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00:00I've been left over 3.000.
00:02I've been left over 3.000.
00:05I've been left over 3.000.
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,
00:39and I can't bloody well fly.
00:41Yes, I'm sure.
00:42Righto, sir.
01:12Ready, sir?
01:15Here we go.
01:17Whoa-ha!
01:29Oh, okay.
01:32Whoa-ha!
01:39Whoa, there we are.
01:50Right.
01:52All right there, sir?
01:54Yes, yes, fine.
01:55Now it's your turn.
01:57You have control.
01:58I have control.
01:59Now remember what I told you.
02:01Keep your eye on the altimeter and the compass heading,
02:03and keep the stick level.
02:06That's very good.
02:08That's balanced.
02:12Stick to the left, then to the right.
02:20And level.
02:22Good.
02:23Noisy, isn't it?
02:29How's this, sir?
02:40My 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.
03:08Shouldn't we get us started now?
03:09The ground seems terribly close.
03:12It's too low to restart, sir.
03:14We'll do a dead stick landing.
03:16I have control.
03:17You have control.
03:19I have control.
03:20I have control.
03:46I have control.
04:03I have control.
04:05I have control.
04:06I have control.
04:07I have control.
04:07I have control.
04:09I have control.
04:11I have control.
05:47Johnson, what do you make of this?
05:55Interesting.
05:57Sir.
06:01I think you should see this, sir.
06:06Let's see.
06:08Sir.
06:12May I suggest you call back this?
06:16Excuse me.
06:17You can't go in there.
06:19Excuse me, sir.
06:22Sorry, sir.
06:23Thought you should see these.
06:29Good God.
06:33We must send a warning to cover our backs.
06:39Kenneth, it should probably come from you as chief scientist.
06:44Address it to the PM.
06:46They'll never read it, of course.
06:48But the important thing is, we sent it.
06:51Well, get you to Downing Street right away.
07:12Right there, please.
07:16Here we go.
07:18Come on.
07:19Come on.
07:20Come on.
07:21Come on.
07:23Come on.
07:24If her matters, she could lean forward.
07:29Deep 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?
07:49To be here.
07:50Oh God.
07:51My funeral.
08:42Oh, there you are.
09:00Mr. Thurman.
09:01Mr. Cox.
09:03Mr. Cox.
09:05Mr. Cox.
09:06Mr. Cox.
09:09Mr. Cox.
09:15Mr. Cox.
09:32Mr. Cox.
09:33Mr. Cox.
09:43Mr. Cox.
09:45Mr. Cox.
09:45Mr. Cox.
09:46Mr. Cox.
09:47Mr. Cox.
09:48Mr. Cox.
09:48Mr. Cox.
09:49Mr. Cox.
09:50Mr. Cox.
09:51Mr. Cox.
09:54Mr. Cox.
09:58Mr. Cox.
10:00Copper words in the fog in a few days a number of people died
10:05at 20 and
10:07Several thousand became seriously ill from the poisonous fog
10:12After the incident a cross-party delegation was sent to the Nora on an urgent fact-finding mission
10:18They recommended that clean air zones be set up all around London as a precautionary measure
10:25I
10:26Never saw the report with good reason
10:29Our Prime Minister threw it away
10:31Claiming it wasn't a priority
10:34Can you prove that I can't miss drop there?
10:46The cabinet minutes where it was discussed
10:55He's insisted the country keep burning coal irresponsibly this winter
10:59To 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. Hadley, I entered the civil service to serve the public and to serve government
11:42But I am also a responsible citizen and I cannot stand by when chaos reigns around me
11:50This is not a government
11:53Mr. Hadley, this is a collection of hesitant, frightened old men unable to unseat a tyrannical, delusional even older one
12:05Yours was the most radical, forward-thinking government this country has ever seen
12:14How 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 him
12:31out of the door
12:32And you back in
12:35And to that end you come to me with a master plan
12:39That involves me crucifying the Tories for their failure to deal with a fog
12:44Which has yet shows no sign of appearing
12:50At present I can see stars
13:04Mr.
13:06Hadleylag
13:084
13:095
13:105
13:15M
13:44CHOIR SINGS
14:00CHOIR SINGS
14:16Good evening to you.
14:19Pop, still here?
14:21Good night, sir.
14:26Good night.
14:34Evening, Pat.
14:57You haven't moved.
15:01I suppose it's still a no.
15:04To what?
15:05Coming out.
15:07You mean going to the Lamb of Flag with you, sitting at the bar,
15:11twinkling our ankles at every unremarkable young man in the room,
15:15then 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.
15:28And what will you be doing in the meantime?
15:30Spend time in the company of someone remarkable.
15:43Hear this, young men and women everywhere,
15:46and proclaim it far and wide.
15:49The earth is yours, and the fullness thereof.
15:53Be kind, but be fierce.
15:56You are needed now more than ever before.
15:59Take up the mantle of change, for this is your time.
16:03The earth is yours, and the earth is yours, and the earth is yours.
16:35Good morning.
16:37The time is 8 o'clock on the 6th of December, and here is the news.
16:40London has been brought to a halt by dense fog, which has descended overnight.
16:47Long queues are formed on main roads,
16:49and there are reports of motorists abandoning their vehicles and continuing on foot.
16:53London Airport is expected to be closed.
16:58Good God.
16:59The 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.
17:19Be careful out there.
17:20It'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,
17:57then there's only one thing to be done.
17:59Hmm.
18:00Hmm.
18:10Hmm.
18:11Hmm.
18:12Hmm.
18:16Hmm.
18:17Hmm.
18:19Hmm.
18:20Hmm.
18:21Hmm.
18:22Hmm.
18:23Hmm.
18:24Hmm.
18:38I saw that.
18:41Might it be possible for you to pretend that you haven't?
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.
18:59Oh, 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.
19:13My 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.
19:25So she is...
19:27The Queen.
19:28The Queen.
19:28Brother.
19:31Nurses and nuns have the same problem.
19:34We're all called Sister.
19:36So you are.
19:38Well, she's outside.
19:41The Queen.
19:41Then let her in, Sister.
19:57Bedtime.
19:58Not at all.
19:59The Queen.
19:59The Queen.
20:02The Queen.
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.
20:14Forget death by lung disease.
20:16It's death by bad conversation.
20:18All right.
20:19All right, I promise.
20:21But if you are feeling up to it, there was something I wanted to talk to you about.
20:26Fire away.
20:38I was listening to the wireless this morning where they described this fog as an act of God.
20:45Now, in your letter that you sent me, you said loyalty to the ideal you have inherited is your duty
20:59above everything else.
21:01Because the calling comes from the highest source, from God himself.
21:07Yes.
21:10Do you really believe that?
21:14Monarchy is God's sacred mission to grace and dignify the earth, to give ordinary people an ideal to strive towards,
21:22an 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, not a minister or public servant.
21:43Which means that you are answerable to God in your duty, not the public.
21:52I'm not sure that my husband would agree with that.
21:54But he 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.
22:07That he would also say that he watched his own family destroyed because they were seen by the people to
22:13embody indefensible and unreasonable ideas.
22:15Yes, but he represents a royal family of carpetbaggers and parvenues that goes back, what, 90 years?
22:24What would he know of Alfred the Great, the rod of equity and mercy, Edward the Confessor, William the Conqueror,
22:31Henry VIII?
22:33It's the Church of England, dear, not the Church of Denmark or Greece.
22:40Next question?
22:44It's chaos out there.
22:46Trains disrupted, air 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 overcautious 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.
23:25Let's see how the old fool goes.
24:13I'm glad to see someone else made it in.
24:16No one saw this coming, did they?
24:19No.
24:26Prime Minister?
24:30Sir?
24:50Ah, you made it!
24:51Oh, I'm sorry, sorry, sir.
24:53I was just...
24:54No, no, you 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.
25:03Oh, 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, and the business gets done, and the country is governed.
25:20But what's my personal contribution?
25:26You improve the quality of life for all that deal with you.
25:32An ornament.
25:35A flower.
25:37By comparison, at my age, you were a published writer.
25:41And a cavalry officer, and a cavalry officer posted to India, fighting 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.
25:59Hear this, young men and women everywhere, and 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 twenty-four.
26:34All energy, and hope, and 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 eight o'clock on the 7th of December, and here is the news.
27:28The serious fog, which brought much of the capital to a standstill yesterday, continues this morning,
27:34with emergency services struggling to cope, and 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 from major London railway stations.
27:52The Prime Minister is facing criticism of failure to deal with the mounting crisis.
27:58London airport is closed again today, with all flights crowded.
28:02Yes.
28:03The unmoving fog, which has spread to over 30 miles wide,
28:07is likely to cause complete darkness by two o'clock this afternoon.
28:18No.
28:25You all right?
28:28You're not.
28:31Go on, let's get you up.
28:32No, no, no, I'm fine, I promise.
28:38It's just because the window is open.
28:41Now go to work, you've got a job to do.
28:52Let us start with the unrest in Egypt, where anti-colonial passions continue to run high,
29:00and where our soldiers continue to come under fire from nationalist insurgents.
29:05It is vital that we remain and 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?
29:26About the weather?
29:29It's fog, ma'am.
29:31It will lift eventually.
29:33I was hoping for something more scientific.
29:37Then I will ensure that a barometric report is 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,
29:55am 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 to 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.
30:43People have to be angry at someone,
30:45but as a leader,
30:47one cannot simply react to everything.
30:51We 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.
31:32It'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
31:40is a private matter.
31:42And the father of the future king of England
31:44risking his life needlessly
31:46is quite unacceptable.
31:49Please do not curtail
31:50my 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
31:58one must draw a line in the sand.
32:00And the job of drawing that line
32:02falls to cabinet, ma'am,
32:03not to you.
32:05Something your dear late papa
32:06would certainly have taught you
32:08had he been granted more time
32:09to complete your education.
32:13And now our time is up.
32:20Until next week.
32:21Don't worry.
32:25Don't take this easy, Mike.
32:27Sir.
32:29We have perfect.
32:31Have you?
32:34Meteorological report.
32:37Good morning.
32:38The time is 8 o'clock
32:40on the 8th of December
32:41and here is the news.
32:42The choking, eye-watering fog
32:45which has already caused
32:46two days of chaos
32:47across the capital
32:48has worsened overnight.
32:50The great coal-burning
32:51electricity stations
32:52in Battersea and Fulham
32:53have attempted to reduce emissions
32:55of poisonous sulfur dioxide
32:56from their chimneys
32:57but we've been told
32:59that it is unlikely
33:00they will be able to make
33:01any significant change
33:02to the air quality.
33:04The government is expected
33:05to make a statement
33:06later today.
33:17Come on.
33:18Let's get you to hospital.
33:20I'm fine.
33:21You're not.
33:22Come on.
33:23Let's get you up.
33:25Shoes.
33:34Here we go.
33:36I'm in.
33:39And the other.
33:45Watch out.
33:47Watch out.
33:50Watch out.
33:53I can't breathe.
33:55Do as I say
33:56and hold on to me.
34:07Come along.
34:16Watch out, ladies.
34:18Watch out.
34:19Watch out.
34:20Watch out.
34:25Watch out.
34:27Watch out.
34:29Watch out.
34:51Control of this story is getting away from us.
34:55The 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
35:43are breathing in poisonous sulfur dioxide.
35:54Sometimes 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.
36:08It's an act of God, Bobbottie.
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!
36:25The Duke of Edinburgh!
36:38Telephone, sir.
36:40The Marcus of Salisbury.
36:41Oh, not now.
36:42He asked me to stress the importance of the matter.
36:50Bobbottie?
36:51Thanks for taking my call, Diggie.
36:54Are you there?
36:56Yes.
36:57Can anyone overhear 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.
38:03Here we go.
38:12Sim, where are you?
38:13Oh, here.
38:38How much longer you're gonna give the old man the majority is tiny a voter no
38:43confidence and he'll be toppled you know what he calls you yes I know sheep in
38:51sheep's clothing perhaps it's time to approve you're not
39:03very well let's put a motion down on paper and brief the whips
39:19thank you sir
39:36anything interesting
39:41yes could share it no I'd be happy to share glide ratios and adiabatic lapse rates with
39:50you as part of a quid pro quo arrangement one glide ratio in return for some cabinet minutes
39:55for example no a dihedral angle or an absolute ceiling these are very interesting concepts
40:03Elizabeth you might learn something in exchange for a foreign office briefing am I going to have
40:10to explain my position again no good
40:17once you have tasted flight you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward for there
40:22you have been and there you will always long to return not remarkable about those words go on they were
40:33written three hundred years before man first got in a plane Leonardo da Vinci
40:41look I know
40:47Lord man baton your majesty
40:48Uncle Dickie what's he doing here
40:50I know as much as you do
40:52he said it was important that
40:53thank you
41:00Elizabeth
41:01Elizabeth
41:05hello
41:06came as soon as I cried
41:09so
41:12Joe is
41:13is this a meeting with Elizabeth your niece
41:15my wife
41:17or the queen
41:18latter
41:19I'm afraid
41:20right
41:20I don't know my place
41:31what's the matter with him
41:33nothing
41:36he's just feeling a little
41:38grounded
41:39ignore it
41:41right
41:41all ears
41:42I
41:43received
41:44a
41:45telephone call today from
41:47Robertis Salisbury
41:49it seems that even among his own people
41:51the feeling is that our prime minister is not able to deal with a national crisis
41:57indeed he could be seen to be responsible for that crisis
42:02hospitals overflowing people dying
42:05as sovereign
42:06you 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
42:19I would say
42:21I would say
42:21the time has come
42:22for you to
42:25summon
42:25Churchill
42:26and
42:29and
42:29and
42:32insist
42:33insist
42:33that he go
42:36I can't do that
42:38you can
42:39and should
42:41but
42:42wouldn't that violate the constitution
42:45as
42:46queen
42:50you
42:51you
42:51have the right
42:52to be consulted
42:54the right
42:55to
42:56encourage
42:57the right to warn
42:59also
43:00to appoint a new prime minister in the event of incapacity
43:04and many would say that Churchill's behavior now
43:08constitutes
43:09incapacity
43:10then a revolution must come from within
43:12they are trying
43:14well then they must try harder
43:16they will
43:17but
43:18would prefer it
43:20to be bloodless
43:21so have asked for your help
43:24and influence
43:28I cannot do it
43:30I will not do it
43:32let's
43:32not forget
43:33it was Churchill
43:34who denied Philip's children his own surname
43:37Dickie
43:38and insisted that you live in Buckingham Palace
43:40as alas did everyone else
43:41and now with looters on the street
43:44and hospital corridors stacked with the dead
43:46he is interested in only one thing
43:50stopping
43:51Philip flying
43:55what?
43:56at a crisis cabinet meeting this morning
43:58when there should have only been one thing on the agenda
44:00the unfolding
44:01national emergency
44:04all our prime minister wanted to discuss
44:08was your husband's new hobby
44:15I'm so sorry sir
44:16who
44:17who
44:17who are her parents?
44:19her father is a clergyman
44:20from Suffolk
44:21I've been noticed
44:22they want to go to the hospital
44:23there is an emergency meeting
44:25at the house
44:25the meeting you must attend
44:27the house can wait
44:39you wish to see me your majesty?
44:41yes Tommy
44:45I know
44:46how much my father depended on you
44:49and how closely you work together
44:52which is why I wanted to ask your advice
44:54now
44:56it seems our prime minister
44:59a man who's led the country through many crises
45:02is no longer leading us at all
45:06representations have been made to me
45:09through an intermediary from the heart of the government
45:13to intercede
45:15and bid him stand down
45:18make way for a younger man
45:21which
45:22brings me to my question
45:26what are my responsibilities
45:29as head of state?
45:33what should I do?
45:35when it's in the national interest
45:37how far dare I go?
45:42I'm not sure if her majesty is aware
45:45but shortly before your father died
45:48the foreign secretary, Mr. Eaton, came
45:51begging his late majesty to intervene
45:54if not on an official level
45:56then on a personal one
45:58as a friend
46:00to bid the prime minister to resign
46:03what did my father say?
46:05well
46:06his majesty was like his father before him
46:09a stickler for convention and tradition
46:12and would never have done anything
46:13that violated the constitution
46:15or overstepped the mark
46:20then I have my answer
46:21but
46:23that was his majesty
46:24not your majesty
46:26and I do read the newspapers
46:28and I do listen to the wireless
46:30and the situation we're in today
46:31is quite different
46:33than the one we were in
46:34when Mr. Eaton came to see your father
46:39different situation
46:41different sovereign
46:54wait for me here
47:00well
47:01and everything
47:06for me
47:15to bring to see your father
47:18this is
47:23everything
47:24for anつ
47:25this is
47:25so
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.
48:25And passion and fire.
48:31Sir?
48:34Damn it, he is.
48:43Did 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.
49:21That's right, I've, I've, I've been about to say the movie.
49:22Oh, my God.
49:33Thank God.
49:39Thank God.
49:53Just come on, the Prime Minister will be here in a few moments.
50:11Is there anything, sir?
50:13Yeah, yeah.
50:13Good moment.
50:23Quiet! Quiet! Please settle down!
50:26Mr. Churchill!
50:28I have witnessed scenes here today,
50:32the likes of which we have not seen since the darkest days of the Blitz.
50:39But alongside the suffering, I've also seen heroism.
50:44And where there is heroism, there will always be hope.
50:51Only God can lift the fog.
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
51:07more money for hospital staff,
51:11more money for equipment,
51:12and a full and independent public inquiry
51:16into the causes of air pollution
51:19to ensure that such a calamity
51:23may never befall us again.
51:37The Prime Minister was alone among senior politicians
51:40to visit hospitals and respond to the crisis in person,
51:44and was rewarded by cheers and applause
51:46by those suffering through the worst smog
51:49this city has ever witnessed.
51:51And the headline reads,
51:52True Leader in a Crisis.
52:00The Prime Minister's here.
52:04The parallels between his appearance yesterday
52:07and the wartime years were striking.
52:10And his personal popularity among the people remains undimmed.
52:17Hello?
52:19Clem, you still there?
52:21Hello?
52:23Clem?
52:26Clem, can you hear me?
52:28No, I...
53:10CHOIR SINGS
53:37CHOIR SINGS
53:55CHOIR SINGS
53:56CHOIR SINGS
53:56CHOIR SINGS
53:58CHOIR SINGS
54:03There's a delicate matter,
54:05which I felt I needed to discuss with you in person.
54:10Concerning what?
54:14your position
54:18my position
54:20yes
54:21your position
54:26as prime minister
54:32go on
54:38at that point
54:39she hesitated
54:42and then she asked me
54:43to pick either
54:45Qajgi Nazimudin of Pakistan
54:47or Sydney Holland of New Zealand
54:50whatever for?
54:52to sit next to at dinner
54:56she summoned you for that?
54:58no, I think she summoned me
55:00to haul me over the coals
55:01for my handling of the fog
55:02but then the fog lifted
55:05and she had to make a decision
55:07right then and there
55:08in the room
55:09you could see the wheels turning
55:11behind her eyes
55:12and then she switched a tack
55:14without so much as a flicker
55:16clever
55:19no, no, not clever
55:20ingenious
55:21why?
55:22because it disarmed me
55:23and made me switch tack too
55:25what about?
55:27about allowing Philip to learn to fly
55:30he can now
55:32good
55:34but he still has to ask cabinet permission
55:36to do rolls and spins
55:48what dear girl?
55:53well what if the fog hadn't lifted
55:57and the government had continued to flounder
56:01and people had continued to die
56:04and Churchill had continued to cling to power
56:07and the country had continued to suffer
56:10it doesn't feel right
56:12as head of state
56:13to do nothing
56:15it is exactly right
56:18is it?
56:19but surely doing nothing is no job at all
56:22to do nothing is the hardest job of all
56:26and it will take every ounce of energy that you have
56:30to be impartial is not natural
56:32not human
56:33people will always want you to smile
56:36or agree
56:37or frown
56:38and the minute you do
56:39you will have declared a position
56:41a point of view
56:42and that is the one thing as sovereign
56:44that you are not entitled to do
56:48the less you do
56:49the less you say
56:51or agree
56:52or smile
56:53or think
56:54or feel
56:54or breathe
56:55or exist
56:56the better
57:01well that's fine for the sovereign
57:06but where does that leave me?
57:22so 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 on one of these things
57:30do you think I could do it in three months?
57:33that would be unusual
57:34I know
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 you've still got a write-up
57:58starboard and port
57:5918 gallons
58:00yes
58:01fancy lunch in Edinburgh
58:02Edinburgh?
58:03they 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
58:11I'll adjust rpms and cruising speed for range flying
58:15we'll have to land to refuel sir
58:17oh really
58:19where's that?
58:20Doncaster
58:20Doncaster?
58:23right
58:24and so on
58:29oh
58:29how
58:29how
58:30oh
58:30oh
58:30oh
58:30oh
58:34oh
58:35oh
58:35oh
58:36oh
58:36oh
58:36oh
58:37oh
58:47oh
58:48oh
58:49oh
58:53am
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