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First broadcast 27th October 1976.
Stones and curses go together. A series of strange events connected with Stonehenge lead Professor Reeve, an Oxford historian, to wonder if this superstition is true.
Richard Pasco - Nicholas Reeve
Judy Parfitt - Anne Reeve
John Wells - Porton
T.P. McKenna - Harvey Fenton-Jones
Gerald James - Caradoc Hobbes
Willoughby Goddard - Snaithe
Michael Sheard - Police Inspector
John Quarmby - Keeper at Museum
George Belbin - Master
Rebecca Saire - Vanessa Reeve
Elisa Tomlinson - Sian
Gonzague De Fontaubert - Pierre
Eileen Brady - Woman in Bookshop
Marguerite Young - Woman in British Museum
Stones and curses go together. A series of strange events connected with Stonehenge lead Professor Reeve, an Oxford historian, to wonder if this superstition is true.
Richard Pasco - Nicholas Reeve
Judy Parfitt - Anne Reeve
John Wells - Porton
T.P. McKenna - Harvey Fenton-Jones
Gerald James - Caradoc Hobbes
Willoughby Goddard - Snaithe
Michael Sheard - Police Inspector
John Quarmby - Keeper at Museum
George Belbin - Master
Rebecca Saire - Vanessa Reeve
Elisa Tomlinson - Sian
Gonzague De Fontaubert - Pierre
Eileen Brady - Woman in Bookshop
Marguerite Young - Woman in British Museum
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00:00The
07:09And why was that wonderful?
07:11Because language was the secret of the gods.
07:16This was not the first time the mystical alphabet had been associated with Stonehenge.
07:21Now, if we turn to the book.
07:24We will find the book, we will find the book, we will find the book, who's taken my book, who's
07:32Who's taken my book?
07:33Which particular book, Nicholas?
07:34It's the one I'm lost.
07:35The first?
07:36The one I'm praying with the I play by...
07:42And you are in the book, why would you put it?
07:46It's about whether the book will always put the book into her life?
08:04no i didn't
08:15mysteries associated with stonehenge this source declares now this source proposes
08:25who's that i don't know i haven't answered it yet
08:32oh yes master oh the master no not at all i was um well you know just working
08:41well i'd arranged to dine at home you are there's a joint in the oven
08:47anne says there's a joint in the oven
08:51who wants to meet me harvey fenton jones
08:58oh yes i know yes we were junior fellows at all cells together back in the 60s they've just made
09:03him first minister of tourism yes anne's just reminding me how one's friends prosper while
09:12one just goes on well if it's a summons from on high one can't refuse ask him here they want
09:20to
09:20consult us about a project or something here no anne won't mind
09:31yes i'll give her your apologies right eight o'clock yes i'll be there bye
09:40i'm sorry darling he's the master's guest he wants to talk to us about something or other
09:45so once again i stay in while you dine with dear old harvey well it'll be an appalling meal and
09:50i've
09:50no great fondness for dear old harvey no he was fond of me yes i remember you were of him
09:55at least
09:55he was go ahead fashionable at oxford that year go ahead if it had been romantic poetry harvey would
10:02have had tb you're jealous no is there a clean white shirt seek and you shall find
10:42i'm sorry darling enjoy yourself with harvey don't be late
10:49be good don't touch my books okay bye
10:56mom mom what's gonna be long i'm hungry i'm angry
11:16who is it he's an old flame harvey fenton jones
11:26how's that not as frisky as you remember her good girl the last time we met you were writing
11:34a book on stonehenge i believe was then still am that's why you're here reeve as soon as the
11:42minister thought of stonehenge he thought of you do you often think of uh stonehenge minister amid
11:47the many affairs of state well it's become an affair of state actually it's quite a scheme
11:52what scheme oh it's an idea of mine we're proposing to move it all up to london
11:58i mean it's it it's really very rational tourism's our second biggest industry now
12:04fourteen hundred millions a year but it's a cutthroat business live sex shows in amsterdam
12:11bogus marseilles and baden baden our speciality is history but history happens so randomly
12:17i mean it's scattered all over the place well i am an historian and terribly dense
12:23move it why you'd like to move it all into the middle to the center
12:29i think the minister feels that stonehenge is rather vulnerable where it is why do you see the
12:34big threats of weather erosion and vandalism for instance a few years ago some military cadets
12:39tried to heave the whole thing out with a gun carrier 1965 to be precise
12:43yes yes i'll do so anyway my idea is to put up an exact fiberglass replica on salisbury plane
12:51and move the original to hyde park where we can keep a better eye on it
12:55protect it preserve its character i suppose you could surround it with loch ness and replace
13:02the monster with an inflatable model that's very good i like that of course i did anticipate your
13:09skepticism but it's not a new idea you know oh no you know one of its previous owners threatened to
13:15sell it to the united states earlier this century leaves the expert true or false yes yes and so
13:21aren't you rather underestimating the resistance you'll encounter elsewhere oh the historical
13:27conservationists and the celtic nationalists will kick up a bit of a fuss no doubt but after all you don't
13:31mind having clear patches needle in london do you and it will allow your archaeology chaps to dig all
13:36over the stonehenge mound of their hearts content seems to me gentlemen that the minister's got a good
13:42point there let me put my cards on the table we need your advice to get this move right we
13:50want to do it
13:53precisely scientifically keep the astronomical axes that sort of thing well there'll be trouble and
13:58just from a few conservationists and scholars i'm afraid oh my dear porton you're not threatening me
14:04with the ancestral curse i hope hmm the druid's revenge the druid thing is very suspect the whole
14:10thing is surrounded with invention fiction i mean it's been everything from a from a roman temple to
14:15a launch pad for prehistoric spaceships you scholars have had a wonderful time now for heaven's sake let's
14:23put the damn thing to some use we've certainly never known what it's for in the past we assume it's
14:29the
14:29product of a primitive civilization those people in 1800 bc moved stones weighing four or five tons with
14:36their own hands and directed them so precisely you can locate star systems to within quarter of a degree
14:42and that is a system that can work only where it is now it's entirely possible the whole thing has
14:47a
14:47magnetic field that has in some mysterious way influenced the development of our culture and has
14:53shaped worship and knowledge even influenced the acts of individuals and for all we know still does
15:26what's that then oh it's just a thing i'm doing
15:33wash yourself and we'll eat
15:43you see harvey i don't approve where are you taking us is everything up for sale now it's a question
15:49of survival
15:50yes i agree our survival is a country with a sense of values well if you want to see us
15:54drop to the
15:5420th possession of the league table of national i don't think i'm not scared we're several notches below albania
15:59just so long as we don't prostitute ourselves for euro dollars or libyum dinars or whatever else it is you
16:05expect to get for this
16:07desecration i'm afraid you suffer from the oxford disease not enough contact with the outside world
16:12what is too much clarity a boy not enough clarity but what is the real world is religion real or
16:21the past
16:23what does reality consist of are we sure the ground we walk on is as solid as we think it
16:28is
16:34i'm coming melissa
16:35face washed teeth clean
16:42melissa what are you doing is that one of daddy's books you know you're not supposed to touch them you
16:49put it back what are you doing are you all right you know i do wish you wouldn't take all
16:59this so much
17:00to heart i mean why all this fuss about stone artifacts i mean they're always being moved the
17:07mexicans move the great rain god to mexico city and it rained for days if i remember rightly i'm not
17:13an unaccustomed hardship for the british yes and the irish did it oh yes they moved the touro stone
17:20from galway to dublin for an exhibition yes and the sling broke the stone fell and bounced and nearly
17:25crushed the head of the irish tourist board my dear nicholas you really are trying to tell me something
17:31aren't you surely you're not a man to leave any uh stone unturned mr stones and curses go together
17:41in 1899 the owner tried to sell it for grazing land and he was turned into a toad
17:49nope on the turn of the year one of the giant lintels fell very well i shall stay in over
17:55the new year
17:57there are curses there rise up stick and stand still stone for king of england thou shalt be none
18:09thou and thy men whore stone shall be and i myself an elden tree charming mr kurt from near here
18:18actually you know the railroad stones are banbury way well they're reputed to be the petrified bodies of
18:24a pretender king of england and his men which uttered that particular curse and there they were
18:30lumps of rock and of course you like a good academic believe all this absolute i believe in it
18:37metaphorically i mean why are stones thought animate almost human why are they associated with
18:44forces beyond our control why is a circle of stones a place of worship and ritual you know i'm
18:51surprised at you nicholas you are a historian this is all mumbo jumbo i mean can you find one scuff
18:57of
18:57evidence to prove that this isn't pure coincidence or gossip i doubt it isn't the point that one's
19:03provoked to a sense of mystery by these things where they are not when they're somewhere else
19:10well i must say oxford has a remarkable facility for living outside the real world
19:15well someone has to keep a firm grasp on the inner centrals all right
19:23so you are going to move it banish plump jack and banish all the world i do i will
19:32well and of the month actually
19:40john
19:43pierre
19:45john
19:48pierre
19:59What is it, darling?
20:06It's... It's... It's... It's... It's... It's... It's... It's... It's... Charlotte.
20:12Is that a friend from school?
20:14No.
20:16Come on, it's late.
20:19I want you fast asleep before Daddy comes home.
20:45Ann?
20:49Anybody up?
21:18Harvey Fenton Jones.
22:08Vanessa, what are you doing up at this hour?
22:11Why don't you...
22:32Come on, Porton, you are a linguist. What is it?
22:34Book without cover.
22:36On the spine.
22:38Scribble?
22:39Couldn't it be a language?
22:40Not one I know, not in symbols I recognise.
22:43Divers strange characters, an unknown language or alphabet.
22:48Sit down, Reeve. Take the weight off your feet.
22:53I'm going to give you a glass of rather bad sherry.
22:57You're not the only one, you know.
22:59What do you mean?
23:00Well, most of the people I know who don't think they've discovered buried treasure or the troubled helix, think they've
23:07discovered a language.
23:08You know, ladies at dinner parties.
23:10Because at garden parties, they want me to decode it.
23:12The fact that people have gone blind or spent 20 years of their lives trying to decipher languages does not
23:17deter them.
23:18They're happy to have me take the risk.
23:19Well, you think it's not a language.
23:22Well, it could be anything, couldn't it?
23:24Scribble, personal cipher, child's drawing.
23:30What do you think a language is?
23:32Well, a system of speech and writing.
23:35A written language is a system of signs agreed and codified by a group of people in a given culture
23:41who have things they wish to exchange with each other.
23:43Now, who, when and where is exchanging which with whom, about what and why?
23:50The book itself is about Stonehenge.
23:52You'll surprise me.
23:52And it discusses the missing Stonehenge language.
23:54Well, that's the traditional idea, of course.
23:56Language is carried on stones.
24:00All right.
24:01Celtic languages did turn up in the Middle Ages, but, uh, this is, uh, 17th century, isn't it?
24:091665.
24:11Plague and fire.
24:13Rather a bad year to publish.
24:16They all are.
24:17Much the same in my books come out.
24:19All right.
24:2017th century loved cipher games, although this isn't in a familiar style, but why should
24:26a 3,000-year-old language turn up then?
24:29Well, this was the year of the Stonehenge controversy.
24:32Inigo Jones had just published his great book to demonstrate it was a Roman temple.
24:35Everyone got into it.
24:36Research all over the place.
24:38This man was interested in the mystical line.
24:41Hmm.
24:42Scholar antiquary.
24:43He said Stonehenge was a language of strangers.
24:46He also spoke of the curse.
24:48That's why I looked at the book late last night after talking to our visitor.
24:52Not surprised, wasn't he?
24:53Appalling man.
24:55He'd like to give fascism a bad name.
24:57You see, he's splashed all over today's papers.
25:00I never really read them.
25:01I thought he'd keep up with what's going on.
25:04He announced the scheme to the press yesterday.
25:07Who thought he was consulting us first?
25:09Oh, you know, politicians act first, consult people afterwards.
25:12Well, what do they say?
25:13What you'd expect, really.
25:15The telegraph's against it.
25:17Times is for it.
25:18And the Guardian, while strongly opposing the scheme on the one hand, warmly applauds
25:21it on the other.
25:22It's the sun over there.
25:28Stonehenge move?
25:29Which is protest?
25:30They've discovered a coven in Slough putting on a black mass in the shed.
25:34I suppose you'll be off down there.
25:35You do dance, don't you?
25:37They stick pins in the bloody man.
25:40Well, thank God, you and I are rational, Reeve.
25:44So you went to the book, took the cover off, and there was the language.
25:50And the cover came off rather oddly.
25:53Look, can't you try on one of your language computers?
25:55Well, they're clever, Reeve, but they're not that clever.
25:58There's not enough of it, really, you see.
26:02And no cultural background, context of utterance, as we say.
26:08And the alphabet's not familiar.
26:09I mean, that could be Greek or Chinese, and that's a bit Egyptian, but, uh, it could
26:14be a code, but no repetition, you see, and it makes it difficult to break.
26:20I'd need more of it, Reeve.
26:21Well, as a matter of fact, it's one of a three-volume set.
26:23I bought in an antiquarian booksellers in Banbury ten years ago.
26:26Have you got the other two?
26:27No, they split the set to make the asking price.
26:30They're rather unusual with a rare book.
26:31Well, it was lucky for me.
26:32I could only afford the one.
26:33But I probably could chase the others.
26:35Well, surely there are other sets.
26:37Well, there's only one other on record in the British Museum.
26:43Nicholas?
26:44Is that you?
26:45Yes, and I'm home.
26:49You're early.
26:53Harvey Fenton.
26:54Who?
26:54While they were out, Harvey Fenton Jones.
26:57Oh, did he?
26:58He was absolutely charming.
26:59Well, that's an improvement.
27:01I didn't know he wanted you to serve on a committee to help the government move Stonehenge.
27:05I'm not going to.
27:06I happen to disapprove very strongly of the whole thing.
27:08I see.
27:09Oh, by the way, I'm going up to London tomorrow for the B.M.
27:12Will you be back in time for dinner?
27:15I'll try to be.
27:17Well, I'm going for a walk with Vanessa.
27:21You're proposing that we remove the cover of a 17th century book?
27:25Yes.
27:25With the object of discovering whether words in another language are written on the spine.
27:30Exactly.
27:32Look, Dr. Reeve, what would we do if everyone came in here with requests like this?
27:39Well, it's hardly likely, is it?
27:41I admit it's an unusual request.
27:42There's nothing unusual about an unusual request.
27:46Happily to guide us, there are regulations which directly forbid it.
27:52Well, I hardly expected there'd be regulations positively advocating taking covers of valuable books.
27:57But can't you make an individual decision?
27:59I am a scholar, Dr. Reeve, but I'm also a public official.
28:04Regulations are precisely designed to protect us from individual decisions.
28:12That's what it's all about.
28:13I'm sorry, Dr. Reeve.
28:15Good day.
28:21Good morning.
28:30Good night.
28:33Good night.
28:41You're welcome.
29:15May I have your reader's ticket, Dr. Lee?
29:21I expect never to see you in here again.
29:26You're also open to proceedings.
29:29I'm sorry, I just had to know.
29:33Was there a language on the book?
29:37No.
29:39No, there wasn't.
29:43So, you ripped the back off a priceless book at the British Museum.
29:47Were they pleased?
29:49They took away my ticket.
29:51And that surprised you?
29:52They can sue as well.
29:54Oh, that should do wonders for your scholarly reputation.
29:58Nicholas, do you think the...
30:01Well, do you think that you're normal, in the sense that other people are normal?
30:05Well, I seem normal to me.
30:08Is my Elizabeth David there?
30:09Who?
30:10My cookery book.
30:12Oh.
30:14I mean, you've no time for your family.
30:16You pass up the chance of a post that would give you some standing in the world.
30:21And now you tear up a national treasure.
30:24You wouldn't have done a thing like that when we were first married, not conceivably.
30:28If one of your students behaved like that with an old book, you'd be shocked beyond belief, wouldn't you?
30:32Yes.
30:33But you're different.
30:37And my book.
30:39Someone's taken my book.
30:40Oh, not again.
30:41Well, where is it?
30:42Where you put it.
30:43No, it's not.
30:44It's gone.
30:47Well, perhaps it's just as well.
30:49Did you take it?
30:51Why should I?
30:52To discourage me.
30:53No, Nick, I didn't.
30:54How could it go?
30:56Has Vanessa been in here today?
30:58She's always in and out.
30:59Is she in bed?
31:00Oh, Nick, don't wake her.
31:05Come on.
31:39Now, why should she take it?
31:41Well, it couldn't just disappear.
31:42Oh, leave it till tomorrow.
31:44I have to go to Banbury tomorrow to see my book somewhere.
31:46Is this still about your ridiculous language?
31:49Yes, I want to find the other two books in the set.
31:50Do you ever think about staying here and seeing a student or two?
31:53I do see them.
31:54Oh, it's ridiculous.
32:07I can't read to bed.
32:11You're unfaithful to me with that bloody book.
32:15Hello, the Borgham.
32:17No, where is it?
32:20It's a language.
32:21Written on stones.
32:24Is this the one you think you've found?
32:26It could be.
32:27I really don't know.
32:29Oh, that's what I admire about you.
32:32Your compelling lucidity.
32:34Your triumphant rationality.
32:37What a wondrous piece of work is a man.
32:41Well, that's what's so unexpected about this.
32:43It doesn't look conventionally Celtic at all.
32:46Right.
32:50And is there any sense in which, if you found it and translated it, it would make the slightest
32:55difference to ordinary, everyday human life and relationships?
32:59No.
33:01No.
33:01No.
33:01Oh, boy.
33:28Sean?
33:31Pierre?
33:34Sean?
33:36Pierre?
34:01Sean?
34:03Pierre?
34:06Sean?
34:08Pierre?
34:12Sean?
34:15Pierre?
34:18Sean?
34:20Pierre?
34:23Sean?
34:30Sean?
34:35I wonder if you could help me.
34:37Sean?
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36:31not to hear a word i said alas a common characteristic of the deaf the world over
36:39i'm sorry now then what are we looking for a stonehenge defended by a scholar antiquary one
36:53of many books on the subject you know jones webb charlton jones said the romans built it
37:00webb the danes and charlton they couldn't have since their hobbies were homicide philicide
37:05regicide fratricide matricide and uh patricide a bad pedigree our scholar angel curry says that
37:15learned men came from elsewhere and built a stone language to speak to the gods
37:23a remarkable book for its day ah here we are items sold in august 1968.
37:33purchases are mr canadoc hobbs oh yes i remember him a welshman i think a writer he certainly
37:42affected the proletarian style like so many of our brighter luminaries yeah mr nicholas reeve
37:50distinguished i recall is a shade uh effeminate i'm nicholas reeve oh gentle is actually the word i
38:01was groping for of course you're mr reeve i have almost total recall and the uh third gentleman
38:08was from france and monsieur lambott a medical person i recollect do you have their addresses
38:14yes yes you know i just have since the postal code is a matter of esoteric scholarship would another
38:20search fee help five pounds you're very generous i'll write them down
38:30thank you
38:34you're clearly uh fascinated by sternhenge so are my clerk and myself you've heard of the plan to move
38:42it to london yes quite deplorable oh never fair there's been such talk before in 1915
38:52the commanding officer of the nearby aerodrome said it got in the way of his takeoffs he wanted it
38:59threatened he died suddenly no it won't be moved
39:13very pretty granny look turn it over on the other side oh i see i see i see it's the
39:20same script
39:22very much the same yes in fact this bit is what is written on the spine of your book only
39:26transcribed
39:27horizontally rather than vertically and all this bit's new now you are then that's what you wanted
39:32isn't it now wait a minute wait a minute doesn't this worry you why should the language of stonehenge
39:36man be written in ordinary rather faded commercial ink on the back of a photograph taken
39:42when well i don't know 1914 no i mean how did you get there well perhaps i'm not the first
39:47someone
39:47else might have copied it from all three books ah but that means someone has replaced the binding on
39:53your book since 1914 and that opens all sorts of doors such as well a very cunning hoax some devious
40:06soul devises a bogus language copies it off the back of this photograph onto all three volumes puts
40:13the binding back and then waits for some obliging scholar like you to come along and uncover the
40:18mystery go down skullduggery but why should he bother to do that i know she had bloody mindedness
40:25academics are like that you know invent facts to fit theories rather than the other way around
40:29it's our cardinal sin
40:33where did you get this actually snafe the bookseller in banbury could be him
40:40fortunately there isn't a problem because we can check it at least the nearest century we can examine
40:45the spine of your book under a microscope and see if it was written with a quill pen
40:49metal nibs didn't really come in until 1748 and they weren't in general use for 100 years after
40:53that the books disappeared what do you mean disappeared i don't know i locked it in the drawer
41:00of my desk and it's just gone but snaith did tell me when i could find the other two volumes
41:19oh
41:33dr reed dr reed that's right
41:38caradoc hobbs you're looking for me you're very remote i've come to meet you
41:45ah remorse a word used by suburbanites to describe people whose carbon monoxide level is below their
41:53own self-sufficient yeah have a drop of this thank you warm you up a bit we've quite a walk
42:01the cottage is up this way
42:08you are hard to find oh not really not really this is near a pentra iphone isn't it
42:15pentra even ah yes indeed the village of heaven you've not been to wales before
42:21i taught at aberystwyth for a couple of years oh very nice fine when you rang and said you were
42:28looking
42:28for a lost language i thought you must be a romantic a poet i'm just an historian trying to solve
42:34a very
42:34important mystery aha but you don't solve mysteries dr reed
42:43you went to them like robert graves the poet you know
42:49one day he read the mob in ogion those are our ancient welsh legends and he realized the hidden
42:56message that was leading him somewhere do you know where it took him no where you're going to a language
43:04the secret celtic alphabets the druids used you mean ogum oh not ogum the secret tree alphabet the
43:12consonants were months the vowels were solstices the secret worship alphabet an organic alphabet
43:20not like our rational a b c q e d would you recognize this language if it was on the
43:26spine of your book
43:27ah dr reeve there we have a problem about the book i realize it's priceless oh i i'm not properly
43:34bound
43:34i i i'm out of all that sort of thing though it's not that i'm afraid you see i can't
43:40show you the book
43:41why not i don't have it but last night you said well last night on the phone i wasn't drunk
43:47you know
43:47i i thought i did have it this morning i went to the shelf and it disappeared it was there
43:53two days
43:54ago oh i'm sorry about this useless quest i i rang your home from the pub this morning and they
44:00said
44:00you'd already left how did it disappear i don't know i don't lock doors i i don't need to a
44:08few people
44:09come up here the woman i lived with she's left me and i don't understand it
44:23look uh where are you staying i booked a hotel at fish guard
44:30why don't you stay up here with us that's very good of you with me and my daughter sean
44:41sean
44:50sean
44:50Come on!
45:35Anne, I'm back.
45:37Oh, Nick.
45:39What's the matter?
45:40Vanessa's disappeared.
45:41Good evening, sir.
45:43I'm Detective Inspector Barrett.
45:45Mrs. Reeve reported to us that your daughter left school two hours ago
45:49and hasn't been seen since.
45:54Two hours?
45:55Exactly.
45:56But I've just been explaining that this sort of thing does happen quite often.
46:00Children are always forgetting what time of day it is.
46:03I've telephoned everyone we know.
46:05She's never run off before?
46:06No.
46:07Never talked about it?
46:09No.
46:11Adventurous, is she?
46:13No.
46:14Rather shy.
46:14But she's been behaving strangely lately.
46:18That's why I'm especially worried.
46:20How strangely, Mrs. Reeve?
46:36I love you.
46:37This is your time of day.
46:37Her���lems.
46:37Thanks.
46:37Thank you, Mr. Young.
46:37This is your time to do this series.
46:38Bye.
46:38Bye.
46:38Bye.
46:39Bye.
46:39Bye.
46:46Bye.
46:57Yes, but it's seven hours now.
47:02Yes, I'm sure you will.
47:06Thank you. Bye-bye.
47:10They've started a search.
47:12They'll circulate her photograph.
47:14That is, if she's not back.
47:15You know she won't be back.
47:18She's been taken.
47:19Come on, sit down.
47:21Keep calm.
47:23Don't jump to conclusions.
47:24Don't be so little.
47:29I think she's gone of her own volition.
47:32You told the inspector she'd been talking to herself.
47:35Now, what did she say?
47:37The other night in bed, she mentioned her name.
47:42Can you remember what it was?
47:44Sheila.
47:45Shane, I don't know.
47:47Sian?
47:48Yes.
47:52I met her Sian yesterday.
47:55In Wales.
47:57I took her to school down in the village.
47:59She stays for lunch.
48:01I went down in the evening and she wasn't there.
48:03She'd gone in the break, just walked away.
48:06Well, she's a bit unusual, I know.
48:08She's my daughter, so they weren't too terribly worried.
48:11And then after that, no trace at all.
48:13They've searched the mountain.
48:14They're used to that.
48:15Up to now, nothing.
48:16And then Dr. Reeve rang me.
48:17I came down here.
48:18I thought there must be some connection.
48:20But what possible connection?
48:21The girls don't know each other.
48:22How could they know each other?
48:24But they were aware of each other.
48:25Vanessa knew Sian's name.
48:26Sian knew Vanessa.
48:27She talked about her.
48:28How could she?
48:28Well, it is possible, you know.
48:30Psychokinesis.
48:31I mean, people can transmit between each other.
48:34There's no doubt.
48:35It's been demonstrated too often.
48:36It's a bit of a stage performance, isn't it?
48:38No, Inspector.
48:39The old rational code is dying.
48:41We are less ordinary than we think.
48:42And a lot of people are finding that out
48:44and expanding their consciousness.
48:45You really believe this?
48:46Of course.
48:48I knew Sian was psychokinetic.
48:49I've known for years.
48:50And I've encouraged her to develop her consciousness.
48:52To talk to Vanessa.
48:53But one knows there's contact.
48:55One sees intensified states.
48:58You really believe this?
48:59If you know all that, you'll know where they are.
49:02No, I don't.
49:03I'm as lost as you are.
49:07Mr. Hobbs, there's not much I can do
49:09about imaginary links between children.
49:12What I do need to know about
49:13are the real links between you.
49:15There are no links between us.
49:16Nothing.
49:17Dr. Reeve has just been to Wales.
49:18Mr. Hobbs is in this room.
49:20Well, that's because of the books.
49:22The books?
49:23It's a split three-volume set.
49:25We both bought a volume in Banbury.
49:27This is the book that went missing?
49:28Yes.
49:28My copy's missing, too.
49:30Is it?
49:30Hmm.
49:31Are they valuable?
49:32Well, yes, to a scholar or a collector.
49:35Besides, there's something odd about them.
49:36Oh, Nicholas, for God's sake.
49:41What's odd about your book, Dr. Reeve?
49:43Mine has a language on it.
49:45Written on the cover.
49:46On the spine.
49:47I thought Mr. Hobbs' copy might have it, too.
49:49That's why I went to see him.
49:51Do you mean it's a code of some kind?
49:53Well, it depends what you mean by code.
49:55Nothing very dramatic.
49:57I think it's an ancient, undeciphered language.
50:00Probably one of the Druid languages.
50:01There were a number, Inspector.
50:02Well, actually, that's arguable.
50:08Now, you say three books.
50:10Who has the third?
50:12Someone in Rennes in France.
50:13I have his address.
50:14Can you let me have it?
50:15I'll make some inquiries.
50:18Wren.
50:19That's near Karnak.
50:21Near Karnak.
50:23It's an ancient avenue of stones.
50:29The forming of the triangle.
50:33Karnak.
50:36Pentreevon.
50:42And Stonehenge.
50:58And Stonehenge.
51:06It's a iconic area.
51:06You have to get the one.
51:08If you're going to buy these threericades,
51:08without ever turkeyå¡”...
51:08And you will follow them.
51:08You are coming to Italy.
51:08That's where it's done.
51:09They are coming.
51:09So unless you're going to get this kind of sense.
51:09Why are you looking for it?
51:10Well, walking on here.
51:10Hey, I'll go to it.
51:12Why is this next to sail?
51:16We'll be back.
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55:59Is she really all right?
56:02Oh, Nick.
56:03Thank God.
56:07Yes.
56:09Yes, I'll get her room ready.
56:11Get home as quickly as you can.
56:38And following the meeting, members from all parties agreed to reconvene in Geneva later
56:43this year.
56:45The death has just been reported of Mr. Harvey Fenton-Jones, the recently appointed Minister
56:50of Tourism.
56:51The wreckage of his car was found late this afternoon by Hampshire police in a ditch on
56:56the A-30 near Basingstoke.
56:59The minister had been thrown through the windscreen and died instantly.
57:10Stone monuments and curses go together.
57:15One man who tried to sell it ended his days in a madhouse.
57:20The Air Force officer who wanted to move it flew into a hillside.
57:25And these stories go back.
57:28There's the peddler whose corpse was found right on the site, his head crushed by a stonefall.
57:36Then there are the barrows, where Stonehenge bluestones are found inside the corpses.
57:45Our magic power, a curse.
57:49The air force.
58:21The air force.
58:22The air force.
58:25The air force.
58:30The air force.
58:35The air force.
58:40Here's the tyre force.
58:41The air force.
58:45He hope to return in danish� havoc.
58:47The air force.
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