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00:39You, the den.
00:41Yes, the den.
00:43Lord!
00:44Victory!
00:45Churchill!
00:54Mark Warrington?
00:55Yes?
00:56Blake Haywood.
00:57One of your chaps just changed my dressings.
01:00He said his sergeant came from Whitstanton.
01:01It's my hometown.
01:03My mother lives there.
01:04An old house off the coast road.
01:06Used to belong to some people called Penworthy, who were vaguely related to her.
01:10I know it.
01:11I've only been there a couple of times.
01:13She moved there just before I was posted three years ago.
01:15She and Dad are sort of separated.
01:19Excuse me.
01:21I've been away four years.
01:23It's the first time I've met anyone who even knows the place.
01:29Who's the character outside, by the way?
01:31He got himself left behind when the first lot of prisoners came through after we got set up here.
01:36We use him to interpret.
01:38In a sequence, little sod, isn't he?
01:41Would you like a beer?
01:42There's some outside in the truck.
01:43Can a duck swim?
01:48Lord, sir.
01:50He looks like Germany friends now, yeah?
01:53Together we fight the Russians.
01:55He believes it, too.
01:56The same will be over any day now.
01:58Back to Sivvy Street.
02:00I can't wait, but it'll be a bit of an ordeal, especially in Whitstanton.
02:04Most of the blokes I know are in reserved occupations.
02:06The ironworks, the mine.
02:08It'll be another world to people like you and me till we get used to it again, if we ever
02:12do.
02:14Hey, the axe went through.
02:16God bless America.
02:18Cheers.
02:24Some of the chaps back home resent the uniform.
02:27Even a British one, I'm told.
02:28Something to do with getting the girls.
02:30Back to Jensai, about four years away.
02:33Like Tony said about the managers, the odium of capitalism with none of the rewards.
02:37What did you do before the war?
02:39Gave me the opportunity to leave university.
02:42What about you?
02:43Mechanic at the ironworks.
02:45You wouldn't be one of them, would you?
02:47Them?
02:48Well, Dad's secretary of the Winstanton Labour Party.
02:52I think that's why he wanted us to join up.
02:53MacDonald was a passive business.
02:55Well, the conversation at home was littered with phrases like them and us.
02:59Them were the Warringtons.
03:02Dad's chairman of the ironworks.
03:04He's been in America for most of the war doing some job for the Ministry of Supply.
03:09I am one of them, I'm afraid.
03:12Don't be afraid.
03:14I have another ordeal to face back home.
03:16Telling Dad I've left the ranks of the faithful.
03:18Same here.
03:21We're in our bloody war, it's been, eh?
03:23I'll lose me rank and go back to being a political misfit at the ironworks.
03:26And you'll don your bowler and preach socialism to the fleshpots.
03:30Ah, well, thanks for the beer.
03:31I might permit you to get back home sometime.
03:34Look, I'm going on leave in two weeks' time.
03:37God knows when I'll get back.
03:38I just want the end to come while I'm still in one piece.
03:41You, uh, you wouldn't do something for me, would you, when you do go?
03:45Would you just call it home and tell the folks you saw me?
03:47You know what Mum's are.
03:48Yes, of course.
03:49I'll give you the address.
03:51It's a big house, uh, stands on its own by the sea.
03:54It was falling apart when I left.
03:56God knows what's late it in now.
03:59Mum's old man left it to her empty.
04:01He couldn't afford furniture, so they filled it with us.
04:04Six of us.
04:12Great day, Hayward.
04:13Aye, is that all right?
04:16Here you are.
04:21Young Ainscott, wasn't it?
04:22Where did he get the petrol?
04:24Civil Defence.
04:25He only did it for the petrol.
04:28It's the last smile I'll get out of him, I reckon.
04:30I hear he's been shortlisted for the Conservative Party candidate.
04:34One war's over, the other's still on.
04:38There was a letter this morning.
04:40Someone's coming to see us.
04:41Someone local who met Blake in Germany.
04:44Blake asked him to come and see us when he came on leave.
04:47So he's coming today.
04:48That's good of him, to put himself out on VE day.
04:51He's a Warrington.
04:53A Warrington?
04:54What, ironworks Warrington?
04:56Son of the chairman, Blake says.
04:58Well, what's he want with us?
05:01He's putting himself to the trouble of coming to see us on VE day
05:04because Blake asked him to.
05:06Like you said, it's good of him.
05:09Don't you be like the Henscoffs of this world?
05:13Does he know I'm one of his father's wages clerks?
05:16I dare say Blake told him.
05:18Why shouldn't he, as an honest job?
05:20What paid like an honest job should be paid?
05:23Where would we have been without you giving music lessons?
05:27Peg doing a part-time job at the library.
05:29Blake and Keir fighting for their country for a pittance.
05:34But Owen gave his life for.
05:37Blake never asks anymore if you've heard about Owen.
05:40He hasn't asked for a year or more now.
05:42Well, he knows what we know then.
05:44What we've faced up to.
05:46Haven't we?
05:48I know now why we go through the ritual of a funeral.
05:51It's hard to believe.
05:53We want to reject it.
05:55If there'd been a grave, we could visit even, but...
05:58Yes, I know it now.
06:01I'll tell you something then.
06:03I went on opening long after I said we shouldn't.
06:06You think I don't know you did?
06:08It's hard to believe that it's all over, isn't it?
06:10What comes now?
06:12The promised land.
06:18You did that yesterday.
06:20Did I?
06:21I'd forgotten.
06:22You do too much on top of a job.
06:24Well, you should charge me rent.
06:26Then I'd not feel beholden.
06:27Charge me daughter rent?
06:28Daughter-in-law.
06:31There's no difference to me.
06:33You know that.
06:34Oh, I'm sorry.
06:35Since we knew it was over, I mean definitely over, it's reminded me.
06:40Owen?
06:41I'd forgotten in a way.
06:43Makes me feel guilty remembering.
06:45Because of Ernst?
06:47We know and we understand.
06:48I thought that was clear.
06:49You might, but the rest of Whitstanton won't.
06:52Who else knows except the people where you work?
06:55The Galways?
06:55I don't know.
06:56When I walk down the street, I feel as if everybody knows.
06:59It'll be all around eventually anyway.
07:01You know what they like around here?
07:03Mum and Dad will be the worst.
07:04Doesn't matter to us what they think.
07:07Owen was our son, not theirs.
07:09I'm glad I was straight with you from the beginning.
07:11Well, almost the beginning.
07:13After I was two and myself.
07:16It wasn't that I stopped caring for Owen.
07:18You know that, don't you?
07:20I started to care for somebody else as well.
07:22Flesh and blood.
07:24Not a ghost.
07:25George was shocked a bit at first, wasn't he?
07:27Men don't understand that women think, feel the same as they do about some things.
07:33They don't like to think we do anyway.
07:36They shouldn't have said, missing, believed, killed.
07:39It's not enough, is it?
07:40You can't start again with that.
07:43Shape your life again.
07:46Will you take Colin to the street party with you?
07:49Well, are you going to see Ernst?
07:50Yeah.
07:51It's victory day for him too, you know.
07:52Even if he did fight for the Germans.
07:54He had a bad time in the war.
07:57Worse for him than us, really.
07:58Yes.
07:59Must have been worse for him, I suppose.
08:01In a way.
08:02You've forgotten the king.
08:04Oh my God, we've forgotten the king.
08:05How long?
08:05One minute if that clock's right.
08:07I'll go and turn it on.
08:08Go and tell your father.
08:09Tell him to tell your grandfather.
08:12Mum, can I play by the sea?
08:14You can play on the sun, but not by the sea.
08:17Can't be keeping an eye on you all the time.
08:19We're waiting for the king.
08:20The king?
08:23Dad, the king!
08:25You what?
08:25The king!
08:26Oh, good God, I'd forgotten.
08:28And Mum says to tell Grandad.
08:29Hey!
08:31I can't.
08:32Tell your grandfather.
08:33Why not?
08:35He's gone back.
08:36Gone back where?
08:37In his room.
08:39He says he only joined us for the duration.
08:41Now that it's over, he's going back.
08:42I don't see why you can't tell him.
08:44Because he's not speaking to me.
08:46We're back to normal, he says.
08:48Coalition's over, he says.
08:49Not politics again.
08:50Well, you know what he's like.
08:52I know what you're like.
08:53Well, I'm not telling him.
08:54Do your own dirty work.
08:57Where's Lovett?
08:58He'll be with his grandfather.
09:00Oh, I wish George would leave this clock to me.
09:02I never know whether he's put it right or not.
09:04Not since double summer time.
09:15Dad?
09:19Oh, come on, Dad.
09:20I know you're in there.
09:27Eight bells and all's well.
09:34Dad!
09:35What do you want?
09:36The king!
09:37Oh, I don't need telling.
09:38I have him in here.
09:40Yeah, well, we ought to listen together.
09:42It's history.
09:42And if we listen together to be history, by God it would.
09:45Hypocrite.
09:46Anti-monarchist.
09:47Anti-Christ.
09:51That wasn't nice, Grandad.
09:53What?
09:53What you said to Dad wasn't nice.
09:55No, well, it happened it wasn't.
09:57But it were true, though.
09:58Ask him yourself if you don't believe me.
10:00Any road, he shouldn't argue politics with me.
10:03You mean he should agree with you?
10:05Aye.
10:06No, I mean he should steer clear.
10:08And he should ring the bell, not knock.
10:10What did you think I put it there for?
10:12Oh, he hates young Bill.
10:15Aye, let's see.
10:19I've got it.
10:22He'll be on in a minute.
10:26War's over, love it.
10:28Well, it was seven when it started.
10:30Aye, and now you're an old fella.
10:32Three wars I've lived through.
10:34Changes you'll never see.
10:35There's not left to change now except human nature.
10:38And I'll never change that.
10:47That damn bell.
10:48Who let him put it up?
10:49You did.
10:50So he'd feel independent.
10:51You've spoiled him.
10:53He can twist you round his little finger when he wants anything from you.
10:56Anti-monarchist, he called me.
10:57Anti-Christ.
10:58He are, aren't you?
10:59Can't think why you want to listen to this.
11:01This is history.
11:02History's a fact.
11:03It's happening.
11:04It's a fact.
11:05Turn it up a bit, Carl.
11:06This is London.
11:10His Majesty, King George VI.
11:15Today, we give thanks to Almighty God for a great deliverance.
11:27Speaking from our empire's oldest capital city, a war battered, but never for one moment
11:39daunted or dismayed.
11:43In the Far East, we have yet to deal with the Japanese, a determined and plural foe.
11:58But at this hour, when the dreadful shadow of war has passed far from our hearts and homes in these
12:13islands,
12:15we may at last make one pause for thanksgiving, and then turn our thoughts to the tasks all over the
12:27world.
12:35And let us remember those who will not come back, their constancy and courage in battle, their sacrifice and endurance
12:51in the face of a merciless.
12:57And let us know that there is great comfort in the thought that the years of darkness and danger, in
13:08which the children of our country...
13:26We shall have failed, and the blood of our dearest will have flowed in vain.
13:33My name's...
13:35That is the victory...
13:36It is not the trials...
13:37That is the trial of harm...
13:40...doubt not be the lasting thing...
13:43Oh, you're such dangerous.
13:44It's the devil.
13:44...founded on justice and goodwill.
13:49and in the hour of victory
13:52to commit ourselves
13:57and our new task
14:00to the guidance of that same strong hand.
14:14Amen.
14:15Is that all, Grandad?
14:16What do you want for Tuppence?
14:37I got your pass.
14:40I have to make sure that there are any more
14:40I know that there are any more
14:40and I'll go to that side.
14:40is being used to is away to the right side
14:40and they're going to be able to stay
14:40To make sure you've been able to buy
14:40a lot of people
14:40to change the direction for you
14:40To make sure you're willing to be able
14:40All right, all right.
14:41Let's have a good time.
14:42Let's have a good time.
14:51Let's go.
15:26Blake!
15:27Robert's found a billet for us.
15:29Six bedrooms just for the two of us.
15:31I've chosen the one with the Wagnerian paintings on the walls.
15:34I'm looking forward to some pleasantly erotic dreams.
15:36Remember what Churchill said?
15:38Facts are better than dreams.
15:39In the absence of facts, I mean.
15:41Well, there are hundreds of facts streaming down the road out there.
15:43Fleeing from Ivan.
15:45Some magnificent Brunnhilde types.
15:47All pure Aryan blood.
15:49Cream of German society.
15:51That's all that's left from what I've heard.
15:52They've got rid of the rest.
15:54You've been listening to the rumours about the Ruskies.
15:56Rumours from a pretty reliable source.
15:58I'm ready to believe them anyway.
16:00Pending the proof, which I'm sure will be forthcoming.
16:07Well, you couldn't anyway, could you?
16:08I mean, not with your pure upbringing.
16:11Eton or was it Harrow?
16:12Those iron dormitories, those narrow virgin beds.
16:15I couldn't do what?
16:16Alleviate your frustration on the promise of protecting some basically innocent female from the rape of the bear.
16:21I bet you wouldn't bloody well hesitate, would you?
16:22With my rough peasant upbringing, of course not.
16:25But we were talking about you.
16:26You're an odd beggar, Blake.
16:28You play the piano.
16:29I've even heard you quote poetry.
16:30Hail to thee, blight spirit.
16:32Bird that never went.
16:34It's a game.
16:35I'm learning, you see.
16:37Your vocabulary, slightly temper the accent, drop a few names.
16:41The piano, my older mother.
16:43Bless her.
16:45God, how do I want to get home.
16:51Donnie, I can't get used to the idea, can you?
16:56It's actually over.
17:02So quiet out there, it's more like autumn and spring.
17:07It's a kind of death in the air.
17:10Europe, dead.
17:13Ruined, the corpses.
17:16Women fleeing from rape.
17:18Kids starving.
17:21What's it done to us up here, do you think, these last few years?
17:24I don't suppose we'll find that out till we get back to normality.
17:28Celebrations tonight?
17:30By God, I'll bet they're celebrating tonight at home.
17:33All those bloody civilians,
17:36those fly bastards who got themselves leave.
17:39All those girls, Walters,
17:40wanting a last fling with a uniform.
17:43And here we are in this bloody monastery.
17:45As always, Brunhilde.
17:47Sod, Brunhilde.
17:48Strictly verboten anyway.
17:50She'll have to learn to love Jerry
17:51in his socks by the light of burning jackboots.
17:54Come on, I'll show you upstairs.
17:57We'll see what Roberts has got laid on for tonight.
18:00Sod all, I suspect.
18:02It will be happening in the sergeant's mess tonight.
18:28So...
18:37Let's get started.
18:41When you're ready, Luca...
19:08Come on, Carl. We're going to Uncle Don's street party.
19:16He loves it out here.
19:18Goes deaf when you tell him it's time to go.
19:21He's awkward, like Grandad.
19:24You say the mines are behind this wall?
19:26Yes, they built that to keep the sea out.
19:28I thought you lived around here.
19:30My mother's lived up the coast for the last three years or so.
19:33I've only been there a couple of times when I was small.
19:36Except today, of course.
19:39Did the neighbours say where your mum had gone to in London?
19:41No, but I'll find out when I go down tomorrow.
19:44It was good of you to come.
19:46Blake's mum's favourite.
19:48Well, she'd say she hasn't a favourite, but he is.
19:51You've other brothers.
19:52I have five.
19:54Ramsay, he died years ago. Scarlet fever.
19:58Blake you've met.
20:00Keir's in the RAF.
20:01Oh, and you'll meet Lovett later. He's only twelve.
20:06Owen was in the regular army. He was at Singapore.
20:10He was supposed to be taken prisoner by the Japs, but then they said he was presumed dead.
20:16Come on, Cole.
20:24Cole's his son.
20:26He was great, Owen.
20:28Your favourite?
20:28Maybe.
20:30He wasn't a bit like you.
20:33Oh.
20:34He was big and bouncy.
20:36Always talking and laughing.
20:39You're a bit of a shy one, aren't you?
20:42Am I?
20:46What have you got?
20:49What have you got?
20:52Oh.
20:54Where's the visitor?
20:56Cole wanted Peg to take him down to the beach and he went with him.
20:59Seems a nice lad.
21:00Says Blake looked well.
21:02Sergeant of Warrington.
21:04I expected a major at least.
21:06He must be the black sheep of the family.
21:08I'm sure he isn't.
21:09I meant it in his favour.
21:12They'd have been married now, probably, if it hadn't been for the war.
21:15Blake, Keir, we've all that to come.
21:19Things won't get better overnight, you know.
21:20They'll come home.
21:21I can wait for the rest.
21:23By the way, you'll be on Marge for the rest of the week after tonight.
21:26Yeah, well, don't expect them back too soon.
21:29You and what he said in the wireless.
21:31The war in the Far East is still to be won.
21:34The RAF won't let Keir go till that's over and done with.
21:37Still, Blake ought to be back pretty soon.
21:39Well, June Kelly's daughter's back already.
21:41You know, that one that went in the nursing reserve.
21:43Yeah, well, they want the nurses back in the hospitals to get this beverage plan working.
21:47The one he's been waiting for.
21:49Me?
21:50Hanging on to his teeth like grim death.
21:52If they fell out, I reckon he'd stick them back in, pending beverage.
21:56Country can't afford it.
21:57Well, you'll be the first in the queue, you know damn well you will.
22:01Anyway, tourists pay lip service to beverage.
22:04Not that we'll get it if they get in.
22:07As they will.
22:08Come to turn his back on Churchill after what he's brought us through.
22:12Ah, but he's got the same old gang all around him.
22:15Anyway, the lads will not have it.
22:17The lads that have fought will not have it.
22:18Not them that went to war all skin and bone, their ribs sticking out as they stripped off of the
22:22medicals.
22:24Fetched up off the scrap heap to fight for the country that had put them there.
22:26And what's the first thing they want when it's over?
22:29To be free.
22:30Free of them that tell them to do as they want, so long as they do as they're told.
22:34What do they told us we were fighting for?
22:36Freedom?
22:36We put it in pawn while we fought for it.
22:39We want it redeemed.
22:41We won't be kept in chains as you're not a Davos.
22:43And you call yourself a working man?
22:45Ah, work free.
22:47Not in chains.
22:48Well, you were chained to poverty for most of your working life.
22:51I work free.
22:53Free.
22:54Free I work.
22:57Free.
22:58I work free.
23:02You were right.
23:04One war ends, another begins.
23:06Been going on all my life, this one.
23:08I was going to give him one of those bottles, too, that I've been saving for this very day.
23:11Where are they?
23:12In the cupboard under the stairs.
23:14Take one to him, then.
23:14Nay.
23:15You'll have no peace with yourself if you don't.
23:18You know, don't you?
23:20Even though you're part side with him, you know.
23:23Yes.
23:24I know.
23:25I remember when I was a kid.
23:28Seeing him come home all worn out, weary from working too long for a pittance.
23:32And he damns me that I gave myself a socialism.
23:35I did it because of him.
23:36And it's come between us.
23:38Why?
23:38Take it to him.
23:44I'll not be gone till you've gone.
23:45I thought I'd get Colin ready first.
23:47They're just coming back.
23:48Why can't you take Colin with you?
23:50He'd miss the street party.
23:52Oh, well, perhaps some other time.
23:54You wouldn't mind.
23:55Why should I?
23:56Well, let's make this a good day, shall we?
23:58A new start.
24:14We've, er, got to learn to live together, Dad.
24:17Oh, sure.
24:19To learn to live together, like he said on the wireless.
24:23To do, er, nothing unworthy of them that died for us.
24:27To make a world as they would have wanted for their kids and ours.
24:31Oh, sure.
24:32I didn't catch what you said.
24:34I said we lived together for over 50 years.
24:39I said I'm over 70 and I know more about life than you youngers if you live to be 100.
24:45South-west to where Ironworks Jimmy comes in line with the shipyard tower.
24:51You what?
24:51I'm plotting across the seal port.
24:54Well, you can't take the boat out.
24:55The war's over, ain't it?
24:58The estuary will not be free to us for once yet.
25:00A year or two, maybe.
25:01It won't if you lot gets back in again.
25:04Ah, why shouldn't it be free to us?
25:07There's been no mines laid along this coast.
25:10And beaches is clear apart from those towards range.
25:12They're not officially clear.
25:14Oh, I don't recognise officials.
25:16Canutes.
25:17No, Dad.
25:18They're canutes, I said.
25:20They'd stand there telling Ty to go back with officials and prove it had done on paper.
25:25With their trousers legs rolled up.
25:28Here.
25:30I brought you something.
25:32It's whiskey.
25:33I've had it put by for months.
25:34Ah, liquid gold.
25:36Heard about the chap they got a bottle from under the counter at the can club.
25:40On his way home he fell.
25:42Put his hand down, felt his leg wet.
25:44Got out his torch, looked.
25:46Thank God he said it's blood.
25:49Well, there you are, it's for you.
25:51To celebrate.
25:52It's a great day, Dad.
25:54Let's not sour it.
25:55Aye, it's good stuff.
25:57When do you think they'll stop petrol rationing then?
25:59Are you still thinking of the boat, are you?
26:01Ah, that's all I look forward to when I retire.
26:04I could have made myself useful if they'd let me, you know.
26:08I would have gone to Dunkirk if they'd let me have petrol.
26:11You'd have just about got there for D-Day in that thing.
26:14I happen so.
26:16Promise is ready and can you come?
26:17Ah, well, off you go then.
26:19Aren't you coming, Grandad?
26:20No, I don't care for celebrations.
26:22I've seen too many sour and promises that come after.
26:25A cow in an acre, Lord George promised us.
26:27A land fit for heroes.
26:29There's only one thing that'll come after this lot.
26:31Same as follows the Lord Mayor's procession.
26:34The corporation muck cart.
26:36Oh, I'm off to polish me engine.
26:37I think you'd sooner go with you, Dad, wouldn't you?
26:40Yeah.
26:41Ah, well, off you go if you must.
26:42See you later then.
26:43Aye, unless we see you first.
26:47It's a pity we can't make it over, Grandad.
26:49Ah, you've never been out there, have you?
26:51Oh, I forgot.
26:53It's a different world out there.
26:55Away from the rubbish in life.
26:58Ah, we'll be off, thee and me, when petrol comes back.
27:17Have you been looting?
27:19Negotiating with Roberts.
27:21Don't seem to be any official celebration,
27:22so I thought we might as well celebrate here.
27:24Quite a lot of goodies.
27:25A few bottles.
27:26Where is she?
27:27In my room.
27:28My God, you don't hang about, do you?
27:31She's in.
27:32I'm out.
27:33It seems I'd moved into hers by mistake,
27:35so I've moved into one of the others.
27:36English gentleman that I am.
27:39I've not just adopted your accent,
27:41I've adopted your tactics as well.
27:44Before the attack appear to drop your defences.
27:46Has he been any more forthcoming?
27:48Conversationally, I mean.
27:49Ja and nein were the words most used
27:51and with a night of future developments
27:53I pretended not to notice the difference.
27:54Herringly seemed pretty good to me.
27:56I've suspicion she regrets letting us know that.
27:59Well, maybe she's got someone hidden in the attic.
28:00A husband, possibly. Colonel in the SS.
28:02Go with the house.
28:03You'll have to be faithful to the Fjorda
28:05to hang on to a den like this.
28:06Do you think we'd better look?
28:07I've had this uneasy feeling somewhere
28:09around the middle of my back
28:10ever since we heard it was over.
28:12That last stray shot across no man's land
28:15after hostilities have ceased
28:17is when you congratulate yourself
28:18on having survived.
28:21You know Ramsden lost both his eyes
28:22in that last tank battle.
28:24Yes, I heard.
28:25Where's the kitchen?
28:26Straight along the hall.
28:28Did you get any clue as to how long
28:29we're supposed to be staying here?
28:30It's a bit uncertain, I think.
28:32I got the impression we might be pulling back.
28:34It seems we're on the Russian side of the Yalta line.
28:37The politicians are taking over again, Waters.
28:40Drink.
28:40Yes, thanks.
28:41I think maybe we'd better not say anything
28:44about that to her, don't you?
28:45We move out and the Ruskies move in, you mean?
28:47What have you heard about our glorious allies anyway?
28:50Some pretty bloody awful things, actually.
29:21Oh, I'm sorry.
29:22I should have asked permission.
29:23Why should you?
29:25You have won the war.
29:28Everything we have is yours.
29:30Is it not?
29:31I doubt if we're going to think of it quite like that.
29:34Why not?
29:35After the last war you took everything.
29:38After Versailles.
29:40Seven million people you took from us.
29:44Billions of pounds in reparations.
29:46To stop another war?
29:48It gave us inflation.
29:53Unemployment.
29:55Out of all that to save us came the Führer,
29:59came the war, the one you wished to stop.
30:02Those people on the run out there,
30:04the dead in the streets,
30:05that's a big price to pay for the Führer.
30:07Your gift to us from Versailles, as he was.
30:10These camps that we've overrun,
30:13maybe you've not heard of them yet.
30:15Gas chambers to destroy people,
30:17ovens to burn the mass murder factories.
30:19Were they our gift from Versailles?
30:21I know of no such places.
30:22I hope that's true!
30:32I'm sorry.
30:35I've been away from home for nearly five years,
30:37thanks to your Führer.
30:40One day we shall have to talk about these things.
30:42I don't think this is the time, do you?
30:45Better to play the piano, you think?
30:48Yes.
30:49Better to play the piano.
30:51Would you like a drink?
30:53You play well, for an English gentleman.
30:57I'm not an English gentleman.
30:59We ran out of the officer class.
31:01I've spent four years in officers' messes.
31:04Mutton dressed up as lamb, Grandad would say.
31:07I don't understand.
31:08Now this is your pucker English gentleman.
31:11The real thing.
31:12Eton or Harrow, if not both.
31:15That's where wars are won.
31:16On the playing fields of Eton.
31:17Oh crap, Blake.
31:19Yeah, well I know it is and so do you.
31:20But England doesn't.
31:22Cheers.
31:23Cheers.
31:26They'll be hanging from the lampposts outside Buckingham Palace now.
31:30You are hanging people outside Buckingham Palace?
31:43Oh dear, now we've upset her.
31:46She half believed it.
31:48She'd have believed it completely if I'd said outside the Elephant and Castle
31:51instead of outside Buckingham Palace.
31:52If she'll believe that, she'll believe anything.
31:55Yeah, that's it, isn't it?
31:57You're what?
31:58I mean after this we will believe anything.
32:01How much do you believe about what we hear about the Russians?
32:04Most of it.
32:05And about the Germans?
32:06Most.
32:07About us?
32:08Well, it's been a different kind of war for us.
32:10No, I'm not ducking the issue.
32:12I believe we've the capacity to do these things.
32:15Hold it in the kitchen.
32:16Oh, I'm so sorry. I should have asked.
32:18I'm not a bad cook, you see, and I don't often get a chance these days.
32:21So we thought Blake and I...
32:23I have no money.
32:25None at all.
32:26But if there is anything in the house,
32:30if there is anything I have which you would want,
32:34I'm sorry.
32:36What I said about Versailles,
32:39it is not for me to say such things.
32:43We've lost the war.
32:46Everything is yours.
32:49Three weeks ago I went to Berlin.
32:52You see, I had had no news from my father.
32:56The destruction was terrible.
32:58It is not as here.
33:00In Potsdamer Platz,
33:01the tanks and trucks are driving over the dead people.
33:07My father's flat was destroyed.
33:10He is probably dead.
33:13No old person could live in that horror.
33:17Many times in the queue for bread,
33:19women, children next to me were shot.
33:22By planes, by snipers.
33:26And the queue simply reformed.
33:31Over the bodies.
33:35We went on queuing for bread.
33:39I'm sorry what I said about the Fuhrer.
33:42But he saved us.
33:43I spit on the Fuhrer.
33:45See?
33:46I spit.
33:48I spit.
33:50I spit on him.
33:52Oh, my God.
33:57Women and children sheltered in the subway tunnels off the railway.
34:01The engineers flooded the tunnels
34:03because they feared the Russians would come through them.
34:05The women and children were drowned.
34:07You could see them.
34:09Through the shell holes in the streets.
34:12Layers deep.
34:16I have some small things of value.
34:18I hit them.
34:19You shall have them.
34:20Please hear me.
34:21Let me do this.
34:22Let me tell.
34:30My husband died in Russia.
34:32A year ago in the army.
34:35His letters at the end were terrible without hope.
34:40This was his.
34:48And this watch.
34:51We went on queuing.
34:54Over the bodies.
34:57For bread.
35:01I have not had food now for three days.
35:06Why do I want food?
35:09Food is life.
35:11Life.
35:14I should want life.
35:15I should want life.
35:18Why do I want life?
35:32You wise.
35:34Sure.
35:34No more things.
35:44Look...
35:48No more things.
35:49Even if you have sex.
35:54now I couldn't settle down either when I came home after the last lot in 1918 I was here in
36:02the flesh all right but I was miles away up here in the head yes I'd I'd changed more than
36:09the
36:09people I came back to had you see yes it took me a fair old time to get settled again
36:15there was
36:17there's a gap between me and them as hadn't been sort of class difference yeah yes you could say that
36:26in
36:26a way I suppose it's it's no good asking you how much Blake's changed because you didn't know him
36:34before of course his letters don't tell us much he was never much of a letter writer still they've
36:40been coming regularly so he's kept his mother happy I've I've missed him we were just beginning to get
36:48to know one another I think I didn't see much of my parents before the war I was away at
36:53school you
36:54see I hope all that's going to change now that pre-war world on a land fit for heroes I
37:01settled
37:01for a land fit for decent ordinary people I think and damn the old order you'd not get ideas like
37:06that at boarding school nor at home I'm afraid they wouldn't take me seriously of course they'd
37:11put it down to the war delayed adolescence one of the stages to be gone through before you come
37:16around to seeing things their way you know the saying breathes there a man with so so dead who
37:21wasn't in the 30s red yeah they'll still be fond of you though maybe it's better to agree to
37:29disagree than live in a house where the doors are slamming all the time to say nothing a bell's
37:33ringing I like your house and out of a few doors slamming and shake the foundation yeah we've never
37:39been able to afford that place and yet we've never been able to sell it if we had them down
37:43there for
37:43nowhere we'd have put everybody it's been a bit like a vacuum I suppose they say nature abhors a
37:50vacuum don't they what's it like in Europe it's terrible Germany waste devastation millions of people
37:58with nowhere to go nowhere to go back to they brought it on themselves of course well they let
38:03it happen it's a few that does it the many that lets it happen we've never known that here apart
38:10from the bombing never known occupation defeat I mean we've always believed we'd muddle through
38:16somehow and we still don't know what it's like not to muddle through I hope to god we never will
38:22she's doing too much again I know I've been watching her no good me talking to her she only
38:27listens to you oh she listens to me less these days she pretends to listen a smile on her face
38:34grabbing at life holding on
38:45what do you reckon to it love it bang on granddad bang on bang on what the hell does bang
38:51on mean
38:52what care kept saying when he first joined the RAF I know what he said but I damn well don't
38:57know is
38:57what he meant by it he meant bang on wizard I should have liked to have gone in the RAF
39:05you should thank god
39:06you're being spared you believe in god don't you granddad I do and satan and hellfire and damnation
39:12angels and archangels sodom and gomorrah the ten commandments and the king's own
39:17yorkshire night infantry the engine stopped granddad aye so it has love it so it has
39:45the happiest part of my youth was spent in the kitchen with our cook betty I wish to hear your
39:51revolting revelations well I don't mean my youth so much as well my childhood really worse oh she
39:56was 60 odd disgusting she mothered me that's probably where I get my love of the proletariat
40:03somebody please tell them that the bloody war's over
40:10the werewolf people
40:12I don't believe in them in spite of what we've heard
40:15there isn't going to be the underground resistance here they've had it and they know it
40:18it's at the front of the house
40:19it's probably some half crazed DP leave to the poor sods who haven't been stood down
40:24let's start shall we
40:42it'll be dark soon granddad
40:44there's light enough yet when it gets dark I'll light this lantern
40:48has it paraffin in it
40:50yeah settling is this love it like we use down the mine now there's a black hole for you if
40:57you like
40:58no fear of gas though like the pits I worked in when I was a lad
41:02it's different to coal is iron
41:04it would be hard wouldn't it I mean it doesn't burn like coal does
41:07you're making fun of me aren't you
41:08yes granddad
41:09well I'll let you off this time you young monkey seen it's you
41:12your dad will give us some stick bringing you out here
41:15I'll tell him I stowed away
41:17he'll believe you too I don't think
41:19you and dad argue a lot don't you granddad
41:21well I can't deny it can I
41:23since you thought it was going on
41:25he's an idealist is your dad
41:27he believes in a better world
41:29don't you
41:29I do but it's far removed from this veil of tears
41:33heaven on earth
41:34not in my lifetime or yours
41:36he thinks he can bring it about overnight
41:38by using a big stick and a carrot
41:40to make us all tour the line
41:43he might make a bit head of a stick
41:45a carrot will just get eaten
41:47it's up there is heaven love it
41:50in yon starry sky
41:52that's the only heaven I know about
41:54what's that over there granddad
41:56oh they've lit a bonfire in Winston
41:59to burn Adolf Hitler on
42:01I wish I was there
42:02oh I'm surprised at you love it
42:04what's wrong without here
42:05I don't want to go to heaven just yet granddad
42:07we shall not go just yet love it
42:10and I'm not in what you might call
42:12a state of readiness meself
42:13a stalker in t'other place of all night
42:16is what I've trained for
42:17one
42:18two
42:20three
42:47I think you like to get back now don't you
42:49it's only just started
42:51come on it's been a good day let's not spoil it
42:53you'll see alone safe won't you
42:55yes of course
42:55oh I'm trying to have a military escort now am I
42:58all right we'll see you back there then
43:04I'm supposed to be delicate
43:05I suppose they've told you
43:07your father told me you had some heart concerns
43:09oh I had scarlet fever when Ramsey did
43:12he died and it left me with this
43:14it's nothing serious
43:15they make too much of it
43:17they care for you
43:18I bet your parents don't coddle you
43:21no
43:22no they don't as a matter of fact
43:23they never did
43:24they just lumped me at school
43:25and left me to survive
43:27I was ready for the army
43:29the iron beds
43:30the light you're living ahead
43:31when the talking's died down
43:33will you light the lamp now granddad?
43:35aye I'll light it now love it
43:38yes
43:39yes
43:58no please
43:59it has a certain medicinal value you know
44:03relaxes tension and so on
44:05the world through rose-colored glasses
44:08probably get it free on prescription
44:10when the new order comes
44:11wouldn't you say so
44:12would you say so?
44:13oh it'd be nice to think so
44:15my old man will work his guts out for it
44:17when the election comes
44:18a brave new world for heroes like you and I
44:22oh good for him
44:23he'll be out there
44:25trudging the streets
44:26banging on the doors
44:27arguing his head off on the doorstep
44:29he'll win too in the end
44:30if not this time next
44:33there speaks a man of faith
44:34oh it's logical
44:35it's part of the historical process
44:38like the war?
44:39oh maybe
44:39well how long do we have to go on suffering this
44:42historical process?
44:43when's the millennium due waters?
44:45oh we go on
44:46two steps
44:47one step back
44:48we make progress
44:50I'm glad to hear you say so old boy
44:52I've been acquiring the opposite impression actually
44:56just shows how wrong you can be
44:57I mean who am I to argue with a public school education?
45:00I don't think we have to bring that into it
45:02Blake the war's put an end to all that
45:04like hell it has
45:05oh look I think you've had enough don't you?
45:07now that's one thing
45:08I can't decide for myself
45:10the Russians aren't here yet
45:14the war's over Blake
45:16if they came
45:18they would do to us what we did to them
45:22he came on leave my husband
45:25in the good times when the Russians were retreating
45:28when it seemed that nothing could stop us reaching Moscow
45:31the good times
45:33but he did not seem victorious
45:37we sat at his table
45:39with friends
45:41in the good times
45:43Captain Waters
45:44that must be Robert sir
45:45excuse me Frau Winkle
45:48how civilized it was
45:51sitting here with our friends
45:54how strange it must have seemed to him
45:57he had seen what I now have seen
46:00worse
46:02he spoke of whole Russian villages left to starve in the advance
46:08of atrocities
46:10he was ashamed
46:13they did not wish to know but he insisted
46:17they just shot Russian partisans
46:19they took no prisoners
46:23then one day they came
46:24where Russian partisans
46:25had caught our own troops
46:28had stripped them naked in the snow
46:30except for their helmets
46:32had poured water over them
46:34until they froze
46:35in a solid block of ice
46:39hate breeds hate
46:40is that not so?
46:42it goes on getting worse and worse
46:44is that not so?
46:45I'm glad he was ashamed
46:48I'm sorry about that
46:52I'm tired
46:54if you will excuse me also
46:55yes of course
47:00good night
47:01good night
47:02good night
47:21I think I'll get my head down as well
47:24good luck
47:25what?
47:27her?
47:29good god
47:30what do you take me for
47:31waters?
47:33you're not the type anyway
47:34smitten
47:35I don't propose to behave like our glorious allies
47:38that's all
47:38you may as well
47:39from what I've just heard from Robert
47:41we're pulling back to a new line
47:43eventually
47:44we're letting the Ruskies in
47:47it's a fact now
47:48not just a fear
47:50section 300
47:51in the Dewey system
47:53the Dewey system?
47:54it's the system we use at the library
47:55to categorize the books
47:57section 300 covers general politics
48:00most of these I've ordered from time to time
48:03he reads a lot?
48:04lord knows where he gets the time
48:05the committees is on
48:06he joins committees like some women
48:08join queues
48:10if there's a queue
48:11there must be something good at the end of it
48:17surprises you does it
48:19to find a working class man reading intelligently
48:21that was pre-war me
48:23oh two of you are there
48:27you probably won't believe me
48:28but before I went in the army
48:30if anybody had told me the working class
48:32spoke a different language
48:33I'd probably have believed them
48:35I suppose accent is a kind of language
48:38I hate mine
48:39I don't
48:40I like it
48:42suits you
48:47now you've gone shy on me again
48:53I liked your brother
48:56Blake's changed his ideas
48:58I can see it between the lines in his letters
49:01I don't think dad does
49:03they used to agree about practically everything
49:06I'm dreading him coming back in a way
49:08the war's changed a lot of people
49:10it's changed a lot of my own ideas about things
49:12I don't give a damn about politics or class
49:15the war's changed all that
49:17I wonder if it has
49:19I'd like to think so
49:20I'm not an optimist like you though
49:21oh I'm an optimist am I
49:23you enjoy life don't you
49:24don't you
49:27oh hello
49:29the boat's gone
49:30for God's sake don't tell your mother
49:31your grandfather's out in it with love
49:33I've phoned Bill with us
49:34the coast guard from the telephone box down the road
49:37they've spotted a light in the estuary
49:39the engine must have stopped
49:40well where did they get the petrol
49:41oh God knows where he go
49:44hang on
49:50there were three of them
49:51oh nay he'd never tried running it on Scotchwood
49:54he'll have traded it with Crockett
49:56they say worse foe got caught
49:58because he broke down running on Crockett's
50:00adulterated black market stuff
50:02well the silly old devil
50:03it'll serve him right
50:04I told him the estuary wasn't free
50:06doesn't he know there's a war on
50:07it's over dad
50:09well we never get used to it
50:13for those in peril
50:16on the sea
50:21we'll be all right
50:23when dawn comes
50:25oh
50:26he'll see us through
50:29he's up there watching over us
50:40where's the thing that's found
50:42is it thee lord
50:44it's Bill with us
50:46don't you know there's a bloody war on
50:48he's up there
50:51but we're all right
51:18don't you know there's a ruthless
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