- 14 hours ago
First broadcast 6th November 1971.
Mr Price feels under appreciated at Fenn Street school and, as he has done previously, thinks it's time to move on to better things.
Deryck Guyler - Norman Potter
Noel Howlett - Mr. Cromwell
Joan Sanderson - Doris Ewell
Richard Davies - Mr. Price
Erik Chitty - Mr. Smith
Richard Warwick - David Ffitchett-Brown
Diana King - Mrs. Grey
Stanley Beard - Mr. Roberts
Shirley Cheriton - Pat
David Howe - Colin Lovelace
Clive Moss - Steele
Tina Heath - Pupil
Bruce Hodgkins - School pupil
Gregory Scott - Mr. Wyatt
Mr Price feels under appreciated at Fenn Street school and, as he has done previously, thinks it's time to move on to better things.
Deryck Guyler - Norman Potter
Noel Howlett - Mr. Cromwell
Joan Sanderson - Doris Ewell
Richard Davies - Mr. Price
Erik Chitty - Mr. Smith
Richard Warwick - David Ffitchett-Brown
Diana King - Mrs. Grey
Stanley Beard - Mr. Roberts
Shirley Cheriton - Pat
David Howe - Colin Lovelace
Clive Moss - Steele
Tina Heath - Pupil
Bruce Hodgkins - School pupil
Gregory Scott - Mr. Wyatt
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00:25The Lone Ranger
00:48All right, all right, come on, come on.
01:05I don't know why I bother with the mysteries of science.
01:09Very scientific, that cushion.
01:11You slop around all day and you play silly tricks, and you don't listen.
01:16When you do listen, you're too thick to take anything in.
01:19I used to enjoy teaching once.
01:21I wonder when that was.
01:241896, sir.
01:26The time I've given you, I could have been captain of industry by now.
01:30One of these days you will come in here, and you will find me gone.
01:37All right, it's about as satirical as my backside.
01:41All right, all right, come on, start again.
01:47He hasn't always been like that, has he, Doris?
01:49Always, yes.
01:50As long as I can remember, Price has always had his King Charles' head and his Dan Lino feet.
01:57Big words.
01:58That's what I meant.
02:00Oh.
02:00Every other week he insists that he leave the profession.
02:03He never will, of course.
02:04Never.
02:10Hello, hello, hello.
02:12Hello.
02:13What do you think of it, then, eh?
02:15Oh, it's fantastic.
02:16Yeah, it's well, you know.
02:18What is it?
02:19Eh?
02:19Oh, well, it's my instant communicator.
02:22Yeah.
02:22I got the idea from young David, you know.
02:23Oh, Fitchard Brown?
02:24Yes, you've got some good ideas, that lad, yeah.
02:27Oh, we make a good team.
02:28Oh, yes.
02:28I'd like to see you do a double act.
02:30A soft head shuffle.
02:32Yeah.
02:32And don't think we couldn't, you know.
02:35Of course, I've had to adopt this, you know, to my own peculiarities.
02:37Oh, yes, of course.
02:38You'd have to, wouldn't you?
02:39Oh, yes.
02:40Exactly, you see.
02:40Well, this way I can promulgate my pronouncements throughout the entire school with the aid of a lump of chalk,
02:44you see.
02:45Well, I mean, you see, can't you?
02:46Look.
02:46Mind the fire buckets when you leave the premises, you know it makes sense, you see.
02:51And to avoid defile them by snotty-nosed kids, I'll put the blackboard well out of reach.
02:55Oh, that's very sensible.
02:57Oh, yes.
02:58What?
02:59They'll not get up there in a hurry.
03:00No, and they won't look up there in a hurry either.
03:03Of course not, no.
03:04Eh?
03:07That one, I think.
03:13Oh, this one.
03:14There.
03:16Hey, sorry, sorry, Smith.
03:18Oh, very good, David.
03:20Let me see.
03:23Hee-hee-hee-hee-hee-hee-hee-hee.
03:26Oh, that's my name.
03:28That's my name.
03:28That's my name, Mr. Smith.
03:29I enjoy a good joke, you know.
03:31It's nothing to do with you, Potter.
03:33It's Mr. Hee-hee-hee-hee.
03:37Mr. Hee-hee-hee-hee.
03:39Oh, ha-ha-ha.
03:41Hey, it's Mr. Price.
03:44Oh, yes, well, he's a very comical character.
03:46Oh, dear.
03:47I think I've hurt myself.
03:49Come and sit down here on your chair, Smithy.
03:51Come on, I think you've overdone it.
03:52It has been a bit of a strain.
03:53Practically a cardiac arrest.
03:55Oh, yes, Potter.
03:57It's Mr. Price.
03:59We're going to find him another job.
04:02Oh, bloody morons.
04:03Who?
04:04My lot, of course.
04:05He has sent a lot of them.
04:06Yes, sir.
04:08Educationally, sub-Norman.
04:09Ah, they are sub-Norman.
04:11Oh, I see.
04:12Difficult, eh?
04:13Why, you wouldn't chuckle, boy.
04:15Yeah, I would.
04:17What's up with him?
04:18Finally gone round the tooth, haven't he?
04:21Oh, for God's sake, switch him off, somebody.
04:22Blow a fuse any second.
04:25Well, I finally shake the dust off, Fensky.
04:27It'll be a comfort to know.
04:28It'll settle on you, Smithy.
04:30If you don't like it here, why don't you do something about it?
04:36Eh?
04:37Yes, why don't you?
04:38Do what?
04:39Find yourself another job.
04:41Stop crying wolf.
04:42Put your mummy where your mouth is.
04:44Oh, get another job?
04:45Yes.
04:46Oh, well, well, well, I...
04:50There you are.
04:51Bluff.
04:51Well, I would.
04:52I'd leave tomorrow, but for the fact that, er...
04:54Yes?
04:56Oh, burnt up, you moth-eat-no-laughing, Iena.
04:59If I won, I bloody won't leave, but with, er...
05:01Well, with my special qualifications, the right job is not easy to find.
05:04Oh, we can help you.
05:06After all, you're the one best qualified to work outside.
05:08Except for Potter.
05:10Oh, that's true, of course, yes.
05:11I can pick up my squeegee and walk in anywhere, you know.
05:14Anywhere in the world.
05:15Yeah.
05:16Well, there you are, Pawn.
05:17Take your pick.
05:19Oh, I see you've all been on a go at it, eh?
05:22Oh, well, now let's see if my scientific detachment can sort out the wheat from the chaff.
05:28Oh, three years as a short-term army officer.
05:31I wonder who could have thought of that one.
05:37Somebody with a rapier-like wit, obviously.
05:40A quiver full of satirical chaffs.
05:43You!
05:44How did you guess?
05:46Your sense of sublimation.
05:48He knew I wouldn't recommend him for the army.
05:50Now, then, let's see what else my self-appointed appointments bureau has found for me.
05:56Oh, I've got Miss Ewell's.
05:58Required by forward-looking Midlands nightly.
06:01Topless waitress.
06:03He's wrong!
06:04Right?
06:05Redmonds David's!
06:07There's mine.
06:09Oh, you should not have told me.
06:11Applications are invited for the chair of psychology at the University of Alaska?
06:16Well, that's not my subject, Doris.
06:18No, but it's a long way away.
06:20Oh.
06:21Oh, well, it's all very amusing.
06:23And I have enjoyed the job, but there you are.
06:25Not a sniff of a job.
06:26Hang on, Vaughn.
06:27I say this one to last.
06:28Put it there.
06:29Huh?
06:31Representative required for pharmaceutical organisation.
06:34Marketing high-class medical supplies to the profession.
06:37Well, it's a glorified commercial traveller, no thanks.
06:394,000 a year.
06:41I said...
06:42Hey, how much?
06:434,000.
06:44Plus firm's class.
06:46Plus expenses.
06:47By damn David, you're onto something here.
06:51Uh, qualifications.
06:52I've got that.
06:52And that.
06:53Hey, I think we're onto this something.
06:55Something here, boyo.
06:56Oh, money grubber.
06:57That's it, Doris.
06:58Grub, grub, grub.
06:59I love it.
07:00They'll expect a lot of hard work for 4,000 a year.
07:03Or will they?
07:04Oh, well, never mind.
07:05I don't mind work.
07:06I love it.
07:07I wonder why you've hidden these desires until now.
07:11Well, how can I go?
07:13They're holding interviews on Monday morning.
07:15Why, sir, I will cover for you.
07:17Yes, of course.
07:17We will not.
07:19Oh, we can always tell Morris he's caught a slight chill.
07:21Oh, that's believing, that is.
07:23Oh, yes, when I was with Monty, you know,
07:25we had a quick way of dealing with that.
07:27What did you do?
07:28Flush them out with your squeegee?
07:37Well, certainly, Mr. Price,
07:39my colleagues and I feel that
07:42feel that your academic qualifications
07:44are more than adequate.
07:46But here, at Val and Nid,
07:48we pride ourselves on more than that.
07:50Yes, but that's very important, Mrs. Gray.
07:52However, there are indeed other qualities
07:54which count just as much
07:56if a man is to be a Nid and Val representative.
08:00Qualities like...
08:01Tact.
08:01Tact, yes.
08:03Now, tell me, Mr. Price,
08:04what do you think of our laxative?
08:06Oh, well,
08:07Pontefract cakes do the job just as well.
08:10As we say back home in the valley,
08:12they give you a good one for your money.
08:17Mr. Price,
08:19what is your professional opinion
08:21of mid-sovereign boil, Sal?
08:23What, that stuff?
08:24Well, to market a tube of petroleum jelly
08:27mixed with a little carbolic
08:28and a dash of colouring
08:29is either an example
08:30of advanced business acumen
08:32or a gag on candid camera.
08:39Oh, well, I mean,
08:40it doesn't actually do anybody any harm.
08:42Really?
08:43No, I mean, well,
08:44nothing that you can be prosecuted for.
08:47Oh, well, no,
08:48I didn't really mean to say that.
08:49No, don't put that down.
08:50Oh.
08:52Well, now,
08:53that is the way to make
08:55carbon monoxide.
08:56It's not.
08:57No, well,
08:58it was a trick question.
09:01And now,
09:01for a brain teaser
09:02for our quiz.
09:04On the box!
09:05Now, take the...
09:10Now, now, now, now, now, now,
09:13I'm sure you don't behave like that
09:15when Mr. Price is here.
09:16We do.
09:17Oh, no, no, no.
09:18Now, can any boy
09:19or girl
09:20tell me how we make water?
09:23He's got to be joking.
09:24I'll give you a clue.
09:25Blimey, this ought to be good.
09:27H and O
09:29with a little thing
09:30in the middle.
09:30Yeah!
09:32Now, now, now,
09:33don't you guess?
09:35Can't anybody guess?
09:36Very good joke, headmaster.
09:38Adonish pusti restantis.
09:40Oh, Norman,
09:41your wordplay is inspired.
09:43Oh, thank you very much, sir.
09:45Your little dick
09:46of the lower corridors.
09:47Pack, Norman, pack.
09:49I was only joking, headmaster.
09:51I tell you what, children,
09:52I will give Mr. Potter
09:54a little quiz.
09:56Right you are, sir.
09:57Quiz away, then, sir.
09:57Now, Norman,
09:59do you know
09:59how we make water?
10:03I'd say that's a bit
10:04near the knuckles.
10:06H to O, Norman,
10:07H to O.
10:08Oh, hey, that's very good.
10:11Yes, I must remember
10:12to tell Ruby that, sir, yes.
10:13How do we make water?
10:15Answer H to O.
10:17Yes.
10:18Yes, that's very conical.
10:20Oh, did you want to see me
10:22about something, Norman?
10:23Did I want to see you about something?
10:24Oh, yes, sir.
10:25Now, sir, I wonder,
10:25may I just have a little
10:27quiet word with you, sir?
10:28Oh, dear.
10:28Oi!
10:30It's rude to whisper.
10:31Yes!
10:32No, no, no.
10:33Now, be good, children.
10:35Think about making water.
10:40You will have to forgive me, sir,
10:41but, you see,
10:42I've had this sort of
10:43inner conviction in me
10:44all day, sir,
10:45and, you see,
10:46I have to live with myself, sir.
10:47Oh, Norman,
10:48your marriage is breaking down.
10:49You and faithful old Ruby
10:50after all these years.
10:52No, no, headmaster,
10:53I'm speaking metaphysically.
10:55Oh.
10:55No, sir,
10:56it's Mr. Price,
10:56you see, sir.
10:57Well, he's supposed
10:58to be off six, sir,
10:59but, as a matter of fact,
11:00he's going for an interview, sir.
11:02He's going to change
11:03his job, sir.
11:08There you are, Mr. Price.
11:10I'm afraid
11:10the majority opinion
11:13is that in spite
11:14of your excellent
11:15academic qualifications,
11:16you are not quite
11:17the man for
11:18need and val.
11:19Oh, may one inquire
11:21why not?
11:22Well, if you force me.
11:24In work of this kind,
11:26Mr. Price,
11:27where personal relationships
11:29with clients
11:31must be our first consideration,
11:34You have a penchant
11:35for facetiousness
11:36which would not be appreciated
11:37by our customers.
11:39Yes, your manner, too,
11:40is somewhat didactic.
11:41Here, here.
11:42What, just because
11:43I'm honest
11:43and speak my mind?
11:45It is the triumph
11:46of reason
11:47to get on well
11:48with those
11:48who possess none.
11:50Voltaire.
11:51Science offers us truth.
11:53It has never offered us
11:54either peace
11:54nor happiness.
11:55Le bon.
11:58The tragedy of science,
12:00the slaying
12:01of a beautiful hypothesis
12:02by an ugly fact.
12:04T. H. Huxley.
12:06And you have got a bum
12:07on you like the back
12:08of an elephant
12:09born out of...
12:10How dare you!
12:11Oh, Mr. Price!
12:13You really mustn't take
12:14this so much to heart.
12:15I mean, in another profession,
12:16perhaps your faults
12:18might be virtues.
12:19I mean, lack of sartorial elegance,
12:21facetiousness,
12:22a didactic manner.
12:24Tell me,
12:24have you ever considered
12:26taking up school teaching?
12:28Oh, care up, Oman!
12:30Oh!
13:05Oh, my shrapnel!
13:08Oh, my shrapnel!
13:09Those kids!
13:10They must have suckers
13:11on their feet
13:11like flies!
13:14Oh, well, well, well.
13:15It is Mr. Price.
13:17Oh, I say.
13:18You are not going to get
13:19into trouble, you know.
13:20I am?
13:21Who from?
13:22Well, my headmaster.
13:23Sneaking off like that.
13:24You didn't think he'd fall
13:25for a chick like that,
13:26did you?
13:26You bloody quid!
13:27You blew it up, didn't you?
13:28Don't you shake my ladder!
13:29I'm at a disadvantage up here!
13:31You are a disadvantage anywhere!
13:33Anyway,
13:34you're wasting your time
13:35because I'm going
13:36to tell him myself.
13:37Oh, yes, I'm sure.
13:39Oh, well, I have to align
13:40if I am going to hand in my notice.
13:43You're what?
13:44Yes, I hope you're pleased
13:45with me, Potter.
13:45Four thousand a year,
13:46plus a car, plus expenses,
13:48plus a secretary,
13:49plus luncheon vouchers.
13:51Get away!
13:52So I'm very grateful
13:53to you for telling Morris.
13:54Aye, makes my job
13:55a lot easier.
13:56Oh, yes.
13:57Well, I mean,
13:58that's what I thought.
13:59Yeah, and that's another job
14:00I would like to take on.
14:01Oh, God!
14:04That silly young Fitchy Brown,
14:06an agile provocateur.
14:07Well, he started it, certainly,
14:09but we were all of us culpable,
14:11even Mr. Smith.
14:11And now I shall have to get
14:12another science teacher.
14:14It really is too bad.
14:15Do you think I could persuade him
14:17to change his mind?
14:18I hardly think it's likely.
14:20Not even if I appeal
14:21to his better nature?
14:23Don't be silly, Morris.
14:24Well, what do you suggest?
14:26Offer him four thousand a year,
14:27a car, and expenses.
14:28What a good...
14:30Doris.
14:34Right.
14:35Any questions?
14:36Yeah.
14:37When are you leaving?
14:38My change of career
14:39has no bearing whatsoever
14:40on the fusion of these chemicals
14:42at the end of term.
14:44Henry,
14:45we'd like to say something
14:46before you go, sir.
14:47Yes, sir.
14:48Oh, would you?
14:49Well, that's very nice.
14:51What?
14:52Go on, go on.
14:53Winter of Pits.
14:54Go on, get out.
14:55Get your trust.
14:56Go on, go on,
14:57yeah, trust me.
14:58Oh, dear.
15:03I say, for me?
15:05What?
15:05About this job of...
15:07Don't you start.
15:07It was your fault,
15:08your fault in the first place.
15:09I was.
15:10Oh, well, I didn't...
15:14I told Potter
15:15that there's a rat bag.
15:16Why?
15:17Oh, to get him off my back.
15:18Oh, it's a long story.
15:20Well, come on.
15:21You can tell me.
15:22Well, they didn't like my manner.
15:24They said I ought to be
15:24a bloody schoolteacher.
15:26You are a pig.
15:29Thank you, Gracie.
15:30And I've got a little present for you.
15:32A little present, yes.
15:34Oh.
15:35Winter.
15:36Oh, I've always wanted one of those.
15:38You are one of those,
15:39aren't you, Potter?
15:41Now, I don't want you to look at this
15:44until Norman and I have gone.
15:45Why, is it a bomb?
15:47A bomb.
15:48A bomb, Norman.
15:49A bomb, Norman.
15:53Now, surely you remember...
15:55Surely you remember
15:57the equipment you ordered.
15:59What, that's a pencil sharpener?
16:02The unabsent-minded academics,
16:04you silly, brilliant, old fuddy-daddy.
16:07You asked for it.
16:08Well, I do remember
16:09ordering some rather expensive
16:11laboratory equipment.
16:12Yes, well, this is it.
16:13It's taken a few weeks,
16:14but then I did warn you
16:16that there might be some slight delay.
16:18That was six years ago.
16:19You jamby bastard.
16:21Yeah, I know.
16:21He's buttering you up.
16:22I know.
16:23Oh, Morris.
16:25Vaughn.
16:26Now, while we're on the subject
16:28of new laboratory equipment,
16:30I like to keep a few household products
16:32in regular supply
16:33so that the little treasures
16:35can identify them
16:36the more readily
16:37with their chemical nomenclature.
16:39Ah, you mean things like
16:41household cleaners.
16:42Really, you are so splendidly progressive.
16:44It's a quality that I do so admire in you.
16:46Oh, good.
16:48So would you like to take my order now?
16:49Yes, of course, my dear fellow.
16:51Of course.
16:52There we are.
16:53Pencil pourries.
16:54Well, they're all derivatives
16:55of the common alcohol.
16:57Yes.
16:57Two bottles of whiskey,
16:58two bottles of gin,
16:59and three bottles of vodka.
17:00You jamby basket.
17:02Yeah, aren't I?
17:03Oh, we might as well have some beer, too,
17:04while we're at it.
17:05Aye.
17:06Say a firkin.
17:08A firkin.
17:13Oh, dear, I wish I'd been kinder to him in the past.
17:17Well, he's only going to another job.
17:19He's not dead.
17:20Oh, he might just as well be.
17:22It's all that young popinj's fault.
17:24No, I don't mean that, really.
17:27It was all of us.
17:29Allo, allo, allo.
17:31Talking about me?
17:32Certainly not.
17:33And if not, why not?
17:35Oh, my buddy, it is a beautiful day.
17:38By damn, that's it, Smitty.
17:40That's your new sound.
17:41The Glenmiller of Fence It.
17:42Go on, boy, do it again.
17:43Oh, that's beautiful.
17:45Oh, don't be so silly.
17:47That's it, Doris.
17:48Let yourself go.
17:50Mr. Price.
17:52Vaughn.
17:58Well, I don't know whether to put a plaster on it
18:00and never wash again or to cauterise it.
18:07Ha-ha-ha.
18:14Price, it's been a long time.
18:16Oh, well, don't worry about it, old boy.
18:17It comes to us all in the end
18:18and you are getting on a bit.
18:20What does?
18:21Who is?
18:22Joke, Smitty, joke, boy.
18:23Oh.
18:26Lovely sense of humour you had.
18:29Hard?
18:30Weren't you Mr. Smith?
18:33Price, I want you to know that over the years
18:35I have formed a very deep and real affection for you.
18:39Oh, come on, Smitty.
18:40There's no need for all this, you know.
18:41Yes.
18:42These things ought to be said.
18:44All my life I have been cocooned in outward indifference,
18:48but inside, you know, I'm a quivering mass.
18:52Well, you ought to get that fixed, boy.
18:53Oh.
18:55Same old Pricey.
18:56Always ready with a merry quip.
18:58I should never forgive myself
19:00if you left Fen Street
19:02with the slightest misunderstanding between us.
19:04I hope you will always remember me
19:06as your friend.
19:08Oh.
19:09I will.
19:11And I do.
19:12And I look upon it as a very great honour.
19:15Goodbye, Pricey.
19:17Good luck.
19:19Goodbye, Smitty, old man.
19:26I shall miss you.
19:27And I shall miss you.
19:29And I shall miss you too, old table.
19:33And these ivy-clad walls
19:37alive with memories.
19:39What the bloody hell am I going on about
19:41I'm not going anywhere
19:42unless it's around the twist?
19:44Good.
19:49Very simple.
19:50All you do is
19:51make a clean breast of it.
19:53Well, mine would be a bit murky, old boy.
19:55No, I mean it.
19:56I just tell the truth.
19:58I mean, I haven't been here long,
19:59but I think I know them.
20:00Yeah, so do I.
20:01They'd lynch me
20:01and Potter would hang onto my legs.
20:03Ah, they wouldn't.
20:05All you do is tell the truth.
20:06I mean, you know,
20:06that's all you have to do.
20:07What, 4,000 a year
20:08plus a car plus expenses?
20:10Oh, they know I'd sell
20:11my old granny for that.
20:12Oh, you wouldn't.
20:13Well, of course not.
20:14They could have her
20:15for the luncheon vouchers alone.
20:18Paul, you are discovered.
20:21Eh?
20:21We have found your Achilles heel.
20:23Oh, now look here, master.
20:24It was only a joke
20:25when all it's ever done.
20:26I mean, I don't...
20:26No, no, no, hear me out.
20:27Hear me out.
20:28It appeared to us,
20:30your colleagues,
20:31fellow members
20:32of Fen Street,
20:33man and woman
20:34and Potter too,
20:37who have given so much
20:38and received so little.
20:41Aye, but gladly.
20:43Oh, is it not
20:44the better wisdom?
20:45Oh, do get on with it, Marlis.
20:47Oh, yes, I'm so sorry.
20:48No speeches.
20:49I got overwhelmed
20:50by the emotional ambiance.
20:52What the headmaster means,
20:54Mr Price,
20:54is that we'd like you
20:55to reconsider your decision.
20:57We know, of course,
20:58that Fen Street cannot hope
20:59to compete
21:00on financial terms.
21:01No, the money doesn't matter.
21:03But we do feel...
21:04What did you say?
21:06I said, Doris,
21:07the money doesn't matter.
21:08It's not important.
21:09It's not?
21:10No.
21:11You see,
21:12I've had a lot of time
21:13to think about it
21:14and it seems to me
21:15that there is more to life
21:17than just money
21:18and a car
21:19and expenses.
21:21And then,
21:22one morning,
21:24I think it was yesterday,
21:27I was looking out
21:28of the window
21:28at these kiddies
21:29innocently at play.
21:31What, Mary Fig
21:32and Benny Turner
21:33playing mothers and fathers?
21:34Right, please.
21:35And then my eye
21:36happened to alight
21:37upon a familiar object
21:38in this room,
21:40just over that chair.
21:42And do you know
21:43what it was?
21:44It was Doris's cardigan.
21:50But the real turning point,
21:52the water shed in my life,
21:54came as I was
21:56taking my class
21:57later that day.
21:58I happened to look
21:59out of the window
21:59at your window boxes,
22:01headmaster.
22:02You can't see them
22:03from your window.
22:04Be proud, David.
22:05Poetic license.
22:06A riot of colourful symbolism
22:08they were.
22:09And I found myself thinking,
22:11Vorna Price,
22:13where are your roots?
22:14Where do you belong?
22:17The old fic.
22:18And the answer came back,
22:20here,
22:21here in dear old Fenstreet.
22:23Bravo!
22:25Does this mean...
22:25Yes, Doris.
22:27Vorna Price days.
22:30Oh, Price,
22:31this is splendid news.
22:33I never thought
22:33a round robin would work.
22:35On a spicy little round robin,
22:37you are too.
22:38I'm going to stick you all
22:39on my Christmas card
22:40this year.
22:41Oh, the same old price.
22:44Encourageable.
22:46No, Fenstreet's cool.
22:49What?
22:50Who's it called?
22:51Oh, hang on.
22:52Oi, St. Francis.
22:54Ballonid,
22:55pharmaceuticals for you.
22:56Oh, will you excuse me?
22:57They probably want me
22:58to reconsider,
22:59I expect,
23:00but there's no chance
23:01in this world.
23:02I know where
23:03my future lies.
23:05Splendid fellow.
23:06Marvelous.
23:07Martin would be
23:07very proud of him,
23:08you know.
23:09Hello.
23:10Vorna Price speaking.
23:12Oh, hello, Mr. Roberts.
23:13I'm glad you phoned
23:14because I have got
23:15something to add
23:16to my last conversation
23:17with you.
23:19What?
23:20Yes, we now feel
23:21we were wrong
23:22in our first reaction.
23:23Nothing that a little
23:24training in public relations
23:26wouldn't put right,
23:27you see.
23:27Oh, well,
23:28that's all very well,
23:29but you can't make me
23:30change my mind.
23:31You can stick
23:32or keep your 4,000 a year.
23:33No, no, no,
23:34not 4,000.
23:35I pointed out
23:36the high quality
23:37of your academic qualifications
23:38and I insisted
23:39upon an increased
23:40emolument.
23:41We can now offer you
23:424,500.
23:44How much?
23:464,500,
23:47did you say?
23:48Plus a car,
23:48plus expenses.
23:49It's very tempting.
23:51You can't possibly accept.
23:52I can't possibly accept.
23:53Oh, I'm terribly sorry.
23:55Well, goodbye.
23:55No, no, no,
23:56wait a minute.
23:57Oh, hello.
23:59Goodbye, Mr. Roberts.
24:01Mr. Price,
24:02you were magnificent.
24:03Bloody was,
24:04wasn't I?
24:07That must have
24:08cost you a great deal.
24:10Yeah, about 3,000,
24:11I reckon.
24:13Greater love
24:14hath no man
24:15than that he lay down
24:16his 4,500
24:17for Fenstreet.
24:20Mr. Price,
24:21Potter.
24:22I'm going to salute you,
24:23sir.
24:26And I'm also going to say
24:27a few words, sir.
24:29Tough.
24:30Let me shake you,
24:31Get away!
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