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00:06I'll be back.
00:08I'll be back.
00:15I'll be back.
00:24Fuel on.
00:26Fuel on.
00:27Dock's 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!
01:30Perfect!
01:32Woo-hoo!
01:39Slow air!
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.
02:03And keep the stick level.
02:07That's very good.
02:08That's balanced.
02:12Stick to the left, then to the right.
02:20And level.
02:22Good.
02:24Noisy, isn't it?
02:29How's this, sir?
02:30Come on.
02:41My God.
02:47Isn't it wonderful?
02:49Heaven!
02:55You fought in the Battle of Britain, didn't you?
02:58I did, sir.
02:59257 Squadron.
03:00Flying what?
03:01Spitfires.
03:03Hunnicans mostly, sir.
03:04Any kills?
03:06One or two.
03:08Shouldn't we get her started now?
03:09The ground seems terribly close.
03:12It's too low to restart, so we'll do a dead stick landing.
03:16Okay.
03:16I have control.
03:17You have control.
03:37That was wonderful.
03:39Same time next week, sir.
03:41How about tomorrow?
03:42All right.
03:43All right.
05:53I'm afraid you'll see us at this point.
05:55Interesting.
05:57Sir.
06:01I think you should see this.
06:03I see.
06:22Sorry, sir.
06:23I thought you should see these.
06:29Good God.
06:33We must send a warning to cover our backs.
06:37Thanks.
06:40Kenneth, it should probably come from you as chief scientist.
06:44Address it to the PM.
06:46You'll never read it, of course.
06:48But the important thing is, we've sent it.
06:52I'll get you to Dally Street right away.
06:53I'm sorry, sir.
06:56I'll get you to the test.
07:00I'll get you to the test.
07:02I'll get you to the test.
07:10We're on the...
07:12We're doing the test.
07:13Right there, please.
07:23If her majesty could lean forward
07:29Deep breath in
07:35And out
07:38Yes, little stuffy, ma'am
07:40It might help to open the window a crack
07:42Not while they're rehearsing
07:43Hmm
07:44What are they rehearsing?
07:50My funeral
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12:07radical, forward-thinking government this country has ever seen. How you lost the
12:16election escapes me. Escapes us all. I believe I would be doing the British
12:26public and this country a service if I helped to usher him out of the door and
12:33you, Buckin. And to that end you come to me with a master plan that involves me
12:40crucifying the Tories for their failure to deal with a fog which has yet shows no
12:46sign of appearing. At present I can see stars.
13:28CHOIR CONTINUES
13:44CHOIR CONTINUES
13:54CHOIR CONTINUES
13:55Good night.
13:55Good night.
14:08Miss Scott. Thank you for your conscientiousness.
14:12But it's late. Go home.
14:13I am, sir.
14:14You're no good to be tired. Good evening to you.
14:19What? Still here?
14:21Good night, sir.
14:26Good night.
14:34Evening, Pat.
14:57You haven't moved. I suppose it's still a no.
15:03Hello. To what?
15:05Coming out.
15:07You mean going to the Lamb of Flag with you, sitting at the bar, twinkling our ankles at
15:12every unremarkable young man in the room, then letting those men buy us enough drinks
15:17for us to bring them home, only to have their unremarkability confirmed to us again.
15:25No. Thanks.
15:26Goodness. And what will you be doing in the meantime?
15:29Spend time. Spend time in the company of someone remarkable.
15:35Ta-ra.
15:43Hear 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.
16:04Take up the mantle of the mantle of the mantle of the mantle of the mantle of the mantle of
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16:26of
16:35Good morning.
16:37The time is 8 o'clock on the 6th of December, and here is the news.
16:41London has been brought to a halt by dense fog, which has descended overnight.
16:47Long queues are formed on main roads, and there are reports of motorists abandoning their vehicles and continuing on foot.
16:53London Airport is expected to be closed.
16:58Good God.
17:00The 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.
17:32Oh, 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, then there's only one thing to be done.
18:00The Ones
18:00The Ones
18:00The Ones
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. I was the Queen so long as my husband the King was alive.
19:09But since he died, I'm no longer THE Queen. I'm simply Queen Mary.
19:13My late son's widow was also THE Queen.
19:17But upon the death of her husband, she became Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother.
19:22Her daughter, Queen Elizabeth, is now Queen.
19:25So she is...
19:27THE Queen.
19:29Bravo.
19:31Nurses and nuns have the same problem.
19:33We're all called Sister.
19:36So you are.
19:38Well, she's outside. THE 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, there was something I wanted to talk to you about.
20:26Fire away.
20:37I was listening to the wireless this morning.
20:41Where they described this fog as an act of God.
20:46Now, in your letter that you sent me, you 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.
21:49Not the public.
21:52I'm not sure that my husband would agree with that.
21:55He 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.
22:07He would also say that he watched his own family destroyed because they were seen by the people to embody
22:13indefensible and unreasonable ideas.
22:15Yes.
22:17But 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.
22:34Not the Church of Denmark or Greece.
22:40Next 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 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.
23:42Aight!
23:43Aight!
23:44Aight!
23:54Aight!
24:13I'm glad to see someone else made it in.
24:16No one saw this coming, did they?
24:19No.
24:27Prime Minister?
24:30Sir?
24:50Ah, you made it!
24:51Oh, I'm sorry, sorry, sir.
24:53No, 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.
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's 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 and 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.
25:57That'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.
26:14You are needed now more than ever before.
26:19Take up the mantle of change.
26:21Stop.
26:22For this is your time.
26:29You were 24.
26:33All energy and hope and passion and fire.
26:39It's remarkable.
26:45You found something you liked in that young man?
26:51I did.
27:21Good morning.
27:24The time is 8 o'clock on the 7th of December, and here is the news.
27:28The serious fog, which brought much of the capital to a standstill yesterday, continues this morning, with emergency services struggling
27:36to cope, and widespread disruption reported across the nation.
27:41Flares are being used to guide motorists in parts of the capital.
27:45Trains are stopped while running hours behind schedule from major London railway stations.
27:52The prime minister is facing criticism for failure to deal with the 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.
28:17No!
28:24You alright?
28:28You are not?
28:31Come on, let's get you up.
28:33No, no, I'm fine, I promise.
28:38It's just because the window is open.
28:41Now go to work, you've got a job to do.
28:52Let us start with the unrest in Egypt,
28:56where 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,
29:12a 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.
29:32It 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,
29:51and 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.
30:07You 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,
30:45but 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 my husband's mood
31:05is intolerable.
31:07Why?
31:09Well, being caged in like this,
31:11he can't fly.
31:14Fly where?
31:16Well, nowhere.
31:18He's learning to fly.
31:21Whatever for?
31:23Have we not enough qualified pilots
31:26to take him where he needs to go?
31:27No, he wants to fly himself.
31:30It's a boyhood dream.
31:31It'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 any further.
31:53You've taken away his home.
31:55You've taken away his name.
31:57There comes a time where
31:58one must draw a line in the sand.
32:00And the job of drawing that line
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 on 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 across the capital
32:48has worsened overnight.
32:50The great coal-burning electricity 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.
33:34Off we go.
33:53I can't breathe.
33:55Do as I say
33:56and hold on to me.
33:57I can't breathe.
34:14I can't breathe.
34:16Watch out, ladies.
34:18Watch out.
34:22Watch out.
34:23Watch out.
34:25Quick, hold my hand.
34:29All right?
34:30I'll do that.
34:31I'll do that.
34:35I'll do it.
34:36I'll do it.
34:37I can't breathe.
34:39Bye-bye.
34:41Do it.
34:41You're all 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 part 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.
36:38Telephone, sir.
36:40The Marcus of Salisbury.
36:41Oh, not now.
36:42He asked me to stress the importance of the matter.
36:50Bobbity?
36:51Thanks for taking my call, Diggie.
36:54Are you 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 reward is full.
37:12I have a corridor, too.
37:14Most of the doctors are sick now.
37:15Those that are well can't get in.
37:17It was better than this in the war.
37:19What do you need?
37:20More equipment?
37:21Or masks?
37:22Masks are bloody useless.
37:23They're just for show to make it look like the government's doing something.
37:26Then what is needed?
37:27Money.
37:29People.
37:29Trained staff.
37:30Help is what is needed urgently.
37:33Better rest for now.
37:36Yeah.
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.
37:57Just, just.
38:00I'll show you.
38:01No, no, no.
38:02No, no, no.
38:02No, no, no.
38:02No, no, no.
38:02No, no, no.
38:03No, no, no.
38:03No, no, no, no.
38:03No, no, no, no, no, no.
38:04No, no, no, no, no, no.
38:38How much longer are you going to give the old man?
38:39The majority is tiny.
38:42A voter 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.
39:36Anything 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.
39:57No?
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?
40:12No.
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...
40:47Lord Manbatten, 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 could.
41:09So.
41:12Oh, is...
41:13Is 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.
41:42I received a telephone call today from Robert E. Salisbury.
41:49It seems that even among his own people,
41:51the feeling is that our Prime Minister
41:52is not able to deal with a national crisis.
41:57Indeed, he could be seen to be responsible for that crisis.
42:02Hospitals overflowing, people dying.
42:04As Sovereign, you have the right to demand
42:08that a government in your name
42:10shows effective leadership.
42:13The opposition are now calling
42:15for a motion of no confidence.
42:18So, I would say,
42:21the time has come for you to
42:25summon Churchill and...
42:28and what?
42:32Insist that he go.
42:36I can't do that.
42:38You can.
42:39And should.
42:41But...
42:42wouldn't that violate the Constitution?
42:46As Queen...
42:50You have the right to be consulted.
42:54The right to encourage,
42:57the right to warn.
42:59Also,
43:00to appoint a new Prime Minister
43:02in the event of incapacity.
43:04And many would say
43:05that Churchill's behavior
43:07now 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...
43:19would prefer it to be bloodless.
43:22So I have asked for your help
43:24and influence.
43:28I cannot do it.
43:30I will not do it.
43:32Let's not forget,
43:33it was Churchill
43:34who denied Philip's children
43:36his own surname.
43:37Dickie.
43:38And insisted that you live
43:39in Buckingham Palace.
43:40As, alas, did everyone else.
43:42And now,
43:42with looters on the street
43:44and hospital corridors
43:45stacked with the dead,
43:46he is interested
43:47in only one thing.
43:51Stopping Philip flying.
43:55What?
43:56At a crisis cabinet meeting
43:58this morning
43:58when there should have
43:59only been one thing
43:59on the agenda,
44:00the unfolding national emergency,
44:04all our Prime Minister
44:05wanted to discuss
44:08was your husband's new hobby.
44:15I'm so sorry, sir.
44:16Who are her parents?
44:19Her father is a clergyman
44:20from Suffolk.
44:21I've been noticed.
44:22I want to go to the hospital.
44:23There is an emergency meeting
44:25at the house.
44:26The meeting you must attend.
44:27The house can wait.
44:39You wish to see me,
44:40Your Majesty?
44:41Yes, Tommy.
44:45I know how much
44:47my father depended on you
44:49and how closely
44:50you worked together.
44:52Which is why
44:53I wanted to ask your advice
44:54now.
44:56It seems our Prime Minister,
44:59a man who's led the country
45:00through many crises,
45:02is no longer leading us at all.
45:07Representations have been made to me
45:09through an intermediary
45:11from the heart of the government
45:13to intercede
45:15and 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 net of interest?
45:37How far dare I go?
45:42I'm not sure if Her Majesty
45:44is aware,
45:45but shortly before
45:46your father died,
45:48the Foreign Secretary,
45:49Mr. Eaton,
45:50came,
45:51begging His Late Majesty
45:53to intervene,
45:54if not on an official level,
45:56then on a personal one,
45:58as a friend,
46:00to bid the Prime Minister
46:01to resign.
46:03What did my father say?
46:06Well,
46:07His Majesty was,
46:08like his father before him,
46:09a stickler for convention
46:10and tradition
46:11and 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.
46:38different situation,
46:41different sovereign.
46:53Wait for me here.
46:59Wait for me.
47:25Wait for me.
47:27Wait for me.
47:30Oh my God.
47:33I don't.
47:33Oh my God.
47:34I don't.
47:35No! No! No!
47:55Son?
48:00Just a child.
48:04A beautiful child.
48:08I just received word from Buckingham Palace.
48:12The Queen has requested an audience.
48:14When?
48:15At your earliest convenience.
48:22All energy, and hope, and passion, and fire.
48:32Sir.
48:35Damn it, he is.
48:36Oh, shh, shh, shh.
48:44Did the newspapers know I'm here?
48:46No.
48:49But it could easily be arranged.
48:52Then do it.
48:55And tell the Queen I'll be their first thing in the morning.
49:00After the papers.
49:20What do you do?
49:22The papers!
49:23Do it love you!
49:24Do it love you!
49:27Good jsover Jess!
49:28You were criminals home.
49:29If you go with them.
49:38Thank God.
49:39Thank God.
49:42Oh, sorry.
49:43Come on down, sir.
49:52Just come on.
49:53The Prime Minister will be here in a few moments.
50:11Is there anything, sir?
50:13No, no.
50:20Quiet, please.
50:24Set them down.
50:27Mr. 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.
50:44And 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.
51:30Thank you all.
51:31Thank 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.
51:51Headline reads, true leader in a crisis.
52:00Ma'am, the Prime Minister's here.
52:04The parallels between his appearance yesterday and the wartime years were striking.
52:10And his personal popularity among the people remains undimmed.
52:14Are you since and as now?
52:17Hello.
52:19Just yell at me.
52:20Quelle, you still there?
52:21Hello.
52:23Clem.
52:26Clem, can you hear me?
52:28No.
52:29Okay.
52:33If it's not left, give me a change,
52:40see the names now straight away,
53:10CHOIR SINGS
53:33The Prime Minister, Your Majesty.
53:47Are you asked to see me now?
53:52I did.
54:03There's a delicate matter, which I felt I needed to discuss with you in person.
54:10Concerning what?
54:14Your position.
54:18My position?
54:20Yes, your position as Prime Minister.
54:33Go on.
54:38At that point, she hesitated.
54:41And then she asked me to pick either Khwajgi Nazimuddin of Pakistan or Sydney Holland of New Zealand.
54:50Whatever for?
54:52To sit next to at dinner.
54:56She summoned you for that.
54:58Oh, no, I think she summoned me to haul me over the coals for my handling of the fog.
55:03But then the fog lifted and 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.
55:20Ingenious.
55:21Why?
55:21Because 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.
56:01People had continued to die.
56:04And Churchill had continued to cling to power.
56:07And the country had continued to suffer.
56:10It doesn't feel right, as head of state, to do nothing.
56:15It is exactly right.
56:18Is it?
56:19But surely doing nothing is no job at all.
56:22To do nothing is the hardest job of all.
56:26And it will take every ounce of energy that you have.
56:30To be impartial is not natural, not human.
56:34People will always want you to smile or agree or frown.
56:38And the minute you do, you will have declared a position, a point of view.
56:42And that is the one thing, as sovereign, that you are not entitled to do.
56:48The less you do, the less you 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?
57:22Sir, go on.
57:23How long would it take me to get my wings?
57:25Well, normally a trainee would spend anything between 100 and 120 hours in one of these things.
57:31Do you think I could do it in three months?
57:33Well, that would be unusual, sir.
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?
58:03They 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.
58:12I'll adjust RPMs and cruising speed for range flight.
58:15We'll have to land to refuel, sir.
58:17RE-fitting it.
58:19Oh, really?
58:19Where's that?
58:20Donkester.
58:21Donkester?
58:23Right.
58:49The interesser.
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