Edna The Inebriate Woman. (1971)

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First broadcast 21st October 1971.  Edna is a drunk, and a homeless one.  Patricia Hayes - Edna Barbara Jefford - Josie, of 'Jesus Saves' Geraldine Sherman - Trudi, Inmate at 'Jesus Saves' Cheryl Hall - Vangi, Inmate at 'Jesus Saves' Kate Williams - Teresa, Inmate at 'Jesus Saves' Peggy Aitchison - Lil, Inmate at 'Jesus Saves' Freda Dowie - Mother Superior, Helper at 'Jesus Saves' Roger Hammond - Victor, Helper at 'Jesus Saves' John Trigger - Graham, Helper at 'Jesus Saves' Walter Sparrow - Common Lodging House Proprietor June Watson - Attendant, at The Spike Denis Carey - Doctor, at The Spike Jerry Verno - Old Man, at The Spike Rex Rashley - Old Man, at The Spike Amelia Bayntun - Jessie, a Tramp Douglas Ditta - Social Security Clerk Enys Box - Attendant in Canteen Chris Gannon - Tramp Talfryn Thomas - Tramp Charles Farrell - Tramp Vivian MacKerrell - Tramp Pat Nye - Irene at Common Lodging House Marie Conmee - Paddy at Common Lodging House Jenny Logan - Doris, on the Road Anthony Dawes - Man in Car Elaine Mitchell - Social Security Official John Hussey - Psychiatrist June Brown - Clara, in Psychiatric Hospital Jumoke Debayo - Staff Nurse, in Psychiatric Hospital Jo Maxwell Muller - Nina, Young Girl, in Psychiatric Hospital Malcolm Terris - Psychiatrist, in Psychiatric Hospital Keith Marsh - Porter, in Psychiatric Hospital Eamonn Boyce - Proprietor of Lodging House James Cairncross - Rogo at Charitable Institution Virginia Snyders - Bed Ticket Proprietor Alex Marshall - Social Security Clerk James Walker - Social Security Clerk Norman Lumsden - Magistrate, in Magistrates Court Mark Moss - Policeman, in Magistrates Court Julian Herington - Clerk, in Magistrates Court Merelina Kendall - Nun Frances Tomelty - Nun Jeffrey Segal - Counsel, at Public Hearing David Garth - Defence, at Public Hearing George Belbin - Chairman, at Public Hearing Ronnie Masterson - Neighbour, at Public Hearing Maggy Maxwell - Neighbour, at Public Hearing Bartlett Mullins - Neighbour, at Public Hearing Dorothy Lane - Old Woman Patsy O'Shea - Old Woman

Transcript

00:00:04You

00:00:43yes I want to beg for the night

00:00:50all right

00:01:01name Edna Edna O Casey let's see your cards I ain't got no cards sorry you can't come here if

00:01:12you've got no cards yes I can you've got to let me in it's me right sod you're right no

00:01:17cards you

00:01:18don't come in here any other way of identifying yourself I've got a right to come in here and I've

00:01:24got a right to put right me right to suck you in the ear hole sod off no means

00:01:35riding to the church

00:01:56where are you from from around for roundabout just from the roundabout yeah

00:02:04where you got to the roundabout I was in the psychiatric no I've just been around roundabout

00:02:11around the roundabout you used to be on the road once long ago wasn't you always popping in from

00:02:17some different direction yes I used to be on the road at one time but I'm more settled down now

00:02:24here's number one I'm in regular work

00:02:30it was a move this place used to be in the centre of the town

00:02:35administrative difficulties

00:02:38a move because they want to stamp out up people

00:02:42tank it off the face of the earth

00:02:44it's thought it'd be better to put it here

00:02:49you sure you're skint

00:02:51now you've got to be skint to come here

00:02:53I'm sure

00:02:57I know you say you're sure but are you really

00:02:59yes

00:03:05now you'll have to leave tomorrow

00:03:08yes

00:03:10you'll have to de-infestate these clothes

00:03:15yes

00:03:16yes

00:03:18yes

00:05:13You know, the art you do.

00:05:14Did you ever try to get work outside?

00:05:18Yes, sir.

00:05:19Where?

00:05:21Yes, sir.

00:05:25They said I was too old.

00:05:28You know, I did.

00:05:30You know, the teeth.

00:05:32You know, sir.

00:05:33Yes, sir.

00:05:34Yes.

00:05:35Would you like to stay on here throughout the winter?

00:05:40Oh, yes, sir.

00:05:43All right.

00:05:45We'll keep you here throughout the winter, and we'll turn you out for the summer.

00:05:48All right.

00:05:49Thank you very much, sir.

00:05:54I've shrunk.

00:05:56Don't worry.

00:05:58I've shrunk.

00:06:01I feel better when I'm drunk.

00:06:05Take a deep breath.

00:06:08That's it.

00:06:10Weren't you the lightweight champion of England once?

00:06:15Yes.

00:06:17Please, sir.

00:06:19Yes?

00:06:20Can you take me in, sir?

00:06:22Can I be attached to the house?

00:06:24Taking you to the winter, sir, and...

00:06:26Oh, that's it.

00:06:27Something for a god.

00:06:29And I want to complain about the dreams I've been getting.

00:06:32Terrible dreams, sir.

00:06:33Oh, Edna.

00:06:35I've got nowhere for you to go.

00:06:37They're closing all the beds in the women's wing, except for the one-night casuals.

00:06:42I'd take you in if I could.

00:06:44I'm sorry.

00:06:45Thank you very much, sir.

00:06:54I haven't had a meal since yesterday.

00:06:57I didn't have a meal today.

00:07:00I kept going on apples.

00:07:03I've got a trap all night, and I've kept on tramping after the day's broken.

00:07:08I've kept on tramping.

00:07:53I've kept on tramping.

00:07:57You can smell the breakfasts. I ain't got any money to buy me breakfast.

00:08:31You can't stop. The shades won't let you. You go on. Suddenly you say, all right, I'll go on. So

00:08:39you've got a target. You say, I'll go on to the next town. And from there, it's only a short

00:08:47step back home to where you come from.

00:09:13You can't stay here. We're closed. Haven't I told you that? I was only trying to stamp out the people.

00:09:21Never mind the people. They won't harm you no more anyway. You're going.

00:09:26Remember? I was only trying to stamp out the people. Why? Because I don't like them. That's why. Well, they

00:09:34won't worry you no more. You're going.

00:09:39Edna, you're going. Remember? G-O-I-N-G spells going. Goodbye. Bye-bye, people.

00:10:06Any beds?

00:10:18Any beds?

00:10:21I don't know.

00:10:38What's it like in here?

00:10:41Cold.

00:10:47You know anybody would care to publish some drawings?

00:10:54Oh, dear.

00:11:01Wayfaring is a very funny thing.

00:11:04Sometimes you're happy in it.

00:11:06Sometimes you're not.

00:11:07You feel cut off.

00:11:09Do you find that?

00:11:10Oh, yes.

00:11:12It's not that I dislike people, what's more settled.

00:11:16I watch them and wish I could be like them.

00:11:20I sometimes think I once knew something of very great importance.

00:11:26In other times, I don't.

00:11:30I'm in regular work.

00:11:32I've got a very good job, as a matter of fact.

00:11:35I've got very good memory.

00:11:38Oh, yes.

00:11:40I'm sure you're right.

00:11:45I'm in work, too.

00:11:46Same as you.

00:11:49It seems, as I drank the tea, and I drank the tea leaves as well.

00:11:54I drank the tea leaves, see, so I don't know more like the tea, and so...

00:11:59Flitter, flitter.

00:12:06But I did learn something about life, only I don't know how to tell it, so I...

00:12:16Excuse me.

00:12:28Oh, I think I'll...

00:12:31I'll go to Petal Hill.

00:12:34Get Petal Hill.

00:12:37Oh.

00:12:38Oh.

00:12:40Oh.

00:12:41Oh.

00:12:42Oh.

00:12:43Oh.

00:12:44Oh.

00:12:45Oh.

00:12:46Oh.

00:12:48Oh.

00:12:49Oh.

00:12:56Oh.

00:13:01Oh.

00:13:07Yes.

00:13:11Oh.

00:13:15Oh.

00:13:28Oh, oh, oh, oh, yes.

00:13:48I like to sleep out. That's what keeps me in good health.

00:14:00It would have been, I think it was three weeks ago, but you see, I haven't got the money.

00:14:06Three weeks ago.

00:14:07Perhaps you could help me, but give me the details from the beginning.

00:14:11Now, where did you lose it?

00:14:13If I knew that, I wouldn't have lost it, would I?

00:14:17What colour was it?

00:14:19Primrose and white pink.

00:14:22Ah, yeah, well, that is not the colour of the allowance book in question.

00:14:25I did report it last week, but not here.

00:14:29Ah, well...

00:14:30I need a quid.

00:14:32Well, I can't do anything, can I, Mrs Morrison?

00:14:34The only place that could help you is Broad Street.

00:14:36I can't get there, can I?

00:14:39No, well...

00:14:40I'm going upstairs to get a grant.

00:14:43Being in dire need.

00:14:45Where?

00:14:46One was in the first department.

00:14:48I'm in dire need.

00:14:50Please don't come in here until you've seen the receptionist.

00:14:54Oh.

00:15:01Soup, please. You can't have just soup. Only one soup.

00:15:04Your breakfast ticket is worth three soups.

00:15:07Yes.

00:15:08What do you mean, yes?

00:15:09Three soups or no soup?

00:15:12Three soups.

00:15:13Four soups.

00:15:32Four soups.

00:15:32Thank you very much.

00:17:03This boy here spent 15 in prison.

00:17:06No!

00:17:07One run off, double run, you!

00:17:09Oh, get your run and stick to your run and fly!

00:17:16Your mind, does your mind get clouded sometimes, all clouded up?

00:17:22Oh, yes.

00:17:23Mine does.

00:17:24Well, I go round to the doctor, get some drugs.

00:17:27It doesn't help.

00:17:29I'm sick, you see.

00:17:30Ah.

00:17:31I'm sick.

00:17:32Mind you, people take an interest.

00:17:35It doesn't help.

00:17:36I let them down.

00:17:39One tip I'll give you.

00:17:41You got a friend?

00:17:43No.

00:17:45I did have one once, but not any more now.

00:17:48Oh, yeah.

00:17:48When you lose them, you'll never get them back.

00:17:51Anyway.

00:17:53Nerves back.

00:17:54Are your nerves back?

00:17:55Mmm.

00:17:55Thainer is very good for that.

00:17:58It's very good for the nerves.

00:17:59Will you write that down?

00:18:01Thainer.

00:18:04My mind gets cloudy.

00:18:08Thainer.

00:18:11It gets so cloudy sometimes that I have to walk all the way to the north to clear it.

00:18:16Seven days it takes.

00:18:18When I get there, I'm so close.

00:18:21You better find I walk all the way back again.

00:18:24Thainer.

00:18:25You're a deserter.

00:18:27Oh.

00:18:30You look like a deserter out of the bloody army.

00:18:33Oh, no.

00:18:34No, I'm not that.

00:18:35I find it hard in the world to belong.

00:18:38Do you find it hard?

00:18:40Oh, MPs find it all right.

00:18:42But ordinary people find it hard.

00:18:44They're ostracised because they stand up and speak true facts.

00:18:49That's what I say.

00:18:51Oh, I did volunteer.

00:18:52In the end, they sent me up to Weds.

00:18:55And in the war, I met the soldiers.

00:18:58And I said, don't.

00:19:00Do you want to do square passion?

00:19:01Do you want to do fatigues?

00:19:04Don't.

00:19:05Oh, they said, you can build the roads.

00:19:07You can go on building the roads if it eases your conscience.

00:19:10But I said, a concrete road is a road you can carry guns on, isn't it?

00:19:17We'll segregate you, they said.

00:19:19Or you can segregate me if you like, I said.

00:19:22But I said...

00:19:23Hey, this is Tiny Nick, the most famousest character around here.

00:19:28He thinks he's God.

00:19:30Hey, hey, tell him why you think that.

00:19:33I was saying my prayers to the Lord and I found I was talking to myself.

00:19:42You see what I mean?

00:19:43Wait, when he goes to the public toilets, he does number two all over the floor.

00:19:50Hey, tell him, tell him why you do that.

00:19:54Gordon made number two, so Gordon can drop it where he pleases.

00:20:01Well done.

00:20:02You see what that means?

00:20:04He's a lad.

00:20:05Hey, darling, here, look, you want to break that and then stuff it up your nose and then

00:20:13like really sniff it, get it right back and you should get a buzz off that.

00:20:24You're doing a skipper, because you have to, or just for a rave.

00:20:45Oh, that is beautiful, that is special.

00:20:52Too much, that is, oh, oh, that's real buzz.

00:22:44Oh, get away!

00:22:46You're having me on.

00:22:49I tend to drink some, though.

00:22:52People think I'm likeable.

00:22:56But legally...

00:22:57See, legally...

00:23:02They took me into the psychiatric and they cut me breasts off.

00:23:06My breasts.

00:23:10My breasts.

00:23:12Oh, well.

00:23:13No good crime ever spilt milk.

00:23:18I've got that.

00:23:19That's good, that is.

00:23:26Can you tell me the way to Torrington?

00:23:28Torrington?

00:23:28Yeah, I can show you.

00:23:29Can you give us a lift?

00:23:43I can tell you I've been in some of the roughest places and in some of the best places.

00:23:47Yes, I can see that.

00:23:50I know me hair looks lovely, but it's got nits underneath.

00:23:55Excuse me, you couldn't spare half a quid for a good time with two naughty girls.

00:24:04He says no beads, but I can help you.

00:24:07Help a friend in trouble.

00:24:10Nothing else.

00:24:13You think I'm a lady, don't you?

00:24:15But I'm not.

00:24:16Nothing else, Walter.

00:24:18Nothing else.

00:24:45I suppose you're walking sandwich energy, Jenny has one of five.

00:24:51Put her down next to you.

00:24:53Oh, yes.

00:24:55She comes up.

00:24:56It's one of five minutes on this light foot.

00:24:58No sandwich, please.

00:25:00What have we got?

00:25:01I've got cheese or Spam.

00:25:03What would you like, Ralph?

00:25:04Spam, please.

00:25:05Spam.

00:25:05And a T.

00:25:06Or a T, please.

00:25:07That would be one and five.

00:25:08Put it down, shall I?

00:25:09Put it down here.

00:25:10Two little bits of beef.

00:25:12Three little spiked potatoes.

00:25:14And about a spoonful of beef.

00:25:16Six and six.

00:25:18Where's the sugar?

00:25:20No sugar.

00:25:21What have you got?

00:25:22We've got Spam and cheese.

00:25:25Have you got any eggs?

00:25:26No.

00:25:27No eggs.

00:25:28No egg.

00:25:28No milk or yolk till dead.

00:25:30All right I'll have a Spam.

00:25:31On the book, yes please.

00:25:33How many Miss Jones?

00:25:34Only one, thank you.

00:25:45Shri Mataji Prakash

00:25:45Now, lady, the stamp's going very well, isn't it?

00:25:49Very nice, very nice.

00:25:52Have you?

00:25:55Yes, very nice.

00:25:59Yes, very nice.

00:26:01Yeah, we're very nice for dinner, yeah. Very nice dinner.

00:26:05I cook you something good.

00:26:12You can't come here, only paddies allowed.

00:26:15This one is a paddy.

00:26:16The kitchen is closed.

00:26:18I'll speak with the manager.

00:26:20I am the manager.

00:26:25I've only been sandwiched in the day.

00:26:27I know I've got that.

00:26:28I've written that under the bed.

00:26:29Right, strips of end there.

00:26:32I've added them.

00:26:33I'll move them.

00:26:35But can I really sleep under the bed?

00:26:37Yes.

00:26:38And nothing wanted in exchange.

00:26:41Nothing else, nothing, nothing, nothing.

00:26:45Right.

00:26:48I showed you something.

00:26:52This is my husband.

00:26:56And this was my children's.

00:27:01This was me man's car.

00:27:05And this was me elk hounds.

00:27:08I took them with my own camera.

00:27:11And this was me man's speedboat.

00:27:19Hey, is that you?

00:27:21Yeah.

00:27:23Is it?

00:27:24Oh, this takes some sorting out, doesn't it?

00:27:28I mean, quite a change, isn't it?

00:27:32Okay, hey.

00:27:34Hey.

00:27:49Good night, Jane.

00:28:02Good night, Adam.

00:28:04Good night, Adam.

00:28:05Night.

00:28:07What are you? Come on, out. Come on. Out.

00:28:11Come on.

00:28:11What?

00:28:12What? Come on out, I said.

00:28:14Come on.

00:28:15Yeah.

00:28:16Now, come on now. Out you go.

00:28:18Go on.

00:28:19Get out on the bleating street, you beg and all. Go on.

00:28:22Go on.

00:28:25I've had enough of you before. Go on, get out.

00:28:27The last demand we advanced you was the result of your being in dire need.

00:28:30But we can't continue making these payments while you remain a vagrant.

00:28:35Now, if you would...

00:28:37While I remain a what?

00:28:39While you remain a vagrant.

00:28:41But if you...

00:28:41The vagrant? I am not the vagrant.

00:28:44I'm not, I'm not, I'm not the vagrant.

00:28:47And I want money. I want money. I need money.

00:28:51Can't be low your voice. If you don't, I'll have to take a...

00:28:53All right! Send for the bloody old shades.

00:28:57And shut up!

00:28:58Keep your bloody old, honey!

00:29:00All this has happened before!

00:29:02I am not the vagrant!

00:29:03I'm not the vagrant! I am not!

00:29:05I am not the vagrant!

00:29:07I am, I am, I am!

00:29:09As she was causing a disturbance in the Ministry of Social Security, I thought...

00:29:12Can you speak up, please? I can't hear you very well.

00:29:15She was causing a disturbance in the Ministry of Social Security.

00:29:18No, I was not, sir. No, I was not.

00:29:21Well, I'm only putting my point of view, because they called me the vagrant.

00:29:25I...

00:29:30Yes, well...

00:29:31Either I write here, you're disturbed,

00:29:34and recommend you be admitted to our psychiatric hospital,

00:29:37or I say, you're safe,

00:29:39and send you back to the court for them to deal with you as they think fit.

00:29:43Now, which would you like?

00:32:39Whoa!

00:32:53Come along now, Edna.

00:32:55Open.

00:32:57Everyone takes a pill after a meal.

00:32:59Come on, good girl.

00:33:02Nurse, hold her nose.

00:33:05Come on, open. Open.

00:33:13Swallow it down, swallow it.

00:33:16Good girl.

00:33:40Fine.

00:33:52And this t-shirt has changed the sun

00:33:57Through the sky he stands

00:33:59Right there he's done

00:34:02Through the darkness of my mind

00:34:08A bright light has shown

00:34:10It's you I will find

00:34:17I hate you

00:34:21I hate you

00:34:26I hate you

00:34:37In a crowded windswept street

00:34:42The faces I see

00:34:44Are the people I see

00:34:47With their eyes

00:34:50In the village of the land

00:34:53That takes me back

00:34:55To the forest of my mind

00:35:03I hate you

00:35:06I hate you

00:35:11I hate you

00:35:38Don't mind me asking

00:35:40What's a nice young girl like you doing in a place like this?

00:35:44You're much too young and beautiful to be in here dear

00:35:52Them that's most beautiful can be sickest in their mind my love

00:35:56Are you sick in your mind dear?

00:35:58Oh

00:36:00Them pills what the doctor gave me

00:36:03The nerves they got so terrible kept taking more and more pills to quiet them down

00:36:07In the end I was taking 60 or 80 a day

00:36:11Well let's hope your staying here won't be long then

00:36:15I hope it will be

00:36:17Very very long one

00:36:30Hello Edna you know me I'm Dr Austin I want to give you a little injection in your arm

00:36:34Nothing to worry about

00:36:35But when I give it to you I want you to start counting up to 10

00:36:38And round about 8 you'll find that you'll go to sleep

00:36:41And you'll wake up with a cup of tea later on

00:36:43All right

00:36:44Now there's nothing to worry about

00:36:45No

00:36:46You're there just a little prick

00:36:47Now start counting Edna

00:36:49Start counting after me now

00:36:50Yes

00:36:511

00:36:532

00:36:553

00:36:57Getting tired

00:36:58Oh

00:37:00There you're sleeping

00:37:02Lovely

00:37:13Thank you

00:37:14I think she's quite relaxing

00:37:16Yes she's all right

00:37:17I think she's fine

00:37:23Okay

00:37:24Yes

00:37:25Yes

00:37:25Okay

00:37:29Okay

00:37:30Okay

00:37:31Okay

00:37:32Okay

00:37:52Yeah fine

00:37:54We'll just do it on the side

00:37:54Okay

00:37:54Yeah fine

00:37:55We'll just do it on the side

00:37:56Okay

00:37:56Let's do it on the side

00:38:03Okay

00:38:04Okay

00:38:06Okay

00:38:10Okay

00:38:11Okay

00:38:12Okay

00:38:14Okay

00:38:14I can't say

00:38:15Okay

00:38:15On the side

00:38:18Okay

00:38:21Okay

00:38:22Okay

00:38:25Take it

00:38:26That'll do for today, Anne. You can go on out.

00:38:38Ah. It's, uh, Edna, is it?

00:38:40Good, sir.

00:38:48Now, can you please try?

00:38:51Can you please tell me if you know the date?

00:38:54The date?

00:38:56Oh, er, let me see, er...

00:39:02Thirty-second.

00:39:06All right, you can stay in another week. You can go now.

00:39:17Ah, it's, er, Catherine, is it?

00:39:19Oh, er...

00:39:28Where's Clara?

00:39:30You know, one that goes around collecting pills.

00:39:34Clara?

00:39:35Yes, Clara.

00:39:37She's dead.

00:39:38She's dead.

00:39:39She took too many.

00:39:45You listen.

00:39:49I can wrench me bones, see? I do it in the wards, do it all the time till it dries

00:39:54them mad.

00:39:55Phone!

00:39:57PHONE RINGS

00:39:59PHONE RINGS

00:40:01Lodge?

00:40:02Who?

00:40:03No, I'm sorry, she's not here.

00:40:06Beth found a call for me.

00:40:08You?

00:40:09I should have a call for you then.

00:40:11Yes, and I weren't here, so you said I went here.

00:40:13I didn't tell anybody you weren't here. It wasn't for you.

00:40:16Yes, I'm sorry, who was it?

00:40:18I don't know, a man. It wasn't for you.

00:40:20A man?

00:40:21Well, listen, I wanted to...

00:40:23Why didn't...

00:40:23Why didn't you let me speak to him?

00:40:25You are Mrs. Edna Johnson, aren't you?

00:40:28No, I'm Mrs. Edna...

00:40:31Forget it.

00:40:39You're cured, Mrs. Rogers.

00:40:41Oh, you still have problems, it's true, but...

00:40:44Basically, yours is not a psychological problem.

00:40:46You may still have problems, like housing.

00:40:49But as regards your mind, you're as right as rain.

00:40:53You'll have to go, Edna.

00:40:55I do think I have got some problems.

00:41:30You may...

00:41:31You're, I see.

00:41:32I'm...

00:41:35You're...

00:41:38You're...

00:41:40You're...

00:41:59why did you do it just show you I wanted to stay stay another week after that go

00:42:09I'm not staying in this thinking dump

00:42:12I was never bitter though my life was sad for broken friendships litter the road of life so hard

00:42:29blow savage winds and bring the slashing rain

00:42:36there's a sweetness in her sorrow glory in her pain

00:42:45I left the city with its artificial lights

00:42:52away from the wiles of wanton men the sensual delights

00:42:59I wander through the country free from every care

00:43:06I sit by the streams and breathe in deep of freedom's air

00:43:23okay I'll

00:43:25out

00:43:26so

00:43:35so

00:43:42so

00:44:06thank you very much

00:44:28I'll get drunk very easy

00:44:32one week busy and I'm drunk out of this world

00:44:38well look that's not my problem is it if you've got no money go and beg for it will you

00:44:46I'll take that phone calls for me

00:44:48I couldn't be for you you silly old

00:44:50go on get out

00:44:52go on get out

00:45:20go on get out

00:45:33Oh, can't you read?

00:45:34It says washing other than face the hands is not allowed.

00:45:40Piss off, dirt box.

00:46:10Only a pound or two, but he comes to you with the sincere good wishes of everyone concerned with his

00:46:16charity.

00:46:18Now, how about clothing?

00:46:26Oh, yes, sir.

00:46:28Here, the boots, sir.

00:46:30The boot?

00:46:30Yes, what about the boots?

00:46:32I could do with some boots, sir.

00:46:35Oh, yes, of course, I see.

00:46:36Yes, yes, we can fix you up with boots.

00:46:38Over here.

00:46:40Ah, those are the gents, I'm afraid.

00:46:43Our ladies' department is on this shelf, here.

00:46:50Yes.

00:46:50Yes, I'll do a certain amount of strolling around, sir.

00:46:56Hmm?

00:46:57Wears them out quick.

00:46:59Yes, yes.

00:47:03These?

00:47:04Yes, those.

00:47:05Jolly good.

00:47:07Jolly good.

00:47:07Coat, sir?

00:47:08Oh, yes, yes, yes, we can fix you up with the coat.

00:47:11Now, do you fancy the green and the mold?

00:47:15Uh, yes.

00:47:18Right.

00:47:19Let's try it on.

00:47:21Yeah?

00:47:22Oh.

00:47:23Yeah.

00:47:29Yeah.

00:47:36Have a look.

00:47:38Over there.

00:47:42Splendid.

00:47:42It almost fits, doesn't it?

00:47:45Well, now, will you leave your old coat with me to dispose of?

00:47:48No, sir, no.

00:47:49Never throw away old clothes.

00:47:51Ha, you're sensible.

00:47:53Well, now, here's the address of a room we've found for you.

00:47:57I'll find me own place.

00:48:13Hey, you, what number were you last night?

00:48:15Well, number 34.

00:48:17No, you were number 62 when you wet your bed, didn't you?

00:48:19Out.

00:48:20Oh, let's have another try.

00:48:21Out.

00:48:23Can you give me a name and your permanent address?

00:48:25I've got no permanent name.

00:48:28Sorry?

00:48:29No, I've got no permanent name.

00:48:31It varies.

00:48:32I mean, I've got no permanent address.

00:48:35The name is, um, McLean.

00:48:39Well, I'm sorry, Mrs McLean, but you see,

00:48:42there's nothing can be done until you've got a permanent address.

00:48:44Well, something bloody well must be done.

00:48:46I ain't got no money.

00:48:48Just a minute.

00:48:50Oh.

00:48:53She's mad.

00:48:55Oh.

00:49:07Go to Stockfield Department of Health and Social Security.

00:49:10That's in Broad Street, Julian Office Hours.

00:49:12Or, in the hours of darkness, go to Digber's police station.

00:49:16And I'm furnishing proof of destitution.

00:49:19They'll give you a cheat, entitling you to a bed in our local Part 3 accommodation.

00:49:23Do you have any proof of identity, like a national insurance card?

00:49:27Yes, yes.

00:49:30Here's me address and here's me permanent name.

00:49:34Mr. Robert Tute.

00:49:36Yes, yes, yes.

00:49:37That is my name.

00:49:39Are you sure that's your name, Mr. Tute?

00:49:55Come on out, darling.

00:49:56You can't sleep here all night.

00:49:58Come on.

00:49:58Come on out of here.

00:49:59Well, leave me alone.

00:50:01Come on, now.

00:50:01You can't sleep here all night.

00:50:01Oh, you leave me alone.

00:50:02You're a bloody...

00:50:03Come on.

00:50:04The accuser was shouting, striding backwards and forwards, causing a considerable amount

00:50:09of annoyance.

00:50:10Her complaints had been received from neighbours.

00:50:13I informed her that, in my opinion, her behaviour was drunk and disorderly and that she was causing

00:50:17a breach of the peace.

00:50:20What have you got to say?

00:50:22Well, I'm very sorry, sir.

00:50:24I didn't seem to do it.

00:50:26And I don't know what come over me that I didn't do it.

00:50:31All I say is that it didn't seem as how I was doing it, sir.

00:50:37No.

00:50:38Not at all.

00:50:40See, the fact is, I drank the liquid, intending just to have a dops, sir, but, well, I drank more

00:50:51than just one dops, sir, didn't I?

00:50:54But I've got me pounds, sir.

00:50:57I've got me pounds saved up by the fine.

00:51:00Anything known?

00:51:02Yes.

00:51:06In 1917, I ate my...

00:51:08Just the last three.

00:51:12Two convictions for drunk and disorderly and one for two years for larceny.

00:51:27I'm afraid we're going to need more than a one-pound fine.

00:51:40It's quite nice in here, isn't it?

00:51:43Quite nice doings.

00:51:47I'll say it's nice in here.

00:51:50It's nice and warm.

00:51:53Yes.

00:51:54Women are outside.

00:51:58Look at that lovely.

00:52:02Always did say,

00:52:04prison's not as bad as it's cracked up to be.

00:52:07Better than some hotels.

00:52:09Oh!

00:52:11Oh!

00:52:31Of course, if you come to Jesus saves, we can't have you living drunk.

00:52:35I'm not going to take a drink.

00:52:37Oh, really?

00:52:38Really.

00:52:39And I should be saving me money.

00:52:41I might be spending it all over the place.

00:52:42Very good.

00:52:43Very good indeed.

00:52:44Excellent.

00:52:44I'll be getting up in the morning all right.

00:52:46Very good.

00:52:47Excellent.

00:52:47And I should be taking the bath two or three times a day.

00:52:51Oh!

00:52:52Well, I would have said it was enough two or three times in a week.

00:52:56All right.

00:52:59Of course, life that Jesus saves may not be quite like you think it'll be.

00:53:04I'm changed.

00:53:05I won't have no trouble at all.

00:53:07I'll behave myself.

00:53:08No.

00:53:09No matter what people say, I'm changed.

00:53:11No more.

00:53:13No more will have no funny ways.

00:53:15You'll not only have to get up in the morning, you'll have to go to work.

00:53:18Oh, it's no trouble to make up.

00:53:20I've been a good worker in the past.

00:53:21And the other thing is, if you get drunk on Friday night, we'll have no alternative.

00:53:28I never drink.

00:53:32Well, I begin to wonder what such a virtuous person is doing inside prison at all.

00:53:37Unless they happen to be the governor or the chaplain.

00:53:42Thank you very much, sir.

00:53:45Now then, are you sure there's nothing else you'd like to tell me about yourself?

00:53:50Like, um, where you were born?

00:53:53Or what your background was?

00:53:55Who your parents were?

00:53:59Thank you, miss.

00:54:03Right.

00:54:08I don't know why they've done it.

00:54:14Why didn't they let me stay in the nick?

00:54:18In the nick.

00:54:48Why didn't they let me stay in the nick?

00:54:49Don't you.

00:54:49I don't know.

00:54:50I've had Probably.

00:54:51Can't grab something.

00:55:05I don't know.

00:55:07I don't know.

00:55:10I don't know.

00:55:10I just want to bring it down here.

00:55:12Who are you going to stay in the street?ics.

00:55:16How are

00:55:17you going to take care of it?

00:55:48That's the old skipper over here now.

00:55:51Catching the old.

00:56:20Where did you sleep last night?

00:56:23Uh, I was close.

00:56:28What did you do before this, Hamlet?

00:56:30I was a roadside facility, I was with my counsel.

00:56:34Yes.

00:56:35Yes.

00:56:36Would you like to come soon?

00:56:37Oh, thank you.

00:56:38I don't need a chalice, I'm down, but I'm not out yet.

00:56:41I'm sorry.

00:56:42Oh, that's okay, but I'm not down and out yet.

00:57:06Oh, my knee, my knee.

00:57:12Oh, they run me down, they run me down, the bastards.

00:57:18Oh, God.

00:57:21Oh, God.

00:57:24All right.

00:57:27Oh.

00:57:29Oh, I'm Irish, I am a Catholic.

00:57:32I've seen, I've seen.

00:57:35He's just a fear.

00:57:36He's money for you.

00:57:38Look, he's...

00:57:38We don't want your money.

00:57:40Have you been to the hospital?

00:57:41Yes.

00:57:42But all they've done, they...

00:57:43They dressed my knee.

00:57:45That's all they've done, and then they threw me out.

00:57:48Feel it, sister.

00:57:49You feel my knee.

00:57:52Have you anywhere to go tonight?

00:57:54No.

00:57:55I've nowhere to go.

00:57:57No one allowed me.

00:57:58There's nowhere for me.

00:58:00Oh, God.

00:58:02Oh, I've seen.

00:58:04I've seen, sister.

00:58:06You hold on to your money.

00:58:30Let me in, I'll tell you.

00:58:32What do you think you have?

00:58:35What do you know about me?

00:58:36Call yourselves, Jesus saves, and you leave me out in the night.

00:58:45You've got to know, Jesus saves.

00:58:49Oh, pick off.

00:58:53Jesus saves, indeed.

00:58:56Oh.

00:58:56You call yourselves, bloody Christians, and you leave me out in the cold.

00:59:03Pank off, all of you.

00:59:05I ain't sure.

00:59:07Shut up.

00:59:09What?

00:59:10Shut up.

00:59:10Where's some behind you?

00:59:12Pank off.

00:59:12Shut up.

00:59:13Shut up, or they'll call the police.

00:59:15What did you say?

00:59:16I said, if you don't shut up, I'll call the police.

00:59:18You poke up to bed, madam.

00:59:22Shut up, you bloody vagrant.

00:59:25Vagrant?

00:59:27Vagrant?

00:59:29Do you call me the vagrant?

00:59:32Yes.

00:59:32I am the vagrant.

00:59:34I am not the vagrant.

00:59:37I've lived in houses, yes.

00:59:39And I've got every right to live in houses.

00:59:41The only trouble is, they always seem to get condemned.

00:59:45Pulled down over me head, that's all.

00:59:48Can I help that?

00:59:49I don't like living like I do.

00:59:52I don't like sharing dormitory.

00:59:56So, you want to come in?

00:59:59Yes.

01:00:01Come on, then.

01:00:29Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.

01:00:32Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.

01:00:36Let me see.

01:00:39Oh, yeah.

01:00:42Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.

01:00:59Oh, oh.

01:01:01Ha ha ha! Oh, yeah!

01:01:04He's on mother-boy!

01:01:07Ha ha ha! Oh, yes!

01:01:10Ha ha ha ha!

01:01:11Oh, shut up! That's why we laugh!

01:01:15Ah!

01:01:16Felt up with your bleeding mouth!

01:01:18Oh!

01:01:21Oh, sorry!

01:01:36Oh, oh! I'm being tied up! I'm tied up! Oh, let me go! Let me go!

01:01:42Keep these things off me! Keep them off!

01:01:44Oh, I'm being tied up! I'm tied up off you!

01:01:47Oh! Oh! I'm a piece of machinery!

01:01:50I was wrongly connected!

01:01:52Leave me believe me!

01:01:54You're not a piece of machinery, darling!

01:01:56I was not a piece of machinery!

01:01:57Piece of machinery!

01:02:00Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh, my asthma!

01:02:03Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh!

01:02:04Come on, you old boy!

01:02:05Oh! Oh!

01:02:08Get away from me! Oh, come on!

01:02:11Look at you! Disgusting!

01:02:12Oh, I'll snag you, then!

01:02:13Oh, Edna!

01:02:15Now, shut up! Shut up at once and go to sleep!

01:02:18Oh, all right!

01:02:24Yes, okay!

01:02:26Yes!

01:02:27Okay!

01:03:30I didn't think nothing of it.

01:03:32I thought it's how it always was.

01:03:35As I got older, I got so I didn't like so much of it.

01:03:39It was after me real mum died.

01:03:43Then one day when I was 12, when me new mum, as me step mum was going out shopping, I

01:03:48said to her, please mum, take me with you because I don't know me dad taking me to bed with

01:03:53him every time we go out.

01:03:55Then it all come out.

01:03:57She sent for the police and this police woman, she come along and she said, you said you've had intercourse

01:04:03with him.

01:04:04And I said, I don't know, what's intercourse?

01:04:07So she said, you must know what intercourse is, girl.

01:04:10And I said, no.

01:04:12So she said, well, did he get his finger out and stick it up you?

01:04:17I thought she meant his tongue because he had been kissing me.

01:04:20So I said, yes.

01:04:22So then we went to the court and my dad, he got a priest to come to the court and

01:04:26say it, my dad wouldn't do a thing like that.

01:04:29So then he got a doctor to examine me and he said I was not a virgin.

01:04:33So they said, well, if it wasn't my dad, it must be someone else.

01:04:37And I was in need of moral protection.

01:04:42So there was no room in the children's home, so they sent me to the remando.

01:04:48And that's about it, I suppose.

01:04:52I don't think my dad wanted me, really.

01:04:55They upset me when I didn't trust my word.

01:04:59Oh, I'm going to do an epic one.

01:05:01Where the hell are you using that?

01:05:05Don't go easy now.

01:05:07I'm going to try it properly.

01:05:10Well, you can press.

01:05:12But don't poke.

01:05:13Don't poke.

01:05:15Yeah.

01:05:16I like to press that.

01:05:17I'll turn.

01:05:18Well, look, we're standing there.

01:05:19I'm holding your arm.

01:05:21I had a little baby once.

01:05:23I loved her.

01:05:24But they took her from me.

01:05:27I took too many aspirins.

01:05:28Please took me to the institution.

01:05:31And I've seen you before, Samway.

01:05:32Just the kale, I don't think so.

01:05:34Want some baked beans?

01:05:36Hey.

01:05:37Hey, Edna.

01:05:38Then there's Mavis.

01:05:40She drowned her daughter, age two.

01:05:42The day after she was refusing abortion for the second child she was expecting.

01:05:46Who else is that?

01:05:49Yeah.

01:05:49It's Rosamund.

01:05:51There was a newborn baby girl found, strangled, wrapped in a brown paper parcel, dumped in

01:05:55some woman's public bog.

01:05:57Hey, Josie.

01:05:57This meat's all burnt.

01:06:00Oh, we live on what we're given.

01:06:02Hey, Terry, bring a milk, will you?

01:06:03Okay, Josie.

01:06:04There was one time we had only veal and ham pies, two feet long, thirty of them.

01:06:10We had to live on veal and ham pies until we were sick of it.

01:06:15And another time, a supermarket dumped three hundred eggs on us.

01:06:21Most of them were on the point of going off.

01:06:23I remember that, Tom.

01:06:26We've got a very good relationship with our butcher now.

01:06:29Any meat that falls on the floor or something like that, it gives it to us.

01:06:37See, my idea was of a society where people, instead of fighting, helped each other.

01:06:45Well, this house was the first step.

01:06:47And I hope we can turn it into a whole street, then a town, and into bigger and bigger units.

01:06:54The barriers that most social workers put up, you know, desks, that sort of thing.

01:06:59Completely wrong.

01:07:00I always felt you could draw an analogy with somebody who'd fallen into a well.

01:07:06Now, the usual approach is to sling in a rope and say, hang on to that, and I'll pull you

01:07:12up.

01:07:14My view was that you should get down into the well and help push from alongside.

01:07:21This place is a palace.

01:07:23I've tried all the others.

01:07:25This is a nice place.

01:07:27This place is very, very, very nice.

01:07:35Well, you know.

01:07:37But a lot of them, of course, it's up in the tanks, see, like a fish, close the doors, and

01:07:44out for the best.

01:07:46That's not the best way to treat them sort of people.

01:07:49Well, I'm prepared to work, yes?

01:07:52But when I go, they say to me, how old are you?

01:07:56And I say, how old?

01:07:58And they say, are you a good timekeeper?

01:08:01And I say, yes.

01:08:02And I'm in good health.

01:08:05And then she says, sir, can you work without supervision?

01:08:08I say, yes.

01:08:10I think, this is getting interesting.

01:08:13But then, what it often happens, then sort of look me over and sort of flitters out.

01:08:26It's not that they isn't genuine.

01:08:28It's just, I suppose, them sort of persons that don't have very good memory.

01:08:33Yeah.

01:08:33Well, I think you should get into bed now, Edna.

01:08:35You can't talk all night.

01:08:37Oh, I have to.

01:08:38Must be able to talk.

01:08:39My doctor says so.

01:08:40Most important is to talk all the time.

01:08:42You must go to sleep now, Edna.

01:09:08Er, Edna, have a look at this.

01:09:10Whoa.

01:09:11Oh, damn you.

01:09:14Stop me.

01:09:15Get off my face.

01:09:16And it's Paula Smith.

01:09:17She leaves next week.

01:09:18She's the one who's having the baby.

01:09:20Yeah, that's the one, yeah.

01:09:21Back to the side.

01:09:26Well, what are you all looking at?

01:09:28What are you staring for?

01:09:30Not now, truly.

01:09:31We're having a meeting.

01:09:32What for, eh?

01:09:34A bleeding meeting.

01:09:34What for?

01:09:36Well, go on, then.

01:09:37Kill me.

01:09:38Kill me.

01:09:39Kill me.

01:09:40Kill me.

01:09:42Oh, kill me.

01:09:43Kill me.

01:09:45Kill me.

01:09:46Come on.

01:09:46Kill me.

01:09:49We really ought to turn her out.

01:09:51No one else will take her.

01:09:52But it's not ours.

01:09:53Not even the psychiatric hospital.

01:09:55I phoned them again last week.

01:09:57They said, we can't take her.

01:09:59She's absolutely mad.

01:10:00I thought she is.

01:10:01And according to our constitution,

01:10:03they're only supposed to stay here for two weeks.

01:10:06But after this, it really is the gutter.

01:10:07We can't just turn them out.

01:10:11What are we for doing this?

01:10:14Hello?

01:10:15Yes, we are.

01:10:17A girl like that will drain you dry if you let her.

01:10:21She's been on the streets, you know.

01:10:23Exposing herself.

01:10:25Yes, she even came up to me and said,

01:10:27hey, you're taking me out, aren't you?

01:10:30I must say, why don't you turn me off?

01:10:33She still gets lots of guys there.

01:10:35Where did she take me?

01:10:37Doorways, mostly.

01:10:38Backs of cars.

01:10:38Good.

01:10:39Goodbye.

01:10:43What else?

01:10:44Oh, just Edna cleaning up.

01:10:46She's a bad hand with a groan.

01:10:47Well, anyway, Trudy.

01:10:49I tell her she has to go.

01:10:52She immediately indulges in a fit of screaming.

01:10:55But it isn't as if these were the only ones.

01:10:57I understand that every day you're turning people away.

01:10:59Yes, every day.

01:11:01All the time, then.

01:11:02And why do we discriminate

01:11:03in favor of those we've got

01:11:05and against the others?

01:11:23Hi, Edna.

01:11:25I've just been up with you.

01:11:27Everybody's there.

01:11:28And they're all just lying around, smashed.

01:11:30It's crazy.

01:11:32Do you know, I don't know what this country's coming to.

01:11:36Everybody's smashed.

01:11:37I think we're going to be overwhelmed.

01:11:39Admit it.

01:11:43Do you want me here?

01:11:44Do you want me to go?

01:11:47All right, then, I'll go.

01:11:50All right, then, Trudy, go.

01:11:55There's some roses for you, Josie.

01:12:15I want to come in, Josie.

01:12:18I want to come in.

01:12:27I thought you was going to throw me out.

01:12:29No, Ed, no, you wouldn't do that.

01:12:32Will I be here for always, then?

01:12:34Well, not for always, but...

01:12:37Is there any in the world like me?

01:12:39I mean, many in the world like me.

01:12:41What, people who triumph?

01:12:43Well, you know us no good ones.

01:12:46Look, I don't think you're no good.

01:12:48What they call the inadequate swan.

01:12:51Yes, but inadequate for what?

01:12:54Inadequate to cope with a society that is in itself inadequate.

01:12:59You like that stuff, don't you?

01:13:01Of course I don't.

01:13:02Yes, you do.

01:13:03You see, why don't you always chew that bloody chewing gum when I give it you, even though you...

01:13:10Well, Edna, I'll admit I don't really like it.

01:13:13No, but you chew it.

01:13:15I chew it for the sake of our friendship.

01:13:18Our friendship.

01:13:19Hmm.

01:13:20Our friendship.

01:13:22Ooh.

01:13:23Hey!

01:13:25I believe I ought to chew it because of the intense joy it gives you to see me chew it,

01:13:31even though at the end you're going to touch me for five bob.

01:13:34Our friendship.

01:13:36Ooh, well then.

01:13:40Josie, have you got a couple of bob on you?

01:13:43Yeah, I'm going to drink for three weeks.

01:13:45Very good, Edna.

01:13:46Yes, it's my pride.

01:13:48It's my pride and my boast.

01:13:50I'm having to drink for three weeks, going out to celebrate.

01:13:54Oh, is that the best?

01:13:57Ah!

01:13:58Ha, ha, ha, I've got you, didn't I?

01:14:01Ah, ha, ha, ha, you're right.

01:14:03Oh, is that the best?

01:14:06Ah!

01:14:06Ah, ha, ha, ha, I've got you, didn't I?

01:14:09Ah, ha, ha, ha, ha.

01:14:11Go, Hank, we'll fall.

01:14:12Sir, I represent the interests of the local authority and the inhabitants of Wise Street

01:14:17who welcome the opportunity of this public inquiry to put forward their point of view.

01:14:22The street is the seat of considerable amenities for solid, respectable people.

01:14:27It was built in Victorian times as a residential suburb for the business classes and for retired people,

01:14:34and the inhabitants like to think that it has retained certain of these excellent characteristics.

01:14:39Sir, without planning permission, there has been set up in the street a hostel for homeless and inebriate women.

01:14:46The effect of this on the neighbourhood can be all too easily imagined.

01:14:50What was formerly a highly respectable residential neighbourhood now, it turns out, runs the risk of changing,

01:14:58with grave attendant risks, into something very different.

01:15:02It was mainly, sir, nuns that did this.

01:15:06They were offered this house for a few years by a well-wisher,

01:15:10and they, having no particular use for it, lent it to a Miss Josie Quinn

01:15:16for her to carry out in it, her experiments with women.

01:15:21This is a clean population.

01:15:23The drunken population of these parts is a very clean population.

01:15:30On the whole.

01:15:32They're very clean folk.

01:15:35On the whole.

01:15:38Oh, my.

01:15:39But, uh, if there is no hostel provided for these people?

01:15:43They have nowhere to go.

01:15:45Except to the mental hospital, or the street, or to prison.

01:15:51Going there not because they're really criminals or mad,

01:15:55but because there's no one more suitable for them.

01:16:00These people are listed in official reports as

01:16:02inebriates, alcoholics, psychopaths, drug addicts,

01:16:09layabouts, the disabled, failures.

01:16:14These words are alibis to help us to forget why they're really like they are.

01:16:19Stack the cards against us.

01:16:20These people are the same as us.

01:16:23Just you and me in a mess.

01:16:24And they can live fulfilled lives.

01:16:28There should be hospitals like ours everywhere, every four or five streets.

01:16:32A huge institution, so vast, so impersonal.

01:16:37There's no answer.

01:16:38What they need is a small place.

01:16:40A place to be a typical home.

01:16:43The sort of home that most of them have never had.

01:16:47A home in a house like any other, in a decent street.

01:16:50These are people, not monsters.

01:16:54People who have been damaged through being helped.

01:16:57Through being helped with the wrong kind of help.

01:17:01Their need is desperate.

01:17:04Sometimes the street is filled with drunkards.

01:17:06They fall down in the gutter.

01:17:08I've been stopped in the street and asked for coppers.

01:17:11These people should be somewhere else.

01:17:14In a large hostel.

01:17:15Or a large hotel.

01:17:17They're nothing but vagrants.

01:17:19Vagrant?

01:17:20I am not the vagrant!

01:17:23Are the doors kept locked?

01:17:26The doors aren't kept locked.

01:17:28Because we want the residents to look upon the place as their own home.

01:17:31Are they let out?

01:17:33Yes.

01:17:34And when they're out, they have a drink?

01:17:36We hope.

01:17:37They won't be slipping back into the state of mind when they want a drink.

01:17:40But some do relapse.

01:17:44Very occasionally, they relapse.

01:17:49Well.

01:17:53How many of those your housing could be described as vagrants?

01:17:57Listen, I've told you this before.

01:18:00I am not the vagrant!

01:18:02No, I am not!

01:18:04I am not the vagrant!

01:18:06You think I'm a nothing, don't you?

01:18:08You think I'm nothing?

01:18:10Well, I am!

01:18:12Well, I'm not!

01:18:14Here, let me tell you something.

01:18:16I've had money and men.

01:18:18I've had women in my own house.

01:18:22And I wasn't satisfied.

01:18:24Because they've trapped you all ways, I have.

01:18:27You think I'm nothing?

01:18:29Don't you ask you do and never say to go because I'm not!

01:18:32And I have a man!

01:18:34I'm not!

01:18:36I'm not!

01:18:37How many of those your grounds are there?

01:18:45I'm not!

01:18:49I'm not!

01:18:51I'm not!

01:18:52I'm not!

01:18:53I'm not!

01:18:55I'm not!

01:18:56I'm not!

01:18:57I'm not!

01:19:11Mommy! Mommy! Mommy! Mommy! Mommy, why did you want me to die?

01:19:21I love you, Edna. You're a madder, little baby. Very, very.

01:19:26What do you think of your daughter?

01:19:27It doesn't matter to me. I didn't want her.

01:19:29What do you want your mommy when I wanted you? Mommy!

01:19:35Oh, you're lovely, Edna. Your mommy's own and lovely little girl. Bless you.

01:19:39There's no dinner tonight. No dinner tonight. I'm sorry. Nothing.

01:19:46Why have you got no money?

01:19:48Because you drunk-a-dog.

01:19:50That's what? What? Jesus, I'm going to kill him.

01:20:10Don't go out, Daddy. Don't go out.

01:20:13Mommy! Mommy! Mommy!

01:20:15I'm just going out for an hour. I've left your food on the table.

01:20:18Where's your mom?

01:20:20Out at the party.

01:20:22When did you last see him?

01:20:24Last night.

01:20:26I'm going to take you off to our lovely home.

01:20:30This is home.

01:20:30No!

01:20:31Don't you take my children from me!

01:20:34Don't you dare take my children from me!

01:20:37No! No!

01:20:39You left your children alone all night.

01:20:42I left them with food.

01:20:43I sentence you to three months in prison.

01:20:46That way the poor dears will be alone for ninety nights.

01:20:51May I apply for a custody order for the children to be placed in care?

01:20:55Yes! The bed is harder, lonely, isn't it?

01:20:57That's because you wet it. It's pebbles and marbles.

01:21:00Each time you wet it, there'll be more.

01:21:03Here's a basin. As you see, it's filled with urine.

01:21:05I'm going to wash your face in it.

01:21:06You know why. You know why.

01:21:11She's absolutely uncontrollable.

01:21:14It's best if she was taken back into care.

01:21:16Would you care to say anything else about your daughter?

01:21:20I have no daughter.

01:21:24Come along. We'll find a bed for you.

01:21:27I think she's one of the women from the house today.

01:21:29Yes, she is.

01:21:30Come along.

01:21:31It's all I can do.

01:21:45I don't expect you want to see me again.

01:21:49You expect me to say that, don't you, Edna?

01:21:52You expect me to be a rejecting father figure to you?

01:21:59I'm not going to.

01:22:02I'm not going to say you've been a dreadful failure and you've let us down dreadfully.

01:22:07I'm going to say, well done.

01:22:11We've done a jolly good job going straight and keeping sober for the length of time you have.

01:22:17Let's see if next time it can't be for even longer.

01:22:37Dear Miss Quinn, I'm instructed to inform you that the minister has given every consideration to your petition that Jesus

01:22:48saves should be legally

01:22:49legalized and permitted to operate as a hostile in Y Street.

01:22:56Having taken into account the views of all relevant parties expressed at the public inquiry,

01:23:02he is regretfully forced to take the conclusion that it is not in the public interest to operate a hostel

01:23:11in this particular area.

01:23:15You have one month from this date to cease operations.

01:23:25mother, mother, mother, mother, mother, mother, mother, where did you import me?

01:23:36Why did you let me?

01:23:39You didn't want me!

01:23:42You didn't want me!

01:23:45You didn't want me.

01:23:45Was there ways to stop me to pee?

01:23:50Oh, Mum!

01:23:54Why did you...

01:23:59Hello.

01:24:01No. No.

01:24:05No, I... Well, the hostel's closing.

01:24:10I'm sorry, I can't take you. I've just told you.

01:24:13We've got to close. Yes.

01:24:16Goodbye.

01:24:21That phone call. No, Edna, it wasn't for you.

01:24:23What'd you say? No, really, Edna, it wasn't for you.

01:24:26It was for me. That phone call. It must have been this time.

01:24:31Your wrist.

01:24:44So...

01:24:45Where are you going, Edna?

01:24:47Don't worry about me, Arnold.

01:24:49I'll move on.

01:24:50I'll be alright.

01:24:53I feel so set up after this place.

01:24:56I'm quite looking forward to sleeping out.

01:25:02Well, if you're sure you'll be alright.

01:25:06I'll be the restless type, see.

01:25:09Always was restless.

01:25:20Never could stick anything for long.

01:25:22No, I will.

01:25:25I'll be the rest.

01:25:26You're a little bit.

01:25:44I'll be...

01:25:45No, I will.

01:25:46No, I won't.

01:25:47No...

01:25:48No, I will.

01:25:50No, I won't...

01:25:54Anyway, there was this fellow I met, a long time ago, and I really did love this fellow.

01:26:02He was the one, as far as I was concerned, he was me fairy prince.

01:26:08When I thought of him, when I see the trees with the clouds in their branches,

01:26:17when I heard in the papers about her dreams come true, Prince Charming, all that,

01:26:26that's when I get to thinking about him.

01:26:31Because he was the only one, really, you see.

01:26:35I thought he was my Prince Charming, but he was that to some others as well.

01:26:42Other ladies.

01:26:45Anyway, it seems that he never thought about me the same way as what I thought about him, sort of

01:26:52thing.

01:26:54And I still do think of him sometimes.

01:26:58And I wonder what it would have been like.

01:27:03Love's funny, innit?

01:27:05I mean, why him?

01:27:10You never have no children, Edna?

01:27:13Yes, I had one, but it was a prim.

01:27:16Then I had another, but it was, it was took away.

01:27:22Well, bye-bye now, dear.

01:27:25Cheerio.

01:27:28I thought we was going on.

01:27:30No, bye-bye now, dear, because I'll go this way, see.

01:27:33It's like I say, flitter, flitter.

01:27:39Cheerio, dear.

01:27:45Get that way.

01:27:47Flitter, flitter.

01:27:49Move on, my friend.

01:27:53I'm moving on.

01:27:54I'm moving on.

01:27:55No one keeps me away.

01:27:57I'm trying to be right, and I'm going to be wrong.

01:28:00I'll keep you all over.

01:28:02I've got to get that way.

01:28:04I've got to get that way.

01:28:05You, you can't, but you're going to be right.

01:28:10Get that way.

01:28:12Get that way.

01:28:15Get that way.

01:28:16Get that way.

01:28:47Get that way.

01:28:49Get that way.

01:29:01Get that way.

01:29:03Get that way.

01:29:05Get that way.

01:29:07Get that way.

01:29:08Get that way.

01:29:09Get that way.

01:29:10Get that way.

01:29:11Get that way.

01:29:12Get that way.

01:29:14Get that way.

01:29:15Get that way.

01:29:16Get that way.

01:29:18I'm sorry.

01:29:46You

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