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00:02I'm sorry.
00:02I'm sorry.
00:04I'm sorry.
00:24Fuel on.
00:26Fuel on.
00:27Docks are in position.
00:29Switches are off.
00:29You sure about this, sir?
00:32When I got married, my in-laws made me marshal of the Royal Air Force.
00:35As a result, I'm the most senior airman in the country and I can't bloody well fly.
00:41Yes, I'm sure.
00:42Right-o, sir.
01:12Ready, sir?
01:14Bravo!
01:15Here we go!
01:17Whoa-ho!
01:29Perfect!
01:32Woo-hoo!
01:39Slow there.
01:41There we go.
01:42There we go.
01:50Right.
01:52All right there, sir?
01:53Yes, yes, fine.
01:55Now, it's your turn.
01:57You have control.
01:58I have control.
01:59Now, remember what I told you.
02:00Keep your eye on the altimeter and the compass heading.
02:03And keep the stick level.
02:07That's very good.
02:08That's balanced.
02:12Stick to the left, then to the right.
02:20And level.
02:22Good.
02:24Noisy, isn't it?
02:29How's this, sir?
02:41My God.
02:47Isn't it wonderful?
02:49Heaven!
02:55You fought in the Battle of Britain, didn't you?
02:58I did, sir.
02:59257 Squadron.
03:00Flying what?
03:01Spitfires.
03:02Hunnicans, mostly, sir.
03:04Any kills?
03:06One or two.
03:07Should we get us started now?
03:09The ground seems terribly close.
03:12It's too low to restart, so we'll do a dead stick landing.
03:16Okay.
03:16I have control.
03:17You have control.
03:37That was wonderful.
03:39Same time next week, sir.
03:41How about tomorrow?
04:10I'll do it tomorrow.
05:53I'm afraid you'll see us at this point.
05:55Interesting.
05:57Sir.
06:01I think you should see this.
06:03I see.
06:22Sorry, sir.
06:23I thought you should see these.
06:29Good God.
06:33We must send a warning to cover our backs.
06:37Thanks.
06:40Kenneth, it should probably come from you as chief scientist.
06:44Address it to the PM.
06:46You'll never read it, of course.
06:48But the important thing is, we've sent it.
06:52I'll get you to Dally Street right away.
07:05I'll get you to the next hour.
07:12Right there, please.
07:23If I'm out, if 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?
07:50My funeral.
08:08What are they rehearsing?
08:13What are they rehearsing?
08:42Oh, there you are.
08:44Excuse me, sir.
09:00Mr. Thurman.
09:01Mr. Collins.
09:04Nice to meet you.
09:16I'm not a scientist.
09:18I can't say I understand it, but what I can tell you is we don't get a weather warning
09:24like this every day.
09:25We don't get one every month either.
09:28In fact, I've never heard of us getting one at all.
09:32Does the name Donora mean anything to you?
09:39Donora.
09:43Of course, I remember Donora, who was a scandal.
09:47A small mill town in America outside Philadelphia.
09:51Pittsburgh.
09:52They had a smog brought on by a freak anti-cyclone which trapped the emissions from the local
09:59copper world.
10:00I think.
10:01In the fog.
10:02In a few days, a number of people died.
10:05Twenty.
10:06Twenty.
10:06And several thousand became seriously ill from the poisonous fog.
10:12After the incident, a cross-party delegation was sent to Donora on an urgent fact-finding
10:17mission.
10:18They recommended that clean air zones be set up all around London as a precautionary
10:22measure.
10:24Hmm.
10:25I never saw the report.
10:27With good reason.
10:29Our Prime Minister threw it away, claiming it wasn't a priority.
10:34Can you prove that?
10:35I can, Mr. Hartley.
10:46The cabinet minutes where it was discussed.
10:55He's insisted the country keep burning coal irresponsibly this winter to give the illusion
11:01of a solid economy.
11:05This is great, Clem.
11:07Mr. Hartley.
11:08It's interesting.
11:09For 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
11:22information.
11:24I've read the Aeneid, Mr. Thurman.
11:27Do not trust the horse, Trojans.
11:30I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.
11:35Mr. Hartley, I entered the civil service to serve the public and to serve government.
11:41Any government.
11:43But I am also a responsible citizen, and I cannot stand by while chaos reigns around me.
11:51This is not a government.
11:53Mr. Hartley, 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
12:30usher him out of the door and you back in.
12:35And to that end, you come to me with a master plan that involves me crucifying the Tories
12:41for their failure to deal with a fog which as yet shows no sign of appearing.
12:50At present, I can see stars.
12:53I can see stars.
13:10I can see stars.
13:21I can see stars.
13:33I can see stars.
13:36I can see stars.
13:40I can see stars.
13:50stars.
13:55Good night.
14:08Miss Coff, thank you for your consciousness.
14:11but it's late. go home. I am sir. you're no good to be tired. good evening to you.
14:19what? still here? good night sir.
14:34evening Pat.
14:57you haven't moved. I suppose it's still a no. to what? coming out. you mean going to the lamb flag
15:09with you sitting at the bar twinkling 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 only to have their
15:20unremarkability confirmed to us again. no. thanks. goodness. and what will you be doing in the
15:43this young men and women everywhere and proclaim it far and wide. the earth is yours and the fullness
15:51thereof. be kind but be fierce. you are needed now more than ever before. take up the mantle of change
16:01for this is your time.
16:29for this is your time.
16:35good morning. time is 8 o'clock on the 6th of december and here is the news.
16:41london has been brought to a halt by dense fog which has descended overnight.
16:47long queues are formed on main roads and the reports of motorists abandoning their vehicles
16:52and continuing on foot. london airport is expected to be closed. good god. the meteorological office
17:01has issued a statement saying that a persistent anti-cyclone over london is to blame. smoke from
17:06the capitol's chimneys is being trapped at street level which is aggravating the fog.
17:15windless conditions mean it is expected to last for some time. be careful out there. it's a real pea super.
17:31ah is the car ready? l'm afraid the visibility is too poor to drive ma'am.
17:38it's what? 200 yards? it's been charged too hazardous ma'am.
17:47l have an appointment to see my grandmother. i intend to keep that appointment.
17:54if it's too hazardous to drive then there's only one thing to be done.
18:085 ģæ, I didn't think that for one. no. that's not too much of it.
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.
18:58Oh, the Queen.
19:01I thought you was all Queens. They gave me a sheet.
19:04We are.
19:05I was the Queen so long as my husband the King was alive.
19:09But since he died, I'm no longer the Queen.
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.
19:29Bravo.
19:31Nurses and nuns have the same problem.
19:33We're all called sister.
19:36So you are.
19:38Well, she's outside.
19:40The Queen.
19:42Then let her in.
19:45Sister.
19:57Bad time?
19:58Not at all.
20:02How are you?
20:03I'm always happy to see you.
20:06And my mood will improve yet further if you promise me one thing.
20:10Name it.
20:10Not to ask me how I am.
20:12It's all anyone ever does.
20:14Forget death by lung disease.
20:16It's death by bad conversation.
20:19All right, I promise.
20:21But if you are feeling up to it,
20:23there was something I wanted to talk to you about.
20:26Fire away.
20:28Okay.
20:29Okay.
20:30Okay.
20:31Okay.
20:32Okay.
20:37I was listening to the wireless this morning.
20:41Where they described this fog as an act of God.
20:46Now, in your letter that you sent me,
20:50you said,
20:55loyalty to the ideal you have inherited
20:58is 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
21:17to grace and dignify the earth.
21:19To give ordinary people an ideal to strive towards.
21:23An example of nobility and duty
21:25to raise them in their wretched lives.
21:28Monarchy is a calling from God.
21:32That is why you're crowned in an abbey,
21:35not 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
21:47in your duty,
21:48not the public.
21:51I'm not sure that my husband would agree with that.
21:54He would argue that in any
21:57equitable modern society
21:59that church and state should be separated.
22:02That if God has servants,
22:04they're priests, not kings.
22:07He would also say that he
22:09watched his own family destroyed
22:11because they were seen by the people
22:12to embody indefensible and unreasonable ideas.
22:16Yes, but he represents a royal family
22:18of carpetbaggers and parvenues
22:20that goes back what?
22:22Ninety years.
22:24What would he know of Alfred the Great,
22:26the rod of equity and mercy,
22:28Edward the Confessor,
22:30William the Conqueror,
22:31Henry VIII?
22:33It's the Church of England, dear,
22:34not the Church of Denmark or Greece.
22:41Next question?
22:44It's chaos out there.
22:46Trains disrupted,
22:48air services cancelled.
22:50At Richmond Bridge this morning,
22:52visibility was officially measured at one yard.
22:55That's a record low, incidentally.
22:58Our Trojan friend in Downing Street
23:00has been speaking to his friends
23:02at 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
23:10a vote of no confidence
23:11and will doubtless call me
23:13over-cautious for not doing so.
23:15But the Prime Minister
23:17needs to be given a chance.
23:21Even if it's only to hang himself.
23:23Let's see how the old fool responds.
23:40There you go.
23:41There you go.
23:42Hey!
23:43Hey!
23:44Oh!
24:05Morning.
24:13I'm glad to see someone else made it in
24:15No one saw this coming, did they?
24:19No
24:27Prime Minister?
24:30Sir?
24:52I'm sorry sir, I was just...
24:54No, no, you did well to get here, I gather half the Downing Street staff didn't
24:59It wasn't easy, just crossing the road you take your life in your hands
25:03Oh then don't, you'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's governed
25:21But 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 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
25:53So I've been reading your autobiography
25:56That'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 24
26:33All energy and hope
26:36And passion and fire
26:40It's remarkable
26:45You found something you liked in that young male
26:49I did
27:21Good morning.
27:23The time is 8 o'clock on the 7th of December, and here is the news.
27:29A 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 while 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.
28:02The unmoving fog, which has spread to over 30 miles wide, is likely to cause complete darkness by 2 o
28:09'clock this afternoon.
28:20How do you see the sun?
28:24What do you see the sun?
28:25Are you all right?
28:28You're not.
28:31Come on, let's get you up.
28:33No.
28:34No.
28:34No, I'm fine. I promise.
28:38it's just because the window was open now 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 a point that i will be making in
29:14person to the commonwealth heads when i host them for the weekend at checkers weather permitting
29:23indeed what is the latest information that you have about the weather it's fog ma'am it will
29:32lift eventually i was hoping for something more scientific then i will ensure that a barometric
29:39report 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
29:55i'm prepared to inflict on your subject as a reward for winning a world war and prevailing
30:01over fascism evil and tyranny
30:04letting them freeze is not one of them
30:07you do not seem unduly concerned i'm not you do know that my late father wrote many years ago
30:15to your predecessors to express his deep concern about the inner city power stations that your party
30:21was 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
30:39wanting my head
30:42people have to be angry at someone
30:45but as leader
30:47one cannot simply react
30:50to everything
30:51we need the power stations
30:53we need the coal
30:54people 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
31:06why
31:09well being caged in like this
31:11he can't fly
31:14fly 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 it's what he's always wanted
31:33why was government not consulted
31:34because it's a private matter
31:36and i am in favour
31:38nothing you or his royal highness do is a private matter
31:42why
31:42and the father of the future king of england
31:44risking his life needlessly is
31:47quite unacceptable
31:49please
31:49do 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
31:58one must draw a line in the sand
32:00and the job of drawing that line falls to cabinet ma'am
32:03not to you
32:04something your dear late papa would certainly have taught you
32:08had he been granted more time to complete your education
32:13and now our time is up
32:20until next week
32:21let's go
32:25let's go
32:26let's go
32:27let's go
32:49let's go
33:16come on
33:18let's get you to hospital
33:20i'm fine
33:21you're not
33:21come on
33:23let's get you up
33:24let's get you up
33:26let's get you up
33:34here we go
33:36i'm in
33:38i can't breathe
33:55Do as I say and hold on to me.
34:07Come along.
34:16Cross now, ladies.
34:19Cross now.
34:19Help me.
34:25Quick, hold my hand.
34:37Bye bye.
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.
35:13Culpable for what? It'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.
35:41Hospitals are filling up as our citizens are breathing in poisonous sulfur dioxide.
35:55Sometimes we have sunshine.
35:58Too much sunshine, and they call it a drought.
36:01Then we have rain.
36:03Too much rain, and they call it a deluge, and find a way to blame us for that, too.
36:08It's an act of God, Bobbity.
36:11It's weather.
36:12And for better or for worse, we get a great deal of it on this island.
36:16Frankly, there are more pressing matters to deal with.
36:20Like what?
36:21The Duke of Edinburgh.
36:24The 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.
36:50Bobbity.
36:51Thanks for taking my call, Diggie.
36:54Are you there?
36:56Yes.
36:57Can anyone over hear what you're saying?
37:03No.
37:05Good.
37:09It's chaos.
37:10I know.
37:11The reward 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 to 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.
37:50You know my day's bad enough without some delusional girl playing jokes.
37:55Now, excuse me.
37:57Nuts.
37:58Nuts.
37:59I'll show you.
38:02Down that little way.
38:04Here we go.
38:09Where are you?
38:13Oh, here.
38:14Oh, here.
38:38How much longer you're gonna give the old man the majority is tiny a vote of no confidence and he'll
38:43be toppled
38:46you know what he calls you yes I know sheep in sheep'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 care to share it no I'd be happy to share glide ratios and adiabatic lapse rates with you as
39:50part of a quid pro quo
39:51arrangement one glide ratio in return for some cabinet minutes for example no a dihedral angle or an absolute ceiling
40:02these are very interesting concepts Elizabeth you might learn something in exchange
40:05for a foreign office briefing am I going to have to 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
40:32go on they were written 300 years before man first got in a plane Leonardo da Vinci
40:42look I feel I know
40:47Lord Manbatten 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
40:54thank you
41:00Elizabeth
41:01Elizabeth
41:05hello
41:06came as soon as I cried
41:09so
41:12go is
41:13is this a meeting with Elizabeth your niece my wife
41:17or the queen
41:18latter I'm afraid
41:20right
41:20I don't know my place
41:24oh god
41:31what's the matter with him
41:33nothing
41:36he's just feeling a little grounded
41:38ignore it
41:40right
41:41all ears
41:42I
41:43received
41:44a
41:45telephone call today from
41:47Robert E. Salisbury
41:49it seems that even among his own people the feeling is that our prime minister is not able to deal
41:54with a national crisis
41:57indeed he could be seen to be responsible for that crisis
42:02hospitals overflowing people dying
42:04as sovereign you have the right to demand that a government in your name shows effective leadership
42:13the opposition are now calling for a motion of no confidence
42:18so
42:20I would say
42:21the time has come for you to
42:25summon
42:25Churchill
42:27and
42:28and what
42:32insist that he go
42:34no
42:36I
42:37I
42:37can't do that
42:38you can
42:38and
42:40should
42:41but
42:42wouldn't that violate the constitution
42:45as
42:46queen
42:50you
42:51have the right
42:52to be consulted
42:54the right
42:55to
42:56encourage
42:57the right to warn
42:59and
42:59also
43:00to
43:01appoint a new prime minister in the event of incapacity
43:04and
43:04many would say that Churchill's behavior now
43:08constitutes
43:08incapacity
43:11then a revolution must come from within
43:12they are trying
43:15well then they must try harder
43:16they will
43:17but
43:18would prefer it
43:20to be bloodless
43:21so
43:22have asked for your
43:23help
43:24and
43:25influence
43:28I
43:29cannot do it
43:30I will not
43:31do 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 and 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 are her parents
44:18her father is a clergyman from Suffolk
44:21I've been noticed
44:22I want to go to the hospital
44:23there is an emergency meeting at the house
44:25the meeting you must attend
44:27the house can wait
44:38you wish to see me your majesty
44:40yes 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
44:58a 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 and 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
45:35what should I do
45:36when it's in the net of 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
45:57then 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
46:27and 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
46:53see you
46:54wait for me here
46:56wait for me here
47:00oh my god
47:01wait for me
47:02wait for me
47:04wait for me
47:05wait for me
47:12wait for me
47:22We'll get you seen us soon.
47:56Sir?
48:00Just a child.
48:04A beautiful child.
48:08I just received word from Buckingham Palace.
48:11Oh, no.
48:12The Queen has requested an audience.
48:14When?
48:15At your earliest convenience.
48:21All energy and hope and passion and fire.
48:31Sir?
48:34Damn it, he is.
48:43Did 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.
49:04Do it.
49:21I have no time.
49:23Wait.
49:54The Prime Minister will be here in a few moments.
50:11Is there anything, sir?
50:12Yeah, yeah.
50:13Not, man.
50:24Quiet, please.
50:24Settle down.
50:26Mr. Churchill.
50:28I have witnessed scenes here today, the likes of which we have not seen since the darkest
50:35days of the Blitz.
50:39But alongside the suffering, I've also seen heroism.
50:45And 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.
51:03To that end, I pledge to make available with immediate effect more money for hospital
51:09staff, more money for equipment, and a full and independent public inquiry into the causes
51:18of air pollution, to ensure that such a calamity may never befall us again.
51:29Thank you all.
51:37The Prime Minister was alone amongst senior politicians to visit hospitals and respond
51:42to the crisis in person, and was rewarded by cheers and applause by those suffering through
51:48the worst smog this city has ever witnessed.
51:51The headline reads, True Leader in a Crisis.
52:00Ma'am, the Prime Minister's here.
52:04The parallels between his appearance yesterday and the wartime years were striking.
52:10And 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?
52:29I...
52:56Clem, you still there?
53:02Hey!
53:06Oh, I...
53:10Go away!
53:19Try to learn that space gave me...
53:33The Prime Minister, Your Majesty.
53:36Your Majesty.
53:48You asked to see me now.
53:51I did.
54:03There's a delicate matter, which I felt I needed to discuss with you in person.
54:10Concerning what?
54:14Your position.
54:18My position?
54:20Yes, your position as Prime Minister.
54:32Go on.
54:38At that point, she hesitated.
54:41And then she asked me to pick either Khwajgi Nazimudin of Pakistan or Sydney Holland of New Zealand.
54:50Whatever for?
54:51To sit next to at dinner.
54:56She summoned you for that.
54:58No, I think she summoned me to haul me over the coals for my handling of the fog.
55:03But then the fog lifted.
55:05And she had to make a decision right then and there in the room.
55:09You could see the wheels turning behind her eyes.
55:12And then she switched attack without so much as a flicker.
55:17Clever.
55:19No, no, not clever.
55:20Ingenious.
55:21Why?
55:21Because he disarmed me and made me switch tack too.
55:26What about?
55:27About allowing Philip to learn to fly.
55:30He can now.
55:32Good.
55:34But he still has to ask cabinet permission to do rolls and spins.
55:49What, dear girl?
55:53Well, what if the fog hadn't lifted?
55:58And 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, as head of state, to 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, not human.
56:34People will always want you to smile or agree or frown.
56:38And the minute you do, you will have declared a position, a point of view.
56:42And that is the one thing, as sovereign, that you are not entitled to do.
56:48The less you do, the less you say, or agree, or smile.
56:53Or think, or feel, or breathe, or exist.
56:56The better.
57:01Well, that's fine for the sovereign.
57:06But where does that leave me?
57:22So, come 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.
57:31Do you think I could do it in three months?
57:33That would be unusual.
57:34I'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 right up.
57:58Starboard and port.
57:5918 gallons.
58:00Yes.
58:01Fancy lunch in Edinburgh.
58:03Edinburgh.
58:04They made me duke there.
58:05So I should probably show up from time to time.
58:07Unless you have more pressing engagements.
58:09No, sir.
58:10All right.
58:12I'll adjust rpms and cruising speed for range flying.
58:15We'll have to land to refuel, sir.
58:18Aria fitting in.
58:19Oh, really?
58:19Where's that?
58:20Donkester.
58:21Donkester?
58:23Right.
58:25Donkester.
58:30Donkester.
58:37Donkester.
58:42Donkester.
58:44Donkester.
58:47Donkester.
58:48Donkester.
58:48Donkester.
58:49Donkester.
58:49Donkester.
58:49Donkester.
58:49Donkester.
58:49Donkester.
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