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00:24Pulse is on.
00:26Pulse is on.
00:27Pulse is on.
00:29Fuel 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!
01:16Whoa-ho!
01:29Perfect!
01:32Whoa-ho!
01:39Oh, 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.
02:00Keep your eye on the altimeter and the compass heading, and 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?
02:40My 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.
03:02Hunnicans, 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, sir.
03:14We'll do a dead stick landing.
03:16Okay.
03:16I have control.
03:17You have control.
03:38That was wonderful.
03:39Same time next week, sir.
03:41How about tomorrow?
03:45Bye.
05:47Johnson, what do you make of this?
05:55Interesting.
05:57Sir.
06:01I think you should see this.
06:03I see.
06:08Sir.
06:15Excuse me.
06:17You can't go in there.
06:19Excuse me, sir.
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 sent it.
06:52I'll get you to Downing Street right away.
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.
08:42Oh, there you are.
08:43Mr. Corks.
08:48Oh, really?
08:50Oh, you.
08:52Well, it's all been done, so...
08:57Mr. Thurman.
09:01Mr. Corks.
09:04Nice to see you.
09:16I'm not a scientist.
09:18I can't say I understand it, but...
09:21What 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.
09:28In fact, I've never heard of us getting one at all.
09:32Mr. Corks.
09:33Does 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.
09:52They had a smog brought on by a freak anticyclone, which trapped the emissions from the local...
10:00Copperworks?
10:01Hmm.
10:01In the fog.
10:02In a few days, a number of people died.
10:0520.
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 report.
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.
10:55He's insisted the country keep burning coal irresponsibly this winter.
11:00To 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, Mr. Utley, I entered the civil service to serve the public and to serve government.
11:41Any government.
11:42But I am also a responsible citizen, and I cannot stand by when chaos reigns around me.
11:50Mr. Utley, Mr. Utley, this is a collection of hesitant, frightened, old men unable to unseat a tyrannical, delusional even
12:03older one.
12:04Yours 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.
13:17And I can see stars.
13:22It's hard to say 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? Still here?
14:21Good night, sir.
14:33Good 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.
15:43Hear this, young men and women everywhere, and proclaim it far and wide.
15:49The 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.
16:30You are needed now.
16:35Good morning.
16:36The 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, and 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, then there's only one thing to be done.
18:14Yes.
18:27What's the matter?
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.
19:12I'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...
19:27The Queen.
19:28Brother.
19:31Nurses and nuns have the same problem.
19:33We're all called Sister.
19:36So you are.
19:38Well, she's outside.
19:41The Queen.
19:41Then let her in, Sister.
19:57Bedtime?
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.
20:18All 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.
20:37I 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...
20:55Loyalty to the ideal you have inherited is 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 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?
22:2290 years.
22:24What would he know of Alfred the Great, the rod of equity and mercy, Edward the Confessor, William the Conqueror,
22:31Henry the Eighth?
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 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 and will doubtless call me over-cautious for
23:14not 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.
23:25Let's see how the old fool goes.
23:53Let's see how the old fool goes.
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?
24:50Ah, 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.
24:59Oh, it wasn't easy.
25:01Just crossing the road, you take your life in.
25:03In your hands.
25:03Oh, then don't.
25:04You're too important to all of us.
25:06Well, hardly.
25:07All I do is bring you things to sign and take them away again.
25:11And so the wheels keep turning, and the business gets done,
25:15and the country's governed.
25:21What's my personal contribution?
25:25Ah.
25:26You improve the quality of life for all that deal with you.
25:31What?
25:32What?
25:33An ornament.
25:34A flower.
25:37By comparison, at my age, you were a published writer, and a cavalry officer posted to India,
25:45fighting local tribesmen on the northwest frontier.
25:48Who told you that?
25:50Who told you that?
25:50You 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.
25:59Hear 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.
26:29You were 24.
26:33All energy and hope and 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,
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 for 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.
28:18No.
28:34No.
28:34No.
28:35No.
28:35No.
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 it is vital
29:06that we remain and successfully defend the suez canal in a point that i will be making in person
29:14to 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 lift
29:32eventually 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
29:55am prepared to inflict on your subject as a reward for winning a world war and prevailing over fascism
30:02evil and tyranny letting them freeze is not one of them you do not seem unduly concerned
30:10i'm not you do know that my late father wrote many years ago to your predecessors to express
30:18his deep concern about the inner city power stations that your party was building
30:26indeed and i was sympathetic with your father's concerns at the time i also have sympathy with the leader
30:35articles in the newspapers today begging for blood wanting my head people have to be angry at someone
30:46but as leader one cannot simply react to everything we need the power stations we need the coal
30:55people need to burn coal to warm their homes it is weather it will pass
31:01well i do hope so not least because my husband's mood is intolerable
31:06why well being caged in like this he can't fly
31:14fly where well nowhere he's learning to fly
31:21whatever for have we not enough qualified pilots to take him where he needs to go
31:27no he wants to fly himself it's a boyhood dream it's what he's always wanted why was government
31:34not consulted because it's a private matter and i am in favor nothing you or his royal highness
31:40do is a private matter and the father of the future king of england risking his life needlessly is
31:47quite unacceptable please do not curtail my husband's personal freedoms any further
31:53you've taken away his home you've taken away his name there comes a time where one must draw a line
32:00in the sand and the job of drawing that line falls to cabinet ma'am not to you something your
32:05dear late
32:06papa would certainly have taught you had he been granted more time to complete your education
32:13and now our time is up until next week
32:37good morning the time is eight o'clock on the eighth of december and here is the news the choking
32:43eye-watering fog which has already caused two days of chaos across the capital has worsened overnight the
32:50great coal burning electricity stations in battersea and fulham have attempted to reduce emissions of
32:55poisonous sulfur dioxide from their chimneys but we've been told that it is unlikely they will be able to
33:01make any significant change to the air quality the government is expected to make a statement later today
33:17come on let's get you to hospital i'm fine if you're not come on let's get you up shoes
33:35if we go i'm in
33:39and the other
33:53i can't breathe do as i say and hold on to me
34:06come on
34:08come along
34:17It's too good.
34:19No snail.
34:23Go, go!
34:25Quick, hold my hand.
34:27All right?
34:28No.
34:29All right?
34:30All right.
34:31All right.
34:31All right.
34:33All right.
34:33All right.
34:34All right.
34:35All right.
34:35All right.
34:39All right.
34:41You're all right, lady.
34:47All right, lady.
34:51Control of this story is getting away from us.
34:54The 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.
35:15Fog.
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
35:27the situation has now become.
35:28This morning, a suburban twain collided
35:31with a gang of well-wing workmen, killing several
35:34and injuring a great many more.
35:36In part of the capital, there is now
35:38a total breakdown in law and order.
35:41Hospitals are filling up as our citizens
35:43of weeding 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
36:10hot, Bobbity.
36:11It's weather, and for better or for worse,
36:14we 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!
36:38Telephone, sir.
36:40The Marcus of Salisbury.
36:41Oh, not now.
36:42He asked me to stress the importance of the matter.
36:50Bob is here?
36:51Thanks for taking my call, Diggy.
36:55Are 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.
37:15Those 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. People.
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.
37:51You know, my day's bad enough without some delusional girl playing jokes.
37:55Now, excuse me.
38:00I'll show you.
38:03Dream, where are you?
38:13Oh, here.
38:38How much longer you're gonna give the old man the majority is tiny a voter no
38:43confidence and he'll be toppled you know what he calls you yes I know sheep in
38:51sheep'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
39:50you as part of a quid pro quo arrangement one glide ratio in return for some cabinet minutes
39:55for example no a dihedral angle or an absolute ceiling these are very interesting concepts
40:03Elizabeth you might learn something in exchange for a foreign office briefing am I going to have
40:10to explain my position again no good
40:17once you have tasted flight you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward for there
40:22you have been and there you will always long to return not remarkable about those words go on they were
40:33written three hundred years before man first got in a plane Leonardo da Vinci
40:41look I know
40:47Lord man baton your majesty
40:48Uncle Dickie what's he doing here
40:50I know as much as you do
40:52he said it was important that
40:53thank you
41:00Elizabeth
41:01Elizabeth
41:05hello
41:06came as soon as I cried
41:09so
41:12Joe is
41:13is this a meeting with Elizabeth your niece
41:15my wife
41:17or the queen
41:18latter
41:19I'm afraid
41:20right
41:20I don't know my place
41:31what's the matter with him
41:33nothing
41:36he's just feeling a little
41:38grounded
41:39ignore it
41:41right
41:41all ears
41:42I
41:43received
41:44a
41:45telephone call today from
41:47Robertis Salisbury
41:49it seems that even among his own people
41:51the feeling is that our prime minister is not able to deal with a national crisis
41:57indeed he could be seen to be responsible for that crisis
42:02hospitals overflowing people dying
42:05as 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
42:18so
42:19I would say
42:21I would say
42:21the time has come
42:22for you to
42:25summon
42:25Churchill
42:26and
42:29and
42:29and
42:32insist
42:33insist
42:33that 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
42:51you
42:51have the right
42:52to be consulted
42:54the right
42:55to
42:56encourage
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
43:10then 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
43:21so have asked for your help
43:24and influence
43:28I cannot do it
43:30I will not do it
43:32let's
43:32not forget
43:33it was Churchill
43:34who 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
43:50stopping
43:51Philip 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
44:01national 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
44:17who are her parents?
44:19her father is a clergyman
44:20from Suffolk
44:21I've been noticed
44:22they want to go to the hospital
44:23there is an emergency meeting
44:25at 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
44:59a 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 him 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
45:56then 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
46:12and 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
46:28and 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
47:03what was this?
47:12that was the question?
47:15what was this?
47:16oh my god
47:16watch out
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?
48:34Damn 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.
48:51Then do it.
48:54And tell the Queen I'll be their first thing in the morning.
49:00After the papers.
49:16Yes, yes.
49:18Yes.
49:20Yes, yes, yes.
49:23Yes.
49:54The Prime Minister will be here in a few moments.
50:11Is there anything, sir?
50:12Yeah, yeah.
50:13Not, man.
50:24Quiet, please.
50:24Settle down.
50:26Mr. Churchill.
50:28I have witnessed scenes here today, the likes of which we have not seen since the darkest
50:35days of the Blitz.
50:39But alongside the suffering, I've also seen heroism.
50:45And 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.
51:03To that end, I pledge to make available with immediate effect more money for hospital
51:09staff, more money for equipment, and a full and independent public inquiry into the causes
51:18of air pollution, to ensure that such a calamity may never befall us again.
51:29Thank you all.
51:37The Prime Minister was alone amongst senior politicians to visit hospitals and respond
51:42to the crisis in person, and was rewarded by cheers and applause by those suffering through
51:48the worst smog this city has ever witnessed.
51:51The headline reads, True Leader in a Crisis.
52:00Ma'am, the Prime Minister's here.
52:04The parallels between his appearance yesterday and the wartime years were striking.
52:10And 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?
52:28No, I...
52:55Clem, you still there?
53:07Clem, you still there?
53:18Clem, you still there?
53:19Clem, you still there?
53:24Clem, you still there?
53:24Clem, you still there?
53:33The Prime Minister, Your Majesty.
53:43Your Majesty.
53:48You asked to see me now.
53:51I did.
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, your position.
54:22My position.
54:26As Prime Minister.
54:33Go on.
54:38At that point, she hesitated.
54:41And then she asked me to pick either Khwajgi Nazimudin of Pakistan or Sydney Holland of New Zealand.
54:50Whatever for?
54:52To sit next to at dinner.
54:56She summoned you for that.
54:58Oh, no.
54:58I think she summoned me to haul me over the coals for my handling of the fog.
55:03But then the fog lifted.
55:04And she had to make a decision right then and there, in the room.
55:09You could see the wheels turning behind her eyes.
55:12And then she switched a tack without so much as a flicker.
55:17Clever.
55:19No, no.
55:20Not clever.
55:20Ingenious.
55:21Why?
55:22Because it disarmed me and made me switch tack too.
55:25Oh, what about?
55:27About allowing Philip to learn to fly.
55:30He can now.
55:32Good.
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, as head of state, to 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, not human.
56:34People will always want you to smile or agree or frown.
56:38And the minute you do, you will have declared a position, a point of view.
56:42And that is the one thing, as sovereign, that you are not entitled to do.
56:48The less you do, the less you do, the less you say, or agree, or smile.
56:53Or think, or feel, or breathe, or exist.
56:56The better.
57:01Well, that's fine for the sovereign.
57:06But where does that leave me?
57:22Sir, 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 in one of these things.
57:31Do you think I could do it in three months?
57:33That would be unusual.
57:35I'm a farce learner.
57:37And believe me when I say I've got nothing else to do.
57:55I couldn't have noticed.
57:57You've still got to ride 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 from time to time.
58:07Unless you have more pressing engagements.
58:09No, sir.
58:10All right.
58:11I'll adjust RPM and cruising speed for range flying.
58:15We'll have to land to refuel, sir.
58:18R.E.F.
58:18Oh, really?
58:19Where's that?
58:20Donkester.
58:21Donkester?
58:23Right.
58:24Right.
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