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00:00To be continued...
00:43You've joined us, have you?
00:48Where am I?
00:50In the Suez Canal, heading for Blightly.
00:53Tried to tell you before, but you couldn't take it in.
00:58Feeling better then?
01:00Here, what's your name?
01:03Name.
01:05You didn't have a tag on you when they picked you up, they said.
01:09Japs take it, did they?
01:12Hayward.
01:164344721.
01:20Pity you didn't make it earlier, you're Mr B2626.
01:23You're voting for.
01:27What for?
01:29The election in two days' time back home.
01:32They've got to wait the best part of three weeks for the result because of us.
01:36Service vote.
01:37Three million lots of bump sent all over the world just so we can vote.
01:41Like the Saudi officer says.
01:45Hmm.
01:51Don't like the look of either of mine.
01:54Sivvies.
01:56Looks like Obstyn's choice to me.
01:59Well, thanks a lot.
02:00Cheer up.
02:14They're all over the constituency now.
02:16People like us are knocking on doors saying, remember the thirties, remember the dull, remember the hard-faced men.
02:23We're going to win, Peg.
02:25Wish some of the others were as optimistic as you are, Dad.
02:27Oh, it's not optimism.
02:28It's fact.
02:30People are thinking.
02:32Party broadcasts are getting more listeners than the best of the comedy programmes.
02:36Only because they've twice as many laughs.
02:44Good evening, sir.
02:45I'm canvassing on the...
02:46Mr. Warrington, isn't it?
02:48Young Mr. Mark.
02:50It's Moxon, sir.
02:52I was in shows with your father at Lakehouse before the war.
02:56Moxon?
02:57Yes, of course.
02:58How are you, Moxon?
02:59Well enough, sir.
03:02Oh.
03:03They won't do me again tomorrow, will they?
03:05I'm eating Ernst.
03:07Have to do without you, Ben.
03:08Where have you been all this time?
03:10Helping at the committee rooms.
03:12I'll just pop upstairs.
03:17I'm surprised at you helping that lot.
03:20You don't agree with them.
03:21I know you don't.
03:22Do you?
03:23You'd be on losing side if you did.
03:24They're shouting for Winnie from the rooftops wherever he goes.
03:28You won't stand for it if Labour won.
03:31Never mind laughing.
03:32Come in here a minute.
03:33Give me a chance.
03:34I've only just got in.
03:35I must go and change my shoes.
03:48Kettle not long-boiled.
03:49Good.
03:50I took my share of the tea ration, but not all the others did.
03:53Would you believe it?
03:54I've forgotten this, eh?
03:56War's only been over two months,
03:57yet they're getting back to their mean old habits already, some of them.
04:00Can you stand to hear some news?
04:02News?
04:03Ah, well, I knew you'd want me to offer it.
04:07Tellygram?
04:08Aye.
04:11Kier?
04:12Nay, nay.
04:14Good news.
04:16You're your lad.
04:18Blake?
04:21Owen.
04:23Owen.
04:25Aye.
04:27Alive?
04:30Can I give you one of these?
04:34Let us face the future.
04:37Yes, indeed.
04:42But this is labour, isn't it, sir?
04:45Yes, of course.
04:47You're converseing for labour?
04:50Yes, I am.
04:52But before the war, your father was the chairman of the Tory party in this constituency.
04:56That's not really the point, is it, Moxon?
05:00I'll give you this back if you don't mind, sir.
05:07She's told her and she'll marry him.
05:10She's married already.
05:13To your lad.
05:15Who's alive?
05:24What is it?
05:37Oh, here you woods, lad.
05:39Here.
05:39Yeah.
05:40Welcome home, lad.
05:41Here never, sir Humboldt.
05:44We dock tomorrow then, eh?
05:46Thought they were going to keep us in this lock till Christmas.
05:51You're putting weight on.
05:53That's what they brought us back by sea for, you know?
05:56Put back some of the weight on those little yellow bastards sweated off us.
06:02Will your missus be there?
06:05I reckon she will.
06:08And the lad.
06:11You were a toddler when I saw him last.
06:15You're not new, eh?
06:17Dad will be waiting for me, I reckon.
06:20Mum died while I was out there.
06:24Wish I would before I joined up, in a way.
06:27Civis will have had the picking of women by now.
06:30Hope they save one for me.
06:34Are we all right, do you think?
06:38I know they say we're all right.
06:42Will you tell them about the Japs?
06:46It doesn't sound right when you say it.
06:49Not like it was.
06:53Doctor asked me.
06:55And I told him.
06:57Best way I could.
07:01Didn't seem to like talking about it somehow.
07:05I never want to see another Jap unless they put one in a cage in Regent's Park.
07:10Buy a bloody season ticket then.
07:25Ah, there you are.
07:29Howard George. Ignore him.
07:33Been to Conservative Club, Dad.
07:36Ignore him.
07:39Got the champagne out, have they?
07:41Sure, if I figure what we'll need for this lot of finish, we'll inspire.
07:51You know, I still can't get used to the lights being on.
07:55I keep wanting to shout, put that light out!
08:01They're bright tonight, eh?
08:06145 majority over all other parties.
08:11It's a dream.
08:13Yeah.
08:14A dream.
08:17Is that what you wore in the desert?
08:19Well, me stuff's all that fits me.
08:21You should see me de-mob suit.
08:23Stylish, of course.
08:24Looks like a sack.
08:27How's the romance going?
08:29Mind your own business.
08:30If I hadn't met him in Germany and asked him to come and tell Mum he'd seen me,
08:34you two would never have met.
08:36He's home today, actually.
08:38He's only stationed at Catterick.
08:39I don't know what his de-mob group is, but he thinks he'll be out before Christmas.
08:43No worries.
08:44All plain sailing, is it?
08:46Threw Dad a bit when he found Mark was one of THE Warringtons,
08:49until he realised he'd found a political soulmate.
08:52He still only half believes it, I think.
08:55Even though Mark canvassed for us.
08:57A Warrington on the left.
08:58Sign of the times.
09:00I've had the reality, now we want the dream.
09:02Cynic.
09:03What's your dream?
09:04To join the club.
09:05You'll never beat them, except in an election now and then.
09:09Defeatist.
09:10I think you're a bit like me.
09:12But you won't admit it for Dad's sake.
09:13I can't do that, even for him.
09:15I've had all the state control I can stomach.
09:17I'll let them put my life in pawn for freedom.
09:19I want me ticket redeemed.
09:21Don't worry, I'll break it to him gently.
09:24There'll be me to know in his boat about now.
09:27Does Keir know that Jean nearly married the Ukrainian?
09:30We're trying to pretend it didn't happen.
09:32I liked him.
09:34He'd had an awful time.
09:35She was his future.
09:37Poor devil.
09:38You said that with feeling.
09:40Did I?
09:41Is he still at the camp?
09:42I don't know.
09:44He left the Galways farm where they used to work.
09:46There was a rumour they were going to send them back to Russia.
09:49God help him.
09:50You said that with feeling, too.
09:54How about a taste of it?
09:56Someone I care for disappearing into that...
09:59that silence.
10:00In Germany?
10:01Someone you met in Germany?
10:03Yeah, in Germany.
10:05Fraternising.
10:07That's a stupid word, Peg.
10:09Sorry.
10:10It's a word you hear people use over here.
10:12Over here they know nothing.
10:14Nothing.
10:17Where's my breakfast?
10:19In the oven.
10:22Going to get that boat bought from me, miardi, are you?
10:25I might blow some of me de-mob money on it.
10:27It's in damn good condition.
10:29Oh, Archideme.
10:30Who learnt you to talk properly while you were over there?
10:33Officer's mess, Grandad.
10:35Rubbing shoulders with the upper crust.
10:37Ah, your mother likes it.
10:39Doesn't he talk nice, he says.
10:40Not like you and me, eh, Lovett?
10:42On the rough and ready side, you and me, aren't we, lad?
10:44Look, the yokes are.
10:46They should come when you're cold.
10:47It'll be a hard yoke for the next five years while this new lot are in.
10:50Unless you come when you're cold.
10:53Another latecomer.
10:55It's in the oven.
10:57With a hard yoke.
10:59And a hard yoke for you, too.
11:01Cole likes a hard yoke.
11:03I'll get it.
11:04You'll burn your fingers.
11:06My dad's coming home.
11:08His dad's coming home?
11:09Yeah.
11:10Aye, and I don't believe in miracles no more.
11:19More like home, hmm?
11:21Sorry we can't give you a decent breakfast.
11:23I left my coupons at the diggers in Glasgow.
11:26Mummy's brought hers, but we haven't had a chance to go shopping yet.
11:28Oh, I shall want yours, by the way.
11:31I'm not staying.
11:33I thought you had a week's leave.
11:35They're expecting me at Peg's house.
11:41It was a rain before I knew you and Mum were going to be here.
11:45So last night was just a duty call.
11:47Don't be an idiot.
11:48I wanted to see you.
11:50And Mum, of course.
11:51I've seen her once in the last four years.
11:54Not so damned often before that.
11:56It was one of Daddy's complaints.
11:57When she went down to London to do her bit in the ATS after the war started.
12:01It's not the reason they separated, though.
12:04Did either of them ever write and tell you the real reason?
12:07Dad did, briefly.
12:09I'm not surprised she broke loose.
12:11Happened to a lot of women.
12:13She must have had a damn boring time playing Lady of the Manor for the benefit of Dad's county friends.
12:19They look nice.
12:22Should my ears be burning?
12:23No, of course not.
12:25Mark's not staying tonight.
12:26He's arranged to stay with his family in Whitstanton.
12:28Oh?
12:30Find yourself a new family?
12:34You could hardly say that we've been much of a family over the years, could you?
12:37Rubbish.
12:38Is it?
12:43Well, we'd better leave it untouched then.
12:46What's the name of this new family?
12:48Heywood.
12:49He's secretary of Whitstanton Labor Party.
12:51Oh, that's interesting.
12:54I met Moxon who used to work at Lake House before the war when I was on leave last.
12:57Very correct.
12:58Bowed to you from the waist, did he?
13:00I think I must have left my reading glasses in the kitchen.
13:03I shocked him rather, I think.
13:05I was canvassing for the Labor Party.
13:08Good for you.
13:10Good grief.
13:11I thought she'd be as shocked as Moxon was.
13:13I told her she'd changed.
13:15Well, don't tell me you voted Labor too.
13:17My beliefs aren't political.
13:19I vote where my loyalties lie.
13:21That's what Moxon said.
13:22Good for him.
13:24It's only a superficial wartime conversion, you know, like a lot of the Labor votes.
13:27You think?
13:28Oh, I suspect hers is too.
13:30The man she went off with was some sort of socialist.
13:33Fought in the Spanish Civil War.
13:36That's all I know about him.
13:38He'd just been killed in France the last time I saw her.
13:40She didn't want to talk about it.
13:43You're probably right.
13:45About Mum, I mean, not me.
13:47She's probably a convert to George Bernard Shaw's The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism.
13:52I just hope it is skin deep.
13:54Not in favor of anything that'll work against the chance of her coming back to Daddy.
13:58You know where his political commitment lies.
14:01Do you think she might go back to him?
14:04I don't know.
14:05We've all changed, haven't we?
14:07You?
14:08Oh, yes.
14:10I had my war too, you know.
14:17Oh, I know it seems stupid coming all this way and then not going to meet the ship.
14:21I feel the same as you do, in a way.
14:24Why do you think I stayed here?
14:26Because you didn't want to leave me.
14:28You wish you were down at the docks really, don't you?
14:30They won't be long now.
14:33Oh, I feel such a mess.
14:35You look lovely.
14:36I meant inside.
14:38Inside me I feel a mess.
14:41How can I face him?
14:43You thought he was dead.
14:45We all did.
14:46Five years.
14:48He'll understand better than any of us.
14:51I can't tell him about Ernst.
14:53I'm not saying you should.
14:55But you've got to stop feeling guilty.
14:57Such a mess I feel.
15:01Mum.
15:03I'm scared.
15:06He'll need you.
15:08I know.
15:09And I won't be there.
15:12In my head I won't be there.
15:15Grandad says your boyfriend's coming to stay.
15:17I suppose he's told you his name too.
15:19Yes, he did. One of the landed gentry, the Iron Masters.
15:22He's not like that.
15:23Oh, good.
15:24Like you're implying, I mean.
15:25Was I?
15:26I know you.
15:27Well, I'm not going to let you spoil it for me, so don't try.
15:31I wouldn't let even my views on the landed gentry spoil anything for you, Peg.
15:34You know I wouldn't.
15:35He's not all that keen on his family anyway.
15:37Have you met them yet?
15:39No, his father's still in America.
15:41And his mother's away a lot.
15:43You know, they're going to find it hard to swallow, even in our new people's democracy.
15:48All this stuff about class going out with the war is eye wash.
15:52They're not even the nouveau riche.
15:54They're your traditional county types.
15:55If you're trying to put me off, you're wasting your time.
15:57I'm just saying beware, that's all.
16:00What does Dad think?
16:01He likes Mark.
16:02He's prepared to leave it at that.
16:05Aye, well, if I like Mark, that's where I'll leave it.
16:07Promise?
16:08I promise.
16:11What are you going to do when you're demobbed?
16:14I don't know, I'm dreading it in a way.
16:17Might sound odd to you, but in an awful sort of way I enjoyed the war.
16:21Awful?
16:23Well, the whole damn business is awful, innit?
16:25We've got to believe that.
16:26And yet I seem to thrive on danger, excitement, conflict.
16:30I can't sit still.
16:32I can remember how we all used to have to keep quiet
16:34because you were doing your homework.
16:36The only one of us to shine.
16:39Hours and hours you used to sit in there.
16:42Night after night.
16:43As if your life depended on it.
16:46Odd, innit?
16:47All that application for what?
16:50I knew a bloke in the RAF with a first-class honours degree from Oxford.
16:53He was brilliant.
16:55And a cannon shell smeared him all over the runway like jam.
17:00Mum's hoping you'll carry on with your studies.
17:02Take one of these government grants for ex-servicemen.
17:05Not a chance.
17:06You'll have to do something.
17:07I know.
17:09You'd have been teaching now if the war hadn't happened.
17:12Yeah.
17:13Imagine me in a classroom now.
17:15The thought appalls me.
17:17I wish I could help.
17:18Do you?
17:19How sweet.
17:21Don't let these people take you over.
17:24Make you one of them.
17:26They couldn't though, could they?
17:27You've got a mind of your own.
17:29Does Mark know that?
17:31Eh?
17:32Eh?
17:52What?
18:00Mum?
18:07Rose!
18:09Can we rest?
18:10I told you we should have got the taxi.
18:21We haven't been able to carry half the things we need.
18:24And now we'll have to go shopping again tomorrow.
18:26I like shopping in Winchester.
18:28It's terribly shabby.
18:31Shabby with the wear and tear of keeping the Warringtons in the manner to which they're accustomed.
18:35Or is that something else we blame in the war?
18:37You've never been a Warrington at heart, have you?
18:39I'm not a Warrington by birth.
18:41When I married your father, it didn't make me a member of the club.
18:44The Kennel Club, I call it.
18:46You can't acquire a pedigree.
18:47Either you're born with it or you've had it.
18:50I wonder if this girl of Mark's will be ready to go through it all if it comes to marriage.
18:53Through what?
18:54Coming one of us.
18:56I have a feeling he hasn't told her yet that we're Catholics.
18:59All that heartache.
19:00All those tearing doubts.
19:26I've said you've got to come and get changed.
19:27I've not finished my butty yet.
19:29I'm going to the station.
19:30It's hours yet.
19:32Poor old Lovett.
19:32You'll get no peace till his dad's back, lad.
19:34Peg said you've got to put your suit on.
19:36I only wear it on Sundays.
19:37She said you've got to put it on.
19:39If I were you, I'd take that butty with you, Lovett.
19:41Oh, come on, lad.
19:46Why didn't Cole go with him to meet the boat?
19:48Oh, he got up very excited.
19:50First thing at the scene's on the carry of his dad coming home.
19:53Has anybody prepared him?
19:54What's he expecting?
19:56How do you explain to a young lad like Cole what goes on in a Jap P.O.W. camp?
20:00This generation needs to know.
20:02And Buchenwald, Belsen.
20:03And what the Russians are doing now in Europe, in Poland, in Russia.
20:07We'll need to remember to tell them.
20:09You've been reading the Tory press.
20:11The Tory press doesn't print what I know to their shame.
20:14Their honeymoon with Ivan isn't over yet.
20:16Mustn't upset our glorious allies.
20:19My God, you've changed.
20:21Has Grandad been working on you?
20:23He needs an out from me.
20:25He was there.
20:26He saw it.
20:28You've done an about turn, haven't you, the pair of you?
20:31You were to the roads round, as I remember, before you joined up.
20:34What brought that about, then?
20:36War, Grandad.
20:37Five years of submission to authority.
20:39You'd rather have submitted to Hitler, would you?
20:42That's a cheap simplification.
20:44War's over now.
20:46We're at peace.
20:47Or should be.
20:49Your brother's coming home that's had more stick than any of you.
20:52So bear that in mind.
20:54He needs what we all need.
20:56Peace.
20:57Bloody peace.
20:59Those are from Germany for you.
21:01You saved that stamp?
21:05Yeah.
21:06Yeah, I will.
21:06Well, well.
21:09Well, well.
21:37You pick me up here in a couple of hours.
21:39You go on down the coast road, you'll find a pub where you'll get the most marvellous meal.
21:43I don't think you'll find the wars changed at all that much.
21:45Anyway, you'll enjoy the drive, I promise you.
22:18A friend will post this to you, should he be able to leave the Russian zone.
22:24For most here it is impossible.
22:27And I cannot give you an address at which you can write to me.
22:31I move from camp to camp, looking for my father.
22:35He was not at Duisburg, though he had been there.
22:40There are many like me, searching, looking for the lost.
22:47I think of you often, free in New England.
22:53I did not dream much in the past.
22:57Often now, I dream.
23:02In the cold, dirty places in which we have to live.
23:06Because it is all there is, I close my eyes and dream.
23:10To escape.
23:14There are many like me, searching, looking for the lost.
23:28England.
23:29There are many like me, searching for the past.
24:03Excuse me, please.
24:07I won't be a minute.
24:18She's different.
24:21From how I remember.
24:23Aren't we all?
24:24Yep, all of us.
24:26She's quiet.
24:29Never used to stop talking.
24:30She's just a bit overcome by it all.
24:35Aye.
24:37It's a big day.
24:42It's a big day.
24:47I met him in Germany.
24:48What makes you so interested?
24:49He's got his eye on our little peg.
24:51If you ask me, it's our little peg who's got an eye on him.
24:55You know who he is, don't you?
24:56On Warrington, you mean?
24:58Dad's played Bob Cratchit to the corporate Scrooge of the Warrington family for the best part of his life.
25:04Underpaid and undervalued in a petty little pen-pushing job for those screwing sods.
25:08I worked for them myself before the war.
25:10Would you work for them again?
25:11I'm going to have to, aren't I?
25:13Your old job?
25:14Mechanic?
25:15Going to find that a bit painful, aren't you?
25:18It's not the rank I'm going to miss.
25:21It's a company.
25:23A camaraderie of war.
25:25I bet you a pound to a penny there'll be precious little of that in the piece.
25:30Never seen it as calm as this, have you?
25:34When's your D-mob coming through?
25:36Oh, God knows.
25:38I went in after you.
25:40I haven't a clue what I'll do when I do come out.
25:43Oh, you'll be all right.
25:44Good grammar school education behind you.
25:47It's not going to be easy, though, is it?
25:51Are you going to marry your fraulein?
25:55She's a frau.
25:58But who told you?
26:01Peg.
26:04Yeah, I shall marry her when the barriers come down.
26:07Don't say anything to Mum.
26:09Why? Because she's a German.
26:11I wouldn't let that bother you.
26:13We've already cut our bread ration to feed them.
26:15And when we've re-armed them, rebuilt their factories,
26:18they'll be ready for another go.
26:20About a decade, on my reckoning.
26:23We'll never learn not to trust.
26:32I'm going on to the station.
26:33You're not going to wait for us?
26:35I'll see you there.
26:42I fed the hens.
26:43Like one of the family, aren't you?
26:45Should I want to be?
26:46Proposing?
26:47No, no, of course not.
26:48But, I mean, when, if, when I propose, I shall do it properly.
26:56After a great heart searching and much forethought, you mean?
26:59Isn't that what you'd want?
27:01No.
27:02Put that back where you found it, will you?
27:11Where's Keir?
27:12Gone to the station.
27:14In a mood, I suspect.
27:15You two have been arguing.
27:16Yeah.
27:17Sorry.
27:18I'm not sure I like this piece.
27:20You know who you are with a war.
27:23Hey, Sam's gone in.
27:26I just nearly made a fool of myself, that's all.
27:29I'm ready.
27:30You've been ready all day.
27:32Come on, then.
27:33Off we go.
27:38Can you take the shopping in?
27:40I'll tie back the roses while I'm out here.
27:42Okay.
27:46Oh, I'll need the scissors or a knife.
27:49All right.
27:51Oh.
28:06Beth.
28:09I thought you were still in Washington.
28:11The Ministry wanted me back here for a few days.
28:13I go back again next week.
28:16You look well.
28:18So do you.
28:20It seems an age since I saw you.
28:22Yes, yes, it's been a long time.
28:23Your hair's different.
28:24Shorter?
28:25Is it?
28:30I've asked them to let me go since they can.
28:34I ought to be getting back to the works now.
28:36It's all over.
28:39Shouldn't you be asking why I'm here?
28:40How I got in?
28:41Perhaps you have one of these things.
28:42It's called a key.
28:43Why would I have a key?
28:44The house is yours.
28:45You own it.
28:46I don't have a key.
28:48I climbed through the windows, as a matter of fact.
28:54Isn't that called breaking and entering?
28:56Well, entering, but I didn't break anything.
28:58Well, I nearly did my neck.
29:00There were some papers I wanted.
29:01They were in the chest upstairs.
29:04I thought it was at the lake.
29:06But I couldn't find it when I went there, and I thought you might have it here.
29:09Oh, I'm sorry.
29:10Oh, no, no, no.
29:10I told you to take anything you wanted, didn't I, when I...
29:13We agreed to separate.
29:21What's it like at the lake?
29:23What like a barracks?
29:24Army hasn't moved out yet.
29:26Furniture's crammed in the stables.
29:29I wouldn't mind preserving some of the ditties written on the walls.
29:34That doesn't sound like you.
29:36America coursing you, has it?
29:38Oh, the Washington round's not all that different from the old life over here, I think.
29:41I've enjoyed it.
29:42Some of it.
29:44I want to come home now.
29:46Home?
29:47England.
29:49Still green, shabbier.
29:52But comfortable in an odd sort of way.
29:57I walked through London yesterday, in the city, down by the docks, uncle's old house, or what's left of it.
30:06Just a bomb site now.
30:10I hope they won't spoil it when they put it all together again.
30:14That funny old world we lived in.
30:18A lifetime ago.
30:23You'll find a lot of changes when you get back.
30:26More to come after the election we've just had.
30:29The Americans will be appalled by Labour getting in.
30:31Just won't understand it.
30:33Can you?
30:33I think I can.
30:35I feel sorry for old Winnie, of course, bringing us through all that lot, only to be rejected.
30:40But I think there's more than one Tory who won't want the old gang back.
30:44I've forgotten how philosophical you can be about some things.
30:47They're not at all philosophical about others.
30:52I go on to Scotland from here to see Ros.
30:54Oh, I wouldn't do that.
30:55Oh, why not?
30:56Because she's out in the garden fastening the roses back.
30:58She's here?
30:58Oh, my God, that's marvellous.
31:01And Mark?
31:01He's with his new family.
31:04New family?
31:05Mummy!
31:06She's getting cross with me.
31:07I promised to take her the scissors out.
31:10She's written to me every week.
31:12There were times when I thought I...
31:15recognised...
31:16unhappiness between the lines.
31:21She's been involved with the man out there.
31:23Married.
31:25Catholic, too.
31:26Oh, poor Ros.
31:28So much worse when it's one of us.
31:30Mummy, where are those damn scissors you were supposed to be...
31:33Daddy!
31:34I love...
31:36Oh, Daddy!
31:39Harriet!
31:45Dog pains!
31:55Dog calling!
31:58Dog heaps!
32:00Doghnijoo!
32:02You, you see?
32:05Oh, you'll be.
32:08Dog rings.
32:09Dog rings.
32:10Hey!
32:18That's nice.
32:21Oh, granddad.
32:26Come on.
32:28What's going on?
32:34Cole?
32:36Can't knock your tongue?
32:39Can't knock your tongue.
32:45No, no.
32:47I can't.
32:50I can't.
32:52I can't.
33:03I can't.
33:17look at you what's wrong with me you ought to be resting yourself after that long journey
33:21it's only a few things keeps your mind off it does it of what happiness
33:29it's too much it's all too much yes I know I know I've got it all under control trust you
33:37to upset things now look they're all back all of them for God's sake enjoy it you silly woman
33:43tent I can see a few clouds in far distance too but it doesn't have to mean there's a storm
33:49come
33:49in oh you you optimist always looking for a silver lining where is he I think he's gone up to
34:00look at
34:00your room well everything's on the stove and I mixed the dried egg and left it on the draining board
34:06happy mom don't ask her that for God's sake she'll burst into tears oh shut up you I'll go and
34:12see
34:12to the meal as a trouble with happiness gear you can never believe it's gonna last and life too
34:18often told you you're right doesn't it when's your day mob coming through God knows you'll be
34:23picking up where you left off I suppose with your studies I don't know that either oh you never used
34:28to have any doubts well war's unsettling dad turns everything upside down spoils the pattern it's very
34:35untidy is war well it'll be the kind of world where brains will count all these things we've invented
34:43to kill each other with they'll need new skills now to put them to better use what makes you think
34:48we're gonna stop killing each other well your mother says I'm an optimist but don't sour your life by
34:57looking on the black side too much gear you've got to take life as it is and make the best
35:01of it a lot
35:01of the time you'd go around the bend if you didn't I don't want that old pre-war world back
35:07dad your
35:08mother does she wants what she knows what she feels safe with that's all why shouldn't she is that what
35:15you give your time to politics for look I don't give up my time to politics because I enjoy it
35:22well
35:23because I get any satisfaction out of it in a personal way I don't see myself as a crusader or
35:32manipulator
35:33it's only a part of life it's got to be seen to but it's not a reason for living we're
35:40going to have a lot of
35:41arguments before it's all over before what's all over the piece same wallpaper oh yes it's all the
36:00same well you can't get the paint I used to look at it out there look at it at the
36:07camp at night in the
36:11hut in the dark I used to look at it in my mind like Lurlum Lurlum it's cold when you
36:25were a baby
36:27before I went away you put him in his cot at night tired you reach out for that it's a
36:35ribbon that
36:35bound the end touch it suck it comforter and forgotten one of the first words he made his own
36:48Lurlum he'd say
36:53where is he he's down at the beach with granddad I think it's all been a bit much for him
36:59today
37:00you do understand that don't you how old is he don't remember I remembered at first
37:11and I got it mixed up
37:16like the wallpaper it's the same
37:21except the bit at the end used to curl the other way
37:27daft isn't it I've forgotten things too yeah I've put the things they gave you in the top drawer
37:40I think I'm all right you know they say I'm all right
37:48what's smashing furniture it's mostly from the lake nicked while the old man was in Washington
37:53don't listen to him oh it's all right I'm getting used to him now it's all a bit of an
37:57act really
37:58ah yes well I get that from my mother you've spotted his act have you he likes to play shy
38:02sometimes
38:02doesn't he I haven't seen that one oh shut up do you mind if I have a look around no
38:07help yourself
38:07oh don't believe anything he says about me will you
38:10our fairy according to the part he's playing
38:17in deep are you
38:20yes
38:22yes I am as a matter of fact
38:24I thought maybe you were
38:28dad back for good
38:30no
38:31no he goes back to Washington next week for a time
38:34how long are you over for
38:35end of next week
38:38he was talking about you last night
38:40oh
38:41what you'd like to do when you've been demobbed
38:43I haven't the faintest idea I have a choice do I
38:47he thought you might like to start in the main works office at Sillport
38:50just until he gets back
38:52perpetuate the Warrington name in the family business
38:54it's natural he'd want you to
38:57I told him I didn't think you'd be keen
38:59it would keep me in the area
39:01is that a good reason
39:03it's a good temporary reason
39:08I'd rather not see him this time around if you don't mind I'll go before they get back
39:11he'll be hurt
39:12I'm sure you'll find some plausible excuse to protect him
39:16you weren't like this with mummy
39:17oh mummy
39:19is it because they've separated that you've turned against them
39:22who said I had
39:23that's how it looks from here
39:25I hardly know them do I
39:27all those years away at school and in the war
39:31I just want to go my own way that's all
39:37getting together again are they
39:38what makes you think sir
39:39do separated couples usually go back and visit the old homestead together
39:44I don't know
39:45I've never been coupled have I
39:47I wouldn't have thought so
39:49I meant I don't know how they feel
39:52I don't know
39:59are my old books here
40:01upstairs in the spare room I think
40:02some of them are at least
40:03I'd like to take one or two back with me
40:05won't be a sick
40:08are we going?
40:09apparently
40:10oh pity
40:11I like it here
40:13do you think you could be persuaded to stay a bit longer?
40:16I doubt it somehow
40:17oh deep psychological reasons
40:19probably
40:21is as soft as butter really don't you think?
40:24yes I do
40:26what's this?
40:27the crucifix?
40:28well heavens I know that
40:29I mean is it a special one or something?
40:32I've never seen one like this before outside a church
40:35we're catholics
40:36didn't he tell you?
40:47you'll spoil your appetite
40:49don't they feed you in the rough?
40:51not with luxuries like bread and dripping
40:53well I hope you brought your coupons
40:54especially for meat
40:55of course
40:57oh this is what it's all about
40:59home
41:00being able to drift into the kitchen
41:02and help yourself to a nice big slice of bread and dripping
41:05it's what they mean by calling your soul your own
41:07is that what you've missed most?
41:09you know what I've missed most
41:10do I?
41:12well I'd better go and practice
41:13I'm singing in chapel on Sunday with one of me prized pupils
41:17Blake says he's going back to his old job
41:18yeah
41:19he'll not be content with that for long
41:21why not?
41:22what's wrong with getting your hands dirty?
41:24he's ambitious
41:24look how he's got on in the army
41:26not just an humble serge like me
41:29he's restless since he came back
41:31goes walking along the shore
41:33away for hours sometimes
41:35dreaming of his fraulein
41:38fraulein?
41:40oh dear have I said something I shouldn't have?
41:42you did that on purpose didn't you?
41:44no I didn't
41:45never could keep a secret could you?
41:46don't believe in secrets
41:48who is she?
41:48it's a secret
41:49German?
41:51you'd better ask Blake
41:52oh you
41:53will she be allowed to come here?
41:55who?
41:56this German woman
41:57what German woman?
41:59oh
42:00ow
42:11come on
42:13compulsory rest
42:14I shall go on me own then
42:15please
42:18please?
42:20please
42:23you're making the same mistake that mum and dad made in the beginning
42:26when I was first ill
42:29wrapping me in cotton wool
42:31I don't want to live like that
42:32it's just a sensible precaution
42:34I know when I'm doing too much when I'm pushing it
42:37I don't want to stop
42:38you don't
42:39that's the trouble
42:40you just go blinding on as if
42:43as if
42:44as if I was normal
42:47I don't want to lose you
42:49I don't want to lose you either
42:51me?
42:52to God or
42:53whatever doubts and uncertainties kept me from telling me you were a Catholic
42:57who told you I was?
43:00I knew there was something holding you back
43:03I'd have proposed to you myself except I thought you'd probably turn me down
43:08what is it?
43:10what's the problem?
43:13I'm a bad Catholic
43:15you mean you don't believe anymore?
43:17I don't know
43:19full of doubts and uncertainties
43:22yes
43:24yes doubts and uncertainties
43:28I can't wait for you to work it out you know
43:31I mean not forever
43:34it's not how I cope with things
43:35I know
43:37I don't even know what the problems are
43:41I don't want to believe
43:43but you can't let go
43:45not altogether
43:47seems I can't
43:50and where do I come into it?
43:52what's expected of me to become a Catholic?
43:56Father Ross would say so
43:58become a Catholic or be damned he'd say
44:00you don't think I like Father Ross?
44:02he's all right
44:03I think you'd get on as a matter of fact
44:08I'm not stuck on marriage you know
44:11not desperate I mean
44:14I can wait for everything else
44:17it's you I can't wait for
44:22you don't have to wait for me
44:25God can wait
44:26he's got more time than we have
44:32I've had you
44:34if I don't want to go
44:35to be a country
44:36I want to leave
45:01It's too close to me.
45:26We are the largest detonation in the world.
45:28Exports are 40% of what they were before the war.
45:31And yet we're spending five times as much abroad.
45:33Won't we still have American aid?
45:34I don't think so.
45:35Why? Don't they love us anymore?
45:36I don't think they realize what desperate straits we're in.
45:40Keynes is telling them we face an economic Dunkirk.
45:43They don't seem to take him seriously.
45:46Perhaps he bores them.
45:48So I'm boring your mother now.
45:49Oh, I'm sorry. I'm just awfully tired.
45:52I think I'll take myself off.
45:53Night, darling.
45:55The minister's driver is picking me up at eight.
45:57I'll probably be gone when you wake.
46:00I'm glad you came.
46:02Yes, I'm glad too.
46:05Well, I'll be off then.
46:06Good night, Beth.
46:07Good night, John.
46:09Safe journey.
46:10Yes, safe journey.
46:15So good to be home.
46:18You have no idea.
46:19Yes, I have.
46:20I'm home too.
46:21From miserable little digs.
46:23Not a palatial penthouse in Washington.
46:25Oh, quite a modest little flat, actually.
46:28I don't give a damn whether we're the largest detonation in the world.
46:31This is the only one worth living in.
46:33You wouldn't think so to hear Mark talk about the condition of the working class.
46:37He's become a socialist idealist, has he?
46:40Oh, it's the fashion, isn't it?
46:41Goes with the times.
46:42It's a fashion that was inevitable, maybe.
46:45We could be tried and found guilty of crimes against humanity for the poverty we allowed
46:49before the war.
46:52Better to get it put right than purge ourselves with an unproductive class war.
46:57It's going to take all of us, not just some of us.
47:00Especially the young, we've still got the energy.
47:03Were they expected all on a plate?
47:05I wonder.
47:06To see themselves into thinking that now that part of it's over, they can just sit back.
47:11The dream come true.
47:14Blue birds over, the white cliffs of Dover.
47:17I think Mark could be glad of a job in the company office at Sillport, if you could arrange it.
47:21He's not averse to a little nepotism, then.
47:23He's just a confused boy.
47:25I know he's been through a war, but it only ages part of you.
47:28Part of you just stands still, waiting for it to be over.
47:31I wish I could have seen him.
47:32Well, you'll be on his way back now.
47:34He only had 48 hours.
47:35Yes, so you said.
47:38I think he'd like what I'd like, really.
47:40What I want very much.
47:42For us all to be a family again.
47:44Again?
47:44Oh, you know what I mean.
47:45Yes, I know what you mean.
47:46It's what you want, too, isn't it?
47:48To put my own world to right, you mean?
47:50It wasn't you who broke it up.
47:51No, but it was me who refused to recognize the need for changes.
47:54It's changes of me, mostly.
47:56I'm a late convert to inner revolution.
47:58You'll try?
47:59Do you think you want her more than I do?
48:02How was it today?
48:03With your mother?
48:04Well, I can't speak for her, can I?
48:05Only myself.
48:07It's five lost years between us.
48:09All that business of that fellow, well, I never can remember his name.
48:15I found myself trying to study her face when she thought I wasn't looking.
48:20Trying to be reminded of other things.
48:22And I kept wondering, what did she see in him that I lack?
48:25Oh, it's a question I've often asked myself these last few years.
48:29It doesn't have to be that kind of a reason.
48:31No, it's the reason you believe when you're as aware of your imperfections as I've become.
48:35Mea culpa.
48:38Is there a word for people who've become late converts to beliefs they're already supposed to subscribe to?
48:45I wonder.
48:46There's something very different about her.
48:49She'll never talk about what she was doing.
48:51Coding work, she says.
48:53Intelligence?
48:54Cloak and dagger stuff, you mean?
48:56You see, you're amazed.
48:57You don't believe it.
48:58Well, neither do I.
48:59But it's not that I think she's incapable.
49:01Oh, no, no.
49:02Oh, no, of course you're right.
49:05I was looking for the woman I'd lost.
49:08Well, perhaps she doesn't exist anymore.
49:11And yet I think I did see her once.
49:14Her face half turned from me.
49:17That young girl I met all those years ago.
49:20Acting a little in her own life, even then charming me.
49:25What was that phrase we used to use then?
49:27I love you more than all the world.
49:31As if the world was worse, said Lummi.
49:34Heywood.
49:37434472.
49:39Heywood.
49:41434472.
49:50Cure her!
49:51Dammit her!
49:52Cure her!
49:52Dammit her!
49:53Cure her!
49:54Dammit her!
49:55Cure her!
49:56Cure her!
49:57Cure her!
49:59Owen!
50:02I had a bad dream.
50:04Oh!
50:06God!
50:07I don't worry about anything.
50:10Oh, sorry.
50:13You're going to get no sleep.
50:15Don't worry about that.
50:18There's another room I can go in.
50:21Don't worry about it.
50:22Oh, Christ!
50:26Don't worry about it.
50:28It didn't pass.
50:30Everything passes around time.
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