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00:24You
00:25Fuel on
00:26Fuel on.
00:27Docks are in position.
00:29Switches are on.
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.
00:42Righto, sir.
01:12Ready, sir?
01:14Ready!
01:15Here we go!
01:17Whoa-ha!
01:30Perfect!
01:31Woo-ha!
01:39Whoa, 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.
01:59Now 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. That'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?
02:55You 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.
03:08Should we get us started now? The ground seems terribly close.
03:12It's too low to restart, so we'll do a dead stick landing.
03:16Okay.
03:16Okay.
03:16I have control.
03:17You have control.
03:37That was wonderful.
03:39Same time next week, sir.
03:41How about tomorrow?
03:41I can't control.
03:42I can't control.
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.
07:12Right there, please.
07:23If her matters, she could lean forward.
07:29Deep breath in.
07:34And out.
07:38Yes, a little stuffy, 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.
08:10What is the main thing?
08:11All right.
08:12It's a few.
08:13Yes.
08:14Hi.
08:14Hi.
08:15Uh, I'll help you.
08:16Okay.
08:21All right.
08:35All right.
08:36All right.
08:37All right.
08:37All right.
08:38All right.
08:38All right.
08:38All right.
08:39All right.
09:00Mr. Thurman, Mr. Collins.
09:04Nice view.
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.
09:43Of course I remember Donora.
09:46It was a scandal.
09:47A small mill town in America outside Philadelphia.
09:51Pittsburgh.
09:52They had a smog brought on by a freak anti-cyclone which trapped the emissions from the local
09:59copper world in the fog.
10:02In a few days, a number of people died.
10:05Twenty.
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
10:22measure.
10:25I never saw the report.
10:27With good reason.
10:29Our Prime Minister threw it away, claiming it wasn't a priority.
10:34Can you prove that?
10:35I can't, Mr. Hartley.
10:46The Cabinet minutes where it was discussed.
10:54He'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 information.
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. Hartley, I entered the civil service to serve the public and to serve government.
11:41Any government.
11:43But I am also a responsible citizen, and I cannot stand by while chaos reigns around me.
11:51This is not a government.
11:53Mr. Hartley, this is a collection of hesitant, frightened, old men, unable.
12:00To unseat a tyrannical, delusional, even older one.
12:05Yours 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 usher him
12:31out 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 for their
12:42failure to deal with a fog which has yet shows no sign of appearing.
12:49At present, I can see stars.
12:52I can see stars.
12:53I can see stars.
13:10I can see stars.
13:16I can see stars.
13:21I can see stars.
13:33I can see stars.
13:36I can see stars.
13:40I can see stars.
13:50stars.
13:55stars.
13:55Good night.
14:08Miss Scott.
14:09thank you for your conscientiousness but it's late.
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.
14:27Good evening, 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?
15:11Twinkling our ankles at every unremarkable young man in the room.
15:15Then letting those men buy us enough drinks for us to bring them home,
15:18only to have their unremarkability confirmed to us again.
15:23No.
15:25Thanks.
15:26Goodness.
15:28And what will you be doing in the meantime?
15:30Spend time in the company of someone remarkable.
15:35Ta-ra.
15:43Hear this, young men and women everywhere,
15:46and 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.
16:05It is, like, what's possible.
16:13your house makes a great sense for no Punkte.
16:13To the place that you do not want.
16:14You know, I will still be here.
16:33You know that you go to like theائs.
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.
18:37I saw that.
18:40Might 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.
19:03They 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,
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.
19:29Well, nurses 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, sister.
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.
20:19All right, I promise.
20:21But if you are feeling up to it,
20:22there was something I wanted to talk to you about.
20:26Fire away.
20:38I was listening to the wireless this morning
20:41where they described this fog as an act of God.
20:45Now, in your letter that you sent me,
20:50you said,
20:55loyalty to the ideal you have inherited
20:58is 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
21:17to grace and dignify the earth,
21:19to give ordinary people an ideal to strive towards,
21:22an example of nobility and duty
21:25to raise them in their wretched lives.
21:28Monarchy is a calling from God.
21:32That is why you're crowned in an abbey,
21:35not 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
21:59that 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
22:11because they were seen by the people
22:12to embody indefensible and unreasonable ideas.
22:16Yes, but he represents a royal family
22:18of carpetbaggers and parvenues
22:20that 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, Henry VIII?
22:33It's the Church of England, dear,
22:34not the Church of Denmark or Greece.
22:41Next question?
22:44It's chaos out there.
22:46Trains disrupted, air services cancelled.
22:50At 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
23:00has 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.
23:40There you go.
23:41There you go.
23:41Run! Run!
24:04Morning.
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?
24:52I'm 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.
25:14And the business gets done.
25:16And the country's governed.
25:20But what's my personal contribution?
25:24Ah.
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.
25:42And a cavalry officer posted to India fighting 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.
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.
26:22For this is your time.
26:29You were 24.
26:34All energy and hope.
26:36And passion and fire.
26:40It'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 that 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.
27:41The flares 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 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.
28:24You all right?
28:28You're not.
28:31Go on, let's get you up.
28:33No.
28:34No, I'm fine, I promise.
28:38it's just because the window was open now go to work you've got a job to do
28:52let 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 be making in
29:14person to the commonwealth heads when i host them for the weekend at checkers weather permitting
29:23indeed what is the latest information that you have about the weather it's fog ma'am it will
29:32lift eventually i was hoping for something more scientific then i will ensure that a barometric
29:39report is included in your box tomorrow complete with isobars and isohumes
29:48it has been an unusually cold winter and there are only so many things that i as prime minister
29:55i'm prepared to inflict on your subject as a reward for winning a world war and prevailing
30:01over fascism evil and tyranny
30:04letting them freeze is not one of them
30:07you do not seem unduly concerned i'm not you do know that my late father wrote many years ago
30:15to your predecessors to express his deep concern about the inner city power stations that your party
30:21was building
30:25indeed
30:27and i was sympathetic with your father's concerns at the time
30:32i also have sympathy with the leader articles in the newspapers today
30:38begging for blood
30:39wanting my head
30:42people have to be angry at someone
30:45but as leader
30:47one cannot simply react
30:50to everything
30:51we need the power stations
30:53we need the coal
30:54people 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
31:06why
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 to take him where he needs to go
31:27no he wants to fly himself
31:30it's a boyhood dream it's what he's always wanted
31:33why was government not consulted
31:34because it's a private matter
31:36and i am in favour
31:38nothing you or his royal highness do is a private matter
31:42why
31:42and the father of the future king of england
31:44risking his life needlessly is
31:47quite unacceptable
31:49please
31:49do 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
31:58one must draw a line in the sand
32:00and the job of drawing that line falls to cabinet ma'am
32:03not to you
32:04something your dear late papa would certainly have taught you
32:08had he been granted more time to complete your education
32:13and now our time is up
32:20until next week
32:21let's go
32:25let's go
32:26let's go
32:27let's go
32:49let's go
33:16come on
33:18let's get you to hospital
33:20i'm fine
33:21you're not
33:21come on
33:23let's get you up
33:24let's get you up
33:26let's get you up
33:34here we go
33:36come on
33:39let's go
33:39let's go
33:45come on
33:46come on
33:51come on
33:52come on
33:53I can't breathe
33:55do as I say and hold on to me
33:57come on
34:07Come along.
34:16Crossed down, ladies and gentlemen.
34:19Crossed down.
34:23Crossed down.
34:25Quick, hold my hand.
34:27Oh, no, no.
34:29Oh, no, no.
34:31Oh, no, no.
34:33Oh, no, no.
34:34Oh, no, no.
34:35Oh, no, no.
34:37Oh, no, no.
34:39My wife.
34:41It's too alright, 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.
35:13Culpable 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, killing several and injuring a great many
35:35more.
35:35In parts of the capital, there is now a total breakdown in law and order.
35:41Hospitals 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.
36:08It'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.
36:37PowerPoint, old three.
36:39Telephone, sir.
36:40The markers 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, Diggy.
36:54Are you there?
36:56Yes.
36:57Can anyone overhear what you're saying?
37:03No.
37:05Good.
37:09It's chaos!
37:10I know. The ward is full, every corridor too.
37:13Most of the doctors are sick now.
37:15Most that are well can't get in.
37:17It was better than this in the ward.
37:19What do you need? More equipment? Or masks?
37:22Masks are bloody useless. They're just for show.
37:24To make it look like the government's doing something.
37:26Then what is needed?
37:27Money. People.
37:29Trained staff. Help 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.
37:57Dud! Dud!
38:00I'll show you.
38:01Don't listen!
38:03No.
38:04No, no, no!
38:09No, no, no!
38:11No, no!
38:12Move the ground!
38:12Where are you?
38:13Oh, here!
38:13I'm ready, guys.
38:14Oh, I need you, guys.
38:19Hey, guys.
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 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?
39:44No.
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, these 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, for there you have
40:22been, 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.
40:42Look, 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.
41:06Come 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.
41:39Ignore 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.
42:02Hospitals overflowing.
42:04People dying.
42:05As sovereign, you have the right to demand that a government in your name shows effective leadership.
42:13The opposition are now calling for a motion of no confidence.
42:17So, I would say, the time has come for you to summon Churchill and...
42:28And 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?
42:46As queen, you have the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn, also to appoint
43:01a 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.
43:12They 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.
43:41And now, with looters on the street and hospital corridors stacked with the dead, he is interested in only one
43:48thing.
43:50Stopping Philip flying.
43:55What?
43:56At a crisis cabinet meeting this morning, when there should have only been one thing on the agenda, the unfolding
44:01national emergency, all our prime minister wanted to discuss was your husband's new hobby.
44:15I'm so sorry, sir.
44:16I'm so sorry, sir.
44:17Who are her parents?
44:19Her father is a clergyman from Suffolk.
44:21I've been noticed.
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?
44:41Yes, Tommy.
44:45I know how much my father depended on you and how closely you work together.
44:52Which is why I wanted to ask your advice now.
44:56It seems our prime minister, a man who's led the country through many crises, is no longer leading us at
45:04all.
45:07Representations have been made to me through an intermediary from the heart of the government to intercede and bid and
45:16stand 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?
45:35When it's in the net of interest, how far dare I go?
45:42I'm not sure if her majesty is aware.
45:45But shortly before your father died, the foreign secretary, Mr. Eaton, came, begging his late majesty to intervene, if not
45:55on an official level, then on a personal one, as a friend.
46:00To bid the prime minister to resign.
46:03What did my father say?
46:05Well, his majesty was, like his father before him, a stickler for convention and tradition, and would never have done
46:13anything 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 than the one we were in when Mr. Eaton came to
46:35see your father.
46:39Different situation, different sovereign.
46:42And I do're very, very conscious.
46:54So, wait for me here.
46:59Look out!
47:00Look out!
47:01Oh my god!
47:01Oh my god, yeah!
47:02I'm scared!
47:03Oh, my God.
47:33Oh, my God!
47:34Oh, my God!
47:56Son?
48:00Just a child.
48:03A beautiful child.
48:08I just received word from Buckingham Palace.
48:12The Queen has requested an audience.
48:14When?
48:15At your earliest convenience.
48:22For all energy and hope and passion and fire.
48:32Sir.
48:35Damn it, he is.
48:44Did the newspapers know I'm here?
48:46No.
48:49But it could easily be arranged.
48:51Then do it.
48:54And tell the Queen I'll be their first thing in the morning.
49:00After the papers.
49:21There really is something.
49:22Please.
49:22Do you know what I'm doing?
49:23Do you know what I'm doing?
49:28Do you know what I'm doing?
49:30I'm trying to find your ears.
49:39Thank God.
49:40Thank God.
49:52Just come on, the Prime Minister will be here in a few moments.
50:11Is there anything, sir?
50:13Yeah, yeah.
50:19Quiet, please, settle down.
50:26Mr. 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.
50:54But 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.
51:37The 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.
52:10And his personal popularity among the people remains undimmed.
52:32I'mkeln's.
52:37We need from
53:10CHOIR SINGS
53:33The Prime Minister, Your Majesty.
53:48You asked to see me, ma'am?
53:52I did.
54:03There's a delicate matter which I felt I needed to discuss with you in person.
54:10Concerning what?
54:13Your position.
54:17My position?
54:20Yes, your position...
54:26as 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.
56:01And 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.
56:23To 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, or think, or feel,
56:55or breathe, or exist.
56:56The better.
57:01Well, that's fine for the sovereign.
57:06But where does that leave me?
57:22Sir, come 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.
57:30Do you think I could do it in three months?
57:33That would be unusual.
57:35I'm a fast learner, and believe me when I say I've got nothing else to do.
57:55I couldn't have noticed.
57:57You'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, so I should probably show up from time to time, unless you have more pressing
58:08engagements.
58:09No, sir.
58:10All right.
58:11I'll adjust rpms and cruising speed for range flight.
58:15We'll have to land to refuel, sir.
58:18Aria fittingly.
58:19Oh, really?
58:19Where's that?
58:20Donkester.
58:21Donkester?
58:23Right.
58:35Yeah.
58:37Yeah.
58:48That's right.
58:49Just moved.
58:49Yeah.
58:49So, radial music.
58:49Yeah.
58:49No.
58:49No.
58:50Good.
58:53Your rol.
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