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00:13I'm not sure what you're doing.
00:16I'm not sure what you're doing.
00:23I'm not sure what you're doing.
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.
00:42Right-o, sir.
01:12Ready, sir?
01:14Bravo!
01:15Here we go!
01:17Whoa-ho!
01:29Perfect!
01:32Woo-hoo!
01:39Slow air!
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?
01:59Well, I remember what I told you.
02:00Keep 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.
02:24Noisy, isn't it?
02:29How's this, sir?
02:40My God.
02:42Oh.
02:43Oh.
02:44Oh.
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.
03:02Hunicans, mostly, sir.
03:04Any kills?
03:06One or two.
03:08Should 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.
03:16OK. I have control. You have control.
03:37That was wonderful. Same time next week, sir.
03:41How about tomorrow?
04:11How about tomorrow?
04:14How about tomorrow?
04:17How about tomorrow?
04:39How about tomorrow?
04:44How about tomorrow?
04:46How about tomorrow?
04:51How about tomorrow?
04:54How about tomorrow?
05:32Let's go.
05:37Let's go.
05:39Sir.
05:47Johnson, what do you make of this?
05:55Interesting.
05:57Sir.
06:01I think you should see this.
06:03I see.
06:08Sir.
06:11Goodness me.
06:16Excuse me.
06:17You can't go in there.
06:19Excuse me, sir.
06:22Sorry, sir.
06:24Thought you should see these.
06:29Good God.
06:33We must send a warning to cover our backs.
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.
06:58ravine.
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?
08:41Oh, there you are.
09:00Mr. Thurman.
09:01Mr. Corks.
09:04Nice view.
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.
09:43Well, of 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 anticyclone 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.
10:25I 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?
10:36I can, Mr. Utley.
10:46The Cabinet minutes where it was discussed.
10:54He's insisted the country keep burning coal irresponsibly this winter to give the illusion of a solid
11:02economy.
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. Utley, 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.
11:51This is not a government.
11:53Mr. Utley, this is a collection of hesitant, frightened, old men, unable.
12:00To 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 and you back in.
12:35And to that end, you've come to me with a master plan that involves me crucifying the Tories for their
12:42failure to deal with a fog which has yet shows no sign of appearing.
12:49At present, I can see stars.
13:04And we're going to see stars.
13:44CHOIR SINGS
13:54CHOIR SINGS
13:55Good night.
14:08Miss Scott, thank you for your conscientiousness.
14:12It's late. You're home.
14:13I am, sir.
14:14You're no good to be tired. Good evening to you.
14:19What? Still here?
14:20Good 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, twinkling our ankles at every unremarkable
15:13young man in the room,
15:14they're letting those men buy us enough drinks for us to bring them home, only to have their unremarkability confirmed
15:21to 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, and proclaim it far and wide.
15:48The 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.
16:33I want to thank you.
16:35Good morning.
16:36The 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, and 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. 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.
17:59I mean, he's gonna be done.
18:38I saw that.
18:40Might 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.
19:12I'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.
19:28Brother.
19:31Nurses and nuns have the same problem.
19:33We'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.
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, I promise.
20:21But if you are feeling up to it, there was something I wanted to talk to you about.
20:26Fire away.
20:37I 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...
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.
21:43Which 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.
21:54But 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?
22:2290 years.
22:24What would he know of Alfred the Great, the rod of equity and mercy, Edward the Confessor, William 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.
22:50A Richmond bridge this morning.
22:52Visibility 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 and will doubtless call me over-cautious for
23:14not 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.
23:38I know you're talking about the old fool.
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, you made it, Bravo.
24:52Oh, I'm sorry, sorry, sir, I was just...
24:54No, no, you did well to get here.
24:56I gather half the Downing Street staff didn't.
24:59Oh, it wasn't easy.
25:01Just crossing the road, you take your life in your hands.
25:03Then don't, you're too important to all of us.
25:06Well, hardly.
25:08All 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
25:16and the country's governed.
25:20But what's my personal contribution?
25:25Ah, you 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
25:41and 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 and passion and fire.
26:40It's remarkable.
26:45You found something you liked in that young male?
26:51I did.
26:52I did.
27:19It's a story.
27:20When has a son given up,
27:22Look at him!
27:23The time is 8 o'clock on the 7th of December, and here is the news.
27:28A serious fog that 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 or running hours behind schedule from major London railway stations.
27:52The Prime Minister is facing criticism for 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, is likely to cause complete darkness by 2 o
28:09'clock this afternoon.
28:24You alright?
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, you've got a job to do.
28:52Let us start with the unrest in Egypt, where anti-colonial passions continue to run high and where our soldiers
29:01continue 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 when I host them for the weekend
29:19at 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, complete with isobars and isohumes.
29:48It has been an unusually cold winter and there are only so many things that I, as Prime Minister, am
29:56prepared to inflict on your subjects as a reward for winning a world war and prevailing over fascism, evil and
30:03tyranny.
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 to express his deep concern about
30:19the inner city power stations that your party was building.
30:25Indeed.
30:27And I was sympathetic with your father's concerns at the time.
30:32I also have sympathy with the leader articles in the newspapers today.
30:38Begging for blood.
30:40Wanting my head.
30:43People have to be angry at someone.
30:46But as leader, one 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 to 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 is a private matter.
31:42And the father of the future king of England risking his life needlessly is quite unacceptable.
31:48Please 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, not to you.
32:05Something your dear late papa would certainly have taught you had he been granted more time to complete your education.
32:13And now our time is up.
32:20Until next week.
32:22Don't worry.
32:25Take this easy, Mike.
32:27Sir.
32:29Perfect.
32:33Meteorological report.
32:37Good morning.
32:39The time is 8 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, has worsened overnight.
32:50The great coal-burning electricity stations in Battersea and Fulham have attempted to reduce emissions of poisonous sulfur dioxide from
32:57their 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.
33:20Fine.
33:21You're not.
33:22Come on.
33:25Shoes.
33:30Come on.
33:34Here we go.
33:36I'm in.
33:38And the other.
33:52I can't breathe.
33:55Do as I say and hold on to me.
34:07Come on.
34:08I can't read him.
34:15I can't read this.
34:18I can't read this.
34:19I can't read the person.
34:19No snails!
34:21No snails!
34:22No snails!
34:23No snails!
34:25Quick!
34:26Hold my hand!
34:27Do as I say and speak now.
34:29Go on her!
34:30No!
34:30Do as I say.
34:31No!
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.
35:04An inquiry would be expensive.
35:09Winston people are angry.
35:11They see us as the culprits.
35:13Culpable 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, killing several and injuring a great many
35:35more.
35:35In parts of the capital, there is now a total breakdown in law and order.
35:41Hospitals are filling up as our citizens are 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.
36:36The 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.
37:12They have a 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.
37:57Yes.
37:58Yes.
38:00I'll show you.
38:02Get that little way.
38:03Here we go.
38:10I can't wait.
38:12Jim, where are you?
38:13Oh, here.
38:14Oh, here.
38:16Oh, here.
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 prove 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?
39:44No.
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.
39:57No?
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, Ophelia, I know...
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...
41:13Is 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.
41:38Ignore it.
41:41Ignore it.
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.
42:01Hospitals overflowing.
42:04Hospitals overflowing.
42:04People dying.
42:05People dying.
42:33Sandra, you are about to be a condition of a woman in the house.
42:42In the house, my wife.
42:45And his wife.
42:50You have the right.
42:52to be consulted the right to encourage the right to warn also to appoint a new
43:01prime minister in the event of incapacity and many would say that
43:06Churchill's behavior now constitutes incapacity then a revolution must come
43:12from within they are trying well then they must try harder they will but would
43:19prefer it to be bloodless so have asked for your help and influence I cannot do
43:29it I will not do it let's not forget it was Churchill who denied Philip's
43:36children his own surname Dickie and insisted that you live in Buckingham Palace
43:40as alas did everyone else and now with looters on the street and hospital
43:44corridors stacked with the dead he is interested in only one thing stopping
43:51Philip flying what the crisis cabinet meeting this morning when there should
43:59have only been one thing on the agenda the unfolding national emergency all our
44:05prime minister wanted to discuss was your husband's new hobby
44:15I'm so sorry sir who are her parents her father is a clergyman from Suffolk I've been
44:21noticed I want to go to the hospital there is an emergency meeting at the house
44:25meeting you must attend and the house can wait
44:38you wish to see me your majesty yes Tommy I know how much my father depended on you and how
44:50closely you work together which 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
45:06is no longer leading us at all representations have been made to me through an intermediary from the heart of
45:11the government to intercede and bid and stand down make way for a younger man which brings me to my
45:23question
45:26what are my responsibilities as head of state
45:33what should I do when 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. Eden 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
46:09a stickler for convention and tradition
46:11and would never have done anything that violated the constitution or overstepped the mark
46:20then I have my answer
46:21but
46:22but
46:23that 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. Eden came to
46:35see your father
46:39different situation
46:41different sovereign
46:54way of
46:55here
47:00oh my god
47:01oh my god
47:02oh my god
47:02oh my god
47:03oh my god
47:04oh my god
47:22We'll get you seen as soon as we go.
47:47We'll get you seen as soon as we go.
48:24We'll get you seen as soon as we go.
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.
48:59After the papers.
49:01Let's go.
49:20Let's go.
49:22Let's go.
49:23Let's go.
49:28Let's go.
49:33Let's go.
49:39Let's go.
49:41Let's go.
49:41Let's go.
49:50Let's go.
49:53Let's go.
50:02Let's go.
50:04Let's go.
50:05Let's go.
50:29Let's go.
50:47Let's go.
50:53Let's go.
51:04Let's go.
51:08Let's go.
51:16Let's go.
51:32Let's go.
51:34Let's go.
51:53Let's go.
52:14Let's go.
52:23Let's go.
52:26Let's go.
52:26Clem, can you hear me?
52:28No.
52:29I...
52:32Let's go.
52:38Let's go.
52:44Let's go.
52:48Let's go.
52:51Let's go.
52:51Let's go.
52:52Yeah.
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53:56CHOIR SINGS
53:56CHOIR SINGS
53:58CHOIR SINGS
54:02CHOIR SINGS
54:03There's a delicate matter, which I felt I needed to discuss with you in person.
54:09Concerning what?
54:13Your position.
54:17My position?
54:20Yes, your position...
54:26as Prime Minister.
54:32Go on.
54:38At that point, she hesitated.
54:42And then she asked me to pick
54:44either Khwajgi 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
55:04and she had to make a decision
55:07right then and there in the room.
55:09You could see the wheels
55:10turning behind her eyes.
55:12And then she switched a tack
55:14without so much as a flicker.
55:17Clever.
55:19No, no, not clever.
55:20Ingenious.
55:21Why?
55:22Because it disarmed me
55:23and 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
55:36Cabinet permission
55:36to do rolls and spins.
55:49What, dear girl?
55:53Well, what if the fog hadn't lifted?
55:58And the government had continued to flounder.
56:01The 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
56:21is no job at all.
56:22To do nothing
56:24is the hardest job of all.
56:26and it will take every ounce of energy
56:28that you have.
56:30To be impartial
56:31is not natural,
56:32not human.
56:34People will always want you
56:35to 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
56:43as 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
57:02for the sovereign.
57:06But where does that leave me?
57:22So, go on.
57:23How long would it take me
57:24to get my wings?
57:25Well, normally a trainee
57:27would spend anything
57:27between 100 and 120 hours
57:29on one of these things.
57:31Do you think I could do it
57:31in three months?
57:33That would be unusual.
57:34I know.
57:35I'm a fast learner
57:37and believe me
57:38when I say
57:38I've got nothing else to do.
57:40I don't know.
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?
58:03They made me duke there
58:05so I should probably
58:06show up from time to time
58:07unless you have
58:08more pressing engagements.
58:09No, sir.
58:11All right.
58:11I'll adjust RPMs
58:13and cruising speed
58:14for range flying.
58:15We'll have to land
58:16to refuel, sir.
58:18REF building it.
58:19Oh, really?
58:19Where's that?
58:20Donkester.
58:21Donkester?
58:23Right.
58:54We'll see you next time.
58:57We'll see you next time.
59:11We'll see you next time.
59:29We'll see you next time.
59:30We'll see you next time.
59:43We'll see you next time.
59:47Transcription by CastingWords
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