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00:00Good luck.
00:24Good luck.
00:25Fuel 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?
01:14Ready!
01:15Here we go!
01:17Whoa-ho!
01:24There we go!
01:30Perfect!
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.
02:03And 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?
02:30Come on.
02:41My God.
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.
03:03Hunnicans, 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, so we'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?
03:41den for tomorrow.
03:42Ha, ha, ha, ha.
03:44TARENA
03:45TARENA
03:45TARENA
03:46TARENA
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06:08Sir.
06:09Sir.
06:11Sir.
06:13May I just call back you?
06:16Excuse me.
06:17You can't go in there.
06:19Excuse me, sir.
06:22Sorry, sir.
06:23Thought you should see these.
06:29Good God.
06:33And we must send a warning
06:35to cover our backs.
06:40Kenneth,
06:40it 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.
06:51Well,
06:52get you to Downing Street right away.
07:12Right there, please.
07:16Here we go.
07:18All right!
07:19Quick!
07:20Quick!
07:23If her matter, she could lean forward.
07:29Deep breath in.
07:34And out.
07:38Yes, 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.
08:10Yes.
08:11To be back.
08:12Good boy.
08:16All right.
08:41Oh, there you are.
09:00Mr. Thurman, Mr. Collins, nice for you, thank you.
09:16I'm not a scientist, I can't say I understand it, but what I can tell you is we don't get
09:23a weather warning like this every day, we don't get one every month either, in fact, I've
09:30never heard of us getting one at all.
09:32Does the name Donora mean anything to you?
09:39Donora.
09:43Well, of course I remembered Donora, who was a scandal, a small mill town in America
09:50outside Philadelphia.
09:51Pittsburgh.
09:51They had a smog brought on by a freak anti-cyclone which trapped the emissions from the local
09:59copper world.
10:00In the fog.
10:03In the fog.
10:03In a few days a number of people died.
10:05At 20.
10:06And several thousand became seriously ill from the poisonous fog.
10:12After the incident, a cross-party delegation was sent to Donora on an urgent fact-finding
10:17mission.
10:18They recommended that clean air zones be set up all around London as a precautionary
10:22measure.
10:25So, I never saw the ripple.
10:27With good reason.
10:29Our Prime Minister threw it away, claiming it wasn't a priority.
10:34Can you prove that?
10:35I can, Mr. Hartley.
10:46The cabinet minutes where it was discussed.
10:54He'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. Hartley, I entered the civil service to serve the public and to serve government.
11:41Any government.
11:43But I am also a responsible citizen, and I cannot stand by while chaos reigns around me.
11:51This is not a government.
11:53Mr. Hartley, this is a collection of hesitant, frightened, old men, unable,
12:00to unseat a tyrannical, delusional even older one.
12:05Yours 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.
13:06I'm pleased to sing the best by my friends and heroes.
13:10Before we go, I love the会いです.
13:16I'm so excited, and I can see stars and to the stars.
13:22I've never seen stars.
13:44CHOIR SINGS
13:54CHOIR SINGS
13:55Good night.
14:08Miss Scott, thank you for your conscientiousness.
14:12It's late. You're home.
14:13I am, sir.
14:14You're no good to be tired. Good evening to you.
14:19What? Still here?
14:20Good 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,
15:11twinkling our ankles at every unremarkable young man in the room,
15:15then letting those men buy us enough drinks for us to bring them home,
15:18only to have their unremarkability confirmed to us again.
15:23No. Thanks.
15:26Goodness. And 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.
15:48The Earth is yours, and the fullness thereof.
15:53Be kind, but be fierce.
15:56You are needed now more than ever before.
15:58Take up the mantle of change, for this is your time.
16:07Take up the mantle of change, for this is your time.
16:35Good morning.
16:37Time 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.
16:46Long 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.
17:00The 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,
17:09which 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 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, then there's only one thing to be done.
18:21I'm afraid of leaving the FBI.
18:22I know I think it's the two days.
18:23I think it's fine for me and I do know what the hell is.
18:23I think it's the one this morning,
18:24it's been a long time for me and maybe not.
18:24If my grandmother welcomes in the forest,
18:24I think it's the one that we've been doing.
18:24It's the one that we've been doing.
18:29It's a long time for me to be the kid.
18:32I've been looking for everything.
18:32It's a long time for me to have a dérêt.
18:33It's been a little bit of a good opportunity for me to work.
18:34It's been a giant.
18:38I saw that.
18:41Might it be possible for you to pretend that you haven't?
18:45And the Queen is here, Your Majesty.
18:48Could you be more specific?
18:50Ma'am?
18:52Which Queen?
18:53Queen Elizabeth, ma'am.
18:55Which one? There are two.
18:57The 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.
19:08But 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.
19:29Bravo.
19:31Nurses and nuns have the same problem.
19:34We're all called sister.
19:36So you are.
19:38Well, she's outside.
19:40The Queen.
19:42Then let her in.
19:44Sister.
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.
20:38I 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?
21:15Monarchy 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.
21:48Not the public.
21:51I'm not sure that my husband would agree with that.
21:54He would argue that in any equitable modern society...
21:59...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...
22:11...because they were seen by the people to embody indefensible and unreasonable ideas.
22:15Yes, 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?
22:26The rod of equity and mercy.
22:28Edward the Confessor.
22:30William the Conqueror.
22:31Henry VIII.
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.
22:50At 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, Nicole, a vote of no confidence.
23:11And will doubtless call me over-cautious for not doing so.
23:15But the Prime Minister needs to be given a chance.
23:21Even if it's only to hang himself.
23:23Let's see how the old fool responds.
23:25Let's see how the old fool goes.
23:29Let's see how the old fool goes.
23:31Let's see how the old fool goes.
23:32Let's see how the old fool goes.
23:33Let's see how the old fool goes.
23:34Let's see how the old fool goes.
23:34Let's see how the old fool goes.
23:37Let's see how the old fool goes.
23:37Let's see how the old fool goes.
23:40Let's see how the old fool goes.
23:40There you go.
23:43Let's see how the old fool goes.
23:44Let's see how the old fool goes.
23:46Let's see how the old fool goes.
23:49Let's see how the old fool goes.
23:54Let's see how the old fool goes.
24:13I'm glad to see someone else made it in.
24:16No one saw this coming, did they?
24:19No.
24:27Prime Minister?
24:30Sir?
24:50Ah, you made it!
24:51Oh, I'm sorry, sorry, sir.
24:53No, no, you did well to get here.
24:56I gather half the Downing Street staff didn't.
24:59It wasn't easy.
25:01Just crossing the road, you take your life in your hands.
25:03Then don't.
25:04You'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,
25:14and the business gets done,
25:16and 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.
25:32An ornament.
25:35A flower.
25:37By comparison, at my age,
25:39you were a published writer
25:41and a cavalry officer posted to India
25:45fighting local tribesmen on the northwest frontier.
25:48Who told you that?
25:49You asked me to engage in a relationship
25:52with a young man my own age.
25:54So I've been reading your autobiography.
25:57That's not quite what I had in mind.
26:00Hear this, young men and women everywhere,
26:03and proclaim it far and wide.
26:06The earth is yours,
26:08and the fullness thereof.
26:11Be kind, but be fierce.
26:13You 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
26:36and passion and fire.
26:39It's remarkable.
26:45You found something you liked
26:48in that young man?
26:51I did.
27:21Good morning.
27:23The time is 8 o'clock
27:25on the 7th of December,
27:26and here is the news.
27:28A serious fog
27:30that brought much of the capital
27:31to a standstill yesterday
27:32continues this morning
27:34with emergency services struggling to cope
27:36and widespread disruption reported
27:38across the nation.
27:41Flares are being used
27:42to guide motorists
27:43in parts of the capital.
27:45Trains are stopped
27:46while running hours behind schedule
27:48from major London railway stations.
27:52The Prime Minister
27:53is facing criticism
27:54of failure to deal
27:55with the mountain crisis.
27:58London airport is closed again today
28:00with all flights crowded.
28:02Yes.
28:03The unmoving fog,
28:04which has spread
28:05to over 30 miles wide,
28:07is likely to cause
28:07complete darkness
28:08by 2 o'clock
28:09this afternoon.
28:24You all right?
28:28You're not?
28:31Go on, let's get you up.
28:33No.
28:34No, I'm fine.
28:35I promise.
28:38It's just because
28:39the window is open.
28:41Now go to work.
28:42You've got a job to do.
28:52Let us start
28:54with the unrest
28:55in Egypt,
28:57where anti-colonial passions
28:59continue to run high
29:00and where our soldiers
29:01continue to come under fire
29:03from nationalist insurgents.
29:05It is vital
29:06that we remain
29:07and successfully defend
29:09the Suez Canal,
29:12a point that I will be making
29:14in person
29:14to the Commonwealth heads
29:16when I host them
29:18for the weekend
29:19at Chequers.
29:20Weather permitting?
29:23Indeed.
29:24What is the latest information
29:25that you have?
29:27About the weather?
29:29It's fog, ma'am.
29:31It will lift eventually.
29:33I was hoping
29:34for something more scientific.
29:37Then I will ensure
29:38that a barometric report
29:40is included
29:41in your box tomorrow,
29:43complete with
29:45isobars
29:45and isohumes.
29:48it has been
29:49an unusually cold winter
29:51and there are
29:52only so many things
29:54that I,
29:54as Prime Minister,
29:55am prepared to inflict
29:56on your subjects
29:57as a reward
29:58for winning a world war
29:59and prevailing
30:01over fascism,
30:02evil
30:02and tyranny.
30:05Letting them freeze
30:06is not one of them.
30:07You do not seem
30:09unduly concerned.
30:10I'm not.
30:11You do know
30:12that my late father
30:13wrote many years ago
30:15to your predecessors
30:17to express his deep concern
30:19about the inner city
30:20power stations
30:20that your party
30:21was building.
30:25Indeed.
30:27And I was sympathetic
30:29with your father's concerns
30:32at the time.
30:33I also have sympathy
30:35with the leader articles
30:36in the newspapers today.
30:38Beying for blood.
30:40Wanting my head.
30:43People have to be angry
30:44at someone.
30:46But as leader,
30:48one cannot simply
30:49react to everything.
30:52We need the power stations.
30:53We need the coal.
30:55People need to burn coal
30:56to warm their homes.
30:58It is weather.
30:59It will pass.
31:01Well,
31:02I do hope so.
31:03Not least because
31:04my husband's mood
31:05is intolerable.
31:07Why?
31:09Well, being caged in like this,
31:11he can't fly.
31:15Fly where?
31:16Well, nowhere.
31:18He's learning to fly.
31:21Whatever for?
31:23Have we not enough
31:24qualified pilots
31:26to take him
31:26where he needs to go?
31:27No, he wants
31:28to fly himself.
31:30It's a boyhood dream.
31:32It's what he's always wanted.
31:33Why was government
31:34not consulted?
31:35Because it's a private matter.
31:36And I am in favor.
31:38Nothing you
31:39or his royal highness do
31:40is a private matter.
31:42And the father
31:43of the future king of England
31:44risking his life needlessly
31:46is quite unacceptable.
31:48please do not curtail
31:50my husband's personal freedoms
31:52any further.
31:53You've taken away his home.
31:55You've taken away his name.
31:57There comes a time
31:58where one must draw a line
32:00in the sand.
32:00And the job
32:01of drawing that line
32:02falls to cabinet, ma'am,
32:03not to you.
32:05Something your dear late papa
32:06would certainly have taught you
32:08had he been granted more time
32:09to complete your education.
32:13And now our time is up.
32:20Until next week.
32:37Good morning.
32:39The time is 8 o'clock
32:40on the 8th of December
32:41and here is the news.
32:42The choking, eye-watering fog
32:45which has already caused
32:46two days of chaos
32:47across the capital
32:48has worsened overnight.
32:50The great coal-burning
32:51electricity stations
32:52in Battersea and Fulham
32:53have attempted to reduce
32:54emissions of poisonous
32:55sulphur dioxide
32:56from their chimneys
32:57but we've been told
32:59that it is unlikely
33:00they will be able to make
33:01any significant change
33:02to the air quality.
33:04The government is expected
33:05to make a statement
33:06later today.
33:17Come on, let's get you
33:19to a hospital.
33:20I'm fine.
33:21You're not.
33:22Come on.
33:23Let's get you up.
33:25Shoes.
33:34Here we go.
33:36Arm in.
33:39And the other.
33:53I can't breathe.
33:55Do as I say
33:56and hold on to me.
34:07Come along.
34:25Quick, hold my hand.
34:51Control of this story
34:52is getting away from us.
34:54The opposition's blood is up.
34:57We have to respond.
34:59Respond how?
35:00I would suggest
35:01by commissioning
35:02a public inquiry.
35:04An 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.
35:20Well, I'm glad that the
35:21Prime Minister finds time
35:23for liberty.
35:24Perhaps I should remind him
35:26exactly how serious
35:27the situation has now become.
35:28This morning,
35:30a suburban twain
35:31collided with a gang
35:32of well-wing workmen,
35:33killing several
35:34and injuring a great many more.
35:36In part of the capital,
35:37there is now a total breakdown
35:39in law and order.
35:40Hospitals are filling up
35:42as our citizens
35:43are breathing in
35:44poisonous sulfur dioxide.
35:55sometimes we have sunshine.
35:58Too much sunshine
35:59and they call it a drought.
36:01Then we have rain.
36:03Too much rain
36:04and they call it a deluge
36:06and find a way to blame us
36:07for that, too.
36:08It's an act of God,
36:10Bobbottie.
36:11It's weather.
36:12And for better or for worse,
36:14we get a great deal of it
36:15on this island.
36:16Frankly,
36:17there are more pressing matters
36:18to deal with.
36:20Like what?
36:21The Duke of Edinburgh.
36:38Telephone, sir.
36:40The Marcus of Salisbury.
36:41Oh, not now.
36:42He asked me to stress
36:44the importance of the matter.
36:50Bobbottie?
36:51Thanks for taking my call,
36:53Diggy.
36:54Are you there?
36:56Yes.
36:57Can anyone over hear
36:58what you're saying?
37:03No.
37:05Good.
37:09It's chaos.
37:10I know.
37:11The ward is full.
37:12Every corridor, too.
37:14Most of the doctors
37:14are sick now.
37:15Those that are well
37:16can't get in.
37:17It was better than this
37:18in the ward.
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
37:24the government's doing something.
37:26Then what is needed?
37:27Money.
37:28People.
37:29Trained staff.
37:30Help is what is needed
37:31urgently.
37:33Better rest for now.
37:38Maybe I could put a word in
37:39with the people
37:40who make a difference.
37:42Such as?
37:43The Prime Minister,
37:44for example.
37:46Oh, I see you're just going
37:47to walk into Downing Street
37:48and whisper in his ear.
37:49Yes, something like that.
37:51You know, my day's bad enough
37:52without some delusional girl
37:54playing jokes.
37:55Now, excuse me.
37:57No.
37:58No.
38:00I'll show you.
38:02No.
38:02No.
38:02No, no, no.
38:03No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
38:11no, no, no, no, no.
38:12Sim, where are you?
38:13Oh, here.
38:38How much longer are you going to give the old man?
38:39The majority is tiny.
38:42A voter no confidence
38:43and 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
38:56to approve your nod.
39:03Very well.
39:05Let's put a motion down on paper
39:07and brief the whips.
39:19Thank you, sir.
39:37Anything interesting?
39:39Yes?
39:42Care to share it?
39:44No.
39:46I'd be happy to share glide ratios
39:48and adiabatic lapse rates with you
39:50as part of a quid pro quo arrangement.
39:52One glide ratio in return
39:54for some cabinet minutes, for example.
39:57No?
39:59A dihedral angle
40:00or an absolute ceiling.
40:02These are very interesting concepts, Elizabeth.
40:04You might learn something in exchange
40:05for a foreign office briefing.
40:09Am I going to have to explain my position again?
40:12No.
40:13Good.
40:17Once you have tasted flight
40:19you will forever walk the earth
40:20with your eyes turned skyward
40:22for there you have been
40:23and there
40:23you will always long to return.
40:27You know what's remarkable about those words?
40:32Go on.
40:33They were written 300 years
40:34before man first got in a plane.
40:37Leonardo da Vinci.
40:41Look, Philip, I know...
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.
41:06Came as soon as I cried.
41:09So.
41:13Is this a meeting
41:14with 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
41:38grounded.
41:38Ignore it.
41:41Right.
41:42All ears.
41:43I received
41:44a telephone call today
41:47from Robert E. Salisbury.
41:49It seems that even among his own people,
41:51the feeling is that our prime minister
41:52is not able to deal
41:54with a national crisis.
41:57Indeed, he could be seen
41:58to be responsible
41:59for that crisis.
42:02Hospitals overflowing,
42:04people dying.
42:05As sovereign,
42:06you have the right
42:07to demand
42:08that a government
42:09in your name
42:10shows effective leadership.
42:13The opposition
42:14are now calling
42:15for a motion
42:16of no confidence.
42:18So,
42:19I would say
42:21the time has come
42:22for you to
42:25summon
42:25Churchill
42:26and...
42:29And what?
42:32insist that he go.
42:36I can't do that.
42:38You can.
42:39And should.
42:41But wouldn't that violate
42:43the Constitution?
42:46As queen,
42:50you have the right
42:52to be consulted,
42:54the right to encourage,
42:57the right to warn,
42:59also to appoint
43:01a new prime minister
43:02in the event
43:03of incapacity.
43:04And many would say
43:05that Churchill's behavior
43:07now constitutes incapacity.
43:10Then a revolution
43:11must come from within.
43:12They are trying.
43:15Well,
43:15then they must try harder.
43:16They will.
43:18But
43:18would prefer it
43:20to be bloodless.
43:22So I've asked
43:23for your help
43:24and influence.
43:28I cannot do it.
43:30I will not do it.
43:32Let's not forget
43:33it was Churchill
43:34who denied
43:35Philip's children
43:36his own surname.
43:37Dickie.
43:38And insisted
43:39that you live
43:39in Buckingham Palace.
43:40As, alas,
43:41blasted everyone else.
43:42And now,
43:42with looters
43:43on the street
43:44and hospital corridors
43:45stacked with the dead,
43:46he is interested
43:47in only one thing.
43:50Stopping
43:51Philip flying.
43:56What?
43:56At a crisis cabinet meeting
43:58this morning
43:58when there should have
43:59only been one thing
43:59on the agenda,
44:00the unfolding
44:01national emergency,
44:04all our prime minister
44:05wanted to discuss
44:08was your husband's
44:09new hobby.
44:15I'm so sorry, sir.
44:16Who are her parents?
44:19Her father is a clergyman
44:20from Suffolk.
44:21I've been noticed.
44:22They want to go
44:22to the hospital.
44:23There is an emergency meeting
44:25at the house.
44:26The meeting you must attend.
44:27The house can wait.
44:39You wish to see me,
44:40Your Majesty?
44:41Yes, Tommy.
44:45I know
44:46how much
44:47my father
44:47depended on you
44:49and how closely
44:50you worked together.
44:52Which is why
44:53I wanted to ask
44:54your advice
44:54now.
44:56It seems
44:57our prime minister,
44:59a man who's led
44:59the country
45:00through many crises,
45:02is no longer
45:03leading us at all.
45:07Representations
45:07have been made
45:08to me
45:09through an intermediary
45:11from the heart
45:11of the government
45:13to intercede
45:15and bid him
45:16stand down,
45:18make way
45:18for a younger man.
45:21Which
45:22brings me
45:23to my question.
45:26what are
45:27my responsibilities
45:29as head of state?
45:33What should I do
45:35when it's in the
45:36national interest?
45:37How far
45:38dare I go?
45:42I'm not sure
45:43if Her Majesty
45:44is aware,
45:45but shortly
45:46before your father
45:47died,
45:48the foreign secretary,
45:49Mr. Eden,
45:50came,
45:51begging His Late Majesty
45:53to intervene,
45:54if not on an official
45:56level,
45:56then on a personal
45:58one,
45:58as a friend,
46:00to bid the prime minister
46:01to resign.
46:03What did my father say?
46:06Well,
46:07His Majesty was,
46:08like his father
46:08before him,
46:09a stickler for convention
46:10and tradition,
46:12and would never
46:13have done anything
46:13that violated the
46:14Constitution
46:16overstepped
46:16the mark.
46:20Then I have
46:21my answer.
46:21But
46:23that was His Majesty,
46:24not your Majesty.
46:26And I do read
46:27the newspapers
46:28and I do listen
46:28to the wireless.
46:30And the situation
46:31we're in today
46:31is quite different
46:33than the one
46:34we were in
46:34when Mr. Eden
46:35came to see your father.
46:39Different situation,
46:41different sovereign.
46:54Wait for me here.
47:00I don't know.
47:01Oh my God.
47:07I don't know.
47:08I don't know.
47:11What's the matter?
47:14Let's help you.
47:16Watch out.
47:18I don't know.
47:20I don't know.
47:21I don't know.
47:22We'll get you seen
47:23as soon as we call.
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.
48:43Did 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.
49:05Let's go.
49:20Let's go.
49:39Let's go.
50:11Let's go.
50:12Is there anything, sir?
50:12Yeah, yeah.
50:13No, but...
50:19Quiet!
50:21Quiet!
50:22Quiet!
50:22Quiet!
50:23Quiet!
50:32Quiet, please!
50:34I've seen since the darkest days of the Blitz.
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
51:07more money for hospital staff,
51:10more money for equipment,
51:13and a full and independent public inquiry into the causes of air pollution,
51:19to ensure that such a calamity may never befall us again.
51:29Thank you all.
51:37The Prime Minister was alone among senior politicians to visit hospitals
51:41and respond to the crisis in person,
51:43and was rewarded by cheers and applause
51:46by those suffering through the worst smog this city has ever witnessed.
51:50And the headline reads,
51:52True leader in a crisis.
52:00Ma'am, the Prime Minister's here.
52:05The parallels between his appearance yesterday
52:07and 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?
52:27Clem, can you hear me?
52:28No?
52:29Right.
52:48Clem.
52:57Clem!
53:00Peelpat, able to hear me again.
53:07In the morning, I saw the way,
53:15you're in the morning'sоре,
53:17the succeeded at all.
53:33The Prime Minister, Your Majesty.
53:36Your Majesty.
53:48You asked to see me, ma'am?
53:52I did.
54:03There's a delicate matter, which I felt I needed to discuss with you in person.
54:10Concerning what?
54:14Your position.
54:17My position?
54:20Yes, your position...
54:26as Prime Minister.
54:32Go on.
54:38At that point, she hesitated, and then she asked me to pick either Khwajgi Nazimuddin of Pakistan or Sydney Holland
54:49of 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.
55:02But 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, no, not clever.
55:20Ingenious.
55:21Why?
55:21Because he disarmed me and made me switch tack too.
55:26What 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.
56:01The people had continued to die.
56:04And Churchill had continued to cling to power, and 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.
57:34I know.
57:35I'm a fast learner.
57:37And believe me when I say I've got nothing else to do.
57:55I couldn't have noticed, you've still got a right up.
57:58Starboard and port.
57:5918 gallons?
58:00Yes.
58:01Fancy lunch in Edinburgh?
58:03Edinburgh?
58:03They made me duke there, so 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 rpms and cruising speed for range flying.
58:15We'll have to land to refuel, sir.
58:17RE-fittingly.
58:19Oh, really?
58:19Where's that?
58:20Doncaster.
58:21Doncaster?
58:23Right.
58:49We'll have to land.
59:08We'll have to land in the next couple of years.
59:09We'll have to land in the next couple of years.
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