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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.
03:02Harrakens mostly, sir.
03:04Any kills?
03:06One or two.
03:08Should 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.
03:16OK. I have control. You have control.
03:37That was wonderful. Same time next week, sir.
03:41How about tomorrow?
04:11No.
04:12No.
04:23No.
04:28No.
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06:11Oh, God, that's me.
06:13May I suggest you call back me?
06:16Excuse me.
06:17You can't go in there.
06:19Excuse me, son.
06:22Sorry, sir.
06:23Thought you should see these.
06:29Good God.
06:33And we must send a warning
06:35to cover our backs.
06:37Thanks.
06:40Kenneth, it should probably come from you
06:42as chief scientist.
06:44Address it to the PM.
06:46You'll never read it, of course.
06:48But the important thing is, we sent it.
06:51Well, get it to Downey Street right away.
07:12Right there, please.
07:23If her matter, she 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.
07:45What are they rehearsing?
07:51My funeral.
07:57It might help.
08:02It might help.
08:14Oh, yeah.
08:16Oh, yeah.
08:41Oh, there you are.
09:00Mr. Thurman.
09:01Mr. Cox.
09:08Mr. Cox.
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.
09:27In 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.
09:47A 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...
09:59Copperworks?
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 mission.
10:18They recommended that clean air zones be set up all around London as a precautionary measure.
10:25I never saw the report.
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 where 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.
11:09For 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.
11:50This is not a government.
11:53Mr. 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.
12:14How you lost the election escapes me.
12:18Hmm.
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.
12:32And you back in.
12:35And to that end, you 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.
13:07At present, I can see stars.
13:09I can see stars.
13:22I can see stars.
13:44CHOIR SINGS
14:08Miss Scott, thank you for your conscientiousness, but it's late.
14:13You're home.
14:13I am, sir.
14:14You're no good to be tired.
14:16Good evening to you.
14:19What?
14:20Still here?
14:21Good night, sir.
14:26Good night.
14:34Good 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, twinkling our ankles at
15:12every unremarkable young man in the room, then letting those men buy us enough drinks
15:17for us to bring them home, only to have their unremarkability confirmed to us again.
15:23No.
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, and proclaim it far and wide.
15:49The earth is yours, and the fullness thereof.
15:54Be 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.
16:35Good morning.
16:37Time is 8 o'clock on the 6th of December, and here is the news.
16:41London has been brought to a halt by dense fog, which has descended overnight.
16:47Long queues are formed on main roads, and there are reports of motorists abandoning their
16:51vehicles and continuing on foot.
16:53London Airport is expected to be closed.
16:58Good God.
17:00The meteorological office has issued a statement saying that a persistent anti-cyclone over
17:04London is to blame.
17:06Smoke from the capital's chimneys is being trapped at street level, which is aggravating
17:10the fog.
17:15Windless conditions mean it is expected to last for some time.
17:19Be careful out there.
17:20It'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?
17:38200 yards?
17:41It's been judged too hazardous, ma'am.
17:47I have an appointment to see my grandmother.
17:51I intend to keep that appointment.
17:54If it's too hazardous to drive, then there's only one thing to be done.
17:59Mm-hmm.
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 Queen's.
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.
19:24So 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.
19:42Then 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
20:08if 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.
20:28Okay.
20:30Okay.
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,
20:56Loyalty to the ideal you have inherited
20:58is your duty above everything else
21:01because the calling comes
21:03from 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
21:47in 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
21:57equitable modern society
21:59that church and state should be separated,
22:03that if God has servants,
22:04they're priests, not kings.
22:08He would also say that he
22:09watched his own family destroyed
22:11because they were seen by the people
22:12to embody indefensible and unreasonable ideas.
22:15Yes, but he represents a royal family
22:18of carpetbaggers and parvenues
22:20that goes back what?
22:22Ninety years.
22:23What 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
23:00has been speaking to his friends
23:02at 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,
23:10a vote of no confidence.
23:11And will doubtless call me over-cautious
23:14for not doing so.
23:15But the Prime Minister
23:17needs 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.
28:10Of course.
28:20Oh my God.
28:24Are you 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 in
33:38come in
33:39and the other
33:52i can't breathe
33:55Do as I say and hold on to me.
34:07Come along.
34:16Cross now, ladies.
34:19Cross now.
34:19Come along.
34:25Quick, hold my hand.
34:38My wife.
34:41Do it.
34:41You're all right, ladies.
34:51Control of this story is getting away from us.
34:55The opposition's blood is up.
34:57We have to respond.
34:59Respond how?
35:00I would suggest by commissioning a public inquiry.
35:03An inquiry would be expensive.
35:09Winston people are angry.
35:11They see us as the culprits.
35:13Culpable 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.
35:36In part of the capital, there is now a total breakdown in law and order.
35:40Hospitals are filling up as our citizens are breathing in poisonous sulfur dioxide.
35:55Sometimes we have sunshine.
35:58Too much sunshine and they call it a drought.
36:02Then 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.
36:37The first one was under a
36:44The same ones used to be under a
36:45brain distinction.
36:45Don't hang out on that part.
36:46I wish it would be.
36:46You're in trouble, you're in trouble, then.
36:51AUTOMAT.
36:51Thanks for taking my call, Diggie.
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.
37:15Those 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. Trained 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.
37:57Dad! Dad!
38:00I'll show you.
38:02Get out of the way!
38:03I'll show you.
38:10I'm going to show you.
38:11I'm going to show you later!
38:12I'm going to show you later.
38:12Hey!
38:12Jim! Where are you?
38:13Oh, here.
38:14Look at me!
38:19Wait!
38:19Wait!
38:20Hey!
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
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
39:20Thank you, sir
39:36Anything interesting?
39:38Yes?
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
39:57No
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
40:38Leonardo da Vinci
40:41Look, Philip, I know
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
40:53Thank you
41:00Elizabeth
41:05Hello
41:06Came as soon as I cried
41:09So
41:12Hello
41:12Joe, is this a meeting with Elizabeth, your niece? My wife? Or the queen?
41:19The latter, I'm afraid
41:20Right, I 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
41:40Ignore it
41:40Right
41:42All ears
41:42I
41:44Received
41:45A
41:45Telephone call today from Robert E. Salisbury
41:49Seems that even among his own people the feeling is that our prime minister is not able to deal with
41:54a national crisis
41:57Indeed he could be seen to be responsible for that crisis
42:02Hospitals overflowing people dying
42:04Well, as sovereign
42:06You 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
42:20I would say
42:21The time has come for you to
42:25Summon
42:25Churchill
42:27And
42:29And what?
42:32Insist that he go
42:36I can't do that
42:38You can
42:38You can
42:39And should
42:41But
42:42Wouldn't that violate the constitution?
42:45As
42:46Queen
42:50You have the right to be consulted
42:54The right to encourage
42:57The right to warn
42:59Also
43:00To appoint a new prime minister in the event of incapacity
43:04And many would say that Churchill's behavior now
43:08Constitutes
43:09Incapacity
43:11Then a revolution must come from within
43:13They are trying
43:15Well then they must try harder
43:16They will
43:18But
43:19Would prefer it to be bloodless
43:22So I've asked for your help
43:25And influence
43:29I cannot do it
43:30I will not do it
43:32Let's
43:32Not forget
43:33It was Churchill
43:35Who 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
43:44And 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
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
44:25The meeting you must attend
44:27The house can wait
44:38You wish to see me your majesty?
44:40Yes Tommy
44:45I know
44:46How much my father
44:47Depended 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
45:07Representations 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
45:21Which
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 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, came
45:51Begging his late majesty to intervene
45:54If not on an official level
45:57Then on a personal one
45:58As a friend
46:00To bid the prime minister to resign
46:03What did my father say?
46:06Well, his majesty was like 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
46:23That 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
46:53Keep on coming
46:59Go!
47:00Oh, my, Lord!
47:01I need you!
47:03What am I?
47:06What am I?
47:11How's that?
47:12Not far
47:14Let's go
47:22We'll get to see you next time.
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?
48:44Did 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.
49:19I love you.
49:21Oh, my God.
49:22Oh, my God.
49:24Oh, my God.
49:53The Prime Minister will be here in a few moments.
50:10The Prime Minister will be here in a few moments.
50:29I 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.
50:54But 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,
51:10more money for equipment, and a full and independent public inquiry into the causes of air pollution
51:19to ensure that such a calamity may never befall us again.
51:36The Prime Minister was alone amongst senior politicians to visit hospitals and respond to the crisis in person,
51:43and was rewarded by cheers and applause by those suffering through the worst smog this city has ever witnessed.
51:51The headline reads,
51:52The Prime Minister is a 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.
52:17Hello?
52:19Clem, you still there?
52:21Hello?
52:23Clem?
52:26Clem, can you hear me?
52:27Clem, can you please?
52:28No, I will.
52:32Cning.
52:34Clem, can you please?
52:40No, Keem.
52:44Clem.
52:47Clem.
52:51Clem.
52:52Clem.
52:53Clem.
52:54Clem.
52:54Clem.
52:56Clem.
53:20CHOIR SINGS
53:42CHOIR SINGS
54:03CHOIR SINGS
54:03There's a delicate matter
54:05which I felt I needed to discuss with you
54:08in 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
54:44either Khwajgi Nazimuddin of Pakistan
54:47or Sydney Holland of New Zealand.
54:50Whatever for?
54:52To sit next to at dinner.
54:55She summoned you for that?
54:58Oh, no, 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 attack
55:14without so much as a flicker.
55:17Clever.
55:19No, no.
55:20Not clever.
55:20Ingenious.
55:21Why?
55:21Because he disarmed me
55:23and made me switch tack too.
55:26What about?
55:27About allowing Philip
55:28to 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.
55:48What, dear girl?
55:53Well, what if the fog hadn't lifted?
55:58And the government
55:59had continued to flounder.
56:01And people had continued to die.
56:04And Churchill had 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 want you
56:35to smile or 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 entitled
56:46to do.
56:48The less you do,
56:50the less you say
56:51or agree or agree
56:53or smile
56:53or think or 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
57:29in one of these things.
57:31Do you think I could do it
57:31in three months?
57:33That would be unusual.
57:35I'm a fast learner
57:37and believe me
57:38when I say
57:38I've got nothing else
57:39to do.
57:55I couldn't have noticed
57:57you've still got a write-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 more
58:08pressing engagements.
58:09No, sir.
58:10All right.
58:11I'll adjust RPMs
58:13and cruising speed
58:14for range flying.
58:15We'll have to land
58:16to refuel, sir.
58:17REF building it.
58:19Oh, really?
58:19Where's that?
58:20Donkester.
58:21Donkester?
58:23Right.
58:50We'll see you next time.
58:51We'll see you next time.
59:07We'll see you next time.
59:17We'll see you next time.
59:30We'll see you next time.
59:31We'll see you next time.
59:34We'll see you next time.
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