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00:00I'm going to take a break.
00:02I'm going to take a break.
00:03I'm going to take a break.
00:24Fuel on!
00:26Fuel on!
00:27Docks are in position.
00:29Switches are off.
00:30You 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.
00:42Righto, sir.
01:12Ready, sir?
01:14Bravo!
01:15Here we go!
01:16Whoa-ho!
01:28Whoa-ho!
01:31Whoa-ho!
01:39There we go!
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.
01:59I 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 us 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?
03:41I can't get through.
03:42I can't get through.
03:43I can't get through.
03:44I can't get through.
03:52I can't do a better Lord.
03:55I can't do that anymore.
03:59I can't get through.
04:00I can't do a better road.
04:01No, no, no, no.
04:11Now I can't do it.
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 I'm out, if she could lean forward.
07:30Deep 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.
07:45What are they rehearsing?
07:51My funeral.
08:08What are they rehearsing?
08:13What are they rehearsing?
08:16What are they rehearsing?
08:36What are they rehearsing?
08:42Oh, there you are.
08:43Mr. Cox?
08:49Oh, really?
08:50Oh, you!
08:52Oh, you!
08:53Well, it's all been done, so...
08:57Mr. Simon.
09:01Mr. Cox.
09:04Nice 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, who was a scandal.
09:46A small mill town in America, outside Philadelphia.
09:51Pittsburgh.
09:51They had a smog brought on by a freak anticyclone, which trapped the emissions from the local...
09:59Copperworks?
10:00In the fog.
10:01In 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.
10:23Donora?
10:24Hmm.
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. Utley.
10:46The cabinet minutes where it was discussed.
10:54He's insisted the country keep burning coal irresponsibly this winter to 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 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. Utley, 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.
11:52Mr. Utley, this is a collection of hesitant, frightened old men unable to unseat a tyrannical, delusional even older one.
12:05Yours was the most radical, forward-thinking government this 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 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.
13:17There are also separate int he wills.
13:31There is also a capital space.
13:36See stars you can see raccoon.
13:36There are two companies within the world and they can the least 5.
14:08Miss Scott, thank you for your conscientiousness, but it's late, you're home.
14:13I am, sir. You're no good to be tired. Good evening to you.
14:19What? Still here? Good night, sir.
14:34Evening, Pat.
14:57You haven't moved. I suppose it's still a no.
15:04To what? Coming 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, then letting those men buy us enough drinks for us to bring them home, only
15:19to 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.
15:33Mm-hmm. Ta-ra.
15:43Hear this, young men and women everywhere, and proclaim it far and wide. The Earth is yours, and the fullness
15:51thereof. Be kind, but be fierce. You are needed now more than ever before.
15:59Take up the mantle of change, for this is your time.
16:03Why?
16:04Why?
16:18What are you doing?
16:20What are you doing?
16:22Blah ignores your eyes.
16:23Was thereiesz Ś€ïżœkyê° beast?
16:31At least preparing.
16:35Good morning.
16:37Time 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, then there's only one thing to be done.
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.
18:59Oh, 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.
19:11I'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...
19:26The Queen.
19:29Brother.
19:31Nurses 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.
19:45Sister.
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, there was something I wanted to talk to you about.
20:26Fire away.
20:38I was listening to the wireless this morning, where they described this fog as an act of God.
20:45Now, in your letter that you sent me, you said loyalty to the ideal you have inherited is your duty
20:59above everything else.
21:01Because the calling comes from the highest source, from 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.
21:54But he would argue that in any equitable modern society, that church and state should be separated.
22:03That if God has servants, they're priests, not kings.
22:07That he would also say that he watched his own family destroyed because they were seen by the people to
22:13embody indefensible and unreasonable ideas.
22:15Yes, but he represents a royal family of carpetbaggers and parvenues that goes back what?
22:22Ninety years.
22:24What would he know of Alfred the Great, the 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.
22:40Next 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 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.
23:29Let's go.
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, Bravo.
24:52Oh, I'm sorry, sorry, sir, I was just...
24:54No, no, you did well to get here.
24:56I gather half the Downing Street staff didn't.
24:58Oh, it wasn't easy.
25:01Just crossing the road, you take your life in your hands.
25:04Oh, then 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.
25:21But what's my personal contribution?
25:25Ah.
25:26Ah, you improve the quality of life
25:29for all that deal with you.
25:32An ornament.
25:34A flower.
25:37By comparison, at my age,
25:39you were a published writer
25:41and a cavalry officer posted to India
25:45fighting local tribesmen on the northwest frontier.
25:48Who told you that?
25:49You asked me to engage in a relationship
25:52with 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,
26:08and 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
26:36and passion and fire.
26:39It's remarkable.
26:45You found something you liked
26:48in that young male?
26:49I did.
26:57I did.
27:21Good morning.
27:24The time is 8 o'clock on the 7th of December,
27:26and here is the news.
27:28A serious fog that brought much of the capital
27:31to a standstill yesterday
27:32continues this morning,
27:34with emergency services struggling to cope
27:36and widespread disruption reported across the nation.
27:41Flares are being used to guide motorists
27:43in parts of the capital.
27:45Trains are stopped
27:46while running hours behind schedule
27:48from major London railway stations.
27:52The Prime Minister is facing criticism
27:54of failure to deal with the mounting crisis.
27:58London airport is closed again today
28:00with all flights crowded.
28:02Yes.
28:03The unmoving fog,
28:04which has spread to over 30 miles wide,
28:07is likely to cause complete darkness
28:08by 2 o'clock this afternoon.
28:25You all right?
28:28You all right?
28:31Go on, let's get you up.
28:33No.
28:34No, I'm fine.
28:35I promise.
28:38It's just because the window is open.
28:41Now go to work.
28:42You've got a job to do.
28:52Let us start with the unrest in Egypt,
28:57where anti-colonial passions continue to run high
29:00and where our soldiers continue to come under fire
29:03from nationalist insurgents.
29:05It is vital that we remain
29:07and successfully defend the Suez Canal,
29:12a 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.
29:31It will lift eventually.
29:33I was hoping for something more scientific.
29:37Then I will ensure that a barometric report
29:40is included in your box tomorrow,
29:43complete with isobars and isohumes.
29:48It has been an unusually cold winter
29:51and 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.
30:08You do not seem unduly concerned.
30:10I'm not.
30:11You do know that my late father wrote
30:13many years ago
30:15to your predecessors
30:17to express his deep concern
30:19about the inner-city power stations
30:20that your party was building.
30:25Indeed.
30:27And I was sympathetic
30:29with your father's concerns at the time.
30:33I also have sympathy with the leader articles
30:36in the newspapers today,
30:38begging for blood,
30:39wanting my head.
30:43People have to be angry at someone,
30:46but as leader,
30:48one cannot simply react to everything.
30:51We need the power stations.
30:53We need the coal.
30:55People need to burn coal
30:56to warm their homes.
30:58It is weather.
30:59It will pass.
31:01Well, I do hope so.
31:03Not least because 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.
31:32It's what he's always wanted.
31:33Why was government not consulted?
31:35Because it's a private matter.
31:36And I am in favor.
31:38Nothing you or his royal highness do
31:40is a private matter.
31:42And the father of the future king of England
31:44risking his life needlessly
31:46is quite unacceptable.
31:49Please do not curtail
31:50my husband's personal freedoms
31:52any further.
31:53You've taken away his home.
31:55You've taken away his name.
31:57There comes a time
31:58where one must draw a line in the sand.
32:00And the job of drawing that line
32:02falls to cabinet, ma'am.
32:03Not to you.
32:05Something your dear late papa
32:06would certainly have taught you
32:08had he been granted more time
32:09to complete your education.
32:13And now our time is up.
32:20Until next week.
32:37Good morning.
32:39The time is 8 o'clock
32:40on the 8th of December
32:41and here is the news.
32:42The choking, eye-watering
32:44fog, which has already caused
32:46two days of chaos
32:47across the capital
32:48has worsened overnight.
32:50The great coal-burning
32:51electricity stations
32:52in Battersea and Fulham
32:53have attempted to reduce emissions
32:55of poisonous sulfur dioxide
32:56from their chimneys
32:57but we've been told
32:59that it is unlikely
33:00they will be able to make
33:01any significant change
33:02to the air quality.
33:04The government is expected
33:05to make a statement
33:06later today.
33:17come on, let'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.
33:36Arm in.
33:53I can't breathe.
33:55Do as I say
33:56and hold on to me.
34:07Come along.
34:09Come along.
34:25Quick, hold my hand.
34:26Come on.
34:28All right.
34:32First in the room.
34:33Excuse me.
34:34All right.
34:35All right.
34:39All right.
34:40All right.
34:41All right.
34:42All right.
34:49All right.
34:51Control of this story
34:52is getting away from us the opposition's blood is up we have to respond respond
35:00how I would suggest by commissioning a public inquiry an inquiry will be
35:05expensive Winston people are angry they see us as the culprits culpable for what
35:14it's fog fog is fog it comes and it goes away but I'm glad that the
35:22prime minister finds time for levity perhaps I should remind him exactly how
35:26serious the situation has now become this morning a suburban twain collided with a
35:32gang of well-wing workmen killing several and injuring a great many more in part of
35:37the capital there is now a total breakdown in law and order hospitals are filling
35:42up as our citizens are breathing in poisonous sulfur dioxide
35:55sometimes we have sunshine too much sunshine and they call it a drought then
36:02we have rain too much rain and they call it a deluge and find a way to blame us for
36:07that too it's an act of God Bobbity it's weather and for better or for worse we
36:14get a great deal of it on this island frankly there are more pressing matters to
36:19deal with like what the duke of Edinburgh
36:38telephone sir the Marcus of Salisbury not now he asked me to stress the importance of the matter
36:50Bobbity thanks for taking my call diggy are you alone yes can anyone over hear what you're saying
37:04no good
37:09it's chaos
37:10I know reward is full every corridor too most of the doctors are sick now those that are well can't
37:16get in it was better than this in the war what do you need more equipment or masks masks are
37:23bloody
37:23useless they're just for show to make it look like the government's doing something
37:26then what is needed money people train 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 the 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
37:50you know my day is bad enough without some delusional girl playing jokes now excuse me
37:59I'll show you
38:02wait
38:03wait
38:04wait
38:12wait
38:13wait
38:15wait
38:15wait
38:17wait
38:19wait
38:20wait
38:20wait
38:20wait
38:20wait
38:29wait
38:33wait
38:33wait
38:33wait
38:38I'm a song you're going to give the old man the majority is tiny a vote of no confidence and
38:43he'll be toppled
38:44I don't want you to call you
38:49Yes, I know. Sheep in sheep's clothing.
38:55Perhaps it's time to approve you're not.
39:03Very well. Let's put a motion down on paper and brief the whips.
39:19Good to do it. Thank you, sir.
39:37Anything 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
39:50as part of a quid pro quo arrangement.
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,
40:19you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward,
40:22for there you have been,
40:23and 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...
41:13Is this a meeting with Elizabeth, your niece?
41:16My wife?
41:17Or the queen?
41:19The latter, I'm afraid.
41:20Right.
41:21I don't know my place.
41:24Oh, God.
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,
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.
42:04People dying.
42:05As sovereign,
42:07you 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,
42:19I would say
42:21the time has come
42:22for you to
42:25summon
42:25Churchill
42:28and...
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?
42:45As
42:46queen.
42:50You have the right
42:52to be consulted.
42:54The right
42:55to
42:56encourage.
42:57The right
42:57to warn.
42:59Also,
43:00to appoint
43:01a new prime minister
43:02in the event
43:03of incapacity.
43:04And many would say
43:05that Churchill's behavior
43:07now
43:07constitutes
43:08incapacity.
43:10Then a revolution
43:11must come from within.
43:13They are trying.
43:14Well,
43:15then they must
43:15try harder.
43:16They will.
43:18But
43:18would prefer it
43:20to be bloodless.
43:22So I've asked
43:23for your help
43:24and influence.
43:28I cannot do it.
43:30I will not
43:31do it.
43:32Let's
43:32not forget
43:33it was Churchill
43:34who denied
43:35Philip's children
43:36his own surname.
43:37Dickie.
43:38And insisted
43:39that you live
43:39in Buckingham Palace.
43:40As, alas,
43:41did everyone else.
43:41And now
43:42with looters
43:43on the street
43:44and hospital corridors
43:45stacked with the dead,
43:46he is interested
43:47in only one thing.
43:50Stopping
43:51Philip
43:52flying.
43:55What?
43:56At a crisis cabinet
43:57meeting this morning
43:58when there should
43:59have only been
43:59one thing on the agenda,
44:00the unfolding
44:01national emergency,
44:04all our prime minister
44:05wanted to discuss
44:08was your husband's
44:09new 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
44:22and I want to go
44:22to the hospital.
44:23There is an emergency
44:24meeting at the house.
44:26The meeting you must
44:26attend.
44:27The house can wait.
44:39You wish to see me,
44:40your majesty?
44:40Yes, Tommy.
44:45I know
44:46how much
44:47my father
44:47depended on you
44:49and how closely
44:50you worked together.
44:52Which is why
44:53I wanted to ask
44:54your advice
44:54now.
44:56It seems
44:57our prime minister,
44:59a man who's led
44:59the country
45:00through many crises,
45:02is no longer
45:03leading us at all.
45:06Representations
45:07have been made
45:08to me
45:09through an intermediary
45:11from the heart
45:11of the government
45:14to intercede
45:16and bid and stand down,
45:18make way
45:18for a younger man.
45:21Which
45:22brings me
45:23to my question.
45:26what are my
45:27responsibilities
45:29as head of state?
45:33What should I do
45:35when it's in the
45:36national interest?
45:37How far
45:38dare I go?
45:42I'm not sure
45:43if her majesty
45:44is aware,
45:45but shortly
45:46before your father
45:47died,
45:48the foreign secretary,
45:49Mr. Eden,
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,
46:12and would never have done
46:13anything that violated
46:14the constitution
46:15or overstepped
46:16the 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
46:28to the wireless.
46:30And the situation
46:31we're in today
46:31is quite different
46:33than the one we were in
46:34when Mr. Eden
46:35came to see your father.
46:39Different situation,
46:41different sovereign.
46:54Wait for me here.
47:00Oh, my God.
47:29Oh, my God.
47:56Sir?
47:59Just a child.
48:04A beautiful child.
48:08I just received word from Buckingham Palace.
48:11Oh, my God.
48:12The Queen has requested an audience.
48:14When?
48:15At your earliest convenience.
48:21All energy, and hope, and passion, and fire.
48:31Sir?
48:44Did the newspapers know I'm here?
48:46No.
48:49But it could easily be arranged.
48:52Then do it.
48:54And tell the Queen I'll be their first thing in the morning.
49:00After the papers.
49:20I'll be your first thing in the morning.
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?
52:27Clem, can you hear me?
52:28Clem, can you hear me?
52:29Clem?
52:32No.
52:53I-
53:10CHOIR SINGS
53:37CHOIR SINGS
54:03CHOIR SINGS
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
54:21your position
54:26as prime minister
54:32go on
54:38at that point
54:39she hesitated
54:42and then she asked me
54:43to pick either
54:45Qajgi Nazimudin of Pakistan
54:47or Sydney Holland of New Zealand
54:50whatever for?
54:52to sit next to at 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
55:02but 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 turning
55:11behind her eyes
55:12and then she switched a tack
55:14without so much as a flicker
55:16clever
55:19no, no, not clever
55:20ingenious
55:21why?
55:22because it disarmed me
55:23and made me switch tack too
55:25what about?
55:27about allowing Philip to learn to fly
55:30he can now
55:32good
55:34but he still has to ask cabinet permission
55:36to do rolls and spins
55:48what dear girl?
55:53well what if the fog hadn't lifted
55:57and 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 for the sovereign
57:06but where does that leave me?
57:22so 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 on one of these things
57:30do you think I could do it in three months?
57:33that would be unusual
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 write-up
57:58starboard and port
57:5918 gallons
58:00yes
58:01fancy lunch in Edinburgh
58:02Edinburgh?
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
58:11I'll adjust rpms and cruising speed for range flying
58:15we'll have to land to refuel sir
58:17oh really
58:19where's that?
58:20Doncaster
58:20Doncaster?
58:23right
58:40Thank you
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