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00:10I'm going to go.
00:14I'm going to go.
00:15I'm going to go.
00:24Fuel on.
00:26Fuel on.
00:27Docks are in position.
00:29Switches are off.
00:29You sure about this, sir?
00:32When I got married, my in-laws made me marshal of the Royal Air Force.
00:35As a result, I'm the most senior airman in the country, and I can't bloody well fly.
00:41Yes, I'm sure.
00:42Right-o, sir.
01:12Ready, sir?
01:14Go!
01:15Here we go!
01:17Whoa-ho!
01:24There we go!
01:29Perfect!
01:32Woo-hoo!
01:39Slow there.
01:50Right.
01:52All right there, sir?
01:54Yes, yes, fine.
01:55Now, it's your turn.
01:57You have control.
01:58I have control.
01:59Now, remember what I told you.
02:00Keep your eye on the altimeter and the compass heading, and keep the stick level.
02:06That's very good.
02:08That's balanced.
02:11Stick to the left, then to the right.
02:20And level.
02:22Good.
02:24Noisy, isn't it?
02:29How's this, sir?
02:41My God.
02:47Isn't it wonderful?
02:48Heaven!
02:55You fought in the Battle of Britain, didn't you?
02:58I did, sir.
02:59257 Squadron.
03:00Flying what?
03:01Spitfires.
03:02Hunnicans, mostly, sir.
03:04Any kills?
03:06One or two.
03:08Shouldn'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.
03:39Same time next week, sir.
03:41How about tomorrow?
03:59Good news.
04:01Good news?
04:03Good news.
04:14Good news.
04:17Good news.
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?
07:51My funeral.
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12:43to deal with a fog which as yet shows no sign of appearing at present I can see
12:52stars
13:15Oh
13:26Oh
13:27Oh
13:29Oh
13:29Oh
13:30Oh
13:33Oh
13:43Oh
14:08Miss Cox
14:10Thank you for your conscientiousness, but it's late. Go home. I am sir. You're no good to be tired. Good
14:16evening to you
14:19What? Still here? Good night, sir
14:34Evening Pat
14:39Thank you
14:57You haven't moved
15:01I suppose it's still a no
15:31To what?
15:33Talkable
15:35Tura
15:42Hear this young men and women everywhere and proclaim it far and wide
15:48The earth is yours and the fullness thereof
15:54Be kind, but be fierce
15:56You are needed now more than ever before
15:59Take up the mantle of change
16:01For this is your time
16:13To be continued
16:13To be continued
16:15To be continued
16:33To be continued
16:35Good morning
16:36Good morning
16:37Time is 8 o'clock on the 6th December and here is the news
16:40London has been brought to a halt by dense fog which has descended overnight
16:47Long queues are formed on main roads and there are reports of motorists abandoning their vehicles and continuing on foot
16:53London airport
16:54London airport is expected to be closed
16:58Good
16:59God
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
17:18Windless conditions mean it is expected to last for some time
17:19Be careful out there
17:20It'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 jahards?
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
18:11I don't know
18:11It's all tooahan
18:37I 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.
18:59Oh, THE Queen.
19:01I thought you was all Queens. They gave me a sheet.
19:04We are. I was the Queen so long as my husband the King was alive,
19:08but 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,
19:19she became Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother.
19:22Her daughter, Queen Elizabeth, is now Queen.
19:25So she is...
19:27THE Queen.
19:29Bravo.
19:31Nurses and nuns have the same problem.
19:33We're all called Sister.
19:36So you are.
19:38Well, she's outside.
19:40THE Queen.
19:42Then let her in.
19:44Sister.
19:57Bedtime?
19:58Not at all.
20:02How are you?
20:03I'm always happy to see you.
20:06And my mood will improve yet further if you promise me one thing.
20:10Name it.
20:10Not to ask me how I am.
20:12It's all anyone ever does.
20:14Forget death by lung disease.
20:16It's death by bad conversation.
20:19All right, I promise.
20:21But if you are feeling up to it,
20:22there was something I wanted to talk to you about.
20:25Fire away.
20:37I was listening to the wireless this morning,
20:40where they described this fog as an act of God.
20:46Now, in your letter that you sent me,
20:50you said...
20:55Loyalty to the ideal you have inherited is your duty above everything else.
21:01Because the calling comes from the highest source.
21:05From God himself.
21:07Yes.
21:10Do you really believe that?
21:14Monarchy is God's sacred mission to grace and dignify the earth.
21:19To give ordinary people an ideal to strive towards.
21:23An example of nobility and duty to raise them in their wretched lives.
21:28Monarchy is a calling from God.
21:32That is why you're crowned in an abbey, not a government building.
21:36Why you're anointed, not appointed.
21:38It's an archbishop that puts the crown on your head.
21:41Not a minister or public servant.
21:43Which means that you are answerable to God in your duty, not 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?
22:26The rod of equity and mercy.
22:28Edward the Confessor.
22:30William the Conqueror.
22:31Henry the Eighth.
22:33It's the Church of England, dear.
22:35Not the Church of Denmark or Greece.
22:41Next question.
22:44It's chaos out there.
22:46Trains disrupted.
22:48Air services cancelled.
22:50At Richmond Bridge this morning, visibility 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, Nicole, a vote of no confidence.
23:11And will doubtless call me over-cautious 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.
23:42Hey!
23:43Hey!
23:44Hey!
23:45Hey!
23:48Hey!
24:04Good morning.
24:07Good morning.
24:13I'm glad to see someone else made it in.
24:15No one saw this coming, did they?
24:19No.
24:27Prime Minister?
24:30Sir?
24:50Ah, you made it!
24:51Oh, I'm sorry, sorry, sir, I was just...
24:54No, no, you did well to get here.
24:56I gather half the Downing Street staff didn't.
24:59It wasn't easy.
25:01Just crossing the road, you take your life in your hands.
25:03Then don't. You're too important to all of us.
25:06Hardly.
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
25:15and the country is governed.
25:20But what's my personal contribution?
25:26You improve the quality of life for all that deal with you.
25:32An ornament.
25:34A flower.
25:37By comparison, at my age, you were a published writer
25:41and a cavalry officer posted to India
25:45fighting local tribesmen on the northwest frontier.
25:48Who told you that?
25:49You asked me to engage in a relationship with a young man my own age.
25:54So I've been reading your autobiography.
25:56Oh, that's not quite what I had in mind.
26:00Hear this, young men and women everywhere,
26:03and proclaim it far and wide.
26:06The earth is yours and the fullness thereof.
26:11Be kind, but be fierce.
26:14You are needed now more than ever before.
26:19Take up the mantle of change.
26:21Stop.
26:22Well, this is your time.
26:28You were 24.
26:33All energy and hope and passion and fire.
26:44You found something you liked in that young man?
26:51I did.
27:20Good morning.
27:23The time is 8 o'clock on the 7th of December,
27:26and here is the news.
27:28The serious fog,
27:30which brought much of the capital to a standstill yesterday,
27:33continues this morning,
27:34with emergency services struggling to cope
27:36and widespread disruption reported across the nation.
27:41The flares are being used to guide motorists in parts of the capital.
27:45Trains are stopped while running hours behind schedule
27:48from major London railway stations.
27:52The prime minister is facing criticism
27:54and failure to deal with the mountain crisis.
27:58London airport is closed again today
28:00with all flights crowded.
28:02Yes.
28:03The unmoving fog,
28:04which has spread to over 30 miles wide,
28:07is likely to cause complete darkness
28:08by 2 o'clock this afternoon.
28:24You all right?
28:28You're not?
28:31Come on, let's get you up.
28:33No.
28:34No, I'm fine.
28:35I promise.
28:38It's just because the window is open.
28:41Now go to work.
28:42You've got a job to do.
28:52Let us start with the unrest in Egypt,
28:57where anti-colonial passions continue to run high
29:00and where our soldiers continue to come under fire
29:03from nationalist insurgents.
29:05It is vital that we remain
29:07and successfully defend the Suez Canal
29:11in a point that I will be making in person
29:14to the Commonwealth heads
29:16when 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?
29:29It's fog, ma'am.
29:31It will lift eventually.
29:33I was hoping for something more scientific.
29:37Then I will ensure that a barometric report
29:40is included in your box tomorrow,
29:43complete with isobars and isohumes.
29:48It has been an unusually cold winter,
29:52and there are only so many things
29:54that I, as Prime Minister,
29:55am prepared to inflict on your subjects
29:57as a reward for winning a world war
29:59and 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
30:13many years ago
30:15to your predecessors
30:17to express his deep concern
30:19about the inner-city power stations
30:20that your party was building.
30:25Indeed.
30:27And I was sympathetic
30:30with your father's concerns at the time.
30:33I also have sympathy
30:35with the leader articles
30:36in the newspapers today,
30:38begging for blood,
30:40wanting my head.
30:42People have to be angry at someone,
30:46but as leader,
30:48one cannot simply react to everything.
30:51We need the power stations.
30:53We need the coal.
30:55People need to burn coal
30:56to warm their homes.
30:58It is weather.
30:59It will pass.
31:01Well, I do hope so.
31:03Not least because
31:04my husband's mood is intolerable.
31:07Why?
31:09Well, being caged in like this,
31:11he can't fly.
31:15Fly where?
31:16Well, nowhere.
31:18He's learning to fly.
31:21Whatever for?
31:23Have we not enough qualified pilots
31:26to 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
31:40is a private matter.
31:42And the father of the future king of England
31:44risking his life needlessly
31:46is quite unacceptable.
31:49Please do not curtail
31:50my husband's personal freedoms
31:52any further.
31:53You've taken away his home.
31:55You've taken away his name.
31:57There comes a time where
31:58one must draw a line in the sand.
32:00And the job of drawing that line
32:02falls to cabinet, ma'am.
32:03Not to you.
32:05Something your dear late papa
32:06would certainly have taught you
32:08had he been granted more time
32:09to complete your education.
32:13And now our time is up.
32:20Until next week.
32:37Good morning.
32:39The time is 8 o'clock
32:40on the 8th of December
32:41and here is the news.
32:42The choking, eye-watering fog
32:45which has already caused
32:46two days of chaos
32:47across the capital
32:48has worsened overnight.
32:50The great coal-burning
32:51electricity stations
32:52in Battersea and Fulham
32:53have attempted to reduce emissions
32:55of poisonous sulfur dioxide
32:56from their chimneys
32:57but we've been told
32:59that it is unlikely
33:00they will be able to make
33:01any significant change
33:02to the air quality.
33:04The government is expected
33:05to make a statement
33:06later today.
33:17Come on.
33:18Let's get you to hospital.
33:20I'm fine.
33:21You're not.
33:22Come on.
33:23Let's get you up.
33:25Shoes.
33:34Here we go.
33:36I'm in.
33:38And the other.
33:52I can't breathe.
33:55Do as I say
33:56and hold on to me.
34:07Come along.
34:16Watch down, ladies.
34:18Watch down.
34:25Quick, hold my hand.
34:38Bye-bye.
34:40Do all right, ladies.
34:51Control of this story
34:52is getting away from us.
34:55The opposition's blood is up.
34:57We have to respond.
34:59Respond how?
35:00I would suggest
35:01by commissioning
35:02a 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
35:18and it goes away.
35:20Well, I'm glad that the
35:21prime minister
35:22finds time for levity.
35:24Perhaps I should remind him
35:26exactly how serious
35:27the situation has now become.
35:28This morning,
35:29a suburban twain
35:31collided with a gang
35:32of well-wing workmen,
35:33killing several
35:34and injuring a great many more.
35:36In part of the capital,
35:37there is now
35:38a total breakdown
35:39in law and order.
35:40Hospitals are filling up
35:42as our citizens
35:43are breathing in
35:44poisonous sulfur dioxide.
35:55Sometimes we have sunshine.
35:58Too much sunshine
35:59and they call it a drought.
36:01Then we have rain.
36:03Too much rain
36:04and they call it a deluge
36:06and find a way
36:06to blame us for that, too.
36:08It's an act of God,
36:10Bobbottie.
36:11It's weather.
36:12And for better
36:13or for worse,
36:14we get a great deal
36:15of it on this island.
36:16Frankly,
36:17there are more pressing
36:18matters to deal with.
36:20Like what?
36:21The Duke of Edinburgh.
36:36Ma'am.
36:38Ma'am.
36:39Telephone, sir.
36:40The Marcus of Salisbury.
36:41Oh, not ma'am.
36:42He asked me to stress
36:44the importance
36:45of the matter.
36:50Bobbottie?
36:51Thanks for taking my call,
36:53Diggie.
36:54Are you alone?
36:56Yes.
36:57Can anyone over hear
36:58what 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
37:14are sick now.
37:15Those that are well
37:16can't get in.
37:17It was better than this
37:18in the war.
37:19What do you need?
37:20More equipment?
37:21Or masks?
37:22Masks are bloody useless.
37:23They're just for show
37:24to make it look like
37:24the government's doing something.
37:26Then what is needed?
37:27Money.
37:28People.
37:29Trained staff.
37:30Help is what is needed
37:31urgently.
37:33Better rest for now.
37:38Maybe I could put a word
37:39in with the people
37:40who make a difference.
37:42Such as?
37:43The Prime Minister,
37:44for example.
37:46Oh, I see you're just
37:47going to walk into
37:47Downing Street
37:48and whisper in his ear.
37:49Yes, something like that.
37:51You know, my day's bad
37:52enough without some
37:53delusional girl
37:54playing jokes.
37:55Now, excuse me.
37:57Just, no.
38:00I'll show you.
38:01Hold on.
38:02Get that little way.
38:03Here you go.
38:12Sim, where are you?
38:13Oh, here.
38:14Oh, here.
38:16Oh, here.
38:19Oh, here.
38:20Oh, here.
38:20Oh, here.
38:38How much long are you going to give the old man?
38:40The majority is tiny.
38:42A vote of no confidence and he'll be toppled.
38:46You know what he calls you?
38:49Yes, I know.
38:50Sheep in sheep's clothing.
38:55Perhaps it's time to prove you're not.
39:03Very well.
39:05Let's put a motion down on paper and brief the whips.
39:19Thank you, sir.
39:36Anything interesting?
39:38Yes?
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.
39:57No?
39:59A dihedral angle or an absolute ceiling.
40:02These are very interesting concepts, Elizabeth.
40:04You might learn something in exchange for a foreign office briefing.
40:09Am I going to have to explain my position again?
40:11No.
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.
40:28You know what's remarkable about those words?
40:32Go on.
40:33They were written 300 years before man first got in a plane.
40:37Leonardo da Vinci.
40:42Look, 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.
41:12Oh, 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?
41:34Nothing.
41:36He's just feeling a little grounded.
41:38Ignore it.
41:41Ignore it.
41:42All ears.
41:42I received a telephone call today from Robert E. Salisbury.
41:49It seems that even among his own people, the feeling is that our prime minister is not able to deal
41:54with a national crisis.
41:57Indeed, he could be seen to be responsible for that crisis.
42:02Hospitals overflowing.
42:04Hospitals overflowing.
42:04People dying.
42:05Sovereign, you have the right to demand that a government in your name shows effective leadership.
42:13Your position are now calling for a motion of no confidence.
42:18So, I would say, the time has come for you to summon Churchill and...
42:27And what?
42:32Insist that he go.
42:36I can't do that.
42:38You can.
42:39And should.
42:41But wouldn't that violate the Constitution?
42:45As Queen, you 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.
43:04And many would say that Churchill's behavior now constitutes incapacity.
43:10Then a revolution must come from within.
43:13They are trying.
43:15Well, then they must try harder.
43:16They will.
43:18But would prefer it to be bloodless.
43:22So I have asked for your help and influence.
43:28I cannot do it.
43:30I will not do it.
43:32Let's not forget, it was Churchill who denied Philip's children his own surname.
43:37Dickie.
43:38And insisted that you live in Buckingham Palace.
43:40As, alas, did everyone else.
43:42And now, with looters on the street and hospital corridors stacked with the dead,
43:46he is interested in only one thing.
43:51Stopping Philip flying.
43:55What?
43:56At a crisis cabinet meeting this morning when there should have only been one thing on the agenda,
44:00under the unfolding national emergency,
44:04all our prime minister wanted to discuss
44:07was your husband's new hobby.
44:14I'm so sorry, sir.
44:16Who are her parents?
44:19Her father is a clergyman from Suffolk.
44:21I've been noticed that.
44:22I want to go to the hospital.
44:23There is an emergency meeting at the house.
44:26The meeting you must attend.
44:27The house can wait.
44:39You wish to see me, Your Majesty?
44:40Yes, Tommy.
44:45I know how much my father depended on you
44:49and how closely you worked together.
44:52Which is why I wanted to ask your advice now.
44:56It seems our prime minister,
44:59a man who's led the country through many crises,
45:02is no longer leading us at all.
45:07Representations have been made to me
45:09through an intermediary from the heart of the government
45:13to intercede,
45:16and bid and stand down,
45:18make way for a younger man.
45:22which brings me to my question.
45:26What are my responsibilities
45:29as head of state?
45:33What should I do
45:35when it's in the national interest?
45:37How far dare I go?
45:42I'm not sure if Her Majesty is aware,
45:45but shortly before your father died,
45:47the foreign secretary, Mr. Eaton,
45:50came,
45:51begging His Late Majesty to intervene,
45:54if not on an official level,
45:56then on a personal one,
45:58as a friend,
46:00to bid the prime minister to resign.
46:03What did my father say?
46:06Well,
46:07His Majesty was, like his father before him,
46:09a stickler for convention and tradition,
46:12and would never have done anything
46:13that violated the Constitution
46:15or overstepped the mark.
46:20Then I have my answer.
46:21But
46:23that was His Majesty,
46:24not your Majesty.
46:26And I do read the newspapers,
46:28and I do listen to the wireless.
46:30And the situation we're in today
46:31is quite different
46:33than the one we were in
46:34when Mr. Eaton came to see your father.
46:39Different situation,
46:41different sovereign.
46:54Wait for me here.
47:00Wait for me here.
47:11Wait for me here.
47:22See you.
47:22See you.
47:26Reader.
47:26Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on.
47:35Come on, come on, come on, come on.
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?
48:44Did the newspapers know I'm here?
48:46No.
48:49But it could easily be arranged.
48:52Then do it.
48:54And tell the Queen I'll be their first thing in the morning.
49:00After the papers.
49:07The Matrix.
49:10The Matrix.
49:21The Matrix.
49:53Come on, the Prime Minister will be here in a few moments.
50:11Is there anything, sir?
50:13Yeah, yeah.
50:13Not, but...
50:23Quiet, please, settle down.
50:26Mr. Churchill.
50:28I have witnessed scenes here today,
50:32the likes of which we have not seen
50:34since the darkest days of the Blitz.
50:39But alongside the suffering,
50:41I've also seen heroism.
50:44And where there is heroism,
50:47there will always be hope.
50:51Only God can lift the fog.
50:55But I, as Prime Minister,
50:58am in a position to ease the suffering.
51:03To that end, I pledge to make available
51:05with immediate effect
51:07more money for hospital staff,
51:10more money for equipment,
51:13and a full and independent public inquiry
51:16into the causes of air pollution
51:19to ensure that such a calamity
51:23may never befall us again.
51:36The Prime Minister was alone
51:38among senior politicians
51:40to visit hospitals
51:41and respond to the crisis in person,
51:44and was rewarded by cheers and applause
51:46by those suffering
51:47through the worst smog
51:49this city has ever witnessed.
51:50The headline reads,
51:52True leader in a crisis.
52:00Ma'am, the Prime Minister's here.
52:04The parallels between his appearance yesterday
52:07and the wartime years were striking.
52:10And his personal popularity among the people
52:13remains undimmed.
52:17Hello?
52:19Clem, you still there?
52:20Hello?
52:23Clem?
52:26Clem, can you hear me?
52:28No?
52:29I...
52:32I...
52:40I...
52:46I...
52:47I...
52:47I...
52:51I...
52:57I...
53:20CHOIR SINGS
53:42CHOIR SINGS
54:03CHOIR SINGS
54:03There's a delicate matter
54:04which I felt I needed to discuss with you
54:08in person.
54:10Concerning what?
54:14Your position.
54:18My position?
54:20Yes, your position
54:26as Prime Minister.
54:32Go on.
54:38At that point
54:39she hesitated
54:41and then she asked me
54:43to pick either
54:45Kwajgi
54:45Nazimudin
54:47of Pakistan
54:47or Sydney Holland
54:49of New Zealand.
54:50What ever for?
54:52To sit next to
54:53at dinner.
54:55She summoned you for that?
54:58No, I think she summoned me
55:00to haul me over the coals
55:01for my handling of the fog.
55:03But then the fog lifted
55:05and she had to make a decision
55:07right then and there
55:08in the room.
55:09You could see the wheels
55:10turning behind her eyes.
55:12And then she switched
55:14a tack
55:14without so much
55:15as a flicker.
55:17Clever.
55:19No, no.
55:20Not clever.
55:20Ingenious.
55:21Why?
55:21Because it disarmed me
55:23and made me
55:24switch tack too.
55:26What about?
55:27About allowing Philip
55:28to learn to fly.
55:30He can now.
55:32Good.
55:34But he still has to ask
55:36cabinet permission
55:36to do rolls and spins.
55:49What, dear girl?
55:53Well, what if the fog
55:54hadn't lifted?
55:58And the government
55:59had continued to flounder.
56:01And people had continued
56:02to die.
56:04And Churchill had continued
56:06to cling to power
56:07and the country
56:08had continued to suffer.
56:10It doesn't feel right
56:12as head of state
56:13to do nothing.
56:15It is exactly right.
56:18Is it?
56:19But surely doing nothing
56:21is no job at all?
56:23To do nothing
56:24is the hardest job of all.
56:26And it will take
56:27every ounce of energy
56:28that you have.
56:30To be impartial
56:31is not natural,
56:32not human.
56:34People will always
56:35want you to smile
56:36or agree
56:37or frown
56:38and the minute you do
56:39you will have declared
56:40a position,
56:41a point of view.
56:42And that is the one thing
56:43as sovereign
56:44that you are not
56:46entitled to do.
56:48The less you do,
56:50the less you say
56:51or agree
56:52or smile
56:53or think
56:54or feel
56:54or breathe
56:55or exist.
56:56The better.
57:01Well, that's fine
57:02for the sovereign.
57:06But where does that
57:07leave me?
57:22So, come on.
57:23How long would it take me
57:24to get my wings?
57:25Well, normally a trainee
57:27would spend anything
57:27between 100 and 120 hours
57:29in one of these things.
57:31Do you think I could do it
57:31in three months?
57:33That would be unusual.
57:35I'm a false learner
57:37and believe me
57:38when I say
57:38I've got nothing else
57:39to do.
57:55I couldn't have noticed
57:57you've still got a write-up.
57:58Starboard and port.
57:5918 gallons.
58:00Yes.
58:01Fancy lunch in Edinburgh.
58:03Edinburgh?
58:03They made me duke there
58:05so I should probably
58:06show up from time to time
58:07unless you have
58:08more pressing engagements.
58:09No, sir.
58:10All right.
58:11I'll adjust rpms
58:13and cruising speed
58:14for range flying.
58:15We'll have to land
58:16to refuel, sir.
58:18Oh, really?
58:19Where's that?
58:20Donkester.
58:21Donkester?
58:23Right.
58:29You're welcome.
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