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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?
03:41Nothing, too.
03:44No.
03:58I have control.
03:59I have control.
04:00I have 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.
07:09Bye.
07:11Bye.
07:11All right, please.
07:23If her majesty could lean forward
07:29Deep breath in
07:35And out
07:38Yes, a little stuffy, ma'am
07:40It might help to open the window a crack
07:42Not while they're rehearsing
07:44What are they rehearsing?
07:50My funeral
08:12Uh, I'll help you see it
08:40Oh, there you are
09:00Mr. Thurman
09:15I'm not a scientist
09:17I can't say I understand it
09:20But what I can tell you is we don't get a weather warning like this every day
09:25We don't get one every month either
09:27In fact, I've never heard of us getting one at all
09:32Does the name Donora mean anything to you?
09:43Of course I remember Donora, it was a scandal
09:46A small mill town in America outside Philadelphia
09:51Pittsburgh
09:51They had a smog brought on by a freak anti-cyclone
09:56Which trapped the emissions from the local copper world
10:00Hmm, in the fog
10:02In a few days a number of people died
10:05At 20
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 mission
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
10:31Claiming it wasn't a priority
10:34Can you prove that?
10:36I can, Mr. Utley
10:46The Cabinet minutes while it was discussed
10:55He's insisted the country keep burning coal irresponsibly this winter
10:59To give the illusion of 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
11:20Should 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. Utley
11:36I entered the civil service to serve the public
11:39And to serve governments
11:41Any governments
11:42But I am also a responsible citizen
11:46And I cannot stand by
11:47When chaos reigns around me
11:50This is not a government
11:53Mr. Utley, this is a collection of
11:56Hesitant, frightened, old men
11:59Unable to unseat a tyrannical
12:02Delusional, even older one
12:05Yours was the most radical
12:08Forward-thinking government
12:10This country has ever seen
12:15How you lost the election escapes me
12:20Escapes us all
12:24I believe I would be doing the British public
12:27And this country a service
12:28If I helped to usher him out of the door
12:32And you back in
12:35And to that end
12:36You come to me with a master plan
12:39That involves me crucifying the Tories
12:41For their failure to deal with a fog
12:44Which has yet shows no sign of appearing
12:50At present
12:51I can see stars
13:15I can see stars
13:21I can see stars
13:44CHOIR SINGS
13:54CHOIR SINGS
13:55Good night.
14:08Miss Scott.
14:10Thank you for your conscientiousness.
14:12It's late. Go home.
14:13I am, sir.
14:14You're no good to be tired.
14:16Good evening to you.
14:19What? Still here?
14:20Good night.
14:21Sir?
14:26Good night.
14:34Evening, Pat.
14:57You haven't moved.
15:01I suppose it's still a no.
15:04To what?
15:05Coming out.
15:07You mean going to the Lamb of Flag with you, sitting at the bar, twinkling our ankles at every unremarkable
15:13young man in the room,
15:15they're letting those men buy us enough drinks for us to bring them home, only to have their unremarkability confirmed
15:21to us again.
15:23No.
15:24No. Thanks.
15:26Goodness.
15:28And what will you be doing in the meantime?
15:30Spend time in the company of someone remarkable.
15:42Hear this young men and women everywhere, and proclaim it far and wide.
15:48The earth is yours, and the fullness thereof.
15:53Be kind, but be fierce.
15:56You are needed now more than ever before.
15:59Take up the mantle of change, for this is your time.
16:05Come on.
16:06Come on.
16:10Everywhere.
16:13Ah.
16:23Somewhere by above.
16:24Tee.
16:24Appalach.
16:25Only.
16:32I'm dying.
16:35Good morning.
16:37The time is 8 o'clock on the 6th of December, and here is the news.
16:40London has been brought to a halt by dense fog, which has descended overnight.
16:47Long queues are formed on main roads,
16:49and there are reports of motorists abandoning their vehicles and continuing on foot.
16:53London Airport is expected to be closed.
16:58Good God.
16:59The Meteorological Office has issued a statement saying that a persistent anti-cyclone over London is to blame.
17:06Smoke from the capital's chimneys is being trapped at street level, which is aggravating the fog.
17:15Windless conditions mean it is expected to last for some time.
17:19Be careful out there. It's a real pea super.
17:31Ah, is the car ready?
17:34I'm afraid the visibility is too poor to drive, ma'am.
17:38It's what? 200 yards?
17:41It's been judged too hazardous, ma'am.
17:47I have an appointment to see my grandmother.
17:51I intend to keep that appointment.
17:54If it's too hazardous to drive,
17:57then there's only one thing to be done.
17:59I know.
18:04I know.
18:15I know.
18:22I know.
18:38I saw that.
18:41Might it be possible for you to pretend that you haven't?
18:45And the Queen is here, Your Majesty.
18:48Could you be more specific?
18:50Ma'am?
18:52Which Queen?
18:53Queen Elizabeth, ma'am.
18:55Which one? There are two.
18:57The young one.
18:58Oh, the Queen.
19:01I thought you was all Queens. They gave me a sheet.
19:04We are.
19:05I was the Queen so long as my husband the King was alive.
19:09But since he died, I'm no longer the Queen. 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.
19:21Her 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.
19:37Well, she's outside.
19:40The Queen.
19:42Then let her in, sister.
19:57Bad time?
19:58Not at all.
20:02How are you?
20:03Well, I'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,
20:23there was something I wanted to talk to you about.
20:26Fire away.
20:28Fire away.
20:38I 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,
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.
21:23An 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.
21:49Not the public.
21:52I'm not sure that my husband would agree with that.
21:55He would argue that in any equitable modern society
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,
22:35not 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
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.
23:27Let's see how the old fool goes.
24:13I'm glad to see someone else made it in.
24:16No one saw this coming, did they?
24:19No.
24:27Prime Minister?
24:29Sir?
24:31Sir?
24:35Sir?
24:50Ah, you made it!
24:51Oh, I'm sorry, sorry, sir.
24:53I was just...
24:54Oh, no, 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.
25:03Oh, then don't.
25:04You're too important to all of us.
25:06Hardly.
25:07Hardly.
25:08All 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?
25:25Ah.
25:26You improve the quality of life for all that deal with you.
25:32An ornament.
25:35A 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.
25:57Oh, that'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.
26:28You were 24.
26:33All energy and hope and passion and fire.
26:39It's remarkable.
26:45You found there 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,
27:37and 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 mounting crisis.
27:58London airport is closed again today, with all flights crowded.
28:03The unmoving fog, which is spread to over 30 miles wide,
28:07is likely to cause complete darkness by 2 o'clock this afternoon.
28:10Oof.
28:20Oof.
28:24You all right?
28:27Oof.
28:28thankful for failure to06.
28:29You're not?
28:30Come on.
28:32I'm going to 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,
28:57where 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.
29:32It 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 isofumes.
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.
34:16Cross down, ladies.
34:18Cross down.
34:23Go, go.
34:25Quick, hold my hand.
34:38Right away.
34:40You 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 parts of the capital, there is now a total breakdown in law and order.
35:40Hospitals are filling up as our citizens are breathing in poisonous sulfur dioxide.
35:55Sometimes we have sunshine.
35:58Too much sunshine, and they call it a drought.
36:01Then we have rain.
36:03Too much rain, and they call it a deluge, and find a way to blame us for that, too.
36:08No, it's an act of God, Bobbity.
36:11It's weather.
36:12And for better or for worse, we get a great deal of it on this island.
36:16Frankly, there are more pressing matters to deal with.
36:20Like what?
36:21The Duke of Edinburgh.
36:24The Duke of Edinburgh.
36:36Mail.
36:37Mail.
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.
36:55Are 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.
37:38Maybe 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.
38:01No, no, no.
38:02Get out of the way.
38:03Here we go.
38:08Where are you?
38:13Oh, here.
38:14Oh, here.
38:38How much longer you're gonna give the old man the majority is tiny a vote of no confidence and he'll
38:43be toppled
38:46you know what he calls you yes I know sheep in sheep's clothing perhaps it's time to approve you're not
39:03very well let's put a motion down on paper and brief the whips
39:19thank you sir
39:36anything interesting
39:41yes could share it no I'd be happy to share glide ratios and adiabatic lapse rates with you as part
39:50of a quid pro quo
39:51arrangement one glide ratio in return for some cabinet minutes for example no a dihedral angle or
40:01an absolute ceiling these very interesting concepts Elizabeth you might learn something in exchange for
40:06a foreign office briefing am I going to have to explain my position again no good once you have
40:17tasted flight you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward for there you have been
40:23and there you will always long to return not remarkable about those words go on they were
40:33written 300 years before man first got in a plane Leonardo da Vinci look I know
40:49what's he doing here I know as much as you do he said it was important that thank you
41:00I know as soon as I call it so
41:12go is is this a meeting with Elizabeth your niece my wife or the queen latter I'm afraid right I
41:21don't know
41:31what's the matter with him nothing he's just feeling a little grounded
41:38ignore it right all ears I received a telephone call today from Robert E. Salisbury it seems that
41:50even among his own people the feeling is that our prime minister is not able to deal with a national
41:55crisis indeed he could be seen to be responsible for that crisis hospitals overflowing people dying
42:04as 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 so I would say the time has come for
42:23you to
42:25summon Churchill and and what
42:32insist that he go
42:36I can't do that you can and should but wouldn't that violate the constitution
42:46as 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 and many would say the Churchill's
43:06behavior now constitutes incapacity then a revolution must come from within they are trying
43:14well then they must try harder they will but would prefer it to be bloodless so have asked for your
43:23help
43:24and influence
43:28I cannot do it I 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
43:50stopping Philip flying
43:55what?
43:56at a crisis cabinet meeting this morning when 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
44:18her 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
44:25the meeting you must attend
44:27the house can wait
44:38you wish to see me your majesty
44:40yes Tommy
44:45I know how much my father depended on you
44:49and how closely you work together
44:52which is why I wanted to ask your advice
44:54now
44:56it seems our prime minister
44:58a man who's led the country through many crises
45:02is no longer leading us at all
45:06representations 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
45:21which
45:22brings 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 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
46:05well
46:06his majesty was like his father before him
46:09a stickler for convention and 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
46:27and 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
46:53way for me here
47:09oh my god
47:22we'll get you seen us soon
47:24we'll get you seen us soon
47:38we'll get you seen us soon
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. This 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.
49:03So, of course.
49:17But it's been a really tough place.
49:18Yes, yes, yes, yes.
49:19But, I mean, there's a huge loss.
49:19Yeah, no.
49:22No!
49:28Let's talk about that.
49:28I'm like, oh!
49:38Thank God.
49:39Thank God.
49:53The Prime Minister will be here in a few moments.
50:01The Prime Minister will be here in a few moments.
50:10Is there anything, sir?
50:13Mr. Churchill.
50:28I have witnessed scenes here today, the likes of which we have not seen since the darkest days of the
50:37Blitz.
50:39But alongside the suffering, I've also seen heroism. And where there is heroism, there will always be hope.
50:51Only God can lift the fog.
50:55But I, as Prime Minister, am in a position to ease the suffering.
51:02To that end, I pledge to make available with immediate effect more money for hospital staff, more money for equipment,
51:13and a full and independent public inquiry into the causes of air pollution to ensure that such a calamity may
51:25never befall us again.
51:28Do you?
51:30Thank you all.
51:37The Prime Minister was alone among senior politicians to visit hospitals and respond to the crisis in person, and was
51:44rewarded by cheers and applause by those suffering through the worst smog this city has ever witnessed.
51:50The headline reads, True leader in a crisis.
52:00Ma'am, the Prime Minister's here.
52:04The parallels between his appearance yesterday and the wartime years were striking.
52:09And his personal popularity among the people remains undimmed.
52:17Hello?
52:19Clem, you still there?
52:21Hello?
52:23Clem?
52:26Clem, can you hear me?
52:28No?
52:32Hello?
52:36You.
52:38Yes?
52:40Move.
52:42Come.
52:44Jonathan?
52:44And so?
52:46beaten the man.
52:54The water feels great too.
52:59If you have to ì£¼ê³ your chances do, washing the deep sugar, eh?
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, she hesitated
54:41and then she asked me
54:43to pick either
54:45Kwaadji Nazimudin of Pakistan
54:47or Sydney Holland of New Zealand.
54:50What ever for?
54:51To sit next to
54:53at dinner.
54:56She 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
55:28Philip to 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?
56:01People had continued
56:02to die.
56:04And Churchill
56:05had 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.
56:33People 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?
57:22Sir, come on.
57:23How long would it take
57:24me to 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.
57:34I know.
57:35I'm a false learner
57:37and believe me
57:38when I say
57:38I'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?
58:04They made me duke there
58:05so I should probably show up
58:06from time to time
58:07unless you have
58:08more pressing engagements.
58:09No, sir.
58:10All right.
58:12I'll adjust rpms
58:13and cruising speed
58:14for range flying.
58:15We'll have to land
58:16to refuel, sir.
58:17R.E. effectively.
58:19Oh, really?
58:19Where's that?
58:20Doncaster.
58:21Doncaster?
58:23Right.
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