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00:01I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
00:03I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
00:06I'm sorry.
00:24fuel on fuel on
00:29you sure about this sir when I got married my in-laws made me
00:34marshal of the Royal Air Force as a result I'm the most senior airman in the
00:38country and I can't bloody well fly yes I'm sure righto sir
01:12ready sir
01:15here we go
01:19yeah
01:31yeah
01:31yeah
01:31yeah
01:31yeah
01:31yeah
01:40Oh, there we are.
01:50Right.
01:52All right there, sir?
01:54Yes, yes, fine.
01:55Now, it's your turn. You have control.
01:58I have control?
01:59I remember what I told you.
02:00Keep your eye on the altimeter and the compass heading,
02:03and keep the stick level.
02:06That's very good. That's balanced.
02:12Stick to the left, then to the right.
02:20And level. Good.
02:24Noisy, isn't it?
02:29How's this, sir?
02:40My God.
02:47Isn't it wonderful?
02:49Heaven.
02:55You fought in the Battle of Britain, didn't you?
02:57I did, sir. 257 Squadron.
03:00Flying what? Spitfires.
03:02Hunnicans, mostly, sir.
03:04Any kills?
03:06One or two.
03:08Shouldn't we get us started now?
03:09The ground seems terribly close.
03:12It's too low to restart, sir.
03:14We'll do a dead stick landing.
03:16Okay.
03:16I have control.
03:17You have control.
03:37That was wonderful.
03:38Same time next week, sir.
03:41How about tomorrow?
03:42How about tomorrow?
03:43Have you?
03:43Sure.
03:53We had to wait for everybody, aren't we?
03:55No?
04:05We'll run, man.
04:09You have to watch it for tomorrow, too.
04:10...saying about that orange...
05:52I'm afraid this seems like this is interesting.
05:56Interesting.
05:57Sir.
06:01I think you should see this.
06:06Let's see.
06:08Sir.
06:11Goodness me.
06:16Excuse me! You can't go in there!
06:19Excuse me, sir!
06:22Sorry, sir.
06:23Thought you should see these.
06:29Good God.
06:33We must send a warning
06:35to cover our backs.
06:40Kenneth, it should probably come from you,
06:42as chief scientist.
06:44Address it to the PM.
06:46You'll never read it, of course.
06:48But the important thing is, we sent it.
06:52I'll get you to Downing Street right away.
07:12Right there, please.
07:16There it is.
07:18There it is.
07:19There it is.
07:20There it is.
07:23If her majesty could lean forward.
07:30Deep breath in.
07:35And out.
07:35What?
07:38He has a little stuff here, ma'am.
07:40It might help to open the window a crack.
07:42Not while they're rehearsing.
07:45What are they rehearsing?
07:46You're right.
07:48Oh, my funeral.
07:58My funeral.
09:01Mr. Collins.
09:04That's for 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?
09:43Oh, of course I remember Donora, who was a scandal.
09:47A small mill town in America outside Philadelphia.
09:51Pittsburgh.
09:52They had a smog brought on by a freak anticyclone which trapped the emissions from the local...
09:59Copperworks?
10:01In the fog.
10:02In a few days, a number of people died.
10:0520.
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 measure.
10:25I never saw the ripple.
10:27With good reason.
10:29Our Prime Minister threw it away, claiming it wasn't a priority.
10:34Can you prove that?
10:36I can, Mr. Ockley.
10:46The Cabinet minutes while 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.
11:07It's interesting, for sure.
11:12What I don't understand is this.
11:16Why, a Downing Street employee working for the government should come to me with this
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. Utley, I entered the civil service to serve the public and to serve governments.
11:41Any governments.
11:43But I am also a responsible citizen, and I cannot stand by when chaos reigns around me.
11:50This is not a government.
11:53Mr. Utley, this is a collection of hesitant, frightened, old men unable to unseat a tyrannical,
12:02delusional, even older one.
12:04Yours 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've come to me with a master plan that involves me crucifying the Tories
12:41for their failure to deal with a fog which has yet shows no sign of appearing.
12:50At present, I can see stars.
13:04I am the most and I can see stars.
13:44CHOIR SINGS
13:54CHOIR SINGS
13:55Good night.
14:08Miss Scott.
14:10Thank you for your conscientiousness.
14:12It's late. Go home.
14:13I am, sir.
14:14You're no good to be tired.
14:16Good evening to you.
14:19What? Still here?
14:20Good night.
14:21Sir?
14:26Good night.
14:34Evening, Pat.
14:57You haven't moved.
15:01I suppose it's still a no.
15:04To what?
15:05Coming out.
15:07You mean going to the Lamb of Flag with you, sitting at the bar, twinkling our ankles at every unremarkable
15:13young man in the room,
15:15they're letting those men buy us enough drinks for us to bring them home, only to have their unremarkability confirmed
15:21to us again.
15:23No.
15:24No. Thanks.
15:26Goodness.
15:28And what will you be doing in the meantime?
15:30Spend time in the company of someone remarkable.
15:42Hear this young men and women everywhere, and proclaim it far and wide.
15:48The earth is yours, and the fullness thereof.
15:53Be kind, but be fierce.
15:56You are needed now more than ever before.
15:59Take up the mantle of change, for this is your time.
16:07Ain't no.
16:33I'm not dying.
16:33I'm not dying.
16:33You are not dying.
16:35Good morning.
16:37The time is 8 o'clock on the 6th of December, and here is the news.
16:40London has been brought to a halt by dense fog, which has descended overnight.
16:47Long queues are formed on main roads,
16:49and there are reports of motorists abandoning their vehicles and continuing on foot.
16:53London Airport is expected to be closed.
16:58Good God.
16:59The Meteorological Office has issued a statement saying that a persistent anti-cyclone over London is to blame.
17:06Smoke from the capital's chimneys is being trapped at street level, which is aggravating the fog.
17:15Windless conditions mean it is expected to last for some time.
17:19Be careful out there. It's a real pea super.
17:31Ah, is the car ready?
17:34I'm afraid the visibility is too poor to drive, ma'am.
17:38It's what? 200 yards?
17:41It's been judged too hazardous, ma'am.
17:47I have an appointment to see my grandmother.
17:51I intend to keep that appointment.
17:54If it's too hazardous to drive,
17:57then there's only one thing to be done.
18:13There's only one thing to be done.
18:15There's only one thing to be done.
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...
19:26The Queen.
19:29Brother.
19:31Nurses and nuns have the same problem.
19:34We're all called sister.
19:36So you are.
19:38Well, she's outside.
19:40The Queen.
19:42Then let her in.
19:44Sister.
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.
20:18All right, I promise.
20:21But if you are feeling up to it, there was something I wanted to talk to you about.
20:26Fire away.
20:38I was listening to the wireless this morning, where they described this fog as an act of God.
20:45Now, in your letter that you sent me, you said loyalty to the ideal you have inherited is your duty
20:59above everything else.
21:01Because the calling comes from the highest source.
21:05From God himself.
21:07Yes.
21:10Do you really believe that?
21:15Monarchy is God's sacred mission to grace and dignify the earth.
21:19To give ordinary people an ideal to strive towards.
21:23An example of nobility and duty to raise them in their wretched lives.
21:28Monarchy is a calling from God.
21:32That is why you're crowned in an abbey, not a government building.
21:36Why you're anointed, not appointed.
21:38It's an archbishop that puts the crown on your head.
21:41Not a minister or public servant.
21:43Which means that you are answerable to God in your duty.
21:48Not the public.
21:51I'm not sure that my husband would agree with that.
21:54He would argue that in any equitable modern society that church and state should be separated.
22:03That if God has servants, they're priests, not kings.
22:07That he would also say that he watched his own family destroyed because they were seen by the people to
22:13embody indefensible and unreasonable ideas.
22:15Yes, but he represents a royal family of carpetbaggers and parvenues that goes back what?
22:22Ninety years.
22:24What would he know of Alfred the Great, the rod of equity and mercy?
22:28Edward the Confessor?
22:30William the Conqueror?
22:31Henry VIII?
22:33It's the Church of England, dear.
22:35Not the Church of Denmark or Greece.
22:41Next question.
22:44It's chaos out there.
22:46Trains disrupted.
22:48Air services cancelled.
22:50A Richmond bridge this morning.
22:52Visibility was officially measured at one yard.
22:55That's a record low, incidentally.
22:58Our Trojan friend in Downing Street has been speaking to his friends at the Met office.
23:03They say this is just the beginning.
23:06They expect it to get worse.
23:08I know you would have me call a vote of no confidence.
23:11And will doubtless call me overcautious for not doing so.
23:15But the Prime Minister needs to be given a chance.
23:21Even if it's only to hang himself.
23:23Let's see how the old fool responds.
23:39There you go.
23:42Oh my God!
23:49No!
24:13I'm glad to see someone else made it in.
24:16No one saw this coming, did they?
24:19No.
24:27Prime Minister?
24:29Sir?
24:50Ah, you made it!
24:52I'm sorry, sorry, sir.
24:53I was just...
24:54No, no.
24:54You did well to get here.
24:56I gather half the Downing Street staff didn't.
24:59It wasn't easy.
25:01Just crossing the road, you take your life in your hands.
25:03Then don't.
25:04You'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 is governed.
25:17Why?
25:20But what's my personal contribution?
25:24Ah.
25:26You improve the quality of life for all that deal with you.
25:31What?
25:32An ornament.
25:34A flower.
25:37By comparison, at my age, you were a published writer, and a cavalry officer posted to India,
25:45fighting local tribesmen on the northwest frontier.
25:48Who told you that?
25:50You asked me to engage in a relationship with a young man my own age.
25:54So I've been reading your autobiography.
25:57That's not quite what I had in mind.
26:00Hear this, young men and women everywhere, and proclaim it far and wide.
26:06The earth is yours, and the fullness thereof.
26:11Be kind, but be fierce.
26:13You are needed now more than ever before.
26:19Take up the mantle of change.
26:21Stop.
26:22For this is your time.
26:29You were 24.
26:33All energy and hope, and passion and fire.
26:40It's remarkable.
26:45You found something you liked in that young man?
26:51I 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 the capital to a standstill yesterday continues this morning, with emergency services struggling to
27:36cope, and widespread disruption reported across the nation.
27:41Yes.
27:42The flares are being used to guide motorists in parts of the capital.
27:45The trains are stopped while running hours behind schedule from major London railway stations.
27:52The prime minister is facing criticism and failure to deal with the mountain crisis.
27:58London airport is closed again today, with all flights crowded.
28:02Yes.
28:03The unmoving fog, which has spread to over 30 miles wide, is likely to cause complete darkness by 2 o
28:09'clock this afternoon.
28:24The prova pior the winds is closed down in parts of the suburbs.
28:40open. Now go to work. You've got a job to do.
28:53Let 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
29:13be making in person to the Commonwealth heads when I host them for the weekend at Chequers.
29:20Weather permitting?
29:23Indeed.
29:24What is the latest information that you have?
29:27About the weather? It's fog, ma'am. It will lift eventually.
29:33I was hoping for something more scientific.
29:37Then I will ensure that a barometric report is included in your box tomorrow, complete
29:43with isobars and isohumes.
29:48It has been an unusually cold winter.
29:51And there are only so many things that I, as Prime Minister, am prepared to inflict on your
29:57subjects as a reward for winning a world war and prevailing over fascism, evil and tyranny.
30:04Letting them freeze is not one of them.
30:08You do not seem unduly concerned.
30:10I'm not.
30:11You do know that my late father wrote many years ago to your predecessors to express his
30:18deep concern about the inner city power stations that your party was building.
30:25Indeed.
30:27And I was sympathetic with your father's concerns at the time.
30:33I also have sympathy with the leader articles in the newspapers today,
30:38begging for blood, wanting my head.
30:42And people have to be angry at someone.
30:46But as leader, one cannot simply react to everything.
30:51We need the power stations.
30:53We need the coal.
30:55People need to burn coal to warm their homes.
30:58It is weather.
30:59It will pass.
31:01Well, I do hope so.
31:03Not least because my husband's mood is intolerable.
31:07Why?
31:09Well, being caged in like this, he can't fly.
31:15Fly where?
31:16Well, nowhere.
31:18He's learning to fly.
31:21Whatever for?
31:23Have we not enough qualified pilots to take him where he needs to go?
31:27No, he wants to fly himself.
31:30It's a boyhood dream.
31:32It's what he's always wanted.
31:33Why was government not consulted?
31:35Because it's a private matter.
31:36And I am in favor.
31:38Nothing you or his royal highness do is a private matter.
31:42And the father of the future king of England risking his life needlessly is quite unacceptable.
31:49Please do not curtail my husband's personal freedoms any further.
31:53You've taken away his home.
31:55You've taken away his name.
31:57There comes a time where one must draw a line in the sand.
32:00And the job of drawing that line falls to cabinet, ma'am, not to you.
32:05Something your dear late papa would certainly have taught you had he been granted more time to complete your education.
32:13And now our time is up.
32:20Until next week.
32:38Good morning.
32:39The time is eight o'clock on the 8th of December, and here is the news.
32:42The choking, eye-watering fog, which has already caused two days of chaos across the capital, has worsened overnight.
32:50The great coal-burning electricity stations in Battersea and Fulham have attempted to reduce emissions of poisonous sulfur dioxide from
32:57their chimneys,
32:57but we've been told that it is unlikely they will be able to make any significant change to the air
33:03quality.
33:04The government is expected to make a statement later today.
33:08The government is expected to make a statement later.
33:17Come on.
33:18Let's get you to a hospital.
33:20I'm fine.
33:21You're not.
33:22Come on.
33:23Let's get you up.
33:25Shoes.
33:34For you.
33:36I'm in.
33:38One of the other.
33:52I can't breathe.
33:55Do as I say and hold on to me.
34:07Come along.
34:16Watch down, ladies.
34:18Watch down.
34:19Come on.
34:25Quick, hold my hand.
34:37Bye-bye.
34:41You're right, ladies.
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.
35:13Culprits for what?
35:14It's fog.
35:16Fog is fog.
35:17It comes and it goes away.
35:20Well, I'm glad that the Prime Minister finds time for levity.
35:24Perhaps I should remind him exactly how serious the situation has now become.
35:28This morning, a suburban twain collided with a gang of well-wing workmen,
35:33killing several and injuring a great many more.
35:36In parts of the capital, there is now a total breakdown in law and order.
35:40Hospitals 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.
36:08No, it'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.
36:25The Duke of Edinburgh.
36:39Telephone, sir.
36:40The Marcus of Salisbury.
36:41Oh, not now.
36:42He asked me to stress the importance of the matter.
36:50Bobbity.
36:51Bobbity.
36:51Thanks for taking my call, Diggie.
36:55Are you alone?
36:56Yes.
36:57Can anyone over hear what you're saying?
37:03No.
37:04Good.
37:09It's chaos.
37:10I know.
37:11The ward 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 than you are?
37:21Or masks?
37:22Masks are bloody useless.
37:23They're just for show.
37:24To make it look like the government's doing something.
37:26Then what is needed?
37:27Money.
37:29People.
37:29Trained staff.
37:30Help is what is needed urgently.
37:33Better rest for now.
37:38Maybe I could put a word in with the people who make a difference.
37:42Such as?
37:43The Prime Minister, for example.
37:46Oh, I see you're just going to walk into Downing Street and whisper in his ear.
37:49Yes, something like that.
37:51You know, my day's bad enough without some delusional girl playing jokes.
37:55Now, excuse me.
37:57Yes.
37:58Yes.
38:00I'll show you.
38:02Get out of the way.
38:03Get out of the way.
38:38How much longer are you going to give the old man?
38:40The majority is tiny.
38:42A vote of no confidence and he'll be toppled.
38:46You know what he calls you?
38:49Yes, I know.
38:50Sheep in sheep's clothing.
38:55Perhaps it's time to approve you're not.
39:03Very well.
39:05Let's put a motion down on paper and brief the whips.
39:19Thank you, sir.
39:22Thank you, sir.
39:36Anything interesting?
39:39Yes.
39:41Care to share it?
39:43No.
39:46I'd be happy to share glide ratios and adiabatic lapse rates with you as part of a quid pro quo
39:51arrangement.
39:52One glide ratio in return for some cabinet minutes, for example.
39:59A dihedral angle or an absolute ceiling.
40:02These are very interesting concepts, Elizabeth.
40:04You might learn something in exchange for a foreign office briefing.
40:09Am I going to have to explain my position again?
40:11No.
40:13Good.
40:17Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward,
40:22for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.
40:27You know what's remarkable about those words?
40:32Go on.
40:33They were written 300 years before man first got in a plane.
40:37Leonardo da Vinci.
40:41Look, Philip, I know that...
40:47Lord Mountbatten, your majesty.
40:49Uncle Dickie, what's he doing here?
40:51I know as much as you do.
40:52He said it was important, that.
41:00Elizabeth.
41:05Hello.
41:06Came as soon as I cried.
41:09So.
41:12Go, is this a meeting with Elizabeth, your niece?
41:16My wife?
41:17Or the queen?
41:19Later, I'm afraid.
41:20Right.
41:21I don't know my place.
41:31What's the matter with him?
41:33Nothing.
41:36He's just feeling a little grounded.
41:39Ignore it.
41:41Right.
41:42All ears.
41:43I received a telephone call today from Robert E. Salisbury.
41:49It seems that even among his own people, the feeling is that our Prime Minister is not able to deal
41:54with a national crisis.
41:57Indeed, he could be seen to be responsible for that crisis.
42:02Indeed, he could be seen to be responsible for that crisis.
42:25And Churchill and...
42:28And what?
42:32Insist that he go.
42:36I can't do that.
42:38you can and should but wouldn't that violate the constitution as queen
42:50you have the right to be consulted the right to encourage the right to warn
42:59also to appoint a new prime minister in the event of incapacity and many would say that
43:06churchill's behavior now constitutes incapacity then a revolution must come from within they are
43:13trying well then they must try harder they will but would prefer it to be bloodless so i've asked
43:23for your help and influence i cannot do it i will not do it let's not forget it was churchill
43:34who denied philip's children his own surname dickie and insisted that you live in buckingham palace
43:40as alas did everyone else and now with looters on the street and hospital corridors stacked with
43:46the dead he is interested in only one thing stopping philip flying
43:56what at a crisis cabinet meeting this morning when there should have only been one thing on
44:00the agenda the unfolding national emergency all our prime minister wanted to discuss
44:07this was your husband's new hobby
44:15i'm so sorry sir who are her parents her father is a clergyman from suffolk i've been noticed
44:22i want to go to the hospital there is an emergency meeting at the house the meeting you must attend
44:27the house can wait
44:38you wish to see me your majesty
44:40yes tommy
44:45i know how much my father depended on you
44:49and how closely you work together which is why i wanted to ask your advice now it seems our prime
44:58minister
44:58a man who's led the country through many crises is no longer leading us at all
45:06representations have been made to me through an intermediary from the heart of the government
45:13to intercede and bid and stand down make way for a younger man
45:22which brings me to my question
45:26what are my responsibilities as head of state
45:33what should i do when it's in the national interest how far dare i go
45:42i'm not sure if her majesty is aware but shortly before your father died the foreign secretary mr eden
45:50came begging his late majesty to intervene if not on an official level then on a personal one
45:58as a friend to bid the prime minister to resign
46:03what did my father say
46:06well his majesty was like his father before him a stickler for convention and tradition
46:12and would never have done anything that violated the constitution or overstepped the mark
46:20then i have my answer
46:21but that was his majesty not your majesty
46:26and i do read the newspapers and i do listen to the wireless
46:30and the situation we're in today is quite different
46:33than the one we were in when mr eden came to see your father
46:39different situation
46:41different sovereign
46:54wait for me here
46:59wait for me
47:16wait for me
47:20wait for menement
47:56Sir?
47:59Just a child.
48:04A beautiful child.
48:08I just received word from Buckingham Palace.
48:11The 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.
49:05Oh, my God.
49:20Oh, my God.
49:22Oh, my God.
49:24Oh, my God.
49:34Thank God.
49:39Thank God.
49:53The Prime Minister will be here in a few moments.
50:03The Prime Minister will be here in a few moments.
50:11Is there anything, sir?
50:13Mr. Churchill.
50:28I have witnessed scenes here today, the likes of which we have not seen since the darkest days of the
50:37Blitz.
50:39But alongside the suffering, I've also seen heroism. And 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.
51:02To that end, I pledge to make available with immediate effect more money for hospital staff, more money for equipment,
51:13and a full and independent public inquiry into the causes of air pollution to ensure that such a calamity may
51:25never befall us again.
51:28Do you?
51:30Thank you all.
51:37The Prime Minister was alone among senior politicians to visit hospitals and respond to the crisis in person, and was
51:44rewarded by cheers and applause by those suffering through the worst smog this city has ever witnessed.
51:50The 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.
52:09And 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?
52:38Clem, can you hear me?
52:49Clem, can you hear me?
53:10CHOIR SINGS
53:40CHOIR SINGS
53:53CHOIR SINGS
53:57CHOIR SINGS
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...
54:26as Prime Minister.
54:33Go on.
54:38At that point, she hesitated,
54:42and then she asked me to pick either Kwajgi Nazimudin of Pakistan
54:47or Sydney Holland of New Zealand.
54:50Whatever for?
54:52To sit next to at dinner.
54:56She summoned you for that?
54:58No, I think she summoned me to haul me over the coals
55:01for my handling of the fog.
55:02But 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 a tack without so much as a flicker.
55:17Clever.
55:19No, no, not clever. Ingenious.
55:21Why?
55:22Because it 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.
56:01The people had continued to die.
56:04And Churchill had continued to cling to power,
56:07and the country had continued to suffer.
56:10It doesn't feel right, 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,
56:41a point of view.
56:42And that is the one thing, as sovereign,
56:45that 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
57:27between 100 and 120 hours on one of these things.
57:30Do you think I could do it in three months?
57:33That would be unusual.
57:34I know.
57:35I'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?
58:03All right.
58:03They 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.
58:11I'll adjust rpms and cruising speed for range flying.
58:15We'll have to land to refuel, sir.
58:18Oh, really?
58:19Where's that?
58:20Don't get stuck.
58:21Don't get stuck.
58:23Right.
58:51It's okay.
59:15Oh, really?
59:18This is a hong.
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