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00:02I'm sorry.
00:02I'm sorry.
00:04I'm sorry.
00:24Fuel on.
00:26Fuel on.
00:27Docks are in position.
00:29Switches are off.
00:29You sure about this, sir?
00:32When I got married, my in-laws made me marshal of the Royal Air Force.
00:35As a result, I'm the most senior airman in the country and I can't bloody well fly.
00:41Yes, I'm sure.
00:42Right-o, sir.
01:12Ready, sir?
01:14Bravo!
01:15Here we go!
01:17Whoa-ho!
01:29Perfect!
01:32Woo-hoo!
01:39Slow there.
01:41There we go.
01:42There we go.
01:50Right.
01:52All right there, sir?
01:53Yes, yes, fine.
01:55Now, it's your turn.
01:57You have control.
01:58I have control.
01:59Now, remember what I told you.
02:00Keep your eye on the altimeter and the compass heading.
02:03And keep the stick level.
02:07That's very good.
02:08That's balanced.
02:12Stick to the left, then to the right.
02:20And level.
02:22Good.
02:24Noisy, isn't it?
02:29How's this, sir?
02:41My God.
02:47Isn't it wonderful?
02:49Heaven!
02:55You fought in the Battle of Britain, didn't you?
02:58I did, sir.
02:59257 Squadron.
03:00Flying what?
03:01Spitfires.
03:02Hunnicans, mostly, sir.
03:04Any kills?
03:06One or two.
03:07Should we get us started now?
03:09The ground seems terribly close.
03:12It's too low to restart, so we'll do a dead stick landing.
03:16Okay.
03:16I have control.
03:17You have control.
03:37That was wonderful.
03:39Same time next week, sir.
03:41How about tomorrow?
04:09All right.
05:53I'm afraid you'll see us at this point.
05:55Interesting.
05:57Sir.
06:01I think you should see this.
06:03I see.
06:22Sorry, sir.
06:23I thought you should see these.
06:29Good God.
06:33We must send a warning to cover our backs.
06:37Thanks.
06:40Kenneth, it should probably come from you as chief scientist.
06:44Address it to the PM.
06:46You'll never read it, of course.
06:48But the important thing is, we've sent it.
06:52I'll get you to Dally Street right away.
07:10well, let's see him.
07:12Right there, please.
07:23If I'm out, if she could lean forward.
07:30Deep breath in.
07:35And out.
07:38Yes, a little stuffy, ma'am.
07:40It might help to open the window a crack.
07:42Not while they're rehearsing.
07:45What are they rehearsing?
07:51My funeral.
08:08What are they rehearsing?
08:13What are they rehearsing?
08:34What are they rehearsing?
08:42Oh, there you are.
08:43Hey, Scott.
09:00Mr. Thurman.
09:01Mr. Collins.
09:04Nice for you.
09:16I'm not a scientist.
09:18I can't say I understand it, but what I can tell you is we don't get a weather warning
09:24like this every day.
09:25We don't get one every month either.
09:28In fact, I've never heard of us getting one at all.
09:32Does the name Donora mean anything to you?
09:39Donora.
09:43Of course, I remember Donora, who was a scandal.
09:47A small mill town in America, outside Philadelphia.
09:51Pittsburgh.
09:52They had a smog brought on by a freak anti-cyclone which trapped the emissions from the local
09:59copper world.
10:00I think.
10:01In the fog.
10:02In a few days, a number of people died.
10:05Twenty.
10:06And several thousand became seriously ill from the poisonous fog.
10:12After the incident, a cross-party delegation was sent to Donora on an urgent fact-finding
10:17mission.
10:18They recommended that clean air zones be set up all around London as a precautionary
10:22measure.
10:24Hmm.
10:25I never saw the report.
10:27With good reason.
10:29Our Prime Minister threw it away, claiming it wasn't a priority.
10:34Can you prove that?
10:35I can, Mr. Hartley.
10:46The cabinet minutes where it was discussed.
10:54He's insisted the country keep burning coal irresponsibly this winter.
11:00To give the illusion of a solid economy.
11:05This is great, Clem.
11:07It's interesting, for sure.
11:12What I don't understand is this.
11:16Why a Downing Street employee working for the government should come to me with this information.
11:24I've read the Aeneid, Mr. Thurman.
11:27Do not trust the horse, Trojans.
11:30I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.
11:35Mr. Hartley, I entered the civil service to serve the public and to serve government.
11:41Any government.
11:43But I am also a responsible citizen, and I cannot stand by while chaos reigns around me.
11:50This is not a government.
11:53Mr. Hartley, this is a collection of hesitant, frightened old men unable to unseat a tyrannical,
12:02delusional even older one.
12:05Yours was the most radical, forward-thinking government this country has ever seen.
12:15How you lost the election escapes me.
12:20Escapes us all.
12:24I believe I would be doing the British public and this country a service if I helped to usher
12:30him out of the door, and you back in.
12:35And to that end, you've come to me with a master plan that involves me crucifying the Tories
12:42for their failure to deal with a fog which has yet shows no sign of appearing.
12:49At present, I can see stars.
12:52I can see stars.
12:53I can see stars.
13:10I can see stars.
13:16I can see stars.
13:21I can see stars.
13:33I can see stars.
13:40I can see stars.
13:50stars.
13:55stars.
13:55Good night.
13:59Black Wid earner when the Tories bears
14:07.
14:09Pop, thank you for your conscientiousness, but it's late, go home.
14:13I am, sir.
14:14You're no good to be tired. Good evening to you.
14:19Pop, still here?
14:21Good night, sir.
14:26Good night.
14:34Good evening, Pat.
14:57You haven't moved.
15:01I suppose it's still a no.
15:04To what?
15:05Coming out.
15:06Well, you mean going to the Lamb of Flag with you, sitting at the bar, twinkling our ankles at every
15:12unremarkable young man in the room, then letting those men buy us enough drinks for us to bring them home,
15:18only to have their unremarkability confirmed to us again.
15:23No.
15:25Thanks.
15:26Goodness.
15:27And what will you be doing in the meantime?
15:30Spend time in the company of someone remarkable.
15:35Ta-ra.
15:43Hear this, young men and women everywhere, and proclaim it far and wide. The earth is yours and the fullness
15:51thereof. Be kind, but be fierce. You are needed now more than ever before.
15:58Take up the mantle of change, for this is your time.
16:07Take up the mantle of change, for this is your time.
16:35Good morning.
16:37Time is 8 o'clock on the 6th of December, and here is the news.
16:41London has been brought to a halt by dense fog, which has descended overnight.
16:46Long queues are formed on main roads, and there are reports of motorists abandoning their vehicles and continuing on foot.
16:53London Airport is expected to be closed.
16:58Good God.
17:00The Meteorological Office has issued a statement saying that a persistent anti-cyclone over London is to blame.
17:06Smoke from the capital's chimneys is being trapped at street level, which is aggravating the fog.
17:15Windless conditions mean it is expected to last for some time. Be careful out there, it's a real pea super.
17:31Ah, is the car ready?
17:34I'm afraid the visibility is too poor to drive, ma'am.
17:38It's what, 200 yards?
17:41It's been judged too hazardous, ma'am.
17:47I have an appointment to see my grandmother.
17:51I intend to keep that appointment.
17:54If it's too hazardous to drive, then there's only one thing to be done.
18:38I saw that.
18:40Might it be possible for you to pretend that you haven't?
18:44I saw that.
18:45And the Queen is here, Your Majesty.
18:48Could you be more specific?
18:50Ma'am?
18:52Which Queen?
18:53Queen Elizabeth, ma'am.
18:55Which one? There are two.
18:57The young one.
18:58Oh, THE Queen.
19:01I thought you was all Queens. They gave me a sheet.
19:04We are.
19:05I was the Queen so long as my husband the King was alive.
19:09But since he died, I'm no longer THE Queen. I'm simply Queen Mary.
19:14My late son's widow was also THE Queen.
19:17But upon the death of her husband, she became Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother.
19:22Her daughter, Queen Elizabeth, is now Queen.
19:24So she is...
19:27THE Queen.
19:29Brother.
19:31Nurses and nuns have the same problem.
19:33We're all called sister.
19:36So you are.
19:38Well, she's outside.
19:40THE Queen.
19:42Then let her in.
19:44Sister.
19:57Bad time?
19:58Not at all.
20:02How are you?
20:03I'm always happy to see you.
20:06And my mood will improve yet further if you promise me one thing.
20:10Name it.
20:10Not to ask me how I am.
20:12It's all anyone ever does. Forget death by lung disease.
20:16It's death by bad conversation.
20:19All right, I promise.
20:21But if you are feeling up to it,
20:22there was something I wanted to talk to you about.
20:26Fire away.
20:37I was listening to the wireless this morning.
20:41Where they described this fog as an act of God.
20:46Now, in your letter that you sent me,
20:50you said...
20:55Loyalty to the ideal you have inherited is your duty above everything else.
21:01Because the calling comes from the highest source.
21:05From God himself.
21:07Yes.
21:10Do you really believe that?
21:14Monarchy is God's sacred mission to grace and dignify the earth.
21:19To give ordinary people an ideal to strive towards.
21:23An example of nobility and duty to raise them in their wretched lives.
21:28Monarchy is a calling from God.
21:32That is why you're crowned in an abbey, not a government building.
21:36Why you're anointed, not appointed.
21:38It's an archbishop that puts the crown on your head.
21:41Not a minister or public servant.
21:44Which means that you are answerable to God in your duty.
21:49Not the public.
21:52I'm not sure that my husband would agree with that.
21:55He would argue that in any equitable modern society that church and state should be separated.
22:03That if God has servants, they're priests, not kings.
22:08He would also say that he watched his own family destroyed because they were seen by the people to embody
22:13indefensible and unreasonable ideas.
22:15Yes, but he represents a royal family of carpetbaggers and parvenues that goes back what?
22:22Ninety years.
22:24What would he know of Alfred the Great?
22:26The rod of equity and mercy.
22:28Edward the Confessor.
22:30William the Conqueror.
22:31Henry the Eighth.
22:33It's the Church of England, dear.
22:35Not the Church of Denmark or Greece.
22:41Next question.
22:44It's chaos out there.
22:46Trains disrupted.
22:48Air services cancelled.
22:50At Richmond Bridge this morning, visibility was officially measured at one yard.
22:55That's a record low, incidentally.
22:58Our Trojan friend in Downing Street has been speaking to his friends at the Met Office.
23:03They say this is just the beginning.
23:06They expect it to get worse.
23:08I know you would have me call a vote of no confidence.
23:11And will doubtless call me over-cautious for not doing so.
23:15But the Prime Minister needs to be given a chance.
23:21Even if it's only to hang himself.
23:23Let's see how the old fool responds.
23:40There you go.
23:41There you go.
23:42There you go.
23:43Hey!
23:45Hey!
24:05Morning.
24:05Morning.
24:13I'm glad to see someone else made it in.
24:16No one saw this coming, did they?
24:19No.
24:27Prime Minister?
24:30Sir?
24:50Ah!
24:51You made it!
24:52Bravo!
24:52Oh!
24:52I'm sorry, sorry, sir.
24:53I was just...
24:54No, no.
24:54You did well to get here.
24:56I gather half the Downing Street staff didn't.
24:59It wasn't easy.
25:01Just crossing the road, you take your life in your hands.
25:04Oh, then don't.
25:04You're too important to all of us.
25:06Hardly.
25:07All I do is bring you things to sign and take them away again.
25:11And so the wheels keep turning.
25:14And the business gets done.
25:16And the country's governed.
25:20But...
25:21What's my...
25:23personal contribution?
25:25Ah.
25:26You improve the quality of life for all that deal with you.
25:32An ornament.
25:34A flower.
25:37By comparison, at my age, you were a published writer.
25:42And a cavalry officer posted to India,
25:45fighting local tribesmen on the northwest frontier.
25:48Who told you that?
25:49You asked me to engage in a relationship with a young man my own age.
25:54So I've been reading your autobiography.
25:57That's not quite what I had in mind.
26:00Hear this, young men and women everywhere,
26:03and proclaim it far and wide.
26:05The earth is yours, and the fullness thereof.
26:11Be kind, but be fierce.
26:14You are needed now more than ever before.
26:19Take up the mantle of change.
26:21Stop.
26:22For this is your time.
26:29You were 24.
26:33All energy and hope.
26:36And passion and fire.
26:40It's remarkable.
26:45You found something you liked in that young male?
26:51I did.
27:21Good morning.
27:24The time is 8 o'clock on the 7th of December, and here is the news.
27:28The serious fog that brought much of the capital to a standstill yesterday,
27:33continues this morning,
27:34with emergency services struggling to cope,
27:37and widespread disruption reported across the nation.
27:41Flares are being used to guide motorists in parts of the capital.
27:45Trains are stopped while running hours behind schedule
27:48from major London railway stations.
27:52The Prime Minister is facing criticism
27:54and failure to deal with the mountain crisis.
27:58London airport is closed again today,
28:00with all flights crowded.
28:02Yes.
28:03The unmoving fog, which has spread to over 30 miles wide,
28:06is likely to cause complete darkness by 2 o'clock this afternoon.
28:18No.
28:24You all right?
28:28You're not.
28:31Go on, let's get you up.
28:33No.
28:34No, I'm fine. I promise.
28:38It's just because the window is open.
28:41Now go to work.
28:42You've got a job to do.
28:52Let us start with the unrest in Egypt,
28:57where anti-colonial passions continue to run high,
29:00and where our soldiers continue to come under fire
29:03from nationalist insurgents.
29:05It is vital that we remain
29:07and successfully defend the Suez Canal,
29:12a point that I will be making in person to the Commonwealth heads
29:16when I host them for the weekend at Chequers.
29:20Weather permitting?
29:23Indeed.
29:24What is the latest information that you have?
29:27About the weather?
29:29It's fog, ma'am.
29:32It will lift eventually.
29:33I was hoping for something more scientific.
29:37Then I will ensure that a barometric report
29:40is included in your box tomorrow,
29:43complete with isobars and isohumes.
29:48It has been an unusually cold winter,
29:51and there are only so many things that I, as Prime Minister,
29:55I am prepared to inflict on your subjects as a reward for winning a world war
29:59and prevailing over fascism, evil and tyranny.
30:04Letting them freeze is not one of them.
30:08You do not seem unduly concerned.
30:10I'm not.
30:11You do know that my late father wrote many years ago
30:15to your predecessors
30:17to express his deep concern about the inner city power stations
30:20that your party was building.
30:25Indeed.
30:27And I was sympathetic with your father's concerns at the time.
30:33I also have sympathy with the leader articles in the newspapers today,
30:38begging for blood, wanting my head.
30:42And people have to be angry at someone.
30:46But as leader,
30:48one cannot simply react to everything.
30:52We need the power stations.
30:53We need the coal.
30:55People need to burn coal to warm their homes.
30:58It is weather.
30:59It will pass.
31:01Well, I do hope so.
31:03Not least because my husband's mood is intolerable.
31:07Why?
31:09Well, being caged in like this,
31:11he can't fly.
31:15Fly where?
31:16Well, nowhere.
31:18He's learning to fly.
31:21Whatever for?
31:23Have we not enough qualified pilots
31:26to take him where he needs to go?
31:27No, he wants to fly himself.
31:30It's a boyhood dream.
31:31It's what he's always wanted.
31:33Why was government not consulted?
31:35Because it's a private matter.
31:36And I am in favor.
31:38Nothing you or his royal highness do is a private matter.
31:42And the father of the future king of England risking his life needlessly is quite unacceptable.
31:49Please do not curtail my husband's personal freedoms any further.
31:53You've taken away his home.
31:55You've taken away his name.
31:57There comes a time where one must draw a line in the sand.
32:00And the job of drawing that line falls to cabinet, ma'am.
32:04Not to you.
32:05Something your dear late papa would certainly have taught you
32:08had he been granted more time to complete your education.
32:13And now our time is up.
32:19Until next week.
32:21Don't worry.
32:24Don't worry.
32:25Don't take this away.
32:27Sir.
32:37Good morning.
32:39The time is eight o'clock on the 8th of December.
32:41And here is the news.
32:42The choking, eye-watering fog, which has already caused two days of chaos across the capital,
32:48has worsened overnight.
32:50The great coal-burning electricity stations in Battersea and Fulham
32:53have attempted to reduce emissions of poisonous sulfur dioxide from their chimneys,
32:57but we've been told that it is unlikely they will be able to make any significant change to the air
33:03quality.
33:04The government is expected to make a statement later today.
33:17Come on.
33:18Let's get you to a hospital.
33:20I'm fine.
33:21You're not.
33:22Come on.
33:25Shoes.
33:31Come on.
33:34Here we go.
33:36I'm in.
33:39And the other.
33:53I can't breathe.
33:55Do as I say and hold on to me.
33:57All right.
34:07Come on.
34:12Come along.
34:14Watch this.
34:15Watch this.
34:17Watch this.
34:18Watch this.
34:25Hold my hand.
34:51Control of this story is getting away from us.
34:54The opposition's blood is up.
34:57We have to respond.
34:59Respond how?
35:00I would suggest by commissioning a public inquiry.
35:03An inquiry would be expensive.
35:09Winston people are angry.
35:11They see us as the culprits.
35:13Culprits for what?
35:14It's fog.
35:16Fog is fog.
35:17It comes, and it goes away.
35:20Well, I'm glad that the Prime Minister finds time for levity.
35:24Perhaps I should remind him exactly how serious the situation has now become.
35:28This morning, a suburban twain collided with a gang of well-wing workmen,
35:33killing several and injuring a great many more.
35:36In part of the capital, there is now a total breakdown in law and order.
35:40Hospitals are filling up as our citizens are breathing in poisonous sulfur dioxide.
35:55Sometimes we have sunshine.
35:58Too much sunshine, and they call it a drought.
36:01Then we have rain.
36:03Too much rain, and they call it a deluge, and find a way to blame us for that, too.
36:08No, it's an act of God, Bobbity.
36:11It's weather.
36:12And for better or for worse, we get a great deal of it on this island.
36:16Frankly, there are more pressing matters to deal with.
36:20Like what?
36:21The Duke of Edinburgh.
36:39Telephone, sir.
36:40The Marcus of Salisbury.
36:41Oh, not now.
36:42He asked me to stress the importance of the matter.
36:50Bobbity?
36:51Thanks for taking my call, Diggie.
36:54Are you there?
36:56Yes.
36:57Can anyone over hear what you're saying?
37:03No.
37:04Good.
37:09It's chaos.
37:10I know.
37:11The ward is full.
37:12Every corridor, too.
37:14Most of the doctors are sick now.
37:15Those that are well can't get in.
37:17It was better than this in the war.
37:19What do you need?
37:20More equipment?
37:21Or masks?
37:22Masks are bloody useless.
37:23They're just for show.
37:24To make it look like the government's doing something.
37:26Then what is needed?
37:27Money.
37:29People.
37:29Trained staff.
37:30Help is what is needed urgently.
37:33Better rest for now.
37:38Maybe I could put a word in with the people who make a difference.
37:42Such as?
37:43The Prime Minister, for example.
37:46Oh, I see you're just going to walk into Downing Street and whisper in his ear.
37:49Yes, something like that.
37:51You know, my day's bad enough without some delusional girl playing jokes.
37:55Now, excuse me.
38:00I'll show you.
38:02Get out of the way.
38:03Get out of the way.
38:38How much longer are you going to give the old man?
38:40The majority is tiny.
38:42A vote of no confidence and he'll be toppled.
38:46You know what he calls you?
38:49Yes, I know.
38:50Sheep in sheep's clothing.
38:55Perhaps it's time to approve you're not.
39:03Very well.
39:05Let's put a motion down on paper and brief the whips.
39:19Thank you, sir.
39:22Thank you, sir.
39:36Anything interesting?
39:39Yes.
39:41Care to share it?
39:43No.
39:46I'd be happy to share glide ratios and adiabatic lapse rates with you as part of a quid pro quo
39:51arrangement.
39:52One glide ratio in return for some cabinet minutes, for example.
39:59A dihedral angle or an absolute ceiling.
40:02These are very interesting concepts, Elizabeth.
40:04You might learn something in exchange for a foreign office briefing.
40:09Am I going to have to explain my position again?
40:12No.
40:13Good.
40:17Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward,
40:22for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.
40:27You know what's remarkable about those words?
40:32Go on.
40:33They were written 300 years before man first got in a plane.
40:37Leonardo da Vinci.
40:42Look, Philip, I know that...
40:47Lord Mountbatten, Your Majesty.
40:49Uncle Dickie, what's he doing here?
40:51I know as much as you do.
40:52He said it was important, that.
41:00Elizabeth.
41:05Hello.
41:06Came as soon as I cried.
41:09So.
41:12Oh, is this a meeting with Elizabeth, your niece?
41:16My wife?
41:17Or the Queen?
41:19Later, I'm afraid.
41:20Right.
41:21I don't know my place.
41:31What's the matter with him?
41:34Nothing.
41:36He's just feeling a little grounded.
41:39Ignore it.
41:41Right.
41:42All ears.
41:42I received a telephone call today from Robert E. Salisbury.
41:49It seems that even among his own people, the feeling is that our Prime Minister is not able to deal
41:54with a national crisis.
41:57Indeed, he could be seen to be responsible for that crisis.
42:02Hospitals overflowing, people dying.
42:04As Sovereign, you have the right to demand that a government in your name shows effective leadership.
42:13The opposition are now calling for a motion of no confidence.
42:18So, I would say, I would say, the time has come for you to summon Churchill and...
42:27And what?
42:32Insist that he go.
42:36I can't do that.
42:38You can.
42:39And should.
42:41But wouldn't that violate the Constitution?
42:45As Queen, you have the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn, also to appoint
43:01a new Prime Minister in the event of incapacity.
43:04And many would say that Churchill's behavior now constitutes incapacity.
43:10Then a revolution must come from within.
43:13They are trying.
43:15Well, then they must try harder.
43:16They will.
43:18But would prefer it to be bloodless.
43:22So I have asked for your help and influence.
43:28I cannot do it.
43:30I will not do it.
43:32Let's not forget, it was Churchill who denied Philip's children his own surname.
43:37Dickie.
43:38And insisted that you live in Buckingham Palace.
43:40As, alas, did everyone else.
43:42And now, with looters on the street and hospital corridors stacked with the dead, he is interested in only one
43:48thing.
43:51Stopping Philip flying.
43:55What?
43:56At a crisis cabinet meeting this morning, when there should have only been one thing on the agenda, the unfolding
44:01national emergency, all our Prime Minister wanted to discuss was your husband's new hobby.
44:15I'm so sorry, sir.
44:16Who are her parents?
44:19Her father is a clergyman from Suffolk.
44:21I've been noticed.
44:22I want to go to the hospital.
44:23There is an emergency meeting at the house.
44:26The meeting you must attend.
44:27The house can wait.
44:39You wish to see me, Your Majesty?
44:41Yes, Tommy.
44:45I know how much my father depended on you and how closely you worked together.
44:52Which is why I wanted to ask your advice now.
44:56It seems our Prime Minister, a man who's led the country through many crises, is no longer leading us at
45:04all.
45:07Representations have been made to me through an intermediary from the heart of the government to intercede and bid and
45:16stand down.
45:18Make way for a younger man.
45:22Which brings me to my question.
45:26What are my responsibilities as head of state?
45:33What should I do?
45:35When it's in the national interest, how far dare I go?
45:42I'm not sure if Her Majesty is aware.
45:45But shortly before your father died, the Foreign Secretary, Mr. Eaton, came, begging His Late Majesty to intervene, if not
45:55on an official level, then on a personal one, as a friend, to bid the Prime Minister to resign.
46:03What did my father say?
46:05Well, His Majesty was, like his father before him, a stickler for convention and tradition, and would never have done
46:13anything that violated the Constitution or overstepped the mark.
46:20Then I have my answer.
46:21But that was His Majesty, not your Majesty.
46:26And I do read the newspapers, and I do listen to the wireless.
46:30And the situation we're in today is quite different than the one we were in when Mr. Eaton came to
46:35see your father.
46:39Different situation, different sovereign.
46:54Wait for me here.
46:59Wait for me here.
47:00Oh, my God, please.
47:02I'm gonna let me know.
47:05Oh, my God.
47:05Oh, my God.
47:22We'll get you seen as soon as we fall.
47:56Sir?
47:59Just a child.
48:04A beautiful child.
48:08I just received word from Buckingham Palace.
48:11The Queen has requested an audience.
48:14When?
48:15At your earliest convenience.
48:21All energy and hope and passion and fire.
48:31Sir?
48:34Damn it, he is.
48:36This is a huge child.
48:44Did the newspapers know I'm here?
48:46No.
48:49But it could easily be arranged.
48:52Then do it.
48:54And tell the Queen I'll be their first thing in the morning.
49:00After the papers.
49:07Lauderdos.
49:18Desculpe me.
49:22I saw her.
49:23The докум muke.
49:24I saw her.
49:27I saw her.
49:28I saw her.
49:28I saw her abuse.
49:31Friends, I saw for the latter.
49:39Thank God.
49:52Just come on, the Prime Minister will be here in a few moments.
50:11Is there anything, sir?
50:13Yeah, yeah.
50:13Quiet, please! Set them down!
50:54Mr. Churchill!
50:55But I, as Prime Minister, am in a position to ease the suffering.
51:02To that end, I pledge to make available with immediate effect more money for hospital staff, more money for equipment,
51:13and a full and independent public inquiry into the causes of air pollution to ensure that such a calamity may
51:25never befall us again.
51:30Thank you all.
51:37The Prime Minister was alone among senior politicians to visit hospitals and respond to the crisis in person, and was
51:44rewarded by cheers and applause by those suffering through the worst smog this city has ever witnessed.
51:50The headline reads,
51:52True leader in a crisis.
52:00Ma'am, the Prime Minister's here.
52:04The parallels between his appearance yesterday and the wartime years were striking.
52:09And his personal popularity among the people remains undimmed.
52:16Hello?
52:19Clem, you still there?
52:21Hello?
52:23Clem?
52:25Clem, can you hear me?
52:28No, I-
52:38Clem, can you hear me?
52:43No, I-
52:44Clem, can you hear me?
52:53No, I-
53:10CHOIR SINGS
53:40CHOIR SINGS
54:08CHOIR SINGS
54:09CHOIR SINGS
54:09CHOIR SINGS
54:26As Prime Minister.
54:32Go on.
54:38At that point, she hesitated.
54:41And then she asked me to pick either Khwajgi Nazimudin of Pakistan
54:47or Sydney Holland of New Zealand.
54:50Whatever for?
54:51To sit next to at dinner.
54:56She summoned you for that.
54:58No, I think she summoned me to haul me over the coals for my handling of the fog.
55:03But then the fog lifted.
55:05And she had to make a decision right then and there in the room.
55:09You could see the wheels turning behind her eyes.
55:12And then she switched attack without so much as a flicker.
55:17Clever.
55:19No, no, not clever. Ingenious.
55:21Why?
55:22Because it disarmed me and made me switch tack too.
55:26What about?
55:27About allowing Philip to learn to fly.
55:30He can now.
55:32Good.
55:34But he still has to ask cabinet permission to do rolls and spins.
55:49What, dear girl?
55:53Well, what if the fog hadn't lifted?
55:58The government had continued to flounder and the government had continued to flounder and people had continued to die and
56:05Churchill had continued to cling to power and the country had continued to suffer.
56:10It doesn't feel right, as head of state, to do nothing.
56:15It is exactly right.
56:18It is exactly right.
56:34Is it?
56:34People will always want you to smile or agree or frown and the minute you do, you will have declared
56:40a position, a point of view.
56:42And that is the one thing, as sovereign, that you are not entitled to do.
56:48The less you do, the less you say or agree or smile.
56:53Or think or feel or breathe or exist, the better.
57:01Well, that's fine for the sovereign.
57:06But where does that leave me?
57:22Sir, go on.
57:23How long would it take me to get my wings?
57:25Well, normally a trainee would spend anything between 100 and 120 hours in one of these things.
57:31Do you think I could do it in three months?
57:33That would be unusual.
57:35I'm a fast learner.
57:37And believe me when I say I've got nothing else to do.
57:55I couldn't have noticed.
57:57You've still got a right up.
57:58Starboard and port.
57:5918 gallons.
58:00Yes.
58:01Fancy lunch in Edinburgh.
58:03Edinburgh?
58:04They made me duke there.
58:05So I should probably show up from time to time.
58:07Unless you have more pressing engagements.
58:09No, sir.
58:10All right.
58:12I'll adjust rpms and cruising speed for range flying.
58:15We'll have to land to refuel, sir.
58:18R.E.A.
58:18Oh, really?
58:19Where's that?
58:20Donkester.
58:21Donkester?
58:23Right.
58:24Where's that?
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