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00:15FUEL ON!
00:17FUEL ON!
00:17DOCTOR IN POSITION!
00:19Switches are on!
00:20You sure about this, sir?
00:22When I got married, my in-laws made me marshal of the Royal Air Force.
00:25As a result, I'm the most senior airman in the country, and I can't bloody well see
00:29you'll fly.
00:31Yes, I'm sure.
00:32Righto, sir.
00:59Ready, sir?
01:01FUEL ON!
01:02Here we go!
01:04Whoa-ho!
01:15Okay!
01:17Whoa-ho!
01:25Whoa, there we are!
01:35All right.
01:37All right there, sir?
01:38Yes, yes, fine.
01:40Now it's your turn.
01:41You have control.
01:42I have control.
01:43Now remember what I told you.
01:44Keep your eye on the altimeter and the compass heading.
01:47And keep the stick level.
01:50That's very good.
01:51That's balanced.
01:55Stick to the left, then to the right.
02:02And level.
02:04Good.
02:06Noisy, isn't it?
02:10How's this, sir?
02:21Good.
02:22My god.
02:27Isn't it wonderful?
02:29Heaven!
02:35You fought in the Battle of Britain, didn't you?
02:37I did, sir. 257 Squadron.
02:40Flying what? Spitfires.
02:42Hunnicans, mostly, sir.
02:43Any kills?
02:45One or two.
02:46Shouldn't we get it started now? The ground seems terribly close.
02:51It's too low to restart, so we'll do a dead stick landing.
02:54I have control.
02:55You have control.
03:14That was wonderful.
03:15Same time next week, sir.
03:17How about tomorrow?
03:48Ladies, Charles.
03:53Sir, I'm a front of you.
03:58Johnson, what do you make of this?
03:59Ladies, Charles.
04:03Interesting.
04:07Sir.
04:11I think you should see this.
04:15Let's see.
04:18Sir.
04:21That's me.
04:25Excuse me.
04:26You can't go in there.
04:28Excuse me, sir.
04:30Sorry, sir.
04:32Thought you should see these.
04:37Good God.
04:40We must send a warning.
04:43To cover our backs.
04:47Kenneth, it should probably come from you, as chief scientist.
04:51Address it to the PM.
04:53I'll never read it, of course.
04:54But the important thing is, we've sent it.
04:57Well, get it to Dally Street right away.
05:17Wait there, please.
05:20Where are we coming?
05:21Where are we coming?
05:23Bye.
05:24Wait.
05:24Where are we coming?
05:27If her majesty could lean forward, deep breath in, and out.
05:41Yes, a little stuffy, ma'am.
05:43It might help to open the window a crack.
05:45Not while they're rehearsing.
05:47What are they rehearsing?
05:53My funeral.
06:07What are they doing?
06:10What are they doing?
06:13Yes.
06:14I'll have to...
06:39Oh, there you are.
06:57Mr. Simon.
06:58Mr. Collins.
07:01Nice to see you.
07:11I'm not a scientist.
07:13I can't say I understand it, but what I can tell you is we don't get a weather warning like
07:19this every day.
07:20We don't get one every month either.
07:22In fact, I've never heard of us getting one at all.
07:27Does the name Donora mean anything to you?
07:33Donora?
07:37Well, of course I remember Donora, who was a scandal.
07:40A small mill town in America, outside Philadelphia.
07:44Pittsburgh.
07:44They had a smog brought on by a freak anti-cyclone, which trapped the emissions from the local copper world.
07:53I think.
07:53In the fog.
07:54In a few days, a number of people died.
07:57Twenty.
07:58And several thousand became seriously ill from the poisonous fog.
08:03After the incident, a cross-party delegation was sent to Donora on an urgent fat-finding mission.
08:09They recommended that clean air zones be set up all around London as a precautionary measure.
08:14Hmm.
08:16I never saw the report.
08:17With good reason.
08:19Our Prime Minister threw it away, claiming it wasn't a priority.
08:24Can you prove that?
08:25I can't, Mr. Utley.
08:35The Cabinet minutes where it was discussed.
08:43He's insisted the country keep burning coal irresponsibly this winter.
08:48To give the illusion of a solid economy.
08:52This is great, Clem.
08:54It's interesting, for sure.
08:59I don't understand, is this?
09:02Why a Downing Street employee working for the government should come to me with this information?
09:10I've read the Aeneid, Mr. Thurman.
09:13Do not trust the horse Trojans.
09:15I fear the Greeks even when they bring gifts.
09:20Mr. Utley, I entered the civil service to serve the public and to serve government.
09:25Any government.
09:27But I am also a responsible citizen and I cannot stand by when chaos reigns around me.
09:35This is not a government.
09:37Mr. Utley, this is a collection of hesitant, frightened old men unable to unseat a tyrannical, delusional even older one.
09:47Yours was the most radical, forward-thinking government this country has ever seen.
09:57How you lost the election escapes me.
10:02Escapes us all.
10:05I believe I would be doing the British public and this country a service if I helped to usher him
10:12out of the door and you back in.
10:16And to that end, you come to me with a master plan that involves me crucifying the Tories for their
10:23failure to deal with a fog which has yet to choose no sign of appearing.
10:29At present, I can see stars.
10:57I can see stars.
11:04I can see stars today in this field.
11:16I can see stars.
11:22The story is located in these portions.
11:42Miss Scott, thank you for your conscientiousness, but it's late.
11:46You're home.
11:47I am, sir.
11:48You're no good to be tired.
11:49Good evening to you.
11:52What?
11:53Still here?
11:53Good night, sir.
12:05Good evening, Pat.
12:07Good evening, Pat.
12:27You haven't moved.
12:30I suppose it's still a no.
12:34To what?
12:35Coming out.
12:36You mean going to the Lamb of Flag with you, sitting at the bar, twinkling our ankles at every unremarkable
12:42young man in the room, then letting those men buy us enough drinks for us to bring them home, only
12:47to have their unremarkability confirmed to us again.
12:51No, thanks.
12:54No, thanks.
13:20But be fierce.
13:22You are needed now more than ever before.
13:25Take up the mantle of change, for this is your time.
13:40We'll be him.
13:58Good morning.
14:00Time is 8 o'clock on the 6th of December, and here is the news.
14:03London has been brought to a halt by dense fog, which has descended overnight.
14:09Long queues are formed on main roads, and there are reports of motorists abandoning their vehicles and continuing on foot.
14:15London Airport is expected to be closed.
14:19Good God.
14:21The Meteorological Office has issued a statement saying that a persistent anti-cyclone over London is to blame.
14:27Smoke from the capital's chimneys is being trapped at street level, which is aggravating the fog.
14:35Windless conditions mean it is expected to last for some time.
14:39Be careful out there. It's a real P-Super.
14:50Ah, is the car ready?
14:52I'm afraid the visibility is too poor to drive, ma'am.
14:56It's what? 200 yards?
14:59It's been charged too hazardous, ma'am.
15:05I have an appointment to see my grandmother.
15:08I intend to keep that appointment.
15:11If it's too hazardous to drive, then there's only one thing to be done.
15:16Hmm.
15:18Hmm.
15:28Hmm.
15:52I saw that.
15:54Might it be possible for you to pretend that you haven't?
15:59And the Queen is here, Your Majesty.
16:01Could you be more specific?
16:03Ma'am?
16:04Which Queen?
16:06Queen Elizabeth, ma'am.
16:08Which one? There are two.
16:09The young one.
16:11Oh, the Queen.
16:13I thought you was all Queens. They gave me a sheet.
16:16We are.
16:17I was the Queen so long as my husband the King was alive.
16:20But since he died, I'm no longer the Queen.
16:23I'm simply Queen Mary.
16:24My late son's widow was also the Queen.
16:28But upon the death of her husband, she became Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother.
16:32Her daughter, Queen Elizabeth, is now Queen.
16:35So she is...
16:37The Queen.
16:39Brother.
16:41Nurses and nuns have the same problem.
16:43We're all called sister.
16:46So you are.
16:47Well, she's outside.
16:50The Queen.
16:51Then let her in, sister.
17:05Bedtime?
17:06Not at all.
17:09How are you?
17:11I'm always happy to see you.
17:13And my mood will improve yet further if you promise me one thing.
17:17Name it.
17:17Not to ask me how I am.
17:19It's all anyone ever does.
17:21Forget death by lung disease.
17:23It's death by bad conversation.
17:25All right, I promise.
17:27But if you are feeling up to it, there was something I wanted to talk to you about.
17:32Fire away.
17:34Fire away.
17:42I was listening to the wireless this morning, where they described this fog as an act of God.
17:50Now, in your letter that you sent me, you said,
17:59Loyalty to the ideal you have inherited is your duty above everything else.
18:04Because the calling comes from the highest source, from God himself.
18:10Yes.
18:12Do you really believe that?
18:17Monarchy is God's sacred mission to grace and dignify the earth.
18:21To give ordinary people an ideal to strive towards.
18:24An example of nobility and duty to raise them in their wretched lives.
18:30Monarchy is a calling from God.
18:33That is why you're crowned in an abbey, not a government building.
18:37Why you're anointed, not appointed.
18:39It's an archbishop that puts the crown on your head.
18:41Not a minister or public servant.
18:44Which means that you are answerable to God in your duty.
18:48Not the public.
18:51I'm not sure that my husband would agree with that.
18:54He would argue that in any equitable modern society that church and state should be separated.
19:01That if God has servants, they're priests, not kings.
19:06He would also say that he watched his own family destroyed because they were seen by the people to embody
19:11indefensible and unreasonable ideas.
19:13Yes, but he represents a royal family of carpetbaggers and parvenues that goes back what?
19:19Ninety years?
19:21What would he know of Alfred the Great?
19:23The Rod of Equity and Mercy?
19:25Edward the Confessor?
19:27William the Conqueror?
19:28Henry VIII?
19:29It's the Church of England, dear.
19:31Not the Church of Denmark or Greece.
19:37Next question?
19:40It's chaos out there.
19:42Trains disrupted.
19:43Air services cancelled.
19:45A Richmond bridge this morning.
19:47Visibility was officially measured at one yard.
19:50That's a record low, incidentally.
19:53Our Trojan friend in Downing Street has been speaking to his friends at the Met Office.
19:57They say this is just the beginning.
20:00They expect it to get worse.
20:02I know you would have, Nicole, a vote of no confidence.
20:05And will doubtless call me over-cautious for not doing so.
20:09But the Prime Minister needs to be given a chance.
20:14Even if it's only to hang himself.
20:16Let's see how the old fool responds.
20:31There you go.
20:54Morning.
20:56Morning.
20:58Morning.
21:00Morning.
21:02I'm glad to see if someone else made it in.
21:05No one saw this coming, did they?
21:08No.
21:15Prime Minister?
21:18Sir?
21:36Ah, you made it!
21:38Oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I was just...
21:40No, no, you did well to get here.
21:42I gather half the Downing Street staff didn't.
21:45Maybe it wasn't easy.
21:47Just crossing the road, you take your life in your hands.
21:49Then don't. You're too important to all of us.
21:51Hardly.
21:52All I do is bring you things to sign and take them away again.
21:56And so the wheels keep turning and the business gets done
22:00and the country's governed.
22:04But what's my personal contribution?
22:09Ah.
22:10You improve the quality of life for all that deal with you.
22:15An ornament.
22:18A flower.
22:20By comparison, at my age, you were a published writer
22:24and a cavalry officer posted to India
22:27fighting local tribesmen on the northwest frontier.
22:30Who told you that?
22:32You asked me to engage in a relationship with a young man my own age.
22:35So I've been reading your autobiography.
22:38That's not quite what I had in mind.
22:41Hear this, young men and women everywhere,
22:44and proclaim it far and wide.
22:46The earth is yours and the fullness thereof.
22:51Be kind, but be fierce.
22:54You are needed now more than ever before.
22:59Take up the mantle of change.
23:01She's gone.
23:01For this is your time.
23:08You were twenty-four.
23:12All energy and hope.
23:14And passion and fire.
23:17It's remarkable.
23:23You found something you liked in that young hymn?
23:28I did.
23:56Good morning.
23:58The time is eight o'clock on the 7th of December,
24:01and here is the news.
24:03A serious fog that brought much of the capital to a standstill yesterday
24:07continues this morning with emergency services struggling to cope
24:10and widespread disruption reported across the nation.
24:15Flares are being used to guide motorists in parts of the capital.
24:19Trains are stopped while running hours behind schedule
24:21from major London railway stations.
24:25The Prime Minister is facing criticism
24:27and failure to deal with the mounting crisis.
24:30London airport is closed again today with all flights granted.
24:34the unmoving fog which has spread to over thirty miles wide
24:38is likely to cause complete darkness by two o'clock this afternoon.
24:55You all right?
24:58You're not?
25:01Go on, let's get you up.
25:03No.
25:03No.
25:03No, I'm fine.
25:05I promise.
25:07It's just cause the window is open.
25:10Now go to work.
25:11You've got a job to do.
25:21Let us start with the unrest in Egypt,
25:25where anti-colonial passions continue to run high
25:28and where our soldiers continue to come under fire from nationalist insurgents.
25:33It is vital that we remain
25:34and successfully defend the Suez Canal
25:39in a point that I will be making in person to the Commonwealth heads
25:43when I host them for the weekend at Chequers.
25:47Weather permitting?
25:49Indeed.
25:50What is the latest information that you have?
25:53About the weather?
25:55It's fog, ma'am.
25:57It will lift eventually.
25:59I was hoping for something more scientific.
26:02Then I will ensure that a barometric report
26:05is included in your box tomorrow,
26:08complete with isobars and isohumes.
26:12It has been an unusually cold winter
26:15and there are only so many things that I, as Prime Minister,
26:19I am prepared to inflict on your subjects as a reward for winning a world war
26:23and prevailing over fascism, evil and tyranny.
26:27Letting them freeze is not one of them.
26:30You do not seem unduly concerned.
26:33I'm not.
26:34You do know that my late father wrote many years ago
26:37to your predecessors
26:39to express his deep concern about the inner city power stations
26:42that your party was building.
26:47Indeed.
26:49And I was sympathetic with your father's concerns at the time.
26:54I also have sympathy with the leader articles in the newspapers today.
26:59Paying for blood.
27:00Wanting my head.
27:03People have to be angry at someone.
27:06But as leader,
27:08one cannot simply react to everything.
27:11We need the power stations.
27:13We need the coal.
27:14People need to burn coal to warm their homes.
27:17It is weather.
27:18It will pass.
27:20Well, I do hope so.
27:22Not least because my husband's mood is intolerable.
27:25Why?
27:27Not being caged in like this.
27:29He can't fly.
27:32Fly where?
27:34Well, nowhere.
27:36He's learning to fly.
27:39Whatever for?
27:41Have we not enough qualified pilots to take him where he needs to go?
27:44No, he wants to fly himself.
27:47It's a boyhood dream.
27:48It's what he's always wanted.
27:49Why was government not consulted?
27:51Because it's a private matter.
27:53And I am in favor.
27:54Nothing you or his royal highness do is a private matter.
27:58And the father of the future king of England risking his life needlessly is quite unacceptable.
28:04Please do not curtail my husband's personal freedoms any further.
28:08You've taken away his home.
28:10You've taken away his name.
28:12There comes a time where one must draw a line in the sand.
28:15And the job of drawing that line falls to cabinet, ma'am.
28:18Not to you.
28:19Something your dear late papa would certainly have taught you
28:22had he been granted more time to complete your education.
28:27And now our time is up.
28:33Until next week.
28:34Sorry.
28:40Sir.
28:49Good morning.
28:50The time is eight o'clock on the 8th of December.
28:53And here is the news.
28:54The choking, eye-watering fog which has already caused two days of chaos across the capital has worsened overnight.
29:01The great coal-burning electricity stations in Battersea and Fulham have attempted to reduce emissions of poisonous sulfur dioxide from
29:07their chimneys.
29:08But we've been told that it is unlikely they will be able to make any significant change to the air
29:13quality.
29:13The government is expected to make a statement later today.
29:26Come on.
29:27Let's get you to hospital.
29:28You're fine.
29:29You're not.
29:30Come on.
29:33Shoes.
29:42If we go.
29:43Come in.
29:45Hands together.
29:54Oh.
29:57Oh.
29:58Oh.
29:59Oh.
30:00Oh.
30:01Oh.
30:01Do as I say, and hold on to me.
30:12Come along.
30:20It's not snowing.
30:23It's not snowing.
30:26Come on.
30:29Quick, hold my hand.
30:31Quick, hold on to me.
30:33Hold on to me.
30:36Sit there.
30:41Bye-bye.
30:43You're all right, honey.
30:53Control of this story is getting away from us.
30:56The opposition's blood is up.
30:59We have to respond.
31:00Respond how?
31:01I would suggest by commissioning a public inquiry.
31:04An inquiry would be expensive.
31:09Winston people are angry.
31:12They see us as the culprits.
31:13Culprits for what?
31:14It's fog.
31:16Fog is fog.
31:17It comes, and it goes away.
31:19Well, I'm glad that the prime minister finds time for levity.
31:24Perhaps I should remind him exactly how serious the situation has now become.
31:27This morning, a suburban twain collided with a gang of well-weigh workmen, killing several and injuring a great many
31:34more.
31:34In parts of the capital, there is now a total breakdown in law and order.
31:39Hospitals are filling up as our citizens are breathing in poisonous sulfur dioxide.
31:57You're right.
31:59You're right.
31:59You're right.
32:02You're right.
32:04I'm not sure what that means.
32:12You're right.
32:13matters to deal with. Like what? The Duke of Edinburgh.
32:32Telephone, sir. The Mark Bishop Salisbury. Not now. He asked me to stress the importance of the matter.
32:43Bob is here. Thanks for taking my call, Diggy. Are you alone? Yes. Can anyone overhear what you're saying?
32:56No. Good.
33:00It's chaos. I know. The ward is full, every corridor too. Most of the doctors are sick now. Those that
33:07are well can't get in.
33:08It was better than this in the ward. What do you need? More equipment? Or masks?
33:13Masks? Masks are bloody useless. They're just for show to make it look like the government's doing something.
33:16Then what is needed? Money. People. Trained staff. Help is what is needed urgently.
33:23Better rest for now.
33:27Maybe I could put a word in with the people who make a difference.
33:31Such as? The Prime Minister, for example.
33:35Oh, I see you're just going to walk into Downing Street and whisper in his ear.
33:37Yeah. Yes. Something like that.
33:40You know my day's bad enough without some delusional girl playing jokes.
33:43Now, excuse me.
33:45Just, no.
33:47I'll show you.
33:49Out of the way.
33:50outcome of the way.
33:58Team, where are you?
34:00Over here.
34:06Top.
34:15Here it is.
34:16Oh.
34:23How much long are you going to give the old man?
34:25The majority is tiny.
34:27A voter no confidence and he'll be toppled.
34:30You know what he calls you?
34:33Yes, I know.
34:34A sheep in sheep's clothing.
34:39Perhaps it's time to approve you're not.
34:46Very well. Let's put a motion down on paper and brief the whips.
35:01Thank you, sir.
35:17Anything interesting?
35:20Yes.
35:22Care to share it?
35:24No.
35:26I'd be happy to share glide ratios and adiabatic lapse rates with you as part of a quid pro quo
35:31arrangement.
35:32One glide ratio in return for some cabinet minutes, for example.
35:37No?
35:38A dihedral angle or an absolute ceiling.
35:41These are very interesting concepts, Elizabeth.
35:42You might learn something in exchange for a foreign office briefing.
35:47Am I going to have to explain my position again?
35:50No.
35:51Good.
35:54Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward,
35:59for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.
36:04You know what's remarkable about those words?
36:09Go on.
36:10They were written 300 years before man first got in a plane.
36:13Leonardo da Vinci.
36:17Look, Philip, I know...
36:22Lord Mountbatten, your majesty.
36:24Uncle Dickie, what's he doing here?
36:26I know as much as you do.
36:27He said it was important, man.
36:35Elizabeth.
36:39Hello.
36:40Came as soon as I could.
36:44So...
36:46Joe, is this a meeting with Elizabeth, your niece?
36:49My wife?
36:50Or the queen?
36:52Later, I'm afraid.
36:53Right.
36:54I'm going to know my place.
37:03What's the matter with him?
37:05Nothing.
37:08He's just feeling a little grounded.
37:11Ignore it.
37:12Right.
37:13All ears.
37:14I received a telephone call today from Robert E. Salisbury.
37:20It seems that even among his own people, the feeling is that our Prime Minister is not able to deal
37:24with a national crisis.
37:27Indeed, he could be seen to be responsible for that crisis.
37:32Hospitals overflowing.
37:33People dying.
37:35As sovereign, you have the right to demand that a government in your name shows effective leadership.
37:42And the opposition are now calling for a motion of no confidence.
37:47So, I would say, the time has come for you to summon Churchill and...
37:56And what?
38:00Insist that he go.
38:04I can't do that.
38:05You can.
38:06And should.
38:08But wouldn't that violate the Constitution?
38:12As queen, you have the right to be consulted.
38:20The right to encourage.
38:23The right to warn.
38:25Also, to appoint a new Prime Minister in the event of incapacity.
38:30And many would say that Churchill's behavior now constitutes incapacity.
38:35Then a revolution must come from within.
38:37They are trying.
38:39Well, then they must try harder.
38:41They will.
38:42But would prefer it to be bloodless.
38:46So I have asked for your help and influence.
38:52I cannot do it.
38:53I will not do it.
38:55Let's not forget it was Churchill who denied Philip's children his own surname.
39:00Dickie.
39:01And insisted that you live in Buckingham Palace.
39:03As it lasted everyone else.
39:04And now, with looters on the street and hospital corridors stacked with the dead,
39:08he is interested in only one thing.
39:12Stopping Philip flying.
39:17What?
39:18At a crisis cabinet meeting this morning,
39:19where there should have only been one thing on the agenda,
39:21the unfolding national emergency.
39:25All our Prime Minister wanted to discuss
39:28was your husband's new hobby.
39:35I'm so sorry, sir.
39:36Who are her parents?
39:38Her father is a clergyman from Suffolk.
39:41I've been noticed.
39:41I want to go to the hospital.
39:43There is an emergency meeting at the house.
39:45A meeting you must attend.
39:46The house can wait.
39:57Do you wish to see me, Your Majesty?
39:59Yes, Tommy.
40:03I know how much my father depended on you
40:07and how closely you work together.
40:10Which is why I wanted to ask your advice now.
40:13It seems our Prime Minister,
40:15a man who's led the country through many crises,
40:19is no longer leading us at all.
40:23Representations have been made to me
40:25through an intermediary from the heart of the government
40:29to intercede
40:31and bid him stand down,
40:33make way for a younger man.
40:37Which brings me to my question.
40:41What are my responsibilities
40:43as Head of State?
40:47What should I do
40:49when it's in the net of interest?
40:51How far dare I go?
40:56I'm not sure if Her Majesty is aware,
40:59but shortly before your father died,
41:01the Foreign Secretary, Mr. Eaton,
41:03came begging His Late Majesty
41:06to intervene,
41:07if not on an official level,
41:09then on a personal one,
41:11as a friend,
41:12to bid the Prime Minister to resign.
41:15What did my father say?
41:17Well,
41:19His Majesty was, like his father before him,
41:21a stickler for conventions,
41:22and tradition,
41:23and would never have done anything
41:25that violated the Constitution
41:26or overstepped the mark.
41:31Then I have my answer.
41:32But,
41:33that was His Majesty,
41:35not your Majesty.
41:36And I do read the newspapers,
41:38and I do listen to the wireless.
41:40And the situation we're in today
41:41is quite different
41:43to the one we were in
41:44when Mr. Eaton came to see your father.
41:48Different situation,
41:50different sovereign.
42:02away from him.
42:08Oh!
42:09Oh!
42:09I hate this.
42:10mehr from you!
42:11I don't know.
42:18No!
42:19Ooh!
42:29We'll get you seen as soon as we fall.
42:59Sir?
43:03Just a child.
43:07A beautiful child.
43:11I just received word from Buckingham Palace.
43:14The Queen has requested an audience.
43:17When?
43:18At your earliest convenience.
43:23All energy and hope and passion and fire.
43:32Sir?
43:44Did the newspapers know I'm here?
43:46No.
43:49But it could easily be arranged.
43:52Then do it.
43:54And tell the Queen I'll be there first thing in the morning.
43:58After the papers.
44:22After the papers.
44:30Thank God.
44:35Thank God.
44:37Thank God.
44:38Oh, sorry.
44:39Come on, sir.
44:48Just come on.
44:48The Prime Minister will be here in a few moments.
44:57How do you show?
44:58Come on.
44:58Come on.
44:59Come on.
44:59Come on.
45:05There are any things, sir?
45:06No, no, no.
45:07No, no.
45:09No, no.
45:12No, no.
45:14No, no, no.
45:15Quiet, please.
45:17Settle down.
45:19Mr. Churchill.
45:20I have witnessed scenes here today, the likes of which we have not seen since the darkest
45:27days of the Blitz.
45:31But alongside the suffering, I've also seen heroism.
45:36And where there is heroism, there will always be hope.
45:42Only God can lift the fog.
45:45But I, as Prime Minister, am in a position to ease the suffering.
45:52To that end, I pledge to make available with immediate effect more money for hospital staff,
46:00more money for equipment, and a full and independent public inquiry into the causes of air pollution
46:08to ensure that such a calamity may never befall us again.
46:17Thank you all.
46:24The Prime Minister was alone among senior politicians to visit hospitals and respond to the crisis
46:29in person, and was rewarded by cheers and applause by those suffering through the worst
46:35smog this city has ever witnessed.
46:36And the headline reads,
46:38True leader in a crisis.
46:45Ma'am, the Prime Minister's here.
46:50The parallels between his appearance yesterday and the wartime years were striking.
46:54And his personal popularity among the people remains undimmed.
46:59Who, is there?
46:59Good.
47:01Hello?
47:03Clem, are you still there?
47:05Hello?
47:07Clem?
47:09Clem, can you hear me?
47:11No?
47:12Right here.
47:40CHOIR SINGS
47:59CHOIR SINGS
48:18CHOIR SINGS
48:22Ladies and gentlemen, are you asked to see me now?
48:29I did.
48:39There's a delicate matter which I felt I needed to discuss with you in person.
48:46Concerning what?
48:49Your position.
48:53My position?
48:56Yes, your position...
49:00...as Prime Minister.
49:07Go on.
49:12At that point, she hesitated.
49:15And then she asked me to pick either Khwajgi Nazimuddin of Pakistan or Sydney Holland of New Zealand.
49:23What ever for?
49:25To sit next to at dinner.
49:28She summoned you for that?
49:30No, I think she summoned me to haul me over the coals for my handling of the fog.
49:34But then the fog lifted and she had to make a decision right then and there in the room.
49:40You could see the wheels turning behind her eyes.
49:44And then she switched a tack without so much as a flicker.
49:48Clever.
49:49No, no, not clever. Ingenious.
49:52Why?
49:52Because it disarmed me and made me switch tack too.
49:56What about?
49:57About allowing Philip to learn to fly.
50:00He can now.
50:02Good.
50:04But he still has to ask Cabinet permission to do rolls and spins.
50:17What, dear girl?
50:22Or what if the fog hadn't lifted?
50:26And the government had continued to flounder.
50:29The people had continued to die.
50:32And Churchill had continued to cling to power and the country had continued to suffer.
50:37It doesn't feel right, as head of state, to do nothing.
50:42It is exactly right.
50:44Is it?
50:46But surely doing nothing is no job at all.
50:49To do nothing is the hardest job of all.
50:52And it will take every ounce of energy that you have.
50:55To be impartial is not natural, not human.
50:59People will always want you to smile or agree or frown.
51:03And the minute you do, you will have declared a position, a point of view.
51:07And that is the one thing, as sovereign, that you are not entitled to do.
51:12The less you do, the less you say, or agree, or smile.
51:17Or think, or feel, or breathe, or exist.
51:20The better.
51:25Well, that's fine for the sovereign.
51:29But where does that leave me?
51:44So, come on.
51:45How long would it take me to get my wings?
51:47Well, normally a trainee would spend anything between 100 and 120 hours on one of these things.
51:52Do you think I could do it in three months?
51:53That would be unusual.
51:55I know.
51:56I'm a fast learner.
51:58And believe me when I say I've got nothing else to do.
52:15I couldn't have noticed you saw them right up.
52:17Starboard and port.
52:1818 gallons.
52:19Yes.
52:20Fancy lunch in Edinburgh.
52:21Edinburgh?
52:22All right.
52:22They made me duke there.
52:23So I should probably show up from time to time.
52:26Unless you have more pressing engagement.
52:27No, sir.
52:29All right.
52:30I'll adjust rpms and cruising speed for range flight.
52:33We'll have to land to refuel, sir.
52:35Are you a pretty good?
52:36Very...