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00:13I'm not sure what you're doing.
00:16I'm not sure what you're doing.
00:23I'm not sure what you're doing.
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,
00:39and I can't bloody well fly.
00:41Yes, I'm sure.
00:42Right-o, sir.
01:12Ready, sir?
01:14Bravo!
01:15Here we go!
01:17Whoa-ho!
01:29Perfect!
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?
01:59Well, I 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.
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?
02:40My God.
02:42Oh.
02:43Oh.
02:44Oh.
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.
03:02Hunnicans, mostly, sir.
03:04Any kills?
03:06One or two.
03:08Shall 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?
03:57And those of you who I'm going through?
04:00That's going to happen.
04:01Yeah, yeah, yeah.
04:13Okay, so close, ohne.
05:47Johnston, what do you make of this?
05:55Interesting.
05:57Sir.
06:01I think you should see this.
06:03I see.
06:08Sir.
06:16Excuse me.
06:17You 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 to cover our backs.
06:39Kenneth, it should probably come from you as chief scientist.
06:44Address it to the PM.
06:46No, I'll never read it, of course.
06:48But the important thing is, we've sent it.
06:52I'll get you to Downing Street right away.
07:12Right there, please.
07:16Here we go.
07:18All right, quick, quick!
07:23If her matter, she could lean forward.
07:29Deep breath in.
07:34And out.
07:35What?
07:38Yeah, it's 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?
07:50My funeral.
07:54My funeral.
07:59.
07:59.
07:59.
07:59.
08:00.
09:00Mr. Thurman.
09:01Mr. Cox.
09:04This is 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?
09:43Of course I remember Donora.
09:46It was a scandal.
09:47A small mill town in America outside Philadelphia.
09:51Pittsburgh.
09:51They had a smog brought on by a freak anti-cyclone which trapped the emissions from the local copper
10:00world.
10:01In 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 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.
13:02And I can see stars.
13:44CHOIR SINGS
13:54CHOIR SINGS
13:55Good night.
14:08Miss Scott, thank you for your conscientiousness.
14:12It's late. You're home.
14:13I am, sir.
14:14You're no good to be tired. Good evening to you.
14:19What? Still here?
14:20Good night, sir.
14:33Good 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. Thanks.
15:26Goodness. And what will you be doing in the meantime?
15:30Spend time in the company of someone remarkable.
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.
16:19You are the one who is the one who is the one who is the one who is the one
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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.
17:32Ah, is the car ready?
17:34I'm afraid the visibility is too poor to drive, ma'am.
17:38It's what? Two hundred yards?
17:41It's being charged 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.
17:59Hmm.
18:38I 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, she became Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother.
19:22Her daughter, Queen Elizabeth, is now Queen.
19:24So she is...
19:27The Queen.
19:29Brother.
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.
19:41Then let her in, Sister.
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 send 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.
21:48Not 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.
22:07That 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.
22:16Yes, 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 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, 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!
23:49Hey!
24:13I'm glad to see someone else made it in.
24:15No one saw this coming, did they?
24:19No.
24:26Prime Minister?
24:29Sir?
24:50Ah! You made it!
24:51Oh, I'm sorry, sorry, sir. I was just...
24:54No, no. You did well to get here. I gather half the Downing Street staff didn't.
24:58Oh, it wasn't easy. Just crossing the road, you take your life in your hands.
25:04Oh, then don't. You're too important to all of us.
25:06Well, hardly. All 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?
25:25Ah. You improve the quality of life for all that deal with you.
25:32An ornament. A flower. By comparison, at my age, you were a published writer and a cavalry
25:43officer posted to India fighting 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. So I've been reading
25:55your 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. The earth is yours
26:07and the fullness thereof. Be kind, but be fierce. You are needed now more than ever before.
26:19Take up the mantle of change. For this is your time. You were 24. All energy and hope and passion
26:37and fire. It'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.
27:28A serious fog that brought much of the capital to a standstill yesterday continues this morning,
27:34with emergency services struggling to 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 or running hours behind schedule from major London railway stations.
27:52The Prime Minister is facing criticism for failure to deal with the mounting 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 alright?
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 is open.
28:41Now 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 and where our soldiers
29:01continue to come under fire from nationalist insurgents.
29:05It is vital that we remain and successfully defend the Suez Canal,
29:12a point that I will be making in person to the Commonwealth heads when I host them for the weekend
29:19at Chequers.
29:20Weather permitting?
29:23Indeed.
29:24What is the latest information that you have?
29:26About 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 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, am
29:56prepared to inflict on your subjects as a reward for winning a world war and prevailing over fascism, evil and
30:03tyranny.
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 deep concern about
30:19the inner city power stations that your party was building.
30:25Indeed.
30:27And I was sympathetic with your father's concerns at the time.
30:32I also have sympathy with the leader articles in the newspapers today.
30:38Begging for blood.
30:40Wanting my head.
30:43People have to be angry at someone.
30:46But as leader, one cannot simply react to everything.
30:52We 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.
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 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.
31:48Please 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.
32:22Don't worry.
32:25Take this easy, Mike.
32:27Sir.
32:29Perfect.
32:33Meteorological report.
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, 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.
33:17Come on.
33:18Let's get you to a hospital.
33:20Fine.
33:21You're not.
33:22Come on.
33:25Shoes.
33:30Come on.
33:34Here we go.
33:36I'm in.
33:38And the other.
33:52I can't breathe.
33:55Do as I say and hold on to me.
34:07Come on.
34:08There you go.
34:16There you go.
34:19Sleeps up there.
34:22Come on.
34:25Put the button in.
34:26Quick, hold my hand.
34:27I'll just leave my hand.
34:28Let's leave your hand now.
34:29All right.
34:30Okay.
34:30Don't leave your hand.
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 liberty.
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.
35:54Sometimes 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, Bobbottie.
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.
36:25The 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.
36:50Bobbottie?
36:51Thanks for taking my call, Diggy.
36:54Are you there?
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?
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.
37:36Yeah.
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.
38:00I'll show you.
38:02Get out of the way.
38:03Here we go.
38:12Jim, where are you?
38:13Oh, here.
38:14Come on, please.
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.
38:50A sheep in sheep's clothing.
38:55Perhaps it's time to approve your nod.
39:03Very well.
39:05Let's put a motion down on paper and brief the whips.
39:20Thank 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?
40:12No.
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.
40:42Look, 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.
41:00And Elizabeth.
41:05Hello.
41:06Came as soon as I cried.
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.
41:43I 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
41:53to deal with 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
42:11leadership.
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...
42:28And 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?
42:45As Queen, you have the right to be consulted.
42:54The right to encourage.
42:57The 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.
43:41And 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,
43:58when there should have only been one thing on the agenda,
44:00the unfolding national emergency,
44:04all our Prime Minister wanted 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 from Suffolk.
44:21I've been noticed.
44:22They 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
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,
45:15and 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 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,
45:48the 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,
46:08like 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,
46:22that 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.
47:00Oh, my God!
47:02Oh, my God!
47:06Oh, my God!
47:22We'll get you seen as soon as we fall.
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.
48:36This is a huge child.
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.
49:23Anything in the impartiality?
49:28ģ How did the day go to J favor the dear girl?
49:29It could easily be texted or made the interview.
49:30Under the ningĆŗnļæ½ė.
49:31The obvious?
49:31In the middle of your life, the Ponca's on confĆ¼hrt for however big we can learn in the evening's event.
49:39Thank God.
49:52Just come on, the Prime Minister will be here in a few moments.
50:11Is there anything, sir?
50:13Yeah, yeah.
50:13Quiet, please! Set them down!
50:54Mr. Churchill!
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.
51:37The 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,
51:52True 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.
52:16Hello?
52:19Clem, you still there?
52:21Hello?
52:23Clem?
52:26Clem, can you hear me?
52:28No?
52:29I...
52:36Clem, can you hear me?
52:43No?
52:44I...
52:44Clem, can you hear me?
52:53Ne-, can you hear me?
53:25CHOIR SINGS
53:40CHOIR 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 yes your position
54:26as prime minister
54:32go on
54:38at that point she hesitated
54:41and then she asked me to pick either kwadji nazimudin of pakistan
54:47or sydney holland of new zealand
54:50whatever for
54:51to sit next to at dinner
54:56she summoned you for that
54:58no i think she summoned me to haul me over the coals for my handling of the fog
55:02but then the fog lifted
55:04and she had to make a decision right then and there in the room
55:09you could see the the wheels turning behind her eyes
55:12and then she switched attack without so much as a flicker
55:17clever
55:18no no not clever ingenious
55:21why
55:21because it disarmed me
55:23and made me switch tack too
55:25what about
55:27about allowing philip to learn to fly
55:29he can now
55:31good
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
56:12as head of state
56:13to 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
56:32not human
56:33people will always want you to smile
56:36or agree
56:37or frown
56:38and the minute you do
56:39you will have declared a position
56:41a point of view
56:42and that is the one thing as sovereign
56:44that you are not entitled to do
56:48the less you do
56:49the 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 leave 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
57:29on one of these things
57:30do you think I could do it
57:31in three months?
57:33that would be unusual
57:34I know
57:35I'm a fast learner
57:37and believe me
57:38when I say
57:38I've got nothing else to do
58:08I couldn't have noticed
58:09I know sir
58:10all right
58:11I'll adjust rpms and cruising speed
58:14for range flying
58:15we'll have to land to refuel sir
58:17re-equilibrium
58:18oh really
58:19where's that?
58:20Doncaster
58:20Doncaster
58:23right
58:25I'll see you next time
58:28I'll see you next time
59:22I'll see you next time
59:39and see you next time
59:40and see you next time
59:40for the next time
59:40and see you next time
59:43I'll see you next time
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