:33Here he comes.
06:33Yeah. We got him.
06:34Got him?
06:35Yeah.
06:36It's empty.
06:37Okay. Let him go now.
06:40Okay. Easy.
06:47Put him down just here.
06:48All right.
06:52There could still be a chance.
06:55Never.
06:56Come on, get a hold of him under here.
06:59Come on.
06:59Come on.
07:13Shall I get Ruth?
07:14Nah, it'll take too long.
07:16Get her, please.
07:40What can I help?
07:42Only has to be a box, doesn't it?
07:45No call for anything fancy.
07:46I'd have thought we could've just wrapped him in something.
07:49He deserves more than that.
07:51Whoever he was.
07:54Did he run out of gas?
07:55Yeah, his container's more than half full.
07:57Perhaps it jammed in some way.
07:58The air in the balloon cooled down,
08:00so he tried to hot it up by lighting the gas jet,
08:03but it didn't work.
08:03No, it works all right.
08:05Oh, what was in the knapsack?
08:07Oh, yes, Alan brought it back. It's in the kitchen.
08:13Well, what did he die of?
08:15A broken neck.
08:16So you couldn't have saved him any more than I could.
08:19Here we are.
08:20There's probably a lot of other things scattered in the wood.
08:24A camera.
08:25Well, what use is that?
08:26You can't process film any more, surely?
08:28Perhaps you could where he came from.
08:30What else is there?
08:34What else is there?
08:44They weren't doing too badly where he came from.
08:46Bread, cheese, pigeon.
08:49Partridge, I think.
08:50Cold partridge.
08:51Mm, and honey.
08:52With some nutty flavour in it.
08:54Well, he can't have come very far if he wasn't even hungry.
08:56Well, he could have set out with a lot more than this.
08:58I can't believe he had other napsacks. That must have been packed only this morning.
09:02How far can you come in a balloon in one day?
09:04Well, there hasn't been much wind.
09:06Which direction was the wind blowing?
09:08It changed to the north this morning, didn't it?
09:10Well, if he left at dawn this morning.
09:13No, you can't possibly work it out.
09:18Chipping Camden's not north, is it?
09:20What?
09:22It's a picture postcard of Chipping Camden in the Cotswolds.
09:25Where did you find that?
09:26In his hip pocket.
09:27Look, there's a sketch map on the back.
09:29Of where he lives?
09:30No.
09:31It's of us.
09:34Look, Greg, there's...
09:36There's the bridge and the canal.
09:38And if that is north, as he says it is, then...
09:40That scribble over there must be the wood.
09:42Yes, and those blocks he's drawn on the farm.
09:44What's that word he's written here? S-A-U, is it?
09:47Do you mean he's up there making a sketch of us when he's about to crash?
09:49Oh, he was about to land.
09:52Don't you see? He was coming down to talk to us.
09:54He misjudged it, hit the trees, got tangled up in the wires.
09:58Oh, we ought to find out where he came from, Greg.
10:01Chipping Camden?
10:02Well, the postcard's no proof of that.
10:04Oh, look, it's an aerial view.
10:07Chipping Camden and the Cotswolds from the air.
10:09The way it would look from a balloon.
10:11So that he could recognise it on the way back.
10:14He must have had a compass.
10:16And a map.
10:17And a pencil to have drawn that sketch.
10:19Yeah, well, we'd better search the woods.
10:21We'd better go to Chipping Camden.
10:23Look, it means nothing, Melanie.
10:25It's chestnut, honey. That's what it is.
10:27It's a speciality of the Cotswolds.
10:28Oh, look, if Alan and I took the horses, we could be there in two days.
10:43You'd better take this with you.
10:45We've enough to carry.
10:46You might need it.
10:47No.
10:48We'll take it.
10:49Thanks, Jack.
10:51Take care.
10:52Jump.
11:00If you don't make contact, come back at once.
11:02It's not worth too much time.
11:04Oh, he had a camera, methane gas, and a proper pressurised container.
11:08And a hot air balloon.
11:10And that's not worth too much trouble.
11:12I've always had a feeling we were wrong to give up.
11:18What do you mean, give up?
11:21All this back to the land.
11:23When there's still some civilisation left.
11:25You think we're not civilised?
11:31Good luck.
11:33It's a bit of an adventure for them, anyway.
11:35Oh, Melanie sees more in it than that.
11:38Clutching at straws.
11:39Oh, she's right about that camera.
11:41It must mean something.
11:43I doubt if a camera and a hot air balloon are enough to keep the old world going.
11:47Let alone picture postcards.
12:02Well, I hope they won't be disappointed.
12:09Right, they're bound to find out something.
12:13Yeah, but to have flown west from Gloucestershire in a balloon in less than a day when the wind's from
12:18the north.
12:21Well, I don't see how it's possible.
12:25Now, Cubot, we haven't got that safely down out of the tree to have you rip it up now.
12:30Now, just take it gently.
12:32Brad, I've found something.
12:34What?
12:35These.
12:37Well done, Lizzie.
12:38Where'd you get them?
12:39In the wood.
12:41You show me the exact spot.
12:43John's at the place.
12:44I told him not to move.
12:49John!
12:52John!
12:54You frightened me!
12:55I told you to stay put!
12:57I was chasing a rabbit and you frightened it when you shouted!
13:00John, where did you find these binoculars?
13:02By that tree.
13:03Are you sure?
13:04I think so.
13:05Now, it's very important.
13:06We're going to try and work out which direction the balloon came in so that we can go and look
13:09for other things.
13:11Stalking a silly rabbit!
13:12If I hadn't have been, I wouldn't have found the map!
13:15What map?
13:17Over here.
13:27Is it the whole world?
13:29No.
13:30But it's the whole of England.
13:34What are these words he's written round the edge?
13:36I can't make them out at all.
13:39Well, it looks like H, V, E or something.
13:42Here it is again, down here.
13:44Here.
13:44And then lines from each word to different places on the map.
13:48It must refer to something he's seen.
13:50Do you think it's code?
13:52Why's it put a ring round Gloucester?
13:53I guess there's one round Hereford, too.
13:55He just found his case.
13:56Look.
13:57A whole lot more picture postcards.
13:59Your aerial views?
14:00Yeah.
14:01And his notebook.
14:03Make any sense of that?
14:05Oh, it's not English.
14:06No, he couldn't even speak English.
14:08There's a dictionary.
14:09See?
14:10Norge.
14:11Norwegian.
14:13He'd come all the way from Norway.
14:15In a balloon.
14:17I'll get Charles.
14:23Was the balloon damaged?
14:25Why?
14:25You thinking of going somewhere?
14:26No, I just don't think anything's going to become of Greg's experiments with that motorbike engine.
14:31If we had a balloon, we could go anywhere.
14:33It only needs a cylinder of gas to keep it up.
14:37Well, which way?
14:39Left, has to be.
14:40We'll cross the Y at the Ford.
14:41Find somewhere to camp.
14:43Should be in the Cotswolds this time tomorrow.
14:45Looks like Sarker, Sacker.
14:48No, no, that's not an A.
14:49That's a U.
14:50It's Sucker.
14:51Hmm, here it is again.
14:52Whatever it was.
14:53You saw it in Lincolnshire.
14:54Yes, and here, just south of Peterborough.
14:56Sugar.
14:57Sugar beet.
14:58Well, he must have landed to have spotted that.
15:00You can't notice that from the air.
15:01What's that word?
15:03Cvague?
15:03Well, whatever it is, he found it not far from us, just northwest of Hereford.
15:07And here, around Northampton, too.
15:08Uh, cvague means cattle.
15:11Huh.
15:12And there's something else near Northampton.
15:14Garveri, garveri, g-a-r-v-e-r-i.
15:17And a line from that word goes to Hereford, too.
15:19Um, tannery.
15:22There's something marked here at Whitney.
15:24Looks like eve.
15:26No, no, it's veber.
15:27V-e-b-e-r.
15:29What's this word here, pran?
15:30Um, there's a line from it that runs to somewhere on the Thames.
15:33And to the Severn, too.
15:36V-e-ver, uh, weaver.
15:38At Whitney, did you say?
15:39Well, that's what it points to.
15:40Well, they used to make blankets at Whitney.
15:42From Cotswold Wool.
15:43That's the sheep at Chipping Camden.
15:47Weavers, Whitney, wool at Chipping Camden.
15:50I wonder if they even knew about each other.
15:51Yeah, you've got the same pattern around Hereford, haven't you?
15:53You've got cattle to the north, tannery to the west.
15:55Wait a minute.
15:56There's something in his notebook about Hereford.
15:58Um, yeah.
16:00Hereford, kveg.
16:01Kettle.
16:02Garveri.
16:03Tannery.
16:04Liar.
16:04What's that mean?
16:05Leather.
16:06Must to be.
16:06And then Chepstow and an arrow sign to Gloucester.
16:11By boat.
16:12That's what pram means.
16:13It muster.
16:14Something he saw at Chepstow.
16:16So that's why Gloucester's got a ring round it.
16:19It connects by water with half the Midlands.
16:22Up seven to Shopshire and the Abel to Warwick.
16:25Yeah, down to Bristol.
16:26And if the canals are navigable, you can get right the way down to the Thames.
16:29Barge.
16:30Pram means barge.
16:31He saw barges at Chepstow.
16:32Hides into leather to Chepstow, then by barge up the seven to Gloucester.
16:36Yeah, with the trade for wool?
16:37Or wool and cloth.
16:39One thing about him.
16:41He wasn't exactly sold on self-sufficiency, was he?
16:43You know, he could easily have flown from Hereford in a balloon in a day.
16:47Yes.
16:48And that's not the way Alan and Melanie are headed.
16:59That's it.
17:00Yeah, but hang about a bit.
17:01The natives might not be friendly.
17:03They'd hardly be drawing attention to themselves by lighting a fire if they meant it's any harm.
17:08Come on.
17:08Maybe you're all right.
17:09Come on.
17:22It's a funny place to keep a fire.
17:25Must be a beacon.
17:27There's the kindling.
17:27A smoke like this could be seen 50 miles away from a balloon.
17:32Drop that gun!
17:34Go on, drop it!
17:39Now get out.
17:52You know, there are a couple of references here that need more than a dictionary to decipher.
17:56It seems to be about some kind of machinery.
17:58Sort of industrial plant.
17:59In England?
17:59No, no, no.
18:00I think it's something in Norway.
18:01There's a reference here to Bergen.
18:03What I suppose can only mean hydroelectric power.
18:06I suppose it would, wouldn't it, in Norway?
18:08With iron ore on the spot as well.
18:11Perhaps Melanie was right.
18:13About what?
18:14Well, there's more going on there than we thought.
18:16They've got industry in Bergen.
18:17It'd make me a pair of shoes.
18:19But just think of it.
18:20It does exist over there in Bergen.
18:22You'd like to get to it, wouldn't you?
18:27Well, just a couple of notes on her language I don't even understand.
18:31Enough to excite you, though?
18:32But of course it does.
18:33It might be the breakthrough we never thought possible.
18:36Yes, but you should be thinking about what we need here.
18:39Glue, for instance.
18:40This gum from a horse's hooves is no use at all.
18:43And find a way to make needles.
18:46Lizzie lost one the other day.
18:47The bodkin.
18:47The sharp one.
18:49I spent hours looking for it.
18:51Without needles, we can't mend clothes, let alone shoes.
18:54And you talk about industry in Norway.
18:56Yeah, well, that might be the only way you ever get your needles.
18:59Oh, dreams.
19:00Far less of a dream than imagining that I'm ever going to be able to make them.
19:03Well, if you can run a tractor off methane gas...
19:05But I can't yet.
19:07I'm beginning to doubt if I ever will.
19:09I haven't got the machinery, the equipment.
19:12I need you here, Greg.
19:18Oh, I wish we'd never seen that balloon.
19:25Now turn out your pockets.
19:28What do you think we carry?
19:29Bombs?
19:31Well, you never know these days.
19:42Where did you get that postcard?
19:44Have you seen it before?
19:47You've met Lars?
19:50Where is he?
19:50I've been waiting for him.
19:52He's dead.
19:53His balloon is a tree when he was trying to land near our place.
19:57Is that why you lit the fire on the hill, to warn him?
20:03You, uh, you'd better have some food.
20:06You're likely hungry.
20:11When was he here?
20:14What happened to the girl?
20:16Agnes?
20:17There was no girl.
20:20He had his daughter with him.
20:42There was no girl.
21:21He had his daughter with him.
21:21I saw him.
21:24Just dropped out of the sky like something from another world.
21:28Yeah, that's what we thought.
21:29You come from Norway, she says.
21:32No.
21:33Lars couldn't speak a word of English.
21:34That's why he brought his daughter with him, to interpret.
21:38It's you all right, is it?
21:40Yeah, it's great.
21:42I'm no cook.
21:43Just stew up anything I can get.
21:45Carrot, potatoes, rabbit.
21:47I once got a deer with that gun, but didn't know how to preserve it,
21:50so most of it went off.
21:52Did they fly in the balloon all the way from Norway?
21:54No, they come by boat, sailing boat.
21:56They've been to Denmark before that,
21:58but they didn't find anyone living there.
22:00All the cattle dead, just rotten carcasses.
22:03Is it food they want then?
22:04Yeah, but nothing to live on in Norway.
22:07All snow and mountains and the like.
22:09There's agriculture too.
22:10Only to the south, and all left to rot.
22:13She reckoned there was less than a hundred folk left alive in the whole country.
22:16Well, it's not surprising, isn't it?
22:18Not many people there to start with, were there?
22:19About two million, actually.
22:22As much as that?
22:23Well, we had nearly sixty million.
22:25Oh.
22:26So they'd count on finding more survivors here, more going on?
22:29Yeah, but not enough to help the Norwegians, even if there are only a hundred of them.
22:33He seemed to think they could somehow help us.
22:35Help us?
22:36Oh.
22:36Well, they've flown over most of the Midlands in that balloon.
22:39Where did they get it?
22:40Somewhere near Peterborough, some flying club.
22:42Gas cylinders too.
22:43It was Agnes' idea.
22:44See everything from the air, she said.
22:47Settlements, crops, boats, what roads and tracks were being used.
22:50Got to join up, she said.
22:52And what was in it for them?
22:53Well, it seems they got this factory at, er...
22:56Oh dear, where was it?
22:58Skageren.
22:59That's where they come from.
23:00Near Bergen.
23:01Factory?
23:01Yeah.
23:02All the power they need.
23:03From the dams.
23:04Electricity.
23:05But not enough skilled men left to get it working.
23:31Oh.
24:28Oh, my God.
24:43Now, the first thing to do is to find out how much cattle there is around Hereford
24:47and what the breeding possibilities are.
24:49So, if this thing's going to work, we've got to be able to provide enough meat and leather
24:53for everyone between here and the Midlands.
24:54The meat will have to be salted.
24:56Well, Cheshire's an area.
24:57I mean, I met someone up there myself who could probably get an efficient salting plant going.
25:02Have to be more than one tannery.
25:04Perhaps that tannery spotted near Coventry could be persuaded to move.
25:07Direction of labour, that's called.
25:09What?
25:10Need a labour force at Chepstow to handle those barges.
25:13Transport's the key to the whole thing.
25:14Jack might be interested in that.
25:16He used to be a docker.
25:17He's a carpenter and blacksmith now.
25:18But only because we don't need dockers here.
25:21But everyone should do what their best, then, but in the right place.
25:23Jack doesn't want to be a docker again.
25:25It wouldn't just be loading and unloading.
25:27He could organise the entire shipping operation between Chepstow and Gloucester.
25:31And how would we manage here without him?
25:34There's nothing that Jack does here that someone else can't learn to do.
25:38Look, it's what I've always talked about, Pat.
25:40The need to specialise, trade, federate.
25:42With one or two local communities, perhaps, but nothing on this level.
25:46Alan and Melody are back.
25:49They're in the yard with Jack.
25:51Already?
25:52They can't have got if the Cots wasn't back in two days, can they?
26:02You coming?
26:03I'm busy.
26:10We met a blacksmith the other side of Ross.
26:12He said the man in the balloon had his daughter with him.
26:15Daughter?
26:16Yeah.
26:17That's why we came back.
26:18Jack, apparently they went north about a fortnight ago.
26:21And if she's still up there, she must be wondering what became of her father.
26:25We ought to go and look for her.
26:27Well, let's see what you found out first.
26:28Come on, you must be starving.
26:30He wants to go to Norway.
26:32Greg?
26:33I'm sure of it.
26:35Well, it's ridiculous, isn't it?
26:37The way they were talking just now, you'd think we'd been just squatting here.
26:42Specialise, federate.
26:44Jack to go to Chepstow and now Greg to Norway.
26:46We must stop it, pet.
26:48You know, we were right.
26:49They have got industry in Norway.
26:51Hydroelectric power, machinery, but they haven't got enough food.
26:53That's what that chap came here for.
26:55To trade our food for whatever they can manufacture.
26:57I'm only guessing.
26:58I'm afraid old Seth wasn't very coherent.
27:00Well, it fits in with his notes.
27:01Look, you found all this in the woods after you'd gone.
27:04Sorry.
27:06He seems to have done a survey of all the country between here and Grimsby.
27:10And look, this stuff that he found growing in Lincolnshire is sugarbeet.
27:13Yeah, it's not just food they want in Norway, though.
27:16Well, what else?
27:17Seth says they haven't got enough skilled men to get this plant of theirs working.
27:21What sort of skilled men do they need?
27:24We'll have to find that girl to know that.
27:26Yes, we really must go and look for her child.
27:28All right, well, let's hear the whole story first.
27:30Now, who was this blacksmith?
27:32Greg, are you going to eat with us?
27:33There's plenty.
27:35Oh, Jenny?
27:37Well, the children have had theirs.
27:38They score.
27:40Hey!
27:42You two weren't gone long.
27:43What happened?
27:43We're just about to hear.
27:44Look, they didn't cross the North Sea in that balloon, did they?
27:46All that distance.
27:47There's a reference in the notes here that there's some sort of fishing boat still up here at Grimsby.
28:05I'm on the path.
28:08Wait.
28:09Wait for me.
28:12Where is it I am?
28:15For two days I meet no one.
28:18I'm looking for my father.
28:20He came this way in a big balloon in the sky.
28:23Have you seen him?
28:25He's dead, the bloke in the balloon.
28:26It come down in the trees.
28:27The cords went round his neck and...
28:30Here.
28:31Who did you say you were?
28:35He's dead.
28:40What's a lass like you doing running wild in the woods?
28:46Oh, come on.
28:48There's no sense in blubbering there.
28:50Let me take your bag.
28:52You come along and me.
28:54Here.
28:56When did you last have something to eat?
28:59Come on.
29:01Whether we find the girl or not, we've still got to get word to Norway.
29:05And the responsibility's on us now.
29:07For what?
29:08To make it all work.
29:09Make what work?
29:10Link up the whole country?
29:12Trade with Norway?
29:13Who do you think you are?
29:15How exactly can you send word, anyway?
29:17Smoke signal?
29:18Carrier pigeon?
29:19Someone has to go there, Ruth.
29:21Don't talk such rubbish, Charles.
29:23Look, if he can come all the way to us, Jenny, there's no reason why...
29:25He had a balloon.
29:26Yeah, well, we've got it now.
29:27And it's mended.
29:28Greg.
29:29It wouldn't be impossible to learn to fly.
29:32It's certainly not if we find that girl.
29:34We've got the equipment, the gas on the map.
29:36You can't go to Norway, Greg.
29:39Look, it doesn't have to be Greg.
29:41It could be Alan.
29:42Or even me.
29:42I'd like to go.
29:43No, they need weavers on the Cotswolds, Melanie.
29:45That's where you should be.
29:46But in Norway, they need technicians.
29:48Yes, but you were a civil engineer.
29:50Roads and bridges.
29:51I don't understand.
29:53You want Jack to go to Chepstow, Melanie to the Cotswolds, you off to Norway?
29:57Where am I to be dispatched to?
29:58Oh, come on, Pess.
29:59No.
30:00We have our own place here.
30:02We've made it work.
30:03We dug the earth, we've grown our own food, and we're self-sufficient.
30:06With a little left over to give ourselves time to enjoy it.
30:09Everyone contributes, plays his own part.
30:11I'm all right, Jack.
30:12That's what they used to call that attitude.
30:14Well, we'll not be all right, Jack, if you and Charlie have your way.
30:18You're breaking the place up.
30:19No one's trying to break the place up, Pat.
30:21They are.
30:23Specialize.
30:23It's not the first time you've heard Charles say that.
30:25It's the first time I've realized that he meant to take it this far.
30:29Once you specialize, you become dependent on others, and if they let you down, you've had it.
30:34Well, that's a risk we have to take if there's to be any progress.
30:36Progress?
30:37I'm not saying there is anything in this link-up with Norway.
30:39Not for us.
30:40We must be a thousand miles from Bergen, at least.
30:42If he can come all the way to us and lose his life in the process, we...
30:45I agree.
30:46We have to get word back and try to make contact with the communities he found.
30:50But what do they amount to?
30:51A few jottings in a notebook made at random from a balloon.
30:54We don't even know how long ago.
30:55But you can't let it go.
30:57It's a lifeline.
30:58We don't need...
30:59Well, they might.
30:59Yes, we do.
31:01We've got to do more than just subsist, Pet.
31:03We're doing a lot more than just subsisting.
31:05I agree.
31:05We've got to make contact with other communities, maybe even abroad.
31:09What is it, Hubert?
31:11Well, we found a lass running wild in the woods.
31:14Then he passed out with me, she did.
31:16She said that bloke in the balloon was her father.
31:18Where is she?
31:20She wanted to see what we'd done with him.
31:21So we showed her.
31:24Ruth said nothing could be done.
31:27Broken neck, she said.
31:29Ruth, our doctor.
31:32Oh, it's Charles.
31:36This is Agnes.
31:40Hello, Agnes.
31:42My name is Charles and this is Melanie.
31:45We were up at Hereford.
31:48Where?
31:48Here is it.
31:50Carl's and beef kettle up there.
31:52But they were killing them one by one to live on.
31:55We thought she might have a ball so they could breed.
31:59You knew about us? How?
32:00Well, someone we met showed us where you were on the map.
32:04But the wind was never right.
32:06Then one day it was.
32:09Only I wasn't there.
32:11My father didn't want to wait for fear changed.
32:14So he came on his own.
32:18They said he should have reached you in four or five hours.
32:22I came to look for him.
32:24But I lost my map.
32:29We'll come up to the house, Agnes.
32:30You'll need food and rest.
32:32We can talk later.
32:50He wasn't a religious man.
32:57Aren't you coming?
32:59Where?
33:00I want to hear what Agnes has to say.
33:02Well, I thought we were going to leave her alone for a bit.
33:05Oh, just how heartless can you and Charles be?
33:07Have you no idea what she's been through?
33:09Come on, she's the one who wants to talk.
33:11She's been going around the farm with Hubert for an hour.
33:13She's a pretty tough nut.
33:15Hmm.
33:16Unlike me, I suppose.
33:18What does that mean?
33:19I couldn't just carry on if anything happened to you.
33:22Well, nothing's going to happen to me.
33:24Well, that time you were in London, you have no idea what it was like.
33:27It's not just me, there's Paul.
33:30Not to mention John and Lizzie.
33:32I know they're not really our children, but...
33:33Of course they are.
33:35They're our adopted children.
33:36Well, we never adopted them.
33:37They just attached themselves to us.
33:40You regret it?
33:41No, no, of course not.
33:43But it just does somehow mean there's much more responsibility if...
33:49Oh, I don't know.
33:53Nothing's going to part us, Jenny.
33:57You are going, aren't you?
34:03Jenny, I love you.
34:07Well, what's that got to do with it?
34:08It's got everything to do with it.
34:11It's what keeps us together, no matter how far apart we are.
34:15Husbands have had to travel before now, you know?
34:18If a kid like Agnes can do it, don't you think I can?
34:21We've got more than just ourselves to think of now.
34:25Hmm, I wonder.
34:27For all Charles' talk of putting down roots,
34:29I'm still the only one here who has actually had a child.
34:33Everybody else wants to be free to run.
34:34No one wants to run.
34:36Well, they want to feel they can if the worst happened.
34:40This place is just a refuge and everybody knows it.
34:43You and I felt it in our bones when we got here.
34:45That's what makes you so restless and me so scared.
34:49Because if anything happened and you weren't here,
34:51who would John and Lizzie attach themselves to then?
34:56Who would I?
34:58Nothing's going to happen here.
35:01Can you promise me that?
35:03Whatever this kid Agnes has to say.
35:08It's better you abandon it.
35:11It's no good, this place.
35:13That is what my father would have said.
35:16Why?
35:18It's so remote.
35:20You don't need to live in the hills now.
35:23You need to be on a river with fertile land
35:25so you can trade.
35:28And you should send your carmen to Hereford.
35:31Hubert?
35:32Whatever for?
35:33Because all the carmen there, they died in the plague.
35:36Who keeps the cattle then?
35:39People who escape from the towns.
35:41People who know nothing about cattle.
35:44But if they had someone to teach them,
35:47they could make enough beef and cheese
35:48for everyone in England.
35:50If we knew how many there were in England.
35:53Between here and Grimsby,
35:54three thousand, that we know.
35:56My father made careful notes.
36:00And kill your sheep.
36:01What?
36:02At least they will make the good eating.
36:04Will they also provide the good wool?
36:06They have wool enough in the Cotsfield Hills
36:09for everyone in England.
36:11But not enough milk or cheese.
36:14No wheat, no crops.
36:17Soon they will kill all the sheep for food.
36:21And then wander away
36:22and live in little homes like you.
36:24We don't do so badly for ourselves here, Agnes.
36:28How do you get your iron?
36:30We don't.
36:32So you can't make tools?
36:34Jack does his best repairing what we have,
36:36but we can't make them, no.
36:37Is he blacksmith, like Seth?
36:39The smith we met in Worcestershire.
36:41He can make tools.
36:43But he is too busy trying to snare his rabbit
36:45and milk his goat.
36:47Such things he knows nothing.
36:50So he must come to Skakodron to Norway.
36:54Major Jack should come too.
36:56Just what is this factory you have?
36:59It's my father's.
37:01It makes machines.
37:03Makes them?
37:04Grinds, mills, makes cogfills.
37:08And we have power.
37:11The big dam.
37:13Hydroelectric power.
37:14And is that still working?
37:16It only takes two men.
37:18It is all, um, what do you say?
37:20Automatisk.
37:21Oh, automatic.
37:23It generates electricity for a factory.
37:27All the power we need.
37:29And what do you do for raw materials?
37:31Oh, iron ore.
37:33And some miners to get it for a little time.
37:38Till they die, too.
37:41You still have the plague?
37:43We just have no food.
37:46You have food.
37:47Between you all in England, more than you need.
37:49You can't say that.
37:51You haven't been everywhere.
37:52So you must trade.
37:54You must send food from Grimsby to Skagorund.
37:57Up the fjord in your sailing ships.
37:59There are plenty in the east coast harbors.
38:02And we can send you tractors.
38:05Whatever you want.
38:07If we have engineers and metal workers to help us.
38:10That was my father's idea.
38:12But it must start quickly.
38:15Before they let all the sheep die.
38:17Or the cows.
38:21They have no food.
38:23In Skagorund.
38:26Just machines.
38:28And electricity.
38:32And big, empty works.
38:35That could do so much.
39:09Have you ever thought of being a docker again?
39:12No fear.
39:14You have a very different job nowadays.
39:16I run in barges from Chapstow to Gloucester.
39:19Yeah, Greg told me all about it.
39:22Well, in the long run, it would be much more satisfying than anything you could do here.
39:25You can't just close this place down, Charles.
39:27Oh, no, I know that.
39:29Send old Hubert to Hereford.
39:31Had him on our backs for life.
39:34Old Elsie sitting there spinning away, no matter what.
39:38Daniella in that kitchen of hers.
39:42Well, the same.
39:43If we had to take any part at all in what's happening in the world.
39:46Don't we want to take part?
39:48Well, I've never considered myself a dropper, Jack.
39:51We do have to help one another, don't we?
39:53There'd be no growth, no expansion otherwise.
39:56Growth, expansion.
39:58Never thought I'd hear them words again.
40:00Only because we never thought they'd be possible.
40:03But now that Norwegian has shown us how, we can start trading.
40:06Well, I'd have thought the Norwegians would have traded with the Swedes, mother.
40:10Oh, Bergen is much closer to England by sea than it is to Stockholm.
40:14We have to think in terms of waterways now.
40:16Roads, railways are obsolete.
40:19Well, there was a great scheme her father had.
40:21And even though it's not right for us, we can't afford not to try it.
40:24But there must be more accessible places to trade with than Norway.
40:28Hmm.
40:29So South Wales coal fields not far from here.
40:32Manufacturing plants as well, ships in Swansea.
40:36We might become industrial nation ourselves one day.
40:40One day.
40:42There's no evidence to prove that it'll work for the Norwegians.
40:45Agnes seems to think it will.
40:47Is she just a kid?
40:48Oh, but if she's right, they won't wait for us.
40:51They'll try Denmark again.
40:52Maybe the Swedes have managed to open up a link.
40:55It's no good us going to them cap in hand
40:56if they've managed to fix up a trading community without us.
41:00We head to Norway.
41:03Across the Cotswolds.
41:04On to the Fence.
41:06Then up to Lincolnshire.
41:08Then across the seat to Bergen.
41:11Food running?
41:12Industry, the other?
41:14Oh.
41:15I don't know.
41:17Well, maybe the chain's already been broken.
41:20Maybe it never existed.
41:23But we have to find out.
41:25Feel our way along it, link by link.
41:28You do want me to go to Chapstead, don't you?
41:33I want you to go to Norway.
41:36See Agnes home.
41:40In the balloon?
41:41Yeah.
41:43As soon as they can get a westerly wind.
41:45And Jack thinks he can manage a balloon?
41:48Well, he's got Agnes to help him.
41:51If they get blown near any of those communities they spotted,
41:53they're going to land and establish some sort of communication bag.
41:57They might never reach the east coast at all if they depend on the wind.
42:00Oh, they will eventually.
42:02And then what?
42:04Fly the North Sea?
42:05No, no.
42:07Now, Agnes says there are still sailing boats in Grimsby.
42:09Officially.
42:11Who are prepared to take them?
42:12It's in their interest, too.
42:13I mean, that's the whole point.
42:15I mean, if each community provides something that someone else lacks,
42:18then we just make sure that no one goes under.
42:20Well, what have we got to provide that everybody else needs?
42:23Well, I'm afraid that's why Agnes suggested that we should move somewhere else.
42:27And you said that nothing would happen to break the place up.
42:33Well, at least I'll be with you wherever we go.
42:36There's no need for you to be scared anymore.
42:40And do you think Jack is really capable of getting a machine tool factory started again?
42:46Well, I'll brief him all I can.
42:49How long will he be away?
42:51Could be again.
42:54As long as that?
42:56Yeah, but we've insisted that whenever they make contact with a community
42:59they establish some sort of communications back here
43:01it'll be a rider, messenger.
43:04A sort of postal service?
43:06Yeah.
43:07Well, it's imperative, because if the links break, the whole...
43:11the whole thing just collapses.
43:13So there would always be news, then?
43:15Yes.
43:17Yes, of course.
43:20Even if you went too.
43:25As I know you should.
43:29They'll be wanting government next.
43:31It's bound to come one day.
43:33From Bergen.
43:34An Anglo-Norwegian assembly with houses of parliament.
43:37I wonder who'll be Prime Minister.
43:39Greg or Charlie.
43:40That's anyone's guess.
43:42Exports, imports, trade.
43:44How long before they bring back money?
43:50The breeze is still from the north.
43:52You can just see the wind pump from here.
43:56Yes, I know you can.
43:58They've got the balloon up.
43:59Can I go for a ride, Lizzie and me?
44:01No, you cannot.
44:03But I'm sure Agnes and Greg need to practice.
44:06They will bring us back.
44:08Go and bring in the washing.
44:10Washing.
44:11Do as you're told.
44:21Is there anything I can do?
44:24How do you mean?
44:25For the baby.
44:27I'd like to, Jenny, while Greg's away.
44:30I'd really like to.
44:35Told you it would, didn't I?
44:38Will it stay in the vest?
44:40There to yet, I reckon.
44:43Don't blame me if I'm wrong and you'll get blown into the sea, will you?
44:46But I will.
44:48No, Hubert's never wrong about the weather.
44:50Then it's time we take off.
44:56Come round to the west at last, has it?
44:59Yeah.
45:01Just what we need.
45:26Good luck, Jack.
45:28Yeah, I'm gonna need it the way that thing sways around.
45:31As soon as we get lift-off, I'm going to be air-sick, so you just watch out below, eh?
45:43Is all the gear on board, then?
45:45Yes.
45:47Agnes says the wind's just right.
45:52So we'll float gently over the Severn and be safely in the Cotswolds by this evening.
46:00It's tearing me apart too, you know.
46:19Did you want to see them off?
46:21I said goodbye.
46:24I told Greg I'd look after the communications between here and the Cotswolds.
46:29Maybe move down to the Wye.
46:31Choose the best land.
46:33Take it slowly. We have time to think it through now properly. We didn't have before.
46:37Moving on?
46:40Oh, just... just moving house.
46:43I think we should go out for cattle, not sheep.
46:46Hubert won't like it, but that's too bad.
46:48So he's not to be sent to Hereford then?
46:50Hubert?
46:52No, Hubert thinks of this place as home.
46:55Is he the only one?
46:59Come on, we can wave to them at least.
47:18One, two, three...
47:20One, two, three...
47:21One, two, three...
47:22It's all, two, three...
47:23One, three...
47:23One, two, three...
47:24One, two, three...
47:25One, two, three...
47:25Two, three...
47:26One, two, three...
47:47so
48:02Let's go.
48:30Let's go.
49:02Let's go.
49:30Let's go.
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