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00:00I'm not sure if I'm going to die.
00:03I'm not sure if I'm going to die.
00:24Fuel 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!
01:32Whoa-ha!
01:40Whoa, 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.
02:01Keep 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.
02:23Noisy, 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?
02:57I did, sir, 257 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.
03:16Okay.
03:16I have control.
03:17You have control.
03:23I have control.
03:46You have control.
04:14You have control.
05:47Johnson, what do you make of this?
05:53I'm afraid you'll see this.
05:55Interesting.
05:57Sir.
06:01I think you should see this.
06:05Let's see.
06:08Sir.
06:09I thought you should see these.
06:29Good God.
06:33We must send a warning to cover our backs.
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 sent it.
06:51I'll get you to Downing Street right away.
06:54Come on.
07:11Come on.
07:13Come on.
07:13Come on.
07:13Come on.
07:15Come on.
07:16Come on.
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.
07:44What are they rehearsing?
07:51My funeral.
07:54My funeral.
08:36Oh, there you are.
09:00Mr. Thurman.
09:01Mr. Thurman.
09:04Nice view.
09:11Next time.
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?
09:39Do you know Donora?
09:40Do you know Donora?
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 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.
10:24Hmm.
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. Ockley.
10:46The Cabinet minutes while it was discussed.
10:55He's insisted the country keep burning coal irresponsibly this winter, to give the illusion 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. Atlee, 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.
11:53Mr. Atlee, 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.
12:20Escapes 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.
13:07At present, I can see stars.
13:30At present, I can see stars.
13:53Good night.
14:08Miss Scott, thank you for your conscientiousness, but it's late, you'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.
14:27Good evening, Pat.
14:35Good night.
14:40Good night.
14:42Good night.
14:43Good night.
14:44Good night.
14:45Good night.
14:57Good night.
14:58You haven't moved.
15:00I 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.
15:34Oh.
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.
15:54Be 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.
16:03for this is your time.
16:09Crianne is renewed.
16:09The form is built, and you can do it again.
16:10The form is also converted.
16:18Macie Le europe.
16:19How did you do it with your age?
16:22In this form is hammered.
16:22Do you hit me.
16:22The abs in the cube?bel
16:23jean. Now
16:23it comes with my mind. Do
16:33you know what did you do ?
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.
17:59Get no one.
18:02Look.
18:16Oh, man.
18:22Oh, man.
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.
18:56Who? The 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.
19:22Her 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.
19:45Sister.
19:46Sister.
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.
20:28Okay.
20:29Okay.
20:30Okay.
20:31Okay.
20:32Okay.
20:38I was listening to the wireless this morning, where they described this fog as an act of God.
20:46Now, in your letter that you sent me, you said,
20:55loyalty to the ideal you have inherited is your duty above 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, not the public.
21:51I'm not sure that my husband would agree with that.
21:54He would argue that in any equitable modern society, that church and state should be separated.
22:02That if God has servants, they're priests, not kings.
22:07That he would also say that he watched his own family destroyed because they were seen by the people to
22:13embody indefensible and unreasonable ideas.
22:16Yes, but he represents a royal family of carpetbaggers and parvenues that goes back what?
22:22Ninety years.
22:24What would he know of Alfred the Great, the rod of equity and mercy, Edward the Confessor, William the Conqueror,
22:31Henry VIII.
22:33It's the Church of England, dear, not the Church of Denmark or Greece.
22:41Next question.
22:44It's chaos out there.
22:46Trains disrupted.
22:48Air services cancelled.
22:50A Richmond bridge this morning.
22:52Visibility was officially measured at one yard.
22:55That's a record low, incidentally.
22:58Our Trojan friend in Downing Street has been speaking to his friends at the Met office.
23:03They say this is just the beginning.
23:06They expect it to get worse.
23:08I know you would have, Nicole, a vote of no confidence.
23:11And will doubtless call me over-cautious for not doing so.
23:15But the Prime Minister needs to be given a chance.
23:21Even if it's only to hang himself.
23:23Let's see how the old fool responds.
23:40There you go.
23:41There you go.
23:42Hey!
23:43Hey!
23:45Hey!
24:11I'm glad to see
24:14Someone else made it in
24:15No one saw this coming, did they?
24:19No
24:27Prime Minister?
24:30Sir?
24:44Sir?
24:51Sir?
24:53Sir?
24:58Sir?
24:59Sir?
25:00Sir, it 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.
25:11So the wheels keep turning and the business gets done and the country is governed.
25:20But what's my personal contribution?
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, and proclaim it far and wide.
26:05The 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 twenty-four.
26:33All energy and hope, and passion and fire.
26:39It's remarkable.
26:45You found something you liked in that young man?
26:51I did.
27:19You found something you loved.
27:23The time is 8 o'clock on the 7th of December, and here is the news.
27:28A serious fog that brought much of the capital to a standstill yesterday continues this morning,
27:34with emergency services struggling to cope and widespread disruption reported across the nation.
27:41Flares are being used to guide motorists in parts of the capital.
27:45Trains are stopped or running hours behind schedule from major London railway stations.
27:52The Prime Minister is facing criticism for failure to deal with the mounting crisis.
27:58London Airport is closed again today, with all flights crowded.
28:02Yes.
28:03The unmoving fog, which has spread to over 30 miles wide, is likely to cause complete darkness by 2 o
28:09'clock this afternoon.
28:24You alright?
28:28You're not.
28:31Go on, let's get you up.
28:33No.
28:34No, I'm fine, I promise.
28:38It's just cause the window is open.
28:41Now go to work, you've got a job to do.
28:52Let us start with the unrest in Egypt, where anti-colonial passions continue to run high,
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,
29:12a point that I will be making in person to the Commonwealth heads when I host them for the weekend
29:19at Chequers.
29:20Weather permitting?
29:23Indeed.
29:24What is the latest information that you have?
29:27About the weather?
29:29It's fog, ma'am. It will lift eventually.
29:33I was hoping for something more scientific.
29:37Then I will ensure that a barometric report is included in your box tomorrow,
29:43complete with isobars and isohumes.
29:48It has been an unusually cold winter,
29:51and there are only so many things that I, as Prime Minister,
29:55am prepared to inflict on your subjects as 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 many years ago
30:15to your predecessors
30:17to express his deep concern about the inner city power stations that your party was building.
30:25Indeed.
30:27And I was sympathetic with your father's concerns at the time.
30:33I also have sympathy with the leader articles in the newspapers today,
30:38begging for blood, wanting my head.
30:43People have to be angry at someone.
30:46But as leader, one cannot simply react to everything.
30:51We need the power stations. We need the coal.
30:55People need to burn coal to warm their homes.
30:58It is weather. It will pass.
31:01Well, I do hope so.
31:03Not least because my husband's mood is intolerable.
31:07Why?
31:09Well, being caged in like this, he can't fly.
31:15Fly where?
31:16Well, nowhere.
31:18He's learning to fly.
31:21What ever 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 favor.
31:38Nothing you or his royal highness do is a private matter.
31:42And the father of the future king of England risking his life needlessly is quite unacceptable.
31:49Please do not curtail my husband's personal freedoms any further.
31:53You've taken away his home. You've taken away his name.
31:57There comes a time where one must draw a line in the sand.
32:00And the job of drawing that line falls to cabinet, ma'am, not to you.
32:05Something your dear late papa would certainly have taught you had he been granted more time to complete your education.
32:13And now our time is up.
32:20Until next week.
32:38Good morning. The time is eight o'clock on the 8th of December, and here is the news.
32:42The choking, eye-watering fog, which has already caused two days of chaos across the capital, has worsened overnight.
32:50The great coal-burning electricity stations in Battersea and Fulham have attempted to reduce emissions of poisonous sulfur dioxide from
32:57their chimneys,
32:57but we've been told that it is unlikely they will be able to make any significant change to the air
33:03quality.
33:04The government is expected to make a statement later today.
33:17Come on. Let's get you to a hospital.
33:20No, I'm fine.
33:21You're not.
33:22Come on.
33:23Come on.
33:25Shoes.
33:33Here we go.
33:36Arm in.
33:38And the other.
33:53I can't breathe.
33:55Do as I say and hold on to me.
34:07Come along.
34:13Let's get to the hospital.
34:18Christopher, it won't get him early on.
34:20You need to cough.
34:23No, Mary.
34:25No, Mary.
34:26Quick, hold my hand.
34:28Come along.
34:30No, Mary.
34:31No, Mary.
34:32No, Mary.
34:34No, Mary.
34:35No.
34:37No.
34:38What do I do?
34:49What do I do?
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.
35:04An 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,
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.
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.
36:26The Duke of Edinburgh.
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.
36:54Are 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.
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.
37:50Something 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.
38:00Look at what I do.
38:02I did not have to do this.
38:09I did not know your tires.
38:12Jim, where are you?
38:13Oh, here.
38:13I fear you.
38:14Hold on, please.
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 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 position
40:11again no good once you have tasted flight you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned
40:21skyward for there you have been and there you will always long to return not remarkable about those
40:32words go on they were written 300 years before man first got in a plane Leonardo da Vinci look I
40:43know
40:47Lord man baton your majesty Uncle Dickie what's he doing here I know as much as you do he said
40:52it was
40:53important not thank you Elizabeth
41:05hello came as soon as I cried 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 ignore it right all ears I received a
41:45telephone call today from Robert
41:47Salisbury it seems that even among his own people the feeling is that our Prime Minister is not able to
41:54deal with a national crisis
41:57indeed he could be seen to be responsible for that crisis hospitals overflowing people dying as sovereign you have the
42:07right 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 summon Churchill and
42:29and what insist that he go I can't do that you can and should but wouldn't that violate the Constitution
42:45as Queen you have the right to be consulted the right to encourage the right to warn also to appoint
43:01a new Prime Minister in the event of incapacity and many would say that Churchill's behavior now constitutes incapacity
43:10then a revolution must come from within
43:12they are trying
43:14well then they must try harder
43:16they will
43:17but
43:18would prefer it
43:20to be bloodless
43:22so have asked for your help
43:24and influence
43:28I cannot do it
43:30I will not do it
43:32let's
43:32let's not forget it 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 and hospital corridors stacked with the dead he is interested in only one
43:48thing
43:51stopping Philip flying
43:55what?
43:56at a crisis cabinet meeting this morning when there should have only been one thing on the agenda
44:00under the 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
44:22they 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
44:39you wish to see me your majesty?
44:41yes 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
45:21which
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 do 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?
46:06well
46:07his 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
46:22that 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
47:13let's go
47:15there it is
47:23there is
47:24it is
47:24there is
47:25the
47:25in the
47:25the
47:25there is
47:27in the
47:27The sitter, the sitter, the sitter!
47:30Come on, come on!
47:49Come on!
47:56Sir?
47:59Just a child.
48:04A beautiful child.
48:08I just received word from Buckingham Palace.
48:11Oh.
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.
48:34Damn it, he is.
48:36Oh, shh, shh, shh.
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.
49:04The Queen I'll be your first.
49:10The Queen I'll be your first.
49:24The Queen I'll be your first.
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 have also seen heroism.
50:44And 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,
51:10more money for equipment,
51:13and 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
51:41and respond to the crisis in person,
51:44and was rewarded by cheers and applause
51:46by those suffering through the worst smog this city has ever witnessed.
51:50The headline reads,
51:53True Leader in a Crisis.
52:00Madam, 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?
52:20Hello?
52:23Clem?
52:25Clem, can you hear me?
52:28No?
52:29I...
52:31I...
52:33I...
52:33I...
52:34I...
52:49I...
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55:59flounder. The people had continued to die and Churchill had continued to cling to power and the
56:07country had continued to suffer. It doesn't feel right as head of state to do nothing. It is exactly
56:17right. Is it? But surely doing nothing is no job at all. To do nothing is the hardest job of
56:25all
56:26and it will take every ounce of energy that you have. To be impartial is not natural, not human.
56:34People will always want you to smile or agree or frown and the minute you do you will have declared
56:40a position, a point of view and that is the one thing as sovereign that you are not entitled to
56:46do.
56:48The less you do, the less you say or agree or smile. Or think or feel or breathe or
56:56exist. The better.
57:01Well that's fine for the sovereign.
57:06But where does that leave me?
57:22So come on. How long would it take me to get my wings? Well normally a trainee would spend anything
57:27between 100 and 120 hours in one of these things. Do you think I could do it in three months?
57:33That would be unusual. I know. I'm a fast learner and believe me when I say I've got nothing else
57:39to do.
57:55I couldn't have noticed you've still got a write-up. Starboard and port.
57:5918 gallons? Yes.
58:01Fancy lunch in Edinburgh. Edinburgh?
58:04They made me duke there. So I should probably show up from time to time. Unless you have more pressing
58:08engagements.
58:09No sir.
58:11All right. I'll adjust rpms and cruising speed for range flying.
58:15We'll have to land to refuel sir.
58:18Where's that?
58:20Donkester. Donkester?
58:23Right.
58:26Right.
58:26We'll have to.
58:28All right.
58:45We'll have to.
58:54We'll have to.
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