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00:00Thank you very much.
00:43Thank you very much.
01:00The ends are still laying well, look.
01:02Just as well. With Blake coming home tomorrow.
01:05Help me feed him up.
01:07I'll bet he's as thin as a rake after more than a year in Germany.
01:10Yeah, well.
01:12He might have expected to live off the fat of the land
01:14because there's starving all around him.
01:16Well, it puzzles me why he stayed on so long.
01:19And the girl he went for left him.
01:21Not of her own accord, so far as his letters are clear.
01:25The Russians.
01:28State of things out there.
01:31Never tells us much, does he?
01:33He's a funny lad.
01:35Pretends to believe that charity begins at home
01:37and then he gives up a year of his life
01:39to go and help starving refugees.
01:41There's more goes on in his head than he lets on to us.
01:45Like Owen.
01:47Yeah, like Owen.
01:49Though Gene says he's settled enough in the town now
01:52apart from the fact that he'll never go out except to come here.
01:56Winter's on the way.
01:57Let's hope it's not like the last.
01:59Hmm.
02:00Not forget the start of 1947, and all right?
02:07Oh, they'll get mucked up to the eyes.
02:14Used to have to sleep in mud sometimes
02:16when the Japs had us working away from the camp.
02:19That's the first time you've said that word, Japs.
02:23Aye.
02:24We cocked up another fist today as well.
02:27First time you've not been back to your mother since we moved.
02:30I'll go tomorrow.
02:33What's life in that?
02:35You.
02:37You feel safe at your mother's, don't you?
02:39I feel right enough back where we are now.
02:42Now I do.
02:44He's lost his fear of me, it seems to have.
02:47You and all.
02:48Me?
02:50Well, he seemed a bit feared of me in a way when I come back.
02:55I don't blame him.
02:57Five years away.
02:59A stranger almost, must have seen.
03:03Is it going now?
03:04What you feared?
03:06Yes.
03:07Yes, it's going.
03:11I feared you too.
03:13Me?
03:16Out of sight, out of mind, they say, don't they?
03:20Some of the lads used to get Dear John letters.
03:24Dear John.
03:25I'm sorry, but I've met somebody.
03:29I used to be glad I didn't get letters sometimes, in case I got one of them.
03:35Yeah.
03:37Not true, yeah, I didn't.
03:39I knew you'd not.
03:40I'll easily give me up for a dead.
03:43Towards the end, I do.
03:45Easily, I say.
03:48Suppose I had written you one of those letters, like you said.
03:52I'll lift for you out there.
03:55You and him.
03:57Lift to come back to you, eh?
04:00Come on.
04:01We better be getting back.
04:03It'll be dark soon.
04:04All right, go on.
04:21Breakfast.
04:22On there.
04:23And call your grandfather, will you?
04:25I've called him twice already.
04:27I'll bet you anything he complains about it being cold when he does come.
04:31Grandad!
04:33Breakfast!
04:37Where's Dad?
04:38Gone for a walk, you said.
04:39A walk?
04:41Wild horses wouldn't have dragged him out for a walk at one time.
04:44Not got a rival, have you?
04:45Oh, I've got a rival, all right.
04:47Witch Stanton Labour Party.
04:50When does Blake get here?
04:51He was catching a late train last night, so it could be any time.
04:55Aren't there any houses in there?
04:56Oh, no, none that we've not already looked at.
05:01On there.
05:03Doesn't Mark's father have anything on his estate?
05:06Mark won't ask.
05:07It looks cold.
05:09What did I tell you?
05:10You've got five minutes to eat that.
05:12I want to get washed up.
05:13I've got to get to the shops before Blake gets here.
05:16And I shall want your pension money.
05:17Ah, he'll have nowt in his pocket.
05:19I'll be bound.
05:19But it is voluntary work.
05:21He did it for his keep to help others.
05:23God helps them that helps themselves.
05:25Andy's got that car he was doing up to sell.
05:27So that'll keep him going for a bit.
05:29A car's not money.
05:31He should have sold it before he went off.
05:34A right state would have been in by now if I'd not looked after it for him.
05:38Waste not, want not.
05:39Oh, what would we do without you, Grandad?
05:42I'm a lot more used to this family than I'm given credit for.
05:47You think I've outlived me usefulness, don't you?
05:51In spite of the fact that I put a roof over your Owen's head.
05:55Your breakfast will freeze.
05:56I don't want it.
05:58It's cold, any road.
06:01I'll show you.
06:05Grandad?
06:07Waste not, want not.
06:15Mr. Hayward, come in.
06:17Ah, thanks.
06:19Bess and the party agents said I'd like to keep in touch with you
06:22and I've been trying to catch you for months now.
06:25I'm just home from Germany.
06:26I'm afraid it's terribly cold in here.
06:28Yeah, not as cold as last winter.
06:29Worse this century, they said.
06:31January the first, we nationalised the mine.
06:33Two months later, we were told there wasn't enough cold to go round.
06:36Come and have some coffee with me.
06:38Thanks.
06:47Rest.
06:49I didn't want to be the first to give in.
06:52Blimey, somebody out there sailing.
06:54Must be as daft as you are.
06:57God, I miss that in Germany.
07:00You're an odd bod.
07:01You reckon?
07:03Helping the Krauts in their hour of need.
07:05After five years fighting their sons.
07:08You know why I was there.
07:10Yeah.
07:12Yeah, I'm sorry it didn't work out for you.
07:14Never mind.
07:15Come the revolution.
07:17Sadia revolution.
07:18Those are proletariat that suffers.
07:21They sacrifice themselves for the future.
07:23Not in their ass they don't.
07:25I'm not standing here arguing with you.
07:28Not in this weather.
07:31You realise you've got to take the taxi if you haven't spent your last quid paying my rail fare.
07:37Oh, God, I ain't coming home broke.
07:40Why did I let you persuade me?
07:43I'm 27.
07:45Even if you're not five years off for the war, Dad's going to think he'll never get me off his
07:50back.
07:53Have you got anything in blank?
07:55Nah.
07:55There's a car the other was doing up to sell.
07:58Should go at least a couple of hundred for it.
08:01We're neither of us shining examples, are we, eh?
08:30Ros is out sailing.
08:33I think she's getting bored with a life of idleness after working all through the war.
08:38She seems to be able to find anything that interests her.
08:41Sugar?
08:42No, thanks.
08:44Sir.
08:48I, er, I don't know what sort of world they expected after the war.
08:53I know what I hoped for after we won the election in 1945.
08:58My wife wants the old one back again.
09:00I don't.
09:02But it might be what we've got.
09:07Do you think we'll win this by-election if we have to have one?
09:10A year ago I'd have said there wasn't a doubt.
09:12I mean the gains we made in local elections,
09:15the legislation that went through the house.
09:17This last winter was a setback.
09:21They still want me to stand, I assume?
09:23Oh, yes, you'll be asked to stand.
09:25I, er...
09:26I know you're not well known in the party,
09:28but then, er, neither was Cripps.
09:31And your local connections will count.
09:35Tory husband, local employer, me standing for labour.
09:39Does he know?
09:41No.
09:44Then we're separated.
09:46My life's my own.
09:48Do you mind if I call you George?
09:50We'll have to learn to sooner or later,
09:52any road,
09:52seeing as how we're going to be in-laws.
09:56Has John made no effort to get in touch
09:58since Mark and Pegg got engaged?
10:01I shall meet him at the wedding, no doubt.
10:03He's a very private man.
10:04I doubt if he'll make the first move.
10:06Aye.
10:07And I work for him.
10:09He'll want to, perhaps.
10:12What made you want to stand for labour?
10:19What makes you ask?
10:21Well, it's becoming fashionable among the upper crust,
10:24and people's reasons interest me.
10:26They might be the wrong ones, you mean?
10:32I'm a socialist on the same logical basis that I'm a Catholic.
10:35It appeals to my reason.
10:38I know not about religion.
10:42New worlds are opening up for all of us.
10:47The world of the bomb.
10:51Living with what was done in the concentration camps.
10:56An hour in Bevan said in Tribune,
10:58the hope of an organic federation in Europe.
11:01I've been all over Europe in the last two years.
11:03I know what he means and why it's necessary,
11:04and yet people have such short memory.
11:07Is Blake home yet, by the way?
11:09Some time today.
11:10He came over on the plane with me,
11:11but he was calling to see your other son in London.
11:13He's been a godsend to us out there,
11:15keeping our old worn-out trucks in the move.
11:17Now, there is an enigma of a man.
11:19Right.
11:20He went to war as socialists,
11:22believing everything I'd taught him,
11:23and when he came back, he'd join the other side.
11:26Oh, I wish I could declare myself as a candidate now.
11:30Is all this secrecy necessary?
11:31Yeah, well, Bass had talked to the wife of the member,
11:34and she believes that it might destroy him completely
11:36if he knew that we were planning a successor,
11:38even though he knows it's a segment...
11:41Oh!
11:42Didn't know he had a visitor.
11:43You know Mr Hayward?
11:44Of course.
11:46For heaven's sake, call him George.
11:47I do.
11:49And you're dripping all over the carpet.
11:51Oh, sorry.
11:52I'll go and get changed.
11:57Another?
11:58Oh, thank you.
12:01I'm glad she didn't rush into marriage
12:02when the men came back,
12:03as so many of them did,
12:05but I wish you could find some fulfillment in life.
12:10It's a man's world, isn't it, George?
12:13And I resent it.
12:14I think I always have.
12:16You'll have to change it then, won't you?
12:27It's not a trough, you know.
12:30I said it's not a trough.
12:35All right, Grandad.
12:36I'll take it somewhere where it'll not offend you to see me eating it.
12:39Here, I'm sure Grandad didn't mean it that way.
12:42I'm sorry, Mum.
12:50Go on, then.
12:51Flamey.
12:51What a thing to say.
12:52Eating like a pig.
12:54That's enough.
12:55They cost now don't manners.
12:59You've spoiled him.
13:02I know why he's come back, you know.
13:05Spent up.
13:05That's why he's back.
13:07It's none of your business, whatever it is.
13:08Aye, it's none of my business.
13:11None of me business.
13:21He's worse than ever he was since Lovett went off to school.
13:25Oh, I must say, Keir was eating like a starved creature.
13:30I don't think he's been getting much to eat.
13:32His last job packed up a month ago.
13:35What was it?
13:37Lion's Corner House.
13:38Something in the kitchen.
13:40Washing up, I suspect.
13:41A higher school certificate to wash up.
13:45I had to follow him to three addresses before I found him.
13:49He flogged his typewriter
13:50and he still owed two weeks back rent.
13:53You paid it?
13:55I had just enough left to pay for our train tickets.
14:00We're both a bit of a letdown, aren't we?
14:12What is it, Grandad?
14:14You're still mad at me, are you?
14:17Serve you right if I am.
14:18You've got a nasty habit of telling the truth.
14:20It's me age.
14:22What's age got to do with it?
14:24Well, you can afford to
14:26say what you like when you're my age
14:27and speak the truth.
14:29I've not to lose.
14:32I found something in me chest.
14:35What's wrong with your chest?
14:36No, not wrong with me chest.
14:38In me room, you gawp.
14:39Four gold sovereigns.
14:42Now, don't say nay.
14:44I've seen put by for Lovett
14:46and Blake had his before the war
14:47and Owen.
14:49I'm in his bad books and all.
14:51Owen?
14:52Aye.
14:53I distempered this room for your mother
14:54when she was out one day.
14:56Owen came in while I went in the middle of it.
14:59It's the first time I've seen him come to life
15:01since he left the prisoner war camp.
15:03He raged at me.
15:04Stamped out.
15:05Banged all.
15:07Nobody saw him for the hours.
15:09Hmm.
15:10It's the room they lived in when they got married.
15:12Aye.
15:13It'll be sentiment, I suppose.
15:16A funny thing, his sentiment.
15:19Do you know I miss young Lovett?
15:22Yeah.
15:23Yeah, I suppose you do.
15:24Nobody did go fishing in the boat with me these days.
15:27And I remember.
15:29You and me were great pals
15:31when you were a little lad.
15:33I'll go fishing with you, Grandad.
15:34I didn't give you four gold sovereigns
15:37just so you'd go fishing with me.
15:38No.
15:39Not for four gold sovereigns.
15:42I don't worry about you.
15:43You'll soon get back on your feet.
15:45Still trying to be a writer, is he?
15:47Seems he is.
15:48I think his typewriter's been in and out of hock a few times.
15:51What was it like where I lived?
15:54Well...
15:54I don't want tales.
15:55I want the truth.
15:57Down some steps.
15:59They call a semi-basement.
16:01Barge on the window.
16:03Black floor.
16:04A bed, a table, a chair.
16:06Gas ring to cook on.
16:07Dirty.
16:08Filthy.
16:09I can't see what's funny about it.
16:12In the circles that Keir moves in,
16:13it's the only respectable way to live.
16:15Them starving garrets these days,
16:17they live in filthy basements.
16:19What are we to do about him?
16:20You feed him up,
16:21you send him off again.
16:22What future is there in it?
16:24Everybody you talk to thinks it's mad.
16:26Why can't he do a proper job, they say?
16:28It's what he wants.
16:30It's a hell of a job persuading him
16:31to come back for a while.
16:32You think it's right, what do you want?
16:34If he's prepared to live like that for it,
16:36it is.
16:37That's what your father says.
16:38He's right.
16:40I had such hopes for him.
16:42Well, you're a fine one to talk.
16:44Singing in clubs to help keep Lovett at school.
16:47Has Dad got used to the idea yet?
16:50He won't let me go without him.
16:52It's like having a bodyguard.
16:53As if I'm going to get admirers at my age.
16:56I bet he has to fight them off.
16:58Not such a talk.
17:01Your girl in Germany.
17:03You've lost her.
17:05Since Bevan started to thump the table at the Russians,
17:07the barbed wire's gone up.
17:10Did Ernst get back to Russia, did you hear?
17:12No, nothing more.
17:14How are they, June and I?
17:16I think she accepts now.
17:18I think so.
17:19Well, I think she does.
17:21Acceptance.
17:22Resignation to be resigned.
17:24To accept what we used to say in the war.
17:26There's no future of it.
17:27Do you?
17:28With this girl?
17:29No.
17:32It worries you, doesn't it?
17:34You'd like to see me married, settled.
17:36That's what mothers want.
17:38Then there's Keir.
17:39Oh, that war.
17:40You can't go on blaming the war forever, Mum.
17:43I'll learn it probably in time.
17:45What you said.
17:46To accept.
17:48The things which make it harder.
17:50Maybe it's better not to know like Owen.
17:54He's safe now, you think, in his ignorance.
17:57Only the Galways know about Jean and Ernst.
17:59The people at the farm where they worked.
18:02He's safe now.
18:04In his ignorance.
18:33Hello, Mark.
18:34Hello, Mark.
18:36Ross tells me you and Peg are looking for somewhere to live.
18:39Oh, we're looking at something she spotted tonight, as a matter of fact.
18:43Well, the stable flat up at the lake house is empty, you know.
18:46I think Peg wants to be nearer this end.
18:48I see.
18:49Just an idea.
18:50Well, thanks, anyway.
18:52Oh, Robert tells me that Galways' barn was on fire last night.
18:55They rang him to us now, worried about the insurance.
18:58Whether it's covered by ours or theirs.
19:01Galways, yes.
19:02That's the farm near us, isn't it?
19:04I'll go and see them.
19:06Date for the wedding yet?
19:08January, we thought.
19:10I suppose it's the time I met these people.
19:14These people, Peg's parents.
19:19I was wondering whether to write or call.
19:21I leave it to you.
19:24Well, it's time I go back to the works.
19:27We'll do something soon.
19:33You know where I am if you want me.
19:47What, did you have one?
19:49Lieutenant's at the farm near us.
19:50Insurance problems.
19:52I'll go and see them in the morning.
19:54Thought I'd go with you, then.
20:02Hey, Cole.
20:05There's Blake coming in.
20:06Can I go with him if you'll take me?
20:08You'd better ask it, Dad.
20:09Can I?
20:10Well, if he's a life jacket for you, you can.
20:13Thanks, Dad.
20:17You don't want him to, do you?
20:19How can I say nay to him?
20:21He'll be all right with Blake.
20:23Ah, you fear for him, even so.
20:26Just like your mother when you went off to war.
20:30We don't know, do we, men?
20:32What it is for you women.
20:34Not seen Mark by any chance, have you?
20:36I saw him over at the estate office.
20:38He's coming over here later on, he said.
20:41Oh, that's all right, then.
20:42I thought maybe he'd forgotten.
20:43I'll have to be up a bit earlier in the morning.
20:45Got to go and look at a burned-down barn first thing.
20:47Oh, I hope it's not the one I want Mark to look at tonight.
20:50It's over to his mother's place.
20:52Galway's, where he used to work.
20:53I'm not the one I want to go, but I saw them do.
21:05Go and do it.
21:06Go and do it.
21:08Get away with me.
21:09Go and do it.
21:32yes I'm here I'll get it
21:44very formal aren't we bringing the doorbell these for me as a matter of fact don't be silly of
21:52course I know who they're for welcome home present something like that she's upstairs
22:02how are things at the works finished for the weekend missing me up at leg house now she's back
22:09well I do understand you know that you have to be here when she's at home she was always quite
22:14hopeless looking after herself you know you've really got to stop thinking about her like that
22:18if you don't it's all such a nonsense us down here you up there lonely
22:25Ross in here you were going to say something else well marriages sometimes break up because
22:35people find they've married someone else don't they they've married the person that is not the
22:41person they want them to be you're saying I undervalued her underestimated perhaps that's
22:46more forgivable isn't it hello Mark tea ready no what's the rush begs expecting me what it is to be
22:58young and in love John you should have told me and you brought us flowers welcome home huh I'll get
23:06myself something the impatience of youth the lad wants his tea and I'll get it for you and I'll put
23:12these in some water come talk to me in the kitchen and stay to tea if I'm invited flowers they
23:27were a very
23:28nice thought very corrupt one if you ask me beware of Greeks bearing gifts what a suspicious mind you
23:34have come off it Ross you're not that naive this is Jesuit upbringing you know I've always suspected him
23:40of having a hand in pegs conversion she's more Catholic than I am now you resent the fact that
23:45she went to father Ross without telling you don't you the fact that she owes her certainty to him
23:50when father Ross isn't God oh we're Catholics we live with it as well as for it those two in
23:57there
23:58living unnatural lives apart can you wonder there's a compulsion for them both to come together again to
24:05live a natural life that they couldn't otherwise live without sinning mum doesn't want it no do any of us
24:14really know about her have you thought that maybe it's you that doesn't want it have you thought of that
24:27nay don't come here I'll meet you there aye and say now to nobody right then
24:37don't forget Blake paid for that phone to be put in aye he's got now left now to pay for
24:42to be taken out
24:42again has he it's the first time you've seen me on this any road it is come to think of
24:48it
24:48who do you know on the telephone you'll be surprised who I know there's got telephones
24:54I perform my wonders in a most mysterious way
25:02I don't know I'm all out of order today what with Blake and Keir needing to be fed and
25:07oh we won't stay you've enough on your hands you're worried aren't you about Owen going to the Galways
25:13tomorrow well you needn't they won't say anything to him about her so stop worrying oh I know it's
25:19just that it's there between us that's silence even if I am being silent because it's better for him
25:25not to know I suppose it is better isn't it I've always thought so then sometimes I thought maybe
25:32it'd be better to tell then I've looked at him and thought could he bear it he couldn't that's what
25:40I feel sometimes when I catch him looking at me he puts his hand on me as if he needed
25:46to touch
25:47me to know I was there to hold him up are you ready no it isn't I don't see why
25:54everybody in this
25:55house should expect to eat just when they feel like it I was only asking Mark's calling for me
25:59in a minute we're going to look at a house well I'll go in the pantry and make myself a
26:02sandwich
26:05you ready would you mind going out and coming in again and saying something else
26:18right down you go young man I'll see you mum see what you stop
26:24you're back then for good if I can make a living to keep me here if I kept up the
26:30rent on the yard
26:31while I was away I have a car there to sell that had all but done up before I went
26:34should get a
26:36couple hundred for it get started again after being another Lord Norfield why not somebody's
26:41got to get this country back on its feet I'd end it nationalize you they'd be welcome if
26:45they paid me the compensation they paid the coal owners let's talk about Warrington's being
27:02nationalize iron works as well as mines different Warrington's that own the mines
27:07they'll be related somewhere along the line they've had too much for too long around here
27:13you know that's what dad's always said yeah but if he had his way it'd only be another lot
27:18runners from London telling us what to do I'd enough of being told what to do in the army
27:25seems funny think of it all going on while we're away then thinking our dead me alive still
27:33now I'm here like I've never been away everything same as it was after all that
27:41I am all right you know of course you are I am all right they told me I was I
27:48didn't know you're a
27:49devotee of George Bernard Shaw didn't you you must have pretty well everything is written there
27:55good pre-war editions I hate the cheap wartime paper for anything as precious as books I had them when
28:02I
28:02I was at Lake House I don't remember seeing them I thought you might find such radicalism in your bookshelves
28:08embarrasses I'll take that Rob
28:16I can't remember her reading that much at all I can she used to read in the garden hut by
28:21the lake in summer and in winter
28:23you remember her sewing room I don't think I went there more than once there was her reading room really
28:28you know she never talked to me about books maybe because you always had your nose buried in one
28:33I thought Peg was going to catalog your library by the way we decided it might be better to wait
28:37until
28:37things are more settled we decided you and she because you thought Mark might object you mean
28:44you've got quite a relationship you two haven't you I'd watch it if I were you Mark might object
28:49he might get the impression you're using Peg to drag him back into the bosom of the family
28:54oh it's nonsense of course I've been extremely fond of her ever since Mark first bought her here
28:59I know you have I'm saying he might get the wrong idea that's all have you told him about the
29:04flat at
29:04Lake House yet mentioned it today as a matter of fact cool reception predictably mentioned it to Peg
29:12oh I may have said something about him passing I'd be careful if I were you you're not very good
29:17at
29:17that sort of thing what sort of thing conniving daddy don't you think it's time you met the rest of
29:28the
29:28family yes I suppose it is I met one of Peg's brothers of course the one your mother inveigled into
29:34her charitable works he's home now did you ever get that bit for the engine made oh months ago I'll
29:39tell
29:39him oh perhaps you'll tell Peg's father I'd like to meet him of course and I'll also say that you're
29:48a bit reserved thought I lost all that in the states one of the taxi drivers there call you bud
29:56I'll tell him to call you bud I'll have a sale down there in the morning I love first light
30:01at this
30:01time of year now you watch those tides my girl oh don't be an old fusspot I'm entitled to be
30:06it seems to be the only family I've got
30:14man and superman
30:18allow me to introduce myself Mendoza president of the league of the sierra
30:23I am a brigand I live by robbing the rich tanner promptly I am a gentleman I live by robbing
30:30the poor
30:35the kitchen the kitchen the kitchen
30:51the lounge
31:07this is why not the car wasn't made into a slashing house
31:12roof's not too good quite though
31:15unless you happen to be sitting underneath when it falls in
31:22the room
31:23the room
31:23ah
31:25possibilities
31:26hmm
31:40there's a cottage belonging to the estate coming empty next month
31:43where
31:44old it's stanton
31:46I don't like old stanton
31:49actually it's it's not a very good cottage
31:53which brings us back to this
31:55yes
31:56yes well I see what you mean I mean you look at it you see something
32:01I look at it and I see something else
32:03what do you see
32:05trouble frankly
32:07oh
32:19I'm sorry
32:21oh well
32:23I dare say something will turn up
32:25within the next two or three years
32:29there's a flat
32:31where
32:33the lake house next to father
32:35well you wouldn't want that though would you
32:43I'll take you to see it tomorrow
32:52it looks sound
32:53ah well you look well in this gym
32:55you and your missus
32:57we'll just not have to lift past 70 if we're to get it
33:00it's money that we're living all after that that's got to buy it
33:04you're not the passive do you
33:06you put that in guarantee will you
33:08we'd only just retire when war started
33:11we've never been anywhere much
33:13we've saved every penny we've put to this day
33:15aye
33:16aye
33:16thrift
33:18I wouldn't do it again
33:20makes you feel so more that life let you down
33:23I never achieved that ambition of mine neither
33:27the one I had when or a little lad
33:29what were that
33:32I want it to be a cowboy
33:36I'll call it Trigger
33:38Trigger
33:38on Ripper did you say
33:39aye
33:41done
33:43and they think I've outlived my usefulness
34:25I can see you were in trouble from the house
34:27it's always sensible to beach around here when you're
34:30problems
34:30who said I had problems
34:32tides on the turn
34:34no
34:35I'm beeching because I was coming here
34:41you don't remember me do you
34:43I don't embarrass you by playing guessing games I'm Mark's sister
34:47oh of course
34:48you said that very convincingly
34:51we met at your father's house when I was up there men in the lodge
34:54now I've been abroad I only got back
34:59half of you still there
35:01yeah
35:01half of me
35:06daddy's got the part you wanted to make for the engine
35:09been waiting till you got back
35:11wonder when you could do it
35:13ah you better come up to the house
35:22he's bringing her in the house
35:24I'm going upstairs I'm not fit to be seen
35:26tell him to take her in the front room don't let him bring her in here
35:29you've been in here lots of times before
35:31not at 10 o'clock on a Sunday morning just look at the place I'm going
35:35she takes us as she finds us you silly woman
35:40what's the rush
35:42Blake's bringing Ross Warrington in
35:43your mother thinks she's not fit to be seen so she's gone upstairs to put her tiara on
36:17oh
36:18about this mess then eh
36:20let's have a look
36:24beams charred to jiggery
36:26bad for stone of fire
36:29we can see in a leaf
36:31if I don't mind to break through a wall anytime
36:35could fetch the old lot down
36:38what started it
36:39an out but carelessness
36:42useless is that chap I have working for me now
36:45not a patch on Ukrainian I had here during the war
36:47and he was supposed to be a prisoner of war
36:51prisoner
36:52aye
36:53I wanted to wear a lass at work to you then
36:55but her husband came home from the japs
36:58the chief thought we're dead
37:10grandad
37:13seen grandad
37:22you wanted me grandad
37:23aye I do
37:26you did your own job for your keep your mother tells me
37:29yes something like that
37:30ah so you'll be a bit short then
37:32a bit
37:32till you've sold your own car
37:35yeah there's always that
37:36haha well I've done it for you
37:38I've sold it for you
37:40here you are
37:41here I've got the money here
37:46hundred pounds
37:48a hundred
37:49aye
37:50I've done well for you haven't I
37:53it was worth a couple of hundred grandad
37:56it's gonna cost me more than a hundred to get another one and start again
38:06what
38:08there's work at the mine
38:12you're an educated lad
38:15oh shame in labor is there
38:19no but the world needs brains as well
38:23aspire to nothing better than to toy like animals do we
38:27aspirations are about all I have got
38:29I feed on aspirations
38:32but this writing of yours
38:34is there any future in it
38:39I don't know
38:41you think I'm wasting me time don't you
38:45no I don't think that
38:48I can do nothing to help you that's what I think
38:51well a stretch of honest toil might give me something to write about
38:56yeah well your mother will find it very hard to accept you working at the iron mine
39:02women of her generation know more about the dirt of labor than the dignity
39:07it's them that had the washing to do
39:11if you could find some way of making her see it as a means to a better end
39:18you see that's what education is to me mother it's a means it's not an end in itself
39:24come on you can't expect her to share your political views I'm not even sure she shares mine
39:31I've never known for certain which way she's voted
39:34I love her
39:35but she makes me despair
39:39life's a mix keir
39:42your mother was a cut above me when I married her and it's even more of a mix today look
39:45at our peg
39:47it's been fixed for me to meet warrington tonight
39:51the man that employs me that represents everything I fought against all my working life
39:57oh what else can I do
40:00what in god's name am I gonna say to him
40:02I know what I'd say to him
40:04with your sister's happiness in the balance
40:07she's not a strong girl you know
40:10is she any worse
40:13no but you know what rheumatic fever did to her heart
40:16and it'll not go away
40:19she's no worse as far as I know but
40:22she'll never get any better either
40:25what more can
40:27anybody offer her in life
40:31than life itself
40:44weren't you invited too
40:45not this time round men only this time
40:49you mean you get inspected later
40:51I wish you wouldn't
40:53wouldn't what
40:53make life a battleground
40:56I don't make life a battleground it just is
40:58as soon as she married somebody her own kind
41:01more than you I dare say
41:03but I like young mark so I'll live with the other
41:06that's the spirit
41:08what is
41:08you looking down on them
41:10I look down on nobody keir
41:12it's a difference that's all
41:14oh I certainly a difference all right
41:18well it's time I did some practice
41:20I've got a concert at Silport Labour Club next week
41:22paying to get love at through school
41:24I enjoy it anyway nothing comes free
41:27there'll be the wedding before long
41:28god knows where the money for that's coming from
41:32well I'll not be a burden on you much longer I'll be working soon
41:35so your father was telling me
41:37oh he even had to take that on himself
41:40I've disappointed you haven't I
41:42you're as you are
41:43more like your father than anybody
41:45trying to take all the aches and pains of life on yourself
41:49and where's that washing
41:50upstairs you're not gonna like it
41:52I'll have it to do whether I like it or not
41:54and when you've fetched it go and cheer your granddad up
41:56you'd think it was him was hundred pounds down instead of Blake
42:00there's another that thinks he can put the world to rights
42:03what a family
42:08prisoner
42:10I wanted to wed her last we had work in here then
42:13but her husband came home from the japs
42:15that she thought were dead
42:43you pick us up about 9 30
43:05I've asked Ross to pick us up in a couple of hours all right with you
43:07uh yes I've got nothing else on tonight
43:11oh
43:16um I've got your pint is that all right yes yes
43:21well to our respective children I think don't you George
43:28I hope you don't mind me bringing me this far out
43:31I haven't been known as part of the world for years
43:34uh no no I'm glad you did as a matter of fact uh no one knows me around here
43:38oh no George
43:42but
43:42if you get your grounds we'd better get on there
44:19you take too many chances as it is
44:25oh the boats are two-hander really I can never find a crew
44:30you found one I shall hold you to that
44:34you may live to regret it I'm told I'm unbearably bossy when I sail
44:38that makes two of us then
44:39I hope those two at the pub are getting on all right
44:43I'm picking them up in an hour or so
44:46I'll tell daddy you fixed his engine
44:48I'll send him a bill
44:50mummy said you were the one who kept her trucks on the road in Germany
44:53helping with the DPs
44:55I'm not a charitable institution
44:58I have personal reasons for going
45:00yes I know I hope you don't mind that she told me
45:03I think she thought it might help me
45:05you
45:07oh one of those abortive wartime affairs you know
45:10they can't last forever these hangovers from the war
45:14except that they're all tangled up with the whole damn thing
45:17and you wonder will we ever be free of it
45:28prisoner
45:29aye
45:30aye
45:31wondered if wedder last we had work in here then
45:33but a husband came back from the Japs
45:51try one of these dear she said
45:54they've tickled your hormones
45:57very good women
45:58my god
46:00I've never had much to do with the Yanks
46:03oh we had some here in the town before the invasion of course
46:07followed by an increase in the population I doubt
46:10yeah there were one or two casualties
46:13of course they're completely dominated by their women at home
46:17remind me of my father
46:20do you ever hear the story
46:22when he found a corps maker
46:24running a book in the works
46:26and he said to the man
46:28you go and fetch your cards
46:29and the man said
46:30the man said
46:31I'm not running today
46:32you fetch him your bloody self
46:35you know that one
46:36good
46:39stand me at that pint of this excellent bitter
46:41not done this lot yet
46:44we have no way
46:47I should get out more
46:52I suppose you know I'm separated from my wife
46:55yeah I gather so
46:58well it's hell living around
47:02well George
47:03we should do this more often
47:05this really is first class stuff
47:09did you hear that other story about your father
47:13and the boiler man
47:20Owen hasn't come home
47:21he didn't come home for his dinner
47:22and I thought maybe he'd had to stay on at work
47:24but he hasn't been back for his tea either
47:26I went out for a minute
47:27only down the road
47:29I left the door open
47:30he might be out in the shed with granddad
47:33well it's a light on when I came past
47:34can I come with you
47:38I'll go and get me washing
47:42you know there was something I thought this morning
47:44after he'd gone out
47:45the Galways might not know him
47:47might not know who he is
47:49what difference?
47:50it was like that when the tide came in
47:53that little bit of time
47:55difference between living and dying
47:58Jean!
48:08how long have you been here?
48:12nobody here when I came
48:17what's wrong there, lad?
48:22granddad changed the wallpaper
48:29yeah
48:31yeah he did
48:34when I was dead
48:38life went on
48:41when I was dead
48:43yeah
48:44it's alright love, he's up here
48:48life goes on, doesn't it?
48:55where were you?
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49:05go
49:05go
49:06it's better to me, dad
49:17you know, don't you?
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