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00:10I'm going to go.
00:14I'm going to go.
00:15I'm going to go.
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, and I can't bloody well fly.
00:41Yes, I'm sure.
00:42Right-o, sir.
01:12Ready, sir?
01:14Go!
01:15Here we go!
01:17Whoa-ho!
01:24There we go!
01:29Perfect!
01:32Woo-hoo!
01:39Slow there.
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.
02:06That's very good.
02:08That's balanced.
02:11Stick to the left, then to the right.
02:20And level.
02:22Good.
02:24Noisy, isn't it?
02:29How's this, sir?
02:41My God.
02:47Isn't it wonderful?
02:48Heaven!
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.
03:16Okay.
03:16I have control.
03:17You have control.
03:37That was wonderful.
03:39Same time next week, sir.
03:41How about tomorrow?
04:04importante things best for everybody,
04:16We'll change here somewhat.
04:17Yes, sir.
04:24We'll see the people's powers in middle class named G카i."
06:08Interesting.
06:08Sir.
06:09That's me.
06:16Excuse me.
06:17You can't go in there.
06:19Excuse me, sir.
06:22Sorry, sir.
06:24Thought you should see these.
06:29Good God.
06:33We must send a warning
06:35to cover our backs.
06:40Kenneth,
06:40it should probably come from you,
06:42as chief scientist.
06:44Address it to the PM.
06:46No, I'll never read it,
06:47of course.
06:48But the important thing is,
06:49we've sent it.
06:52I'll get you to Downing Street right away.
07:23If her matter, she could lean forward.
07:29Deep breath in.
07:34And out.
07:38He has a little stuff here, ma'am.
07:40It might help to open the window a crack.
07:42Not while they're rehearsing.
07:45What are they rehearsing?
07:50My funeral.
07:54My funeral.
07:55...
07:58...
08:11...
08:12...
08:12...
08:40Oh, there you are.
09:00Mr. Thurman.
09:01Mr. Collins.
09:04Nice view.
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.
09:32Oh, does 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 anticyclone, which trapped the emissions from the local
09:59copper world.
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
10:17mission.
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, claiming it wasn't a priority.
10:34Can you prove that?
10:36I can, Mr. Ockley.
10:46The Cabinet minutes where it was discussed.
10:55He's insisted the country keep burning coal irresponsibly this winter, to give the illusion
11:01of 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
11:22information.
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 governments.
11:41Any governments.
11:42But I am also a responsible citizen, and I cannot stand by when 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,
12:02delusional even older one.
12:04Yours was the most radical, forward-thinking government this country has ever seen.
12:15How you lost the election escapes me.
12:20Escapes us all.
12:24I believe I would be doing the British public and this country a service if I helped to usher
12:30him out 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
12:41for their failure to deal with a fog which has yet shows no sign of appearing.
12:50At present, I can see stars.
13:04By the way, I can see stars.
13:44CHOIR SINGS
13:54CHOIR SINGS
13:55Good night.
14:08Miss Scott.
14:10Thank you for your conscientiousness.
14:12It's late. Go home.
14:13I am, sir.
14:14You're no good to be tired.
14:16Good evening to you.
14:19What? Still here?
14:20Good night.
14:21Sir?
14:26Good night.
14:34Evening, 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 every unremarkable
15:13young man in the room,
15:15they're letting those men buy us enough drinks for us to bring them home, only to have their unremarkability confirmed
15:21to us again.
15:23No.
15:24No. Thanks.
15:26Goodness.
15:28And what will you be doing in the meantime?
15:30Spend time in the company of someone remarkable.
15:42Hear this young men and women everywhere, and 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.
16:03Be full in the meantime.
16:03I will be lying.
16:05Let's see.
16:05You are not meant to be lying.
16:05I am going to the wing.
16:06You are not meant to be lying.
16:08Have you not yet to be lying?
16:09I am sitting there with you.
16:30You are lying.
16:31You are lying.
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.
17:32Ah, is the car ready?
17:34I'm afraid the visibility is too poor to drive, ma'am.
17:38It's what? Two hundred yards?
17:41It's being charged too hazardous, ma'am.
17:47I have an appointment to see my grandmother.
17:51I intend to keep that appointment.
17:54If it's too hazardous to drive,
17:57then there's only one thing to be done.
18:14See you later.
18:21Are you ready?
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 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.
19:21Her daughter, Queen Elizabeth, is now Queen.
19:25So she is...
19:27The Queen.
19:29Bravo.
19:31Nurses and nuns have the same problem.
19:33We're all called Sister.
19:35So you are.
19:38Well, she's outside.
19:40The Queen.
19:42Then 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.
20:19All 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.
20:37I 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, 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?
21:15Monarchy 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.
21:55He 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.
22:16Yes, 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.
22:40Next question.
22:44It's chaos out there.
22:46Trains disrupted.
22:48Air services cancelled.
22:50At Richmond Bridge this morning, visibility was officially measured at one yard.
22:55That's a record low, incidentally.
22:58Our Trojan friend in Downing Street has been speaking to his friends at the Met office.
23:03They say this is just the beginning.
23:06They expect it to get worse.
23:08I know you would have me call a vote of no confidence.
23:11And will doubtless call me overcautious for not doing so.
23:15But the Prime Minister needs to be given a chance.
23:21Even if it's only to hang himself.
23:23Let's see how the old fool responds.
23:40There you go.
23:41There you go.
23:42Hey!
23:43Hey!
23:45Hey!
24:13I'm glad to see someone else made it in.
24:15No one saw this coming, did they?
24:19No.
24:27Prime Minister?
24:29Sir?
24:31Sir?
24:32Sir?
24:34Sir?
24:35Sir?
24:36Sir?
24:37Sir?
24:38Sir?
24:39Sir?
24:39Sir?
24:41What?
24:46Sir?
24:50Ah!
24:51You made it!
24:51Oh!
24:52Oh!
24:52I'm sorry, 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.
24:59Oh!
24:59It wasn't easy.
25:01Just crossing the road, you take your life in your hands.
25:03Oh, then don't. You're too important to all of us.
25:06Hardly.
25:07All I do is bring you things to sign and take them away again.
25:11And so the wheels keep turning, and the business gets done, and the country's governed.
25:21But what's my personal contribution?
25:26You improve the quality of life for all that deal with you.
25:32An ornament. A 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.
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.
26:39It's remarkable.
26:45You found something you liked in that young male?
26:51I did.
27:20Good morning.
27:23The time is 8 o'clock on the 7th of December, and here is the news.
27:29The serious fog, which 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.
27:41The 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
28:08by 2 o'clock this afternoon.
28:28The unmoving fog, which does not mean to be seen as Anything else about the country.
28:30The banjo has spread to over 30 miles, which has spread to over 30 miles, and I don't know any
28:35questions.
28:35The unmoving fog, which has spread to over 30 miles, and I don't know any questions.
28:40open now go to work you've got a job to do
28:53let 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 that we
29:07remain and successfully defend the suez canal in a point that i will be making in person to the
29:15commonwealth heads when i host them for the weekend at checkers weather permitting indeed
29:24what 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 report
29:40is 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 subjects 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 i'm not
30:11you do know that my late father wrote many years ago to your predecessors to express his deep concern
30:19about 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
30:35leader articles in the newspapers today begging for blood wanting my head people have to be angry at
30:45someone but 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 fly 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
31:33why was government not consulted because it's a private matter and 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
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
31:57there comes a time where one must draw a line in the sand and the job of drawing that line
32:02falls to
32:02cabinet ma'am not to you something your dear late papa would certainly have taught you had he been
32:08granted more time to complete your education
32:13and now our time is up
32:20until next week
32:37good morning the time is eight o'clock on the 8th 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
32:49the great coal-burning electricity stations in battersea and fulham have attempted to reduce emissions
32:55of poisonous sulfur dioxide from their chimneys but we've been told that it is unlikely they will be able
33:01to make any significant change to the air quality the government is expected to make a statement later
33:17today
33:17come on let's get you to hospital
33:21you're not come on
33:25shoes
33:34if we go
33:36i'm in
33:39and the other
33:53i can't breathe
33:55do as i say and hold on to me
34:06come on
34:08come along
34:18Close down.
34:23Go, go!
34:25Quick, hold my hand.
34:27All right?
34:28No.
34:29All right?
34:30I'll sit there.
34:33I'll sit there.
34:39My wife.
34:41You're all right, lady.
34:51The control 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.
35:13Culprits for what?
35:14It's fog.
35:16Fog is fog.
35:17It comes.
35:18And it goes away.
35:20I'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.
35:36In 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.
35:46This morning, I'm going to go outside.
35:46I'm going to go outside.
35:47I'm going to go outside.
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!
36:23The Duke of Edinburgh!
36:25The Duke of Edinburgh!
36:50Bobbity.
36:51Thanks for taking my call, Diggie.
36:54Are you there home?
36:56Yes.
36:57Can anyone over hear what you're saying?
37:03No.
37:04Good.
37:09It's chaos!
37:10I know.
37:11The 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 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.
37:46You'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.
38:02Get out of the way!
38:12Get out of the way!
38:13Oh, here!
38:14Go!
38:15Go, go, go!
38:19Go, go, go, go!
38:25Oh, stop!
38:32Show a phone for the internet!
38:35Oh, dear!
38:38How much long are you going to give the old man?
38:40The majority is tiny.
38:42A voter no confidence and he'll be toppled.
38:46You know what he calls you?
38:49Yes, I know.
38:50Sheep in sheep's clothing.
38:55Perhaps it's time to approve your nod.
39:03Very well.
39:05Let's put a motion down on paper and brief the whips.
39:19Thank you, sir.
39:36Anything interesting?
39:39Yes.
39:42Care 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.
39:59A dihedral angle or an absolute ceiling.
40:02These are very interesting concepts, Elizabeth.
40:04You might learn something in exchange for a foreign office briefing.
40:09Am I going to have to explain my position again?
40:11No.
40:13Good.
40:17Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward,
40:22for there you have been, 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.
40:42Look, Philip, I know that...
40:47Lord Mountbatten, your majesty.
40:49Uncle Dickie, what's he doing here?
40:51I know as much as you do.
40:52He said it was important, that.
41:00Elizabeth.
41:05Hello.
41:06I came as soon as I could.
41:09So.
41:12Oh, is...
41:13Is this a meeting with Elizabeth, your niece?
41:16My wife?
41:17Or the queen?
41:19Later, I'm afraid.
41:20Right.
41:21I 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.
41:41Right.
41:42All ears.
41:42I received a telephone call today from Robert E. Salisbury.
41:49It seems that even among his own people, the feeling is that our prime minister is not able to deal
41:54with a national crisis.
41:57Indeed, he could be seen to be responsible for that crisis.
42:02Hospitals overflowing.
42:04Hospitals overflowing.
42:04People dying.
42:05Now, Sovereign, you have the right to demand that a government in your name shows effective leadership.
42:13And the opposition are now calling for a motion of no confidence.
42:18So, I would say the time has come for you to summon Churchill and...
42:29And what?
42:32Insist that he go.
42:37I can't do that.
42:38You can.
42:39You can.
42:39And should.
42:41But wouldn't that violate the constitution?
42:45As queen, you 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.
43:04And many would say that Churchill's behavior now constitutes incapacity.
43:11Then a revolution must come from within.
43:13They are trying.
43:15Well, then they must try harder.
43:16They will.
43:18But would prefer it to be bloodless.
43:22So I have asked for your help and influence.
43:28I cannot do it.
43:30I will not do it.
43:32Let's not forget, it was Churchill who denied Philip's children his own surname.
43:37Dickie.
43:38And insisted that you live in Buckingham Palace.
43:40As, alas, did everyone else.
43:42And now, with looters on the street and hospital corridors stacked with the dead,
43:46he is interested in only one thing.
43:51Stopping Philip flying.
43:56What?
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?
44:19Her 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.
44:26The meeting you must attend.
44:27The house can wait.
44:39You wish to see me, your majesty?
44:41Yes, Tommy.
44:45I know how much my father depended on you, and how closely you work together.
44:52Which is why I wanted to ask your advice now.
44:56It seems our prime minister, a man who's led the country through many crises,
45:02is no longer leading us at all.
45:07Representations have been made to me, through an intermediary, from the heart of the government,
45:13to intercede, and bid and stand down, make way for a younger man.
45:21Which brings me to my question.
45:26What are my responsibilities as head of state?
45:33What should I do?
45:35When it's in the national interest, how far dare I go?
45:42I'm not sure if her majesty is aware, but shortly before your father died,
45:48the foreign secretary, Mr. Eaton, came, begging his late majesty to intervene,
45:54if not on an official level, then on a personal one, as a friend,
46:00to bid the prime minister to resign.
46:03What did my father say?
46:05Well, his majesty was, like his father before him, a stickler for convention and tradition,
46:12and would never have done anything that violated the Constitution, or overstepped the mark.
46:20Then I have my answer.
46:21But, that was his majesty, not your majesty.
46:26And I do read the newspapers, and I do listen to the wireless.
46:30And the situation we're in today is quite different
46:33than the one we were in when Mr. Eaton came to see your father.
46:39Different situation, different sovereign.
46:54Wait for me here!
46:59What's happening?
47:02What?
47:05No, who's wrong?
47:13Okay, happens, huh?
47:22We'll get you seen us soon as we go.
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.
49:04Have a girl.
49:06Have a taking care of this.
49:10Oh.
49:21Have a taste.
49:23They're coming.
49:28I'll be right back.
49:28columnist.
49:29I'll be right back.
49:38Thank 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. Not, man.
50:20Quiet, please! Set them down!
50:26Mr. Churchill!
50:28I 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.
50:44And 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, 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.
51:31Thank you all.
52:17Hello?
52:19Clem, are you still there?
52:21Hello?
52:23Clem?
52:26Clem, can you hear me?
52:28No?
52:29I...
52:49Oh
52:50I...
52:51But
52:53It
52:54Oh
53:05I
53:06I
53:33The Prime Minister, Your 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.
54:09Concerning what?
54:13Your position.
54:17My position?
54:20Yes, your position as Prime Minister.
54:33Go on.
54:38At that point, she hesitated.
54:41And then she asked me to pick either Khwajgi Nazimuddin of Pakistan or Sydney Holland of New Zealand.
54:50Whatever for?
54:52To sit next to at dinner.
54:56She summoned you for that?
54:58No, I think she summoned me to haul me over the coals for my handling of the fog.
55:03But then the fog lifted and 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, not clever. Ingenious.
55:21Why?
55:22Because it disarmed me and made me switch tack too.
55:25What about?
55:27About allowing Philip to learn to fly.
55:30He can now.
55:32Good.
55:34But he still has to ask cabinet permission to do rolls and spins.
55:49What, dear girl?
55:53Well, what if the fog hadn't lifted?
55:57And the government had continued to flounder.
56:01And people had continued to die.
56:04And Churchill had continued to cling to power.
56:07And the country had continued to suffer.
56:10It doesn't feel right 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.
56:23To 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 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?
57:22So, come 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.
57:30Do you think I could do it in three months?
57:33That would be unusual.
57:34I know.
57:35I'm a false 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 a right 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, unless you have more pressing engagements.
58:09No, sir.
58:10All right.
58:11I'll adjust rpms and cruising speed for range flying.
58:15We'll have to land to refuel, sir.
58:18Oh, really?
58:19Where's that?
58:20Don't get stuck.
58:21Don't get stuck.
58:23Right.
59:15Uh, yeah.
59:18I don't know.
59:50I don't know.
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