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00:12I'm going to leave the station.
00:20I'm going to leave.
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.
00:42Righto, sir.
01:12Ready, sir?
01:15Here we go.
01:17Whoa-ha!
01:29Oh, okay.
01:32Whoa-ha!
01:39Whoa, there we are.
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.
01:59Now remember what I told you.
02:01Keep 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.
02:23Noisy, isn't it?
02:29How's this, sir?
02:40My 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?
03:02Hunnicans, 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, sir.
03:14We'll do a dead stick landing.
03:16I have control.
03:17You have control.
03:19I have control.
03:20I have control.
03:46I have control.
03:59All right.
04:05No matter here.
04:10I know you.
04:15What do they see?
05:47Johnson, what do you make of this?
05:55Interesting.
05:57Sir.
06:01I think you should see this, sir.
06:05Let's see.
06:08Sir.
06:10That's me.
06:12May I suggest you call back?
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.
06:33We 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.
07:15Let's go!
07:16Here we go!
07:18Alright!
07:20Quick!
07:23If I'm out, if 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
08:16My funeral
08:42Oh, there you are
08:43Oh, really?
08:49Oh, there you are
08:55Mr. Thurman
09:01Mr. Collins
09:13I'm not a scientist
09:18I 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
09:31Oh, does 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
09:52They had a smog brought on by a freak anti-cyclone which trapped the emissions from the local copper world
10:00In the fog?
10:03In the fog
10:03In 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
11:04This 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 government
11:41Any government
11:42But I am also a responsible citizen
11:46And I cannot stand by
11:47While chaos reigns around me
11:50This is not a government
11:52Mr. Utley
11:54This is a collection of hesitant
11:57Frightened
11:58Old men
11:59Unable to unseat a tyrannical
12:02Delusional
12:03Even older one
12:04Yours was
12:06The most
12:07Radical
12:08Forward-thinking government
12:10This country has ever seen
12:15How you lost the election
12:17Escapes me
12:20Escapes us all
12:24I believe I would be doing the British public and 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
12:51On the left I can see stars
13:21CHOIR SINGS
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?
14:21Good night, sir.
14:26Good night.
14:27Good evening, Pat.
14:57You haven't moved.
15:01I suppose it's still a no.
15:04To what?
15:05Coming out.
15:07You mean going to the Lamb of Flag with you, sitting at the bar?
15:11Twinkling our ankles at every unremarkable young man in the room.
15:15Then letting those men buy us enough drinks for us to bring them home,
15:18only to have their unremarkability confirmed to us again.
15:23No.
15:25Thanks.
15:26Goodness.
15:28And what will you be doing in the meantime?
15:30Spend time in the company of someone remarkable.
15:35Ta-ra.
15:43Hear this, young men and women everywhere,
15:46and proclaim it far and wide.
15:48The Earth is yours, and the fullness thereof.
15:53Be kind, but be fierce.
15:56You are needed now more than ever before.
15:59Take up the mantle of change, for this is your time.
16:03Take this one.
16:18Take this one.
16:18Take this one.
16:27It's the full moon, and it's the star.
16:27You are all right.
16:27Now, here's the star.
16:27There's people in the city to be near you.
16:28You are all right.
16:30Here's a large king.
16:30You are all right.
16:31You're all right.
16:32You're all right.
16:32You're all right.
16:32You're all right.
16:32Nothing.
16:33You're all right.
16:33This is a Christmas tree.
16:35Good morning.
16:37The time is 8 o'clock on the 6th of December, and here is the news.
16:40London has been brought to a halt by dense fog, which has descended overnight.
16:47Long queues are formed on main roads,
16:49and there are reports of motorists abandoning their vehicles and continuing on foot.
16:53London Airport is expected to be closed.
16:58Good God.
16:59The Meteorological Office has issued a statement saying that a persistent anti-cyclone over London is to blame.
17:06Smoke from the capital's chimneys is being trapped at street level, which is aggravating the fog.
17:15Windless conditions mean it is expected to last for some time.
17:19Be careful out there. It's a real pea super.
17:31Ah, is the car ready?
17:34I'm afraid the visibility is too poor to drive, ma'am.
17:38It's what? 200 yards?
17:41It's been judged too hazardous, ma'am.
17:47I have an appointment to see my grandmother.
17:51I intend to keep that appointment.
17:54If it's too hazardous to drive,
17:57then there's only one thing to be done.
18:37I saw that.
18:40Might it be possible for you to pretend that you haven't?
18:45And the Queen is here, Your Majesty.
18:48Could you be more specific?
18:50Ma'am?
18:52Which Queen?
18:53Queen Elizabeth, ma'am.
18:55Which one? There are two.
18:57The young one.
18:58Oh, the Queen.
19:01I thought you was all Queens.
19:03They gave me a sheet.
19:04We are.
19:05I was the Queen so long as my husband the King was alive.
19:09But since he died, I'm no longer the Queen.
19:12I'm simply Queen Mary.
19:13My late son's widow was also the Queen.
19:17But upon the death of her husband,
19:19she became Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother.
19:22Her daughter, Queen Elizabeth, is now Queen.
19:25So she is...
19:27The Queen.
19:29Bravo.
19:29Well, nurses and nuns have the same problem.
19:34We're all called sister.
19:36So you are.
19:38Well, she's outside.
19:40The Queen.
19:42Then let her in, sister.
19:57Bad time?
19:58Not at all.
20:02How are you?
20:03I'm always happy to see you.
20:06And my mood will improve yet further if you promise me one thing.
20:10Name it.
20:10Not to ask me how I am.
20:12It's all anyone ever does.
20:14Forget death by lung disease.
20:16It's death by bad conversation.
20:19All right, I promise.
20:21But if you are feeling up to it,
20:22there was something I wanted to talk to you about.
20:26Fire away.
20:38I was listening to the wireless this morning
20:41where they described this fog as an act of God.
20:45Now, in your letter that you sent me,
20:50you said,
20:55loyalty to the ideal you have inherited
20:58is your duty above everything else.
21:01Because the calling comes from the highest source.
21:05From God himself.
21:07Yes.
21:10Do you really believe that?
21:14Monarchy is God's sacred mission
21:17to grace and dignify the earth,
21:19to give ordinary people an ideal to strive towards,
21:22an example of nobility and duty
21:25to raise them in their wretched lives.
21:28Monarchy is a calling from God.
21:32That is why you're crowned in an abbey,
21:35not a government building.
21:36Why you're anointed, not appointed.
21:38It's an archbishop that puts the crown on your head,
21:41not a minister or public servant.
21:43which means that you are answerable to God in your duty,
21:48not the public.
21:51I'm not sure that my husband would agree with that.
21:54He would argue that in any equitable modern society
21:59that church and state should be separated.
22:03That if God has servants, they're priests, not kings.
22:07That he would also say that he watched his own family destroyed
22:11because they were seen by the people
22:12to embody indefensible and unreasonable ideas.
22:16Yes, but he represents a royal family
22:18of carpetbaggers and parvenues
22:20that goes back what?
22:22Ninety years.
22:24What would he know of Alfred the Great,
22:26the Rod of Equity and Mercy,
22:28Edward the Confessor,
22:30William the Conqueror, Henry VIII?
22:33It's the Church of England, dear,
22:34not the Church of Denmark or Greece.
22:41Next question?
22:44It's chaos out there.
22:46Trains disrupted, air services cancelled.
22:50At Richmond Bridge this morning,
22:52visibility was officially measured at one yard.
22:55That's a record low, incidentally.
22:58Our Trojan friend in Downing Street
23:00has been speaking to his friends at the Met Office.
23:03They say this is just the beginning.
23:06They expect it to get worse.
23:08I know you would have me call a vote of no confidence
23:11and will doubtless call me overcautious for not doing so.
23:15But the Prime Minister needs to be given a chance.
23:21Even if it's only to hang himself.
23:23Let's see how the old fool responds.
23:40There you go.
23:41Hey!
23:43Hey!
24:05Morning.
24:13I'm glad to see someone else made it in.
24:15No one saw this coming, did they?
24:19No.
24:27Prime Minister?
24:30Sir?
24:52I'm sorry, sir.
24:53I was just...
24:54No, no.
24:54You 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.
25:21But...
25:21What'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.
25:41And 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, 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.
26:21No.
26:22For this is your time.
26:29You were 24.
26:33All energy and hope.
26:36And passion and fire.
26:39It's remarkable.
26:45You found something you liked in that young man?
26:51I did.
26:52You hurt him.
26:52No.
26:53We don't go for that.
26:59Half the Selbst that never is true.
27:02vocês...
27:10Down to the dead.
27:21Good morning.
27:23The time is 8 o'clock on the 7th of December, and here is the news.
27:29A 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 while running hours behind schedule from major London railway stations.
27:52The Prime Minister is facing criticism of failure to deal with the mountain crisis.
27:58London Airport is closed again today with all flights crowded.
28:02The unmoving fog, which has spread to over 30 miles wide, is likely to cause complete darkness by 2 o
28:09'clock this afternoon.
28:21...
28:24Are you alright?
28:28You're not!
28:31Go on, let's get you up!
28:32No, 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
30:50to 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
31:04my husband's mood is 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.
34:38By the way!
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? It's fog.
35:16Fog is fog.
35:17It comes, and it goes away.
35:20Well, I'm glad that the...
35:22Prime 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.
35:35In parts of the capital, there is now a total breakdown in law and order.
35:41Hospitals are filling up as our citizens are breathing in poisonous sulfur dioxide.
35:55Sometimes we have sunshine.
35:58Too much sunshine, and they call it a drought.
36:01Then we have rain.
36:03Too much rain, and they call it a deluge, and find a way to blame us for that, too.
36:08It's an act of God, Bobbity. It'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.
36:26The Duke of Edinburgh.
36:26The Duke of Edinburgh.
36:28The Duke of Edinburgh.
36:34The Duke of Edinburgh.
36:36The Duke of Edinburgh.
36:39The Duke of Edinburgh.
36:40The Duke of Edinburgh.
36:41The Duke of Edinburgh.
36:43to address the importance of the matter.
36:50Bob is here.
36:51Thanks for taking my call, Diggie.
36:54Are you there?
36:56Yes.
36:57Can anyone overhear what you're saying?
37:03No?
37:04Good.
37:09It's chaos.
37:10I know.
37:11The ward is full. Every corridor, too.
37:14Most of the doctors are sick now. Those that are well can't get in.
37:17It was better than this in the war.
37:19What do you need? More equipment?
37:21Or 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.
37:29People.
37:29Trained staff. Help is what is needed urgently.
37:33Better rest for now.
37:38Maybe I could put a word in with the people who make a difference.
37:42Such as?
37:43The Prime Minister, for example.
37:46Oh, I see you're just going to walk into Downing Street and whisper in his ear.
37:49Yes, something like that.
37:50You know, my day's bad enough without some delusional girl playing jokes.
37:55Now, excuse me.
37:59I'll show you.
38:02There's a way.
38:03Here you go.
38:09What are these guys?
38:10Oh, I mean.
38:12Where are you?
38:13Oh, here.
38:14Hello.
38:15That's crazy.
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 yes
39:42care to 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 arrangement one glide ratio in return for some cabinet minutes for example
39:59no a dihedral angle or an absolute ceiling these are very interesting concepts Elizabeth you might
40:04learn something in exchange for a foreign office briefing am I going to have to explain my
40:10position again no good once you have tasted flight you will forever walk the earth with your eyes
40:21turned skyward for there you have been and there you will always long to return you know what's
40:28remarkable about those words go on they were written 300 years before man first got in a plane Leonardo da
40:38Vinci look I know Lord man baton your majesty uncle Dickie what's he doing here I know as much as
40:52you
40:52as much as you do he said it was important man thank you Elizabeth
41:05hello
41:06came as soon as I cried
41:09so
41:12go is is this a meeting with Elizabeth your niece my wife or the queen
41:18ladder ladder I'm afraid right I don't know my place
41:31what's the matter with him nothing
41:36he's just feeling a little grounded ignore it right all ears I received a telephone call today from
41:47Robert de Salisbury it seems that even among his own people the feeling is that our prime minister is not
41:53able to deal with a national crisis
41:57indeed 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
42:21the time has come for you to summon Churchill and and what
42:32insist that he go I can't do that you can and should but wouldn't that violate the constitution
42:46as queen
42:50you have the right to be consulted
42:54the right to encourage the right to warn
42:59also to appoint a new prime minister in the event of incapacity and many would say that Churchill's behavior now
43:07constitutes incapacity then a revolution has come from within they are trying well then they must try harder
43:16they will but would prefer it to be bloodless so I've asked for your help and influence
43:28I cannot do it I will not do it let's not forget it was Churchill who denied Philip's children his
43:36own surname
43:37Dickie and insisted that you live in Buckingham Palace as alas did everyone else
43:41and now with looters on the street and hospital corridors stacked with the dead he is interested in only one
43:48thing
43:50Stopping Philip flying
43:55What?
43:56At a crisis cabinet meeting this morning when there should have only been one thing on the agenda
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
44:46how 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
45:22which 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 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
45:49Mr. Eaton
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 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
46:54wait for me here
47:12what's going on
47:17wait for me
47:22we'll get you seen us soon
47:23as we can
47:25come on
47:26come on
47:29come on
47:29come on
47:31come on
47:31come on
47:32come on
47:32come on
47:32come on
47:32come on
47:33come on
47:41come on
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.
49:01Sir?
49:11Yes, sir.
49:13We're up for you.
49:21Oh, my God.
49:22No, no.
49:23Oh, my God.
49:23We're up for you.
49:23No, no, no.
49:28I'm so sorry.
49:28Oh, my God.
49:29See you soon.
49:31Oh, my God.
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?
52:32Clem, can you hear me?
52:42Clem, can you hear me?
52:49Clem, can you hear me?
52:50Clem, can you hear me?
52:54Clem, can you hear me?
52:58Clem, can you hear me?
52:59Clem, 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
59:23and then
59:40I'll see you next time
59:40I'll see you next time
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