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Two boys at school in the 1950s. Two professional men in their dubious prime today. Two Sundays and two crises. What have they to do with each other and which child is father of the man?
Director: Michael Lindsay-Hogg
Writer: Simon Gray
Stars: Alan Bates, Dinsdale Landen, Georgina Hale
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Director: Michael Lindsay-Hogg
Writer: Simon Gray
Stars: Alan Bates, Dinsdale Landen, Georgina Hale
https://imdb.com/title/tt0165592
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https://imdb.com/title/tt0073828/
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00:00Thank you
02:02Good morning, Ned.
02:04Hello.
02:05Unusual togs for a Sunday morning?
02:08You put me down for nine, Ned.
02:09I expect you'll enjoy that.
02:11Full of junior cogs.
02:13Gratis. And luck.
02:14Well, fuck you a back-up break.
02:16Oh, to hell with all that.
02:18We better go.
02:26Are you in there?
02:30Yes, darling.
02:36They've started breakfast.
02:38Oh, I'll just have a shower then.
02:40Couldn't you after?
02:42I pond fearfully.
02:43Well, we've a lot to do.
02:45I haven't started the casserole and I would like to tidy up.
02:48Oh, don't worry, darling.
02:50We'll cope.
02:55I thought we weren't allowed in a musical class, Fred.
02:57No, it's all right on a Sunday.
03:00You sure?
03:01So I'll see you there after your nets.
03:03There's something I particularly want you to hear.
03:05Hey, you two.
03:07Aren't you fagging Refag?
03:09Sir.
03:11Sir.
03:12Come on, then.
03:14How did this come about, anyway?
03:17It was a conspiracy.
03:19The wife of your oldest friend invited the wife of his oldest friend
03:23and her husband, the oldest friend, to lunch.
03:27Wanted to ruin your Sunday.
03:30Well, you didn't have to accept.
03:31I had no choice.
03:33That's not true.
03:34I had the choice of any one of the next eight Sundays.
03:39Well, then why didn't you choose the eighth?
03:42To avoid having this conversation then.
03:45Anyway, it'll get Jeremy someone to play with.
03:48Won't it, darling?
03:49I hate them.
03:53Well, then at least you shouldn't be too bored.
03:57Well, we've got a jolly nice day in store for you chaps, haven't we, Mummy?
04:01A jolly nice day?
04:03Well, we're all going to be particularly nice to Jeremy.
04:06Until he's used to us.
04:07He'll be the odd one out.
04:08Don't like Jeremy.
04:11Well, you've forgotten him.
04:12It's been such a long time.
04:13But I remember I don't like him.
04:16Nor do I.
04:19Then let's begin by pretending to like him
04:22and if we practice hard we'll end up by doing it.
04:33After that, all of that, all of the girls are stuck in the night.
04:35And then they'll be too much better.
04:35moles of the ladies are stuck in the morning.
04:37I'm going to 25 to 36 days.
04:40And then one of the girls are out.
04:40I have no idea.
04:40Right, but then we need to have a young woman,
04:49I'm going to go.
04:49Oh, you'll go.
04:51You can hang out.
04:52I'm going to go.
04:53I'm going to go.
04:58it's to be bed
05:01I know
05:21sorry
05:23I got it in specially then forgot where I put it
05:34you better look after yourself
05:38oh it's very sweet of you
06:03what are you drinking?
06:07ribena actually
06:10I seem to have acquired an addiction to it
06:12because of the children
06:28well
06:30oh
06:34there's something I wanted you to hear
06:41might amuse you
06:49one of my six formers did it
07:33one of my six formers
07:36It's jolly bloody good.
07:38Yes.
07:41Well, I liked it.
07:43Did it make you laugh?
07:45Laugh?
07:46It's very and fantastically witty.
07:50You didn't laugh.
07:51I know all the jokes.
07:53And what did you put it on for?
07:55Your entertainment, of course.
07:57And I wanted to concentrate on the grief for once.
08:17Oh!
08:19Oh!
08:19Oh, my God.
08:54I'm not quite sure whether this is part of it.
08:59The silence, I mean.
09:01It goes on for 20 minutes.
09:11May we not acknowledge it rather than listen to it,
09:14or whatever it is one does to silence?
09:20Yes.
09:22Yes, perhaps one had better.
09:28Well, I just wanted you to get a sense of its effect.
09:36Once or twice, I fancied I heard something behind the silence.
09:44But it's never the same, so I suppose it's just imagination.
09:56Perhaps that's what he intends.
10:01Well.
10:04A sixth form, then, did you say?
10:07Yes, but quite young.
10:09Just 16.
10:11A precocious lad.
10:13I have hopes he'll pull off an Oxford place at the very least.
10:17He's utterly individual.
10:22I think I told you last time we had quite a business coming to a policy on hairstyles.
10:27Oh, yeah.
10:29And decided on a completely liberal view.
10:32Well, you can imagine what we got.
10:34Hair to the shoulders.
10:35Afro styles.
10:36The lot.
10:36Except from young Ted Hurst.
10:39Young Ted Hurst went bald.
10:42Really?
10:43Disease or design?
10:46Oh, design.
10:48I'm sure.
10:51Now this.
10:53For his creative arts project.
10:57Most of the boys wrote stories, or painted, or built things, you know.
11:06But young Ted Hurst.
11:10What will you say to him?
11:12Well, the truth, of course.
11:14That I think it's very, very interesting.
11:17Well, that should do the trick.
11:20How do you mean?
11:20Well, that a bald, 16-year-old, futuristic musician
11:25is entitled to exactly the same attention as any other boy.
11:31Well, of course he is.
11:34Oh, yes.
11:38Anyway, you're obviously still enjoying school, then.
11:42Oh, yes.
11:47Last year, they tried to promote me into more admin and less teaching,
11:50but I wasn't having it.
11:52Those that can't,
11:54aren't going to have that taken away from them.
12:00By the way, did I mention I, uh,
12:02I've taken over junior colts?
12:05Soccer and cricket.
12:06Really?
12:08I thought that would surprise you.
12:10For the exercise?
12:12Partly, yeah.
12:14Of course, I have to take further exercise to keep up with it.
12:18I run every morning before breakfast.
12:21For ice.
12:22I'm up to four miles.
12:23For ice.
12:23I feel quite marvellous, Lloyd.
12:30How about you?
12:32Oh.
12:33I'm not fit enough to take exercise.
12:38But you're all right.
12:40Oh, yes.
12:40Yes, thanks.
12:42Well, you know.
12:47And publishing?
12:50Anything changed?
12:52Last time you sounded a bit depressed.
12:55Well, then nothing can have changed.
12:58I'm still editing the waste products of immigrant intellectuals.
13:02We've, uh...
13:04We've just started on a new paperback series.
13:07Mind formers of our time.
13:10Monographs on people like Marcuse.
13:13Generally written by people on whom we can do monographs in a few years' time.
13:21But you were very excited over a novel you'd received.
13:26A quite unexpected first novel, I think it was.
13:31Was I?
13:33Oh, yes.
13:35Yes, that got a few nice reviews.
13:37Nothing special happened.
13:38I suppose one or two people bought it.
13:42But you're still doing novels, aren't you?
13:44No, no.
13:45We have to keep up a list for appearances' sake.
13:48What with rising costs and declining literacy.
13:52Still, it's good that you are.
13:53Mm.
13:54For whatever reason.
13:58How about your own?
14:00You had one on the way, didn't you?
14:03No.
14:04Or rather, yes, but no.
14:06Not any longer.
14:07Don't say you've given it up.
14:10Well, I've already done my bit as publisher
14:12to add to the world's stock of unread books.
14:15I have no right to add to it as an author.
14:18Besides, it wasn't any good.
14:20How do you know?
14:23I assessed it in my second capacity.
14:25I decided it was probably worth more than a straight rejection,
14:28but that I wouldn't have recommended it for publication.
14:32In fact,
14:33I'd have probably taken the author out to lunch
14:35and gently discouraged him.
14:39Which is precisely what I did do.
14:42It was a bloody good lunch, too.
14:44Oysters, guineas, strawberries.
14:47Thus proving that I may be a poor novelist,
14:49but I'm a decent enough editor.
14:57It must have been well painful for you.
15:02That was a relief, actually.
15:05I haven't the stamina to smoke, drink, and write in the evening.
15:10Perhaps it would be worth giving up for something really important.
15:12Well, that's what I did.
15:20Under the circumstances, I...
15:24Hmm?
15:26Oh.
15:27Just something rather ironic.
15:32But it can wait.
15:36Well...
15:39The thing is...
15:46Mysteriously, Mozart from the other side of the door,
15:50while from the other side of the window,
15:53something fashionably atonal.
15:56Berg?
15:58Sir.
16:00Sir.
16:00When it should really be neither,
16:01as you're both down to fag for the seniors of Refeg.
16:05Didn't you hear the Refeg bells?
16:07Between the bag and the motor.
16:10Sir, we were just going, sir.
16:12Good.
16:12By the way,
16:14isn't there some petty fogging regulation about the musical?
16:17Is one allowed to use it before six o'clock prep?
16:22We thought on Sundays, sir.
16:25What are you two chaps up to?
16:28Lunch is ready.
16:29At least, the children have all washed their hands,
16:31and Hillary's arranging them around the table,
16:33on which I'm about to plunk the casserole.
16:35So, if you're going to get up some of our brew, darling,
16:38you'd better nip about it sharpish.
16:40Do you like homemade beer?
16:43I've been following that chap in the Guardian.
16:45Sometimes it turns out all right.
16:46Actually, it's jolly delicious.
16:50As a matter of fact,
16:52I've got a small contribution.
16:58Can I have some more bread?
16:59It's okay.
17:20Oh, yes.
17:22Thanks, sir.
17:24Good.
17:26All right, thank you.
17:27All right.
17:28I've told you before, we'll try you with something else.
17:33Wait, so does Jeremy eat her machines?
17:35Well, it's worth trying.
17:37Oh, doesn't Lindy manage her thought well?
17:41Hit this one!
17:52Ben?
17:54Mind the flowers?
18:02Stay with yourself.
18:08Some verse?
18:11Sir.
18:12Why, here?
18:13Well, supporting hers too, sir.
18:15It's the House Shield semi-finals.
18:18Oh, well, that's very keen of you.
18:23Stay with yourself.
18:25Let's hear a might of applause, then.
18:27He hasn't done anything to applaud yet.
18:29He's behind.
18:30Four love.
18:32Tell you.
18:33Five love.
18:35Then you must applaud his opponent.
18:37That's the done thing, isn't it?
18:39Sir.
18:39Well, kindly do it.
18:46...
18:47...
18:50...
18:54Kicked again.
18:55Three goals.
18:56Kicked again.
18:57Oh, Ben, get it.
18:58Two goals.
18:59Come on.
19:00Two goals.
19:01Very good.
19:01Two goals.
19:02Dan, very good.
19:03Might show Willie.
19:04Three goals.
19:06Ben, get it.
19:06But I'm not.
19:07Right.
19:09Oh.
19:11Thanks, Jeremy.
19:11It's a little embarrassing for Jeremy, his father not playing.
19:15Come on, Lee.
19:17What would be embarrassing for him if I did?
19:19Oh, thank you.
19:19Besides, he hates football, too.
19:22The lease is joining in.
19:24Kick it to Jeremy.
19:25Oh, hard cheese, Jeremy.
19:26There you go.
19:27Poor little sod had no option.
19:30You presented only pretty spectacle, I must say.
19:34I say, would you mind?
19:35Hang on.
19:36There you lot.
19:37Why?
19:39Oh, well done, Lindy.
19:43Let's do something.
19:45Marvellous, darling.
19:47Yes.
19:49Brilliant.
19:50Isn't she a clever girl?
19:56Daddy.
19:57Daddy.
19:58Daddy, Mindy's done a lovely little jobs for Peter right into her potty.
20:03Oh.
20:06Oh, what a clever girlie, hey?
20:12What do they do when she does lovely big jobs?
20:18Oh.
20:20Oh.
20:22Oh.
20:25Oh.
20:26You look a bit done in, but a chap is up to four miles in the junior coats.
20:31Oh.
20:32It's the heat.
20:50Hard luck.
20:51I pong.
20:59I don't know how you can sit there.
21:01Why not?
21:02Because I pong.
21:04That's because you've been running about, losing.
21:20I wouldn't have if you hadn't been there.
21:23What about?
21:25Not. You put me off.
21:28But it doesn't matter you losing. Master told me so.
21:47Uh...
21:49I'm sorry.
21:57I don't have to.
22:05I mean, you need to know.
22:06sorry. what? what for? oh all this. family casseroles. soccer on the lawn.
22:15homemade beer. you must hate it. of course I don't.
22:20it's the only way Alison knows of doing things. why that's a splendid way.
22:25side I didn't drink the beer or play soccer and the casserole was delicious
22:31and so was the homemade bread. the beer's not really at all bad.
22:40look why don't we meet in town for lunch sometime next week? we always decide to
22:48do that. nothing could be easier to arrange. fine. well I'll give you a ring just as
22:57soon as I've checked on my office diary. right.
23:08one gets such odd fragments of information doesn't one? from each other.
23:16usually not the sequels. yes it's very tantalizing.
23:27I mean I take it everything's all right between you and that girl. girl? the one you
23:36were having an affair with. oh yes.
23:41which one was that? the Australian. oh yes. long gone. all the way back to Australia thank
23:52God.
23:53that was a long time ago.
23:58you were worried that Hillary might find out. you thought she might make trouble.
24:04Hillary? no the Australian.
24:09oh yes that's right. she did go through a period of antipodeum bluster and she wanted to liben me up
24:17a bit. she found me rather boring when you came to it.
24:21she had some idea that adultery should be well more spectacular especially in the literary world.
24:30not least a few
24:36anyway.
24:39Hillary never did find out. oh christmas.
24:43she wouldn't have done anything under her. she was all right. she was quite nice actually.
24:48her book's done quite well too. i mean considering it came at the tail end of all that business.
24:54have you read it?
24:58well in the afterward.
24:59which she'd stuck in afterwards so to speak.
25:03there's an account of an affair she had with a married chap.
25:07who used to bring a spare pair of knickers to her flat in his briefcase.
25:12that was me.
25:15Hillary thought it was funny.
25:18but it was you.
25:21no.
25:22no.
25:23just the description.
25:25she read it out to me all bits of it.
25:28no of course i'm ashamed of the least idea.
25:32good god.
25:35what did you do?
25:37well i laughed too.
25:39it struck me as really quite exceptional.
25:41to lie in bed with one's wife.
25:44innocently reading out an account of one's adultery.
25:49yes.
25:50i can see.
25:58anyway.
26:01that's all over hmm?
26:03oh yes yes.
26:07i remember you're saying that if you got out of that one intact
26:11you'd make sure there'd never be another.
26:16did i say that?
26:17don't you remember?
26:20there've been so many since.
26:24do you mean now?
26:26no not really no.
26:29well there's one of the editor's secretaries.
26:32she's worse than me.
26:34she carries a supply of vd pills in her bag.
26:37makes me take them.
26:40highly organized.
26:42oddly enough i hear she's not a very good secretary.
26:50where'd you do it?
26:51hmm?
26:52no i'm just curious.
26:53no no that's all right.
26:55in the office at lunchtime or after hours when she hasn't got to go on anywhere more interesting or i
27:00don't have to get home for anything.
27:01isn't it risky?
27:03no not really.
27:05i lock the door and leave the key in.
27:07surely people suspect.
27:10well i imagine they are.
27:11usual jokes.
27:13as long as they don't reach hillary.
27:17you know the most depressing the most depressing thing is that i used to feel a certain amount of post
27:25-coital tristesse.
27:27well guilt.
27:29but these days i can scarcely be bothered to feel shifty when i get home.
27:35extra marital sex is overrated as pre-marital sex.
27:40or marital sex come to think of.
27:44why do you have it?
27:46i don't know.
27:49still quite fun the first time.
27:53something to go on and on.
27:54why do you?
27:57from politeness.
27:58i mean one just can't have it off and tip one's hat.
28:05but you still love hillary don't you?
28:07what?
28:07hillary.
28:08what?
28:11love hillary.
28:15christ of course i do.
28:18there's not a day at the office when the telephone rings.
28:21i mean not a day when at least once.
28:23i don't have a spasm of terror and think
28:27oh not this time.
28:29please let nothing have happened to her this time.
28:32or jeremy.
28:35you know i'm...
28:36well i'm frightened for them.
28:40i want to die before they do.
28:43at least i shan't spend my last years thinking...
28:48first me.
28:50then hillary.
28:52then after a long intermission jeremy.
28:56well that seems only fair.
29:00well except that i know that life doesn't work on fair principles which are anyway formulated by types like me
29:05and greenwich.
29:10well who knows?
29:14well who knows what?
29:16i'm...
29:20i'm frightened for her.
29:22i know she is.
29:24for me.
29:30well christ.
29:31that's a marriage.
29:36bloody hell.
29:37of course i love her.
29:38what do you mean?
29:53um...
29:54the thing is...
29:55hmm?
30:00the irony is...
30:12look.
30:23about me.
30:25that's right.
30:26didn't you recognise yourself?
30:28i thought you would as it's so complimentary.
30:31well i can't.
30:32i've only read it once.
30:33it's difficult for you standing there.
30:36well you... i mean you just stick it in my hand.
30:38i'm putting you off again am i?
30:40you can't win at games when i'm watching.
30:42you can't read when i'm watching.
30:44why don't you stop watching then?
30:47you like being watched.
30:49rubbish.
30:50what bloody rubbish.
30:54it's a lousy poem.
30:56it's just bloody rubbish.
30:57i'm glad i showed it to you.
31:00i was sure i'd get an intelligent assessment.
31:03they're right about you.
31:04what they say.
31:05you're just a pseudo really.
31:07looping about listening to music
31:09and scribbling poems not doing anything at all.
31:13the irony is that i thought you might have a touch of intelligence.
31:17the irony is that you're an extremely stupid sort of little person.
31:21the irony is that i've been wasting my time on you.
31:24then why don't you leave me alone?
31:26yes why don't i?
31:28i didn't intend it to.
31:30come out as a full length novel i had no idea.
31:34well these things happen.
31:36even now i can scarcely believe i've finished it.
31:39or whether what i've finished is something there.
31:43you know created.
31:45or therapy.
31:47or therapy.
31:47i expect you'll be able to tell me.
31:49no punches pulled.
31:52what i do know is that it
31:55in a sense
31:56saved my life.
32:01that's certainly to its credit.
32:06has anyone else read it?
32:09no.
32:10what does allison feel about it?
32:13actually she hasn't read it either.
32:17in fact i'd better warn you
32:20she doesn't even know i've written it.
32:22oh she knows i've been working on something of course.
32:25but i'd rather let her go on thinking.
32:28it's one of those Moliere translations you know.
32:31the ones i started after we came down.
32:36actually i'd rather she didn't know.
32:38well at least just yet.
32:41you'll be able to help me there too.
32:44you see.
32:47it's about us.
32:50us?
32:51well.
32:54our marriage.
32:58it's not of course.
33:00but there are certain.
33:01well.
33:05i'd rather allison didn't know that it was
33:08about us is perhaps the best way of putting it.
33:13there are inevitable similarities of course
33:15between myself and the central chap.
33:19there's a chap in a little like you too.
33:22only superficially.
33:26for one thing
33:27he commits suicide.
33:29oh.
33:30well at least he's a little unlike me.
33:33if only superficially.
33:35no no i meant the other chap.
33:37oh you mean the chap a little like you.
33:40hmm.
33:43well can you tell me why?
33:45or would it ruin the suspense?
33:48no.
33:48no no.
33:50as he commits suicide on the first page and the last.
33:53he does it twice.
33:57no.
33:59it's the same suicide.
34:03structure is complex.
34:06circular.
34:08but i hope organic.
34:13he commits suicide because he's unhappy.
34:16really.
34:16that's what it comes down to.
34:19in his work and in his well.
34:23marriage.
34:26that's the part of it that allison might not understand.
34:29the difference between autobiography and fiction.
34:33hmm.
34:34it's frequently muddling.
34:36not to you.
34:38you'll know at once.
34:40his attitude to his children for example.
34:42his wife's pregnancy.
34:44various things that he does and feels at work.
34:48what work does he do?
34:50the teacher.
34:51public school teacher.
34:52not very imaginative that i know.
34:54but in his real self he's so different from myself.
34:58anyway your real self.
35:00exactly.
35:01yes.
35:06there is one thing.
35:09one section that i'd like to clarify.
35:13where something is said.
35:14explicitly said.
35:16about his feeling.
35:18for one of the boys.
35:22his sense of.
35:26the way the word.
35:28desire is used.
35:32that is.
35:35well.
35:39you'll understand.
35:42you'll understand.
35:44about that.
35:47and about friendship.
35:51there's a passage.
35:52a meditation.
35:56he thinks about his most important relationships and.
36:01well the tone of the passage is when it's intended to be.
36:05acerbic.
36:08well don't worry.
36:10i'll read it.
36:11as a novel.
36:13i know.
36:15but i can't help feeling a little treacherous.
36:20in the sense that you.
36:23meant years ago.
36:25when you first started being.
36:28unfaithful.
36:31you said that for you.
36:34the real treachery wasn't.
36:37what you did with another woman.
36:38but what you said to her.
36:40about your wife.
36:42did i say that?
36:46anyway.
36:48that's the sense in which i feel treacherous.
36:52towards alison.
36:56as if somehow i'd betrayed a deep confidence.
37:00well on that analogy you haven't.
37:02yet.
37:04well not until i've read it.
37:05or somebody else has.
37:08don't you think you ought to reconsider letting me see it.
37:12no no you must read it.
37:13yes but only if you're sure.
37:18the real treachery.
37:20is in finding it out.
37:23i can't go back on that.
37:27the truth is that it's all there.
37:31it's no use my fooling myself or trying to fool you of all people.
37:37you'll know.
37:41it's all there.
37:44well it usually is.
37:47how do you mean?
37:49in a first novel.
37:54if it hadn't been for you i wouldn't have written it.
38:00you're the one to whom i have.
38:02always privately addressed.
38:05my most private feelings.
38:14some friendships.
38:16endure as what they were.
38:19even though they are.
38:23no longer.
38:27what they were.
38:34isn't that true?
38:39isn't it the same for you?
38:44i'm sorry.
38:53well liking me so much.
38:57because you've stopped liking me.
38:59no.
39:01well it's not that.
39:05it's.
39:06you don't like me anymore.
39:07yes yes i do.
39:11how do you know i like you?
39:17well.
39:18if you don't come eat.
39:20why don't you go?
39:24what will you do?
39:27stay here.
39:28what for?
39:37well.
39:38for how long?
39:39until i get up.
39:51the effect belt's gone.
39:54we're still on fag.
39:57come on.
39:58we better get.
40:01we're still on fag.
40:04we're still on fag.
40:06well i'm jolly bald.
40:10you're very stupid.
40:12i'm jolly bald.
40:26i'm jolly bald.
40:27i'm jolly bald.
40:34i'm jolly bald.
40:36i'm jolly bald.
40:37oh yes.
40:40well.
40:44we were just beginning to talk.
40:47naturally.
40:49well it's a long drive
40:50and jeremy gets very tired.
41:35Don't turn off. Leave the taps alone.
41:42I'll give you a ring.
41:44Ah, there they are.
41:49I'll give you a ring.
41:52At the school.
41:54Right.
41:56I was going to fix up something with Hillary.
41:59Tell her I'll give her a ring.
42:01Right.
42:03And, uh, thanks for a lovely thing.
42:05No. No, it was, uh, it was lovely.
42:08Yes.
42:10Well.
42:15He's certainly putting it on, isn't he?
42:22What?
42:23Oh, surely you noticed.
42:25His face has gone quite...
42:38Christ.
42:39I nearly forgot.
42:41I thought I had it in my hand, and I put it in.
42:46I thought I had something.
42:48No, I've...
42:49I've got it, thanks.
42:51Bye.
42:53Bye.
42:55What was it?
42:57Oh, oh, just...
42:58Some cigarettes or something.
43:01Can you check in the bathroom?
43:02I'm doing Ophelia.
43:03They're supposed to be washing their hands,
43:05but they're mucking about with the taps.
43:11All over the school.
43:13Mr. Jameson finds you in the music room,
43:16when you should be fagging, after effect.
43:19Monsieur Foussey wonders why you
43:22always sit in the back of the class,
43:24whispering passionately,
43:27over Baudelaire, he thinks,
43:30when you ought to be translating
43:31le malade imaginaire.
43:34Now Mr. Jameson stumbles across you in change,
43:38when you should be fagging at effect.
43:41Hmm?
43:42Sir.
43:42Sir.
43:46How's your chest?
43:47Still got asthma a little bit, sir.
43:49Oh.
43:50Still...
43:50Still chitted for all games, are you?
43:52Sir.
43:53Hmm.
43:55How did the shield match go?
43:58Oh.
43:58Oh, all right, sir.
44:00You won, then?
44:02No, sir.
44:03Oh, really?
44:04Hmm.
44:06What they call in sporting circles
44:07a bit of an upset, eh?
44:10Not really, sir.
44:12Hmm.
44:13I mean, I didn't mind too much.
44:14Hmm.
44:16Well, I've really got nothing more to say than this.
44:19If you are going to be caught in the wrong places,
44:21at the wrong times,
44:23could you contrive to do so separately?
44:26Sir.
44:26Sir.
44:28But it's all right to be in the music room together at the right time,
44:31and other places at the right time.
44:38There are no school regulations against boys being friends.
44:42And, er, as you're in the same house and the same form,
44:45there isn't even a convention to hold you back.
44:49Look, I think I'd...
44:51Better have a word with each of you in private, if I may.
44:54Er, why don't you run on to Matron,
44:56get your next week's chip, and then come back.
44:58Sir.
45:08You are friends, are you?
45:11Sir.
45:13What sort of friends are you?
45:17Might like it.
45:18Yes.
45:20Better be able to know.
45:22To who?
45:23To me, of course.
45:25He had his purple passage at school.
45:28He doesn't deserve another go.
45:31Now, I've settled him down as a successful failure.
45:35Well, then, let's hope it's terrible.
45:38And you can still make appropriate noises.
45:41What are the appropriate noises for not wanting to publish it?
45:44Oh, is that what he's after?
45:48You poor old son.
45:49I don't know.
45:51After all, be a reason for choosing him among so many.
45:56You see, your interests are so very different.
46:00Also, it seems to an uninvolved eye, aren't they?
46:03Sir.
46:05I mean no reflection on your academic standing.
46:09You work as hard as can be expected.
46:12For someone who has so many obligations in the Fives Courts,
46:16cricket field,
46:17I gather you've developed an off-spin of some consequence.
46:22So, I'm fairly confident that your general all-roundedness
46:27will stand you in some stead
46:29when you come to think between Oxford and Cambridge.
46:32All I mean is,
46:33I shouldn't have thought it was in the general run of your pursuits
46:37to listen to Berg
46:40or even Mozart
46:42when you should be fagging and refit.
46:45No, sir.
46:49I'm not suggesting that you
46:52give him up
46:53or anything extreme.
46:56Just that you should reflect that
47:00too much,
47:00too intense friendship
47:03can lead to too many complications
47:06for a chap who wants an uncluttered life.
47:10that I have a perfect right to be pregnant.
47:12Well, of course you have.
47:14She patronises me.
47:15I don't think she means to.
47:17What, because she can't help it?
47:18Or because I make it unavoidable?
47:20I can't find any with special caps on.
47:23Oh, there's a blue tin.
47:25How are you doing, darling?
47:26Good girlie.
47:28That boy of theirs is a sly little brute.
47:32Really?
47:33In what way?
47:34Oh, he's a mixer.
47:35Likes to stir things up.
47:37Quite unnatural sophistication.
47:39Piggy little eyes.
47:40Darling, he's only six.
47:43If he doesn't look out,
47:44he's going to have a heart attack.
47:47At six?
47:47Oh, you know perfectly well.
47:50He boozed all through the day.
47:53Oh, good girl.
47:56Look, Daddy, a wee-wee for you.
48:01Oh, there we are, sweetheart.
48:05Can you honestly say
48:06you've still got anything in common?
48:12What do you think this is all about?
48:16I don't know, sir.
48:19Well,
48:20I'm asking you
48:22to be careful.
48:23That's all.
48:24Sir?
48:27What of, sir?
48:31Of yourself
48:32and, um,
48:34and of your feelings.
48:36It's hard for you, I know,
48:38in that your health excludes you
48:39from a great deal of companionship.
48:42Although I suspect
48:43you don't very much regret that.
48:46You're very highly thought of,
48:47you know, by most of us.
48:49Even if we do find you
48:51a little frightening.
48:53Look, I, for one,
48:55I wouldn't dream of dictating
48:57the proper lines of friendship.
48:59There aren't any.
49:00But
49:01do remember, won't you,
49:02that your
49:04capacity for,
49:05um,
49:08affection
49:10deserves, um,
49:12various,
49:13um,
49:16expressions.
49:20Look, I, I, I'm not saying anything at all.
49:23It's sheer nonsense.
49:26You must find your own way.
49:29No one wishes you any harm.
49:31Please believe that.
49:32Do you?
51:11Oh, Christ.
52:18I won't be long.
52:20Jeremy's sound asleep.
52:22He's exhausted, poor child.
52:24He's not a peep out of him.
52:26Well, I won't be long.
52:30What's it like?
52:33It's bloody handwritten.
52:35That's what it's like.
52:38Another drink?
52:40You're smoking too much.
52:43Ah.
52:44That explains it.
52:46What?
52:48I've got 250 pages of handwritten novel to get through.
52:52Not tonight, I hope.
52:54Some of it tonight.
52:56Why?
52:57If you're tired.
53:17Well, I didn't ask to spend the day with your old school friend and his dull wife.
53:22And I didn't fill you full of wine all day to help you get through it.
53:26And I'm not pouring scotch down your throat to help you get over it.
53:29I know what's the matter with you.
53:32I've had enough of everything today, including you.
53:37Have you?
53:45What?
53:46Shh!
53:48Would you kindly remember that Jeremy is asleep?
53:54But you are, I can tell.
53:57No.
53:58Contemplative.
53:59Then what are you contemplating?
54:03I'm not sure.
54:05I don't think I'd fixed on a subject.
54:09I wasn't getting at him, you know.
54:13Yes, I was.
54:16I've never minded you're not liking him.
54:19You must.
54:21As long as you go on liking him.
54:25Oh, I don't know.
54:27Old friends are rather like old habits.
54:30There comes a point when it doesn't matter anymore whether you like them.
54:36They're what you've got.
54:38Is the same true families?
54:42Well, I don't keep adding to my circle of friends.
54:46But with my family, on the other hand.
54:49I love you.
54:57I can only stay for a little bit.
55:02I can't stay for a little bit.
55:03I can't stay long either.
55:08I can't stand there.
55:16I can't stay for a little bit.
55:22I'm not sure I can't stay for none.
55:25I can't stay for a little bit.
55:28I am happy to sit at my table.
55:29I'm not sure I'll be right away.
55:30How are you?
55:32I'm not sure I'll be right away from you.
55:33I can't stand there.
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